Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

The author "Hephaestus Books" actually seems to be a publisher.

The description states:
"Hephaestus Books publishes print-on-demand compilations of Wikipedia articles -- not original works."

Can someone make this change? I'm not sure who has the proper rights. Thanks!

Reference: Hephaestus Books

What do you think should be changed? It's a publisher which is also an author.

This is misleading - the authors are the original Wikipedia contributors.

The organization collates articles and publishes them. I would suggest keeping the publisher, but removing the author attribution from the books.

In any case, is it considered valid (as per GR policy) to mark a publishing organization as an author?

Yes, it is not just valid but appropriate for the publisher to be the author in this case. Hephaestus collates these articles, making them a de facto editor. No, they didn't write the material, but nor do the Wikipedia contributors appear on the title pages of these books. They may appear at the very end of the book in very small print. Given that dozens of people might work on each Wikipedia article, it wouldn't make sense for all of their names, or any of their names, to appear on the title pages.

Hmm.. the authorship still remains under the (many) Wikipedia contributors under the WP:CC BY-SA license.

However, I like the idea of keeping the author, but changing the Author Role to "Editor". That makes matters quite clear. Would you agree?

GR policy is to go with what the title page says. I doubt the title page in this case says Editor. But you could always check a copy to see.

OK then. Thank you for your help!

No probs.