"find better metadata"

[Kedryn]

Why this button is present on some authors, but not in others?

[vavallee]

That button is "find a better metadata source for this author," and it only shows up when the author's current record looks thin or isn't properly linked. Two cases trigger it:

1. The author isn't linked to a real metadata provider yet, or it came in from an Audiobookshelf or Calibre import (those use abs: / calibre: style ids). In that case the button reads "Link metadata."

2. The author is linked, but the record is sparse: no description, no photo, no disambiguation, and no ratings at all. That's when it reads "Find better metadata."

Authors that already have a filled in record (description, image, ratings) don't get the button, because there's nothing obviously better to go fetch for them. So the ones showing it are the empty-ish or import-linked authors, and the ones without it already have decent metadata.

If you've got an author that looks well populated but still shows the button, or one that's clearly missing data but doesn't, point me at it and I'll take a look.

[Kedryn]

I'll let you know as soon as i stumble upon one.

But i have related problem:
https://hardcover.app/authors/paul-cornell-d83cbf2a-ac46-4b0b-b38c-f7946610dd35

"Find better metadata" does not show Paul Cornell from Hardcover , so i think it's already linked

I'll try to link OpenLibrary one's, but as you can see, there is only one book, and no author info/photo.

[Kedryn]

Now i did link the OpenLibrary's author, it had nearly 50 books from the link search window.
The i pressed Refresh Metadata
waited a bit
gave a look to the logs but found no relevant error
but after 10 minutes, the page it's still like this:

It has updated books count and books list, but still no author info

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL6094856A/Paul_Cornell
https://hardcover.app/authors/paul-cornell-d83cbf2a-ac46-4b0b-b38c-f7946610dd35

[Kedryn]

I also have put a photo for the author in OpenLibrary, waited a bit, refreshed metadata, and now book number changed, bust still no photo or desc of the autor

[vavallee]

Good news, this one turned out to be a real bug and your report is what pinned it down. Refresh Metadata was only repopulating the book catalogue and never re-fetching the author's own bio and photo. Fixed in v1.22.2, so any recent version will pull in the OpenLibrary description and the photo you added on the next refresh. Thanks for the detailed screenshots, they made it easy to trace.