I have now found the answer to my question.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Coyle" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ol-discuss] Merging authors


> Not at all inappropriate. All of the forms will be linked together,
> but unless the names are merged the editions are unlikely to get
> merged together into a single work.
>
> You've probably seen that when you click on "merge authors" it shows
> you how many editions are linked to each form of the name. If you
> don't know of any reason to do otherwise, you can opt to link all
> forms of the name to the one form that has the most editions (which is
> usually given already as the default master name). If all factors are
> equal then you get to choose one by whatever criteria you wish.
>
> happy merging!
>
> kc
>
> Quoting Alan Merryweather <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is the same man.
>>
>> William Mann
>>
>> William S Mann
>>
>> William Somervell Mann
>>
>> Books are listed under all three names.
>>
>> Presumably where the style of name is different, merging is 
>> inappropriate?
>>
>> TKS
>>
>> Alan Merryweather
>>
>>
>
>
>
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