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message 1: by Rosebud (last edited Feb 23, 2013 11:57AM) (new)

Feb 23, 2013 11:44AM

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message 2: by Monique (last edited Feb 23, 2013 12:46PM) (new)

Feb 23, 2013 12:43PM

A quick look at the first three indicate that all 3 are actually books (or audio books). One has not yet been published and is a placeholder for a work to be published this year. The other 2 are actual works that someone has gone in and blanked out. Others later in the list also appear to be blanked out, but also seem to not be books.

I decided not to investigate further or restore the books blanked out.

Rivka, can you weigh in on this please?

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message 3: by Cait (new)

Feb 23, 2013 12:43PM

Do not delete these editions. These are book records which have been vandalized. They need to be restored.

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message 4: by Rosebud (new)

Feb 23, 2013 12:46PM

I'm sorry if I listed them in error. I apologize for my wrong assumption.

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message 5: by Cait (new)

Feb 23, 2013 01:06PM

Rosebud, that's okay, but please do review the librarian manual before you go on. Never remove valid information about a published book, and please enter author names and ASINs in the standard format.

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message 6: by Riona (new)

Feb 23, 2013 01:32PM

I actually ran across some of these the other day and reverted them, but obviously didn't get to all of them. Why do authors insist on vandalizing their own records? I don't get it.

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message 7: by Cait (new)

Feb 23, 2013 02:41PM

I've got all but two of them now; ironically, it's the two with covers which were entered without authors that I can't find.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/...

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message 8: by Lobstergirl (new)

Feb 23, 2013 03:42PM

Riona wrote: "I actually ran across some of these the other day and reverted them, but obviously didn't get to all of them. Why do authors insist on vandalizing their own records? I don't get it."

I came across some author vandalism once where the author was clearly pissed she'd gotten a bunch of bad reviews, or 1-star ratings, and since she couldn't do anything about that, she vandalized the title and author fields and deleted everything else in each field.

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message 9: by Steamywindows♥♫ (new)

Feb 23, 2013 03:50PM

Steamywindows♥♫ (steamywindows) | 21 comments

Lobstergirl wrote: "Riona wrote: "I actually ran across some of these the other day and reverted them, but obviously didn't get to all of them. Why do authors insist on vandalizing their own records? I don't get it."
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Just curious but when they are reverted (?), as Riona indicted above, are those reviews still there?

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message 10: by Lobstergirl (new)

Feb 23, 2013 03:54PM

Yes.

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message 11: by Steamywindows♥♫ (new)

Feb 23, 2013 04:13PM

Lobstergirl wrote: "Yes."

Hmm, quite a lot of work.....for no good reason in the first place. Thanks, Lobstergirl.

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