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Hi dsinclair,
I see you have added Will Fyffe's musical track contribution role as the Author. I think you want to use Songwriter. Take a lok at the Author topic page - you'll see the proper use of that type. By adding it as a musical role it adds the type Musical Performance Role to Author which is incorrect. Looks like you have done this to a few others who may be songwriters as well. I could clean it up but better for for you to see it incontext - then perhaps you could make the proper assertions.
Thanks for contributing to Freebase!
Jon
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There should be a way to keep track of the author order if a publication was authored by multiple people.
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Spatialed, there is a way to do that. You can add the authors in any order, then click on the little thing beside "author" and choose the option to rearrange the order. See also this help topic: Reordering a list.
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Sweet. Thanks!
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Would it be possible to add authors to the bottom of the list instead of the top? Because English speakers read from left to right, the authors are typically entered from first to last. Entering them this way requires that they alway be reordered. I've started entering them backwards but it's kind of a pain to keep track when there are a lot of authors.
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At the moment there seem to be two ways to add the information that someone is an author: to enter their profession as author (equivalently, add them as 'People with this profession' to this page) or else to give them the type author. At present neither of the two lists of authors are a subset of the other (and in each case some names seem to come from infoboxes, so have not simply been casually added). What should the relation be?
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The type "author" is essentially functional -- it allows us to show information about books, stories, or essays that someone has written. The profession type indicates what the person does for a living, or in some cases how they identify themselves (or are identified by others). In Freebase, somebody who has published only one story or article can legitimately be typed as "author" but probably would not have that as their profession. The same applies to many other type/profession pairs like actor.
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That makes sense, thanks. Presumably, if someone has author as profession then they should have type author? (The point of typing people as authors before their books have been created as topics would be to encourage those book topics to be created)
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I think that makes sense; I can't think of any cases where a person with author as a profession couldn't also have author as a type.
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