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Please delete this book! (pt. 6)
Thanks Melody!Also need help with this entry. I corrected the author but I can't find anything that matches it.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60...
Plus need this duplicate entry deleted (sorry working on a user right now)http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...
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I had a sneaky suspicion it was a subtitle with that dash, thanks again!
Need a super to delete this one, I think it may have been a placeholder, but there's another entry that matches it.http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...
If Amazon still carries it the best way to do it is to change it WITH THE ISBN to not a book. If you'll tell me the ISBN number I'll take care of it.
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Please delete this book as it was a placeholder for an upcoming book and there is now an edition with an ISBN.
I think this entry can be deleted (needs a super). It was off in a ghetto by itself with the author's name misspelled; I corrected and combined it.http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60...
As does this one.http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...
which seems to be identical to ISBN 0871132168 (same publisher and publication year).
This is a blank book that I would just NAB, but some users have shelved it.http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
I'm thinking it needs to be deleted by a super and then NAB'd.
ETA: BTW, someone else marked the author as NAB already.
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Brenda, got it.
Need a super to delete this one please :)http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45...
Data matches another entry.
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Another ISBN-less edition that is combined with the real edition:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65...
Luna, that one still stays. It is sort of published in PDF format, even though you can't buy it in a bookstore.
LunaI suggest that you have a read of the Librarians manual as it tells you there how to delete books and the circumstances inwhich you should delete
http://www.goodreads.com/help/librarian
If a particular edition is listed twice, it is appropriate to merge the two entries into one. Please do not delete an edition of a book just because it does not have an ISBN. Some older books that members manually add will not have ISBNs. Please check carefully and err on the side of not deleting a book edition.
Note that merging two editions deletes the less popular edition and merges all reviews into the more popular edition. This is different from combining editions, which is where you can mark one version of a book as the same as another.
When you find a duplicate and you know which edition it was meant to be, this is how to merge that duplicate with the actual edition:
1. Separate the duplicate and its actual edition from any other editions of that book.
2. Combine them just with each other.
3. click 'delete this book' at the bottom of the edit book page. Note that this only works for books with less than 15 member reviews. It will merge with its actual edition because this is the most popular (only) other edition available in that combination.
4. Re-combine the actual edition with the other editions of the book.
If the book has been combined with the other editions, and it has less than five adds, you can delete it by going to the edit page and clicking delete. This is to be taken very seriously. If the book has an ISBN, do not delete it. Even if it does not have an ISBN, if it has any information in the entry it must be double checked against the other editions to see if it has any unique data (and if it does, it stays). Older books do not have ISBNs.
In the case you just posted, you would not have been able to delete it, since it has more than five reviews. Only a super librarian can do that.
Please be very very careful when deleting books.
Thanks!!Woah Jessica what are you the head librarin? ha ha jk!
How do you become a super librarin?
Could someone please delete this:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66...
I've already combined it with the actual edition, but I don't really understand why I can't get it to delete myself. This is the first time I've tried to do this, but it seems to say in the manual that peons like me can delete if a book has less than 15 member reviews (and this one only has 4 ratings and 3 reviews). But then I still get the super-librarian message. Am I not understanding something?
Thanks!
On the combine page, if you hover your mouse over the entry, you'll see it's been added 8 times. 5 or less and you can delete.
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