Combination Issues: Who Should Fix?

Any message you send telling people to do something is going to piss them off. If it bothers you, fix it yourself. If it doesn't bother you that much either post it to be fixed or leave it for the next person who sees it.

If they didn't fix it when they broke it, they aren't likely to respond well to being asked, however politely, to fix it later.

Frankly, I have a lot of trouble with the Combination Issues. I try to do them when I notice that I've created them, but sometimes it requires information I don't have or judgments about the best way to list things in CK which are something I'm not good at and don't really care about.

So I'd just as soon leave it for someone who cares.

I try to fix these issues when I see them (or when I cause them) but... not everyone has the time to finish something or the desire to go and chase some obscure piece of information so they can do a good job with the CK editing. Not to mention multi-language CKs -- if you cannot even recognize the letters (Cyrillic, Japanese and so on), chances of getting them moved correctly and to the correct place are not very high. I'd rather have the splitter leave it like that (or post here so someone else can look) then make a decision without checking which leads to bad data.

Sending a message is a bad idea if you ask me - everyone volunteers their time - sending them a message to tell them - well, you helped but come and clean your mess - can cause offense.

If it bothers you, fix it.

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The CK information was transferred to the author Jan Wagner (1), and the old CK information on the split author then deleted.

(I don't know how to "strike through" the URL to indicate "done", though.)

>9 Collectorator: Fixed
>10 Collectorator: Fixed

>11 smcwl: You can't someone else's message.

>14 MarthaJeanne: MarthaJeanne

I'm sorry, I didn't understand your message (14). Could you please explain? Thank you

If someone else has written a message, only that person can change it. you can't strike through things on someone else's message.

Thanks for clarifying! Of course, --that makes sense.

>19 Collectorator: Done

>21 Collectorator: Done

>23 MsMaryAnn: Done

>25 smcwl: Thank you!

That author writes under 3 names: Claire North, Catherine Webb and Kate Griffin. The last has issues too!

http://www.librarything.com/author/griffinkate

Done, for English and Norwegian.

>27 Collectorator:

I have done this, but I think that the personal and family names are reversed on the disambiguation page for Molnár Gábor :

https://www.librarything.com/author/molnrgbor

Could someone familiar with Hungarian convention check/change? Thanks

>30 Collectorator: done.

I don't know how to alias authors.

Jennifer Dawson (2) also writes under the pseudonym Julia Devlin:
http://www.librarything.com/author/devlinjulia-1

>32 2wonderY:

Click on the Edit division link on the main author page (http://www.librarything.com/author/devlinjulia)
There is a tab saying "Alias divisions to other authors" which will lead you here: http://www.librarything.com/author_split.php?author=devlinjulia&page=alias

Post back if you would rather have someone else do the aliasing :)

Ah! I never noticed those tabs.

It says: "You can only alias to the "top level" of an author (eg., "adamsjohn" not "adamsjohn-1")."

There are two Jennifer Dawsons. Is aliasing going to make the web even more complex?

>34 2wonderY:

Oh yes - it will....
You can always alias to the full author and then assign the works to the correct one. (I just aliased - not sure which work goes where so if you know, feel free to fix it). Never found a better way for these.

Alternatively if she has a third name that is just her own, it can alias into it. I wish we could alias division into division but it is not possible.

>35 AnnieMod: Thanks for the tutorial!

>36 Collectorator: All those titles belong to the same author. Once they are collected, does the disambiguation page go away?

>41 Collectorator:
Graham Greene is done

>40 Collectorator:
Monica Byrne - Done

>42 Collectorator:

Brian Bates is done.

#62 and 63 done

#58-60 done - also, it looks like #61 is taken care of as well.

>66 Collectorator: working on it.

Done.

>49 Collectorator: Seems to be done.

>54 Collectorator: I did as much as possible there.

>58 Collectorator: Same.

#47 & #48 done

#50 is done

>53 Collectorator:

#53 done.

>54 Collectorator:

#54 done.

>56 Collectorator:

#56 done.

>79 Collectorator: Done. Quite a couple of talented guys, eh?

>73 Collectorator: Done.

>70 Collectorator: Done.

>84 Collectorator: Neil Hanson (1) wrote a book about the Great Fire of London, but it's title is The Dreadful Judgement. Any idea if that second title is perhaps a different edition?

Neither of the Neil Hansons I found offered much in the way of biographic or bibliographic detail. Oh well, we did our best.

