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Please delete this book! (pt. 14)
Beth wrote: "Working on 867 done."thank you :)
Paula wrote: "856 - needed combining and then merging - doneThat was very quick, & I wouldn't have thought of that approach. I will try to remember those steps for next time.
Again, Thanks.
These should not have been deleted. Once a book is published it is not deleted from the database, even if it is no longer available/out of print.
vicki_girl wrote: "These should not have been deleted. Once a book is published it is not deleted from the database, even if it is no longer available/out of print."Sorry vicki_girl,
I understood msg #877 to read that they had never been published as as they didn't have any indication of being shelved and had no reviews, I took the poster of #877 at his word.
I know from personal experience that one can receive / register an ISBN without publishing a work, based on the premise that one plans to.
I made a judgement call as none of the records had "shelving" info, none had reviews, in short there was no activity on any of those specific records.
I'm sorry if I erred.
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There is no such thing. Once published, means published forever.
Based on Google's caches from Smashword and elsewhere, I have recreated those 5 books.
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But that is absolutely NOT what happened in this case, as a quick Google of these titles + author name would show you.
rivka wrote: "Carl wrote: "have been unpublished"There is no such thing. Once published, means published forever.
Based on Google's caches from Smashword and elsewhere, I have recreated those 5 books."
I stand corrected. I would hope that fellow librarians can appreciate a) I'm human and b) there is always some judgement involved especially when "published" no longer means being in the standard book format. Online publishing has the potential to cloud the issue.
rivka wrote: "C-Cose wrote: "I know from personal experience that one can receive / register an ISBN without publishing a work, based on the premise that one plans to."But that is absolutely NOT what happened ..."
So an apology is insufficient then. I'm at a loss then as to how I can properly explain my reasoning for making an error that I will not repeat.
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Every librarian who has done more than a few dozen edits has probably made at least a few mistakes. But deletions are essentially undoable.
rivka wrote: "Reasoning isn't the issue; experience is. And that is why most librarians leave deletion requests in this thread for superlibrarians to deal with.Every librarian who has done more than a few doze..."
Understood Rivka,
I will limit myself to combines, creates, covers, alternates and such. All other I will leave to those more experienced than myself.
It would have been nice to have my apology recognized rather than simply being called to task for erring.
This edition http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12... appears to be the Australian paperback edition but with "C043869383" listed as the ISBN (not sure if that # stands for something). I think it probably needs to be merged into http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...Also please merge http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96... (cropped isbn) into http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93...
Thanks!
Please merge http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79... into http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31...and also delete this edition http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15... into the main one
thanks
Carl wrote: "They are no longer available as individual titles and I simply wanted to remove them from the list of books available by me."Carl, I think that's the point of confusion: GR does not keep a list of available books. GR keeps a list of all books which were ever available, whether or not they're currently in print.
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Because they are bookstores, and Goodreads is more like a library than a bookstore. As Cait said, the idea is to have a list of all books, not just currently-in-print ones.
Cait wrote: "Got 889."Thanks! (just in case, the ones from 887 are still pending)
also delete http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16... into the main one
and merge http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96... into http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...
thanks
Got 887.ETA: Got 893 and 894.
Need a superlibrarian to delete http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15... - says kindle edition with bookcover and no other information; there's another kindle edition of same with the ASIN and other info.
Super pls. mergehttp://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71...
into
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...
(keeping the one with more data and better image)
Then recombine with other editions.
Please merge http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75... (cropped isbn) with http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75...thanks!
I've been lax on my Camilla Läckberg monitoring. I corrected her name, but these need to be combined and deleted by a super.Delete: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
Merge into: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96...
Delete: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
Merge into: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85...
Thanks!
Hello.Can you delete and merge this book please:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
it is the same as the good one here below:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...
Thanks !
Please delete this book http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...It is the same as
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
but with wrong credits.
Thanks in advance :)
#912, done. And thank you for separating them out for me.
Actually we were working at the same time Beth. ;)
Please mergehttp://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...
to
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...
(Edition with no details did have both authors combined)
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Working on867 done.