Most data on Open Library is publicly editable by members. In this case, author merging is a capability that only folks who have been added to our Librarians usergroup can access because the process of reverting an accidental merge is quite time consuming (and so we have some training in place).
If you tweet @ our lead community librarian (http://twitter.com/seabelis) she can likely help you make this fix! Also, if you're interested in helping us make changes like this, we can invite you to our slack channel :)
Thanks, but what I'm trying to do is split authors ... and I think I've worked out how to do it. The trick is to make sure you're looking at the "work" rather than the "edition", because when you're looking at the "edition" the author is immutable.
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Most data on Open Library is publicly editable by members. In this case, author merging is a capability that only folks who have been added to our Librarians usergroup can access because the process of reverting an accidental merge is quite time consuming (and so we have some training in place).
If you tweet @ our lead community librarian (http://twitter.com/seabelis) she can likely help you make this fix! Also, if you're interested in helping us make changes like this, we can invite you to our slack channel :)