Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

The author Alex Singer uses two names across different work. Alex Singer is the name used on her comics work and small-press/independently published work, and Alex T. Singer is the name used on professionally published work.

Could somebody please add notes to both author bios to link the pages to each other?

Bumping.

Another bump.

Bump.

Bumping again.

Do all the books on the Alex Singer profile belong to Alex T. Singer?

Not all of them, but there aren't many and it shouldn't be hard to move them to another author profile.

Books that don't belong to Alex (T.) Singer:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (should be invalidated, this appears to be a museum brochure)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Ok, I believe I have got them all.

It looks like you moved the real Alex Singer's books to the Alex T. Singer page and left the books that don't belong to her on the Alex Singer page? I thought they should be kept separate since she writes under both names.

If you need me to make a list of books to move back to the real Alex Singer page, let me know and I'll do so.

We use the most complete version of a name if a single author varies.

Scott wrote: "We use the most complete version of a name if a single author varies."

I can think of at least one author where this isn't the case (separate author pages for Victoria Schwab and V.E. Schwab, with the former name being used for the author's children/teen books and the latter for her adult books), but if that's the procedure, then that's the procedure.

A few more issues left:

These two books need to be moved to the Alex T. Singer page:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

The Alex Singer page still has the author bio, Twitter link, and personal website link on it. Since this profile is no longer being used for Singer the author and is now a dumping ground for items from unrelated Alex Singers, the bio, Twitter, and personal site all need to be moved over to the other profile.

That's a bit of a different case than simply adding an initial. Anyway, Victoria is on GR. If Alex shows up and requests this change, we would be happy to do it.

I've fixed the other 2 books.

Thanks for your assistance. At the moment I can think of another case of an author using his name both with and without middle initials, which in this case would require the pages to be merged. Should I link the pages here or start a separate thread?

If it's Iain Banks or Dean Koontz, we already know.

Scott wrote: "If it's Iain Banks or Dean Koontz, we already know."

Nope, it's Adam Nevill/Adam L.G. Nevill.

Seems like all the books are duplicated on both profiles, so I've asked support to merge them.

GR policy states that the most complete version of a name is acceptable for an author who uses different ones. That is my preference as I like things consolidated but if another librarian wants to separate them that's ok too.

Much appreciated. One staff gets that merge done, I'll probably dig through the back pages of his profile to gather invalid items and start a separate thread for those. In the meantime, marking this thread as complete.