Hehe. At least the 2 author records now have more accurate birth/death info, which is Super Useful to distinguish them
BTW - We're now showing "first published" dates alongside works on the Merge Author UI. On 3/28/11 3:06 PM, Alan Merryweather wrote: > 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] _______________________________________________ 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]
