someone just merged anonymous... with God

[Vicky]

I'm too busy to get distracted by edits atm, and I can't tell from the log who did it.

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

[Sandra]

What needs to be done? Can the author be changed from God to anonymous again? I would assume that religious texts like the Bible remain under God as the author, but stuff like Arabian Nights would need edits to show the author as anonymous? And how does that affect books that are still under anonymous? Sorry for the many questions but I don't want to screw this up any further than it already is.

[mlady_rebecca]

Under the current policy, the correct author for the Bible is Anonymous.

[Jessica]

Uggh, hopefully the PTB can undo that..

[willaful]

This wasn't actually a merging, was it? I mean, did "God" actually exist as an author in the GR database? Can't we just change it back to "anonymous"?

[Paula]

I have changed back to anonymous and added the anonymous blurb. There generally is not a way to reverse this type of merge.

I doubt there was an official God author since policy is currently anonymous

[Banjomike]

There HAVE been several "God" authors.

And then there is this one:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[RB]

Paula wrote: "I have changed back to anonymous and added the anonymous blurb. There generally is not a way to reverse this type of merge.

I doubt there was an official God author since policy is currently anony..."

Thank you for fixing it Paula, I was just going to do it - you beat me to it! :)

[Gerd]

Banjomike wrote: "And then there is this one:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."

Given the explanation:
"Because this book which is my first published book ever is dedicated to the orginal author and finisher of my faith, he is the author"

Certainly this would fall under "Unknown" then, by current rules?

[Melody]

Actually WorldCat has the author as "God Almighty"

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Gerd wrote: "Certainly this would fall under "Unknown" then, by current rules?"

Actually, Anonymous.

[Daniel]

Heaven help us (*grin*) if this guy ever publishes a book... http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmon...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

His full name is God Dieux, so I think we'd manage just fine.