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Letters that are not in English alphabet in author names and book titles
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Zala
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Aug 07, 2009 02:25AM

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Is there any policy?
Policy is that they should be spelled as they are in their native tongue, special characters and all. This means that right now someone has to go through and clean up the non-accented versions that people inadvertently create every so often, but it's the best solution we have until the aka function is created.


The AKA function has been on Goodreads' to do list for a long time, I think it's one of those features that would be hard to program.
It would allow us to combine author pseudonyms of one author into one author. So, if an author published under 2, 3, 4, or even more names, we'd be able to see all the names as they were but also see that they were all actually one author.
This would apply when authors used vastly different pseudonyms and also when sometimes they use a middle initial or name and sometimes they don't.

