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Goodreads Author profiles needing merging BY GR STAFF pt. 2
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lafon حمزة
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Oct 08, 2012 05:36AM
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... Only an "author" of calendars. Her website is here: http://www.weekdate.com/home.htm
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Banjomike wrote: "fake death datehttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."
From his photo I'm going to guess it's also a fake birth date.
rivka wrote: "A general comment: If a profile has no books, no fans, no quotes -- no content at all, it does not need this thread. The cleanup script will get it."Also, I've seen a few of the Sonny/Ais comments before, but I wasn't sure what to do with this one. Easiest solution? Let rivka deal with it. ;)
Traveling Diva wrote: "Banjomike wrote: "fake death datehttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."
From his photo I'm going to guess it's also a fake birth date."
That is a fair bet, but I'm not certain that there are strict rules about birth dates. It is silly using duff data like that. It just makes me think that some authors are childish and need their legs broken. Or wrists slapped.
It just makes me think that some authors are childish and need their legs broken. Or wrists slapped. ::passing banjo a cup of decaf::
Beth wrote: "::passing banjo a cup of decaf::"Humph. Dedication doesn't bring the rewards it used to. Decaf? Yuk!
Seriously though, some of the tweaks we are posting here for Rivka to fix could be avoided if new Goodreads Authors were told to either use NO birth dates or CORRECT ones and don't use death dates because they are not dead and don't have multiple names on the same profile. Maybe they are told that. Fixing these things is presumably easy but finding them can be a bit hit and miss.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Does anything even need to be said?
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... Name is written as "Osvaldo A. Fernández Domínguez" on both the cover and user page.Also, what should be done with Goodreads authors who have no books on their profile? And I'm not talking about the accidental misspellings, or intentional vandalizations.
I'm pretty sure these should be merged:http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... (profile for author's full name, where she's a GR member)
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... (profile for author's nickname to which some of her works are credited)
lafon حمزة wrote: "Also, what should be done with Goodreads authors who have no books on their profile? And I'm not talking about the accidental misspellings, or intentional vandalizations. "I know. It makes me wonder how they prove to Goodreads that they ARE an author in the first place.
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Those are the usual ways that happens, but post here and I'll take a look.
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rivka wrote: "lafon حمزة wrote: "Also, what should be done with Goodreads authors who have no books on their profile? And I'm not talking about the accidental misspellings, or intentional vandalizations."Those are the usual ways that happens, but post here and I'll take a look."
Another way that I've noticed recently seems to be that after (or even before) becoming a Goodreads Author they just don't bother adding (or asking for US to add) their books.
This chappie (joined Dec 2011)
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
has one book on his website (published Dec 2011)
http://www.dandrewsbishop.com/
No sign of anything like that on GR or any misspellings. Just not there.
There are plenty more authors like that. How about requiring a new GR author to have some sort of publication on GR before they can become a GR author? Even if only a placeholder for a book. At the moment the ONLY purpose that an author page like the one above serves is to allow him to have a link to HIS site where he can sell the book (via Amazon in this case).
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... Seems to be writing under T.L. Erikson. User profile also say Erickson. So does the book. Not too sure why the profile says Aspeling...Lord, researching these authors is making me have to many tabs open! I'm getting lost.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... No books, and I can't access his blog to see anything. For every author I post here, there's like five or six that I fix myself by finding the details on the web... That's quite a bit.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... No books. Not sure, but this is the only book I could find with her name on it. http://www.worldcat.org/title/creatin... Also there are quite a few obits for this particular name. Not entirely sure how accurate they are though.
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Why?
Because that's what she published as. I couldn't upload the cover due to the fact that it was only on bookseller sites.
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Can't use info from those sites either.
rivka wrote: "lafon حمزة wrote: "Because that's what she published as. I couldn't upload the cover due to the fact that it was only on bookseller sites."Can't use info from those sites either."
But that's exactly my point. I scavenged most of the info from around the web, on sites that are not directly linked to booksellers. I'll see if I can find a single source.
ETA: Her profile image on twitter shows the covers of her books. You can just make out the author name. https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/...
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http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... His book used to be on Goodreads, but now the link no longer goes anywhere. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...I could add it quite quickly, but maybe there is an easier way?
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Sounds like some misguided librarian may have deleted it. I would just go ahead and add it back, maybe with a Note.
rivka wrote: "Re 937: I am not going to discuss GR current or past policies on adding authors to the program. I do see a simple fix in this case, though . . ."Pausing for a brief quake in ones underwear, the book is added.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... Authors manuscript was removed. Not sure if there was a behind-the-scenes desicion to keep her as an author, but figured I'd check. http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... Seems to have orginally been Suzanne Thomas. Not sure what could be going on here though. And I think that this will be the last one for the day.
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