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Originally Posted by 44reader
I have my authors listed as e.g. Joyce, James [I think you do the same don't you, kiwidude?]. That means I have to do one extra click in Wikipedia; it takes you to the search page instead.
Is it possible to write a template (currently: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search={author} ) that swaps last name, first name when I click on the author link template link in Book Details?
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Ahhh, I don't use the feature personally but I see what you mean (and yes I am a LN, FN person).
Whether it is possible to swap in a template, or whether chaley could just add some extra logic in for comma delimited names/a preference I leave to his wisdom to respond to.
This sort of thing is unfortunately a recurring pain in the butt issue with any new feature of calibre that involves author names. I've stirred the debate pot about it a number of times but without a conclusion that Kovid/chaley are yet happy with. There is no centralised preference saying "my names are in LN, FN" format that every other piece of code can then look at - the argument being that for non-english names it is not so easy to determine what is a LN and FN. I have a selfish opinion on that, but then thankfully for all the international readers using calibre I don't manage the development
Edit: I see chaley posted a solution for this case while I wrote this