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How to correct a translated author name being listed as primary author for several books
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Anika wrote: "Hi everyone, I have a question regarding a translated author name. There are several books with Lene Kaaberbol listed as the primary author, but that is a translation of her official name Lene Kaa..."
Hi, Anika!
Maybe you can try adding 'Associated names' to the description of both author profiles? At least when you click into each profile, you know the names are associated with each other.
See this author profile for example:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
(TBH, in your case her anglicized name and original name are almost the same. I don't really know if it's necessary in the first place to add the "English version". I've always thought that's reserved for authors whose original names are not in Latin alphabets)
Pandan wrote: "Anika wrote: "Hi everyone, I have a question regarding a translated author name. There are several books with Lene Kaaberbol listed as the primary author, but that is a translation of her official..."
Thank you for your answer Pandan! I will add the associated names to the profiles that's a good idea.
I actually feel like all the books should be under one profile eventually because it is the same writer, but I don't think that is something I can do so I will look into where to make a request for it.
Edit: I just saw there is a section in the manual on how to merge the profiles so will look into that.
And I agree with you on the name! They are so similar I personally don't see a reason to have an english version but I wasn't entirely sure on the rules here so thanks for explaining your point of view.
There are several books with Lene Kaaberbol listed as the primary author, but that is a translation of her official name Lene Kaaberbøl and now these books aren't showing up in her profile. I've read in the manual that translated names should be listed as a secondary author and I'm wondering what the best way is to go about fixing it. There are quite a few books with the translated name, can the author profiles be merged somehow? And which name is considered the 'right' one? Currently Lene Kaaberbøl has the most complete profile, but according to the manual I suppose the more english version of her name should be the primary?
I have no experience with this type of issue so if anyone has any advice that would be greatly appreciated!