Random extra version of a book found - merge or delete please

[♥Xeni♥]

The book The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry has a weird version floating around: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

It's not connected to the main book, author or anything, so as a librarian I'm not sure how to approach this. I feel deleting it would be the best, but there are 3 people who have added it to 'to read' for some reason. (This means there's also that disconnected strange author page as well).

[annob [on hiatus]]

Hi :)

The trick to get is to get the stray edition combined with the valid edition(s). To do so, the editions have to have the same primary author name.

1) edit the author name on the stray edition to match the correct author profile. C.M. Waggoner in your case.
2) combine the stray with the valid editions of the title.
3) once combined, merge (delete) the empty stray, That will transfer the user shelvings to the default edition*, and then delete the stray book record.

Since the stray have less than five shelvings, any librarian can do the merge but let us know if you wish for someone else to assist you with any or all of these steps.

(*Sometimes the default isn't the right target for the transfer - wrong edition language, covers doesn't match etc. Then the matching valid edition have to be separated out before combining it with the stray/duplicate.)