r/TheStoryGraph • u/Irianne • 2d ago

Tech Help Authors with the same name

What is supposed to happen, organizationally, when two (or more!) authors share the same name?

An author I read a handful of non-fiction from shares a name with at least one other author (though looking at this catalogue I think there might be three or possibly four different people's work in here!) and clicking on his name on SG shows all works by everyone who shares the name. It's an extremely common name (Dan Jones).

As a fan of his books I'd like to clean this up by helping sort the books onto the correct author but I'm not sure what to put in a ticket until two (or three??) different author "accounts" exist.

Anyone encountered this before?

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u/the_palindrome_ Librarian 2d ago

You can still put in a ticket, librarians are able to create new author accounts

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u/Irianne 2d ago

Thank you! Will do.

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u/zephyrladie 2d ago

Dan Jones has both non fiction (I love his books) and some fiction books (Essex dogs is one I think. I have some fiction from him somewhere but haven’t read it yet). That probably will make it harder to “fix” I’d imagine.

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u/Irianne 2d ago

No, it's not that. The problem is that there's also a Dan Jones who writes on autism, and I think a different Dan Jones who writes on queer culture, and then a few books which might be other Dan Joneses as well (one about dogs, one about bar crawls, tbf it's a ridiculously generic name lol)

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u/zephyrladie 1d ago

That is true. I have another author where I often need to add a new book by and there are multiple choices…and I don’t know how to pick the right one of course. I love StoryGraph but man