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Elizabeth (Alaska) Brian Robertson is the one space profile so is the collector of all things and needs some disambiguation for whoever is so inclined.

There is a Worldcat page of possibles.


DerKleineSchatten | 61 comments I started to clean up and by now I am really confused. Brian Robertson (3 spaces) should be complete. Brian Robertson (2 spaces) is most likely complete. I would assume that at least two of the involved authors are illustrators of children's books (1 spaces and 8 spaces), but I struggle to disentangle them. And I think that there is at least one more Brian Robertson to whom books could be assigned to. Maybe someone else likes to continue working on this project.


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Suzi | 8661 comments DerKleineSchatten wrote: "I started to clean up and by now I am really confused. Brian Robertson (3 spaces) should be complete. Brian Robertson (2 spaces) is most likely complete. I would assume that at least two of the inv..."

I'll look at it in a few hours. Finishing up Mike Davis...


Elizabeth (Alaska) Thanks for working on this.


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Suzi | 8661 comments Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Thanks for working on this."

Disambiguation days - Arabian Nights


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Suzi | 8661 comments I left 3 stray Brian Robertson works under the default profile, and moved all the rest of them.

I ended up [after changing back and forth a couple of times] putting all the children's illustrator works under a single Brian Robertson. the couple of works that I questioned were published by a publisher that had used the known Brian Robertson and that decided me. If someone else wants to change them it's understandable. A few of the business type works actually had Brian W. on the cover, and a couple more of them were Brian W. in worldcat - so problem solved.
The Psychology textbooks all went under the Brian with the GR author profile, as his bio said he wrote textbooks in South Africa, and Oxford U Press said he was a well known textbook writer in South Africa. Another problem solved.

So - I'm calling this one complete.


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