internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary
Have a list of work titles that will avoid conflation on edition title mismatch
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### Proposal
There are certain cases of works which we want to exclude imported editions/works from joining. For example:
- Generic titles like "Bill" / "Law" ( although I'm not sure we import these anymore )
- Certain series names, like "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid"
- Certain biographical books like "Picasso"
(links welcome please, was having trouble finding the exact examples I've seen in the past)
There aren't a _ton_ of works in this category ; and although having a more systemic solution to the problem would be ideal, perhaps having a temporary solution that's just a list that makes the resolution process for these works more strict will be a boon.
We noticed while investigating some old code in https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/10336#discussion_r1916885894 that there was a code path there that _tried_ to do something like this, but which due to a logic bug never actually did anything at all. The idea behind it is sound/useful though.
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