This "author" needs help

[vicki_girl]

I just wanted to let everyone know that this author "Fred" appears to be an author that only goes by one name.

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

I have weeded out the few others that made it into his profile (for now).

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I gave him a brief bio.

[vicki_girl]

Anyone want to tackle these books?

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54...

The few search results I can come up with, just seem to copy the same info from Amazon.

[Cait]

Got the first one, vicki_girl. :)

And I'm starting to feel like that second one snuck in from an alternate universe.....

[vicki_girl]

A couple more troublesome books.

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

Again, all I can seem to find is carbon copies of the amazon info.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Found one.

[vicki_girl]

I got most of the ones listed under "Robert", but again, I've gotten stuck on the last few...

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

I am also having trouble with the following listed under "McDonald":

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

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Robert is done. I think someone else helped.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

And I got the other as well. A general tip: try searching Google Books by title when ISBN doesn't do the trick. Sometimes there are other editions, or listings without ISBN.

[vicki_girl]

I usually do. I either forgot this time, or maybe there were more than one book with the same title...

I really do try everything I can before pestering the other librarians, I promise!

;)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Never apologize for asking for help. This is supposed to be a cooperative effort! :)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

More tab dumping:
Kennedy
Johnson (with +120!)

[Lori]

I have Johnson down to 48. Will work on it more later.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Impressive!

[Lori]

From previous posts these still need work:

Louis
Henry
Kennedy
Johnson
Fred
Roy
Harrison
Jim
Black
Crawford
Jackson
Anderson
Carter
john
Collins
Stein
LEONARD
Andy
Brian


And when I was doing Johnson it brough up:
Whitman]

And Richard A.Johnson needs cleaning and combining as does Richard Johnson.

I'll be working on these as I have time myself too.

[Lori]

Everyone can ignore this I just need a place to post the links to get back and forth as I work. I am almost sorry I worked on Johnson! :) :)

..............Richard A. Johnson..............

1. Sports Books = Richard A. Johnson
Richard{space}A.{space}Johnson

2. Math & Stats = Richard A. Johnson
Richard{space}A.{space}{space}Johnson

3. Medicine = Richard Allen Johnson
Richard{space}Allen{space}Johnson

4. Computers = Richard (A) Johnson
Richard{space}(A){space}Johnson
LOC= Johnson, Richard A. (Richard Allen), 1953-,

5. Six Men and American Fads = author:Richard Alan Johnson|2744044]
LOC = Johnson, Richard A. (Richard Alan), 1953-


...............Richard Johnson................

1. current = Richard Johnson
Richard{apace}Johnson

2. Photography = Richard Johnson
Richard{space}{space}Johnson

3. Maps = Richard Johnson
Richard{space}{space}{space}Johnson

4. Illustrator = Richard Johnson(illustrator)
Richard{space}Johnsoo{space}(Illustrator)

5. Sexuality = Richard (NMI) Johnson
Richard{space}(NMI){space}Johnson

6. Cars = Rich Johnson
Rich{space}Johnson

7. Survivalist = [Rich Johnson|2744122:]
Rich{space}{space}Johnson

7. Richard P. Johnson
Richard P. Johnson

8. Dr. Richard Johnson
Dr. Richard Johnson

[rivka, Former Moderator]

FYI, at some point Dr. Johnson needs to lose his title. I didn't want to mess with whatever you're doing, so I left it alone for now.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

And some more single-names (one is really a publisher):

Evans
Wiley
Penguin

[Lori]

RIVKA!!!

1. On the Johnsons -----Yeh - I know, I'm not at all happy with the Johnsons:( But until I knew what I would end up with I needed to have some handle on who was who. The multiple spaces gets real confusing after a while I think I have toooooooo many to simply use spaces. When I get them all finally separated maybe we can put our heads together and come up with a good final fix. I've tried to put at least something in each of their bio to differentiate them as well.

2. Now about G.K. Chesterton. I have separated and recombined as best as I can do. I don't think I will ever read a "Father Brown" story after this. What I have found is that even books with the same title are no where near the same book. If you go look at him - you will see that I started putting the number of tales in each title and listed the name of the tales in each in the description. The ones without that information I was unable to determine the exact contents, but after finding that what is in one "Father Brown Book" is not in the other "Father Brown Book", I can't in good conscience combine them simple because they have the identical name.

Also I've done all I can with the foreign editions.

So take a look would you and tell me how you want me to proceed with them.

Thanks!

[mlady_rebecca]

There is a general George Bush profile. I moved most of the books to either George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush, but there are several books I couldn't place, including one in (I believe) French.

There is also one quote attributed to George Bush. I'm not sure which president was to have said it.

Thanks!

[mlady_rebecca]

Another one. Need foreign language help.

Is Siddharta Guatama an actual author, or is this confusion with the Hermann Hesse book Siddhartha?

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

I'm too tired to do this myself right now, so I'm posting it here in the hope that someone else will fix it before I come back on. :-)

It looks like Charles Dickens needs a lot of work, but specifically A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings is combined with books containing Christmas stories by several different authors, like this one containing O. Henry's Gift of the Magi: A Christmas Carol and Other Favorites: A Christmas Carol, the Gift of the Magi , Dick Spindler's Family Christmas. Someone with more clarity of thought than I needs to separate out the 4 or 5 books that don't belong.

[Vitali]

I will start a new thread for authors with partial names, as Michael suggested in message #143. Please, continue to post names of the authors here, and I'll update the list regularly (the topic will be locked by the moderator, but I'll be able to edit it.)

