Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Hi,
The following book was added automatically:
ReImagination (Singularity's Children #4)
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

When I click the author on the new book, it does not say, 'Goodreads Author'

I think the system may have created a new Author with the same name as me when it added the book. Could you please check to see if there are two (or more) Toby Weston authors?

This is me:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Please merge ReImagination (Singularity's Children #4) as my book and migrate the one follower to me.

Please Note: I only wrote the Singularity's Children Sci-Fi books. There are other books (adult and pornographic) by somebody with the same name, as a bonus, I would be very happy if these would not show up as 'also by' when somebody clicks my name!

Many thanks in advance
Best regards
Toby

I have moved this book and a few other stray editions to your profile.

I did not see any porn so I guess someone else already got those.

Toby wrote: "Hi,
The following book was added automatically:
ReImagination (Singularity's Children #4)
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

When I click the author on the new b..."

There are apparently 3 authors with your name.

I disambiguated the titles, and made the links to the other authors on the default profile: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Ah, there it is.

That's great thanks!
I did just check the page here though:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

I now see only the erotic fiction books listed and their covers. My books and the programming books are not hidden, presumably because they have been added to the correct author. Could you maybe create a new 3rd author and assign the remaining erotic books to this person?

Many thanks
Toby

Scott wrote: "Ah, there it is."
Many thanks! I don't see the updated covers yet... but I guess that is just the caches clearing somewhere in the internet tubes?
Best regards
Toby

All the books on that profile seem to belong to the same author, so there's no point in creating yet another profile.

Toby wrote: "That's great thanks!
I did just check the page here though:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

I now see only the erotic fiction books listed and their covers. My books and..."

There are 3 authors.

Your profile is entirely different. There is a hyperlink to it on the page you list.

Goodreads disambiguates between authors of the same name with spaces before the last name.

Your author profile is Toby^^Weston where the ^ equals a space.

When books are imported from Amazon or any other publisher, they go to the default profile with 1 space, which is this profile: see: Toby Weston . That is why I put the alternate author information on this default author page.

Toby wrote: "I don't see the updated covers yet... but I guess that is just the caches clearing somewhere in the internet tubes?
Best regards
Toby"

Here is how you can set the new covers as the defaults:

https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...

Toby wrote: "Scott wrote: "Ah, there it is."
Many thanks! I don't see the updated covers yet... but I guess that is just the caches clearing somewhere in the internet tubes?
Best regards
Toby"

Only the author can set the default edition.

Here are the directions: Setting Default Edition

If you look at the "other editions" view on each title you will see the other editions.
example: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

Scott wrote: "All the books on that profile seem to belong to the same author, so there's no point in creating yet another profile."

OK, thanks.

Scott wrote: "Toby wrote: "I don't see the updated covers yet... but I guess that is just the caches clearing somewhere in the internet tubes?
Best regards
Toby"

Here is how you can set the new covers as the de..."
Thanks. Got it now.

Suzi wrote: "Toby wrote: "Scott wrote: "Ah, there it is."
Many thanks! I don't see the updated covers yet... but I guess that is just the caches clearing somewhere in the internet tubes?
Best regards
Toby"

Onl..."
Many thanks, I did not realize the old versions were kept as well. I have now updated to set the default version.

Cheers
Toby