Wrong author in multi-author book question

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Just a quick question regarding authors and anthologies. There are two anthologies on my shelves with multiple authors working on them, and one author who appears in both has a pretty common name. The wrong author page has been linked to the anthologies, and it needs to be changed. I know a long list of different authors can be a pain for librarians to work with, but not the specifics of how, so I wanted to know: is it possible to change a single author while maintaining their position in the author list, or would the entire author list need to be scrapped and started over again in order to correct this issue while maintaining the correct order?

Just want to know before I make a thread about it how exactly I should phrase the OP. Thanks for any and all help with this.

[annob [on hiatus]]

Hi, I appreciate your concern! This is a quick work for us, even with many authors listed. You could either create a "move to this author" request, or link to the edition and the correct author page, and I'll fix it for you.

It's changing the order of names that takes eons when there are many authors listed. If there are 25 names, it takes 25 mouse clicks to move the last name to first position, with a lovely page load wait between each click.

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Thank you so much for your help. Before I list the books and the author issue, one more quick question: there are some duplicate editions of these books that need to be merged. Would you be willing to help out with that here to make the author issues a bit easier to manage, or should I start a separate thread for these merges?

[annob [on hiatus]]

I'm relucant to take on the merge, perhaps better if you post that part of the request separately.

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annob wrote: "I'm relucant to take on the merge, perhaps better if you post that part of the request separately."

Got it, I'll circle back to this thread and bump it once it's done.

[Tawnya]

It's changing the order of names that takes eons when there are many authors listed. If there are 25 names, it takes 25 mouse clicks to move the last name to first position, with a lovely page load wait between each click

Wouldn't it be great if they could give us something like we have with the series. I would also love a button were the entire list automatically goes to the other editions, sort of like the default description (which REALLY needs an option for an edition to NEVER have the default one-such as with foreign languages).

Back in October I found out we have a limit of 3,000 edits per day. I had been doing anthologies all day. I hadn't realized I could click it repeatedly, and was instead going one position at a time. Thankfully I accidentally hit it twice, and that's how I found out about being able to move the names.