Wikipedia:VIAF/errors

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Please list here any errors discovered in the matching between VIAF identities and Wikipedia pages. They will be reported back to VIAF and fixed in their records - hopefully this will prevent the same identifiers being accidentally matched again. If you notice technical issues with the bot (eg. template placed at wrong position), please report them at User talk:VIAFbot. Thanks for your feedback.

See also VIAF errors in Wikidata.

Identified on Wikipedia

Wikipedia article is not the same as the VIAF identity

These can be fixed at Wikidata
  • Michael Peterson (murder suspect) - not VIAF 111595726. Dancter (talk) 21:54, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Mike Lawrence (bridge), born 1940 – not VIAF 21118984, which points here and displays the redirect page name Michael Lawrence (bridge)Michael Lawrence (bridge) --P64 (talk) 19:57, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
  • Chris Van Dusen screenwriter – not VIAF 52856798 (children's picture book illustrator, eg Mercy Watson series); [National library of] Portugal may have the screenwriter at VIAF 120638006 but I did not add that to our biography footer evidently yes and I added that to our footer --P64 (talk) 23:02, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
  • David Roberts --P64 (talk) 01:29, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
  • Henry Mayr-Harting A.c. template fixed; VIAF 92150672 bundles only a no-identity GND Name record --P64 (talk) 01:29, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
  • Rain (entertainer) - not VIAF 108063540 I see no sign that Jung Ji-Hoon is this record Chŏng, Chi-hun Evaders99 (talk) 02:59, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
    I do think these are the same, just a different romanization of the name. Check the alternate name forms at VIAF, and there is some overlap in the selected titles and our filmography: both we and the National Library of Australia list "I am a cyborg, but that's OK". Lupo 14:01, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Two or more VIAF identities for the same article

Some libraries Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)OCLC 17840825 and LC Authorities evidently believe the former to be a late 20c math or physics expert and co-author with Kip Thorne of Gravitational Radiation, 1988. Do you mean that Kip Thorne was then "William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Theoretical Physics" at Cal Tech? --P64 (talk) 17:56, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
Yes, see Thorne's CV Vycl1994 (talk) 16:30, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

VIAF merges different identities (into one cluster)

