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BetterRed · 11-10-2013, 03:06 PM

@Lauraq

I find that the best place to resolve Author naming anomalies is in the Author Maintenance list, that may sound trite but having a list of author names and author sort names makes it much easy to spot the anomalies - you can also fix up casing mistakes and resolve variations such as Pinyin v Wade-Giles etc.

There are various pathways to get at the list, including

via Alter Tag Browser->Manage Authors, tags etc->Manage Authors at the bottom of the Tag browser panel,
via the Manage Author item in the context menu (right click) of an Author in the Tag browser
via the context menu (right click) on the Author name (blue link) in the Book Details

I mainly use the third one because I usually don't have the Tag browser displayed.

And I suspect that if you have the author_sort as last name followed by first name then the comma is mandatory - ie Joseph, Annabel - but not Joseph Annabel - but I could be wrong.

BR

11-10-2013, 03:06 PM	#2
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,792 Karma: 30237628 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@Lauraq I find that the best place to resolve Author naming anomalies is in the Author Maintenance list, that may sound trite but having a list of author names and author sort names makes it much easy to spot the anomalies - you can also fix up casing mistakes and resolve variations such as Pinyin v Wade-Giles etc. There are various pathways to get at the list, including via Alter Tag Browser->Manage Authors, tags etc->Manage Authors at the bottom of the Tag browser panel, via the Manage Author item in the context menu (right click) of an Author in the Tag browser via the context menu (right click) on the Author name (blue link) in the Book Details I mainly use the third one because I usually don't have the Tag browser displayed. And I suspect that if you have the author_sort as last name followed by first name then the comma is mandatory - ie Joseph, Annabel - but not Joseph Annabel - but I could be wrong. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 11-10-2013 at 03:30 PM.