#51 & #52 are done

#69 is done

>92 Collectorator: I was able to find information on Erik (1), but not Erik (2).

>94 Collectorator: Done, except I can't get the Combination issues notice to go away.

>95 Collectorator: Done. Unhappy not to find a picture of de Bury (2)

>101 Collectorator:

Done

Numbers 72, 75, 83 & 84 all done

#88 done

>106 Collectorator: Done, but I separated a third author out, and since the work is a 1929 brochure, I didn't look very hard for the author information. Too many other projects with better prospects.

>108 Collectorator: Done.

#89 done

I think this needs some splitting but I am terrified to do it because I will get shouted at.

http://www.librarything.com/author/matthewsjason

>120 bergs47:
Who's going to shout at you? I split it three ways and moved the biographic CK to the right place, but staff will have to re-direct the LT author link. I'll ask Loranne to do so.

>116 Collectorator: I researched and tucked the Harlaam Legend back into the main author. Der Linde published his examination in Dutch in the 1870, and Hessels translated to English in 1871.

https://archive.org/details/haarlemlegendin00lindgoog

@2wonderY his family name includes 'van'.

Cool find, with some interesting names mentioned in the translation introduction. Joh. Enschedé is probably related to the famous printers in .nl, currently printing money and stamps among other security related stuff.

Ah, yes of course. Sorry.

>115 Collectorator: Done.

http://www.librarything.com/author/slocumjoshua

I don't have time this evening, but I'll do the work tomorrow unless someone wants to do it.

#23 and #26 are done as well.

>90 Collectorator: and >92 Collectorator: Done.

94 is done.

>95 Collectorator: Done.

>23 MsMaryAnn: Done.
>26 MsMaryAnn: Done.
>99 Collectorator: Done.

>103 Collectorator: Done.

Quiet day for me.

>104 Collectorator: done.

Could 2wonderY try Brad Smith for me... You did #120 so nicely.

https://www.librarything.com/author/smithbrad

>135 bergs47: You would give me a Smith! Working on it.

I think I'm done with it. Happy now?

>106 Collectorator: is done. I think I did it previous to today and forgot to report it.

>107 Collectorator: Done.

>108 Collectorator: Done.

>110 Collectorator: Done.

Thanx 2wonderY How did u get the authors pics done?

Everyone is on the internet in some way or another, eh?

Well, maybe not. But many authors have been interviewed, even by local press, and most of that is now online.

I thought you needed permission to post a pic?

This author needs splitting ... badly

http://www.librarything.com/author/reedphilip

>145 Collectorator: Done.

>113 Collectorator:
>114 Collectorator:
>115 Collectorator:
>116 Collectorator:
all done.

>148 Collectorator:
>149 Collectorator:
Done.

>156 Collectorator: See >122 2wonderY:. There was no need to seperate the author.

>160 Collectorator:
Done - (David Lewis)

>150 Collectorator: Julie Watson is done.

>151 Collectorator:

Paul Levy - done.

>152 Collectorator:

Stu Campbell - Done.

>153 Collectorator:

Hans Kuhn - done.

>161 Collectorator: Done.

>178 Collectorator: I read that author name phonetically as "Car-pool" rather than as "Carr, Paul." Am I weird or something? :-p

>182 Collectorator: Done.

Weird, though. I was the one who combined and split, and after fixing one gender issue, no other combination issues showed up when I left ...

>183 Collectorator: This was weird, too.

This page didn't need splitting after all, because one of the authors wasn't, in fact, Heinz Kähler, but Heinz Köhler - and this is what was set as primary author. No idea why he showed up with Kähler.
I changed the primary author to Kohler, Heinz and combined this book where it belonged.

The Kohler page needs splitting now, though. And for some works, it should be spelled Köhler. I'll see what I can do (have to go to work in a few minutes, so please don't mind if it doesn't get finished till tonight or so!)

>186 leselotte: There are several versions of how some accented characters end up being rendered to author urls on LT:

• Closest-looking non accented, but I think that one usually wins out only when a large enough amount of users rendered them as such in their entries to begin with
• Long html description ("eacute" for é) which mean a name with several such characters can of course often end up truncated to what is effectively a very short (and sometime not very distinctive) part of the whole due to character limit
• Omission

Heinz Kähler and Heinz Köhler apparently suffered the later one, resulting in an identical khlerheinz

>191 Jarandel: Thanks for the info :)