VIAF bundles have been fixed in these respects -P64 2016-02-19
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 5901203 includes work by Joseph Steinberg, but erroneously lists a GND value for a religious scholar of the same name, born in 1904, who should be located at Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 316876511 also, the BNF associated with VIAF 5901203 references a LCCN that seems to have been removed. -Vycl1994
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 271855924 Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 197901882 Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 287032559 = David J. Harland, but Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 287032559 lists one work, Killing Game, by New Zealand diplomat David Harland -Vycl1994
  • Steve Miller (author), whose full name is Steven Robert Miller according to Wikipedia, is merged into a writer named Stephan Mark James Miller at Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 48596533 -Vycl1994
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 65172417 Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 219110926 Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 14935731 are all Lisa E. Bloom, but the LCCN listed at the first VIAF dataset links to lawyer Lisa Bloom as well as Lisa E. Bloom. -Vycl1994
  • Guillermo Rubalcaba has his own dataset at Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 79649567, but Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 46374575, which links to a younger man of the same name, includes an {{LCAuth}} that should belong to Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 79649567 -Vycl1994
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 306385445 Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 309561421 = Gianni Bellocchi -Vycl1994
  • Steven Pressman (economist) has his own VIAF dataset. Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 56719455 However, a single NSK value is at Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 305701724 Furthermore, he is merged into Steven Pressman the journalist at Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 308697849 -Vycl1994
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 91251451 conflates children's writer Michael Bedard (born 1949, Toronto) and poster artist Michael Bedard (born Windsor, Ontario) -- whom I created at Wikidata this hour D:Q20719640. As examination of bundle 91251451 may suggest, Canada and Denmark distinguish the two people; the poster artist is LAC|1011K1108 and DBC|87097969381340 . For more information see Talk:Michael Bedard#Not the poster artist. --P64 (talk) 21:52, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 49447960 Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 101087759 Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 94093135 all list works of Steven Chen (botanist), but the last two merge him into datasets for a female writer and computer expert, (possibly Steve Chen Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 11780096) respectively. -Vycl1994
  • The works of Leonard Haber (b. 1933) listed at ISNI show that Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 96041806 is the subject of WP article. It also makes clear he attended Aldephi University, further matching the dataset with the article. Yet Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 96041806 is also connected to a painter of the same name born 1920. -Vycl1994
  • Francine Stephanie Barron Mathews (b. 1963) writes books as Francine Mathews and as Stephanie BarronStephanie Barron. Some of the authorities recognize two identities; some do not. If VIAF will maintain two bundles, those that recognize only one identity should be bundled according to the primary name they use. In this case, move the two Polish libraries from Barron Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 24833387 to Mathews Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 262584090 and the one German vice versa. --P64 (talk) 22:29, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 19829265 mixes Scottish publisher James Hogg (1806-1888) and christian writer Charles Frederick Hogg (1859-1943) (writer has also Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 88648404). Captain Nemo (talk) 01:38, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 57862830 the linked ISNI value gives Roy Mason's birth year as 1924, but also lists a book by an engineer and pilot of the same name, who the LCCN value says was born April 16, 1984. Vycl1994 (talk) 21:24, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 71438567 generally fits the children's writer Ann M. Martin b. 1955 but includes LCCN=no2014043318, an American school librarian whom LC distinguished last year. (Bundles Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 233379229 and Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 311426430 also belong to the children's writer.) --P64 (talk) 19:29, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 39712004 evidently mixes a German jurist, b. 1974 dissertation 2005/2006 (http://d-nb.info/gnd/1029473218), with a British writer of popular non-fiction published at least a few years earlier (at least LCCN, BNF, SUDOC in the bundle), namely Daniel Hahn b. 1973-11-26 --P64 (talk) 22:10, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 19998693 mixes Stephen Jones, b. 1953-09-23 --all? authorities except Sweden-- with Stephen Jones (author), b. 1953-11-04 --Sweden and the Wikipedia link. Thus #Wikipedia link inside VIAF is out of date, below. (Last fortnight I posted below with broken links to VIAF, now fixed.) --P64 (talk) 18:58, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 305407476 includes information from American judge Thomas Alonzo Clark and World War Two RAF gunner Thomas Buchanan Clark -Vycl1994
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 14928065 Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 170880300 Appears to merge works from Knud Pedersen the artist and another of the same name, who is some sort of policy expert -Vycl1994
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 310520574 and the associated LCCN, merges Alberto Toscano (journalist) and Alberto Toscano, though they have separate VIAF values listed on their articles -Vycl1994
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 92658785 is both an american architect and a New Zealand professor of English Stuartyeates (talk) 08:35, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 95127528 is listed for Jon Davison (film producer), but the ISNI linked to that value lists Education matters : 60 years of the British journal of educational studies, as his work. Education Matters was written by Jon Davison (professor). The academic is listed here, I think, with Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 23881696. The professor did write The media teacher's handbook, but not Airplane, as listed at the second VIAF link. Vycl1994 (talk) 02:13, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 115243 evidently mixes American Brendan O'Brien (record producer) (whom GND fits) and Irish Brendan O'Brien (journalist) (whom BNF and SUDOC fit). The cluster's two Polish authorities seem to be split but NUKAT gives lifespan for a third person.
Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 152850736 [where our DE and EN biographies now point] is the musician/producer and Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 305008843 [which as "undifferentiated" I didn't add to our EN biography footer] seems to be the journalist. VIAF search: o'brien, brendan probably hits two others in the music field (clusters 2 and 3 as listed now). --P64 (talk) 23:25, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
... hits at least one other in the music field, a Violinist (cluster 2 as listed now). Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 105034002 (now cluster 3) is Canadian Brendan O'Brien (bishop) [which biography now points there]. --P64 (talk) 23:58, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 11460364 = Andrée Putman and nl:Louis Putman. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:47, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 11344166 = Henry Lee (MP) and wiktionary:Author:Henry Lee, not the same person. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:45, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 46703192 conflates Gale Pedrick (1906-1970; short bibliography on article) with another author of the same name, who wrote about Rossetti, heraldry and monastic seals. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:43, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 73967676 includes "Robertson, Alec Collingwood Cuthbert, 1892-" and "Robertson, Alexander Thomas Parke, 1892-1982". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:43, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 29589274 merges Frederic William Whyte (British author b. 1867) and Frederick Methvan Whyte (Dutch-American mechanical engineer b. 1865). Tertiaryresources (talk) 20:45, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 63566904 seems to merge de:Arnold Bucking and de:Arnold Pannartz, the latter having several other clusters, see e. g. Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 89719484 and Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 272901457. --HHill (talk) 10:16, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
  • WP article Stephen Joseph is about a British theatre director, (1921-1967). Stephen Joseph at http://viaf.org/viaf/61700942/ is mainly about a medical author, born 1962, but the list of selected titles contains one book, "Theatre in the Round", belonging to the theatre director. The list of selected co-authors also has entries for the theatre director, namely "Victoria University of Manchester. Dept. of Drama.", and presumably "Guthrie, Tyrone". SamuelTheGhost (talk) 11:11, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
  • Francis Martin O'Donnell Reference: http://viaf.org/viaf/18963241/. The Francis O'Donnell who is an American co-author (with Denis Belliveau) of the book "In the Footsteps of Marco Polo" is not the same person as Francis Martin O'Donnell who is Irish and not American and who is the subject of the Wikipedia article on "Francis Martin O'Donnell", which at the current time of sending you this is an accurate biography of the latter person.178.191.68.201 (talk) 22:41, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
  • Robert O. Young: Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 45249427 shows a picture of an unrelated book by a different author (Maureen Kernian). ~Amatulić (talk) 05:58, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Brian Martin (professor): Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 61718836 has wrong birthdate, unrelated academic details.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 12:27, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Hans Lewy - Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 50139185 includes a merged record for a different person Andrew Gray (talk) 10:37, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Johannes de Groot – Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 64141344 includes a merged record for a different person, Johannes Antonius Marie de Groot. Johannes de Groot (1914–1972) and Johannes Antonius Marie de Groot (Ph.D. 1990) are two different Dutch mathematicians. I don't believe the elder one had the same middle names or that the two were even close relatives. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:27, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Ron Casey (Melbourne broadcaster) - Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 94174351. Appears to mix the article subject with at least one other peraon - a teacher. Maybe at least one more person also included. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 10:35, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Steve Smith (footballer born 1957) - Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 48311995. This Steve Smith is only connected with the titles marked "Wikipedia (en)-test", not with any of the other titles. Struway2 (talk) 08:59, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Arthur Gardner (footballer) - Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 75382180. Isn't any of the people whose book titles are listed. Struway2 (talk) 08:59, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Johnny Richards - Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 13952614. Not sure if this is actually a case of merged identities, or that one authority record is simply incorrect. The record from the Biblioteca Nacional de España has his death year as 1982. Our article, and its sources, show it as 1968. --Alan W (talk) 17:16, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Alan Campbell (Scottish footballer) - Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 91976593. Isn't any of the people whose book titles are listed. Struway2 (talk) 17:34, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Sarah-Jane Potts - Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 32235086 has two birth years, 1976 & 1979 - one of them must be wrong. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:48, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Yehuda Horowitz - Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 121338990 confuses (Hasidic Rebbe) Yehuda (son of Alter Yechezkel Eliyahu) Horowitz (subject of WP's article) with (obscure) Yehuda Aharon (son of Baruch) Horowitz. