Comment 11 for bug 1779319

If you mean should the system supply the parentheses I'd say no. The LOC documentation apparently doesn't use parentheses but I'd say 99% of OCLC records we import already have the text in subfield q in parentheses. If the system added them they would be doubled, much like the commas that separate the relator terms if a person is both author and illustrator.
In the MARC record each subfield e is separated by a comma and the field ends with a period both of which Evergreen supplies so that:
Carle, Eric, $e author, $e illustrator.
becomes:
Carle, Eric, (author,,illustrator.).
with two commas and two periods.

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