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Please add a series to my books
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Jul 14, 2016 09:38AM
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The series name was not removed from the title fields. Why do you want it removed, [OP]*? Most readers find those names in the title field very useful (and librarians would probably add them back).ETA Added your name in Cyrillic to the books.
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GR is a catalogue of books, so it doesn't need permission to list that a book exists. Even if they hadn't been added by the automatic import, there is nothing preventing any reader from adding a book directly, and GR does not remove legitimately published books, once they are catalogued. The automatic series link is not searchable and does not show in users shelves. It is visually replaced by the clickable link in the actual book page, so it doesn't show up twice anywhere. So having it in the title is not redundant, and is in fact preferred.
Yes, you can have separate accounts for your Latin and Cyrillic pen names - go to the respective page and click the "is this you" link at the bottom. However, GR links editions in all languages together, since they are the same books - in order to do that, they must have an author in common, and the policy is that if any of the books are published in English with an English (or rather, Latin) author name, that name is given primary position on all books.
From the librarian guidelines:
Authors with books published in multiple languages should have their names dealt with similarly to those with pen names. All editions should have the primary author name as the standard or most common Roman (that is, English-language) version of the author's name. Editions published under another spelling of the name or the name in another language should have that name listed as the secondary author.
We can remove the Cyrillic name from any English only editions, but if that is the name on the cover of specific editions, it has to remain for those ones.
Because nobody has added it, I expect. GR aims to be a complete catalogue but it's necessarily incomplete because most of the data is maintained by volunteers. However, once valid data is added, it's not removed.Fixed that one though, thanks for reporting it.
No, adding personal information shouldn't be done other than what the author makes public specifically for that purpose (in other words, it's ok to take a public bio that the author has made available, it's not ok to connect profiles from multiple places or something said privately on a private mailing list or forum and add that to a book listing and synthesise that together.Additional names can be done on author request, but shouldn't be done arbitrarily, and yes you can have them removed.
This is a really good reason to claim both your profiles, to make sure you can manage what personal information is public.
(ETA: It appears a post was removed between me starting to write it and posting it, in case this post doesn't make a lot of sense without context. It's still true though. GR's about recording books, not about damaging people's privacy.)
Krazykiwi wrote: "It appears a post was removed between me starting to write it and posting it"The OP has deleted all their comments for some reason.
Yes, so I understood from Krazykiwi. In response I redacted your name from my comment in #3, so if you want to delete your latest comment as well, feel free. Having your personal info added when using a pseudonym should only be done with your permission.
