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Old 05-02-2011, 02:49 PM   #260
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
I wondered about that. It is not unusual to have similar authors on the same book -- The Stardance Trilogy by Jeanne and Spider Robinson is an example -- and these shouldn't flagged. On the other hand, If I entered Robinson, Spider & Roobinson, Jeanne, then I would want to see it.

My conclusion: show them. They are relatively rare, and I can easily add an exemption.
I should not show it.
Robinson, Spider & Roobinson, Jeanne
This is a quality check

For example, I have a lot of books of Havank, AKA for Hendrikus Frederikus (Hans) van der Kallen.
I want to have Havank as main author. But if I add a book that has Hendrikus Frederikus (Hans) van der Kallen as author, I want to see this and set Havank as main author.
So I always store this author as
Havank & Hendrikus Frederikus (Hans) van der Kallen (AKA Havank)

In this way, I see duplicate authors in my author list on K (... Kallen and ... Kallen (AKA Havank))
So I know I have to rename the author and I can search on Kallen or Havank.

I can imagine this book will pop-up on quality-check, but it should not on duplicate check. I have only one copy of this book. Duplicates tells me something on duplicate books, not on duplicate authors (I can see duplicate authors if I have two books that would show in one of the duplicates tests and sim, fuz, soundex or ignore author, but it will always have two books.)
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