Help:Authors With Same Name

There are authors with the same name, although we have just come across a couple so far. We have a listing of such authors at category:Authors - Same Name. To differentiate between authors with the same name, there is one page with that name where there is a listing of all the authors with that name (called a "disambiguation page"). See Kathryn Blair. Please use the following recommendations. You can copy the syntax from any box to help you.

Finding Authors With Same Name

You may discover authors with the same name in different ways:

Author's Page Already Exists

• When you add a link to your new author's page the name shows up as a link in blue. When this occurs be sure to click on that blue link and see if the individual author page already exists. It may be a page for an author with the same name, not the author you intended. In that case follow the instructions below for changing the existing page for that author name to a disambiguation page.

• When you go to the main Authors page and navigate to the appropriate letter of the alphabet you find that the author already is listed but it is a different author. Follow the instructions for creating a page below.

You Create Individual Author Page, But Disambiguation Page Is Needed

• You have created an author page and then find that there is another author link to your page, for example, in a list from a numbered series page. (This can be discovered by choosing the What Links Here tool on the left side of the wiki.) In this case, again, follow the instructions below for changing the existing page for that author name to a disambiguation page.

Creating A Disambiguation Page

To create an author page (see Example Page) with a listing of all the authors with that name, you will first need to create a link to that page somewhere -- usually you will:

Main Authors Page (Create Link)

• Go the main Authors page -- navigate to the appropriate letter of the alphabet. If the author already is listed (usually for a different author), see Moving old Page and Correcting Links below.
• Open the list by clicking on the "edit" button to add the author to the list.
  • Find the correct place to list the name alphabetically by the last name.
  • Insert the author's name and listings for all of the authors with that same name as follows:

* ''[[Firstname Last|Last, Firstname]]'' 
** [[Firstname Last - 1|Last, Firstname (1)]]
** [[Firstname Last - 2|Last, Firstname (2)]] 

• The | (called a "pipe") allows the author name to display cleanly but still link to the specific author in question.
• If possible, list the earlier author first as 1, later author as 2, etc.
• Please note the format for the title of the author's page should be Kathryn Blair - 1.

• Save the list and the links to the author pages will be in red type.

• Click on the Last, Firstname which will take you to your newly created disambiguation page.

Disambiguation Page Syntax (Fill In Page)

The content of the author disambiguation page is as follows:

[[category:Authors - Same Name]][[category:Disambiguation]]
There is more than one author with the name of '''Kathryn Blair''':

1 - [[Kathryn Blair - 1|Kathryn Blair]] [info] 
2 - [[Kathryn Blair - 2|Kathryn Blair]] [info] 

For each author include enough information to distinguish this author, e.g.:

1 - Kathryn Blair was also known as Rosalind Brett, Lilian Warren and Celine Conway. Under the Blair name, she published 26 novels for Harlequin Romance in the 1960s.

2 - Kathryn Blair was an author for Harlequin American Romance in the late 1980s-early 1990s.

You can continue that listing for as many authors as you know by that name. Ideally, please list the authors by when they were writing.

Each Author Page

Please use [[First Lastname - 1]] as the format for each author's page. Fill in the content for the author's page as you would for any other author using the Author Template.

Moving Old Page and Correcting Links

If the page for the author already exists for one of the authors, you will have to create new pages for the new author and make the first author page a disambiguation page as follows:

1. Copy the entry for the individual author into a text editor for holding.

2. Substitute the Disambiguation Page content as noted above.

• Save this page, and this will result in links to the pages for the individual authors that you'll need next. The links will appear in red type.
• Click on the link for the individual author, e.g., Firstname Last - 2, which will take you to your newly created page for the individual book.

3. Copy the entry from the text editor to the newly created new page for that author.

4. Create a new page for any other author listed on the disambiguation page. This is usually the new author page you have been trying to create all along.

5. Back at the new Disambiguation Page, check for out of date links via the What Links Here tool on the left side of the wiki. There may be several or no links to other pages. On each of those pages, find the link to the [[Firstname Last]] and correct to the appropriate author page by using the following:

[[Firstname Last - 2]]

- OR -

[[Firstname Last - 2|Firstname Last]]

The | (called a "pipe") allows the author name to display cleanly but still link to the specific author in question.

• Note: If #5 seems daunting please add {{Whatlinkshere Correction}} to the top of the disambiguation page.