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Book & Author Page Issues > Two authors named Sanjay Gupta.

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message 1: by Midwest (new)

Midwest Geek (midwestgeek) | 124 comments This concerns two authors with the same name, viz. Sanjay Gupta
1. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...,
2. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show....
There is already a Librarian note on each page
Librarian Note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database
What I wish to call attend to is that, on the page associated with link #1 above,
Sanjay Gupta, many of the books appearing belong to author #2. (So far as I can see, the reverse is not true.)
Neither author is a Goodreads Author, so I think that a super-Librarian ought to be able to fix this.
BTW, there is a third author page related to #2:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show....
This combines the names of two frequent co-authors into one. This page should be deleted.


message 2: by Sandra (new)

Sandra | 31477 comments Any librarian could fix this, doesn't need a super. This is pretty standard stuff. Just moving books to the correct author.

I take it the comics should go to #2?


message 3: by Sandra (new)

Sandra | 31477 comments Moved all the comics to #2. The series should move within a couple of days due to caching.

The third author page you mention will be automatically removed when staff run the script to remove empty profiles, which they do very periodically.


message 4: by Sandra (new)

Sandra | 31477 comments Midwest if you see any that I've missed, please post again & I'll fix them :)


message 5: by Midwest (new)

Midwest Geek (midwestgeek) | 124 comments Sandra wrote: "Any librarian could fix this, doesn't need a super. This is pretty standard stuff. Just moving books to the correct author.

I take it the comics should go to #2?"


Correct. Both of the series named as well as
Putla Tantra are in that category.

Looking at the sample document, I am sure that the author of PATIENCE is a virtue, learn to develop patience is neither of these two people. This is a 32-page self-published pamphlet which has only 1 rating and 1 review that sounds just like the book. If you look at that user's page a guy in India who is very likely the same person. (The number of people with this common Indian name must be huge.)

Thanks.


message 6: by Sandra (new)

Sandra | 31477 comments Moved the Patience book.


message 7: by Midwest (last edited Apr 03, 2018 12:26AM) (new)

Midwest Geek (midwestgeek) | 124 comments Sandra wrote: "Midwest if you see any that I've missed, please post again & I'll fix them :)"

I see also that the Do Random Acts of Kindness Stay Blessed is another self-published pamplet by the mysterious third author. The dedication is identical to PATIENCE is a virtue, learn to develop patience. That too should be split off and associated with neither author.


message 8: by Sandra (new)

Sandra | 31477 comments Done.


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