combining problem (noticed yesterday)

Hi!

re: Karl Marx

Please see Common Knowledge › Search › canonical name Marx, Karl .

Neither yesterday nor today I was able to combine the last three author urls with the main author name using "url syntax".

Today I also tried the GUI method. There is no indication at all that the GUI method does not perform combining.

Best regards Reinhardt

It's probably this problem: http://www.librarything.com/topic/99428

By the way, please don't use canonical names unless you absolutely have to. There is nasty bug involved in that one (name goes blank if/when canonical name is deleted).

> 2 Thanks for the answer. I can confirm that combining works on authors with few works but not if many works are listed at the main author url-

> 2 b) : I know about some bugs involved when "canonical names" are used. The greatest problem for me is that "Also known as:" lists "canonical names" and not the names related to individual works:

Mikhail Arshinov ( Touchstone syntax: Mikhail Arshinov arshinovmn::Mikhail Arshinov )
see Common Knowledge › Search › canonical name Mikhail Arshinov

There the Cyrillic author name is neither visible at the top (at "Also known as:") nor at "This entry includes…"

> 2 c) : For me the main problem consists that Common Knowledge (also "canonical names") get lost depending what additional works are added to LT.

BarkingMatt do you know the main topics handeling remarks b) and c) ?

No Михаил Наумович Аршинов won't show in "also known as" if/when there's a canonical name "Mikhail Arshinov" attached to that page. But after I separated them, and put the Аршинов version in that field, and recombined them, it does now.

Yes, I know CK doesn't always "travel" in these combinations - I see it as a serious problem.

Sorry, though I know these things have been discussed before I don't seem to be able to find the topics.