Recalculate title/author: ignoring manually entered data?
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1kristilabrie
Per https://www.librarything.com/topic/373493#8942987: Apparently, recalculating the author is ignoring the manually entered author (which @gilroy says didn't use to be the case: https://www.librarything.com/topic/373493#8939854) and is just recalculating based on the editions, which is bad if the only edition has bad author information.
To reproduce:
1. Go to a work where the only edition has bad author data like https://www.librarything.com/work/32348365/editions or https://www.librarything.com/work/32244445/editions. See that members have corrected the author name manually.
2. Hit the "Recalculate title/author" link. You may need to wait until the following day to see changes.
Issue: The manually entered author (which is correct) is ignored and the bad author data is back, presumably because recalculating just looks at the editions.
To reproduce:
1. Go to a work where the only edition has bad author data like https://www.librarything.com/work/32348365/editions or https://www.librarything.com/work/32244445/editions. See that members have corrected the author name manually.
2. Hit the "Recalculate title/author" link. You may need to wait until the following day to see changes.
Issue: The manually entered author (which is correct) is ignored and the bad author data is back, presumably because recalculating just looks at the editions.
2kristilabrie
Bump, another instance of this issue reported at https://www.librarything.com/topic/375490
3MarthaJeanne
https://www.librarything.com/work/1363869/t/The-Little-Princess-%5B1939-film%5D
On the work page Shirley Temple is listed as director! (She was 11 at the time.)
On the work page Shirley Temple is listed as director! (She was 11 at the time.)
4kristilabrie
>3 MarthaJeanne: Oof! That's a great example, thanks.
