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0 pointsbloak5y ago0 comments

I noticed that two authors with the same name are conflated. But if I try to edit any of the editions involved, the interface won't let me either modify or delete an existing author nor even add a new author using the author ID rather than the author's name. What should I do to sort this out?

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mekarpeles5y ago

Howdy bloak,

Many of our librarian processes & FAQs are detailed here: https://openlibrary.org/librarians

Most data on Open Library is publicly editable by members. In this case, author merging is a capability that only folks who have been added to our Librarians usergroup can access because the process of reverting an accidental merge is quite time consuming (and so we have some training in place).

If you tweet @ our lead community librarian (http://twitter.com/seabelis) she can likely help you make this fix! Also, if you're interested in helping us make changes like this, we can invite you to our slack channel :)

bloakOP5y ago

Thanks, but what I'm trying to do is split authors ... and I think I've worked out how to do it. The trick is to make sure you're looking at the "work" rather than the "edition", because when you're looking at the "edition" the author is immutable.

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