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message 1: by Leelo (new)

Leelo | 34 comments I added several issues of a series but mistakenly added a comma between the series name and number. The list of books is here: https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=ha...

Please remove the commas.
Terribly sorry but from now on will definitely remember to use less commas.

Thank you so much!


message 2: by Sandra (new)

Sandra | 31547 comments There is nothing wrong with using commas where you've used them. The manual states you can add the comma or not, totally user preference.


message 3: by Leelo (new)

Leelo | 34 comments Ok, thanks. But still, how would the series name and number in brackets turn into a link that would lead to the rest of the series? At the moments it doesn't function as a link.


message 4: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
Leelo wrote: "But still, how would the series name and number in brackets turn into a link that would lead to the rest of the series?"

A librarian needs to do that manually.

However, it's not clear to me this meets the Goodreads criteria for being a series. That may mostly be the language barrier, though. To be a series on Goodreads, books need to have more than a common theme -- like characters in common, an overarching storyline, a shared universe, etc. What makes this a series?


message 5: by Camilla (new)

Camilla | 342 comments I don't think this qualifies as a series per GR standard. It seems to be a number of publications by the Harjumaa museum, dealing with different historical periods. But probably the OP can verify this.


message 6: by Leelo (new)

Leelo | 34 comments Well, it is presented a series by the publisher, I didn't make it up, if that's what you mean. It deals with the history of a specific area, different aspects of its history. The publisher has listed it as a series. Does that suffice?


message 7: by Camilla (last edited Apr 23, 2020 09:01AM) (new)

Camilla | 342 comments No, we didn't mean that you'd made it up. I checked the books from an Estonian book seller site and it's true that the museum, who has published the books, considers them to be a series. However, it's quite common that books that the publisher has named as belonging to a series don't fulfill the GR requirement for a series. This is often especially difficult to decide when it comes to non-fiction books. Even if these books are about a specific area, they don't seem to be e.g. chronologically connected. E.g. the fourth book seems to be about something that happened in the 17th century, whereas the fifth one is about some folkloric issues and the ninth about archaeological findings. I wouldn't mark them as a series, but of course rivka will decide.


message 8: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
Absent something more connecting them than being published by the same museum, we would not consider them a series.


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