internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary

Claiming & Verifying Author Pages

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Lead: @mekarpeles Module: Authors Priority: 3 Type: Epic
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Description

### Describe the problem that you'd like solved

rikroots from HN https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=25409007 asked how to claim author pages or mark them as verified. Others have asked how we can ensure good author data isn't vandalized.

Today, our author pages don't support this use case, but it wouldn't be too hard to implement such a program (probably harder to maintain it -- we'll have to check w/ patron services to see what we can do).

## Questions

**How would a patron claim an author page?**
Similar to goodreads, an author might email us and have a reserved/special field added to their Author profile of something like `oluser` which can't be edited by non-superlibrarians or admins (and we could show something like an "approved/verified" badge).

**How to protect author pages from vandalism?**

* See #7659

**Other considerations**
rikroots -- what types of features/support would verified authors need? Right now we don't really have the ability for authors to "comment" on the page, but we could have a special section/field where only verified authors can maintain/control an editable field?

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