What to do w/ messed up import w/ conflicting info?

[Karma♥Bites ^.~]

Need guidance as to what to do when imported editions are clearly erroneous but there's no definitive way to determine which way to fix the data.

Frex, I came to post about this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

I happened to see that the author, Ruthie Knox, already noticed the bizarre edition and posted in the delete thread here. (I left note directing her query to this thread.)

So this edition has the following problems:

(1) Neither ISBN#s produce any Google hits.

(2) The title and editors' names match 'Renal Disease in Cancer Patients' (Amazon product page) whilst the author is noted as 'Ruthie Knox" and the blurb is for her 'Roman Holiday 3: Blindsided' (Random House product page).

(3) The publisher is noted as Loveswept = Ruthie Knox's book.


I initially thought to fix the data in favour of Ruthie Knox (given blurb, author, publisher) but then decided to check here in case others had seen similar oddities, as well as to get feedback on when librarians can (or cannot) decide on their own.

Thanks!

[Monique]

My recommendation is to not change it yet, send an email to Goodreads support linking to this book and explaining the situation. This import has been really bad lately and they are trying to figure out the problem. After you have gotten a response (so you know they have seen it), you can correct it to the Ruthie Knox book. Worldcat has those ISBNs associated with that one.

[Sandi]

Sometimes I come across books that have their info changed back and forth. Like this one:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/edits/...

I'm pretty sure that when I added it it was the edition published by Vintage with this cover:

http://www.exorcising-ghosts.co.uk/im...

If you look at the change log you can see that publisher and page count keep changing back and forth, and the image got changed twice as well.

[Paw3pals]

Monique wrote: "My recommendation is to not change it yet, send an email to Goodreads support linking to this book and explaining the situation. This import has been really bad lately and they are trying to figur..."

ISBN search at Worldcat usually shows info matching the description, publisher and which author(s) is correct - usually I then check the Worldcat title at Amazon or goodreads to verify.

All of these mixed up imports I've found are from November 18/19 from onix ingram - and there have been a lot.

See below thread for more info:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Karma♥Bites ^.~]

Thanks, everyone. LOL, can I just say that the increasing amount of messed up imports are constant tweaks to my OCD side?

I did check WorldCat first but must've made a mistake re: ISBN somehow b/c nothing came up. Which is why I then did a Google search. Lesson learned: try WorldCat at least 2x. :)