Impossible to correct an author’s name

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Impossible to correct an author’s name

1omarotto
Apr 14, 2:16 am

I’ve noticed that sometimes it’s actually not possible to modify the name of an author of a work: if I change it, the name is automatically reassigned to the previous author.
An example is the author of the work “Catechismo Della Chiesa Cattolica: Compendio” (https://www.librarything.com/work/3271354): no matter how many times I try to correct it by assigning the author to “Catholic Church,” it is consistently reverted to “United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.”
Why does this happen?

2MarthaJeanne
Edited: Apr 14, 2:33 am

https://www.librarything.com/work/3271354 Please use URLs without punctuation so that they work as links.

Work title is Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

3Charon07
Apr 14, 10:33 am

>1 omarotto: I believe this is an instance of the bug described here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/373623. The bug is that recalculation disregards any edits to the author(s) and uses only the author(s) from the edition data.