Re: [ol-discuss] Want to merge authors? Try Shirley Institute/Wira Joint Conference (1977 Manchester, Eng.)

2012-10-26 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Anand, all, You no longer need to work on that API to merge the 1+ Shirley Institute/Wira Joint Conference (1977 Manchester, Eng.) authors, because I just finished the job. Now eventually the author page [1] will list 1+ copies of the exact same work/edition. So some automation to

Re: [ol-discuss] Want to merge authors? Try Shirley Institute/Wira Joint Conference (1977 Manchester, Eng.)

2012-05-10 Thread Ben Companjen
On 10 May 2012 04:28, Anand Chitipothu an...@archive.org wrote: On 09-May-2012, at 6:35 PM, Ben Companjen wrote: Hi, Although I found 341 duplicates of President Clinton a lot yesterday, there is still the author that goes by the name Shirley Institute/Wira Joint Conference (1977

Re: [ol-discuss] Want to merge authors? Try Shirley Institute/Wira Joint Conference (1977 Manchester, Eng.)

2012-05-10 Thread Ben Companjen
On 10 May 2012 05:08, Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net wrote: OK, now I get that too. No idea what I did different before but... nevermind. Maybe you used the search box on the top right of the page, instead of the search box you see after you click Authors left of the OL logo, and chose one of

Re: [ol-discuss] Want to merge authors? Try Shirley Institute/Wira Joint Conference (1977 Manchester, Eng.)

2012-05-09 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On 09-May-2012, at 6:35 PM, Ben Companjen wrote: Hi, Although I found 341 duplicates of President Clinton a lot yesterday, there is still the author that goes by the name Shirley Institute/Wira Joint Conference (1977 Manchester, Eng.). There are a whopping 10,047 authors with that name!

Re: [ol-discuss] Want to merge authors? Try Shirley Institute/Wira Joint Conference (1977 Manchester, Eng.)

2012-05-09 Thread Karen Coyle
OK, now I get that too. No idea what I did different before but... nevermind. This has got to be a bug. The same item has been entered who knows how many times, and at least some of the IDs are consecutive. http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4602522A http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4602523A