Thanks, Tom. I'm idly working through starting near the bottom. I notice that some of the authors have zero works -- I'm not sure how this happens but I think I've seen this before . I assume it was a merge or clean-up that didn't fully clean up after itself. I'm merging these anyway.
kc On 9/1/13 10:13 PM, Tom Morris wrote: > Richard Light has generated a list of candidate author record duplicates > that we need your help with verify. > > I've uploaded the list to a Google Docs spreadsheet where everyone can > help work on it: > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak8syCNT8x2DdDJrb0NYaHNmSlpacnV0SkI4MTQtQXc#gid=1 > > There are two columns of URLs. The right hand column contains a merge > URL which, when clicked, will show you the two candidate records and ask > you to confirm the merge. > > Please select the record with the best name form and most works as the > primary record, double check that they're really the same author and > then click merge. > > Alternatively, click the search URL and see if there are other > candidates that could be merged with slightly different name forms or > perhaps missing a date. This will clean up more records, but requires > attention to detail to make sure you don't actually merge two different > people together. If you are at all unsure, something is a match, leave > it out. > > If the "winning" record has the name in inverted form (ie Smith, John), > you earn extra brownie points for editing the author record and cleaning > it up. > > Please *delete the URL* from the cell for whichever option that you > choose so that your co-workers know that you've already processed that > entry. > > There are about 2,000 sets of records on the list, but I'm betting that > we can make pretty short work of the cleanup. > > Thanks for your help! > > Tom > > p.s. If you're using the search URLs, you may occasionally find a case > where the search returns no results due to search index problems. In > this case, please just click on the direct merge URL. > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list - [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
