Weird Author Display - Pipe instead of Comma

I was looking at combining a few books but couldn't seem to figure out why things weren't showing up right. Then I looked at an author page:

https://www.librarything.com/author/davidsonaleister

The display up top looks like it has a pipe in place of the comma, though it doesn't seem to interfere with the URL.
This looks funky on Windows 10 Pro, Chrome 101.0.4951.67

Not entirely sure this is a bug or a remnant of code that went out and came back in, but I figured I'd post it to be safe.

I've hit "Recalculate author name" and that seems to have removed it.

>2 Nevov: Great. Now how will I get the developers to figure out why it did it?

At least one user had entered the author's name as "Davidson| Aleister" (you can see it at https://www.librarything.com/work/22541529/editions). Perhaps that was the first book catalogued? In any case, that book has been deleted and you'd think the system would at some point have recalculated the author name automatically - either when that one was deleted, or when other books were added.

The point being - I wouldn't say that the system "did it" (i.e. randomly displayed or entered a pipe instead of a comma), but it certainly missed many opportunities to fix it.

A zero-copy edition of this work seems to be the one with the pipe in it: https://www.librarything.com/work/22541529/editions

Sorry, I shouldn't have grumbled.

No, you should. I think most of us have seen things like this often enough that we're used to it and don't grumble any more. But the system certainly could be better about getting authors' names right from the data available.

My personal annoyance that I don't grumble about is seeing author names displayed on work pages as lastfirst, you can fix that just by going to the author page (in a new tab even), then refreshing the work page. Clearly not working right, but I don't expect it to be fixed and of course can't reproduce it on demand (it's a heisenbug - it goes away when you observe it) so I haven't bothered reporting it.

Oh, and then there are /author/firstlast pages with no works on them where the name displays as "First Last" but you combine it with the /author/lastfirst page and the name shows under "Includes the names" as "firstlast" instead of "First Last" like it showed before it was combined.

So we've gotten used to just doing "recalculate author name" or other workarounds and moving on.

Weeding through old bugs...

I tried separating the offending edition and re-combining to see if that might trigger the pipe character getting back in the author name, but no.

Is there a live example of this bug? Closing, if not, but please reopen if needed.