Issues with Disambugating

[Jan]

Heya.
I'm having Trouble with the author M. Jones. There seem to be two profiles out there with the one space variant of that name, one the Goodreads author, the other one the account where new books get imported to.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
and
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

Of the 2nd one, Frankie And Formaldehyde, Black Wreath: An Open Grave Mystery and Other Sides: 12 Webfiction Tales belong with the first one.

[Abcdarian]

Fixed. The horror writer actually has 2 spaces.

[Jan]

Ahh, how do you see that? I didn't notice it in the adress bar.

Also thanks!

[Abcdarian]

You're welcome. You can tell if you go into the author profile ("edit data") and click on "similar names". That gives a list that includes spacing information. You can also tell on the "edit data" page itself how many spaces are currently there. However, since we can't access Goodreads authors' pages to edit, you can't do either of those things from their profiles. Thankfully, they do show up on the "similar names" lists for any other author of same or similar name.

Hope this isn't too confusing! :-)

[Jan]

I did check the similar names list, but both looked the same to me.

[Abcdarian]

They look the same, but the number of spaces is given:

"M. Jones, author of 314 Crescent Manor
8 books, 138 books added, 23 text reviews, 2 spaces
Horror"

[Jan]

I must be blind!! Totally didn't see that.

Thanks for the info, from now on I'll be able to solve these myself.

[Lobstergirl]

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

I'm not that familiar with this author, but I'm guessing the books about ZBrush Digital Sculpting are by a different person than the one who wrote "Endless Love."

[Abcdarian]

Sorted, I think. :-)