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Goodreads Author profiles needing merging BY GR STAFF pt. 12
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (has 3 followers)https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (GR author)
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (GR author)https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (Author I accidentally made because of a problem I had attributing a quote, so this author has several quotes attributed to it.)
Normally I would just fix the author on the quotes, but here is the issue (if this part needs to be posted in a different thread, please tell me; I am new to these discussion threads): When trying to set "Jenny Lawson" as the author on a quote, the only matching author that comes up is a completely different person with that name who has edited a number of academic books. The Jenny Lawson GR author I linked above does not come up in the author field on the quote page at all.
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That's because she's Jenny^^Lawson, where each ^ stands for a space. Try putting the second space between the names the next time you add quotes by her.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Both are GR authors, I looked at the first profile's book covers and didn't find one with P.K. Tyler on it.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (quote and followers)
Hello again!Firstly, thank you for merging "Kyla Ward" into "Kyla Lee Ward". But now I have found another book orphaned by a typo!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Yes, I am "Kula Ward" as well. If you could please correct this, I will be even more grateful.
Regards,
Kyla
The disambiguating space is before the initial rather than after it:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
a non-Goodreads Author account (but certainly the same person) with the correct spacing and lots of books:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
An unrelated Robert E. Davis is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Hi,I'm not sure this is the correct place for this, but there are several erroneous author profiles for the Danish duo Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis. Agnete is a GoodReads author on https://www.goodreads.com/author/show.... (I noticed that a few editions of the books in the Nina Borg series have the authors listed as one single author, instead of two. I think I have corrected all of them.) On the link below, three author profiles need to be dealt with.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/simi...
EDIT: Found one more "bad" profile: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Edit 2: here's another one: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Could the Goodreads Author please have the single-space profile when merged, as discussed https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Would appear to be the same author based on this request and the account it is coming fromhttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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This is an imprint that mistakenly generated an author profile that was subsequently followed by people. I removed the bogus author from all the offending books before realizing the followers were there. Now it needs to be manually deleted by an employee, I think:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
No merging, but separating needed:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
(both English and Hebrew name in one profile)
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...Should this profile be split? The librarian note on the combine page says "Author name edited for consistency with Goodreads policy", but 2 names in one is against policy, so maybe it was reverted again later?
See also https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Could the Goodreads Author please have the single-space profile after the merge:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Could the Goodreads Author please have the single-space profile after the merge, as discussed here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
This Goodreads Authorhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
has the same name of a 17th century author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Au...
A lot of the books on the profile seem from the 17th century Aubrey, can the GR Author be moved to John^^Aubrey?
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Reminder: we do not merge author names in different languages. https://www.goodreads.com/help/show/2...
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