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Hello!
I don't know if this is a combine or a delete...so I'll leave it to a Super to decide (it's a typo in the author's name resulting in two different names for the same author, plus book listings ~ luckily only two in the erroneous entry):
a) The misspelled name here;
b) The correct page here.
Thank you so much!
In both cases I merged the one missing the diacritics into the one with them. Those are the more correct versions of the names.
I found two authors whom have double profiles, probably because both of them has hungarian characters in their names, and so one profile is with the correct name, the other is without diacritics.The first is Sándor Márai:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/318...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/312...
and the second, István Fekete:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/439...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/783...
I'm sill a new librarian and I'm unsure how to merge these profiles.
The easiest way I've found is to add the new author in the second position, save the book. Then go in and edit again, and use the little arrow to switch the second author to the first position. (Sometimes you have to click it twice.)The problem is that you have to do it for each book individually . . .
My suggestion, although this is non-trivial, is to add the English version of the name as the primary author on each of the ones currently listed under the Japanese version, and move that to the second author spot. That would allow for editions to be combined, without losing any of the data or making it hard for people looking for the Japanese name.
I'm sorry, I'm a new librarian. I wasn't sure how to merge this two authors:http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/754...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/282...
I wasn't very sure whether we need to merge them either, but it would make sense.We're talking about the same person, only that one page is in Japanese and the other one is in English. Thanks!
Normally I'd tell you to merge the authors. But since she's a GR author, you can't -- so I did. Now you can combine editions.
I just came across Flesh and Fire by Laura Gilman and Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman. I believe these two should be merged (since it's the same book), but am a bit unsure how to proceed. Thanks!
Can a more senior and knowledgable librarian than me take a look at P.G. Wodehouse, please? So far I've found 3 separate profiles for him!
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/796...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/309...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/296...
I'm a bit wary of trying to fix this, since I haven't combined authors before and I don't want to make a hash of it on such a prominant one!
There's probably more profiles around for him, with an easily misspelled name like that, but those are the three I've found so far. The first in that list is the correct one.
Can someone please combine these? One by Richard Bach was co-written with his then-wife Leslie Parrish Bach, who is given the sole credit for the uncombined edition of One: A Novel. Thanks.
M, I did that and combined the editions and started to add in series information when needed, but you (or someone) may want to finish adding series information to individual editions.
Actually, because E.E. is a Goodreads author, they can't be combined. But, I'll change all E. E.'s books to E.E. and then change E. E. into Various.
Could someone please combine these authors?
E.E. Knight (a Goodreads author)
E. E. Knight (that's E.^E.)
Thanks!
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