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Author Uncombining Conunudrum

1paradoxosalpha
Mar 27, 8:43 pm

There's a combination problem at the John Colleton author page, I think.
https://www.librarything.com/author/colletonjohn

Evidently, someone combined Colleton with Ring Twice to Enter author "Mark Ashley" which the discussants in the dedicated Colleton thread of the Erotica group have deemed to be, like Colleton, a nom de plume of Robert W. Marks. But "Ashley" seems to have carried along some other misplaced combinations:
Flying Film Stars: The Directory of Aircraft in British World War Two Films
Seizures
Funny Face

I'm pretty sure none of those are by Marks, and certainly they don't seem to fit the Colleton author the way Ring Twice to Enter does. I'm feeling inadequate to the intricacies of uncombining these.

I'm dubious that Colleton should be combined with Marks--and so far he hasn't been. I think the author of Ring Twice to Enter should be, but not the author of the other "Ashley" books.

2AnnieMod
Edited: Mar 27, 8:47 pm

There seems to be more than one Mark Ashley in our records.

Uncombine Mark Ashley, split Mark Ashley and alias appropriately - into Colleton or into Robert W. Marks if he has his own page.

3paradoxosalpha
Mar 27, 9:07 pm

Accomplished! Thanks.

It was a little tricky figuring out which of four John Colletons to alias Ring Twice Ashely into. One of them was even Robert W. Marks, surprisingly enough.

But I am going to refrain from combining Colleton and Marks.

4paradoxosalpha
Edited: Mar 27, 9:09 pm

And, no.

I'm back where I started, with all of the "Mark Ashely" titles on the Colleton author page. I divided Ashley, but I can't figure out how to alias over just one of the divisions.

5AnnieMod
Edited: Mar 27, 11:37 pm

>4 paradoxosalpha: You combined them again.

The interface where you did the split has a second tab. That’s where you alias. I split again and aliased. You can go see how it looks. Post back if you have any questions. :)

Are you sure all of the rest belong to the same Ashley?

6paradoxosalpha
Edited: Mar 28, 12:57 am

>5 AnnieMod: Yes, that's what I was trying to do.

I'm not 100% sure that the other three all belong together, but they are all 21st-century works relating to cinema (two movies and a book about planes in movies), so they certainly have more in common with each other than they do with the crypto-Colleton.

Well ... maybe not. Perhaps they should all be "unknown."