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Please delete this book! (pt. 11)
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Experiment BL626
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Dec 25, 2011 12:16PM
ISBN-less placeholder: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84...
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Wrong title & author for book cover, no ISBN, both title book & cover book already exist:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77...
Experiment wrote: "ISBN-less placeholder: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84..."ditto for this: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...
Can this one be removed: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69... - it was created by the author of the book, trying to link to an article on her website with the blurb about the book (the link is broken btw).I think people who rated it may have mistaken this entry for the actual book itself.
PS - can the "books" in #52 be deleted by a super?
Please delete:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87...
Both are duplicates of the most popular edition
Hello everyone. There are two pages (9455863\8070349) for the same book, one of which does not look like a reflection of actual existing printed copy.
Should it be deleted? If so, should it be done through the “delete this book” option here?
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«Ник. Горькавый»* is what stands on book titles, while «Николай Николаевич Горькавый» is his full name. “When editing or adding information for a book written by an author with multiple names, enter the author's name as on the front cover as the primary author. The author's other names may be added in the other author fields.”
So should “Ник Горькавый” be renamed into “Ник. Горькавый”, and the full name be added through “another author” field?
Also, the book pages do not see each other in the “Other Editions” field. Is that because the author's names differ, or the references need to be added manually somehow?
*Nick. is always put with a dot at the end on the covers as a shortened version of Nickolai, I guess
What name is he known / most published under? We should not be using a short and long version of his name just one.What does the Library of Congresss (if anything) use?
Paula wrote: "Got 112"Thanks Paula :)
>We should not be using a short and long version of his name just one.So the quoted guide fragment refers only to cases when author's pen-name strongly differs from his original name?
>What name is he known / most published under?
AFAIK, he's written 3 books so far, and all of them use “Ник. Горькавый” on their cover pages. LoC does not know about him.
We would not add Jms Patterson as a secondary author to James Patterson (Jms being the shortened version of James)Personally I would go with his full correct name but others may disagree
1. The quantity of possible synonyms of author's name does not matter, since it's more a technical issue that will only last until the corresponding software improvement would be made.2. But if you do not keep multiple names of the same author, then shouldn't the related guide-part be changed as well? I think that now its statement is a bit obscure.
About the aforementioned books: I'd offer renaming the author to «Николай Николаевич Горькавый» and just putting all newer books of him under that name as well.
How do you do it, though? Is it as simple as renaming the author in book properties?
And one more question: does the system keep an option of undoing user's actions? In other ways, if one messes up with book edition, how hard is it to recover form the mess?
Multiple names of same author:Anton Chekov is an example of how this is donehttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/....
Easiest way to do it is to copy the author name for the correct author profile and paste into the incorrect profile - you will then merge the profiles and be prompted on which one to keep. There is no undo on this function.
If you edit a book page there is an undo function for some edits.
As for the manual - there are lots of things missing/ not indepth - so check there, then search this forum or ask and some one will be able to guide you.
Just as FYI
We do not have Anton Chekov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov or variations there of - He is known as Anton Chekov.
What does happen is the addition of transliterated name in the 2nd position so we could add Arabic - أنطون تشيخوف and Spanish version of the name linked to a profile in that language if someone adds that detail.
What we also do not do is add Ant.Chekhov as a shortened version
Thanks for help!My questions are getting too long for this thread, I think. Is there something like an IRC-support channel? Google gives me nothing on that.
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Then start a new thread. We do not have a chat feature, IRC or otherwise.
This one: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27... is a placeholder for an entire series, can it be deleted? I've combined it with the first volume of the series.
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This looks like another placeholder for an entire series: http://www.goodreads.com/book/edit/38...Because the description said "complete edition" I've been searching the web to see if I can find a book that covers the entire series - no success. It would have to include roughly 12 x 200 pages. I also searched the Indonesian publisher's webshop (Jump comics is the Japanese imprint, Death Note is published by M&C comics in Indonesia) and couldn't find this "12 volume complete edition" there either ("http://www.gramediaonline.com/results... note&Category_DropDown=0")
Long story short, I think it can be deleted, I've combined it with the first volume in the series now.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46... Please delete this book.
It's information are not correct. I'll create it again with the proper information.
Thank you.
This one http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11... is another placeholder for an entire 28 volume series. I've combined it with the first volume in the series, can it be deleted?
And this one http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91... is again another placeholder for an entire 9 volume series, I've combined it with the first volume as well.
Got 133Re 134 - there is no need to delete the information can be edited - please create a new thread with the information to be changed - it has a valid ISBN
Got 135 and 136
Thanks Paula :)There is another one here: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34... a placeholder for the entire 22 volume series, I've combined it with the first volume.
Paula wrote: "Got 133Re 134 - there is no need to delete the information can be edited - please create a new thread with the information to be changed - it has a valid ISBN
Got 135 and 136"
Thank you. I already created a new one. *blushes* But next time when I come across something like this I'll know what I have to do. Thank you.
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Your request was message number 145. When a request has been completed we note the message number so other librarians know it has already been addressed. I was saying in a very quick way your request had been addressed. :)
Since technically this is not a book should it really be on here?http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
Over on the side where it says Books by... there is alot more like this...So I didn't really know who too go to about this
~ Sam ~ wrote: "Since technically this is not a book should it really be on here?http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
Over on the side where it says Books by... there is alot more li..."
Since it has an ASIN, it was auto-imported. The simplest solution is to put NOT A BOOK as the author, b/c deleting it doesn't keep it from re-importing anew.
Violetta wrote: "~ Sam ~ wrote: "Since technically this is not a book should it really be on here?http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
Over on the side where it says Books by... ther..."
Oh okay It just really throw my off when I saw NOT A BOOK Thanks ^-^
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