Here's another one which Richard Light asked about earlier when discussing
author merges:

http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=a.+hamon

The first and last search results have already been merged together yet
show up separately in search.

Tom


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you look at any of my recent author merges (
> http://openlibrary.org/recentchanges/merge-authors.json), you should be
> able to find plenty of other examples too.
>
> For example, http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=edward+o+wilson shows
> three search hits (each with different numbers of works) which, if you
> click through, you can see have all been merged with
> http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL141176A/Edward_Osborne_Wilson
>
> When I put together the spreadsheet of author merge URLs, I noticed that
> there were a number of author entries from the LC imports a year ago which
> didn't show up in the search index at all.  I was generating the merges
> from the database dump, but if you did an online search by name, the
> authors wouldn't show up.
>
> Another problematic scenario is creating new author records when editing a
> work.  Because the authors don't get indexed, their impossible to
> find/reuse again.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:57 AM, jessamyn c. west <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Will do, thank you -- I've been forwarding you the items as I see them
>> from the Open Library email. Here's a recap.
>>
>> 1. Here is one example that has a grumpy emailer at the other end.
>> Haven't emailed you about it yet since there is also a lot of user
>> error involved.
>>
>> http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=sherman+keene
>>
>> These two authors have been merged. Expected result would be one
>> result, not two (they both go to the same page) with no "merge these
>> authors" option appearing on that page. User has added additional
>> works (in September) including these two which are not appearing on
>> their author page.
>>
>> http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16806644W/In_Plain_Sight
>> http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16806643W/Felony_Divorce
>>
>> 2. Another higher profile example is the Dean Koontz merge that was
>> done by an overzealous user and then undone (by me and then you helped
>> me to redo it when I wasn't sure it had completed) [emailed October 1]
>>
>> Here is the merge:
>> http://openlibrary.org/recentchanges/2013/09/24/merge-authors/47696714
>>
>> Here is the Dean Koontz page with zero titles
>>
>> http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL7119293A/Dean_Koontz
>>
>> Here is a search showing all the Dean Koontz books (and some Ed Korman
>> books) still attached to the author Ed Gorman
>>
>> http://openlibrary.org/search?q=ed+gorman
>>
>> 3. This author page [emailed September 3]
>>
>> http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL5132590A/Janice_Rebibo
>>
>> Is not showing a title that belongs to that author and was correctly
>> added in September
>>
>> http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16806345W/My_Beautiful_Ballooning_Heart
>>
>> 4. This author [emailed August 30th]
>>
>> http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL6775565A/Victoria_E._K%C3%BChnhardt
>>
>> shows with no titles on her author page despite having two titles
>> correctly associated with her
>>
>> http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16806308W/Wolkenschloss
>> http://openlibrary.org/books/OL25430075M/The_Enchanted_House_in_the_Woods
>> .
>>
>> 5. This item [emailed August 14th]
>>
>> http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16805869W/De_rede_in_het_nauw
>>
>> is not findable via basic searching for words in the title
>>
>> example 1: http://openlibrary.org/search?q=nauw
>> example 2: http://openlibrary.org/search?q=rede+nauw
>>
>> 6. This book not findable on author page or via search for title words
>> [emailed August 9th]
>>
>>
>> http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16805846W/Dictionnaire_des_onomastismes_qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois
>>
>> clicking through author page:
>>
>> http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL7170527A/Gabriel_Martin
>>
>> search:
>>
>> http://openlibrary.org/search?q=onomastismes
>>
>> ________
>> Jessamyn
>>
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>> vt 05060
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 05-Oct-2013, at 8:25 PM, jessamyn c. west wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm getting a lot of reports of people adding books they can not find
>> >> on their author pages or via Search. If people are adding records (as
>> >> we encourage them to do) but then can not find them, this is a
>> >> problem.
>> >>
>> >> Would it be possible to do something so that the search index is
>> >> updated and the author pages are showing recent additions/editions on
>> >> them so that people making changes can see the work that they have
>> >> been doing?
>> >
>> > Search updater seems to be running fine. If you can point me to couple
>> of URLs that are not showing up correctly, I can try to figure out what is
>> wrong.
>> >
>> > Anand
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