Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

I am a bit confused about the issues of Sirius the editor Borivoj Jurković published... First sixteen issues of Sirius I personally added - covers are mine, descriptions mine and the authors lists mine. I stopped with number 16, after which some other librarian continued adding the series. If not sure, you may see clearly the differences between descriptions of numbers 01-16 from 17+.

However, it seems all my contributions to these adds completely vanished, although my name was mentioned in the table below, but above it looks like all the author additions were made by some unknown deleted member (?) and all the others by that other contributor.

I usually do not care who added what, but I liked these edits, because it really took some effort to make them, you know, scan the cover, write the descriptions scrolling through the each page of the each book etc. So yes, a bit of my pride is hurt. Please, can somebody tell me what happened?

The 'deleted member' could a automatic import. Later they changed the names of those imports to less confusing names.

Renske wrote: "The 'deleted member' could a automatic import. Later they changed the names of those imports to less confusing names."

I am not sure I understand -- when the import is automatic, say by ingram or randomhouse, we can see that it was theirs. So this wasn't automatic... Besides, I know it wasn't, as I was that one who added these books in the first place.

I guess it was GR glitch, those adds were done before GR decided to go with those automatic updates that did mess with my other books too.

Anyway, thank you for the answer. I am aware that damage done cannot be repaired, just felt the need to vent the frustration a bit... Sorry for the rant. Thank you again :)

Zeljka wrote: "I am not sure I understand -- when the import is automatic, say by ingram or randomhouse, we can see that it was theirs. So this wasn't automatic... Besides, I know it wasn't, as I was that one who added these books in the first place."

No, it could certainly be a bot. Read this thread.
www.goodreads.com/topic/show/995575-g...

Banjomike wrote: "No, it could certainly be a bot. Read this thread.
www.goodreads.com/topic/show/995575-g... "

Oh - I see. Wasn't aware of that new policy. But that kind of makes me more shocked - so I should shelve here all of my 1000+ books that I own but haven't read yet, so they wouldn't disappear from here? o:O

I dislike big TBR lists, never saw point in them... Oh no. Now it comes to my mind -- so I really do have to check my dusty bookshelves again from the top to the bottom to see if those books are still here in the database? Oh no... Makes all my efforts so far pointless and my time totally wasted - and if I repeat the process, I would constantly fear they would disappear again!

Thank you for enlightening me, Banjomike - no sarcasm, I mean it honestly.

*now going to sob silently in the darkest corner of the room*

Zeljka wrote: "Oh - I see. Wasn't aware of that new policy. "

I'm not sure it was a policy. More likely giving the delete bot a daft name was a balls-up. It is going to screw-up the audit trail of many, many thousands of transactions.

Starting from this posting:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/9...
it was made clear that only unshelved Wikipedia and print-on-demands were deleted. "Goodreads mass editor" is the proper name of the bot which ran for about 10 days.

We never did find out how many of those crappy editions were dealt with.

Banjomike wrote: "...it was made clear that only unshelved Wikipedia and print-on-demands were deleted."

Yes, I've seen that, and I guess that makes sense in case nobody did shelve any of them. Although on the way that editor obviously cleaned up other things too that it shouldn't have ;) Never mind that, thanks, I've already gotten over the issue :)

But, last night I anyway made some checks for some of my real paperbacks and it seems many of my edits I've made before August are messed up now, in some cases covers are gone and in others the descriptions too. However, for these changes I may freely blame Ingram etc because in most of them is stated the change was made by their automatic import. Now, that had hit me much harder than that ridiculous pride issue above :) Never mind that too, I'll try to fix these books some time in the future - they would still be here on my real bookshelves ;)

Thank you for the answer, Banjomike!