Dead disambiguated authors

When I post the death date for George Bush (2), the Is this you function is removed, but the birth and death dates do not go next to the name at the top of the page.

Also, for alive persons who were previously listed as dead, example: http://www.librarything.com/author/binghamjohn-2, he still shows up as dead in my stats/memes thing. Should I post that as a separate bug? Seems like it's different parts of the same issue.

Edit to add: however this guy http://www.librarything.com/author/allenwill-1 got off my dead authors list once I edited him so who knows?

2> I suspect that the alive/dead meme is just looking at the first author under the split. It's one of those issues that Tim knows needs to be done but hasn't done yet.

It is now working. Here's a library that has two books--one by George Bush the president and another by George Bush the dead guy.



The big problem here is that author disambiguation is a work-level thing, not a book-level thing. So I am now using the work author, for books in your library, not the author you list. 95%-100% they will be the same, but they can differ.

Hard to explain why this is. I may try tomorrow.

Still working on this. Some problems with authors appearing two places.

Okay, should be truly fixed.

Is it an intentional change that LT now draws on author names in the system instead of those in my catalogue? I have about a dozen "Anonymous" listed now.

If not intentional: not quite fixed.

That's what he's talking about at the end of Msg 4 - "I am now using the work author, for books in your library, not the author you list."

On the other bug thread about Not Set authors, he got some ideas for fiddling that. But for now, yeah, it'll have to be the work author.

Okay, I could live with that - in fact I don't quite get how I missed that part of #4. Anyway: as long as it isn't some accident.

So, should we close this then? I think so, anybody disagreeing: feel free to re-open.

I don't like the work-author choice, but it is intentional. I understand the reason for using it for the assignment, but showing the work-author name rather than the book-author name is obnoxious. I'm careful with my authors, and sometimes the consensus author is crap -- surname-only, random "PhD" thrown in, etc. -- and I hate the implication that those crappy author names are in my library.

Another place where a CK Canonical Author field would do wonders...

> 10 / 11: I totally agree, I don't like it. But since this is - apparently - intentional site behaviour it isn't a bug.

10> Tim said on this thread, http://www.librarything.com/topic/108337 (post 29) that he thinks he has a way to solve this and will implement it tomorrow.

Well, as soon as I can. I'll start working on it tonight anyway.