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

Keith’s comments from the Goodreads Librarians Group group.

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Alejandro wrote: "I'm still not sure where this discussion got to. When talking about the most widely read book in the world, it is said to be the Bible, in general, without further ado.
I would like to combine them..."

That is what is known, in technical terms, as A Very Bad Idea. By the time you get perhaps half of them onto one record, any additional combine attempt will take upwards of several hours to fail, and then you'll get to try and fail again. There are simply too many across all of the various versions.

Also, given that it's Religion with a capital R, some people get extremely particular—to the point of fighting literal wars, like with swords, cannon, and guns—over some particular version being "right" and all of the others wrong, spurious, or outright heretical and evil. They are not likely to take kindly to "it's all the same book, so combine them all," even if it was possible.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/5972...

This had (until I got done with it) two volumes of Virgil's Aeneid in it, so this looks to me more like it should be an imprint, or perhaps a Listopia, rather than a series. However, as a GR Librarian, serieses aren't really my specialty, so I thought I should bring it here for some expert opinions rather than risk doing something both wrong and irreversible.

rivka wrote: "Many covers have Ernesto Che Guevara (without any quote marks to set off Che). That would be my vote."

Conveniently, that is the current iteration, so I have added a librarian note to the profile that points back to this thread.

Thanks.

There are any number of author profiles whose names can arguably be expressed in more than one way, and frequently The Powers That Be will issue a definitive decision on which format is canonical for the root record and add a Librarian Note so well-meaning Librarians with different opinions will stop cycling through the variants.

Che appears to be one of these. Over time, this profile has been Che Guavara, Ernesto Guevara, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and presently Ernesto Che Guevara.

I believe the relevant Librarian Manual guidance is that "all editions should be the author name the book was originally published under" and that this would be Che Guevara (as he is most frequently referred to in the U.S.), but I am not entirely certain of either of these facts.

I think it would be useful if we could get a ruling and an authoritative Librarian Note on the profile.

Sandra wrote: "Always good to see a Super back in the black, Keith :)"

This thread seems to have become moribund again, so I'll bump it again by noting that I'm now back in the top 40 having just crossed a quarter million edits.

Somehow, every time I go to add an old book I've bought used, I seem to get distracted into a major author disambiguation project again. At least it's good for my stats, if not for my actual physical shelves.

The cover images are slightly different, so this is probably deliberate under the Alternate Cover Edition policy:
https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...

May need another Librarian to add the proper ACE crosslinking.

Merge queued

This request is either going to require better sourcing, or a Librarian with Croatian-language skill, or both.

A cover image that provides clearer copyright permissions would likely help as well. See: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Jakov wrote: "Excuse me, but I have to ask: How come some books are being added within hours after the request and some of us have to wait for weeks? No hard feelings, just a simple question."

Read the sticky posts, particularly:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Take note of message 2 on that thread.

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Also, go here if you want to claim the author profile and control your book records directly:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/conf...

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"That edition will be deleted shortly. 6 reviews will be merged. "

Paperback is in. Still need to handle the ebook version with ISBN 9781839765988.

I'm looking into this one.

Thanks for the excellent supporting materials. However, please note that this request is a little complicated and may take some time & effort—I can see why many Librarians passed over it before.

Thanks in advance for your patience.

Worldcat entry for the translation in paperback is here:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/not-by...

As far as I can tell, the purple cover image appears to have been imported directly from and by Amazon. If you have good cause for that to be removed, I suggest contacting staff about it: that is beyond my remit as a mere volunteer Librarian.

https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta...

Huh, strange: that hardcover book record has been in GR since at least January of last year.

The empty record—which looks like a placeholder that was entered a couple of years prior to the book's release—has now been queued for deletion. With the number of reviews attached to it, since it was the "default" edition," it may take some time before it finally disappears. Those reviews should transfer to the Hardcover, as it was the second-most-popular edition prior to the deletion.

Silly mergers Done

Pesky mergers and acquisitions when I'm not looking.

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