I've tried this workaround: 1. add new author (= duplicate) 2. merge old and new author
Sometime it works, sometime it doesn't and the book have no author at all. - patrick Am 16.03.2011 18:06, schrieb Karen Coyle: > Have you considered merging the disparate author entries for the David > Clarke 1972-? If you bring the author entries together, I believe that > the bibliographic record will be updated automatically (although with > a bit of a delay -- at least a few minutes). > > If you click on "author" on the home page and type in david clarke you > can see all of the names matching those 'keywords', among which will > be the ones you wish to merge. (Merge link is in upper right side of > results page.) > > kc > > Quoting Patrick Conley<[email protected]>: > >> I wrote a mail to add the book >> >> http://openlibrary.org/works/OL8095745W/Diese_merkwürdige_Kleinigkeit_einer_Vision >> >> to the author David Clarke (1972 -) >> >> http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL6890022A/David_Clarke >> >> Apparently it's not possible, even for OL staff, because Clarke is a >> common name (too many hits). >> >> In the old OL version you could add the exact author, using his OL number. >> >> Is it possible to restore the old functionality? >> >> -patrick _______________________________________________ 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]
