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message 1: by S.J. (new)

S.J. Parkinson (sj_parkinson) | 9 comments Good Day,

The name I use as an author is SJ Parkinson.

The Legionnaire: Origins has the correct author name.

However, the following two books:

Predation
The Legionnaire: Mask of the Pharaoh

Show the author as S.J. Parkinson which is incorrect as I do not use dots after my initials. As a result, only Origins is showing up when people query my name in the search engine.

Can you change the two incorrect novels to SJ Parkinson please?

Thanks.

SJ Parkinson


message 2: by Banjomike (last edited May 02, 2013 08:47AM) (new)

Banjomike | 5166 comments On Goodreads initials have a dot after them so "S.J. Parkinson" is correct. The reasoning is, in part, that it would be difficult for every member to keep track of the individual preferences of every author. Therefore we stick to initial+dot. This includes the edition which was on the wrong author profile (without dots).


message 3: by Melody (new)

Melody (runningtune) | 13300 comments I will ask Rivka to merge the profiles.


message 4: by S.J. (new)

S.J. Parkinson (sj_parkinson) | 9 comments Thank you for looking into this.

You may want to revamp your search engine to allow for that automatic addition because if I search for 'SJ Parkinson' I get no hits. All my other websites, Twitter feeds and Facebook don't have dots so it is natural others may have the same difficulty.

Cheers and thanks again.


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