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 00:20, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Yaakov Yitzchak Rabinowicz Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 166738605 - merges Yaakov Yitzchak (ben Asher) Rabinowicz of Przysucha (subject of WP article) with Yaakov Rabinowitz of Edinburgh. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 02:23, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Menachem Mendel of Rimanov - Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 97247975 - merges the subject of the article with Menachem Mendel Rubin of Liska (Linsk). הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 02:38, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Sholom Rokeach - Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 97276350 - merges subject of article (d. 1855) with Shalom Rokeach of Mexico City, fl. 1993. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 02:44, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Mordechai Dovid Unger - Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 97170354 - merges living subject of article with his ancestor of the same name (d. 1843): Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 49064442. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 03:00, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Yitzchak Meir Alter - Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 35834591 - merges the subject of the article (1798–1866) with the medieval rabbi, Isaac ben Meir of Dura/Duren Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 9742647. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 03:19, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Simhah ben Samuel of Vitry - Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 100734919 - merges the 11th century rabbi (subject of the WP article) with "Śimḥah ben Shelomoh, ha-Ḳusdini, d. 1811". הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 03:34, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Jonathan ben David ha-Cohen - Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 93454827 - merges a 12th century rabbi (subject of the WP article) with Jonathan David, a 20th century psychoanalyst. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 03:49, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Peter Lenk – Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 40178819 merges the correct person (a German sculptor, born 1947) with Peter J. Lenk, an American scholar of business associated with Ohio State University. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:55, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Some information from Pierre Batiffol was left in the metadata for Fulcran Vigouroux. I've fixed the error here, but the Batiffol information was copied over to Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 69027564. Katya (talk) 21:21, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 297680365 merges Aharon of Zhitomir (early 19th century) with Aaron of Pesaro (16th century), who in turn has another two VIAF numbers: Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 262292859 and Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 47574570, of which the latter confounds him Aharon of Pinsk (mid 18th century). הסרפד (call me Hasirpad) 19:03, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 86229205 mixes a German author called de:Petra Schäfer who also writes under the pseudonym "Helen Carter" (GND) with the American author "Helen Carter" (LCCN, NUKAT, Biblioteka Narodowa) and the American singer Helen Carter (ISNI). The ISNI record probably also mixes the American author and singer. --Kam Solusar (talk) 19:45, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 96994048 merges William Shakespeare with the SBN record of the pseud. William Shakespeare : SBN code is related to a fake/pseud author of a 1997 book and has to me removed by the VIAF cluster. --Accurimbono (talk) 06:49, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 138547463 mixes Heidenau, Saxony (d:Q6715) and Heidenau, Lower Saxony (d:Q370612). There is Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 244201811 for Heidenau, Saxony. --тнояsтеn ⇔ 14:23, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 312821839 mixes a space telescope and a Norwegian organization with the same acronym (IRAS). – Danmichaelo (talk) 19:58, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 210909054 appears to mix up two people named Gabriele Kaiser: Gabriele Kaiser the German mathematics educator at the University of Hamburg, and Gabriele Kaiser the Austrian architectural editor/curator.
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 79238742 mxies a british serial killer and an Australian academic. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:47, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 230148995822459750010 wrongly merges d:Q63640297 (in the link to the Czech National Library) and d:Q18643064 (link to Wikidata item). --Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 08:27, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 42130588 wrongly merges John Newton (poet), from New Zealand, and John Newton (epidemiologist), from the UK. Both were born in 1959. Chocmilk03 (talk) 14:56, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 47011422 ; it appears that there is an incorrect link in the English Wikipedia article for Amine (French singer) (Amine (Q2843405)). The existing LC authority record [ n2014008348 ] links to a French/Moroccan oud player also named Amine (full name: Amine M'Raihi); I don't think the singer has an LC name authority record. ID.LOC.GOV link for the oud player: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014008348 The VIAF cluster combines both of them; there is another VIAF cluster (37204708) for Amine M'Raihi to which the LC authority should be attached. --FeanorStar7 (talk) 11:29, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 264497981 mixes the Swedish literary scholar Martin Hellström (Linnaeus University) d:Q98804136 and Swedish medical researcher Martin Hellström (Umeå University) d:Q98818610 (both born in 1979) together. VIAF is currently linking the former Wikidata item from their merged record.
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 100887806 mixes the physicist Patrik Öhberg d:Q59588250 at Heriot-Watt University with the political scientist Patrik Öhberg d:Q114078288 at Gothenburg university. (There are three other VIAF IDs where two possibly relate to the physicist and one to the political scientist).
  • Unstrip size limit exceeded (5,000,000)VIAF 24705278 mixes two NUKAT IDs with different birth years (1936 vs 1953). Bencemac (talk) 17:05, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Parallel VIAF clusters for one identity

