Best practices - Correcting series order

[Chris]

Full-Time Father

I checked the series here and saw it had 11 books while on Amazon and on Susan Mallery's own book list(http://www.susanmallery.com/pbacklist...), this title (Full-Time Father ISBN 9780373470679) is not listed as part of the series.
Are we allowed to correct that and set it as single title as well as fix the numbering order of the series?

Chris

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Goodreads policies of what constitutes part of a series differs from that of other sites. For example, that book may include some characters in common with the other books in the series. Unless you are directly familiar with the books in question and can therefore be certain it does not meet Goodreads definition of a series, please do not remove books from a series or change their numbering based on another site.

[Chris]

I'm currently reading that series and that's why I asked about best practices before doing anything.
I will keep that in mind.
For the record, that policy creates confusion. As a reader, I look for accurate information from the author website when two listings are conflicting and to me, nobody is more apt than the author to say whether a book belongs to a series or not.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Except that Author A has one set of guidelines to determine whether a book is part of a series, Author B's are similar but slightly different, and Author C thinks all her books should be in the same series (even though they have no common characters, etc.), and so on.

Goodreads policies strive for internal consistency, and that means they will sometimes differ from those on other sites.