Author separation

According to the disambiguation page (https://www.librarything.com/author/berglasse), "LAsse Åberg" is two people. That's not true - one of them is Lasse Berg. I can't find where to correct this information. As far as I can see, his author page says Lasse Berg everywhere (https://www.librarything.com/author/berglasse-1) as does the work page where I notised the issue (https://www.librarything.com/work/11049698/summary) - but that work page calls him Lasse Åberg.

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

https://www.librarything.com/work/11049698/summary

It's a most unfortunate heritage of the way some systems used to code things by just skipping the "special" characters. Author names like Müller and Möller (&c) often get mixed up too. I'm afraid there is very little we can do, except leaving a disambiguation notice.

ETA : To my surprise changing the author's name under "other authors" helped a bit.

I separated the last three books. This was easy checking the editions pages.

Thanks so much for the help. I see that Lasse Berg is still listed on the disambiguation page as one of the Lasse Åbergs - will that always remain?

Yes, because they have the same author page URL.

Can someone help with an author’s work.

The author James Glass needs to be split but I don’t understand how and don’t want to create a mess.
Currently books are gathered under names James Glass and James C. Glass.

I want to separate out 8 books for one James Glass as they are by Suzanne Madron which she has written under various names (see list below).
Title Series Author names used
The Murdered Metatron The Metatron Mysteries #1 James Glass, Suzi M., Suzanne Madron
The Dispossessed The Metatron Mysteries #2 James Glass, Suzi M.
The Rising Sun The Metatron Mysteries #3 James Glass, Suzi M.

Apocrypha of the Apocalypse Apocrypha of the Apocalypse Suzi .Xircon, James Glass, Mr. Ministry

Memories That Cost a Lifetime Ann Ominous, James Glass, Xircon Suzi M.

The Vampire of Plum Run James Glass, Suzi M.

Chats Over a Pipe James Glass, Suzi M.

Love Notes Suzanne Madron, James Glass, Suzi M.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

eta: made addition/correction to author names on The Murdered Megatron and tried to clean up the list a little.

James C. Glass
James Glass

>7 Bettesbooks:

Okay, I think this is straightened out. I've split James Glass, and aliased Suzanne Madron's works to her page. I also combined that page with Xircon and Suzi M.

Please check to make sure it's okay.

>9 lilithcat: A bit weird, on https://www.librarything.com/author/msuzi it doesn't say "Also includes: James Glass (2)".

EDIT:

Oh, I think it's because it's been aliased to madronsuzanne instead of msuzi. Will change that.

I am trying to separate two authors each named John A. Herrmann. They are different people but I failed in getting the older one to show up separately. He wrote Retracing Genghis Khan 1937 but I can't seem to get him to show up when searching the site for that name. Just a newer guy with the same name. Can anyone help me?

John A. Herrmann

Retracing Genghis Khan

Well there is your problem. The work was listed as being by 'Herrmann, John A. And Cecil Robert Borg'

I have recalculated, and it now goes to the right page, so it should show up there soon. Until an author has a book listed on the author page, he cannot be divided.

You should confirm other author on the work page.

BTW, on the disambiguation page the authors will be listed by the number of copies there are of their works. If one author's book has 4 copies, and the other only one copy, it looks better to give the more copy author spot 1.

If anyone is interested in a challenge, William Fischer is obviously several authors, but it's not clear how the split should go. The LibraryThing author has been suspended for unusual activity, so checking his library doesn't help.

>13 prosfilaes:

I think it's a reasonable assumption that all the guidebooks to Prague are by the same author. Three others are William C. Fischer, William L. Fischer, and William E. Fischer. I've split and aliased. There are two other authors as well.

But it's not possible to tell which is the LT author.

>14 lilithcat:
The LT author wrote https://www.librarything.com/work/11540767 (was no current copies) – established this via: their LT profile got a copy made on the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine in 2011 and it included a link to a now-defunct homepage, as well as Shelfari/Goodreads/Twitter profiles. It only mentions writing the one book, and the LT profile had only that one book catalogued at the time. I've added a copy, assigned to a new split -7, noted them in the disambiguation note, and will add some scraps of CK to the -7 page since when I delete the copy of the book it will leave the -7 profile empty of works.

Elbert Hubbard ran the Roycrofters publishing house until he died on the Lusitania in 1915. After that time, his son, Elbert Hubbard II, ran it until 1938.
Hubbard fils works are mixed in with his father’s.
I have a work by the son, but I don’t have time to separate the 362 or so works today. Would someone love to take the task?

Dreams and their Meaning (1922) is my book.

I’ve got a link and a picture for the son:
https://www.facebook.com/theroycroftcampus/photos/a.102734468266/101559047063132...

After sorting out multiple authors named Brian Andrews, I hit something of a wall with this one, who also uses pseudonyms and collaborates with another author.

https://lccn.loc.gov/n2012001382
https://www.librarything.com/author/andrewsbrian-3

Any help would be great.

Hi, hopefully i'm asking this in the right spot. It looks to me that there are a few issues with authors named Andrew Peterson (understandable; it's a fairly common name). One of them (1) is the author of the Wingfeather Saga, and another (3) writes the Nathan McBride series. These are very definitely distinct people. i don't have any specific information on the names numbered (4) and (5), and don't see any numbered (2) on the disambiguation page. Number (6) is the same person as number (1); he's an author and also a musician. Most of his music is actually filed under (1), with only a single album under (6). Additionally, some of the books on the disambiguation page filed under (unknown) also belong to Andrew Peterson (1). The photo on the page for Andrew Peterson (1) also looks to be of Andrew Peterson (3), or is certainly not (1). Andrew Peterson (1) is noted to have been aliased into Andrew K. Peterson, and i don't know which author that is but it is not (1). i would be happy to help with this but can't see how.

Titles on the (unknown) list that belong to Andrew Peterson (1):
•A Delirious Summer
•A Ranger's Guide to Glipwood Forest
•God and Wonder: Theology, Imagination, and the Arts
•The Wingfeather Saga: Season One Blu-Ray + DVD Combo Pack
•Resurrection Letters Anthology
•The Wingfeather Saga Season One (this is the same as the Blu-Ray listed above)

Thanks so much for any help—
Laure Hittle

>18 mrs.hittle:
The (2) split looks like it was used once for a book miscredited to Peterson when it wanted to be Petersen and the book has since disappeared from the page.
(1)'s wrong photo – I've moved the photo onto (3) and I'll add one from (1)'s official home page now.
(1) wrongly aliased into Andrew K – I've removed the alias. (That's done within the page where we can assign the works into each author number, at the top there's an Alias divisions to... option)
(6) I agree was the same as (1) and I'll move the works onto (1) next. Edit: done, and I've swapped (6) instead to be the alias for Andrew K Peterson who has one work on the page at present.

Thanks for a clear outline of what had gone on. Edit: touchstone Andrew Peterson

Oddly, Holly Jackson (unknown)

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

Has an author photo attached. Most of those titles are in other languages, and I’m not equipped to combine or assign.

>20 2wonderY: The 3 Czech ones belong to (1) - one is now combined, the other is a split translations so I will add relationships shortly.

And so is the French one - now combined.

PS: Which hid the photo from the unknown - maybe we should assign 1 book down again so we can clean the photo?

>20 2wonderY: >21 AnnieMod:
The photo assigned to unknown is of Hollie Jackson (note different forename spelling), an audiobook narrator:
https://www.librarything.com/pic/8535748
https://www.librarything.com/author/jacksonhollie