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Policies & Practices > Using diacretics in authors names

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message 1: by Dee (new)

Dee (austhokie) | 897 comments not sure if this is the right place, but I wanted to ask - i'm noticing more and more author profiles being made (especially for authors from the scandanavian countries) with no diacretics on the names, which is duplicating offical profiles. what should I be doing with these? replacing the names with diacretic ones, using both?

for example:
Håkan Nesser and Hakan Nesser


message 2: by Moloch (new)

Moloch | 3975 comments I think the profile should have the CORRECT name, so I'd merge the profile with no diacretics into the correct one.


message 3: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
Agreed. This has always happened with many of our imports, and the incorrect authors just need to be merged into the correct ones.


message 4: by Dee (new)

Dee (austhokie) | 897 comments ok, I thought so, I just didn't want to screw them up


message 5: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
It's always good to ask in this group when you're not sure. :)


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