> Presumably where the style of name is different, merging is inappropriate?
No, go ahead and merge them. Sometimes, the style of the name is different, because the various works/editions were published that way. In which case, it might be nice to know that. However, other times the name is different because a librarian somewhere cataloged it that way, despite what may have been printed on the book. I don't know this author, but it is possible for example that his books were published as "William S. Mann", but a librarian put him in the catalog as "William Somerville Mann" just to make the entry more complete or less ambiguous. And a miscellaneous Amazon seller, being sloppy, listed him as "William Mann". (Not that I would make gratuitous generalizations about these things, you know... Ok, I would :-) It is as much about the variations in import data sources for OL, as it is about variations in actual publication. If you know how the name was originally printed on a particular edition and want to record that in OL, you can do that. Edit the edition, turn on "librarian mode", and put it into the "by" statement field. But personally, I would not assume that the author entry being merged is necessarily what was on the printed page. - Alan _______________________________________________ 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]
