I found this author:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/606...

it reads as "."

Cute, huh?

Yikes, and it's got 490 books.

I checked out one, and that "author" data actually came from Amazon. That's just bad.

Good catch!

That "author" also has a bunch of quotes that will need to be taken care of as well...

I took care of the quotes

Can I get confirmation on this author?

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/512...

Some of the books maybe by this person, but somehow I have doubts about all the Charles Schultz also being authored by "Seth". It doesn't look right.

Yeah, the Schultz ones shouldn't have any co-authors, but Seth appears to be a real graphic novel author. (Also Jason, from the same publisher. It must be a trend.)

Thanks, Rivka. I wonder what that's all about anyway -- some GR member having a joke by adding incorrect authors to existing books?

"Seth" is the pen name of a graphic novelist, yup. And I think he edited a Schultz collection at some point...?

Looks like the weird "authors" on the Schultz books came from our friends at Amazon, and were editors and writers of forewords.

Seth is a graphic novelist who also does some amazing book design, including the Peanuts collections (which is probably how he got listed on them). He may also be listed on the Dennis the Menace books (I haven't checked, but I think he designed those, too).

I don't know if the ones with Jane Roberts are really him--I'm inclined to think no, but I'm doped up on DayQuil right now so I'll sort it out later.

The ones with Jane Roberts identify him by name on the cover.

A book's editor or designer doesn't rank the same as an author, though, unless the book is an anthology or something similar, does it? Or the writer of a foreword?

If it weren't for the quotes, I'd never run into these little esoteric corners.

Someone please check this

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/106...

I'm reasonably certain Natalie Portman did not author either of the "books" (which are not books as best I can tell) attributed to her here. One is a calendar and one is, I'm guessing from the PAL designation, a DVD.

Same thing here -- Winona Ryder is listed as the "author" of a DVD box set.

And here's another

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/243...

Not Without My Daughter is by Betty Mahmoody, while Field was in the movie.

A book's editor or designer doesn't rank the same as an author, though, unless the book is an anthology or something similar, does it? Or the writer of a foreword?

Exactly. Which is why I removed them.

I took care of the Portman and Field items; I need a link for the Ryder one, please.

Feh, thought I'd pasted that one. Sorry, Rivka

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93545...

There's no author information on this one

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/421...


"M" is an author, but some of the books appear to be listed incorrectly, with an author's first initial mistaken for "M" as a name.

Ok, took care of removing the actors-as-authors on the box set (which actually contains a book as well as the videos, so I left the primary author) and I'm working on the M's.

Rivka, I know there was a Winona Rydyer calendar, but it didn't show on the search, so I don't know where it went from last night.

Question -- I found a large batch of quotes from The Gilmore Girls TV show. Many of them are favorited by several people. There's no link, and I haven't found any associated book (yet, at least).

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?q...

I'll put this on the "quotes" thread, but wanted to make sure I wasn't missing some TV show associated book that might be based on the show.

I'm going out on a limb here and saying this person is not an author.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/124...

Perhaps it's the complete lack of books :)

I have not deleted a book on GR yet, so I'll leave this for now and let some smarter person handle it.

Yet another one that looks like the author was listed incorrectly

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/561...

I guess an intelligent person deleted the last two.

Christina is gone, and I fixed Serena Proes (wow, that has to be a pen name!)

I'll have to see if I can find that calendar . . .

Could this possibly be Nietzsche?

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/853...

I think so, according to this page:
http://www.karoon.com/detail.lasso?pid=1...
it is.

There is another similar entry here:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/452...

I was going to do some merging, combining and deleting, but GR is being super slow for me tonight for whatever reason and I gave up. Hopefully someone else will be able to sort it out.

Got 'em.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/154...

I don't think these are all by the same "Andrea".

My trade paperback copy of King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa is by Adam Hochschild. I can't find a reference to an "Andrea" anywhere -- not cover design, book design, or any other attribution (unless it's in the content).

And just now, while using the widget, I noticed a typo in this book's title -- "it's" should be "its"

Earth and It's People Volume C 3rd Ed + King Leopolds Ghost Paperback

All done.

Can someone sort out William Chambers?

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/999...

The Scottish publisher (1800-1883) is probably responsible for most of them, but surely not for _The Redemption Factor_ or _Hallucinations in Children_.

Thanks!

Yet another Not An Author

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/132...

Cera - all the books have the correct authors. The Redemption Factor was written by the William Chambers who served two terms as Executive Vice President of the Mystery Writers of America. The William Chambers who co-authored Hallucinations in Children, among other books on childhood psychology, with Daniel Pilowsky wasn't born until 1945. The remainder of the books were authored or edited by William and/or his brother Robert Chambers who lived in the 19th century. Perhaps a librarian more experienced than me (just about every other librarian) might want to make some changes to the authors' profiles.

I separated them into unique profiles.

Edit: I should point out that Robert Chambers needs some work since he is clearly multiple people.

Some mixed up Georges. I'm willing to bet King George III isn't the same as the other authors listed here -- at least I HOPE so :)


http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/232...

The books attributed to this "author" have editors, none of whom appear to be this person.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/783...

Sherri, I got the last one. I'll work on the Georges; other librarians feel free to do so too.

Edit: I got the Georges.

Petra & Michael

Sorry, I must have posted in the wrong place -- I did think the author names were correct, just that they needed separation into different profiles, as Michael has since done. Michael, did you do this by adding spaces for disambiguation (which I can do myself in future) or is there some other strategy?

Thanks,
Cera

I just added spaces and put a little info into the profile description, when I could. I haven't done Robert Chambers yet.

Someone changed the name: 'Gabriel García Márquez' to 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez'. Do you agree with this?
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The agreement was to agree :)) with the Library of Congress, so I changed the name back to "Gabriel García Márquez"

By the way, Shadi, is this One Hundred Years of Solitude?

It's the same person who undid it when I put it in with the accents. Maybe a message to her is in order?

It's the same person who undid it when I put it in with the accents. Maybe a message to her is in order?

Rivka, considering that the person has changed the name at least 4 times to take out the accents, probably! Either that or you guys will be going back and forth forever!

I didn't go back far enough to notice it was that many.

Ok, email sent. Hope it does the trick.

vitalinew, it is "One Hundred Years of Solitude". There are more than 5 editions added with this cover!!! I don't know why they don't search first!!!! I'm sorry anyway!

vitalinew, Please don't edit http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18869... so that I can notify the person who added this about his mistake.

Dear Shadi, no problem at all. I can wait :)

i hope this is the right place to post this but...
it seems these two authors are the same person. i dont know how to fix it.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/152...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/539...

Animeactress, this is a fine place for it! I've combined the two authors (and Phillip Kerr too), although I can't combine the editions until a bug gets fixed.

David Williams has to be at least a couple different people. Possibly as many as 4 or 5 . . .