This is rather odd. When I look up Shirley institute as an author and 
find the 1977 joint conference I get 2 work titles, each that has only 1 
edition. Ben, are you working with the dump?

kc

On 5/9/12 6:05 AM, Ben Companjen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Although I found 341 duplicates of President Clinton a lot yesterday,
> there is still the "author" that goes by the name "Shirley
> Institute/Wira Joint Conference (1977 Manchester, Eng.)". There are a
> whopping 10,047 authors with that name! Merging those manually is only
> for those who desperately need an extremely boring task :)
>
> Looking at the subject and book titles in the search results, I think
> one MARC record was imported many times without duplicate detection,
> so merging the authors would still leave some 10000 duplicate
> works/editions.
>
> Any idea how to best solve this?
>
> Ben
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