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@DMee - I think a new "Check authors non-alphabetic" option sounds reasonable, to catch cases of dodgy author metadata or multiple author seprators. Obviously you have to allow for apostrophe as well as period, comma and space. However the complication around that is for authors with diatrics. So I would apply the same approach I use in Find Duplicates which converts authors to their ascii equivalents before doing the alphabetic check. Arguably there could be also be yet another check for "Check authors non-ascii" which would allow users who don't want diatrics for the complications they cause (such as in ebook searches).
As for the author variations - funny how the timing coincides on these things. You can find those variations using the Find Duplicates plugin if you do an "Ignore Title, Similar Author" search. However I am also going to put on that thread tonight a beta for a new version of that plugin with a new menu option called "Check metadata variations". It was something I started off adding to Quality Check and ended up adding it to Find Duplicates instead. It works on authors, series, tags or publisher. On a new screen you can see grouped together the variations of names using your choice of algorithms and then rename them to consolidate. So keep an eye out on that thread.
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