ISNI links in ID not working

BookBrainz
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I notice that it is possible to add ISNI links to the ID section, but every one that I have clicked on returns a page advising ‘Page Not Found’.

I’m wondering if the format of the number is wrong or that the links just don’t work. If they don’t work then it seems a pointless exercise adding them.

Just one example: https://bookbrainz.org/author/8bf24af1-a8dd-4f86-8cf9-752379c17c1e

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It’s indeed a formatting issue. The ISNI numbers have been entered with spaces (0000 0000 8412 9899), which should be acceptable.
However the link itself is automatically generated, and should remove the spaces (it currently doesn’t). Once that is done the link does work: http://www.isni.org/0000000084129899

Thanks for reporting the issue!
It’s been reported previously but I haven’t gotten to it yet: https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/BB-499

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I removed the spaces and sure enough it worked. If I strike this again I will simply remove the spaces. Thanks.

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Don’t worry about this. Editors should be able to enter ISNI IDs with spaces, so instead I will make sure they are removed in the link.

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I’ve just deployed a fix for the issue, the spaces are now removed from the link:
https://bookbrainz.org/author/7638da5d-7175-41da-b6bc-493cfcc92839

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