If a work “name” exists the editor uses it regardless if it is correct. Here is one example Edit #117491915 - MusicBrainz , this work Little White Church was written around 2010 but it is applied to a compilation released in 2004. BMI has entries for 147 works named “Little White Church”, this editor does NO research, just pick and add. I already have an edit removing another work relationship https://musicbrainz.org/edit/118090057 . There are more and I do not have the time to research and remove the bad ones. Sorry for the rant.
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Firstly: I totally get the frustration. Thank you for catching this and fixing a couple of the recordings. It is indeed not your job to clean up behind other users, and I get incredibly annoyed whenever I end up doing hours of tedious and unnecessary cleanup - if I can stomach doing any at all 
Secondly: Use that report button! If you have politely asked a user to change their behaviour, and they continue to make those same errors, please immediately report them.
Other users reading this, that goes for you too! First, engage with users on good faith, and assume that they just need a guiding hand. If that doesn’t work then hit the report button.
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Please, as usual with these sort of cases, report first 
It’s nicer to try to deal with this thing directly in conversation with the editor at first, and only do an open call for specific cleanup if needed once the situation is resolved (because the editor has learned and improved, or because the editor has refused to do things the right way and gotten banned - either way meaning that there should be just the backlog to deal with). I’m looking into this now.
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