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Tuliyet 48
Generic and X are two that I've seen, having posted about authors being changed to those in the past. Books moved to Generic seem to have their titles changed to bizarre non-book listings as well (the one I encountered in the past did, and I see at least one other right at the top of the author page as well).
KAVNLON: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...Yesterday i was working on those but today i noticed that the number of works increased. It's not about to stop :/
I initially wanted to work on the "unknown author" issue, and when I first checked there were about a million titles, but now it is nearing five million...By the way, if it says [雑誌] in the title, it means magazine so you can mark them as invalid. Same for those with "月号" which means "(month of the year) Issue" (eg. 5月号 = May Issue etc.), these are all magazines.
example: 600+ Miles Digital HD Indoor TV Antenna for Smart TV, 【通常版】ar 2021年 12月号【新木優子:圧倒的イケコスランキング】
Indoor Antenna POPEYE(ポパイ) 2022年 06 月号 [雑誌]
Corinne wrote: "Natsu, you know all literary magazines are valid to include regardless of binding now? https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."
Yes, I am aware, and I've already checked all the "author" names mentioned in this thread and there was no literary magazine under their name.
If you do a keyword search with "[雑誌]," at the moment there are 67652 hits, and the vast majority of which are NOT literary magazine...
Corinne wrote: "ty for the reply and info :)"And thank you for the reminder! :)
Natsu wrote: "Another one: Farley 48"The problem is that there is no point in working on these fake profiles if the bot keeps changing the correct author and messing with the records that were fine.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Glad that there is already a thread for this, stumble across one which seems to have mainly german books in it. Kiligry
I worked on a few but there is 597 currently
Working on it...For every book we correct 5 new books will come...
It is the hydra of bookworms!!!
JuliesBookhismus wrote: "Working on it...For every book we correct 5 new books will come...
It is the hydra of bookworms!!!"
Yes... It's a project that cannot be completed :/
It seem to me like an error on the importing stuff from Amazon, found another one Adrxmexna this had a fairly recent published german edition of a comic on it. Also the number of the one I posted above Kiligry is going up. Main problem is that real ISBN are used and stuffed with wrong data. Can we somehow report this to Goodreads staff to check on this?
Seems totally broken import to me, for example this book An erster Stelle bin ich Mensch!: Deinen Wert und Dein persönliches Glück definierst nur Du selbst is existing twice now, and the import bot even left a librarian comment that both ISBN are taken and wrote the ISBN in the ASIN field.
The correct book is there with the correct author An erster Stelle bin ich Mensch!: Deinen Wert und Dein persönliches Glück definierst nur Du selbst
Redangel333 wrote: "It seem to me like an error on the importing stuff from Amazon, found another one Adrxmexna this had a fairly recent published german edition of a comic on it. Also the number of..."
Yes, the problem is that they are imported badly. But the bot is also overwriting existing editions:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Natsu wrote: "This one is the absolute worst: Author 41528"I've noticed this too, but it's disheartening :/
Another fake author: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...Or at least, I think it shouldn't be added.
Is there like a goodreads staff member that can be informed about this? Or a report form for this kind of bots? Because honestly it does not make sense to correct if we are against bots who are adding Author as a valid entry.
I think I found the right thread, over in Questions > Amazon DESTROYED the author's database there is already a discussion going on. Judging from what I read there after a librarian edited something the bots shall not change it back.
Another author profile created by our amazing bot:illustrated
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Indeed here "the author" is on the cover!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Saturn wrote: "Another fake author: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...Or at least, I think it shouldn't be added."
I've eliminated Full Cast and started work to assassinate his brother A Full Cast as well. No guarantees that they won't rise from the dead.
Hi,1) This author has one or two astray
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
This is by unknown author
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
2) This one has an author which is nonsense, it's a magazine, if it can be moved to Time Out New York Magazine that would do or else delete if that is not approved.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
3) Looks like these belong together
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
More from the Myers. 1) A few unknown author books belong with Dr Jeff Myers
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
2) and this belongs with Dr Brendan Myers
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
3) with Brendan Myers, this book appears three times
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Correct author Bernard S. Myershttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
and specific book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Author given as Editor Myers
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
same book, another version of author
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Real author, Clifford Albert Myers 7 bookshttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Author given here as - Myers, Clifford A. 3 books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
given here as Myers Clifford A. - 11 books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
given here as Myers Clifford A. 10 books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
cited as co-author in title 1 book
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
given as Clifford a Myers 2 books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
given as Clifford a (Clifford Albert) Myers 1 book
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Real author, Frank G. Hawksworth 6 bookshttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
given as Hawksworth Frank G. - 5 books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
given as - Hawksworth, Frank G. 6 books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
given as Frank G Hawksworth 5 books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
cited as co-author in 1 book not otherwise shown
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Confusion of authors, given as Robert F Hawksworth, Frank G & Scharpf 1 book
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
given here as Frank G Scharpf Hawksworth 1 book
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
confusion of 4 authors, 1 book
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
confusion of authors 1 book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Real author, should probably have period after initialGiven as Lake S Gill 1 book
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Given as - Gill, Lake S. 1 book
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Mentioned in previous post, confusion of authors, given as Lake S. And Frank G. Hawksworth Gill 1 book
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
as above Frank G Gill, Lake S & Hawksworth 1 book
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Real author Gilly Seddonhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
books with name in title, given as unknown author
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Book given as 2 authors PETER STANDRING GILLIAN; CREDLANDhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
seems likely to belong to Gillian Standring
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
who also has this book shown twice
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
and this is the second author Peter Credland
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
There may be more than one author of this name Gillian Scotthttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
but this seems likely to be the same author
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
This book has several authors listed as one.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Given as
Milton Israel Hamid Naficy, Andrew Apter, David Scott, Gillian Bottomley, Arif Dirlik, Domonique Aro
,
Milton Israel Hamid Naficy, Andrew Apter, David Scott, Gillian Bottomley, Arif Dirlik, Domonique Aro
Adventure book given with this authorhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Looks to be same book and publisher
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
so this would be incorrect author given as Gillian Mavis Scott Jones 1 book
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
same book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Hi,Can someone help me move my hardback edition to my author profile please. (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...)
It's currently attached to another Lee Dawson.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Thanks
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