> Should some kind of detail not reflect the particular spelling applied in > the individual book?
Yes it should. The book page has therefore two name fields: Author: Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ (= authorized heading) By Statement: Nikolaj Gogol (= name on the front page) http://openlibrary.org/books/OL9078577M/Meistererzählungen There are three useful sources for authorized heading: Nikolai Gogol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ http://authorities.loc.gov Nikolaj V. Gogolʹ http://d-nb.info/gnd/118540424 After the merge all names should appear in the field: "Does this author go by any other names?" > Deletion of author pages with "0 works"? There are still about 10% of books without a work page. An author with "0 works" has a book (but no works) in OL. Greetings, Patrick Am 23.02.2011 15:42, schrieb Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér: > I suddenly find myself uncertain as to the approach - I was looking > into some books by Gogol. > I found > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL8839145M/Nouvelles_de_Petersbourg - the > name was simply listed as "Gogol", which I changed to "Nikolaĭ > Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ". While transliteration always leaves a bad taste in > my mouth, it is certainly more exact than what it was before. I am now > merging some various author variations of Gogol, but: Should some kind > of detail not reflect the particular spelling applied in the individual > book? > As I was trained in Russian at university, I personally learned the > depths of frustration that transliteration issues can bring one to. > There are varying conventions in every country, and often several over > the course of time. > Please advise? > Also, I came across two empty entities as well, > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4020164A/Nikolaij_Gogol and > http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL3374482A/Nicholai_Gogol - these should > just be nominated for deletion. > > Sincerely, > Morten _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
