[Koha-bugs] [Bug 30025] BiblioAddsAuthorities is poorly named

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=30025

--- Comment #13 from Andrew Fuerste-Henry <andrewfh at dubcolib.org> ---
> It is not completely clear to me.
> When I enable this pref, I am able to change e.g. 100$a name of author while
> linked to a PERSO_NAME authority.
> If you are using authorities, do you really want that?

In many cases, yes, this is exactly what libraries want. For a cataloger who
knows their authorities well and can reliably type them into bibs by hand, it's
cumbersome to use the authority picker interface. Instead, they want to just
type in an author name or subject heading and let the linker take care of
finding the related authority.

That said, you're right the name AllowManualAuthorityEditing gives slightly the
wrong impression. This is not a question of whether or not one is manually
editing authority records, but rather a question of whether or not one is
manually editing authority-controlled fields in bibs.

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