Am I the only one who doesn't see the problem with merging all the works by one
person into one author record? Why is it bad that all the individual Samuel
Clemens and Mark Twain records are merged into one? I haven't worked on those
records, but I think that if I had I probably would have done some merging, so
please let me know where the error lies. ;-)
Anyway, I am also interested in the discussion of pseudonyms. My reasoning is
to use the author's real name in the author field, and then put the pseudonym
in the by statement field. That way, when you are looking at an author's page,
all the works appear there. It's also a good way to discover that an author
wrote other works you might be interested in, but didn't know it was by the
same person. It also provides a way to log who wrote which work in the case of
shared pseudonyms. There are cons to this approach, though, as in most of the
Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonyms, where records of who wrote which work weren't
always kept. :-/
That being said, I once went through and cleaned up some of the multitude of
Dr. Seuss author records, and in the process I changed them to direct to the
Theodore Geisel record. Later, someone went back and changed the author name to
Dr. Seuss, with the comment that everyone calls him Dr. Seuss, not Theodore
Geisel. Not true, since he also published under his own name, and now all those
works ERRONEOUSLY show the author name as "Dr. Seuss" as well. But I'm not
going to get into a Wikipedia-style edit war over it.
Sarah
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