Viewing Profile name formatting

[Cheryl]

New Librarian with a really silly question.
Where does one view how a Profile name is formatted?
eg whether it's Mary^Smith or Mary^^Smith
I can see it in the book edit section if it's an Author, but if can't see where to look if the profile has no books allocated to it.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

On the author page, edit data.

[Cheryl]

I can't access that if it's a Goodreads Author.

[Krazykiwi]

Any book from the profile, choose edit. If I have a lot of books to move I usually leave that in a tab and cut and paste to make sure I have it right.

[Cheryl]

Thank you :-) and Happy New Year

[lethe]

Cheryl wrote: "can't see where to look if the profile has no books allocated to it. "

Strange that a valid author profile would have no books, but you can also click on 'add more books' (not sure about the exact wording) on the author profile to see how many spaces the name has.

[Cheryl]

lethe wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "can't see where to look if the profile has no books allocated to it. "

Strange that a valid author profile would have no books, but you can also click on 'add more books' (not sure ..."

The scenario was - book was added to an author profile, but it wasn't her book. I couldn't find the other profile in the same name. I think the real issue was that there was no second author profile and I wasn't sure whether to create a new one with the ^^ double spaces. I left it for someone else to pick up, but I realise later that I should have created a second author with the different format, ahhh next time.
Thank you again.

[lethe]

There is also the 'similar names' link on the edit page of non-GR author profiles. It can be useful when there are several authors with the same name. It shows the spaces for each profile.

[Cheryl]

lethe wrote: "There is also the 'similar names' link on the edit page of non-GR author profiles. It can be useful when there are several authors with the same name. It shows the spaces for each profile."

I'll try this next time.
thank you