Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Hey (:

So, I added a book with translatet speeches of him (ISBN 9783426278970, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...). The german version of his name is clear, but the english version, I need to put first (we've discussed this with a different author somewhere else), is ... confusing. His Twitter handle is @ZelenskyyUa, so he is using two "y", and Wikipedia is also using this variation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodym... (they are showing a lot of other variations also). But a lot of other times, like here https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., they are writing him with a single "y", the same with books about him.

So my question is: How the heck do you want to write him? And want to merge the two author profiles maybe?

Thanks!

I am curious to see what other Librarians think, but my inclinations is to go with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as he has clearly indicated publicly that is now his preferred spelling. And since Volodymyr Zelensky is entirely included in Volodymyr Zelenskyy, merging one-y into two-y would be consistent with our usual practice.

Do both show up in a search for you when you search 'Zelensky'? A search for 'Zelensky' turns up both results for me, but a search for 'Volodymyr Zelensky' doesn't turn up 'Volodymyr Zelenskyy' results. I'm not sure why.

Liralen wrote: "Do both show up in a search for you when you search 'Zelensky'? A search for 'Zelensky' turns up both results for me, but a search for 'Volodymyr Zelensky' doesn't turn up 'Volodymyr Zelenskyy' res..."

Same here, when I search for "author" and "all". As soon as you search with the identical first name you get diffrent search results.

This is why maybe someone should do something. But the difficult thing is, that most of the books about him, have "Zelensky" on the cover. And has more books on his author profile, than "Zelenskyy". And I've read a newspaper article, where they refered to him with "y" instead of "yy". That's why I'm asking.

Official Ukrainian transliteration that should be used on his passport is Volodymyr Zelenskyi. This is exactly the same as Kyiv.
You can check for yourself: https://dmsu.gov.ua/services/translit...

Current standart is official in Ukraine and is in use from 2010.
Western media usually uses Volodymyr Zelensky because there's no way for an English speaker to pronouce the "yi" ending.

Zelenskyy is an older standard (BGN/PCGN 1965).

Book publishers can call him whatever they want, but there should be one page per author, right?

No, we keep a page for each spelling that appears on a book.
This is so that anyone who has a book can find the author here. (The search is not "fuzzy.")

Makes sense. So should there be one main page with author's name in English, that's attached to all of his works in all languages?

nvm, reading a manual helps
https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...