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1kmmsb459
aug 16, 2021, 8:04 pm

I added an author to a book - Maxwell Hamilton (Narrator):
https://www.librarything.com/work/22900814

He ended up being added to John Maxwell Hamilton's author page:
https://www.librarything.com/author/hamiltonjohnmaxwell/names

As far as I can tell the name Maxwell Hamilton is not combined with John Maxwell Hamilton.

I would have thought that Maxwell Hamilton would have his own author page since he is not 'John' Maxwell Hamilton?

2gilroy
aug 16, 2021, 8:07 pm

This feels like it's a bug to me, but I'll let others chime in.

3AnnieMod
Bewerkt: aug 16, 2021, 8:14 pm

Number of characters. LT names use 20. This is a long name - see the 20 characters of the last, first for both names.

Actually - there is a canonical name in there - the second of these is
https://www.librarything.com/author/hamiltonmaxwell&norefer=1 - which should not have been combined.

Yep that was it - someone set a canonical name and then combined. Once it was separated and recalculated, it looks good again. Although we may need do split and alias if that book belongs to the other guy. Let me do some digging.

4gilroy
Bewerkt: aug 16, 2021, 8:14 pm

>3 AnnieMod: Not true.
Maxwell Hamilton = 15 characters
John Maxwell Hamilton = 19 characters.
That shouldn't be a factor.


Never mind

5AnnieMod
Bewerkt: aug 16, 2021, 8:14 pm

>4 gilroy: Yeah, did not count right and then saw the issue. :) My bad.

6kmmsb459
aug 16, 2021, 9:50 pm

>5 AnnieMod: Thanks for the help!