--P64 (talk) 18:31, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
--P64 (talk) 02:42, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
(strike one, add two) also Template:VIAF Template:VIAF. The latter remains "Cornwall, Ian Wolfran" at VIAF and WorldCat as I write, but LC has merged "I.W." and "Ian Wolfran"[sic] as "I.W. (Ian Wolfram)" . --P64 (talk) 02:13, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
also Template:VIAF (GND)
Both LCCN=no2014118120 BNF=cb12935501j are in the wrong bundle, namely Template:VIAF, with which Template:VIAF (LCCN) should afterward be merged, John A. Fusco.
VIAF bundles have been fixed in these respects -P64 2016-02-19
Template:VIAF At least NLP a17889455 still mixes two people -P64 2016-02-19 (as some national libraries in the main clusters may do). --P64 (talk) 19:56, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Begin batch of 25 children's writers/illustrators, pseudonyms of same, and people disambiguated from same. The sequence is bluelinks without inter-language links, redlinks, bluelinks with interlanguage links --P64 (talk) 21:55, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

End batch of 25. --P64 (talk) 21:55, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Template:-r = Template:VIAF Template:VIAF -P64
Template:-r = Template:VIAF Template:VIAF Template:VIAF -P64

Articles about multiple people assigned the VIAF identity for one of them

Affected articles can be found using this PetScan search. There may be some false positives due to the nature of Category:Groups of people.

Other errors

  • Information for at least three people named Rachel Cooper–two of which taught at the same university–distributed between Template:Viaf Template:Viaf Template:Viaf -Vycl1994
  • Christina Noble - Six results, including Template:VIAF, which conflates her with another author (of books on the Himalayas) of the same name. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:25, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
  • For Alan Burges the VIAF data seems OK. WorldCat has him correctly as author on soil biology but also of two books on other subjects written well before 1921, when he was born. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 12:08, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
  • Steve Bruce: WorldCat has all 4 of his books, plus two of several others by another author of the same name; VIAF and LOC both only have 2 of his 4 books. Kevin McE (talk) 20:01, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
This one will have to be fixed by messing around with Worldcat, I think (it's not an identity problem, it's a misuse-of-identity one). I've put a couple of queries out to see how we feed back these errors, but since OCLC are on board with the program we should be able to make it happen. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:43, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Paramahansa Yogananda - noticed a number of errors - wondering why the book The Essence of ... is on this page and the only book shown. Please help me understand how this works so that I can help make the corrections.Red Rose 13 (talk) 00:08, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
If I understand you correctly, you're wondering why only the cover image of "The essence of self-realisation" is at the top of this link? If you look further down at the 'Selected Titles' there are a whole list of them. Only one cover image is ever displayed at the top though. The exact layout of the page is not under control of wikipedia by the Library of Congress, the OCLC and their partners. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:20, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Ok thanks - how do I contact them to correct the errors? The book should be Autobiography of a Yogi because that was actually written by him in 1946 and is his most popular, well received book. The Essence of SR is was however written recently and Yogananda passed away in 1952. Should I contact the Library of Congress first? thank you for your help. Red Rose 13 (talk) 21:50, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Norm Macdonald (comedian) vs VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/107026466/ http://viaf.org/viaf/165546663. VIAF has used purely unreliable sources, sources which have been shown to be inconsistent, or deliberately misquoted sources, to support a claimed capitalization of MacDonald, which is incorrect. See Talk:Norm Macdonald for discussion of current sources (books, CDs), press releases, articles, and official websites which have established that the correct capitalization is Macdonald (lowercase d). --Lexein (talk) 11:39, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
This seems to be Template:VIAF - leaving aside the orthographic issue, it seems fairly clear that the "Norm MacDonald" in VIAF and the "Norm Macdonald" in Wikipedia are referring to the same person. Andrew Gray (talk) 12:09, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
My bad on the number, above. However, I'm salting inclusion of VIAF in Norm Macdonald until the capitalization is correct in VIAF, based on reliable researched sources. It's his name, and we have no business permitting unreliable, outdated, or inconsistent sources to hold sway over validated research. --Lexein (talk) 12:19, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
I've left some more detailed notes at Wikipedia talk:Authority control integration proposal, but the short answer is that there's no intention to present this as the One Correct Standard Name; it's simply an identity marker, and should never be interpreted as having any influence on our content beyond identification. We can certainly file the spelling in with our general list of corrections, though. Andrew Gray (talk) 12:40, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Rosemary Harris (writer) — WorldCat merges the record for at least one other writer with hers, although LCCN distinguishes them. Here is that other LCCN=n/2007/070264

