LT Author badges and links

I've been seeing multiple member/authors whose LT Author link on their member profile go to the disambiguation page rather than to their specific author page.

I'm posting them here in case anyone else wants to take up the issue.

authors linked to disambig pages

http://www.librarything.com/profile/Anthony_Wood
http://www.librarything.com/author/woodanthony
should be (5)

http://www.librarything.com/profile/jackscott
http://www.librarything.com/author/scottjack
should be (2)

http://www.librarything.com/profile/smerus
http://www.librarything.com/author/conwaydavid
should go to
http://www.librarything.com/author/conwaydavida

>1 2wonderY: Sorry for the delay on these. I've been swamped with SantaThing. Will get them done over the weekend, if not before.

>1 2wonderY: All have now been updated. May take up to 24 hours for the badges to appear in the right places, but links should be going to the right author pages now. Thanks for your patience!

Here's another one. New member http://www.librarything.com/profile/RichardFreed claimed the author page before it was split.

Is there a second step that could be added to that process asking whether the member is the author of all the books on the page???

Anyway, after asking him, I split the author and he is now Richard Freed (2) http://www.librarything.com/author/freedrichard-2

Lorannen,

#4 hasn't been attended to.

I have another one.

http://www.librarything.com/author/higginsjohnj was claimed before division of the page. The link belongs to John J. Higgins (2)
http://www.librarything.com/author/higginsjohnj-2

And another one:

https://www.librarything.com/author/edwardsjm was claimed before division of the page.

The link belongs to J. M. Edwards (1)
https://www.librarything.com/author/edwardsjm-1

A.W.Black's user page LTAuthor link connects to a disambiguation page, http://www.librarything.com/author/blackaw

BUT if you go to the correct author page, http://www.librarything.com/work/16068905
You get the same author badge box, with an "author page" link back to the disambiguation page.

That can't right, can it?

Author badges are too easily passed out, I think. As far as I can tell, no one asks the author if everything on the page belongs to them before the link is established.

I've been trying to clear up obvious page issues before encouraging new author members to click on "Is this you?"

I've caught up with everything up to (but not including) >7 LShelby:. Not sure what's going on with that one, and am working on finishing up some Early Reviewers stuff just now. All the others should be squared away, though.

>8 2wonderY: A lot of the time, the split doesn't exist when the author page is claimed, and we have no easy way of knowing whether they're claiming all works for the name, or just a few, unless they leave us a note when requesting author status. (There's a "message" box that appears after you've clicked the "Is this you?" link, where they can send us a note along with their request). In the cases where they mention that not all works belong to them, I approve author status, split the author, and then adjust the author code on our end. But, again, this relies on authors telling us that not all books on the author page were written by them.

New member
https://www.librarything.com/profile/DavidHulettWilson
has author link to David Wilson disambiguation page

https://www.librarything.com/author/wilsondavid

I thought that wasn't possible anymore.

I needs to link to
https://www.librarything.com/author/wilsondavidhulett

I flagged a book cover on this member/author's page
https://www.librarything.com/profile/DavidHulettWilson

and I've heard from the author a couple of times. Copying out the correspondence here for amusement purposes.

From you to DavidHulettWilson: Not an image of the author.

From DavidHulettWilson to you: I had one picture which was of me and I wanted to add a copy of the cover of my book, which Library Thing then decided was the PRIMARY image and refused to accept any modification, including deleting the unwanted image. And that is why the picture is "not an image of the author". Do you know how to overcome this?

From DavidHulettWilson to you: Now got the picture sorted (added a third picture - the correct one - which then took over as PRIMARY picture. Other issues with Library thing having decided that despite the graphic sex scenes the book is YOUNG adult. I've suggested that young adults should overcome this problem by lying to their parents.

From you to DavidHulettWilson: LibraryThing doesn't decide categories of books. One of the members who have catalogued your book has added that 'young adult' tag. It looks like author photo has been sorted, but it would be better to have a truer image, rather than the mask photo, don't you think?

Your LT author badge has been routed incorrectly to the David Wilson disambiguation page. I'll ask staff to make the correction.

Oh, and welcome to LT.

From DavidHulettWilson to you: 2wonderY. I presume you represent Library Thing in an official capacity.

Regarding the picture, I have my reasons for withholding a true copy of my face. If you're interested I'll explain.

Regarding the categorisation of books, can I just say that if Library Thing accepts the category "Young Adult" for a book from someone other than the author, could I as the author be to blame if a parent objected to their child reading the book on the basis of the categorisation? Can you advise exactly WHO would be to blame.

I dislike the categorization "fantasy" because the book is most certainly not fantasy and this will put off potential readers.

And lastly, should I be involving my lawyer?

Answer required, please.

PS. When I tried to send this yesterday what appears to have happened is that I sent the message from me to myself. Is it me that's daft or the system operated by Library Thing?

From me: Somebody else is welcome to take over this correspondence.

I don't think there's any hope. Mr. Wilson is clearly one of those authors who believes that having written a book gives him the right to control everything that everyone says about it everywhere. Let's just hope he doesn't start harassing reviewers.

It's unclear to me what he's even talking about, though. Nobody else has entered his book, and the other book where he has the ranty paranoid tag isn't his.

