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Requests for Superlibrarians > Remove request: Not a real author

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message 1: by Trường (last edited Sep 18, 2025 08:02PM) (new)

Trường (dangtruong23) | 6 comments These are not a real authors nor translators, the books listed are all Vietnamese versions of books by other authors
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

For example:
48 nguyên tắc chủ chốt của quyền lực: Bí quyết làm chủ is The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
451 ĐỘ F: Sách hay nên đọc is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury


message 2: by David (last edited Sep 19, 2025 02:47AM) (new)

David Raz (davidraz) | 13154 comments You are a librarian. Is there any reason you cannot resolve this yourself? You have the benefit of actually understanding the language.


message 3: by Trường (new)

Trường (dangtruong23) | 6 comments David wrote: "You are a librarian. Is there any reason you cannot resolve this yourself? You have the benefit of actually understanding the language."

As a librarian, and not a super librarian, I do not have the authority to completely remove these books. Simply editing them would not suffice, as legitimate Vietnamese versions already exist on Goodreads. Editing them would only create duplicates.

Sincerely.


message 4: by David (new)

David Raz (davidraz) | 13154 comments If legitimate editions exist, the illegitimate ones should be merged into them. This requires knowledge of the language, which you have. Once you split a legitimate edition and combine it with an illegitimate one that should be merged, if the illegitimate edition has been shelved five times or more, you can post here and ask us to merge it.


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