Martha Carr vs Martha Randolph Carr

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Martha Carr vs Martha Randolph Carr

1kmmsb459
Oct 7, 2021, 3:52 pm

The series I Fear No Evil was written by Martha Carr and Michael Enderle.
https://www.librarything.com/nseries/127536/I-Fear-No-Evil
However, the authors name appearing on the seres page is Martha Randolph Carr. They are not the same author and I can't figure out how to correct the series page.

Thanks for any suggestions.

2AnnieMod
Modifié : Oct 7, 2021, 4:46 pm

Were the two authors combined at some point by any chance?

Either something very weird is going on (because the first 10 characters of the URLs are the same) or there is a cache issue. Forcing the series to recalculate its authors did not fix it either (that had helped after bad combinations occasionally)

You may actually need a Bug report here... unless someone finds a creative way to do something. My gut feeling is that the authors being
carrmartha
carrmartharandolph
is the crux of the problem (looking for longest matching or something so landing on the wrong one)...

Unless I am missing something else obvious.

But if this is the case, why only these two series - the one you found and https://www.librarything.com/nseries/166649/The-Adventures-of-Maggie-Parker and not all of them... Hm. That gives me an idea.

3AnnieMod
Oct 7, 2021, 4:52 pm

OK.. it is something stuck on those series objects.

I just recreated 1 of the afflicted series into a new one to make sure it is not the works:
The old one: https://www.librarything.com/nseries/166649/The-Adventures-of-Maggie-Parker (wrong author on it)
The new one: https://www.librarything.com/nseries/330477/The-Adventures-of-Maggie-Parker-Temp (the correct Carr is on it)

PS: I played with this one and not the one you asked about because this one only had 3 works :) Both series have exactly the same problem.

No amount of recalculation budges the old one in any way or form... So we may indeed need LT to look into these two series and figure out what got them stuck that way.

4kmmsb459
Oct 7, 2021, 7:18 pm

Thanks for all your work! How do you report a bug to LT?

5AnnieMod
Oct 7, 2021, 7:22 pm

Go to Bug Collectors: https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/897/Bug-Collectors

Post a topic (just as you did here) - it will add it to the automated tracking because it is posted in the group set for that. Link this thread so they can follow to here in case someone has a better idea and to see what had been done. :)

6SimoneA
Oct 8, 2021, 3:39 am

I don't know what to do about the wrong series information, but I've tried to look into these two authors and from what I've found so far, I think the Martha Carr page should be split.

Most books on the Martha Carr page seem to be by this author https://marthacarr.com/about/, who writes fantasy
About Martha Randolph Carr, I found this link https://www.booksavvypr.com/authors/martha-carr/. The List https://www.librarything.com/work/14405597 is on the Martha Carr page and should be in a second split.

Please note that I don't know either of these authors, but maybe this at least tells us why the two author pages are a little mixed up... If nobody objects, I'll happily make the split on the Martha Carr page, after staff have looked at the bug.

7AnnieMod
Oct 8, 2021, 3:43 am

Can we leave things as they are for a bit so LT have a chance to investigate the open bug? A change that splits and aliases for example will provide an easy explanation - and the real reason may never be found. And if one author is in this mess, I am sure there are others.

8SimoneA
Oct 8, 2021, 6:28 am

>7 AnnieMod: Yes, I'll definitely wait for staff to check the bug and/or others to chime in on these authors.