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Roald Dahl

1Michael.Rimmer
Jan 16, 2021, 6:11 am

Hi

Yesterday, somebody split Roald Dahl's author page - https://www.librarything.com/author/dahlroald - assigning him #1 split, with no other so-named authors and a bunch of unassigned titles. Rather than the tiresome job of having to reassign titles to #0 then changing to Single Author, is there a way that the original edit can be rolled back?

22wonderY
Jan 16, 2021, 6:31 am

On the right column, go to author division and click the button for single author.

3abbottthomas
Jan 16, 2021, 6:31 am

If you go to ‘Author division’ and save as a single author, doesn’t that put everything back to where it was?

I hesitate to do that without trying to find out from the splitter what they were doing. Occasionally apparently strange changes are part of a larger, and less strange, project awaiting completion.

A quick run through the list of attributed works doesn’t reveal any that obviously deserve a split. I wonder about Postman Pat Parcel though.

42wonderY
Jan 16, 2021, 6:35 am

Looks like a possible edit war? I’d wait till those editors weigh in as to what they’re doing.

5Michael.Rimmer
Jan 16, 2021, 6:42 am

>2 2wonderY: That gives you the following message alert: "To save as a single author, you must first remove all assignemnts below and save."

I don't have the time to do that for nearly 100 titles :-)

6Michael.Rimmer
Jan 16, 2021, 6:48 am

>4 2wonderY: I've sent the person who did the edit a polite private message enquiring what their intention is. :-)

7lilithcat
Jan 16, 2021, 9:28 am

>1 Michael.Rimmer:

Weird. It looks as though two people are doing this, one yesterday and one today.

8Nicole_VanK
Modifié : Jan 16, 2021, 10:12 am

>7 lilithcat: Very weird.

>1 Michael.Rimmer: At a quick glance (I haven't checked every title), that page shouldn't be split at all.

9abbottthomas
Jan 16, 2021, 10:33 am

>7 lilithcat: JLG53 did the big split, brizzzy has returned some 'unknowns' to where they belong but has left Dahl's cookbooks written with his wife, Felicity, separated.

>5 Michael.Rimmer: I had forgotten that change. Relatively recent introduction to hinder edit wars if I remember correctly.

10SandraArdnas
Jan 16, 2021, 11:36 am

Now, all the CK is on 'combinations issues' page. Over 450 works unassigned, including his major works. What a mess out of nothing

11MarthaJeanne
Jan 16, 2021, 11:51 am

It's back together.

12lilithcat
Jan 16, 2021, 12:52 pm

>11 MarthaJeanne:

HUGE thanks!

13SandraArdnas
Jan 16, 2021, 1:32 pm

>11 MarthaJeanne: >12 lilithcat: Yes, indeed. I got a headache looking at it as it was

14Nicole_VanK
Jan 16, 2021, 2:54 pm

15Michael.Rimmer
Jan 16, 2021, 3:40 pm

I had a message back from the person who did the split, and it was an innocent error. Good to see Roald's been reunited with his books already :-)

16lilithcat
Jan 16, 2021, 3:52 pm

>15 Michael.Rimmer:

Honestly, I understand that people make mistakes. But, I do wish that when the mistake ends up making a mess, they'd ask for help!

17Michael.Rimmer
Jan 23, 2021, 5:39 am

>16 lilithcat: The person responsible didn't realise they'd made any error, so wouldn't have seen any need to request help. There was no malice aforethought from what I can tell 🙂