wrong Albert Ellis as Author on a book

Trying to do my own work here, v-e-r-y carefully, but first I need to fix something and I don't know how. If someone would instruct me, I'd go do it and build some muscle/mental memory :)

I want to combine 3 separate LT works that are actually the same work by Albert F. Ellis, aka Albert Fuller Ellis. However, one of them ( https://www.librarything.com/work/13843886/t/Ocean-Island-and-Nauru ) has Albert Ellis as the author. He was "an American psychologist and psychotherapist", b. 1913 & d. 2007. In contrast, "Sir Albert Fuller Ellis CMG (28 August 1869 – 11 July 1951) was an Australian prospector in the Pacific". (quotes from Wikipedia)

How do I get the psychologist off the 1 work and the prospector onto it so that I can combine the 3 works?

There's no need for works to have the same author in order to combine them. Just click the "add work to workbench" button on all 3 work pages (lower right corner of the page) and then click "combine works"

>1 LeslieWx:

You might want either to split the Albert Ellis page and alias your Albert Ellis to Albert F. Ellis, or you could use the Author Information field to correct the author of that work to "Albert F. Ellis".

>3 lilithcat: Thank you for the options. I don't see an "Author Information field" at https://www.librarything.com/work/13843886/t/Ocean-Island-and-Nauru , so I guess that leaves splitting.

I used the "Assign works to authors" tab to assign the Ocean-Island-and-Nauru book to Albert Ellis (2) and left the others unassigned (b/c I have No Clue if they're all really written by the psychologist). I saved that assignment, then reloaded the author page and used the "Alias divisions to other authors" tab to assign Albert Ellis (2) to Author code "ellisalbertf" ( https://www.librarything.com/author/ellisalbertf ). So far, so good (I think).

I then went back to my workbench and combined the 3 different LT works, and finally recalculated the author/title. I think it looks good now when I reload Ocean Island and Nauru: Their Story. There are 4 members with the book (about right, as I recall), the author is Albert F. ELLIS (good enough, I'm not going to stress about the last name in all caps), and Albert F. ELLIS is also the author of Mid-Pacific Outposts (which is a follow-up to Ocean Island and Nauru: Their Story.

Note that I'm detailing all my work so people can point out things I have done wrong and so others can learn from what I did.

>4 LeslieWx: But you could have combined them with the workbench without doing the author split, and then seen if the author work was needed. Hitting Recalculate author name at the bottom of the author page got rid of the caps.

>5 MarthaJeanne: But you could have combined them with the workbench without doing the author split, and then seen if the author work was needed.

Ahhh. The warning about different author names scared me away from that, once I realized that the LT "Albert Ellis" was really a different person. (I'd already figured out that the LT "Albert F. ELLIS" and "Albert Fuller Ellis" were both the prospector, so I wasn't worried about combing copies with those names on them.)

Hitting Recalculate author name at the bottom of the author page got rid of the caps.

I noticed that at some point in the evening. I'm always doing all this while 2 cats are dancing about and the German Shepherd is trying to supervise them (and maybe snarf down something they've knocked over). It's hard to keep focused on ALL the steps in the process! I at least try hard to keep the mistakes contained.

>6 LeslieWx: You’ll always get the warning when they are different authors. It is meant to tell you to stop and double check, not to scare you from doing it.

>7 AnnieMod: the warning .... is meant to tell you to stop and double check, not to scare you from doing it.

I'm going to have to work on my fear response. I'll point to this thread in self-defense when I bring something large to its knees!!

>7 AnnieMod: The people who are going to do it right get scared off, and those who aren't just ignore it.

>9 MarthaJeanne: Yeah, I know. Unfortunately.