Harry Hargreaves is NOT Willem Jans Zwalve ... (or is he?)

We're having BIG trouble with an Author separation / combination / aliasing, which is doing weird things.

For the most complete statement(s) of the problem, please see original Combiners! post(s):

http://www.librarything.com/topic/124892#3011861 , with the follow-up posts #166, 169-171, and 175-176;

and

http://www.librarything.com/topic/126353#3022190 , with follow-up posts #10, and 13-18.

Please advise of any questions, and how we can help. Thank you!

I will look into this, but it's going to the back of my author-bug list. I can't turn the reports there into bugs per se. I need clear cases of something going wrong, preferably repeatably.

Thank you, Tim. That's all I'd ask (on this point). Take care.

There are already other bug reports about aliasing not working properly (showing books in both places).

I've also noticed that some author pages aren't showing all combined authors on the "names" page, and I'm pretty sure that's been reported too.

The Harry Hargreaves and Willem Jans Zwalve thing definitely seems like a bug.
This page http://www.librarything.com/author/hargreavesharry/ should take you to the author page for Harry Hargreaves. Instead, it takes you to the author page for Willem Jans Zwalve, though the URL is for hargreavesharry. There is no indication on the page you get, though, that these have been combined together, and no way to separate them out on the "names" page. It seems like the author number for one is somehow pointing to the author number for the other. The CK history on the page you get is for Zwalve.
http://www.librarything.com/log_helpers.php?view=authorsplit&span=168

http://www.librarything.com/commonknowledge/changelog.php?item=898057&type=2

There has been some aliasing happening with author/hargreaves -- perhaps that is connected.
http://www.librarything.com/log_helpers.php?view=authorsplit&span=168

Ok, I think I've seen this happening in a few other places: when primary authors are changed for works, it sometimes shows the previous primary author as the author name on the new primary author's page.

#5: I don't think that's what's happening here. At least not where I've been involved ... .

Sorry. The problem was a rather simple error. I fixed it first by using CK, but it also works now on recalculations.

Thanks, Tim; it looks like whatever you did took care of it.