Help talk:Same Title Multiple Authors

History

For what it is worth, when we first started encountering more than one book by the same title, we usually found it when we added a book to the book page, or when we pasted a list of books into an author's page, saw a blue link and were disappointed to see it was a book by a different author. At that time, our solution was to make a new page for the new book (the [[book title - author name]]), and list it on the Books page as two books with the same title. Leigh started creating the Books - Same Title disambiguation pages when she was adding info on the various numbered series and started coming up with lots of the same titles. So you will find a legacy of lots of entries on the book pages, author pages, and book pages where there has not been a disamb page created. I usually used the # and number to give a bigger target to click on. Others did not. --Kay T 13:30, 7 September 2007 (PDT)

Creation

This was created to hopefully allow other readers/wiki'ers to create pages. I made it a Help file instead of in the main, but I think all the help files are in the main. Feedback welcome. I'm going to try to figure out if I can create templates for the Disamb. page and/or the visual flags that Wiki uses for the fixing old links instead of the Category addition. But I'm not sure where that will go. --DawnBurn 15:48, 31 August 2007 (PDT)

Wow, good work, Dawn. I tried to clarify the difference between "creating" the disamb page and what goes into the page. You need a link to the page to "create" it. Unfortunatley, most people are going to find themselves in this position when they go to the Books page and see a book already exists with that title. I think we have to start from the very beginning and really go step by step. It is still confusing (or daunting), but I think you have made this pretty clear. Maybe someone else can comment on this. --Kay T 14:10, 1 September 2007 (PDT)

Thanks KayT. I think you did a good job at clarifying. My only note would be usually the page that is to become the disambugation page is already created. Because it is the naked title which is someone's usual first attempt at adding a book of that title. So to me, adding the extra info on the Books page isn't creating the to-become-Disambugation page, it's creating the page(s) that you'll be transferring info to. --DawnBurn 01:26, 3 September 2007 (PDT)

okay, I tried to make a further intro as to when one might find the problem, and then point to the part of the page where the instructions are found. Sometimes trying to explain every possibility makes it more confusing, but I think this works. I did not go through and see if the order of the headings still makes sense. Maybe rearrange? --Kay T 13:19, 3 September 2007 (PDT)

Kay T, I think you did a good job. I'm trying to decide if keeping the Books Page Section separate or not. It is covered under the creating a disambugation page, but at the same time, I don't think it hurts to have it again in a place where someone might only look there. I also added in the Template:Same Title substitution code to the article. --DawnBurn 13:00, 4 September 2007 (PDT)

The template looks good. Thanks. I think I will come backt to this page later after I have forgotten how to do it myself and see if it makes sense! --Kay T 15:57, 4 September 2007 (PDT)