This "author" needs help

[Jessica]

Has anyone posted "More"?

It's not too bad, but needs some help.

[Cynthia]

Give me a link to it and I'll take a look. The search engine hates me.

I did clean out "and many more" and "et. al." this week.

[Vitali]

Link to more

[Cynthia]

Thanks :-) I'll clean that out today.

[Jessica]

Oh doh! I forgot to link the page! Sorry about that guys, and thanks vitali and Cyn

[Jessica]

Got another that needs love, "Mayer"

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

[Cynthia]

First - I took care of "more" and "Mayer" tonight.

Second, I have to agree with DC here - there should be a better way to differentiate authors! Especially since, with the current method, every time anything is added to the system it will almost certainly be added to the default name (first name, one space, last name) rather than to the correct profile's works.

Looking at Worldcat, they seem to use the authors' birth years for some of this?

[Cait]

Here's a single-namer: "Berry"

[Vitali]

"Berry" added. Thanks!

[Cynthia]

Another single-namer:
Ajax

This author contributed pieces to several anthologies, with that being the only name given.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

If that's their pen name, then there's nothing to correct.

[Cynthia]

I think I'm confused. Is the list of single-name authors a list of those who really only go by one name? (That's my impression from looking at a few of them.) If so, was I not doing the correct thing when I posted about F'murr, who isn't on that list yet?

Otherwise, I've spent the last couple of days working on a bunch of authors who should NOT be single names (8 of them created because of one textbook on Amazon, and all the ones I found because of that book). I've fixed everything but these three:
Bolsky
Clover
Brooks

who are down to one book each (and one of those is the same for Bolsky and Clover). I've checked all my sources and done searches using Google and other engines, and cannot seem to find the full names for these three people. If anyone else is able to do that, I would dearly love to know how you manage it!

[Cynthia]

Two new single-name authors for the list:
Elisabeth
Rudolf

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Cyn wrote: "Is the list of single-name authors a list of those who really only go by one name?"

No, but as the list gets cleaned up, that's what it gradually becomes. However, even legit one-name authors frequently end up with non-legit books attributed to them.

[Cynthia]

I did notice that. In fact, I've been working on clearing out the problems in a few of the "A" authors since posting earlier.

[Vitali]

Thank you very much, Cyn and Rivka. I'll make changes to the list.

[Cynthia]

I don't know if it matters, but Aguilar is a publisher, not a person. There are some 4 books that have no author's name, just the publisher's name.

Anouilh has been merged with the profile for Jean Anouilh (after checking to be sure all the books listed were his, of course).

Antologia is no more. It's just the Spanish (and Polish, I think?) word for "anthology."

Berry - I'm sure there should be different first names for the two books credited to "Berry," but I haven't been able to track them down.

New (I think):
Patricia is two different people, but how do you differentiate a single name author? The Portugese title is supposedly the words of a "spirit" named Patricia, "channeled" by the other author. The other two books are from a Catholic organization, the words of saints "given" to a woman identified solely as Patricia.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Cyn wrote: "Patricia is two different people, but how do you differentiate a single name author?"

Heh. You don't. I suggest adding the information above to the author profile.

[Cynthia]

I'll do that with Patricia.

Another legitimate single-namer:
Azorín (José Augusto Trinidad Martínez Ruíz's pseudonym)

Alain (pseudonym for Émile-Auguste Chartier) is already on the list, and all the books credited really are his (as of yesterday, anyway). I merged the other Chartier profiles I could find with Alain.

[Cynthia]

I tracked down a last name for one of the Patricias, and found that the other should actually be spelled with a accent: Patrícia.

And another legitimate single-name author:
Elias

[Cynthia]

I don't think Tony should be a single-name author, but I can't seem to find a thing about the last book attributed to him.

[Jessica]

This one needs some love: "."

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

[Vitali]

Thanks, I added the authors to the list.

[Cait]

Two "authors" in need of fixin': a polite "Do not remember" and a more vehement "DON'T REMEMBER". "Can't remember" is already done, but there are probably similar search terms waiting....

[Lisa]

I got Do not remember and did just one so far from DON'T REMEMBER. Cait, I'm sure you're right re there being other similar author names.

[Lindig]

DC said: It would be good if there was an easier way to distinguish authors with the same name from one another than having to put in all these spaces. Especially as I know someone will come along and add a book and it will be attributed to the wrong author.

