Merge authors

[oculos]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We see lots of duplicate authors that are actually the same.

Describe the solution you'd like

The ability to merge authors that show up on a search list.

Describe alternatives you've considered
We end up having to edit all the books so that they point to the "right" author.

[prolibre]

Hello @oculos

If you are the instance administrator, the best thing to do is to use the commands :
https://docs.joinbookwyrm.com/management-commands.html

The work is quite clean.

For my part, I've automated this based on unique identifiers (e.g. ISNI). While waiting for bookwrym to be optimized, this is the best I've found.

Anthony

[oculos]

Thank you very much @prolibre ! This really helped! The downside is that I have very active users who probably could help me to do this if they had the same tool on the GUI. Cheers!

[luanmdlima]

Giving the power for the users ro request certain merges(aurhors and books) should make the life of the maintainers quite easier, as they should only be responsible to aprove the merge and make a few ajustments as they see fit.

If somehow such actios from the maintainers could go through the final aproval of the readers, as a way to make sure that the changes beinf made are correct.