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D A Waite Jr.
D A Wacks
D A Wallace
D A Washbrook
D A Wells
D A Welsby
D A Welch
D A Weiss
D a Westcott
D a White
D A Winstanley
D A Williams
D a Wilson
D A Wright
D A Yablonsky
D A Yuen
D Abudi
D Abeck
D ADAIR
D Aguglia-Desmouceaux
D Akers-Jones
D Alan Lewis
D Alan Orr
D Alan Cruse
D Alastair Compston
D Ala'aldeen
D Alastair S Compston
D Alamargot
D Albertoni
D Aldana
D Alex Patthoff
D Alexander
D Alexander Blagrove
D Algom
D Alissa Trotz
D Alkazraji
D Anbar Ran
D Anderson Ford
D Anderson
D and Leonov, G Ashencaen
D Andow
D Andrew Kille
D Andrea
D Andrews
D Anthony Miles
D Antoinette Legall
D Antelmi
D Antonio Cantu
D Appleton & Co
D Appleton and Company
D Aprill
That's all the (where ^ = space) "D^A^", "D^A." and "D^A" authors oddly formatted I found. I'll let someone else follow up with "D.^A^B", "D.^A.^B" And "D.^A^B" authors thru the DAZ ones.(For example, D. A Johnson, D. A. Boulter, and D. Anne Love…)
and/or start up DC-DZ threads. The d initials too many to manage on a single thread.
(I've started a D B thread at http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Got #11-12-13
D Alan Lewis cannot be edited to "D. Alan Lewis"; it says: "Sorry, this author is on Goodreads and is responsible for editing their own data. If you see a typo or other error, you may want to report it in the Goodreads Librarians Group."Other than that, #28 is done. Moving on to #29.
#29-30 are done!I also went ahead and corrected some of the authors other librarians edited - some of them just added a "." after the D's without checking if that was really the correct author name (e.g. "D. Arienzo Raymond V" vs "Raymond V. D'Arienzo"). :|
El wrote: "D Alan Lewis cannot be edited to "D. Alan Lewis"; it says: "Sorry, this author is on Goodreads and is responsible for editing their own data. If you see a typo or other error, you may want to repor..."I posted that author on the librarian group discussion thread requesting staff to merge goofy author profiles to the real goodreads ones at http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Debbie O'Neal wrote: "El wrote: "D Alan Lewis cannot be edited to "D. Alan Lewis"; it says: "Sorry, this author is on Goodreads and is responsible for editing their own data. If you see a typo or other error, you may wa..."OH, so that's where those corrections go! Thanks, Debbie! :D
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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 (policy on initials at http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/60... which says:
* There should be a period after each initial.
* There should be no spaces between consecutive initials.
* There should be one space (excepting disambiguation) between an initial and a non-initial.
Examples:
* J.K. Rowling
* J.R.R. Tolkien
* Philip K. Dick
* F. Scott Fitzgerald
* George R.R. Martin
Authors needing correcting:
D A a Tanner
D A Anderson
D A Agius
D A Armstrong
D A Andreev
D A Austin