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My quotes are being attributed to an author with the same name.
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Jul 24, 2019 08:35PM
There is another author with the same name as mine who is being attributed with my quotes. In fact, he is also being attributed authorship of a few books by a THIRD author of the same name (yes, there are actually three of us... all named Tony Cleaver). Can you please fix it so that each author is credited for his own work? Thank you, Tony Cleaver.... this one.... (not those other guys) 😊
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I have moved the quotes you created to your profile and disambiguated the single space profile to the best of my abilities.You are Tony^^^Cleaver, where ^ stands for a space. Adding extra spaces between first name and family name is the method used by GR to differentiate between authors with the same name combination. The extra spaces do not show and have no consequence for the search function.
If you add a new book you've written, you have to include the extra spaces in your name in order to place that book on your profile. And in the same vein you need to add these extra spaces to your name when creating a quote in order to get a selection list of the books on your profile.

