I have now found the answer to my question.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Coyle" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [ol-discuss] Merging authors > Not at all inappropriate. All of the forms will be linked together, > but unless the names are merged the editions are unlikely to get > merged together into a single work. > > You've probably seen that when you click on "merge authors" it shows > you how many editions are linked to each form of the name. If you > don't know of any reason to do otherwise, you can opt to link all > forms of the name to the one form that has the most editions (which is > usually given already as the default master name). If all factors are > equal then you get to choose one by whatever criteria you wish. > > happy merging! > > kc > > Quoting Alan Merryweather <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> >> This is the same man. >> >> William Mann >> >> William S Mann >> >> William Somervell Mann >> >> Books are listed under all three names. >> >> Presumably where the style of name is different, merging is >> inappropriate? >> >> TKS >> >> Alan Merryweather >> >> > > > > -- > Karen Coyle > [email protected] http://kcoyle.net > ph: 1-510-540-7596 > m: 1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
