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Librarians can't help with reviews. We can only help with correcting book and author entries.You will have to flag each one. You could try collecting a list of links to all of them, and using the contact us form ( https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta... ), but I expect you'll be told there to simply flag each one.
That's what I thought, but thank you for confirming. I'll get started on it. Thanks!
Users choose or don't choose which edition they review, GR will not move reviews between editions. That is up to the person who reviewed it
Paula wrote: "Users choose or don't choose which edition they review, GR will not move reviews between editions. That is up to the person who reviewed it"Yes, but a comic book version of the book is not another edition of the book; it's a separate entity. In that case it should be moved by staff. I don't know if they do this, but they should.
Another example is where people shelve, rate and review the Harold Bloom literary criticism book about another book, when they meant to review the book itself. E.g.:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Lobstergirl wrote: "Another example is where people shelve, rate and review the Harold Bloom literary criticism book about another book, when they meant to review the book itself. E.g.:https://www.goodreads.com/revi..."
I'd say that is their own responsibility. They should be able to tell from the cover (and the host of authors) that it's not the actual novel. If they can't it's sad, but why should GR have to clean it up?
Normally I would agree, but there are some books where the number of people rating and reviewing the wrong book is so enormous that it really messes with statistics. For example:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...
That is the piano/vocal/guitar sheet music for the Narnia Chronicles! All those people thought they were rating the book or books, not the sheet music. 18,149 people. Those ratings are not accruing to the book or the series, so the series is not getting full credit so to speak.
This was a case where the sheet music was mistakenly combined with the books, and then much later got separated, taking all the ratings/reviews with it.
In some of the Harold Bloom cases, I'm sure that's what happened too, although not all.
It is annoying when you're trying to read reviews of a book and they're all for something else, but I guess that's why there's an "Incorrect book" choice when you flag a review. I've never been annoyed enough to actually use it though, so I can't say if they'll move a review or not. All I know for certain is that librarians can't, so flagging is really all that can be done.
Krazykiwi wrote: "It is annoying when you're trying to read reviews of a book and they're all for something else, but I guess that's why there's an "Incorrect book" choice when you flag a review."I didn't know that option was there, thanks! I now flagged the P&P review, let's see if they do anything about it.
Lobstergirl wrote: "In some of the Harold Bloom cases, I'm sure that's what happened too, although not all."There is a librarian note on this edition saying not to combine with P&P, so you may well be right.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Paula wrote: "Users choose or don't choose which edition they review, GR will not move reviews between editions. That is up to the person who reviewed it"Yes, but a comic book version of the book..."
And I would be really pissed if GR moved my review from one book than other
I've only encountered this a few times, and usually just leave a nice comment for the reviewer. Usually they are glad to fix it.
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Is there a way to get these reviews moved that doesn't involve reporting every single one? Because it's the majority of the reviews on each of these earlier issues. The reviews don't need to be removed completely, just moved to the actual book they wrote the review for instead of the comic that they mistakenly wrote their review on.