Richard Light has generated a list of candidate author record duplicates that we need your help with verify.
I've uploaded the list to a Google Docs spreadsheet where everyone can help work on it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak8syCNT8x2DdDJrb0NYaHNmSlpacnV0SkI4MTQtQXc#gid=1 There are two columns of URLs. The right hand column contains a merge URL which, when clicked, will show you the two candidate records and ask you to confirm the merge. Please select the record with the best name form and most works as the primary record, double check that they're really the same author and then click merge. Alternatively, click the search URL and see if there are other candidates that could be merged with slightly different name forms or perhaps missing a date. This will clean up more records, but requires attention to detail to make sure you don't actually merge two different people together. If you are at all unsure, something is a match, leave it out. If the "winning" record has the name in inverted form (ie Smith, John), you earn extra brownie points for editing the author record and cleaning it up. Please *delete the URL* from the cell for whichever option that you choose so that your co-workers know that you've already processed that entry. There are about 2,000 sets of records on the list, but I'm betting that we can make pretty short work of the cleanup. Thanks for your help! Tom p.s. If you're using the search URLs, you may occasionally find a case where the search returns no results due to search index problems. In this case, please just click on the direct merge URL.
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