"Authors" Needing help Showing 351-400 of 1,531

[Heather]

Fictional character listed as author. Might be a pen name.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[Heather]

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

[Heather]

Fictional character listed as author.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[Paula]

Got 351 and 352

[ak]

@ 353:
Hannah Montana has been removed, though I highly doubt that Miley Cyrus actually wrote any of those songbooks. Should the author be listed as the songwriters, NAB, or Songbook?

[Heather]

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

[Heather]

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

[Heather]

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

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Heather wrote: "Single name author.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."

Both books seem legit.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Heather wrote: "Single name author.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."

Got 'em.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Heather wrote: "Single name author.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."

Got 'em.

[Heather]

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

[Heather]

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

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Gone.

[Heather]

A question about this author. There appears to be two David Tennants; one is a technical writer with two books, the other, a narrator of Shakespearean plays and Doctor Who novels. The question is, should the authors be disambiguated, or should the narrator not be counted as an author in the first place?
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Narrators count as authors, so the former.

[Angie]

I am a librarian, but don't know how to combine authors. The following three authors are the same person:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

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

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

I'm not entirely sure that there isn't a second Robert Fulton. But "One Man Caravan" ( http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14... ) was written by Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

It looks like most of the books under the second author are not from the first. But the first and thirs are the same person. Edit each of them to be the same (I suggest editing both to the most complete form, "Robert Edison Fulton Jr."). The second one you edit will require you to confirm the merging of the two authors and select the one you want to keep. (If either were correct as is, you'd only need to edit one and then confirm the merge.)

Then move up the correct author on that book and delete the incorrect one.

Oh, and edit the author on individual books of author two that ought to really be author one/three, or v.v.

[Angie]

It's possible that this book is also Robert Edison Fulton Jr. He also invented the the skyhook retrieval system for military airplanes. But I have no real idea, it doesn't seem to fit with the death books of the other robert fulton.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50...

I think I have the the author for "One Man Cravan" corrected to Robert Edison Fulton Jr., but it seems to have left Robert Edison Fulton existing with no books: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Unlikely, since WorldCat says it's a reprint of a book first published in 1810.

I cleaned up the authors. Editing a single book only changes the author on that book; editing the author record changes it on all the books, and if edited to another existing version, allows you to merge the two authors.

[Kiri]

Heather wrote: "A question about this author. There appears to be two David Tennants; one is a technical writer with two books, the other, a narrator of Shakespearean plays and Doctor Who novels. The question is, ..."

These need to be separated - they are two separate individuals. I'm not sure why these were ever combined.
*goes to sort this out a bit*

[Cait]

Kiri, that's not the right way to separate authors with the same name. You can find instructions on how to do it in the librarian manual. (Edited to add: actually, that section is due to be updated. Here are the most current instructions. Sorry for the confusion!)

[Angie]

Rivka,
then it is definitely not the same Robert Fulton as the death and dying books, since they range in date from 1973 - 2007. Possibly the 2007 book http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48... is yet another Robert Fulton since it seems to vary in subject and publishing date. the others are 70s and 80s.

Thank you for cleaning up the Robert Edison Fulton Jr. thing for me, I was confused about how to do that correctly.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Oops. Never got back to that, did I?

*makes a note to self for later*

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Angie, yeah, they probably are three authors and should be dismbig'd. Want to try your hand at that?

[Kiri]

Cait wrote: "Kiri, that's not the right way to separate authors with the same name. You can find instructions on how to do it in the librarian manual. (Edited to add: actually, that section is due to be upda..."

Thank you! off to fix those now. =)

[Heather]

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

[Cait]

Heather wrote: "Single name author.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."

Got it -- merged into Peggy Fallon.

[Angie]

Rivka,
Ok. I'll have to read up on it first though. It looks like this will tell me how.
http://www.goodreads.com/help/librari...

[Angie]

Ok, I think I've done it :)
Now there are three Robert Fultons:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
and one Robert Edison Fulton Jr.:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
And here is one more Robert Fulton... will they never end?
Robert Fulton Jr.:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Angie, great. I added them to this thread, and added the note to each. I also copied your comments to the Note section (where they're much more visible).

[Sherry]

EDITORIAL BRUJAS
Publisher. Needs help

[Heather]

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

[Heather]

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

[Paula]

Got 382 and 384

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I think that was actually 383 & 384; I got 382.

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

Stroud

[Sandra]

Stroud's done.

[Heather]

Three question marks listed as an author.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[Carolyn]

Here are some that need work:
Dummy Isbn
Dummy Title
Dummy * *
Dummy Num
Dummy

[vicki_girl]

Anyone want to take O'Brien? I don't have time at the moment...:(

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Heather wrote: "Three question marks listed as an author.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."

Got 'em.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Carolyn wrote: "Here are some that need work:
Dummy Isbn
Dummy Title
Dummy * *
Dummy Num
Dummy"

Took care of the first three; there's too many on the last two, even though I'm fairly sure they're really all NAB's.

[Heather]

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

[Heather]

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

[Heather]

Single name author. I would suggest that the person who fixes this be someone who can read French.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[Heather]

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

[Heather]

Publishing company listed as author.
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[Nick]

Heather wrote: "Single name author. I would suggest that the person who fixes this be someone who can read French.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."

I started on the English textbooks listed under this author using WorldCat (actual author "Philippe Dominique"), but it looks like three of the remaining ones have bad ISBNs. Those are:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82...

There are titles in WorldCat that match, but the ISBNs are different and I didn't want to change the ISBN in case these records auto-imported from somewhere. What should I do in this case?

And while I was at it I discovered another single name "author":

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

That one just seems to be titles with multiple authors.

[Sandra]

Re Vicki Girls' post 391 O'Brien there are 2 left I don't know what to do with. Appear to be some govt/texas/govt by the people thing?