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Mass Book Invalidation Required - Aubry Andrews
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Not a single book on that page was written by Aubry Andrews. Literally every single one is an invalid edition that the Goodreads bot put on the site by creating a record for an item being sold by a secondhand Amazon seller.
Corinne wrote: "They need to get out of the default profile at least."This is not the default profile, it is the 2 space profile.
Let me explain this, and it'll all make sense. I contacted support back in August. The profile was originally named 'AA' because the author had changed their name, which was against policy. Then, when the bot started adding junk records, the profile ended up with thousands of rarely valid books. I reached out to support, and they changed the name to 'Aubry^^Andrews.' From what I can tell, the author has three erotica books—one in the one-space profile and the others buried among the junk in her verified profile. I told support about the books the author claimed their profile with but they never replied about that part. Not all the books there are invalid, though; there are some valid ones mixed in with the third-party resellers.At that time, the profile had around 10,000 books. Support removed about 5,000 of them and moved them to this profile: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
I’m not sure why the other books were left behind. I thought there might be a system limit, and that they would handle the rest later, but nothing has been done so far. Maybe we should follow up with them?
Edit: Found the other two books:
1 - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
2- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
and this is the one in the 1-space profile: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
There is a Goodreads author page for someone named Aubry Andrews. They have over 4,000 books on their Goodreads profile. None of them are theirs. Every single one of these books is an invalid edition created by the Goodreads bot importing secondhand Amazon listings for books by other authors, and somehow they've all ended up attributed to this one person who may or may not even exist. As such, they all need to get marked invalid.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Obviously this is a massive undertaking, and probably not a thread I'm going to regularly bump, but I figure it's something the librarians should know about.