1Qualiesin
I noticed that "The nest architecture of stingless bees with special reference to those of Costa Rica: Hymenoptera, Apidae" (of which I have the only copy on LT) had Will e.a. listed as the author. I went to the work's page and fixed it by including the full name of the author (Alvaro Wille (I just noticed *that* link goes to someone completely different)), but it's still showing the work on Will e.a.'s page. The only other work is by someone who I am certain is not the same person. The only reason my book was even on there was because of incorrect parsing of spaces in the name.
2Nevov
The editions page on that work: https://www.librarything.com/work/28550033/editions
Shows that there was an edition added with the author name "Wille, A." (no current copies). Which is fine, just indicates that a source has the book listed under that form of the author name rather than the full forename.
So because at the moment of adding the book the author name on your copy was "Wille, A" that made it land on the author page /willea (because of how URLs auto-generate: they decapitalise everything, lose the punctuation, then concatenate surnameforenames), meaning both "Wille, A" and "Will e.a." do land on the same author URL. Again that's fine, and if the author really was only known as "Wille, A." you could happily leave it at that and split the author page (as I can see in the edit history you did).
But now the author name has been updated on your book, and you have the only book in the work so it has now updated the work author (this calculates based on majority of copies) – meaning it has now disappeared from the /willea author page (the site sometimes takes a little time for cached data to update). And that's fine too. Your copy, you can name the author how you prefer.
There isn't a bug here so I'll close the report. But feel free to ask if any of the above is incomprehensible :-) or in one of the other site groups:
There's FAQ for general questions: Frequently Asked Questions
or Combiners! if it's about things mixed together wrongly: Combiners!
Shows that there was an edition added with the author name "Wille, A." (no current copies). Which is fine, just indicates that a source has the book listed under that form of the author name rather than the full forename.
So because at the moment of adding the book the author name on your copy was "Wille, A" that made it land on the author page /willea (because of how URLs auto-generate: they decapitalise everything, lose the punctuation, then concatenate surnameforenames), meaning both "Wille, A" and "Will e.a." do land on the same author URL. Again that's fine, and if the author really was only known as "Wille, A." you could happily leave it at that and split the author page (as I can see in the edit history you did).
But now the author name has been updated on your book, and you have the only book in the work so it has now updated the work author (this calculates based on majority of copies) – meaning it has now disappeared from the /willea author page (the site sometimes takes a little time for cached data to update). And that's fine too. Your copy, you can name the author how you prefer.
There isn't a bug here so I'll close the report. But feel free to ask if any of the above is incomprehensible :-) or in one of the other site groups:
There's FAQ for general questions: Frequently Asked Questions
or Combiners! if it's about things mixed together wrongly: Combiners!
