Work misattributed to author

How can a work that is linked to the wrong author be corrected?
Specifically, most editions of Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman are attributed to Neil Gaiman alone, and so is the work. Only few are correctly attributed to Terry Pratchett; Neil Gaiman and few are listed under Terry Pratchett. How is it possible to link them all together under the correct author?

"Only few are correctly attributed to Terry Pratchett; Neil Gaiman"

The person you've quoted is NOT the correct author. Although you are of course free to invent whoever you like. Terry Pratchett is one person Neil Gaiman is another. There is no such dual person.

AT the moment, LT requires a main author, and additional contributors can be listed in the Other Author field.

In the US Neil was listed as the first author, in the UK publications Terry was first, users have hence list Good Omens as by whichever author they feel is correct.

LT has promised (and even trialed) and may someday yet deliver a suitable system for dealing with multiple authored works, until then use any of the workarounds you wish.

Listing books by dual author leads to confusion with other books written by only one of the authors Discworld or Fragile things for example, neither of which should appear on the dual page, or the wrong authors page.

Obviously my question led to the result that more editions of "Good Omens" are attributed to Gaiman now. Only one work is left in the list of Pratchett. It is called "Hoge Omens" and contains dutch and spanish translations of "Good Omens".

In any case I can't see the advantage of the chosen system. Attributing the work to Terry Pratchett; Neil Gaiman clearly had the advantage, that searching for any of both authors resulted in finding the work, whereas now you have to search for the main author, which is not commonly defined.

Independently from this special case I wonder where to find the tool to combine editions of books that are listed under different author-names (misspelled names, multi-authored works, ...).

If the works share and ISBN then they can be combined whatever title/author they have been entered with.

To do so goto the Book information (not social) page. Towards the bottom will be a "potential work combinations" option. Click on the obvious combine links to combine the suggested works. If the works share neither author nor ISBN then you are in trouble.

Unfortunately, the option has disappeared with the new layout. It will hopefully return.

The option remains with the new layout, look near the bottom of the Detail page.

Help please,
I have a copy of Necromancer by Robert Holdstock. It has somehow become combined with Allsworth Hall by Ann Perry and I can't seem to uncombine them. Can you help?
amobogio

This is one of those tangles/hash collisions, perhaps someone else can explain this better. the short answer is that there is nothing that any one of us can do. This is the way LT has entered your book in the database. See:

http://www.librarything.com/work/details/22056186

Some users have had success editing the title very slightly, or deleting the book and reentering it again from another source.

I see that while your book has an ISBN the 'work' of the clump of 33 books by Ann Perry does not. That can only mean that when someone separated the clump of books with the tangled copy from the main work the ISBNs did not follow. I've noticed this today and yesterday in another couple of cases after separations too. I think we have a bug here.

>7 amobogio:, 8

I've had a go at separating as well, and have failed. As Katheryn says, the best thing to do is to amend the name of the work, but even putting the publisher in brackets doesn't seem to produce a distinct work Sorry.