Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

The following "David B" author profiles need editing to match goodreads standards.

- Most just need a period after middle initial and editions combined as appropriate.
- If editing tries to merge with goodreads author, please cross-post just that author to http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... so staff can do the merge
- if no books, skip as auto-sweep should remove
- in some cases, where last name looks odd, could be a glitch with some data imports where it is not an initial but a character like á, ü, ê, etc. being replaced with a space (For example, "Fredrik Kötten" and "Jane Pérez" may have accidentally imported as "Fredrik K Tten" and "Jane P Rez").

Author profiles to edit:

David B Agus
David B Auderetsch
David B Audretsch
David B Axelrod

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David B Calhoun
David B Casavis
David B Capes
David B Carlson
David B Caton

Message 5 done where possible, or cross posted to combine author other than David B Capes, where no author being shown.

Message 4.

David B.D. Min Biebel can't be done as it will be a combined author, but I'm sure that the "D. Min" bit is his qualification looking at the book cover.

Message 5, David B. Boone, Jr.

How will I need to change that one in respect of the Jr (Junior)?

Kay wrote: "Message 5, David B. Boone, Jr.

How will I need to change that one in respect of the Jr (Junior)?"

Kill the comma.

See http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/62... :
"Only social suffixes are used. This includes Jr., Sr., and Roman numerals. There is no punctuation between the name and the suffix.

Examples:
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Andre Dubus III

Other suffixes and prefixes are not included with author names:
*Academic degrees (BS, MS, PhD, MD, DDS, Prof, Dr. etc.) should not be used
*Honorary degrees (KBE, LLD, Sir etc.) should not be used
*Professional (Esq, CPA, CFA etc.) should not be used
Examples:
Diana Derval (not Prof. Diana Derval)
Robert C. Atkins (not Dr. Robert C. Atkins)..."

and http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/60...

"* There should be a period after each initial.
* There should be no spaces between consecutive initials.
* There should be one space (excepting disambiguation) between an initial and a non-initial.

Examples:

* J.K. Rowling
* J.R.R. Tolkien
* Philip K. Dick
* F. Scott Fitzgerald
* George R.R. Martin"

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Message 4

Apart from author combine Beibel done

Message 1

David B Agus - coming up as can't find
David B Auderetsch - seems to have been done
David B Audretsch - coming up as can't find
David B Axelrod - coming up as can't find

#10 and #11 done

Message 2

David B Amabilino - coming up as can't find
David B Arciniegas - coming up as can't find
David B Allison - coming up as can't find
David B.A. Silk - done
David B. Andrews Linda L. Davidoff - coming up as can't find

I am guessing they have now been combined.

Message 3

David B Bernardino - done
David B Bonynge - unable to do as combine author requested added to other thread
David B Boswell - done
David B Brushwood - unable to do as combine author required
added to other thread
David B Brooks - unable to do as combine author required added to other thread
David B Burrell - unable to do as combine author required added to other thread
David B Burr - unable to do as combine author required added to other thread

Message 10

David B Chamberlain - seems to be done
David B Chesebrough - coming up as couldn't find
David B Church - seems to be done
David B Charnay - coming up as couldn't find
David B Churchill - seems to be done

I think unless involves a goodreads author (which requires staff) that regular librarians can merge/combine? For example, David B. Brushwood is not a goodreads author (unless he claimed his profile as I was typing).

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Message 12

David B. Davies, (Da - combine request added to thread
David B Danbom - combine request added to thread
David B David B Almond - done
David B Damiano - combine request added to thread

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12-13, 14, 15,16, 25-24, 27-28 ready

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30-33 ready

Also checked 1-4 - seams good to me now :D

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36-38 ready

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39-43 done

45-46 ready

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