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Merge reviews into correct book: The Goldfinch
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The general rule is No Merge in these cases. Readers who care, will most likely ensure they have the correct title already.Combining or Merging would 1. (If merged) Make inaccurate any reviews that WERE intentionally placed on that book, and 2. (If combined) contribute to the confusion over which book that is.
Basically - we have to trust users & readers to, well, read before blithely adding reviews :)
I know, I get that that's been the policy up to this point. That's why I put this under Suggestions, to suggest that in cases where a rather large number of people, e.g. more than 100, have mistakenly shelved a book, that those reviews be moved.
I understand that some people may have shelved the book correctly. But I read through most or all of the reviews on these two books and clearly none of those people thought they were reviewing something other than the book by Donna Tartt.
The problem when 100 readers or 1,000 readers have rated/reviewed the wrong book is that it then affects the ratings on the intended book - it cheats them of the ratings they were meant to have.
I'm wondering if there's a way for staff (not librarians) to move such reviews without doing a lot of heavy lifting. Can staff go into an individual review and change the book reviewed to the correct one?
AFAIK, no. The only way would be merge and re-add I think...
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No.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
and this
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
be merged into the book they thought they were shelving:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...