Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Hello,
I've got a question: Zhou Weihui, the autor of "Shanghai Baby" is written in different ways: Wei Hui in polish editions and sometimes Hui Wei, so the same book appears under three different names. How to merge the autor profiles? Should we just choose one spelling and correct all the different ones? And should I put also the official chinese writing? Then what do I have to put into the field "role"?
Thank you in advance, it's very difficult to resolve it by myself.
PS. worldcat.org returns four different names...

How is the author listed in the Library of Congress?

Wei Hui. So should it be our "official" author name on Goodreads? Thank you. :)

Yes, for all English (etc.) versions. Don't replace the name in Chinese characters with it, though!

So the name in Chinese stays as a second author with an explanation? It'll create two author profiles: in English and in Chinese. And if we put once only a chinese name with the chinese title and another time the english version there will be also two different profiles and the books will be separated. Is that OK? Thank's. :)

Yup. Until we have the aka feature, that's the workaround.

Qiu Xiaolong should this author name be listed as Xiaolong Qiu since Qiu is the family (last) name?

Actually I have another question. Do we use simplified Chinese names or Traditional Chinese names?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Weihui

I don't really work with Chinese authors much.

Charmteaser wrote: "So the name in Chinese stays as a second author with an explanation? It'll create two author profiles: in English and in Chinese. And if we put once only a chinese name with the chinese title and a..."

Just to clarify, here is an example:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

If you look at the author profiles you will notice they link to each other as well.