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Originally Posted by Sirtel
There are a thousand or more inconsistencies in my case. Basically every commercial publisher has several different variations of their name. Even some small publishers have them, and even self-published authors have different versions of their own name often enough.
And as I said, I don't actually download metadata, so I have nothing to create rules for.
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Baen does this all the time (although I don't think I have seen them use S&S there).
Authors (at least for all publishers in my Library):
Middle initial With or without a period Or even the initial
Robert Heinlein, Robert A Heinlein,Robert A. Heinlein (I don't remember seeing his full middle name on a cover)
Christopher Nuttall has the variations of middle initial frequently.
I chose:
Christopher G. Nuttall as MY standard as it was most frequent at the time.
:bulb2; Quality check Plugin has tools in the FIX section to help standardize
OTOH
There are
deliberate Author name variations for some who choose to write in different genres. ( Initials in one, Middle name (only) Last, In another. Those I do not Mix.
Then there is the real PITA
, 2 Authors with the same name... (I am waiting for one of them to get with another to write, just to really tick me off
)
Variations are why I don't Automate fully.
I would love to have a way to mark 'those problem kids' (in Manage...?):
Human help needed NOW, and have Calibre stop the Add / non-interactive metadata update) and have it wait for user to resolve, rather than proceeding where they need to be discovered later.