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Goodreads Author profiles needing merging
This Goodreads Author has an extra comma BEFORE the Jr.http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
A space between initials:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
NO dots after initials:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
An extra ' in front of the name (deliberate)
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
A "Dr.":
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
These two need combining
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
I'm including this one only because the GR rules seem to dislike a comma in an author's name:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Hey rivka. I messaged the author and she said she would love to have a link from Linda Winstead Jones to Linda Devlin added to her bio page.
Hi, can someone please merge this author account with mine? http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...It's me - I'm the one who penned the story for the anthology, Time Traveled Tales (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...).
Thanks!
"Dr.":http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
NO dots after initials:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
These pairs need editing then combining (first one is the keeper)
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Not quite sure how to describe this one:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
A Phd:http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
A Dr:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
A Rev:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
This one has a question mark in his name ?:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
This one has an entire alphabet in his name:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
This one seems to have two versions of his name:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Has " in his name:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Oddly apostrophed. The book cover suggests a space after the apostrophe:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
This is a wrong entry with 2 names, delete or merge into one of themhttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Thanks
Mod
Reminders: both author profile links, when it's a merge, please.
And some things are acceptable pen-name oddities, and will not be changed.
I posted a list of name amendments here about 10 hours ago; any idea where it might have gone?
A bunch of aka authors:http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
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Mod
Not in this thread.
rivka wrote: "Banjomike wrote: "I posted a list of name amendments here about 10 hours ago; any idea where it might have gone?"Not in this thread."
I know what you mean but I cut and pasted the various headers from a previous message of mine so I'm pretty confident that it hasn't gone to a different thread. Never mind.
Heya, these two need merging:http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
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Cameron wrote: "Heya, these two need merging:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."
No, they don't. There are books on the second profile that need to be moved to the first, most likely, but quite a few on that second profile do not belong to the GR Author.
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rivka wrote: "Second link is not working. Someone merged it elsewhere?"Sorry, that was me. I got distracted before I could post here.
The second link only had a single book which was attributed to BOTH the authors that Melody had listed. I removed the duff author from the book and merged the empty author with Unknown.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
(I've cross-checked author's site for lists of novels and translations: http://www.brigittegoldstein.com/)
Vielen Dank!
Banjomike wrote: "rivka wrote: "Second link is not working. Someone merged it elsewhere?"Sorry, that was me. I got distracted before I could post here.
The second link only had a single book which was attributed..."
Rivka had asked that we not do that since sometimes topics, quotes, and the like can be linked to the alternate spellings and can be easily missed.
Melody wrote: "Rivka had asked that we not do that since sometimes topics, quotes, and the like can be linked to the alternate spellings and can be easily missed. "I hadn't seen that. Sorry. Won't do it again. Will go and eat chocolate.
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Excellent!
Also got 896.
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rivka wrote: "Did 903. Confused as to why you changed the author name on that book to the non-GR-author version, though."I didn't. I think the system assumed I had, because there weren't any librarian edits before me (I added the cover, publish date, and description).
Edit: Oh I see what happened. I had the edit page open while I was looking for the image, description etc., and someone changed the author name before I saved my changes. Obviously my edit page still had the old name so it got "changed".
Sorry, I also added the author's initial, but then thought I should double-check the Librarian Manual. I remember reading somewhere that all variants should link to the most common variant, but I didn't find that rule right away. So I got nervous and thought I should revert until I confirmed.Well, all's well that ends well!
HiFor some reason this GA:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
has 2 spaces Matt**Rees but I don't see a Matt*Rees in use so... please fix?
tia
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I added my most recent ebook to Goodreads, but can't add it to my author page because I'm listed as Kevin Hallock, but my author name for the ebook is Kevin J. Hallock. Here's a book in my author dashboard:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...
And here's the book I'd like to add to my author's dashboard:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...
Thanks.
Mod
Do you prefer to have your profile name (and what shows up on all your books) include your middle initial or not include it?
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