Please Combine Authors

[M—]

Would someone please combine the author COELHO PAULO with Paulo Coelho?

Coelho is a Goodreads author, and I haven't figured out how to combine authors with that status yet.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Got 'im.

[M—]

Thanks much! Is that a super-librarian trick? I've been diligently googling, but I haven't found any instructions on how I can do this myself yet.

[Lisa]

M, I think any librarian can do this. You'd have gone to the author profile page for COELHO PAULO and changed the name to Paulo Coelho. You then get a screen asking which author you want to keep, and you'd choose Paulo Coelho. The works from both would merge and COELHO PAULO would no longer be an author here.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

No, it's a only-GR-staff trick. ;)

There's a workaround for other librarians, which has been discussed here. But it's obviously simpler for me to just do it, especially when a significant number of books is involved.

[Lisa]

Ah, I just did 2 today. I didn't know it was, I guess, a Super Librarian thing.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Oh, then that was changed. Good!

[Lisa]

Yes, Today I changed an L. M. Montgomery and a Lucy Maud Montgomery to the full profile and most used L.M. Montgomery, and then combined all the merged books.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Yes, but she's dead. So I doubt she is a Goodreads Author. ;)

[Lisa]

Ah! Yes, you're right. Only staff can do this with a Goodreads author. I'd forgotten that he was. But any librarian can do an author not a Goodreads member, correct?

Edit: I obviously didn't carefully read the previous posts. Multi-tasking: not a good idea for me!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Lisa wrote: "But any librarian can do an author not a Goodreads member, correct?"

Correct.

[M—]

Hee! Thanks all for your help in hashing out my question. I'm pleased to learn I can stop my attempts at googling for a solution now!

[Purr More]

I came across these two pages for one author. Could someone please combine them?

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Done.

[Purr More]

thanks rivka!

[amber]

Not sure how to combine authors! But these two are the same:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

Can someone combine them?

Thanks! :)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

No, they are not. The first was deliberately disambiguated (separated) from the second.

[amber]

Are you very sure? His website lists a couple of the same books from the second author's page I linked.

http://www.timothycarterworld.com/

[Vicky]

They were deliberately separated, yes.

This Timothy Carter is Timothy^^Carter (where each ^ is a space). This Timothy Carter is Timothy^Carter.

We disambiguate like this on our end, but when books get imported from other sites they always go to the one-space name, so they have to be moved to the correct profile.

I moved over all the books that belong to Timothy^^Carter.

[Lobstergirl]

Merge
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

into
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

[Abcdarian]

#20 done.