THE Group for Authors! discussion

I want to change my name to be both English and Arabic side by side..how can I do that ?
I wanted it to be like that

Omer Kamal El Deen, عمر كمال الدين

I don't have a link, Omer, but there's a Goodreads Librarians group who are experts in the technicalities of accounts and user names, who might be able to help.

Just a thought.

Eric

ok I will try to look for it..thanks so much

Omer

I did it..and changed it..thanks ..

Dual language named on an author profile is against GR policy

but I saw many writers do that..famous ones..

If there are profiles like that, it just means librarians haven't fixed them yet.

Individual books can have both names listed as author -- as yours do now.

so I can't have both my Arabic and English names ?

Not on a single profile. But each of your books has both names.

ok ..but no way to fix my name when I press my name up on the right ? it shows like this
عمر Kamal الدين

Sorry to intrude on a conversation that really doesn't affect me.

But I'm finding it difficult to under why Kamal (sorry, I have no idea how to reproduce the Arabic) can't do precisely what he has described above.

I know of one GR user who posts in a variety of threads/discussions whose name appears on this posts as "XXX something something something." He fairly frequently changes the three "somethings" in the example, and no one seems to be bothering him about it.

I've seen other users in my main group whose usernames are long and include symbols and words in unusual combinations. No one stops them.

Just my USD .02.

Eric

it's good now in both Arabic and English ..
but when I press on my name on the upper right
it's mixed in both Arabic and English ..and it's weird ..

and yes ...I found many strange names with weird symbols and mixed stuff and no one did something to them ..
and because I want my name in Arabic and English because I write in both languages ..every thing goes messed up like this ?

Kamal, like any other Goodreads user, can set his personal username (the name that appears when he posts in groups, and so on) to anything he wants.

It's only the name on the author profile and books listed under it which Goodreads has policies regarding.

Kamal, because English is left-to-right and Arabic is right-to-left, many fields which have both together won't display properly here. Sorry about that!

ok what can we do now ? :D this is getting on my nerves .. :D

will it appear properly for other people ? and in what language ?

You can absolutely edit your username. But as I said, if it includes both a left-to-right and a right-to-left language, it probably won't display properly.

What do you want your username to display as?

I think it's good for now..it shows properly to other people ..
doesn't matter if it shows like that to me..
if something goes wrong I will text you here..
thanks so much

Wanted to introduce myself first. I'm new to Goodreads and just joined your group as a new author. My husband and I co-wrote a novel. Now it looks like we've both got pages and I'd like to consolidate to one page with all of our info. Should I start by changing my username as Rivka suggests? I'm still finding my way around Goodreads and any suggestions would be appreciated.

Nancy, while you can certainly change your username, Goodreads keeps each author on their own profile. We don't combine two authors onto a single author profile.

Nancy, welcome to Goodreads! As Rivka rightly states, separate authors will need to have separate author profiles on Goodreads. I'm sorry about that.

I've gone ahead and removed the link from your post above as its considered self-promotion, which is not permitted in this group.