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message 1: by Antonomasia (new)

Antonomasia | 514 comments These geography textbooks:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...

are by AJ Parsons, as above.
But he wrote them under the name Tony Parsons. How do I separate them off from Tony Parsons the novelist AND get them listed on AJ Parsons' page - rather than creating yet another "Tony Parsons" with spaces?


message 2: by Paula (new)

Paula (paulaan) | 7014 comments The name he published the books as goes in the primary author position, you can then add A.J. Parsons to the secondary author position.

Are the geography text book Tony Parsons and the Novelist the same author?

If not then you have to create another Tony Parsons profile for them by disambiguating with spaces


message 3: by Antonomasia (last edited Nov 09, 2012 11:32AM) (new)

Antonomasia | 514 comments No, they're different people. AJ parsons (who seems to have written as Tony parsons before the other one became really famous) is a Geography professor at Sheffield uni.
So I put AJ Parsons down as a secondary author to Tony^^^^^Parsons even though he's the same person?

That will be the fifth Tony Parsons profile! - and there may be one or two more needed. (It's impossible to ascertain absolutely that the authors of an old book about contraception, and a handbook on playing pool, aren't one of the other Tony Parsonses.)


message 4: by Paula (new)

Paula (paulaan) | 7014 comments So I put AJ Parsons down as a secondary author to Tony^^^^^Parsons even though he's the same person?"

Yes

There are author profiles out there with at least 17 spaces so 5 is good


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