User talk:ErsatzCulture

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Otherwere, again

I was reviewing your edit to the R.A. Salvatore story and noticed that Sharewere says it's "by" Shariann N. Lewitt as a variant of the same story by Shariann Lewitt BUT... there's no "N" anywhere on the copyright page, the ToC or at the story first page. How to fix this as a merge instead of a variant? Susan O'Fearna 00:49, 20 August 2022 (EDT)

I think the most basic thing to do is to "Remove Titles From This Pub" the story by "Shariann N. Lewitt" and then "Import Content" the story by "Shariann Lewitt" (and adding the 195 page number to it). That in turn I think will automatically remove the no longer needed Shariann N. Lewitt variant of the story, and in turn the "Shariann N. Lewitt" pseudonym will go, as that seems to be the only title associated with it.
Quite probably, just doing a merge on the two "Sharewere"s will accomplish the same end result in one rather than two steps, but I don't think I've ever done that with titles where one is a variant of the other, so personally I'd opt for the remove/import steps, just to avoid tempting fate doing something different for the first time. (Maybe someone else with more experience will see this convo and chip in?) I'm happy to do those two steps myself, given I have self-approver rights, and so I can do them at the same time, and not run the risk of having the data in an inconsistent state for more than a minute or so.
BTW, I'm mildly curious where "Shariann N. Lewitt" came from in the first place - it seems to date from a 2007 edit by an editor long gone - but I guess that'll be a mystery lost to time... ErsatzCulture 08:54, 20 August 2022 (EDT)

The Employees

Just heads up as you worked on this one: based on what I am seeing in the book I was holding and all other versions, the subtitle belongs up on the title here so I updated that (and added a note on the exact length and so on). Annie 17:24, 3 September 2022 (EDT)

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