This "author" needs help

[vicki_girl]

Found another one that needs a lot of help (600+ works).

Fodor's Travel Guides

The few that I checked had actual authors in Worldcat. Also, someone combined all the guides related to New York, etc. but similar to text books these are updated regularly with 3rd, 4th, 5th editions.

:S

[Kasia]

I've fixed a few but there's 36 books left...

It's mostly history books and classics missing authors: Nextext

[Abcdarian]

John Stephenson seems to need some disambiguation:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

The only thing I know for sure is that "Shell Shocked" is the first book by a Canadian financial guy, so the others don't belong to him. I'm guessing there may be 3 others (building, learning, religious) but I only had time for a quick look around & found nothing on them.

(Issue resolved)

[Angie]

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

and

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

appear to be the same person. She's listed as both Pam and Pamela on Library of Congress. Not sure what to do.

[Sherry]

Angie wrote: "http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

and

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

appear to be the same person. She's listed as both Pam and Pamela on Librar..."

I combined these two authors into the same one. Thanks.

[Abcdarian]

The link to R.N. above goes to Upton Sinclair, MS to Paulo Coelho, and CCPS to Robert E. Bollinger -- are these correct?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Clearly not. That it odd, but there's a better list (recently updated, IIRC) in the Sisyphus list.

[Marisa]

J. Robb and J.D. Robb are the same author (the first one is bad but there're some books associated with this which belong to J. D. Robb) J.D. Robb is registered as a pseudonym, but with no book.

[Lisa]

Marisa and All, I merged/deleted J. Robb and combined books at J.D. Robb, but I haven't done all the series #s, so maybe someone could do the editions that need it.

Marisa, The links for both J.D. Robb authors for me are the same and show her books that are published under that name.

[Marisa]

Ok, thank you very much. I try to fix them (but #s is a complicated thing at this series ;) )

[jenjn79]

Unless someone has messed with the numbering I did on the series before (which has happened a few times) you should be able to use the existing numbering already in place for other editions.

If not, there is a full list over in the Nora Roberts group.

[Marisa]

Yes, there's, the complication is due to the number of books ;)

[vicki_girl]

The author Woods needs some work. I don't have time to do them now. We may want to add Woods to the single name list as well.

[Vitali]

"Woods" added.

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

I've disambiguated Joan Brady as much as I'm comfortable with. The nursing memoir books don't show up on this Joan Brady's website. I've also made a Joan^^Brady profile, and they don't show up on her website either. It's been a while since I've done any of this. Could someone else please take a look at what's left?

[Sherry]

Kick The Ball
There are actually authors listed for many of these books in World Cat.

Anyone ...

[Sherry]

Another winner Zzz

This also includes some NAB'ing to be done.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Got 'em.

[Sherry]

Needs some work ...

Reed
Jennifer

Thanks.

[vicki_girl]

The following "authors" appear to be publishers. I don't have time to work on them now myself.

Dalmatian Press
C R Gibson Company
Big Idea

[rivka, Former Moderator]

The middle one was all NABs. I'll add the other two to the Sisyphean list.

[Lobstergirl]

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

This author, Mariana, doesn't really need a lot of help. All the books except one are children's books by Mariana. The other is a racy ebook by what I assume is a different Mariana. Since she has a single name, I don't know how to disambiguate.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Single-name authors cannot be disambig'd currently.

[Lobstergirl]

Okay, thanks.

[Monissa]

This one might have be known but search is down and it's not on the List

ebook

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

[Monissa]

I want an anti-fan button, please!

I fix these and more turn up. Despite their claimed publications dates of 1988 etc. they are obviously still being published in a secret back room somewhere!

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

I did have thoughts of ignoring them because it was just my searches that brought them up, but no, some people have added them.

No doubt I'll get to fix these eventually, I just wanted to grumble to someone who'd understand.

[Monissa]

Burgess

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

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Monissa wrote: "This one might have be known but search is down and it's not on the List"

Ick. It will be in a minute!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Monissa wrote: "Burgess

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

Got 'em.

[Monissa]

Good!

[Monissa]

Aerie books have been nuked from existence fixed and combined as well as I can.

[Gaynor]

Isn't there a children's author, AlikiAliki. Aliki and Avi (who is on your list) are 2 of my favourites.

[Vitali]

"Aliki" was added to the list.

[Snail in Danger (Sid)]

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

Another SNA.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Are we coining another TLA? ;)

And Demi is a real author/illustrator's pen-name, so I doubt much needs cleaning up.

[Snail in Danger (Sid)]

I found a bunch of single named authors, or actually, illustrators ... is that thread still being maintained as a reference, or should I not bother posting them?

Maren - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Boada - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Quantabani - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Maraschi - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Amadeu - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Bachs - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Nikki, I don't think vitalinew has updated that thread in ages. If someone else wanted to volunteer to re-create and maintain it, that would be great.

[TinaNoir]

Hi all. This author Chase, Loretta with a lone Kindle edition of this book Last Night's Scandal is actually also this author Loretta Chase who has scads of books including additional editions of Last Night's Scandal.

thanks

[rivka, Former Moderator]

All fixed, Tina. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Vitali]

I hope to find time to update the list - but it frightens me (1075 new single-named authors!)

[Carolyn]

Here's one for the 'not really an author' list:
"Not Yet Named" http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

vitalinew wrote: "I hope to find time to update the list - but it frightens me (1075 new single-named authors!)"

Heck, it scares me too!

[Laura]

fixed some of them through Amazon.

[M]

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

[Laura]

Masanobu wrote: "http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."

seems to be Jules Verne.

[Laura]

Masanobu wrote: "http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."

all fixed!!

[Laura]

Carolyn wrote: "Here's one for the 'not really an author' list:
"Not Yet Named" http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."

all fixed!!

[Cait]

This might be one for the sisyphus list: Icon Group is the listed author of a lot of "thesaurus" editions of books which have actual authors and should be combined with the other editions. ("Thesaurus" editions are full texts with footnotes -- sometimes in translation -- of the more difficult words.)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Added.

[Cait]

Gardner