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message 1: by Keith (new)

Keith (kgf0) | 377 comments I couldn't find this particular case addressed in this group anywhere, so... new thread!

There are these two Goodreads authors who seem pretty clearly to be different people:
Lisa Morton
Lisa Nohealani Morton

Among other places, they were both contributors to Nightmare Magazine April 2013 as noted at http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/iss...

I added both to the book record, but only the two-name author stuck. Editing again still didn't add the three-name author. I've seen similar things before where, e.g., Sean Kelly (GR Author) and Sean Q Kelly (name on cover, no period) won't stick to the same book when I'm editing it, though it appears that some scripts—or maybe Goodreads authors themselves?—are able to make such edits.

Is there a workaround for this or a trick I'm missing? This seems like a well-intentioned feature which didn't contemplate the corner cases (or perhaps later Goodreads naming policies) thoroughly at engineering time.

Or should I copy this to the Bugs folder in the Feedback group?


message 2: by free (new)

free (frdn) | 5200 comments using a temporary name (e.g. XXX) than change into the correct author usually worked...


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