A NABed profile affecting loads of books

[☕ Lachgas ♿]

Seems like something was NABed which was mentioned on quite some very different books ...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

So there would need to be a lot of "NOT A BOOK" author names removed - or corrected.

Have corrected a few yesterday but could not see in the log what actually was NABed there. (seems like there was a change so that anything related to NAB does not appear in the log anymore?)

Judging by the log of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... it might have been an "author" named "Bookstore" that got NABed - better had been deleted by staff instead of NAB.

[Renske]

I think merges of secondary author profiles are never visible in the changelog.

[Arenda]

☕ Lachgas ♿ wrote: "Judging by the log of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... it might have been an "author" named "Bookstore" that got NABed - better had been deleted by staff instead of NAB."

That seems indeed to be the author/editor that was merged into NOT A BOOK for hundreds of classic public domain titles.

However, that was not the only one. There are quite some other books where a secondary editor/illustrator was merged into NOT A BOOK, which left NOT A BOOK as author on the edition, with the role of the original author.

Please note: there are also lots of Wikipedia-article books (that are considered valid books, as confirmed by questions here in the Librarians Group) where one of the two editors was changed into NOT A BOOK. Some of these Wikipedia-books had the primary author changed and were combined with the real book with that title. Example: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

[☕ Lachgas ♿]

Had seen it with these Wiki-books first and corrected a few (and separated from the original) so first thought "ugh someone did not know that these are valid" ... but today saw all these classics and thought "oh, that's bigger - and a project"

[Arenda]

I think all the classics are done now: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Renske wrote: "I think merges of secondary author profiles are never visible in the changelog."

Correct.

[☕ Lachgas ♿]

Arenda wrote: "I think all the classics are done now: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list..."


You rock!
I really do admire your patience when it comes to such repetitive tasks - and your speed.