On 2011-12-06 07:12, Sarah Breau wrote: > > However, it subsequently occurred to me that, to cater > > for errors or misunderstandings in merging, a facility > > is also needed to transfer works between authors and > > editions between works. > > This is a brilliant idea. Right now, moving works between authors is > difficult. For example, this morning I am working on Charles Lamb, and I > have had to rename the fighter pilot Charles Lamb so I can move his > works that got caught up in the essayist Charles Lamb to him. There are > so many Charles Lambs that he doesn't appear on the author drop-down > list. When I am done moving his works to him, I will have to change his > name back to just "Charles Lamb". To make matters worse, the bot that > makes these changes is slow right now, so even though I changed the > author's name last night, I had to wait until this morning for the > change to go through so I could gather his works together. > > Just going to point out: the fighter pilot Charles Lamb only wrote the > one book. All these editions I am gathering are the same work, and > several are even the same edition. Sure wish I could merge these > together to reflect that there really is only one work for this author. ;-)
I'm keen to fix all these points. We should have the pages update instantly, and we should make it easier to enter the author name on the works page. Maybe if we let people enter the author Open Library ID (like OL123M) it would make things easier. I think you're referring to You're talking about this Charles Lamb: http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL18271A/Charles_Lamb Can you give me the page for the other Charles Lamb, the fighter pilot? Cheers, -- Edward. _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
