What is the edit record of a Work entity being created?

MusicBrainz
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I am looking at the edit history for work/6d780 ‘Les Pêcheurs de perles: Acte I. Romance “Je crois encore entendre” (Nadir)’. I don’t see any edit which created the Work entity in the first place. I only see edits which add Relationships to that Work entity.

Is this strange, or do edit histories for Works always look like this?

I got interested, because I think there is a wording error in this Work title, and I wanted to see where it came from. The title says, “…encore entendre”. I think the actual word order is opposite, “…entendre encore”. See many recording titles in the edit history for corroboration.

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A lot of works were auto-created during the migration to NGS, weren’t they? I’d guess that there’s no “add work” edits for those.

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Oh, in fact here are the first “add work” edits (circa May 2011). Any work with an older edit history than that must have been auto-created from artist-track relationships.

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You’re quite correct, the wording should indeed be entendre encore. I suspect this may be an old error of mine. I’ll go in and correct that.

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