Google Search: Duplicate without user-selected canonical

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    • Type: Improvement
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Priority: Normal
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      Google Search Console reports some URLs as "Duplicate without user-selected canonical" and then "guess" the canonical URL or do not index at all.

      Examples:
      https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c2b10d7d-ad76-43ed-847b-f2059a49b3bc?va=1
      https://musicbrainz.org/series/f334683a-7a48-4d41-82aa-e62058a258b5/show?page=1
      https://musicbrainz.org/label/49f9d59f-94b4-4005-8346-78bfd6c55c3d/show
      https://musicbrainz.org/release/e91ba44b-7f28-4eda-aa3d-44a65e4760fb/edit-relationships

      And many more.

      It would be a good thing to implement solutions suggested in https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls

      See also this example:

      In this case Google Search guesses the canonical URL totally wrong:
      For https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a94587df-19a5-49bc-b895-1cb95af93002/subscribers it selects https://musicbrainz.org/artist/create as the canonical URL...

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            Zas
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