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message 1: by Rosenkavalier (new)

Rosenkavalier | 52 comments Hi, in the list of books of film critic David Thomson

https://www.goodreads.com/book/combin...

I see a huge number of books\magazines clearly unrelated to him (among others, about history, gardening, astronomy).

I don't know how to separate the other "David Thomsons" from the film critic, hope someone can help.

I have been told that authors with the same name have to be profiled with a different number of spaces between name and surname.
Honestly, I don't think this can work, surely if there are 5 or 6 people. It would be very easy to make mistakes.
Wouldn'it be possible to add a roman number (like in IMDB), so that we have David Thomson, DT (I), DT (II) and so on?


message 2: by Abcdarian (last edited Nov 07, 2022 10:05AM) (new)

Abcdarian | 26579 comments I've sorted the film critic out as well as I could tell, if you see any more books that should not be on his, let us know. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

The spacing thing works well; it doesn't affect searches for one thing.


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