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

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