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Story of Choice (storyofchoice) | 14 comments https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

The above is an example of someone to whom quotes are attributed, but for whom no other information is available. The quotes themselves are pretty bad, and when I googled Hussain Rasheed, I found only Hussain Rasheed Ahmed and I don't know that they're the same person.

What are the guidelines for apparent non-authors like this?

Thank you!


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Paula (paulaan) | 7014 comments What do you mean by guidelines?

Quotes should only be added if they are by a notable person,

All quotes have assigned to a person have a 'author' profile created automatically. This profile does not need to have any information added.


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Story of Choice (storyofchoice) | 14 comments Thanks. I didn't want to add any info; just looked him up to see if he was notable. I'll see if I'm able to delete these quotes. Though last time I deleted all the quotes of an "author" (they were misattributed), the author profile remained. If you are a super-librarian, can you please delete the profle, quotes included?

Thank you!


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