author's series incorrect, includes all anthology contents

Look at the author page for Jim Butcher, there is a huge list of series that he is the "author" of because he is the editor of an anthology that is included in those series under "Collections and Selections". Maybe the calculated author should be the author of only the core works. In fact that seems to be the case if you edit the series, (only the core author is listed as the series author). Then that series is removed if you reload Butcher's author page, but it comes right back later (maybe after some stored process runs?). It happens with other authors of anthologies, such as Charlaine Harris for instance.

I don't think this is a bug as much as it is a consequence of adding anthologies to series. There was a discussion about not putting anthologies because of all of the unrelated series, CK, authors, clutter, etc. they bring in, but Tim didn't agree.

>2 amanda4242: I suppose, but maybe if the author were calculated from core works only...

>3 al.vick:
>maybe if the author were calculated from core works only...

A second check box in the Basic Settings, Series Author section could be a neat way to accomplish this, and allow some nuance and a measure of control over it:

Series Author
☑ Allow series author to be calculated
☑ Calculate series author from core works only

Or better, a selection of options could cope with cases where there are several groups beyond the core that you'd want to include, but not the collections/selections due to anthology pollution:

Series Author
☑ Allow series author to be calculated
◉ Calculate from all works
◎ Calculate without collections and selections
◎ Calculate from core works only

>1 al.vick: >2 amanda4242: is correct, but you may certainly want to add an RSI (recommended site improvement) for this. I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for you, here.

Yeah, Tim was wrong on this one, and I'm removing anthologies from series when I come across them, and adding the actual story that's in the series if it's been entered. A big anthology with 2 dozen stories is not a part of a half-dozen series.

>5 kristilabrie: RSI makes sense for something desired that never existed. This was implemented recently because one person insisted on attributing all authors to series. Me objecting it would lead to chaos such as this was ignored. I doubt there's any chance that it would be reverted back to the way it was.

Thank you >1 al.vick: for picking this up.
And I support >4 Nevov:'s suggestion and >7 SandraArdnas:'s note.

I didn't remove the anthologies from the series I ran across because I wasn't sure those stories even existed as works.

I guess I should post this as an RSI? I kind of liked some of Nevov's suggestions, and I not very savvy about much other than text in these messages. I know I am a tech dinosaur!

>9 al.vick: Do feel entirely free to use anything I've written there, if you want it for an RSI. It should let you copy-paste anything from the message as the symbols in there are just Unicode plain text symbols, there aren't any functioning geegaws in there.