To add my pennyworth, I'm pursuing AR's full name. ----
BTW, Desabandhu seems to be a title, (The Charitable), and how to deal with that is a different problem, but I'm straying too far from the target. ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Oates" <[email protected]> To: "Open Library -- general discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [ol-discuss] Alec Robertson writer on serious music > > There are at last two people conflated here. > > Whoops! Argh. > > Here's how I fixed it: > > * Turns out we already have an entry for "Desabandhu Alec Robertson", > which I > hadn't merged. The other entry for the Buddhist Alec Robertson didn't have > the > Desabandhu forename, so I missed it. > * I've extracted the Buddhism-related titles from the merge history and > attached > them to Desabandhu Alec Robertson. > * I added birthdates to both, 1892 for the music-y one, and 1928 for the > Buddhist one. > > * http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4166633A/Desabandhu_Alec_Robertson > * http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL142868A/Alec_Robertson > > * Also, I thought it would be useful to show a "first published date" per > work > on the Merge Author screen to provide more context. We'll work on that, > should > be live soon. > > Now we wait for the changes to propagate and appear live... > > Cheers, > george > > > > On 3/28/11 12:41 PM, Tom Morris wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:04 PM, George Oates<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> There's no reason you shouldn't be able to edit authors... I noticed >>> some >>> duplicate author entries when I was looking at your issue, so I took the >>> chance >>> to merge them. >>> >>> The main author page is now here: >>> http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL142868A/ >> >> There are at last two people conflated here. Here's an article which >> talks about the one born in 1928: >> http://www.dailynews.lk/2004/01/06/fea14.html >> >> The Gramophone guy was born in the 19th century. >> >> Tom >> >>> And you should see the normal "EDIT" button in the top right of the >>> white area. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> george >>> >>> >>> On 3/28/11 10:58 AM, Alan Merryweather wrote: >>>> I'm not allowed to edit authors, but having received a response to my >>>> query to >>>> The Gramophone magazine:- >>>> >>>> "Alec Robertson (AR) died on January 29, 1979, aged 87 (his obituary >>>> ran in the >>>> March 1979 issue)", >>>> >>>> I'd like this information to be recorded. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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] > _______________________________________________ > 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] > _______________________________________________ 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]
