Author touchstones don't give alternatives

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Author touchstones don't give alternatives

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1MarthaJeanne
Edited: Jan 22, 2016, 5:37 am

I want to touchstone James Wong looking for http://www.librarything.com/author/wongjames-2. The things listed under Others are all books.

OK, here I am getting authors, I'll try again in my other topic. Maybe I have to do it before touchstoning his book.

It would still be great to get access to the divided authors.

Yes, that worked. If there are no book touchstones you get author alternatives, but a book touchstone in the same message gives you book alternatives for an author touchstone.

2lilithcat
Jan 22, 2016, 9:10 am

If there are no book touchstones you get author alternatives

I don't think that's it.

I just tried here using John G. Paton. I didn't use a book touchstone. The first time I tried the author touchstone, I got the book alternatives. So I deleted the touchstone and tried again. The second time, I got author alternatives.

I thought at first this problem might be confined to split authors, but it's not.

3kristilabrie
Edited: Jun 5, 2017, 5:11 pm

Testing

James Wong

Can't link directly to the split author, only the main/disambiguation author page.

4kristilabrie
Jun 7, 2017, 9:41 am

Testing once more.

James Wong

5timspalding
Aug 25, 2018, 2:40 am

The OP is not replicable or perhaps fixed. There is a case for doing >3 kristilabrie:. I'm marking as deferred.