Author name as keywords

[Petra X]

I was correcting some author names and one of them authorjamesross was a Goodreads author, so I wrote to him and asked him if he'd like to correct his name to James Ross. He didn't want to.
If you click on authorjamesross you get to "Author James Ross: Fiction novels" which isn't a book title and had no isbn. Needless to say it has a 5 star rating and a link to click direct to the author's website. He also has proper entries for James Ross. I understand that authors, especially self-published ones, need all the publicity they can get, but this looks like trying to use keywords to direct traffic to his site. Is there any policy on this?

[Jessica]

I would delete that book entry, since it clearly isn't a book.

[Petra X]

I tried to! The book has zero reviews and one 5 star rating but I get the message "Only super-librarians can delete books with so many reviews". I've never deleted a book before so I don't know if that is general or what. In any case, could a super-librarian please delete this non-book?

[Paula]

Had a quick look, looks like there is more going on with this.

Link to books:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32...

Link to profile that added the book:
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/11...

Brain not working well enough to figure out quickly

[vicki_girl]

Petra, I changed the author, to 'James Ross' and then combined the book with this edition (based on the description, I think that's what they were trying to add). I was then able to delete the bogus book.

Unfortunately the 'authorjamesross' profile has now been orphaned and I can't pull it up again to merge it with something else... :S

[Petra X]

The letter I got from him made me realise that he had worked the system for keywords quite deliberately. I did see a couple of the other items, but clearing up those wasn't a problem compared to the one I queried.

[Petra X]

I found and merged authorjamesross, so that has gone. The biography and promo links are gone as well - not-a-booked with url link to his website removed. This is what remains - authorjamesross the Goodreads user's profile and the genuine author James Ross and his books, Finish Line, Tuey's Course and Lifetime Loser.