>11 2wonderY: I received a number of emails from this person over the weekend/today. I'll take it from here.

>11 2wonderY: Trying to figure out why he labeled his own book "Totally Inapplicable tag" and "A good tag and more"

Apparently, not realizing how tags work here.

>13 lorannen: Oh, good!

Another new member/author
https://www.librarything.com/profile/ianlewisfiction

claimed the page before separating the different authors, so his badge is on the disambiguation page: https://www.librarything.com/author/lewisian
and not the correct page
https://www.librarything.com/author/lewisian-1

>13 lorannen:

I received a number of emails from this person over the weekend/today.

I'm sorry. Hopefully he doesn't/didn't go too far off the deep end. Take care of yourself.

>13 lorannen: Member is harassing me with demands that I answer his questions. I've blocked him.

>17 2wonderY: I'm very sorry about that. I've emailed them back and instructed them to direct all further questions to me. Feel free to message me directly if you have any further issues with them.

Member https://www.librarything.com/profile/jimmcdermott claimed the author page before it was split. https://www.librarything.com/author/mcdermottjim

and his author page is actually https://www.librarything.com/author/mcdermottjim-3

>19 2wonderY: Got it! Thanks!

That was fast. 15 still needs doing.

>21 2wonderY: Got >15 2wonderY:, too! Sorry I missed that one earlier. It's been a heck of a week!

Author member Kelly Martin
https://www.librarything.com/profile/KellyMartin_UK

doesn't have an LT Author badge and link on her profile page, but it exists on the author page

https://www.librarything.com/author/martinkelly-2

and works correctly back to profile page.

>23 2wonderY: Thanks for reporting. There's some strangeness going on with author badges just now. Working on it.

ETA: Bug report here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/223029. That's where I'll be posting updates/once we've got it straightened out.

New member author was able to claim the entire disambiguation page for Paul Miller.

http://www.librarything.com/profile/PaulMillerAuthor

http://www.librarything.com/author/millerpaul

After researching and cleaning up the page, I've assigned him as Paul Miller (7)

http://www.librarything.com/author/millerpaul-7

Links need to be sorted.

>25 2wonderY: Fixed! As usual, it may take up to 24 hrs for the author badge to move to the right author page, but links should be all sorted.

>26 lorannen: Link and badge showed up on the correct author page right away, but they are still lingering on the disambiguation page.

Got another one for you.

New member http://www.librarything.com/profile/JoeNutt claimed the author page and it needed split.
https://www.librarything.com/author/nuttjoe

I've assigned him to Joe Nutt -2
https://www.librarything.com/author/nuttjoe-2

New member http://www.librarything.com/profile/Jerreece_Jackson claimed the author page and it needed split.

Disambig page: http://www.librarything.com/author/jacksonja

I've assigned her to J. A. Jackson -1
http://www.librarything.com/author/jacksonja-1

Took care of >27 2wonderY: and >28 2wonderY:.

And it looks like Paul Miller's badge is now in the right place (i.e. no longer on the disambiguation page). Perhaps site was slow for a while?

Author George Wythe has been separated, with (1) being the correct legacy library owner. The Legacy Library box shows up on the disambiguation page and on the works pages of all of these authors, but not on the correct author page.

I wonder if this is a similar coding correction to the LT Author linking.

Another one:

Author badge on https://www.librarything.com/author/williamsonlisa belongs to https://www.librarything.com/author/williamsonlisa-1, who claimed the page before it was split.

>31 konallis: Updated Lisa Williamson

>30 2wonderY: I think I've got George Wythe taken care of, as well. I'm not quite sure how LLs work in the background, so there may be more I need to do tomorrow (once the badge should have moved accordingly).

>32 lorannen: Thanks, Loranne. The badge now appears on the correct author page, and not on the disambiguation page. However, it also appears on the work page https://www.librarything.com/work/15591011, which is by the other Lisa Williamson.

>33 konallis: Iiinteresting. That's a new one. Might take some digging for me to figure this one out.

Not a badge issue, but I'm cleaning up the Robert Ryan page and discovered that
https://www.librarything.com/author/ryanrobert-2
doesn't have a link back to the disambiguation page.

New member
https://www.librarything.com/profile/jeff_p_jones

claimed the disambiguation page:
https://www.librarything.com/author/jonesjeffp

His profile should link to
https://www.librarything.com/author/jonesjeffp-3

This member
https://www.librarything.com/profile/JohnParkinson

carelessly claimed the entire page of John Parkinsons, though all four of his books are published under John F. Parkinson.

His badge link directs to the new disambiguation page
https://www.librarything.com/author/parkinsonjohn but the link is not reciprocal.

It should direct to
https://www.librarything.com/author/parkinsonjohn-1

>36 2wonderY:

Loranne, you might contact Jeff P. Jones to ask why he changed the disambiguation page back to undivided:

https://www.librarything.com/author_split.php?author=jonesjeffp&page=assign

Also >35 2wonderY: hasn't been fixed.

This member
https://www.librarything.com/profile/RyanMartin

claimed the Ryan Martin page before separating it

https://www.librarything.com/author/martinryan

And now he seems to have removed the other work that was there just a minute ago.

Thanks for the reports! I'm all caught up, including Ryan Martin!