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This book is not mine, please move it (part 8)

This book 'Fallen Angel' is by a person of the same name, it is not by me. I would like it removed from my profile please.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
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1. I moved these books to a unique author profile.
2. You have a user profile. You can claim this author profile by going to the author profile page here: Jonathan Gunson
scroll down and click on the link that says is this you?
3. There are already authors with the same name.
4. Goodreads disambiguates between authors of the same name by using spaces before the author's last name.
5. This author profile has 2 spaces: Jonathan^^Gunson, where the ^ equals a space.
6. When publications are automatically imported from Amazon or other sources, the "handshake' between Goodreads and the other source do not recognize multiple spaces, so the work goes to the default 1 space profile. Often when users add works, they may not be familiar with the number of spaces that this profile uses, so may only use the default spacing.
7. You can post in this forum to have it moved as you have done, or you can add the book with the 2 spaces between your first and last name before publication.
8. When you ask for assistance, it is helpful to include that your author profile has 2 spaces.

are all the other works on your profile yours?


Since it has ISBNs you will have to contact support and explain.

I am one of the authors of "Faith Seeking Freedom," listed here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
My name is Dick Clark. I am not however Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark, the deceased show business personality (though he died on my birthday).
My profile is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1...
I have not been able to create an author profile yet because the author name links to the other person's profile.
Thanks in advance for your help!

I am one of the authors of "Faith Seeking Freedom," listed here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
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A librarian has moved your book to its own profile.

Hello, my name is Savannah Thomas
My goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/savannahthomas
I am the author of #Blocked: A Social Media Love Story
When I click on the book author, it goes to a different Savannah Thomas. Please help and have it link to my profile. Thank you so much for your help!
I am not the author of:
The Magic Camera
Savannah's Inky Imagination
Savannah's Inky Imagination

Hello, my name is Savannah Thomas
My goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/savannahthomas
I am the author of #Blocked: A Social Media Love S..."
Moved your book to separate profile: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
You can claim it on the by clicking at the bottom of the page: Is this you? Let us know.
For future reference - your author name is written as Savannah^^Thomas where ^ equals space to separate your books from other author.

My Amazon page lists things correctly (apart from 1 anthology I'm in that isn't available there).
Amazon page:
https://www.amazon.com/Sophie-Sparrow...
Additional anthology:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
If someone could help me out with this it would be amazing, I find Goodreads very difficult to navigate and have been banging my head against the wall for an hour now even trying to find a contact form '_'
For future reference, is there a way to easily link my Goodreads profile to any other anthologies I may yet be published in? Thanks, librarians :)

(to clarify, everything is already listed on goodreads, i just want to link my name/profile to it correctly)

1. There are other authors with the same name.
2. Goodreads differentiates between authors of the same name withy spaces before the last name.
3. Your author profile has 2 spaces: Sophie^^Sparrow where the ^ equals a space.
4. When publications are automatically imported from Amazon or other sources, the "handshake' between Goodreads and the other source do not recognize multiple spaces, so the work goes to the default 1 space profile. It is systemic. Often when users add works, they may not be familiar with the number of spaces that this profile uses, so may only use the default spacing.
5. You can post in this forum to have it moved as you have done, or you can add the book with the 2 spaces between your first and last name before publication.
6. When you ask for assistance, it is helpful to include that your author profile has 2 spaces.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/..."
I'll take care of this. Did you identify which books were yours when you claimed this author profile? [it's not a problem, it just helps to know how best to assist you]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

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requesting removal is the correct procedure. Changing valid book records is not. It is not spam, it is simply another author with the same name.
It's quite common to have authors of more than one name. In future instances, please post in this forum and someone will take care of it, as I did. I have reverted the changes you made and moved this book by the other author Sophia Powell to a unique profile for her.

Hello, my name is Savannah Thomas
My goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/savannahthomas
I am the author of #Blocked: A So..."
Okay great, thanks so much for your help!

Many thanks for unlinking the book from my profile. Although I don't appreciate the tone that you used in replying, as I'm still learning to use this site and I think people should remember that. So when I first saw the book listed I assumed as I could delete the record of it, and that the content was also posted whereby I could remove it, that it was spam and I had had my account hacked. I didn't realise until searching else where that this was a geninue author, and a geninue piece of fiction. For that I apologise, but do please remember not everyone is completely to grips with the in's and out's of this site.

This is me: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
This is not my book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Thanks.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Thank you very much,
Pete Hall

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book..."
reviewing

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book..."
1. I have removed the requested books from your profile.
2. The laminated "guides" are not considered books by Goodreads standards so I have removed them or queued them to be merged as appropriate.
3. I have found several other editions of your works under a couple of other profiles, and moved to your profile and combined them with existing works as needed.
4. If I have moved anything to your profile that is not yours, please advise, and I will correct it.

James Lytton
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

James Lytton
https://www.goodreads..."
done

There are multiple listings of books I'm marked as editor or author on. Here are the ones I have no part of:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Thank you.

There are multiple listings of books I'm marked as editor or author on. Here are the ones I have no part of:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodre..."
Removed all extraneous credits.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Legion of Super-Heroes, Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis
Thank you!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Legion of Super-Heroes..."
moved
I also combined your other books.

This one appeared this morning. Can you remove it please? Thank you.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/..."
done

Here are the links:
https://www.goodreads.com/owned_books...

Here are the links:
https://www.goodreads.com/owned_books..."
Not sure what that link is meant to show...but you don't have an author profile yet.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Thanks in advance for fixing this.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com..."
1. When you set up your author profile, did you identify which books are/aren't yours? [it's not a problem, just informational]
2. Please look at this list of works remaining on your profile, and advise whether I missed anything: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2..."
done

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Is it possible to get this removed / changed please? Thank you!

https://..."
done

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

These books are not mine, but from another author with the same name:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Can you please help me remove them from my profile?
Thank you so much!

This book is mine - I've just added it manually to GoodReads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Unfortunately, it has been listed automatically under another author with a shared name.
Could it be moved please?
Thanks

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4..."
done

These books are not mine, but from another author with the same name:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1......"
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This book 'Fallen Angel' is by a person of the same name, it is not by me. I would like it removed from my profile please.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Thank you for your time
Jonathan Gunson
Author