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...been labeling single books containing multiple stories with the one common author and one common theme. ...e Oxford English Dictionary: "several previously printed works by the same author, sometimes on the same theme, published in one large volume". That's the de

...a search request, the code embeds a javascript redirection directly to the author's listing rather than show a one entry list of candidates. But, for securi * 20057 FIXED When an author has parentheses in his canonical name, his biblio pages dispay an extra "\"

...as "uncredited" or "unknown"? Most of these old works have their canonical author as "uncredited" but [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1754129 Sir Orf ...y source that doesn't specify the author, but doesn't necessarily mean the author is uncredited. -- [[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#

...do it as 'Iino Fumihiko / 飯野 文彦'. My choice is based upon what I think the author would consider his/her legal name and than giving a translation in English ...rated legal name. It wouldn't take long since legal names are only used in Author records. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 23:37, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

::::::***published by a market which makes the author eligible for SFWA membership (listed here), OR ...tabase) has them as a publication series to make the titles visible on the author's pages. --[[User:Willem H.|Willem]] 15:37, 28 March 2022 (EDT)

...es" link in the navbar does dispay all Titles attributed to a "house name" Author, but it's hard to find and it doesn't tell you who the actual autor was. [[ ...of short fiction is part of a series of fiction works, it displays on the author's bibliography page with the notation '''<nowiki>[SF]</nowiki>''' after it.

== Revisiting standardization of author names == ...urrent thinking? I can see arguments both in favor of and against changing author names to a standardized form—I just want all moderators to agree on one p

* Web Page - If the author has an official Web site, enter it here. The full URL should be listed, inc ...ne with the most comprehensive bibliographic and biographical data. If the author is deceased and has no official or authorized sites then alternate web site

We currently have 134 Author names with Ph.D. appended, 385 Dr. records,108 M.D. records, and 1 Ms. reco ...itle (as it is when they ask for your name on a form), this is part of the author name as used in a publication and we treat is as any other suffix. In case

...software. The author field of a title record ''must'' be identical to the author field of the publication record. A way to get around this is to variant all ...arbitrary rule. Since my preference is for a clean display on series and author bibliography pages, I would argue that EDITOR title records should always b

...author of the new work is the author of the older work is irrelevant. If author "Joe Smith" adapts Asimov's "Nightfall", it would be included in the db, bu ::*The only role credited would be the author. (This is debatable. What if the artist is already in the db for his cover

== Foreign only author == ...tents of a non-English journal that contained some translations of English-author stories, that we would include only those English-language authors as conte

== Standard for disambiguating author names == Is there a standard for disambiguating author names? I picked up a specfict book by Nicole Marie and discovered:

...ce for non-art titles is to make parent variant titles under the canonical author for those titles attributed to a pseudonym. A non-exhaustive, probably-not ...en more useful to create an option that would turn all non-VT Titles by an Author into VTs (somewhat dangerous in inexperienced hands). The second and the th

:::::Yes, it's currently done as a lexical match on the Title and Author name. It's not perfect -- variant titles, pseudonyms, etc have been known t * '''Collection''' - A collection of short fiction, with at least one author in common.

...SFDB could fill in the title when the publication is submitted. Likewise, %author% would also fill in and maybe we could shorten these to %a and %t. {{Marc K At present [[Template:TitleFields:Date]] says "For works that have had variant titles, the date to enter is t

...op periods after Mr, Mrs, Dr, etc. Should a printing preference trump the author's title? There was a previous discussion which concluded (I think) that do ::True, but that rule applies to the Author field while the submission in question wants to make "Mrs Rinaldi's Angel"

...t (Emsh in - my preference) even though he is categorized as the canonical author for four signatures. There are a number of covers assigned to Ed Emshwiller ...he title page, and sign his name Virgil Finlay. I use Virgil Finlay. If an author is credited on the table of contents with a full name and signs his last na

...rintings, but I can't imagine that the second book by a relatively unknown author would have already gone into a second printing within weeks of publication ...hat ARCs should not be sold/redistributed as the neither the publisher nor author gets paid for them meaning we don't want to encourage or support ARC redist