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[INCOMPLETE] Two Invalid Editions
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I'm not sure what you mean by "invalid duplicates." The only items that can be marked as invalid are items that are not in fact books at all. Duplicate editions just get merged in with the main edition, and these appear to already be merged with the main edition.Can you elaborate on what you mean?
Michele wrote: "The only items that can be marked as invalid are items that are not in fact books at all."This is not correct. Because the Goodreads bot is constantly creating editions based on Amazon listings from people selling their books secondhand, and because sometimes duplicates of already existing editions were created long ago by Goodreads users or more recently a librarian or staff member mistakenly created a duplicate edition, librarians regularly mark these bot-created editions as invalid so book editions pages don't get clogged up with dozens of junk copies of books that already have pages on Goodreads. Both editions I linked are are duplicates of existing editions that already have Goodreads pages, and as such, need to be marked invalid.
Michele wrote: "Duplicate editions just get merged in with the main edition, and these appear to already be merged with the main edition."
Again, this is not correct. Merging is taking two editions, moving all of the shelvings, ratings, and reviews from one edition to the other, and deleting the edition that is having shelvings/ratings/reviews moved off of it. Combining is moving editions that are listed as separate books onto an already-existing editions page. These books have been combined with the larger Editions page of Just After Sunset (or were never separate in the first place and did not need to be combined), but they have not been merged because they are still pages that exist and have not been deleted.
Someone created these as alternate cover editions that were older than whatever the current cover was for those ISBNs at the time. That's why the description has the ACE note at the beginning. They probably should have also put a librarian note in the appropriate field.They aren't 3rd party seller books or usual duplicates where someone started creating a book record and then didn't finish.
And they shouldn't have used a cover with a Tesco sticker on it...
Looks like the person who did that was reverting other cover changes that someone made and thus made the aces. In the years since, other people have changed covers and so now they are essentially duplicates of the ISBNs in the description.
It will take a long time to separate them out, merge, and recombine so I cannot do that right now. I may come back to it another time.
Would simply invalidating them be an option? I forget if a book needs to have less than 3 or less than 5 shelvings for ordinary librarians to be able to invalidate them, but these books are under both thresholds.
Bumping again to see if anyone is willing to invalidate these duplicates.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...