#2 Two Authors With The Same Name Are Allowed

[Al von Ruff]

Was: 10037

Sometimes there are two+ Author records for the same author. Typically, one+ of them will be misspelled. If you try to change the spelling of the Author's name to the correct spelling using "Author Data", the system will let you do it, but then you will end up with two Author records with the exact same name. This will cause various problems since you will only be able to find the data associated with the first record that the system finds. We may want to add a check to make sure that we are not creating duplicate Author names. Ahasuerus 19:55, 13 Sep 2006 (CDT)

[David E. Siegel]

This is a dup of Bug #2809643 (Prevent duplicate Author names from being created)

[Ahasuerus]

Fixed in r2009-14.