On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Alan Millar <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just caught an instance of vandalism
>
> openlibrary.org/works/OL12545048W?m=history
>
> Looks like this one work is a target of recurring vandalism.
>
> Any ways to better prevent this?

One thing that would help is to require people to have accounts to be
able to edit Open Library, unless anonymous edit support is providing
some benefit.

I accidentally discovered the other day that even author merges don't
require authentication, which seems particularly dangerous.

Tom
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