inconsistent author names: JK Rowling vs. Rowling, JK
Bug #240780 reported by
Aaron Swartz
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Open Library |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Edward Betts |
Bug Description
Edward, I thought we were going to reverse names with commas in them and merge them with the noncomma names. What happened with that?
Changed in openlibrary: | |
assignee: | nobody → edward-debian |
status: | New → Confirmed |
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I was going to do that, but Karen pointed out that it only works for names written in Western name order. Mao Zedong is stored as "Mao, Zedong" and "Mao Zedong". If I reverse the name with a comma it won't match the noncomma name.
I can try looking for a match without reversing the name, if found assume, Eastern name order, if not found assume Western name order.