Petra X's comments
(member since Jul 31, 2008)
Petra X's comments from the Goodreads Librarians group.
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What is OME pls?
I found and merged authorjamesross, so that has gone. The biography and promo links are gone as well - not-a-booked with url link to his website removed. This is what remains - authorjamesross the Goodreads user's profile and the genuine author James Ross and his books, Finish Line, Tuey's Course and Lifetime Loser.
The letter I got from him made me realise that he had worked the system for keywords quite deliberately. I did see a couple of the other items, but clearing up those wasn't a problem compared to the one I queried.
I tried to! The book has zero reviews and one 5 star rating but I get the message "Only super-librarians can delete books with so many reviews". I've never deleted a book before so I don't know if that is general or what. In any case, could a super-librarian please delete this non-book?
I was correcting some author names and one of them authorjamesross was a Goodreads author, so I wrote to him and asked him if he'd like to correct his name to James Ross. He didn't want to.
If you click on authorjamesross you get to "Author James Ross: Fiction novels" which isn't a book title and had no isbn. Needless to say it has a 5 star rating and a link to click direct to the author's website. He also has proper entries for James Ross. I understand that authors, especially self-published ones, need all the publicity they can get, but this looks like trying to use keywords to direct traffic to his site. Is there any policy on this?
I merge to the spelling with the most books. I don't like doing this when I feel it is incorrect, but since the purpose of having a correct database is to improve the usefulness of the database to Goodreads members, it seems a bit prissy to insist on the minority spelling. An aka feature would really solve that problem.
I combined two books with different titles that are the same book, but couldn't find a place to add a note to that effect.Kavita Daswani
I added a note on the profile page, but it really belongs on the combine-books page. Help, please.
I combined two books with different titles that are the same book, but couldn't find a place to add a note to that effect.Kavita Daswani
I added a note on the profile page, but it really belongs on the combine-books page. Help, please.
Vicki-Girl, sorry I didn't know anything about the separate tool. That looks much better. Thanks very much.
Lisa wrote: "Petra, I don't think anything combined itself. You can check the librarian logs and see which librarians have done what. But, I'd try to get them as they should be and then write a librarian note/n..."
Sorry if I didn't make it clear, this is not an issue involving another librarian, it is some operation I can't accomplish, either because I am doing something wrong (although I can't see what) or because there is a bug.
Have a look at this page, http://www.goodreads.com/book/combine?au... and look for this, The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales. You will see a lot of books combined under this one including three editions of The Princess and the Pea. I would separate them, then when I attempted the next operation, see that they had been combined again. This is a couple of seconds later, not anything that involves anyone else.
I was working on HCA and came across a problem that I can't solve. The collections of his fairy tales are quite badly combined - some books contain only five tales, others eighty, so I was separating and recombining them. Or I would have it had worked. I kept separating out The Princess and the Pea but on refreshing or going to HCA's profile again and approaching it that way, the books had recombined themselves! Help please.
I was adding A.M. Homes' The Mistress's Daughter to my 'Currently Reading' shelf and there was a trivia question next to it which, if I'd answered it would have really spoiled reading the book. So I flagged the question as a spoiler, wrote why, and expected to get directed to a page I could edit it. But I didn't. The question was marked as 'someone has marked this question as incorrect' (which is incorrect in itself!) but I got no further. I am wondering if I'd clicked 'incorrect' as opposed to 'spoiler' I might have got further (not sure) but having just spent $15 to buy the book, I don't want to see the answer myself! Could someone please help?
It could be I've forgotten how to get further as I gave up Trivia a long time ago, lost in the welter of Twilight and Uncle questions.
Thanks.
Thanks JG. If you or anyone else knows anything about the prognosis of breast/lung/spine cancer in an otherwise very healthy and active old lady (my mum) I would be so grateful. I'm 5,000 miles from home so I'm out of the information loop.
I know this is an inappropriate posting here, sorry Rivka, I don't mind if you delete it.
Thanks very much, Sherry.
I wonder why publishers print books with the same name and different contents?
Excuse my density, but I cannot find how to add a note that shows up on the Combine page. I have been working through Henry James' books and there are many with the same title that are quite different and wanted to stop any future auto-combines. Thanks.
Sorry if I missed this info elsewhere (I have checked though) but I'm not around so much these days owing to major family illness.
The only extra resources I am likely to have than you are book distributors stocklists which are mostly American and therefore not much good really for Rosen. But of course if I can help in any way, just ask.
Fanon is by John Edgar Wideman. It's a novel, came out in February last year, about the life of the Caribbean philosopher Franz Fanon. As far as I'm aware its only been published as a hardback. I have it in my bookshop but haven't read it myself.
Nothing to do with Philip Roth.
When I checked before I wrote the original comment, 133 books on Goodreads were under the name of Michael Rosen and a smaller number 99, under Michael J. Rosen, so the majority of the books by this author are not coming in under the name Michael J. Rosen or are those ones you changed? I see that they have been worked on in the last few days by you. I am sure you know a lot more about the GR database than I do, so I will leave you to it.
Michael wrote: "If I understand what you're saying, the Michael Rosen with a single space in the name (Michael_Rosen) is the same person as the GR author Michael J. Rosen? (excepting one or two erroneous books?)
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Because Michael J. Rosen is a Goodreads author, I can't alter his name to Michael Rosen, which would make sense.
I don't know what work JG did but I do see that MR's books ought to be under either Michael J. Rosen or Michael Rosen and since most of his books are published under Michael Rosen that would seem to be the logical name. Since JG has been involved in this fairly confusing and very prolific author, I don't really want to do anything in case I screw something up.
