feat: name_is_a_placeholder expectation

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Description

Adds name_is_a_placeholder_check, a dataset expectation flagging listed-building-outline entities whose name is boilerplate — "No name for this Entry" — where the linked Historic England listed-building record holds a real name. The real name travels in details.failures so the bridge can quote it back to the publisher. The placeholder list is configurable from the parameters cell in config.

This is the digital-land-python half of digital-land/config#2910, following the same shape as name_is_a_code_check from #582.

Why

name is mandatory for listed-building-outline, so a blank raises a missing value error — but boilerplate is a non-empty string and slips through, ending up published as the building's name. Same defect, so the same error severity. The 2026-08 ODP name analysis found 845 such rows across two organisations, 844 of which link to a record holding the correct name.

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QA

Checked against real published data and at production scale, beyond the test suite.

Join key format — sampled the published listed-building-outline.csv and listed-building.csv. The listed-building values (1024710) and listed-building reference values (1021466) are bare numeric strings on both sides, with no curie prefix, so the join key is correct. This was the main silent-failure risk: a format mismatch would have returned zero failures forever without erroring.

Real-data support for the join — in a 4,817-row sample, "No given name" is the single most common name (219 occurrences). That is the placeholder with a 2-in-220 link rate, so a string-only check would flood those organisations with unactionable rows while this one raises almost nothing. Around 37% of outline rows carry no listed-building reference at all and are therefore never flagged.

Why this is safe to merge on its own

This PR is inert until the config row lands. The operation is reachable only through the operation_map lookup in operation_factory, which is keyed by the operation value of an expect.csv rule. No config rule names name_is_a_placeholder_check, so nothing calls it. The additions are a list constant and two function definitions with no import-time side effects, nothing enumerates operation_map, and no existing operation changes.

Next I will create an a siser PR in config, and will test this all run fin in DEV before merging that into main and therefor making this live.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added validation to identify entity names that appear to be reference codes.
  • Added validation to detect placeholder names by comparing them with linked listed-building names.
  • Supports configurable placeholder names and safely handles unavailable external records.
  • Validation results include detailed entity and organisation information.

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Walkthrough

The dataset expectations now detect code-like entity names and placeholder entity names. Placeholder checks compare linked entity names with listed-building names, support configurable normalisation, and skip when the artefact is unavailable. SQLite integration and acceptance coverage was added.

Changes

Dataset name validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Code-name validation and registration digital_land/expectations/operations/dataset.py, digital_land/expectations/checkpoints/dataset.py, tests/integration/expectations/operations/test_dataset.py, tests/acceptance/test_run_expectations_on_sqlite.py	Registered the name checks. Added code-like name detection with deterministic failure details. Added integration and acceptance coverage for matching and non-matching names.
Placeholder-name validation digital_land/expectations/operations/dataset.py, tests/integration/expectations/operations/test_dataset.py, tests/acceptance/test_run_expectations_on_sqlite.py	Added configurable placeholder matching against linked listed-building records. Added normalisation, safe skipping for missing artefacts, deterministic failures, and integration and acceptance coverage.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2edb4

Failure details can vary when multiple rows share the same organisation and reference, making diagnostics nondeterministic. The PR is otherwise mergeable, but the missing entity tie-breaker should be addressed or explicitly accepted.

Suggested reviewers: eveleighoj

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In `@digital_land/expectations/operations/dataset.py`:
- Around line 513-518: Make both failure sort keys deterministic by appending
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digital_land/expectations/operations/dataset.py at lines 513-518 and 621-626.
Update the sort logic for both the code-name and placeholder-name failure paths;
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