The target of that WorldCat link is a "no longer valid" that redirects to a "document not found" --as it was when I discovered the error 2012-11-20. The target of that LCCN link is an error, which is new to me, perhaps during holiday maintenance. --P64 (talk) 18:15, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Evidently LC merges two Rosemary Harris in "that other" record.
  1. Rosemary Simari Harris, the "certified master gardener" and author of recent mystery novels
  2. R.H. of Template:Worldcat (1965).
If the latter is distinct from Rosemary Harris (writer) (Rosemary Jeanne, born 1923, period 1956–?) then WorldCat conflates at least three writers. Our "Selected works" of that writer were published 1956–1996, ages 33–73.
R.H. at WorldCat is also one of many "contributors" to Template:Worldcat (2009 DVD; 2008 motion picture). I suppose that she is Rosemary Harris (Rosemary Ann, born 1927, British actress), whom IMDb lists in the full cast.
--P64 (talk) 18:09, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
  • Several IDs for Paul Bradshaw for what appear to be one or no more than two people; none for Paul Bradshaw (journalist). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:37, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
  • John M. Green has a VIAF identifier which has a listing for the Australian authority record for the correct person (I presume); but also gives a Wikipedia article link to another John Green who is not the same person. Since it's a common name, it might take a bit to figure out which existing record that John Green belongs to (if there is one...). There does not seem to be an LC authority record for this John M. Green--FeanorStar7 17:54, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
The Australian authority record now includes indentifying information (field 670) that secures the match with our biography. So our biography footer is wrong or misleading only in that the linked VIAF bundle points back to the wrong biography, John Green (priest) --a pure case under section 1.1, if i understand correctly (but I do not edit that section).
· The Australian record also reports middle name Martin (fields 100, 670) and residence Sydney with wife, which I added to our biog with freeform citation of the authority record (a source I have never seen cited formally).
· I have ignored NLA records as too spare and ambiguous but they will be worth the trouble of reading if/when more of the fields are completed, especially 670. Hurrah! --P64 (talk) 21:33, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
  • VIAF cluster 7774716 has "Caesar, Julius Wikipedia (en)-test" and "Cassius Parmensis, Gaius v43" I think this problem may be related to the sorting that was originally in the Wikipedia article (Caesar, Julius), which I have now fixed to read Cassius, Gaius, Parmensis. The relevant WP article is Gaius Cassius Parmensis. If it isn't a WP error but a VIAF error, I wanted to alert the relevant people by mentioning it here.--FeanorStar7 21:47, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
  • Samuel Clegg. VIAF and LCCN are correct; however the WorldCat link goes to 1585-1649 דרממונד, ויליאם which is clearly wrong... can anyone fix this? FYI, the listed books under most widely held works are correct. thanks, FS7--FeanorStar7 12:06, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Martha Mears (author): this article has the correct LCCN (nr93024389), but when you click the WorldCat link, it automatically redirects to the 20th century Martha Mears (no200765211); not sure why that is happening... [apologies if this is the wrong place for this; not sure where else to report LCCN errors]--FeanorStar7 09:15, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
  • Richard Austin (cricketer) has the following VIAF cluster linked to it: 220925776. This is a cluster which shows Austin, Richard, 1954 (an LC name authority) and the Wikipedia article... however when you look at the LC record, it is for a writer of science fiction who uses Richard Austin as a pseudonym; I don't think it is the same person. I think that VIAF should decouple the two records in the cluster since they are probably not the same person. I also think it is probably appropriate to take out the current VIAF link in the cricketer's article. Do you agree?--FeanorStar7 15:26, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
  • Unsure where else to post this, but under John Adams (geographer) the WorldCat link which links to the LCCN n81025287 goes to the right identity, but the heading for the identity gives Adams, John, 1961- when it should be Adams, John, 1938 August 13-  ; can this be fixed in OCLC WorldCat Identities? Thanks, FeanorStar7 16:20, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
Evidently that WorldCat record labeled "Adams, John 1961-" mixes our geographer JGU Adams with Adams, John Lee, 26 October 1961–, who is a prolific Australian in the same or a neighboring profession. JL 1961 has a WorldCat page labeled "Adams, John (medycyna)" VIAF=2763774 LCCN=n00120667 GND=138152136 NLA=138152136
As I understand (supported by those NLA and GND targets) VIAF is correct to bundle JL 1961 with "(medycyna)" --evidently the Polish national library disambiguation. Rather than simply relabel, WorldCat needs to reallocate probably numerous works from its mixed collection of works labeled "1961" to its current singleton collection "(medycyna)".
