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Riley Black

1Stbalbach
Mai 4, 2022, 1:40 am

This is the same person:

https://www.librarything.com/author/switekbrian
https://www.librarything.com/author/blackriley

Not sure what is to be done for a merge, if anything.

2Nicole_VanK
Mai 4, 2022, 2:09 am

>1 Stbalbach: When you go to either author page you'll find "Combine with…" in the righthand column (scroll down a bit).
Click "Search" there, and fill in the other name.
Once found, you'll be on a page that allows you to combine them.

3Stbalbach
Mai 4, 2022, 10:54 am

After looking more into it, the author is transgender, born male and identifies as female. https://rileyblackwrites.medium.com/how-i-came-to-accept-myself-as-trans-9dbccd2... .. his born name is Brian Switek and her chosen name is Riley Black (which was originally her "furry" name). Do we still merge or retain separate? If merge, which name is primary. She says in the linked post "Turns out that Riley Black was my real name and Brian was the pseudonym" ie. this is what she prefers, though is not strictly factual in terms of born name.

4MarthaJeanne
Mai 4, 2022, 11:14 am

Yes, we combine.

Currently publishing under preferred name. Seems to me we should respect that, but it might not be how it comes out.

5amanda4242
Mai 4, 2022, 11:51 am

I've combined the two names and set the canonical name to Riley Black.

6Nicole_VanK
Modifié : Mai 4, 2022, 1:49 pm

>4 MarthaJeanne: That's one example of when to overrule the most common name with a canonical name.

7Nicole_VanK
Mai 4, 2022, 1:47 pm

>5 amanda4242: Thank you

8MarthaJeanne
Modifié : Mai 4, 2022, 2:02 pm

The disambiguation notice is very good.

>6 Nicole_VanK: I've still got a lot of brain fog post-Covid. I can see how it should come out, but not how to get there in detail.

9amanda4242
Mai 4, 2022, 2:02 pm

>8 MarthaJeanne: I copied it from another author page and just changed the appropriate details.

10Stevil2001
Modifié : Mai 4, 2022, 5:25 pm

We had a bit of drama about trans authors a couple years ago (I set a canonical name for one that someone else kept on reverting) and this is indeed how we ended up handling it.

11Nicole_VanK
Mai 5, 2022, 4:48 am

>8 MarthaJeanne: Ah, I understand (had it myself). I'm so sorry. Hope you'll feel better soon.

12gilroy
Mai 5, 2022, 6:58 am

>10 Stevil2001: I do believe that particular person is no longer on the site, though, so we should have less ... issues

13lorax
Mai 5, 2022, 1:12 pm

I'd blissfully forgotten that particular exchange.

But yes, not deadnaming trans authors is probably the single best example of when to use Canonical Name to override the default of most common.