internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary
Web based Add Book creates malformed entries if there's no author
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Affects: Data
Affects: UI
Lead: @scottbarnes
Needs: Investigation
Priority: 3
Type: Bug
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Description
Related #2116 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client/issues/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 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary-client/issues/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.
* Actual: record have an author object with a type, but no value
* Expected: authors should just be an empty list instead.
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