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[COMPLETE] Merge Required re: librarian making incorrect edits
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Drace wrote: "So I have no idea why on earth any librarian would do this, but a librarian completely deleted the ISBN-10, ISBN-13, and ASIN from an ebook edition for no reason whatsoever. I'd make some kind of c..."No volunteer, super or otherwise can help you with this. They are not permitted to undo anything a GR employee does.
A new edition with that ISBN cannot be created anyway since it still exists in the database. The employee moved it from the edition you linked to this one -> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
They appear to have been attempting to create an ACE (via the tool which is what moved the ISBNs/ASIN) but ended up leaving the new edition without a cover and set to Invalid status. The best thing to do in these cases is to flag the incorrect edits to bring them to GR staff attention for review.
Lately I've been trying to avoid going to staff unless it's a last resort since they've been making more and more of these extremely flagrant editing mistakes lately, so are any librarians (super or otherwise) able to re-validate the invalidated edition and then carry out the merge to get things back to normal?
Drace wrote: "...so are any librarians (super or otherwise) able to re-validate the invalidated edition and then carry out the merge to get things back to normal?"No, volunteers cannot change the status of a book set by a GR employee. GR staff are the only ones who can fix it.
Alright. Reaching out to staff to undo their mistake and revalidate the ebook, then I'm going to circle back to this thread afterwards to see if a merge can be carried out.
Staff restored the edition that they incorrectly marked invalid. Could a superlibrarian please merge it with the invalid duplicate that they also created? The information for the correctly merged edition should match the details laid out in the OP.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... - Invalid duplicate
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... - Edition with valid ISBNs
You'll have to post this request in the Supers folder, they may not see it here.
Drace wrote: "Staff restored the edition that they incorrectly marked invalid. Could a superlibrarian please merge it with the invalid duplicate that they also created? The information for the correctly merged e..."I'm afraid we can't help you. The duplicate edition was created by staff, so only they can delete it. As Tal pointed out on the first response "No volunteer, super or otherwise can ... undo anything a GR employee does." If they f*** up, they are the only ones who can fix it.
David wrote: "Drace wrote: "Staff restored the edition that they incorrectly marked invalid. Could a superlibrarian please merge it with the invalid duplicate that they also created? The information for the corr..."Alright. I'll pester them again via the contact form as soon as I get the chance and mark the thread as complete/archived.
As a result, the Goodreads bot jumped in and assigned a site-only ASIN to the book. Since not even Goodreads staff can remove ASINs, would it be possible for a Goodreads librarian to create a new ebook edition with the correct ISBNs and then merge the edition that had its ISBNs removed with the new edition with correct ISBNs?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... - Ebook edition that had its ISBNs removed
Correct data for new edition:
TITLE: Manhunt
AUTHOR: Gretchen Felker-Martin
ISBN-10: 125079465X
ISBN-13: 9781250794659
ASIN: 125079465X
PUBLISHER: Tor Nightfire
DATE PUBLISHED: February 22, 2022
NUMBER OF PAGES: 272
FORMAT: Ebook
DESCRIPTION:
Manhunt is an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and trans men on a grotesque journey of survival.
Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate.
Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe.
After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics—all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://mpd-biblio-covers.imgix.net/9... // https://us.macmillan.com/books/978125...