When editing an existing Publication via Publication Editor, if you delete the Author's name, you will get the following error: "Every publication must have an author. If you have intentionally left the author field blank, use "Anonymous" to indicate unknown authorship. " This was changed in Help years ago, so the error text needs to tell the users to use "uncredited" if there is no author edit in the book.
Anonymous
Fixed in edit/submitnewpub.py 1.7, edit/submitpub.py 1.6, common/library.py 1.10
Implemented in r2009-17.