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Mike (ravens) | 4 comments This is my newly published book. My author name for this book, Mike Young, is linked to another Mike Young's author profile, so I am unable to 'claim' my profile. Could someone please unlink this?
Thx


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Banjomike | 5166 comments Mike wrote: "This is my newly published book. My author name for this book, Mike Young, is linked to another Mike Young's author profile, so I am unable to 'claim' my profile. Could someone please unlink this?
Thx"


Through trial and error, this is you:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

You have EIGHT spaces in your name, Mike^^^^^^^^Young

Claim your author profile here


Mike (ravens) | 4 comments Thanks - that was quick. Didn't know I had more than one space in my name - is this something you added in the database? Looks the same to me online. Will I need to do anything different if/when I publish another book?


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Banjomike | 5166 comments Mike wrote: "Thanks - that was quick. Didn't know I had more than one space in my name - is this something you added in the database? Looks the same to me online. Will I need to do anything different if/when I publish another book? "

You have eight spaces because there are seven other "Mike Young" profiles. There might actually be more than seven others because all the profiles look confused. Except yours. Goodreads uses the space to disambiguate the various authors. Usually there will only be one or two variants on a name but sometimes...

The only time you need to be aware of the spaces is when you add a new book or something like that. The rest of the time Goodreads strips the extra spaces so everyone has the usual single space.


Mike (ravens) | 4 comments Thanks - great support!


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