Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

There are 3 profiles:

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


Could you please megre into one according GR rules?

done

Thank you very much, Scott. I see that you have combined not only the author’s profiles, but also all her books! Great job!

Please combine these author profiles:
Surjit Bhalla
Surjit S. Bhalla

#4 This is a Goodreads author, and librarians cannot edit their data. So I have sent staff a message to combine the profiles, as all of his book covers have the S.

Please merge this author's 2 pages. A general and biography is here

https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographi...

and these are his Author pages.

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

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

May you combine, thanks.

#6 done

Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
Pandit Rajmani Tigunait Phd.
Rajmani Tigunait
Pandit Rajmani Tigunati
PHD Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
Tigunait Rajmani Pandit

Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
K.M. Munshi
Kulapathi K M Munshi
K M Munshi
K,M.Munshi

Please combine Nikki Haley's 2 author pages/profiles. I'm not sure how to do it. Thanks. The 2 pages are:

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

and

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

Skipped 8 and 9
#10 Two of the books belong to Nikki Haley the politician, so I moved/combined those on the default profile and moved the other book to the 2 space profile.

Emily wrote: "Skipped 8 and 9
#10 Two of the books belong to Nikki Haley the politician, so I moved/combined those on the default profile and moved the other book to the 2 space profile."

Thank you, Emily :)

Please combine these profiles.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (duplicate)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (official)

#13 I've moved those books to the correct author, the scrip is now running to remove blank profiles. However, I've just noticed that there's a quote, so I've referred it to staff to switch that as well.

#8-9 I have merged them all but not combined the books yet. Please double check the merges.

Please combine:
Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
K. M. MUNSHI
K.M.Munshi

People keep adding books by the abbreviated name of this author. Is there any method to prevent that?

#16 done. And sorry, no, there is no way to stop it happening. Everyone is allowed to add books to the database.

#16 Manas wrote: "Please combine:
Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
K. M. MUNSHI
K.M.Munshi

People keep adding books by the abbreviated name of this author. Is there a..."

It looks like K.M. Munshi is the name he published his books under. I checked two English editions, and they both had his initials. Even the author bio on Goodreads says K.M. Munshi, not his full name.

Are there any English-language editions with Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi on the cover?

If not, his author profile should be changed to K.M. Munshi.

Also, it looks like none of the Gujarati editions have his name in the Gujarati spelling as secondary author (from the one I checked, that cover also seems to have the initials only: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... )

lethe wrote: "#16 Manas wrote: "Please combine:
Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
K. M. MUNSHI
K.M.Munshi

People keep adding books by the abbreviated name of this ..."

This is true. On book covers we see the abbreviated name K.M. Munshi. If the profile can be changed to K.M. Munshi then well and good. I just raised the query so that consistency is maintained in the future.

Manas wrote: "This is true. On book covers we see the abbreviated name K.M. Munshi. If the profile can be changed to K.M. Munshi then well and good. I just raised the query so that consistency is maintained in the future."

Thanks, have changed the name back to K.M. Munshi (it was changed only late last year).

Could you give the author's name in Gujarati?

lethe wrote: "Manas wrote: "This is true. On book covers we see the abbreviated name K.M. Munshi. If the profile can be changed to K.M. Munshi then well and good. I just raised the query so that consistency is m..."

If you mean how it's written in Gujarati then it's like this: ક. મા. મુનશી

Thank you! Can it also be written without the space between the initials: ક.મા. મુનશી ?

lethe wrote: "Thank you! Can it also be written without the space between the initials: ક.મા. મુનશી ?"

Sure, the dots mean the same as in English

Manas wrote: "lethe wrote: "Thank you! Can it also be written without the space between the initials: ક.મા. મુનશી ?"

Sure, the dots mean the same as in English"

Thank you!

Kudaisya Medha Malik (Correct way of writing the name)
Medha Malik Kudaisya