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Split works which were conflated by ignoring subtitles
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Lead: @seabelis
Priority: 3
Type: Bug
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Description
Sometimes ignoring the subtitle is the right thing to do, particularly when the record for one edition has the subtitle and the edition it's being compared to, but often there is important information in the subtitle.
This work record https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3251722W/Chill_Out collects 103 "editions" with titles of the form:
Chill Out: Scary Maine Stories Based on Frightening Maine Truths! (Carole Marsh Maine Books)
Instead, each state variant should be a separate work (and have the series removed from the title).
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