Goodreads Librarians Group discussion
This topic is about
Midnight’s Children
Policies & Practices
>
Different Book Entirely
date
newest »
newest »
message 1:
by
Lisa
(new)
-
rated it 3 stars
Feb 18, 2017 01:45AM
In a case where edit history shows that book details were changed to an entirely different book (author and year changed wrong publisher and cover addes subsequently), is it appropriate to revert those changes or should one just flag the changes. It would require a cover removal. Worldcat reflects the former details. I did flag it, but I'm not sure if I should have just reverted the edits and separated the edition. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...
reply
|
flag
I would revert and correct. It was imported originally with the ISBN, so revert everything back to what matches that. As for the cover image, Reverting an incorrect cover addition added long after the book is not the same thing as removing a cover. I'll assume that's the cover image from another publisher, in which case given the wrong cover image was added at the same time as a ton of against policy and wildly wrong other edits were made, I would have no problem reverting back past the cover addition.
(ETA: IF you're not sure though, it's always ok to use the contact form and explain the heck out of the situation in there, and let staff sort it out.)
This is a January 2012 edit. Librarians at the time had to remove all info taken from Amazon. Some books just had all info removed, and this one was apparently changed into an entirely different book. I do see that the person who did it is not a librarian (anymore).
URLs should only be added if they offer information not on GR yet. I don't think the link added qualifies: http://www.salmanrushdie.com/midnight...
lethe wrote: "URLs should only be added if they offer information not on GR yet. I don't think the link added qualifies: http://www.salmanrushdie.com/midnight..."I was going by the pop-up instruction that says it is okay to link to the author's official web site for the book.
lethe wrote: "This is a January 2012 edit. Librarians at the time had to remove all info taken from Amazon. Some books just had all info removed, and this one was apparently changed into an entirely different bo..."Thanks. For some reason I thought that only applied to kindle editions.
