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Please add space to author name in book details
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May 28, 2014 03:16PM
I manually uploaded this book and neglected to add the extra space between my two names (Sydney^^Leigh). It won't allow me to go back and fix it...can a librarian do that for me? Thanks! If any contributors have issues with their names as I added them, they can add that to the discussion as well.
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Also, the contributor listing for Michael Parker has been attributed to the incorrect author. I do not believe our contributor has a Goodreads author profile yet, but it was automatically directed to this profile page, which is incorrect: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...Thanks in advance for correcting this!
Re 4, I've moved it off the claimed profile for the wrong Michael Parker. There are a LOT of Michael Parker profiles on Goodreads. GR uses extra spaces to disambiguate authors with otherwise identical names. To get THIS Michael Parker on a page all his own, I had to use 15 spaces instead of one. I.e., he is Michael^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Parker where ^ is a space. The extra spaces are invisible to users, it's only visible on the edit page. So if/when Michael would like to claim his author profile, he needs to go here:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
If he wishes to enter more books of his, then he'll need to remember to use 15 spaces in his name to make sure the book appears on his profile. You might want to advise him of this ahead of time :P
Oh, and if he already has some books on Goodreads that he has written, tell him to post again in the librarian group to have them moved to his profile.
Wow. Only fifteen spaces? My word : ]Thanks Z-squared. I will let him know!
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Also, if Michael-15space-Parker has a middle initial he'd like to use, that might help reduce the spaces.
Haha! That's true, Rivka. I can only imagine! Good idea...I think that's the way to do it. I appreciate all your help!
Checking the rest now, but this was also incorrectly attributed to another Dennis Anderson...
Sydney, do those authors have claimed profiles already? Can you link to them if they do? If they don't, it's not that they linked to "wrong" people, it's that they went to the default, unclaimed, single-space profile. I can disambiguate them if you'd like, but there's not much point unless they're planning to join Goodreads, IMO.
No, they are actually attributed to different authors with the same name...so I think it's better to have them link to a blank page than the wrong one. I'm sure the authors whose page the book is showing up on would rather they didn't, as well. I will link to any pages that are set up already and assume that at least some that aren't will be in the future.
I will do so if you like. However, keep in mind they are UNCLAIMED profiles, it's a bunch of Dennis Andersons and Mark Thompsons lumped together. Without someone who cares (like the author himself) to curate his records, me disambiguating things now is not all that helpful. It'll just make it harder to find his works later if they're spread out across multiple profiles. It's a philosophical stance, not a Goodreads one though, so I'm disambiguating now.
Here is Dennis-5space-Anderson:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Here is Mark-6space-Thompson:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
You might want to advise those guys on how to claim their author profiles, if they're interested.
