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Please delete this book! (pt. 9)
This one doesn't appear to have an actual edition attached to it http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...
This is an extra too http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11... and this one http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
Extra copy http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...Extra http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...
Extra http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...
Extra http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...
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This is a DVD: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94...
with some librarian edits so I wanted to check first but shouldn't this be NAB'd?
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Eva wrote: "Uh....http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97...
Pretty sure this can go."
As much as I really want to delete that I think it has to stay. Looks like a self published book. And now I feel bad for saying that, the girl who wrote it is 12.
What are the rules again for age?
Don't think there are age limits for authors, just for members. LOL.
Sandra wrote: "Don't think there are age limits for authors, just for members. LOL."Well they are a member too.
Please delete this listing. Of the many editions listed of this title, "The Other Hand", this one hasn't any identifying ISBN/ASIN numbers.http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
thanks
Lou B/justloux
Lou wrote: "Please delete this listing. Of the many editions listed of this title, "The Other Hand", this one hasn't any identifying ISBN/ASIN numbers.http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12......"
I merged it with the most popular version of "The Other Hand" since the most popular edition was under "Little Bee."
thanks...am still unclear about the differences between merging and combining. 'tho, am doing ok with combining because the process is pretty user-friendly. sigh.
Lou wrote: "thanks...am still unclear about the differences between merging and combining. 'tho, am doing ok with combining because the process is pretty user-friendly. sigh."It's basically where if there's info in the bad edition you want to 1) tie it to a correlating edition and 2)if the info is good on the bad book and not on the good edition, throw it in there. If I had just straight deleted that one, the reviews would have gone over to the most popular edition, "Little Bee," which would be bad since they wanted to shelve "The Other Hand." So I separated a good edition of "The Other Hand," combined it with the book you wanted to delete, deleted said book, then recombined the remaining edition with the rest.
Sounds confusing, but pretty straightforward.
Lou wrote: "thanks...am still unclear about the differences between merging and combining. 'tho, am doing ok with combining because the process is pretty user-friendly. sigh."Combining is linking together different editions of the same work so they can be easily found in one place.
Merging takes two combined books, merges reviews/shelves/etc. into one book and deletes the second book. If a book has been shelved or reviewed by users, we don't want to delete that data, so we combine the edition to be deleted with a good copy of the book. This allows the user reviews/shelves/etc to be "merged" into the good edition when the bad edition is deleted.
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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97...
Pretty sure this can go."
Patrick was looking into that one, as I recall.
A little while ago (before my librarian status) I tried to make what I thought was a new edition for Michael Crichton's "Sphere". But itstead it seems to have made it it's own book. So now there is two "Spheres" in the Goodreads database. Can someone delete it, because I have no idea how.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
Thank you.
Actually, I do know how now, but I need a super librarian.
Melissa wrote: "Actaually, I do know how now, but I need a super librarian."You only need a super when there are more than 5 people who have shelved/reviewed it. I merged it with the closest edition I found. :)
Vicky wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Actaually, I do know how now, but I need a super librarian."You only need a super when there are more than 5 people who have shelved/reviewed it. I merged it with the closest edit..."
Ohhh. Well when I clicked "delete this book" it say I couldn't delete the book with that many reviews. And that I need a super.
Melissa wrote: "Ohhh. Well when I clicked "delete this book" it say I couldn't delete the book with that many reviews. And that I need a super. "Weird it let me do it and I'm not a super. Maybe if you don't have it combined with another book to merge the reviews into it overrides the less than 5 clause?
Anybody know?
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Sort of. If a book has not been combined with another edition, but has not been shelved/reviewed at all, any librarian can delete it. If even a single user has shelved/rated it, then only a super can (or any librarian can combine it with another edition, and then delete).
We get far fewer complaints of disappearing reviews since that was instituted.
That could be it. Because it seems like that is what a lot of people do. I just got my librarian status, this is all new to me. Either way, thank you.
I don't know if this has been reported yet, but this guy is claiming to be an author & claims he co-wrote with two other people famous series like Harry Potter & His Dark Materials. I deleted some of them, but he's added 27178 works. Is there a way to delete his profile? http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
I read a few description and for me it looks like a other printing of wikipedia articles.
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And other publicly and freely available online resources.
This book http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98... is the same as this one http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65... One has only the ISBN10 entered and the other has only the ISBN13.
Inkdeath:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75...
is obsolete and the reviews should be included into:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...
thanks! :-)
Another duplicate book to be removed:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70...
This one is the original:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33...
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The author has requested that this out of print book be removed http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77...Message received from the Ruth Sims, author:
I have a book listed: The Phoenix. There are two versions, one published in 2004 by The Writers Collective. That one is out of print and unavailable and I want to remove it. But I can't find out how. The other one was published in 2009 and is the only one that should be listed. I have librarian status but am having severe vision problems and possibly a brain tumor and I can't figure out the instructions. I think Goodreads is very, very confusing in just about every way,but especially in this area. Please, plead, please, somebody. Help. I don't like having the out of print edition (the one with the brown cover) listed. The only one listed should be from Lethe Press, with a red and gold cover. My frustration level is readhing critical mass. Does anyone know what I should do? I know this isn't the proper way to ask a question, but I see no link to "contact Us" or "Help". Perhaps it's my illness. Perhaps I'm just stupid. But whatever, I need help.
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