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Please delete this book! (pt. 6)
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Lisa
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Nov 12, 2009 07:40AM
Please also be careful to not delete old books. I've noticed several of my manually added pre-ISBN books, often with covers have been deleted. I'll come upon a book on my shelves and my edition is gone, and it had often been shelved by multiple members.
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I got them Eva. Thanks. It would be easier to have the link to the book page than the link to the edit book page though. It's harder from the edit page to see that those editions are already combined with others, etc. Thanks.
Hmm. Well, there's no ISBN but it seems to be a specific edition:published 2004 (first published 1933) by Wordsworth Editions Limited
Lisa wrote: "Please also be careful to not delete old books. I've noticed several of my manually added pre-ISBN books, often with covers have been deleted. I'll come upon a book on my shelves and my edition is ..."Yes, about old books, I did find information in the manual (the ISBN section).
My doubt was more about placeholders for books not yet released. The manual didn't say much one way or another so Jessica's reply really cleared that up for me.
In my comment, I should probably have used "modern books" instead of "new books" to make clear that I wasn't referring to the time a book was added to GR but to its release date.
Thanks.
Chichipio, That message of mine was sent out to everyone; I wasn't singling you out at all. Your message just reminded me to post. Of course, where I posted in this thread it probably won't be seen by most of the members who should read it. Thanks.
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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24..."
I think I found the matching edition. Merging now.
I don't need anything deleted, but I'm too lazy to create a new thread. I'm trying to fix something with a goodreads author, but I can't. I think a super can.Do a search for "mad girls in love west" and you'll see two entries that need to be fixed. One with a comma and the other needs the authors middle name.
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FYI, the second West book just needed the specific book edited, and that any librarian can do. (Most of the books by that author are really by another no-middle-name author, so just editing the author would have been bad.)
And the "this author needs help" thread would have worked. ;)
Oh, duh, forgot about that thread. I tried to just edit the author name within the book edit, but it wouldn't let me for some reason (I wouldn't have done the one lacking the middle name by editing the full author unless I knew all of the books filed under that author was the one I wanted to change it to).I'm not sure why it wouldn't let me do that actually. Very strange.
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Indeed. Did you get an error message?
Basically it said that this was a Goodreads author and that they are in charge of their own editing.
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That's what I thought too. Maybe it's a bug.
Lisa wrote: "I got them Eva. Thanks. It would be easier to have the link to the book page than the link to the edit book page though. It's harder from the edit page to see that those editions are already combin..."Thanks Lisa - I didn't think about that. I only had one screen up and was going back and forth! I will remember that though!
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If it happens again, could you pretty please get a screenshot and send it to support AT goodreads DOT com? (With an explanation, or at least a note that it's regarding the issue you discussed with me.)
Can someone take a look at this because I'm not sure that I'm seeing it right: http://www.goodreads.com/book/combine...
Aren't The Pilot's Wife and When They Last Met two different books? Am I wrong or seeing this wrong or did someone combine the two by mistake? I don't mind separating but I wanted confirmation.... :)
♥Eva♥ wrote: "Can someone take a look at this because I'm not sure that I'm seeing it right: http://www.goodreads.com/book/combine...
Aren't The Pilot's Wife and When They Last Met two different books? ..."
Eva, they do seem to be different books, probably combined by accident. I'll wait to delete the previous book until you have them separated out again, so that it doesn't merge into the wrong one!
Cait wrote: "♥Eva♥ wrote: "Can someone take a look at this because I'm not sure that I'm seeing it right: http://www.goodreads.com/book/combine...
Aren't The Pilot's Wife and When They Last Met two differ..."
Okay - I'll go do it right now Cait. Thanks!
Okay Cait - it's done. That separate tool comes in handy, this was the first time I'd used it.
Yay! And I've deleted that book from 481.
Thanks Cait - here's another one: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68...
it's not out yet but there is an ISBN# and this one doesn't have it. We already have it listed in the system....
I've fixed it. It was first published in 2005. It's strange but I fixed the date of the Outsider / The Stranger a month ago that said it was originally published in 1388.
It looks like when this edition was merged, it had the wrong publication date (here is the change log for that edition). I don't even know what year it was first published...
Well, it looks as though Twilight was published in 2005. What's wrong with the date? They all say original publication date is 2005 and this edition shows a 2005 publication date; I don't know if the date for this edition is correct, as translations sometimes come out in later years, but what do you see Dori that arouses your suspicion?
Thanks guys - I wasn't sure if I was going crazy or what. I was fairly positive that the Meyers craze was pretty new..... lolI don't know that this has anything to do with the 1388 but I deleted a few editions that shouldn't have been added and that was listed as the original date on those too. Maybe someone added a listing, didn't know what to put and they put whatever came to mind?
Eva, Some of the Persian editions of books do show up with those early dates. I'm sure I should know the reason but I don't remember why this happens.
Lisa wrote: "Eva, Some of the Persian editions of books do show up with those early dates. I'm sure I should know the reason but I don't remember why this happens."It's because that's the year according to the Iranian calendar. :) GR uses a Gregorian calendar, but there are a handful of other systems in use -- the Hebrew calendar is another one we see from time to time -- and their years don't match to the Gregorian years. (All of the dates in the GR system should be converted to Gregorian for this reason!)
This edition is without an ISBN with incomplete information and needs to be deleted, but I cannot do it because it has 5 ratings. I've already combined it with the correct edition.The Truth About Emma
Lisa wrote: "Thanks, Cait. Of course."That's something I didn't know - thanks Lisa and Cait for the info and your help!
Can you please delete these two?http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61...
Thank you!
Jude, Re your message 501. No:
The first one is already designated as NOT A BOOK. It has an ISBN and should not be deleted, or is it not listed at Amazon at all?
The second one has an ISBN and appears to be a book. I'll change the author name to the proper name. Edit: Which I did and then combined it with the other editions.
JC11king, that book has a unique ISBN. It should stay. Is there another edition that does not have one?
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71...I separated the most popular English edition and tried to combine with it but this one has too many reviews so please delete, thanks :)
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Lisa wrote: "Well, it looks as though Twilight was published in 2005. What's wrong with the date? They all say original publication date is 2005 and this edition shows a 2005 publication date; I don't know if t..."Sorry, Lisa, I wasn't online over the weekend. If you scroll down the librarian change log for that edition, the publication year was set to 1388 at the time it was merged, so the original publication date for all editions would have been set at that time. Someone changed the publication year to 2005 afterward, but didn't update the original publication date for all editions until right before I posted originally.
Ok, Thanks Dori. And thank you for noticing.
Need a super to delete please :)http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27...
It got uploaded as an ASIN by amazon, even thought it's clearly an ISBN, and when you switch it, it says that the ISBN is already taken (which, it is, by the correct book). Long way of saying it's a duplicate :D
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