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Book & Author Page Issues > Superlibrarian Disambiguation Request, please

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message 1: by Paw3pals (last edited Mar 04, 2014 12:06AM) (new)

Paw3pals | 1939 comments This was originally posted in the wrong thread, I think (as it got zapped from the merge GR author thread). And yes, the math/statistics books are by father and/or son professors.

Disambiguation from GR author profile edit page of Michael Sullivan needed for the below:

Michael Sullivan (Michael^^^Sullivan) is author of:
Algebra and Trigonometry
Brief Calculus
College Algebra
College Algebra and Trigonometry
College Algebra: Concepts Through Functions
Finite Mathematics
Precalculus
Trigonometry

Michael Sullivan III is author of:
Developmental Mathematics
Elementary Algebra
Elementary & Intermediate Algebra
Fundamentals of Statistics
Intermediate Algebra
Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data


message 2: by Koenraad (new)

Koenraad (koenraadkelemen) | 6989 comments Books moved to the respective profiles.
I also moved a number of books to Michael Sullivan and Michael Sullivan.


message 3: by Cait (new)

Cait (tigercait) | 4988 comments I don't have time to look into this right now, I'm afraid, but it doesn't need a superlibrarian. Any librarian can edit the books' authors to the correct author name.


message 4: by Paw3pals (last edited Mar 04, 2014 08:21PM) (new)

Paw3pals | 1939 comments Disambiguation via profile edit page gives a list of books with radio buttons to select those to move to another author.

Koenraad, thank you, very much. And you went beyond the request too.

Cait, yes, I frequently edit individual book records to change the author. But in this case, there were very, very many that needed changing - almost 100? I did individually change the ones where the Sullivan name was not the first listed and the ones for China Art & Political/Social Science Michael Sullivan.


message 5: by Cait (new)

Cait (tigercait) | 4988 comments Paw3pals wrote: "Disambiguation via profile edit page gives a list of books with radio buttons to select those to move to another author."

Yes, but that page is not available when an author is part of the Goodreads Author program, not even to superlibrarians.


message 6: by Paw3pals (new)

Paw3pals | 1939 comments Cait wrote: "Paw3pals wrote: "Disambiguation via profile edit page gives a list of books with radio buttons to select those to move to another author."

Yes, but that page is not available when an author is par..."


If not a superlibrarian, then what is the correct title to ask for this? Is it GR Staff?


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