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Edit history is auto-generating inaccurate comments

Open hornc opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6773974M/Botanical_materia_medica_and_pharmacology?m=history

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Shows the past comments from edits 2 & 3

3 November 21, 2009 ImportBot Found a matching record from marc_loc_2016 .

has somehow been constructed from the item metadata, but it is inaccurate since only the recent edit from Cleanup bot has re-imported from marc_loc_2016, which was only created ~30 mins ago, and did not exist in 2008 / 2009.

I'm not sure of assumptions behind these comments, but it could be very misleading in tracing back the reason for the changes. I had thought the comments were set when the edit was made, it's a little odd to see these change based on later events.

Not urgent, but wanting to log this in case it causes confusion when debugging other issues.

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hornc avatar Nov 14 '19 04:11 hornc

@cdrini mentions: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/6778#issuecomment-1194630309

mekarpeles avatar Aug 22 '22 17:08 mekarpeles