Please Combine Authors

[M—]

Could someone please combine these authors?

E.E. Knight (a Goodreads author)
E. E. Knight (that's E.^E.)

Thanks!

[Lisa]

Actually, because E.E. is a Goodreads author, they can't be combined. But, I'll change all E. E.'s books to E.E. and then change E. E. into Various.

[Lisa]

M, I did that and combined the editions and started to add in series information when needed, but you (or someone) may want to finish adding series information to individual editions.

[M—]

Thanks much, Lisa!

[Kaethe]

Can someone please combine these? One by Richard Bach was co-written with his then-wife Leslie Parrish Bach, who is given the sole credit for the uncombined edition of One: A Novel. Thanks.

[Lisa]

Somebody already got to it, Kaethe.

[Kaethe]

Awesome group of librarians, y'all. Thanks!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Done.

[Becky]

Can a more senior and knowledgable librarian than me take a look at P.G. Wodehouse, please? So far I've found 3 separate profiles for him!

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

I'm a bit wary of trying to fix this, since I haven't combined authors before and I don't want to make a hash of it on such a prominant one!

There's probably more profiles around for him, with an easily misspelled name like that, but those are the three I've found so far. The first in that list is the correct one.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I merged the latter two into the first.

[Becky]

rivka wrote: "I merged the latter two into the first."

Thanks, Rivka.

[Jenny T]

I just came across Flesh and Fire by Laura Gilman and Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman. I believe these two should be merged (since it's the same book), but am a bit unsure how to proceed. Thanks!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Normally I'd tell you to merge the authors. But since she's a GR author, you can't -- so I did. Now you can combine editions.

[Jenny T]

Thanks, Rivka!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

:)

[Ulises]

I'm sorry, I'm a new librarian. I wasn't sure how to merge this two authors:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

I wasn't very sure whether we need to merge them either, but it would make sense.We're talking about the same person, only that one page is in Japanese and the other one is in English. Thanks!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

My suggestion, although this is non-trivial, is to add the English version of the name as the primary author on each of the ones currently listed under the Japanese version, and move that to the second author spot. That would allow for editions to be combined, without losing any of the data or making it hard for people looking for the Japanese name.

[Ulises]

Thank you, rivka! I'll see if I manage to figure out how to do that =D

[rivka, Former Moderator]

The easiest way I've found is to add the new author in the second position, save the book. Then go in and edit again, and use the little arrow to switch the second author to the first position. (Sometimes you have to click it twice.)

The problem is that you have to do it for each book individually . . .

[Kriptonima]

I found two authors whom have double profiles, probably because both of them has hungarian characters in their names, and so one profile is with the correct name, the other is without diacritics.

The first is Sándor Márai:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

and the second, István Fekete:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

I'm sill a new librarian and I'm unsure how to merge these profiles.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

In both cases I merged the one missing the diacritics into the one with them. Those are the more correct versions of the names.

[Juniper]

Hello!

I don't know if this is a combine or a delete...so I'll leave it to a Super to decide (it's a typo in the author's name resulting in two different names for the same author, plus book listings ~ luckily only two in the erroneous entry):

a) The misspelled name here;

b) The correct page here.

Thank you so much!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Combining authors can be done by any librarian. I took care of this one.

[Juniper]

Thanks Rivka...I was just unclear about the deletion aspect.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

When you combine two authors, the one that is not kept is deleted by the system.

[Juniper]

Doh! Talk about a "duh" moment. Thanks again. :)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

No worries. :)

[Rosenkavalier]

Kriptonima wrote: "I found two authors whom have double profiles, probably because both of them has hungarian characters in their names, and so one profile is with the correct name, the other is without diacritics.

..."

rivka wrote: "In both cases I merged the one missing the diacritics into the one with them. Those are the more correct versions of the names."

Rivka, Kryptonima,

unfortunately it seems that the Marai aliases, with and\or without accents, are still with us. There are lots of editions of the same books with misspelled names of this author. A quick search can give an idea.
Is there a way to do a massive edit?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Yup. Just do an author merge for each of the incorrect spellings. They'll keep showing up as new editions get imported from Amazon and B&N. Got all the Sándor Márais and István Feketes I could find.

[Rosenkavalier]

Ok. Thanks Rivka.

[Mostly on Storygraph]

Please combine -

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

The last one is probably the best.
Thanks!

[Kim]

Done #31

[Mostly on Storygraph]

Thanks! Here's another. I'm not sure if this can be combined since he is a goodreads author, but the last one is the correct one:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[lafon حمزة]

Leah wrote: "Thanks! Here's another. I'm not sure if this can be combined since he is a goodreads author, but the last one is the correct one:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

http://w..."

This actually needs to go in the "Goodreads Author profiles needing merging" topic. I've done it for you now.

[Kaz]

I hope this is the right place to ask... Is it possible to merge these three authors' as one?

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

The first one is the one that his name is written in Japanese. The second one and the third was in English, but the second one has his last name (MORIMI) first while the third one has his first name first (TOMIHIKO).

Thanks.

[Sandra]

Combined the 2 english spelled names.

Now working on the rest.

[Sandra]

All books now have the japanese spelling listed.

[Kaz]

Thank you sooooooo much, Sandra!

[Ovidiu]

Please combine these :)
They are the same book, same edition.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

[Sandra]

Merged. 39 done :)

[Ovidiu]

Thank you!

[Bryn]

This author in twice:

Nabil Saleh
Nabil A. Saleh

[Sandra]

Bryn, done. Used Nabil Saleh as all books published as that, but put a note on the author profile.

[Bryn]

Thanks Sandra.

[Mostly on Storygraph]

Here's another:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[Emy]

Leah wrote: "Here's another:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."

Authors have two profiles when they publish in two languages where one is transliterated. An example of this would be Anton Chekhov, who has a native profile and an English profile. Other language versions will also exist if the author published in that language. The native form of the name should always be placed first, with the transliterated version as a second 'author'.

[Sandra]

#45 done. As one is in English & the other arabic, we keep both, but I've added authors & put AKA notes.

[Mostly on Storygraph]

These are the same:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[Moris]

48 done. Combined a few books too; someone who speaks Filipino should check non-english titles.