I don't find JL 1961 at AUSTLIT; nor 'Lee' nor 'Australian' among the 191 John Adams hits at Wikidata. --P64 (talk) 01:28, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
LC Authorities distinguishes two John Adams born 1938-03-07 and -08-13. Evidently Template:VIAF and Template:VIAF generally fit those two persons but need some work. For instance, Wikidata D:Q15501272 (which no longer mixes data for the two men) in the wrong bundle. --P64 (talk) 01:59, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
Re Template:VIAF it appears me that Wikidata alone among the authority records belongs simply to the British geographer JGU Adams, as does the cover image for Risk. Seven of the authorities evidently mix the two men, as they mention Risk as well as some works by prolific American economist: (reading down the bundle) NKC ISNI RERO SUDOC BNC LC NUKAT. Moments ago I sent email correction to LC re its mis-attribution of Risk to the American. --P64 (talk) 02:55, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
(sigh) Some of the authorities evidently data for American urban economic geographer John S. Adams, U Minnesota with the American economist born 1938-03-07. For instance, BNF (which also gives the Brit geographer's birthdate). --P64 (talk) 03:20, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for looking into it; as sometimes happens, one thread gets pulled and things start becoming complicated, but it will improve the authority files and Wikipedia.--FeanorStar7 09:53, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Template:VIAF evidently bundles the authorities coherently (or all but Wikidata if that is now considered one). It simply points to --and displays a recent description from-- the Wikidata item for the American critic rather than the British illustrator.
After skimming all VIAF pages in the bundle, I guess the national libraries all have the illustrator coherently. Only ISNI evidently to me includes stray bits of the American critic. --P64 (talk) 23:23, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
The particular case is resolved Template:Ok except the incoherent ISNI. --P64 (talk) 18:59, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
  • Template:VIAF Fox, Bernard, 1951- [ISNI and LC] and Fox, Bernard, Irish Republican [Wikidata] are linked on this VIAF cluster. Certainly the Wikidata link leads back to the Wikipedia article on the Irish Republican; but the LC authority record is for a person also born in 1951 writing on testing and evaluation trends and costs for aircraft and guided weapons; I have a feeling they are not the same person... --FeanorStar7 16:10, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
  • Template:VIAF has a typo in the name. "Vietch" should be "Veitch" which should aid in searches. The LOC fixed the spelling in their file a month or two ago. The Haz talk 15:50, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
  • Template:VIAF the VIAF cluster is correct; the LC link is correct; however, the WorldCat/OCLC link goes to Foster, Harry, 1904- who is not the same person as Foster, Harry Wickwire (born 1902). Can the WorldCat/OCLC link be fixed for the next time when a person clicks on it in Wikipedia? Thank you. FeanorStar7 20:39, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
  • William M. Mitchell: again the LCCN is correct, but the WorldCat link goes to a different Mitchell. The person in the article was born in the 1820s. The WorldCat link goes to a person born in 1855 who was a clergyman. Can anyone fix this? Thanks, FeanorStar7 10:39, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
  • Greg Boyd (theologian): LCCN link is correct (born 1957); WorldCat link goes to a Greg Boyd born in 1960; not the correct person. --FeanorStar7 07:14, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
  • John Keane (artist): the LCCN is correct; but the WorldCat link goes to Keane, John (John E.), a different person entirely. --FeanorStar7 10:44, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
  • [[George Mudie (social reformer): currently, the VIAF link given in the authority control template that is in the article links to Template:VIAF; I don't think this is the correct identity; I think it is Template:VIAF [1788-1855]; not sure how to change it. --FeanorStar7 (talk) 14:46, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

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VIAF merges different identities (into one cluster)

Parallel VIAF clusters for one identity

Other errors

Sent to OCLC

VIAF does not match the listed Wikipedia article

Template:Collapse top The following have all been checked to ensure that all Wikipedia/Wikidata instances of the incorrect ISNI/VIAF have been removed. They were last reviewed and pruned for resolved issues by TheDragonFire at 11:52, 15 October 2017 (UTC).

OCLC: Please remove entries from this list as and when they're purged from VIAF.

WorldCat Identities errors

Section moved to d:Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control/WorldCat Identities errors --Epìdosis 09:51, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

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