Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Well, here is a big project. There are 329 editions shelved on this entry; as with many of the classics, I suspect there may be one or two duplicates there. But now I just want to point out some stray entries I came across that could be added to this entry. There is this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... and this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3.... For good measure, there is an entry for vol. 2 alone (at least one 19th century edition of Flaubert's complete works published this title in two volumes): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.... Any takers?

combined the 3 strays all with inaccurate names (pub, reverse order, only 1 of the names)

I'm not sure what you mean by the second part of your request. It seems to be combined with equal versions
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... your link
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio... what it's combined with.

Thanks very much, Corinne, for fixing the first three entries that I flagged.
As for the second part of the request, I'll confess ignorance. What we have is one book by Gustave Flaubert. In some editions, it's published as one volume. In others, as two. Is there a general GR policy on how to handle that, especially if someone (in many cases, a bot from one of those companies that download free text of out-of-copyright books and contrary to terms of usage publish it for profit) creates separate entries for single volumes?

I know we want to only combine equal editions. We wouldn't want to combine a book that is 2 parts of 1 with the original book. And we wouldn't combine the 2 parts together. That would be three listings
-1 volume
-volume 1of2
-volume 2of2

Sometimes we even make a series out of the parts to keep them together https://www.goodreads.com/series/1995...
As you can see they are all individual listings.

Sounds like you are suggesting there is some messy combining going on. You may want to explain what you have found that is wrong with some examples. Also, you could change the folder in your subject header to "Looking for a Project" and the title to something like "un-combining multi-volumes"

Corinne, thanks very much for your reply. I think I'm clear now about how GR handles these cases. I'll keep that in mind before I flag entries in the future.