Web based Add Book creates malformed entries if there's no author #2689
Labels
Affects: Data
Issues that affect book/author metadata or user/account data. [managed]
Affects: UI
Issues with the web site's user interface. [managed]
Lead: @scottbarnes
Issues overseen by Scott (Community Imports)
Needs: Investigation
This issue/PR needs a root-cause analysis to determine a solution. [managed]
Priority: 3
Issues that we can consider at our leisure. [managed]
Type: Bug
Something isn't working. [managed]
Related #2116 internetarchive/openlibrary-client#126
When a book is entered through the web UI and the user doesn't provide an author, the author entry is incorrectly formatted as described in the two related issues.
Evidence
See the increasing counts and list of newly created works at internetarchive/openlibrary-client#126
Steps to Reproduce
I didn't attempt to reproduce, but the empirical evidence is that an additional 4,000 of these entries were created this year.
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