Works do not link to right authors

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Works do not link to right authors

1DuncanHill
May 25, 6:58 pm

Problem relates to links from works to disambiguated authors.

Example: Go to book https://www.librarything.com/work/33900734/t/Green-Ink

The links on that page to "Stephen May" all go to the disambiguation page https://www.librarything.com/a/1153641/Stephen-May

They should go to the disambiguated author https://www.librarything.com/a/7350716

I have found the same with other books I have checked.

2SandraArdnas
May 25, 8:59 pm

Yep, another example https://www.librarything.com/work/30854818 should go to https://www.librarything.com/a/16479963 , but it goes to disambiguation page https://www.librarything.com/a/63330/Eleanor-Johnson

I'm waiting for the author pages updates to settle to do any serious work on them. Everything seems to be still very much in flux

3timspalding
May 26, 6:44 am

Thanks. That's on me. I'll take a look.

4DuncanHill
May 26, 12:57 pm

5timspalding
May 28, 6:13 pm

This bug should be fixed. If you find a place it's not, let me know.

6SandraArdnas
May 28, 8:19 pm

>5 timspalding: Nothing's changed for me. >2 SandraArdnas: is still the same. Here's another random one with split author from my books https://www.librarything.com/work/28160/196491778 Clicing on the author goes to https://www.librarything.com/a/8218/David-Abram even though the work is assigned to split 1, so it should open https://www.librarything.com/a/27878083/David-Abram

7DuncanHill
May 29, 9:54 am

>5 timspalding: For me my example at >1 DuncanHill: is not fixed, but the example at >2 SandraArdnas: is. The example at >6 SandraArdnas: is not fixed.

9Charon07
May 30, 1:56 pm

>8 DuncanHill: I’m not seeing the trouble with those works. When I click the author Andrew Sinclair for both those works, I’m taken to Andrew Sinclair (1), https://www.librarything.com/a/5871036/Andrew-Sinclair.

10DuncanHill
May 30, 2:08 pm

>9 Charon07: See 6 & 7. Pages are displaying differently for different editors

11timspalding
Jun 4, 11:43 am

Okay, how about now?

12SandraArdnas
Edited: Jun 4, 11:57 am

>11 timspalding: Works for me on the few split authors I tried. Thanks

ETA: On one that was previously open, I needed to force reload to page. Otherwise, it still went to unsplit page. Just in case it is useful to somebody else.

13DuncanHill
Jun 4, 11:58 am

>11 timspalding: Looking good so far, thank you.