Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

First off, I'm not even sure if this is where this goes. If it isn't. Sorry. >_< I thought about adding it to one of the thread in the book discussion folder, but... I wasn't sure about that.


Here are two profiles for the same author:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...


It messes things up a bit because the same book [Back in Black] is on both author profiles, but they are separate entries in the system so none of the data is linked between them.

Basically that second profile, the duplicate, just needs taken out of the system. Or merged. Whatever is done with them.

I've moved the book to the correct author and merged it but I can't merge the authors because John G. Hartness is GoodReads author. Need someone with higher powers to either merge them or delete the invalid one.

Merged.

Thanks guys. =]

Can some Super-Librarian delete this profile: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... ?
It's a duplicate of this http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... profile made by accident. Thank you.

Merged.

Thank you. I found another one.

This one needs to be deleted: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

The *real* one is already here: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

Merged.

Found another set:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

Larry-bob wrote: "Found another set:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."

Looks like these two were disambiguated for a reason, I moved the books that belonged to Byron^^Harmon to his profile, but I'm not sure the ones left here belong to him.

Paul Roberts, author of the Permanent Enemy series (found via giveaways ending today), seems to have two profiles that need to be merged. One, with only the first novel of the series on his profile as a book he has written, is a Goodreads author. The other, who has written MANY more books, including the second of this series, is not a Goodreads author. Higher power rivka, can you correct this? He may need to be contacted, but I'm not sure how you would go about doing it.

Lydia wrote: "Paul Roberts, author of the Permanent Enemy series (found via giveaways ending today), seems to have two profiles that need to be merged. One, with only the first novel of the series on his profil..."

I moved "In Havana They Shall Die" to the goodreads author's page. The other books are most probably by several different Paul Roberts. Any disambig help is welcome: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... (Good Reads Author Profile)
and http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
are the same person. Any way to merge the two?

You can find proof on his website here: http://www.mikeoliveri.com/bibliography/
Thanks!

Shannon you'll need to post that in this thread - http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6... - as he is a GR author

Actually, I'd send him a message first. Looks like the two versions of his name are attached to somewhat different categories of books -- the separation might be deliberate.

Ok! I will message him. Thanks!

I see this fairly frequently on old books that have been scanned in by various companies for their historical value. Here is an extreme case where the author (Augusta Jane Evans Wilson) seems to have profile under every possible version of her name. The books I have( from the 1920s) list her as Augusta J. Evans on the title page. Should these all be merged, even though some of the books have new editions with Augusta Jane Evans on the cover?

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

Wikipedia lists her main name as Augusta Jane Evans so I combined them all, plus more I found under that name. I've also combined the various editions of her work.

Thanks, Kim. It took me a minute to catch up with you (GR "lost" my edition while this was in process).

I found 2 profiles for the same author :
May McGoldrick (right spelling) May McGoldrick
and May MC Goldrick (wrong spelling) May MC Goldrick

May someone merge them please ?

Done.

Hello ! Once again two profiles that need merging please
Princess Marthe Bibesco (right name) and Marthe Bibesco

Thanks

Got 22. I merged the name into "Marthe Bibesco" and added some details to the profile. Titles and honorifics are not used on GR unless necessary to establish the person's identity.

Ok, thank you

Please combine this author ( http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... ) with this official one ( http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/... )

Experiment BL626 wrote: "Please combine this author..."

Those requests should go in this thread http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7...