[This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For]

With respect to the list vitalinew just posted (fabulous work, by the way), how do we want to handle single author names which are correct? Should they be put in their own category or left off the list?

For example, at this point the two books attributed to Q are probably correct, that appears to be the pseudonym of the author.

[This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For]

Also, could a moderator "unsticky" this thread since it is both out-of-date and unnecessary with the new list vitalinew is updating? Let's let it float away to the bottom of the queue (I could just delete it, I suppose...)

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

So it looks like I'm going to have to take responsibility for my own problem in post #190. :-) In an attempt to make it easier for myself to see what belongs together on the combine page, I added the last parentheses containing the titles of the individual works. Once I did it, it looked wrong. Should I leave the incredibly long title or find some other way to do this? A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Penguin Classics) (Christmas Festivities, The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton, A Christmas Tree, The Seven Poor Travellers, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, Master Humphrey's Clock)

Edit: I stopped doing that until I get a yes or no, but now I'm wondering how to prevent all the editions of "A Christmas Carol and Other Stories" that contain different other stories from being automatically combined. Oh man, I hate it when I get caught up in classic authors.

[This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For]

1. Discourage people from using auto-combine
2. Change the name in some way that will fool the auto-combine issue and hopefully make it obvious to users that they shouldn't be combined (good luck with this, by the way :-)

[Lisa]

For instance, always put graphic novel and don't put that in parentheses, and that will keep graphic novels from being combined with their straight text counterparts.

[Sherry]

I started trying to sort out the Holt Math books, but the list includes a whole series of books with the author listed as the publisher

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

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

And a whole series of the one name authors...

Arrgghhhhh

[Petra X]

mlady_rebecca wrote: "Another one. Need foreign language help.

Is Siddharta Guatama an actual author, or is this confusion with the Hermann Hesse book Siddhartha?"

(Prince) Siddhartha Guatama was the name of Buddha before he reached enlightenment and became Buddha.

[Lori]

I went to the grocery store this evening and I'm like a bear to honey - if a store has books I find my way there. So here I am confronted with one of those revolving racks of books - I stop beside it and take a look at the book at my eye level - sure enough - the author is Rich Johnson. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[David]

I just found books by Coe Jonathan that are in fact by Jonathan Coe.

Strangely, the source for those was "amazon.fr" which, in fact, refer the author as being Coe Jonathan.

Yack!

[Lori]

David - I've found with the copy of "Readerworks" software that I use for my library inventory at home - which also pulls from Amazon, lots of names come in incorectly from them. Readerworks creates a author list and any deviation is a new author so like:

Kinley mcgregor
Kinley Mcgregor
Kinley McGregor
McGregor, Kinley
mcgregor, Kinley
Mcgregor, Kinley ect

all are different authors even though her name is spelled correctly. I seriously doubt that they ever realy check or validate any of the information.

[Sherry]

Do you want us to let you know if you can take an author off the list (for example, Olmsted and JK)?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

how do we want to handle single author names which are correct? Should they be put in their own category or left off the list?

Definitely not the second. They tend to accumulate other books that do not belong to the genuine one-name author. Instead, I vote for making a note in the author bio, preferably giving some idea of what books are really theirs. And maybe a similar note on the list. Or put them on separately, as you suggested.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

And great work, vitalinew! I locked and stickied the thread; let me know if you need me to do anything else to it.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Yup. Just copy and paste from the real one.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

That means someone cleaned up all the books but forgot (or didn't know) to get rid of the author. Happens all the time.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Some more for vitalinew's list (and I took care of the last couple on the list, btw):

Wright
Morgan

[Lori]

It is possible to have a clean, locked new list like "vitalinew" is doing (for one namers) for the same named authors (where we are using extra spaces etc)

[mlady_rebecca]

There is already such a list:

Disambiguation List

[Lori]

The last time I looked at it - admittedly more than a week ago - it hadn't been updated in a while but it looks like Michael has now done that and it looks great.

I'll let you know when Johnson is ready to enter into it.

[vicki_girl]

Great List Vitalinew!

I got one more for you: "Women"
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[Sherry]

Another Friends of Ed

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Both of those are done.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Note on Morgan: about 10 books are correct with Morgan as a one-name illustrator. The rest are not (mostly the ones where Morgan is listed as the only author.)

[Vitali]

I will add real single-named authors to the list, with the brief description to them (in a day or two).
Thanks to everyone for your help. I'm happy to make GR better and to be with people who care about the same things.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Looks like some, but NOT all, of Kenneth Morgan's works are really Kenneth O. Morgan's. If anyone wants to sort through them, more power to ya! ;)

[vicki_girl]

I need some advice on this one...

I was working on the single-name authors, specifcally Adams. Apparently there is a poet who writes under the pseudonym "ADAMS" (all caps). However, I found the following during my googling for a first name.

Paula Adams Tennant, who writes under the name ADAMS, lives in Northern California. She served in the Navy during World War II and studied law after the war. She held various positions as a prosecutor and in 1970 was appointed to the U.S. Board of Parole. In 1983 she was appointed to the U.S. Parole Commission. She is a resident of northern California.

Tennant's published poetry include: Passion of Creation, The Two Headed God, Moon of Reflection, Sheaves of Silence, and Conversations with Keith all published by Lost Coast Press (Fort Bragg, California). [Source (of biographical information): Guide to the "A Few Good Women" Oral History Collection, 1938-2000, Penn State University Archives, Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania State University]

Should I leave the author as ADAMS, or put in her full name?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I vote for full name, with the italicized portion above put in her bio.