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Originally Posted by aardbewoner
Looking for the best way to make authors standard,as now a name can be written many ways like Isaac Asimov Isaac,Asimov Isaac-Asimov Isaac.Asimov and I Asimov.
What is the best way to bulk change all to Isaac Asimov.
And that for all authors and for the whole library.
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Quality check helps find (and FIX) some formatting variations.
BUT beware of doing Authors Automatically (1 click type fixes). There are cases where an Author uses a Middle name because there is another Author that used the same middle initial (or none). BE SURE, look at the books (list) and ask: 'do these look like they belong to the same Author?'
Right click the
bad name version: Rename xyz. (If a VL is active, you get a choice of All or just the VL)
I standardized on COVER name (and Left to Right / Top to bottom order) for Calibre entries
I also added a custom column (#psudo4)
for the
real name, The usage for this column evolved over time)
{Authors} is what is on the cover. Exceptions: 1) I add (ed), (illus), (creator
not created by) to the name where that appears with the name. 2)there is a list of 3 or more, I use the psudo4 column for all writers and only the Ed, in {Authors}. If the editor ALSO has a story, their name is included in this place also.
The one that uses both columns is when 'A' writing as 'P' (usually a reissue after the copyright reverted) {Authors} gets 'A' {#psudo4} gets 'P'. Note you may have some as original, some this way. I do not FIX. I use Preferences Searching:
Grouped Searches and
Similar books to include the needed columns. (The Similar group appears in the tag Browser, that is my main
goto.
IMHO start in the
Tag Browser: Authors section and use your eyeball and a mouse click or 2, FIRST and look at the book list and only fix those that clearly belong together.
Robert Heinlein is a common fix by adding his middle initial (A, ) The cover designer / Publisher may have been responsible for variants. Those are the only ones I 'fix'.
(I don't remember seeing any cover with his full middle name, that may appear on a copyright page. Also Authors marry, but continue to publish under the original name)
The Author may also use variants by Genre. I tend to treat them as a pen name.
Summary:
Quality check Plugin to identify and standardize initials format (configurable)
Tag Browser: Authors to fix spelling (missing data)