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Originally Posted by drMerry
I should not show it.
Robinson, Spider & Roobinson, Jeanne
This is a quality check
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Don't agree.
That book has two different authors. I do not want the quality check to get involved with arguing with me over spelling of the name of an author. If it starts doing that, then it would also need to complain about Adams, Douglas vs Adams, Cat vs Adams, John. Or Applegate, KA vs Appleton, Victor. I really don't want the check to do that.
Regarding duplicate check: in Title/Author mode, I would hope that duplicate check would flag XXX by Robinson, Jeanne and XXX by Roobinson, Jeanne as potential duplicates. It should also flag Robinson, J and Robinson, Jeanne. In other words, duplicate check needs to recognize that variants of Robinson and Roobinson are possibly the same name.
In author mode (ignoring title), the duplicate check is checking for possible duplicate authors. Robinson, Spider and Roobinson, Spider are possible duplicates. So are Robinson, Spider and Roobinson, Jeanne, given loose enough criteria. It doesn't matter that they appear on the same or different books.
Thus the right place to do this work is duplicate check, because we are looking for potential duplicates, not potential misspellings. It turns out that one reason for duplicates is in fact misspellings, but there are others.
Of course, my position depends upon the notion that the title and the authors are set to what they should be (as listed on the copyright page). You seem to have a different system, where for your convenience the authors are set to something other than the 'real' author list. I won't say you are wrong, but I don't think it is reasonable to ask a plugin to cater to people's specific 'non-standard' naming systems. There can be as many as there are people.