How do you merge authors?

Nonfictionguy

Moderator

Nonfictionguy 15 years ago at Apr 21 18:47 -

I've so far found three John (Lofty) Wiseman entries. Can these, and any others that there may be, be merged?

www.listal.com/author/john-wiseman
www.listal.com/author/john-%27lofty%27-wiseman
www.listal.com/author/john-%22lofty%22-wiseman

Tom

Moderator

Admin

Tom 15 years ago at Apr 22 16:45 -

I can't at the moment but you can edit the author for all the books.

Marian

Marian 14 years, 11 months ago at May 30 23:41 -

Manually updating them would work sometimes (if there're not dozens of books for each dup)... but we'll lose data about favorites, pictures, revies and tags.

I think the merge feature is a must-have (at least for admins)

Nonfictionguy

Moderator

Nonfictionguy 14 years, 11 months ago at Jun 8 19:27 -

Have combined all three into one listing for now under John Wiseman. Lofty was just his nickname in the SAS and is not used on his latest releases.

Marian

Marian 14 years, 10 months ago at Jul 5 4:11 -

This case illustrates what I said in my previous post:

www.listal.com/person/leonardo-di-caprio
www.listal.com/person/leonardo-dicaprio

Although di-caprio has no related "items", there are some favs, photos, lists and ratings that would be awesome to merge with dicaprio. In the meantime, is there anyway Tom can do this on the backend?