Recalculating other authors duplicates existing entries

When you click 'Recalculate from members' books' in the 'add/edit other authors' menu, it duplicates some of those that were already there. Specifically, those that have not been assigned a role and appear as generic (-, secondary author, some editions). So the list that's been recalculated several times ends up with that many identical entries. Just tested it and it does not affect entries where the role was assigned (translator, editor, etc)

>1 SandraArdnas: Specific examples are really helpful with bugs. Can you please link to a work page where you're seeing this?

I would assume it happens with any page that has additional authors. I noticed identical entries repeating a number of times, so I tested it on one of my books which has additional authors. Can't remember which one, but I checked before hitting recalculate and it indeed duplicated as described. Will try later on another one and post a specfic link

Yeah this is something that has always happened, I just sort of assumed that was simply how it worked and we had to live with it. Whenever you're on a book/work page and go to the other authors section and hit recalculate from members, it pulls ALL of them back. There's times with popular works that I've encountered 5+ listings for the other authors in it. It's pretty annoying and takes a while to go sorting through.

>4 .Monkey.:
Yeah, what you said...

Just tried it again with https://www.librarything.com/work/4679536/book/162484835 and as you can see hitting recalculate twice resulted in two identical entries. The confirmed two authors with defined roles are for some reason not duplicated, just the unconfirmed ones, and as far as I can tell only those who do not have a defined role when they are pulled from members' data.

It really makes the lists for works with numerous translations or otherwise numerous additional authors a chore to work through because instead of say 15-20, you suddenly have over a hundred. I picked a simple one just for demonstration, but I believe you can try it on any work where something will be pulled from members' data. Often, those are not legitimate authors, but something along the line 'Martha ed. Brunshwig, Nussbaum, Jacques', which I assume are a result of jumbled import

If there are just a few grayed out dupes I might fix them, but if there are too many grayed-outs, even duplicates, I'll just ignore them. After all they are grayed out.

Fixed, apparently :)

>8 timspalding: Indeed, just tried it. No more endless lists of translators and introductions :)