These authors could use work

[rivka, Former Moderator]

It does have more text than the average calendar, but my inclination would still be to Not a Book it.

[Cait]

Hmm! I would lean toward considering that a book, honestly -- one that could be combined with the 2003 edition, even, although that doesn't seem to be in our database (and I have no intention of adding it).

[Lisa]

For me, it's NOT A BOOK, in part because lots of day at a glance calendars have a lot of material, but users generally go page by page and do not save or reuse the way they would a book. Also, if readers are truly interested in the material, I'd think they'd read the book as well as use the calendar. Just my opinion. (I didn't change it though given the differences of opinion.)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

users generally go page by page and do not save or reuse the way they would a book. Also, if readers are truly interested in the material, I'd think they'd read the book as well as use the calendar.

Exactly.

[Cait]

Yowza. Anyone feel up to tackling Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra?

[vicki_girl]

Cervantes will be difficult since Don Quixote was originally published in two volumes. Some editions have the entire text, others only have part 1 or part 2. To make it more complicated, some editions are 4 or 6 volumes.

I tried separating out the various volumes from the complete editions, but I think I just made things worse....

[Cait]

Oh, that helped a lot, vicki! Thank you! (And oh how I hate the numbering systems -- or lack thereof -- on those EasyRead Large Print Editions, sigh. I shudder to think how hard it must be for people who want to buy those editions to keep track of them!)

[Cait]

Okay, I have Stewart down to one book -- is there anyone who can clear it out entirely? I suspect reading Chinese would be useful here....

[rivka, Former Moderator]

WorldCat to the rescue!

[Cait]

Anyone want to tackle Shaw? The two Japanese literature books just show "Editor: Shaw" and the child care book doesn't seem to exist at all....

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Looks like someone else did most of the work on the Japanese books, and I dug up the authors for the childcare book. (I think it's an academic paper, probably with very limited release. But it was cited elsewhere.)

[Cait]

Awesome! :)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Seriously, how did we EVER manage before Google? ;)

[mlady_rebecca]

Don't have the foggiest idea what to do with this one:

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

Also:

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

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

I've also noticed quite a few biblical quotes in the quote list. How should they be attributed?

[Corinne]

NAMES:

Williams
Smith

[Corinne]

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

[Corinne]

Johnson
White
Hall
Clark
Robinson
Harrison
Hernandez
Wright
lopez
Hill
Adams
Adamson
Baker
Gonzales
Carter

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Ay, caramba!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

And because that's not nearly enough . . .
Na
Peter
Tom
Dan
Gordon
Quinn
David
Casey
Alain
Lee
Victor
john
West

[vicki_girl]

There's also...

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

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


ETA: And there's also "Paul"

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

and "Porter"

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

[vicki_girl]

I can't find the correct author for these books listed under "Alan"

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

[vicki_girl]

~groan~

And another..."Ross"

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

[Sherry]

Add this one as well
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Got the Alans (only once of which actually was).

[Sherry]

There are 106 books under this listing.

Does anyone want to take this on ....
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...

Look like many different sets of books got combined here. This reminds me of Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle.

I'm not familar enough with these works to do this.

[Kiri]

Sherry wrote: "There are 106 books under this listing.

Does anyone want to take this on ....
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...

Look like many different sets of books got comb..."

I know enough and have things here that already tell me these (from looking at the first few "editions") these contain different stories and so forth. I'll see what I can do to sort that out. =) (but don't let that stop anyone else from wading in.. trust me.. like de Balzac.. there is PLENTY to go around with Chekhov!)

[Sherry]

I've got one more ... The author's name is "*".

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

How does this happen? (This is a rhetorical question...)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Amazon is how. And those are all NABs. And NAB'd.

[Sherry]

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

Another set of punctuation as an author.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

It seems to have taken the place of the last "author" by that name. Added to the sys list. ;)

[Melody]

I got them.

[Sherry]

I also found a series of authors whose last names begins with extra spaces. I have been working my through these. (I'm adding this as a correction to this post - I should have said before the FIRST names!!).

[Melody]

NOOOOOO!! Check the disambig thread!!!!!!

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

[Paul]

Dear all - apparently there are two Tony Kushners, which are mixed up here

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

There's the Angels in America guy and the Holocaust scholar....

[Melody]

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

This needs Inc removed from all the listings and then the author listing for Inc changed to something (like not a book) so it will disappear.

[Sherry]

Melody wrote: "NOOOOOO!! Check the disambig thread!!!!!!

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
"

Wait, I meant that these are spaces at the BEGINNING of the names. I understand the extra spaces in the middle of names, but these were spaces in the beginning - like ^Homer instead of Homer.

Must not have made myself clear. Sorry.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Those should be refusing to save at all. Where did they come from?

[Sherry]

Don't know, but there are still some there. If you go to the "add book/author option" and type in a single space and then click search. You will have a list of authors that do have a space at the beginning of their names.
مهندس مهدی مهرورزMehdi Mehrvarz
as an example.

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

I think they can be imported that way. You can't purposefully put in a name with a leading space and get it to work, but we've encountered these a few times before.

[Sherry]

Melody wrote: "NOOOOOO!! Check the disambig thread!!!!!!

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
"

Melody, you are absolutely correct, spaces before the LAST names stay. I found spaces before the FIRST names. However, as a word of caution to all librarians, I want to clarify this - Melody is 100% correct, be careful not to disrupt the disambiguation spaces. These represent hours (days?) of time to create.
Thanks.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Ah, are they all two-language authors? That would actually explain it, especially if the second language is a left-to-right one, as in that example.

Also, I got all the Inc.'s. Also the INC's.

[Sherry]

rivka wrote: "Ah, are they all two-language authors? That would actually explain it, especially if the second language is a left-to-right one, as in that example.

Also, I got all the Inc.'s. Also the INC's."

Many were, but not all were. But that does at least make more sense.

Congrats on the Inc.'s.

[Melody]

Sherry, glad it was FIRST name and not LAST name.

I can't make it search for a blank space. Where are starting your search?

[Sherry]

See message 441 on this thread. I use the add book/author option on the comment window when in the group discussion topic page. There is a thread about this. I'll see if I can find it.
It really was a fluke, I was cleaning up the "." authors and I mistakenly typed "^.", (but with space not the ^ character) and up popped a whole series of authors. There were actually some with 2 spaces as leaders.

If you search here, you can use any character as the first letter of the first name.

I have used this technique before to clean up "Jr." and "Ph.D." that are listed as the first name.

[Sherry]

Found the link to the prior thread.

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8...

Begin on post# 14.

:)

[Melody]

I see it. Wow - didn't know that was even there. Thanks Sherry.

[Melody]

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

Disc 8

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Got it; working on its relatives. All non-books.

[Melody]

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

[Lisa]

Melody, Oh, that is just so weird. Yeah, I want to become a fan of 128. Wonder how that came about.