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Authors getting incorrect alternate names after merge

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Affects: Data hacktoberfest Lead: @cdrini Module: Authors Module: Identifier Resolution Priority: 3 Type: Bug
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Description

In looking at the Charles Dickens record, we see the following bad name forms, many of which could be detected and eliminated automatically:

Non-author contributors conflated:

"Flo Gibson (Narrator)",
"illustrated by Arthur Rackham Charles Dickens",
"Introduction-John Carey",
"Mike; Spencer, John (editors) (Charles Dickens; Lord Halifax; Edgar Allan Poe; Bram Stoker; O. Henry; William Mudford; Frederick Marryat; Matthew Lewis; William Makepeace Thackeray; W. W. Jacobs; Saki) Jarvis"

Bad capitalization, spelling, etc:

"Dickens",
"DICKENS",
"Dickens, Charles",
"Charles",
"CHARLES DICKENS",
"CHARLES. DICKENS",
"Charles dickens",
"Dickens Charles.",
"C DICKENS",
"Charled Dickens",
"Dickens Charles",
"harles Dickens",

Dates or transliterations embedded:

"Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.",
"DICKENS, CHARLES, 1812-1870",
"Charles Dickens Charles Dickens",
"Charles 1812-1870 Dickens",
"Dickens, Charles,$d1812-1870",
"Dickens,Charles ディケンズ,チャールズ (1812-1870)",

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