Delete multiple erroneous entries

[Mike]

There is something weird going on with the entries for Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. There are multiple entries under completely unrelated authors that are using a proper cover from the series, but where they replaced the authors' names with their own.

Of the listings generated in this search—https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=gw... the first two are legitimate, but there are nine entries with unrelated author names, Sherry Rodriguez being listed three times, Maria Cirillo twice, an "unknown author", and a few other individual names.

Checking out the author page for Sherry Rodriguez, https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., there are several books misattributed to her. For example, the summary for "her" book, Feeding:..., still references the actual author, Sammy Moniz. I'm assuming all of her entries are bogus, and the same would be true for the other "authors" claiming ownership on Gwendy's Final Task.

Unrelated to the mess above, the correct book entry for Gwendy's Final Task does also need to have Richard Chizmar added as a second author with Stephen King.

[Scott]

I'd suggest bringing this to the attention of support, as it is their new processes that are bringing in masses of junk entries.

https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta...

I added Chizmar to the book record, but it will likely be removed as his name does not appear on the Amazon record.

[Mike]

I reported the issue to support as suggested. Unfortunately, I am unaware of the "new processes that are bringing in masses of junk entries".

I'm assuming it is best to have support look at the errant entries before a superlibrarian cleans up the mess. At some point should I move this request to the "Looking for a project?" sub since it is somewhat of a rabbit hole, first deleting the nine bogus Gwendy entries, then investigating each "author" who has multiple bogus entries of other books, etc.

Thanks for updating the authors on the one valid entry.

[Scott]

There are a lot of problems with Goodreads right now, so I don't know if they are aware of this issue. They can also "clean up the mess."

[David]

In my experience, support are not very helpful when it comes to fake and hoax books.
I had some time free so I went down that rabbit hole for a while, deleting hoax and fake books from about a dozen authors.

[Mike]

That’s great. Thank you, David.