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done. next time please mention ISBN/ASIN plus fact that your name contains more than one space :-)
Sorry, what do you mean my name contains more than one space?
Ok, just had a look at my profile and there is a double space between Nick and Bailey, but I can't edit that, it says only Librarians can. Could you take one of the spaces out for me please?
Nick, the two spaces in your name means that there is another author with your name. That is a way of differentiating your profile from the other author.
Any, ok, I didn't know that, thank you. Does that make me harder to find?
Nope, it won't negatively impact your ability to be searched for.
Nick wrote: "Any, ok, I didn't know that, thank you. Does that make me harder to find?"No. You will be found by name regardless whether it contains just one separating space or twenty. It is just GR's way of differentiating name collisions. There would be others, but this is GR...
The problem is that people who create books (and that is not just librarians) may not be aware of how many spaces to insert to address the correct author when entering the data. This may lead to massive and continuous mis-attributions which subsequently have to be corrected manually (by librarians :-) ).
Thank you!