Author display on work page for work with multiple authos

http://www.librarything.com/work/1007651

Interface was initially published as by Stephen Bury and is entered that way in my library. It was later released as by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George

The authors section has
Neal Stephenson as primary author
J. Frederick George as main author, all editions

headSummary reads "by Stephen Bury, J. Frederick George (Author)"

This should be either "Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George" if the data comes from the other authors section OR "Stephen Bury" if the data comes from my book data.

http://www.librarything.com/work/419669

Which for me reads

"Lucifer Rising
by Andy Lane (Author), Andy Lane (Author)"

> 2

Odd. That link shows me "by Jim Mortimore (Author), Andy Lane (Author)"

>3 lilithcat: : Andyl has Andy Lane as author in his catalog and Jim Mortimer as other author. Because on the work page Jim Mortimer is the primary author and Andy Lane a main author for all editons, it shows on his work page as indicated by him. The first author is shown from the data in his own catalog, the second author from the other authors section on the work page.
I have seen this several times on my books.

#4

Yep - you cannot ensure that the everyone enters the book with the authors in the same fashion as the primary author / main author. For example my book was imported from amazon.co.uk (I don't think it was in any library catalogue I had access to at the time).

I could change it so Andy Lane is the primary author and Jim Mortimore is the main author (in the Other Authors section on the Main page) and it would fix it for me, but would duplicate Jim Mortimore for those who have the Author the other way around to me on their Edit page.

And WorldCat has Mortimore as the primary author (main entry) so it would be best to match the order that libraries use. Statement of responsibility reads: Jim Mortimore & Andy Lane.

Try the recalculate title/author link for these; I think when folks are seeing the same author twice on their book pages, it's leftover gunk from a now-fixed bug. If the recalculate author link doesn't fix it, post the link here (to the book page) and I'll take a look.

#7

Recalculating doesn't make any difference.

Blurg. Hmph. Okay - Tim, your turn :-)

Yes, this came up in another thread too.

Though the author line is now supposed to show us *our* authors if we have the book (rather than the work authors), what's happened is that it shows people with the book a mix of work-level and book-level author info: for those with the book, it shows the primary author from their copy, but other main authors come from the work-level data.

You can see what Andyl's seeing if you go to his book pages:
for post 1: http://www.librarything.com/work/1007651/book/131408
for post 2: http://www.librarything.com/work/419669/book/36479

Yeah. I thought Tim had gotten this fixed and that recalculates would work, but nope. Back in his court now!

Fixed - see http://www.librarything.com/topic/127455