EditBug:10065 Variant Titles

• EditBug:10065 Variant Titles OPEN There's something I don't understand happening with this display. I did the following:

• New Novel: Test Title 1 by Test Author 1
• New Novel: Test Title 2 by Test Author 2
• Make Pseudonym: Test Author 2 is a pseudonym of Test Author 1
• New Novel: Test Title 1 by Test Author 2
• Make Variant: TT1 by TA2 is a vt of TT1 by TA1

Unless I'm missing something, that should have caused the Test Author 1 biblio to show two version of Test Title 1; one by Test Author 1 and one under the pseudonym of Test Author 2. I'll leave these records out there in case they're needed; let me know if I can delete them. Mike Christie (talk) 10:47, 23 Dec 2006 (CST)

After each step:

• New Novel: Test Title 1 by Test Author 1

 Author1:
   Test Title 1

• New Novel: Test Title 2 by Test Author 2

 Author1:                         Author2:
   Test Title 1                     Test Title 2

• Make Pseudonym: Test Author 2 is a pseudonym of Test Author 1

 Author1:                         Author2:
   Test Title 1                   Alternate Name Used By: Author1
                                    Test Title 2

• New Novel: Test Title 1 by Test Author 2

 Author1:                         Author2:
   Test Title 1                   Alternate Name Used By: Author1
                                    Test Title 2
                                    Test Title 1

• Make Variant: TT1 by TA2 is a vt of TT1 by TA1

 Author1:                         Author2:
   Test Title 1 (as by Author2)   Alternate Name Used By: Author1
                                    Test Title 2

Which is as intended. Are you saying you want to see:

 Author1:                         Author2:
   Test Title 1                   Alternate Name Used By: Author1
      Variant: Test Title 1         Test Title 2
      (as by Author2)

Alvonruff 07:00, 9 Jan 2007 (CST)

The current display seems to match my current understanding of ISFDB. Test Author 1 shows

• Test Title 1 (2006) [as by Test Author 2 ]

And it does show both the version of Test Title 1; one by Test Author 1 and one under the pseudonym of Test Author 2. Test Author 2 shows

• Test Title 2 (2006)

I personally would like it if Test Author 2’s bibliography also showed the variant title so that you could look at a pseudonym bibliography and see all of the works written under that pseudonym but believe that's unrelated to what you reported.

I also posted a question to Al about this as I’m still uncertain as to just what the step “Make Pseudonym: Test Author 2 is a pseudonym of Test Author 1” does to the database but think it’s buried in the queue User_talk:Alvonruff#Help_for_the_pseudonym_editor. Marc Kupper 18:36, 10 Jan 2007 (CST)