scripts for manual author page corrections with new library

[nschneid]

This is a suite of scripts that I have been using for manual corrections to author page requests, complementing the bulk processing scripts in #7397 (author verifications) and #7517 (paper metadata). Manual scripts are run for individual changes specified as arguments. Bulk processing scripts query the GitHub issue tracker for relevant approved requests that can be processed automatically.

The manual scripts are in bin/correct, alongside the two bulk processing scripts. They are:

• verify_author.py: The main one. Add ORCID/degree to verify an author; also allows merging additional unverified authors, or listing specific papers to link (or exclude from linking) to the author.
• disable_name_matching.py: Updates existing verified authors to prevent implicit matching to papers.
• unlink_items.py: Removes explicitly linked papers from a verified author.
• [NEW] rename_person.py: Change an author ID.
• [NEW] merge_verified.py: Merge multiple verified persons (WIP, awaiting library updates).

[A few of the non-covered operations: merging two verified authors (as sometimes happen with a legacy-verified and an ORCID-verified author); adding disambiguating comments to author entries; changing a verified author's canonical name; changing a verified author's ORCID-based suffix to a degree institution suffix with a redirect (if we want this; #7615).]

The code can be simplified when library changes in #7570 are merged.

[nschneid]

@mbollmann Any idea why black is failing? I am running black locally (version 24.3.0, black -t py312 verify_author.py) and it makes no changes.

[mbollmann]

I strongly suggest going through pre-commit. It defines the correct black version (26.1.0) and config file.

[nschneid]

How does pre-commit work? I was relying on bin/requirements.txt for the black version.

[mbollmann]

Just do pre-commit run to run it on staged changes, pre-commit run --all-files to run it on everything, or pre-commit install to run it on every commit automatically (aka the intended way).

Both black and the requirements.txt are going away in #7394 and this way you don’t need to think about tools or their versions at all.

[nschneid]

OK, black is happy now. Not sure what's up with hugo....

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