Restore series?

[Book Portrait]

Goethe's Faust series (Fragments, Ur-Faust, Faust I, Faust II) has been deleted.

http://www.goodreads.com/series/95675

X updated the series:
removed series: Goethe's Faust
Feb 05, 2013 05:49pm (#50289397)

Can it be restored?

NB: the librarian who deleted this series has been trying to create other series but only creates separate series for each book...

[Banjomike]

Book Portrait wrote: "Can it be restored"

Nope.

I've renamed his version of the series to the same old name.
http://www.goodreads.com/series/96899...

Can you add the other books to it?

EDIT: I'll PM him to stop creating imprint series
EDIT 2: he has a private profile so I'll flag him.

[Book Portrait]

Thanks. I added the books I found and a Wikipedia description (hope that’s ok).

But there’s a problem with the main Faust book page: the top book (Faust) is Faust I (English-German) but most other editions on that book page are Faust I&II. There’s a separate Faust: Part One book page. And to complicate things, that top book has more 25,000 ratings…

[Banjomike]

Book Portrait wrote: "Thanks. I added the books I found and a Wikipedia description (hope that’s ok).

But there’s a problem with the main Faust book page: the top book (Faust) is Faust I (English-German) but most other editions on that book page are Faust I&II. There’s a separate Faust: Part One book page. And to complicate things, that top book has more 25,000 ratings… "

Yuk. It happens. Last year someone managed to combine most Faust editions into one:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

I don't know if we have a Faust expert. Are you a Faust expert?

[Book Portrait]

Sorry, not a Faust expert. I just happen to have that version of Faust I German-English, and a couple of versions of Faust I&II - which is how I noticed the problem.

Just from the titles, descriptions and book covers I can untangle some of the smaller obvious mis-combinations but I wouldn't know how to move that top book to the correct book page without messing with a ton of people's shelves (I think it requires librarian superpowers I don't have!).

[vicki_girl]

Not an expert either, but the cover clearly indicated that it is only Part 1. I updated the title and separated, using the separate tool (that's the only practical way to separate out the most popular edition). I also spotted several other Part 1's mixed in there and moved those over too.

[Banjomike]

vicki_girl wrote: "Not an expert either, but the cover clearly indicated that it is only Part 1. I updated the title and separated, using the separate tool (that's the only practical way to separate out the most popular edition). I also spotted several other Part 1's mixed in there and moved those over too. "

Nice. When I have a potentially long moment I'll have a go at them.