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403 Forbidden on subject changes

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Description

### Problem

I 'm cleaning up some subjects with a small bot and get a lot of 403 Errors on random works while most of them I can edit just fine. In most cases I can edit them manually. The following works have caused 403 errors on sept 5th between 11:00 and 11:45:

`OL11335027W, OL116030W, OL137949W, OL137951W, OL137968W, OL137975W, OL15103068W, OL15129449W, OL15129479W, OL17375734W, OL17394682W, OL19974233W, OL20810561W, OL20983607W, OL2272348W, OL2397780W, OL2421563W, OL2761301W, OL2761304W, OL2783369W, OL2783380W, OL2783383W, OL2783389W, OL2783411W, OL3092109W, OL3561033W, OL3561074W, OL4320807W, OL492881W, OL5687598W, OL8126235W, OL8126242W, OL84314W, OL999504W`

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