And I agree. So here's a suggestion for debate. What if there were a one-word topic in parens after the author's name, and a menu showed up for the reader to choose from? That way, you would click on the specific writer you're interested in and only that author's books would show up.

I have no idea whether the programmers would hate this idea. It's just a thought.

[vicki_girl]

Okay, I got in waaaay over my head trying to clean up some items associated with Good Housekeeping. If anyone wants to help out and take care of the following "authors" that would be great. Otherwise I will get back to them later.

the editors
Griffing
Braithwaite
New York Gone.

Ellen Levine looks like two people, a children's author and the Good Housekeeping editor.

And last but not least, this book appears to have a number of "editors" associated it that need to be deleted/merged. ETA: Got that one!

BTW, I have been merging Good Housekeeping items without an obvious author into Good Housekeeping Institute. However, I believe that many of the items may have actual authors listed in Worldcat.

[Carolyn]

Found one that needs to be checked and added to the list of authors needing work.
(Not sure if the numbers associated with the titles mean that they are actually NAB items.)

Tor Mm

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Carolyn wrote: "(Not sure if the numbers associated with the titles mean that they are actually NAB items.)"

It does. But a good number of them are not. I'll add it to the list.

[Cait]

There are still about twenty books under "Washington" and I'm losing steam -- anyone interested?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Got 'em.

[Laura]

I am still working on Brazilian authors since there is a lot of work to be done there also.

[Cait]

rivka wrote: "Got 'em."

Huzzah! :)

[Vitali]

Some books that show on the profile of Peter Robert Lamont Brown are wrongly attributed to him.
I will return to it later, but if anyone has time to edit it now, feel free to do so:)

[the_cat]

It'd help to know which books. I can make a wild guess with the Beatles book and maybe the Ghost House... and the Gomer book? Is there a complete list of works somewhere? Wikipedia list seems cryptic.

[Paula]

the_cat

I think I have sorted them out, If I cannot find a Author list/website then I hit Worldcat and get a list from one of the libraries ( I use the British Library as it will display a list of books by Author)

[the_cat]

Paula wrote: "the_cat

I think I have sorted them out, If I cannot find a Author list/website then I hit Worldcat and get a list from one of the libraries ( I use the British Library as it will display a list ..."

*takes note*
Thanks for the tip

[the_cat]

Hi Not sure if this question comes here
We have this mexican author:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
who as far as i can see signs his books as Rius.
But someone has put a lot of work in adding his books as:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Which one should we keep?
Thanks

[rivka, Former Moderator]

The one without the parenthetical (although I merged the other way first and edited, so as to keep all the data).

[the_cat]

rivka wrote: "The one without the parenthetical (although I merged the other way first and edited, so as to keep all the data)."
Thanks

[[deleted user]]

I've started chipping away at "Rizzoli"... lemme know if I'm doing more damage than not.

[vicki_girl]

Tim Burton could use some help. I think there is more than one author with this name. Also, some books may have been incorrectly attributed to him, like Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, which was orginally attributed to just Burton.

[Alexandria]

The author Anne Frank needs work. There are many additions of her diary, and in different languages. Also, there is a version of her diary that is the definitive edition, which I think should be seperate since it not the same text as the others, as it included some information that her father edited out for the original publication. Thanks

[rivka, Former Moderator]

It should still be with the others. But the new edition field might be useful.

[Carolyn]

I was cleaning up some MD's and found a whole bunch of 'author's' that need cleaning up one by one. They are really credential acronyms (MD, PhD, RN, MPA, etc.) I think it happened during the download of data from Amazon, B&N, etc.

Anyone have time to work on them? I'm done for the day. Here are some of the links:

MD
Mdp
MPA
Ccp
CCPS
FAAP
MSW
MSPH
MSN
MS
MSDS
MST
MSEE
RN
R.N.
BSN
BSAP
BSA
...and many more...

[bup]

Did 'MD'. Need a break.

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

The frustrating part is that I've completely cleaned up some of these in the past but they keep coming back due Amazon imports. A librarian's job is never done.

[Nenangs]

second on that. :P

[rivka, Former Moderator]

In that case, I should probably add them to the Sisyphean list.

[vicki_girl]

Here are a couple more that are mostly NOT-A-BOOK items.

Upper Deck
Novel Units Inc