How to go into "authors with similar names" page

[Lais]

Hello Goodreads librarian and staff,
When moving books between authors with similar names, or fixing issues with similar names, disambiguation, etc, it is convenient to have a list of all the author profiles with that name. If I enter the edit page of an author's profile, there's a link on the bottom of the right column, "authors with similar names" that leads me to such a list for that name. Is there a simple way to access this page without first going to the profile edit page? The problem is, since I can't access the edit page of a goodreads author, the only way I know to be able to access this "authors with similar names" page is if I look for that name, find a book by an author with that name that isn't a goodreads author, and then edit their page. That can be quite a hassle if the goodreads author has many books and other authors with the same name don't, as it might be that all the first 10, 20, however many books that show in the search results are all by the goodreads author.
Alternatively, is there a way to search for authors, in which the search results would give me only author profiles and not books? I'm guessing I'd have found it already if there was one, but maybe I missed something.

[lethe]

Lais wrote: "The problem is, since I can't access the edit page of a goodreads author, the only way I know to be able to access this "authors with similar names" page is if I look for that name, find a book by an author with that name that isn't a goodreads author, and then edit their page."

I would love to be able to access that page directly as well. As you say, it can be quite a hassle.

Lais wrote: "is there a way to search for authors, in which the search results would give me only author profiles and not books?"

On this page: https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8... you can click on the "author" button to search specifically for author names.

[Lais]

lethe wrote: On this page: https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8... you can click on the "author" button to search specifically for author names.

yes, but the results are books, only, not author profiles. I'd like to look for author names and get only author profiles as results, and not books by authors with that name. I guess it's something for my Wishlist... :)

[lethe]

In that case, you will have to contact Support, because it has to do with site functionality.

https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta...

[annob [on hiatus]]

When I was a new Librarian, someone in this group mentioned that the "add book/author" function above the comment box of discussion threads can be used to find same-name author profiles.

If you click the "add book/author", then the "Author" tab, it searches for the author name that is an exact match, including the number of blank spaces you insert between first and last name of your search string.

So I use this to first search the one-space, then the two-space, and so on until I find the right profile to move books to. Or to find out how many spaces I have to use to disambiguate a book in order to move it to a clean author profile.

[Lais]

annob wrote: "When I was a new Librarian, someone in this group mentioned that the "add book/author" function above the comment box of discussion threads can be used to find same-name author profiles.

If you c..."

Perfect!! That had never occured to me! Great tip, thanks!