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message 1: by Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) (last edited Sep 10, 2013 08:00PM) (new)

Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) | 6325 comments Found these profiles that have odd initials so need standardizing. Most likely periods need to be added--did not check if editing involved goodreads authors that should be cross-posted to staff merge thread or if no books/fans so can be skipped to be removed by auto-sweep. Might also be a data import glitch where a diacritic (like á, ô, ü type of characters) was replaced with a space:

PAGES 1-4 COMPLETED, START WITH Page 5

B Bryant ... B Bel


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Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) | 6325 comments B C Burgess ... B Claesson

B C L pending discussions starting at message 15.


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Koenraad (koenraadkelemen) | 6989 comments #1 done


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❄️ Propertea Of Frostea ❄️ Bitter SnoBerry ❄ (berrynumey) | 848 comments #2, #3 done.
#4 done, not sure what to do with this http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
#5 done.


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Paw3pals | 1939 comments नूमी ~ ✮ Ї'м Йоt Шєїґd, Ї'м Gїftєd ღ ☮ wrote: "#2, #3 done.
#4 done, not sure what to do with this http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
#5 done."


I'd recommend: by Catholic Book Publishing Co (Manufacturer)

as shown by: http://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=...


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❄️ Propertea Of Frostea ❄️ Bitter SnoBerry ❄ (berrynumey) | 848 comments Yes, but B L C ..? o.O
That would've been C.B.P and Co or something?
I'm leaving this for someone more expert :)

Edit: another "Blc" http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...


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Paw3pals | 1939 comments नूमी ~ ✮ Ї'м Йоt Шєїґd, Ї'м Gїftєd ღ ☮ wrote: "Yes, but B L C ..? o.O
That would've been C.B.P and Co or something?
I'm leaving this for someone more expert :)

Edit: another "Blc" http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...-..."


Yes I saw the other one. Found the below (bolded):

Educational material on the 2002 Roman Missal is available for free on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) website. The Bishops Committee for the Liturgy (BCL) Secretariat have written:


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Koenraad (koenraadkelemen) | 6989 comments #7 done


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Koenraad (koenraadkelemen) | 6989 comments #8 done


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Ponytaorponyboy | 149 comments #26 - done (I think) I'm not sure about B.I. Yarho though... someone who knows the language might be able to more than me, sorry :< (I checked Worldcat, but I couldn't find...)
#25 - done :)


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Ponytaorponyboy | 149 comments #24 - done :D
#21 - done also :)


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Koenraad (koenraadkelemen) | 6989 comments #6 done


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Rinou | 101 comments 9 to 12 done


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Geert Joris | 92 comments Debbie wrote: "Found these profiles that have odd initials so need standardizing. Most likely periods need to be added--did not check if editing involved goodreads authors that should be cross-posted to staff me..."

How do you search for these kind of "oddities", Debbie?


message 37: by Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) (last edited Aug 05, 2013 05:13AM) (new)

Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) | 6325 comments Geert wrote: "...How do you search for ..."

Start writing a comment on a discussion thread. Click add book/author . Click author tab. Where ^ character is a space, search for first-name^A^. Repeat for first-name^B^. Repeat for first-name^C^....on through first-name^Z^ ...in this case, first-name is B with no period.

It's been posted before; lots of threads on finding initials missing periods. I started listing the author names because those postings saying what to look for didn't seem to lead anywhere in terms of profiles getting edited. (Was something I had just started editing myself when a librarian before I backed off with amazon sale. Last week, I had time to start listing during a long boring work project so I did for at least some A-C common first names.)

Only difficulty about editing I had was the same as any author profile edit — just making sure book editions got combined, the occasional more-than-one-author-with-that-name, or diacritic characters that were missing or had odd versions created by various members.


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Koenraad (koenraadkelemen) | 6989 comments #26 is the Russian philologist Boris Isaakovič Jarcho (Engl. transliteration also: Yarkho). Source: http://www.glottopedia.org/index.php/...


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Koenraad (koenraadkelemen) | 6989 comments #28,30 done


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Koenraad (koenraadkelemen) | 6989 comments Someone took care of #29


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Rinou | 101 comments 12 and 13 done


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Koenraad (koenraadkelemen) | 6989 comments # 19 done - quite a few empty profiles, that I left


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Rinou | 101 comments 20, 31, and 33 done


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