how do i find out who has made changes to a work?

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how do i find out who has made changes to a work?

1elahrairah
Mai 11, 2021, 5:26 pm

someone changed the main author on a few works and i want to message them and see what's going on and try and work out why we disagree about who this author is (their one doesn't appear on my copy at all) but i don't know how to find out who made changes. is there a way that i haven't seen yet? thanks!

2gilroy
Mai 11, 2021, 9:51 pm

I don't think this shows up in the CK history like all the other changes.
However, your copy will never change. What you have entered on your copy is always your data. Now if they've changed or edited the other authors on the work, that doesn't hurt your personal copy.

What you may also want to check is if there is an improper combination, placing a book with another author in a work that shouldn't be there. Under the Editions section.

3Nicole_VanK
Bearbeitet: Mai 12, 2021, 1:53 am

There is a helpers log in Zeitgeist - https://www.librarything.com/log_helpers.php

But since that's purely chronological it would be hard to find. Also it keeps that info for just a few days.

4MarthaJeanne
Mai 12, 2021, 1:56 am

If you tell us a few of the books involved we might be able to see what's going on.

5elahrairah
Mai 12, 2021, 5:23 am

this is an example:
https://www.librarything.com/work/25122863

someone had changed the main author on this work (and a few issues around this issue number) to Andy Stewart. To the best of my knowledge no-one with that name has worked for Games Workshop, and he absolutely 100% isn't credited anywhere on this issue. However, this person might have edited one of the other versions of White Dwarf and these might be edited by other people rather than just being language variants of the UK one.

I've changed back those White Dwarfs that I've already completed, there's a couple that I don't own or haven't gotten to yet which are still showing as Andy Stewart, for example: https://www.librarything.com/work/25222896

6elahrairah
Mai 12, 2021, 7:40 am

found it, found the person, messaged them! thanks for your help everyone :)

7lilithcat
Mai 12, 2021, 8:45 am

>5 elahrairah:

There may have been an improper combination of Andy Stewart with Andrew Stewart, who is listed as an "other author" for that work.