It appears in some cases that WorkBot is consolidating editions into one work, but leaving orphan work records behind.
If you look at big authors with a lot of recent merges (such as Shakespeare or Sir Walter Scott), there are a number of works with zero editions left behind after merges. The last part of their listings are dozens of zero-edition works, and I'm pretty sure these are leftovers from merges. For example, take this book by Walter Scott, an Italian translation of his Waverly novel: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22188715M/Waverley_o_sessant'anni_sono It got merged into the main work: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22188715M/Waverley_o_sessant%27anni_sono?b=16&a=15&_compare=Compare&m=diff Which looks good. But the old work entry is still there with no editions: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15406148W/Waverley_o_sessant%27anni_sono and it seems like it should have been deleted when the edition was moved. Is it supposed to be this way, or am I just impatient (is there another cleanup that happens *much* later?), or is it broken? - Alan _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
