Keith’s Comments (group member since Sep 19, 2008)

Keith’s comments from the Goodreads Librarians Group group.

Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "Im on my phone but Nebula Awards are listed in the awards section. I don't know how complete they are though."

The Nebula is pretty popular, so the award category seems fairly well curated and pretty complete, at least for winners the last few decades. I just had to update the 1987 novella winner (recorded as a duplicate 1988 winner), and from there it probably gets thinner.

rivka wrote: "…check whether the different variants are being used to deliberately separate works in different genres."

Can I presume that is policy (at at least strongly recommend) that, upon discovering such an exceptional case, Librarian Notes should be added to each such profile to indicate the pattern being used with cross-links between the profiles? Or is there some other more-or-less canonical means or plan for communicating this before another well-meaning librarian comes along and "helpfully" merges the profiles that were carefully left sorted and unmerged?

Yep, it's working on the Günther link now, anyway, without having to clear cache.

Scott wrote: "They still show for everybody else, so I guess that's what matters."

This is a significant bug for Librarian work. I frequently use the /author/list/ pages to filter works from first-surname authors to the proper first-i-surname authors, which is extremely tedious to do through the search instead of from that page.

This does seem to be site-wide, and not limited to GR authors.

The /author/list/ pages are showing only the books that have that author as the primary. Used to be that, by default, it would show the primaries first, and secondaries following, but would (unlike the combine page) show all of the works on which that author appeared in any author field.

This would appear to be a bug, and IMHO a rather serious one at that.

Example: Herbert Günther, "16 distinct works", four as primary author.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list... lists only the four works where he is primary, leaving no way to get at the six least popular books for which he is a secondary author.

Thanks to C. for pointing me back to this thread, which at first I thought was a different issue. Looks to me now like a singe cause.

If it's deleted, won't it just get automatically reimported again?

If you haven't already, you'll need to set yourself up as a Goodreads Author:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/program

If you already have an author page, please provide a link to that profile in this thread.

80 & 81 done

That's so hacky it just might work! ;-)

Can't find quite the right category or a previous thread on this, so as directed I'm starting over.

The Librarian manual says:

Authors with books published in multiple languages should have their names dealt with similarly to those with pen names. All editions should have the primary author name as the standard or most common Roman (that is, English-language) version of the author's name. Editions published under another spelling of the name or the name in another language should have that name listed as the secondary author.

Accordingly, we have
English: Francis de Sales
French: François de Sales
Italian: Francesco di Sales
(and others, which is what I started to fix via merging)

The trouble is that, if you try to add any two of these to a book, the system is "smart" enough to recognize it as duplication and, in violation of our own stated policy, remove it upon saving.

So it would seem like we either need to change the programming, or change or clarify the policy, because right now complying with policy is not possible unless the non-Roman name is significantly different from the master Author record.

(Similar problem arise with the several related Charles Eliots who were involved with the Harvard Classics series, and on which I long ago gave up hope.)

Scott wrote: "Please change to P.J. Belden as shown on all her books:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..."

And this will probably need merging in while that's happening.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

(Thanks, Scott, for pointing me back here.)

Thanks, Scott.

If you have a moment, would you be willing to link what the "appropriate thread" is for my future reference? In case I find any more like that.

I'm reasonably, but not entirely, sure that https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... is a pseudo/former name of GR Author https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., and I'm even less sure if the latter conforms to current GRA guidelines, so I could use some guidance on the correct fix and how to implement it (unless someone who knows wants to just go ahead and do it themselves while my back is turned).

(EDIT: Add to that, this should not be a thing, right? https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... )

Zaphirenia wrote: "I hope to finish up Plato too soon"

Thank you for taking on Plato. I spent a week on that about a year ago and eventually wandered off to other projects in despair.

I was thinking that there may be people who still have this thread set to notify them, thereby being better targeted.

Every author with a common name could be a project at virtually any given time.

This could use some follow-up work, if anyone's interested. There are many more Chris Smiths now.

☕ Lachgas ♿ wrote: "and reading levels like these"

Farmyard Tales https://www.goodreads.com/series/2452... looks like a series to me, though I suspect that Old Mother Hubbard does not belong in it. But on https://www.goodreads.com/series/2452... I think you're right: not a series.

Deon wrote: "delete editor

Speaking of which, merge
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
into GR author
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

I've already moved the books, but
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
and
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
are both GR Author
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Lieke wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/series/2478...
I think this is not a series"

That looks like it's supposed to be a series of Graphic Novel adaptations, but some of the entries are not properly set up as adaptations. On it.