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message 1: by Val (new)

Val Richards | 2 comments I am one of the authors of Eleventh Elementum and future book Hollowed Humusara. When anyone clicks on my name (Val Richards), it brings up a whole list of books that aren't mine. Also, my picture doesn't show up. I believe there are two of us with the same name. Can anything to be done to correct the problem?
Thanks,
Val


message 2: by Z-squared (new)

Z-squared | 8575 comments Fixed now.

Goodreads uses extra spaces to disambiguate authors with otherwise identical names. The spaces are invisible to users and are only used in the 'author' field on edit pages. The profile you claimed is Val^^Richards, where ^ is a space. The extra space ensures that your books appear on your profile and not on the default, single-space Val Richards profile. In future, be sure to include the extra space when adding books to the Goodreads database. Barring that, feel free to post a request here again should some of your books be automatically imported without the extra space. (No other database uses the same system, but we get imports from external databases all the time.)


message 3: by Val (new)

Val Richards | 2 comments Thanks you.


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