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Mar 26, 2013 08:59AM
There's a "wrong" Ken Follett (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...), but the system won't allow me to edit his profile, because the "right" Ket Follett is not editable. Could please someone do it? I think just deleting the wrong profile would be wrong, because books there have about 100 ratings already.
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There is a special thread in this group for these cases http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...I have posted this one in that thread.
I am JD Chandler, but my Goodreads profile is listed as J.D. Chandler. Please merge the two profiles so I show as JD Chandler. I should have three books -- Murder and Mayhem in Portland, Oregon by JD Chandler; Mud Bay, and Crime Family by J.D. Chandler.Can you please help?
GoodReads author profile protocol is for the initials. Librarians will continue to put the initials in even if we change it, just cause that's what we do.
So how do I get my site to show my books? BTW there is an unclaimed author profile for JD Chandler -- that's me.
J.D. wrote: "So how do I get my site to show my books? BTW there is an unclaimed author profile for JD Chandler -- that's me."Which books are not showing on your "J.D. Chandler" page?
As I have already said. Murder and Mayhem in Portland, Oregon. My new book is not showing on my Goordreads profile because the authors name has no initials. Will you please help me fix this.
As I have already said. Murder and Mayhem in Portland, Oregon. My new book is not showing on my Goordreads profile because the authors name has no initials. Will you please help me fix this.
I can only see two editions of "Murder and Mayhem in Portland, Oregon" (or reasonable anagrams of the title) on Goodreads and both of them are on your page, one has very little data.the editions:
http://www.goodreads.com/work/edition...
your author page:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
If you have any more info for the edition with few details, post them here and we can add them. If there is another, completely different, edition post them here and we can add it.
EDIT: correction, one edition has been merged.
I'm getting pretty frustrated with this. There is only one edition of this book. The one with no information was created when I tried to add the other one to my site. The real edition is showing on my site because it is on a feed from my blog. I want it to show as one of my books with Goodreads reviews. Will you please fix it.
J.D. wrote: "I'm getting pretty frustrated with this. There is only one edition of this book. The one with no information was created when I tried to add the other one to my site. The real edition is showing on..."Try looking a little bit further down the page.
edward: posting the links here http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
will allow this to be done
i have done this for you
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
no problem, but being a librarian still wouldn't help this, only GR staff can merge GR author profiles
I think you should be able to edit your own author profile because that is what the Goodreads author program is for. But in this case editing your own profile would not help. Your books are on the wrong profile and it is the 'wrong' profile which needs editing, not yours.
Edward wrote: "In every place that my name shows on that one page, it's the same: Edward M WolfeWhy is this happening?
What do I need to do differently?
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You need to spell your name so that it matches the name on your author profile "Edward M. Wolfe". If you miss the dot off, "Edward M Wolfe", it will create a new author profile. As it is supposed to do.
Which book was it?
Edward wrote: "I'm so confused.I just looked and now my regular profile has no middle initial at all, and my author profile has M.
The book was "In the End" and someone fixed it for me.
I just have no certainty that it's not going to happen again.
Maybe the next time I publish I should ask someone else to add the book for me - or is that a bad idea? "
Your author profile is "Edward M. Wolfe" (with a dot)
Your regular, non-author, normal profile is "Edward Wolfe"
They were originally separate profiles on Goodreads until you claimed your author profile at which time they were connected (in some mysterious way) to effectively give you two profiles. When you add a new book you MUST enter Edward M. Wolfe in the author box or Goodreads will assume that the book was written by someone else. In the case of "In the End" it assumed (correctly, based on the information you entered) that the book was written by someone who used the name Edward M Wolfe (without the dot) and created a new author profile for that person. This is it, "Edward M Wolfe" (with no dot)
The trick is to always use the name that appears on your author profile, "Edward M. Wolfe" (with dot), when adding your own new books.
You can always post in this group and someone will add them for you but many authors like to have that extra control over what they add.
Edward wrote: "Now my name is "Edward Wolfe" without the M and my Author name is "Edward M. Wolfe" which is incorrect."Not entirely. Your book covers have "Edward M Wolfe" (with no dot) so you are using a middle initial for your writings.
The Goodreads naming protocol is for initials to always have a dot after them so that everyone knows that Arthur C Clarke should be Arthur C. Clarke otherwise it would be completely impossible for every person on Goodreads to know the punctuation peculiarities of every author who is on Goodreads.
Incidently, if you stop using the "M." or "M" you will end up with two author profiles, one WITH the initial and one without so that wouldn't be much help.
As far as I know you should be able to change you non-author profile to give yourself an M (with or without the dot) if you want to. For the most part Goodreads prefer their authors to have a non-author profile which is the same name as the author profile so I can't see why there would be any problem for you to change it to be more similar than it is. There are certainly plenty of middle initials floating around Goodreads in the non-author department and there is no requirement to stick with the same name for all your Goodreads life.
A quick look at the homepage produced this non-author chappie:
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/15...
Edward M. wrote: "Cool. Then I'll add an M. to my non-author profile, so it at least matches my name elsewhere.Thanks, Banjomike!"
I can see your new "M." and the link to your author profile still works correctly. Nice.
