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Subject: Ol-discuss Digest, Vol 41, Issue 4
-- title: Harry Potter, Band 7
-- subtitel: Harry Potter und die Heiligt?mer des Todes
I would edit this to be:
title: Harry Potter und die Heiligt?mer des Todes
series: Harry Potter #7
Although Harry
Am I the only one who doesn't see the problem with merging all the works by one
person into one author record? Why is it bad that all the individual Samuel
Clemens and Mark Twain records are merged into one? I haven't worked on those
records, but I think that if I had I probably would have
For what it's worth, I agree with the people who are against censorship on OL.
Also, I have been adding some of these books too, specifically those published
by Corinth Publications (don't click on the link if you don't want to see super
cheesy pulp fiction covers from the 1960s). These
Your question brings up an idea... of linking OL books to IMDB (or
another movie database) pages for movies made from books.
Karen, that's a cool idea. Maybe the works page should have an option to
include links. Right now, you can add a link to an edition, but that seems
inadequate. For
Patrick, my workaround is to edit the author name by adding something unique to
it (e.g. change it to David Clarke this is the one), then wait for the
database to update, then go into the work and change the author to David
Clarke this is the one then wait for the database to update, then go
1. Today I came across a record that had been edited to include spam (here).
Slimy! Since the bot (bots?) that created the spam has been updating this
record with fresh spam hourly, I don't think that me changing the record will
help: my little handmade changes will be washed away in the wave
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
Wow, that was unexpected. I changed the edition that I had listed to
have the correct Work title, it changed the Work title for all of them.
Ben, that's probably what you meant about it saving the unchanged Work
as well? I'll wait and see if it gets sorted out, but you can look at
the
I agree that more options for users to handle duplicates are needed.
But I am afraid efforts have to come from users (I'd love to try
automatic duplicate detection on the OL records, but I have no
experience yet, except for having MySQL find duplicate work titles,
and need to do other work).
Sometimes, I find it frustrating not to be able to merge multiple editions
into one record (I only can do half of the work). Sometimes, I writer a
support request but sometimes I don't. Simply because this causes more work
for me (explain which record should be deleted why) and to some
I am finding that the search results for an author isn't changed even after an
author merge. I have several examples of this from recent work. One is Janet
Louise Moody. There were two records for her, so a search on her name returned
two results, OL5410443A and OL5410444A. After moving both
One trick you can use to get around the latter problem is to search for a
book title (e.g. Far Rainbow) and then click the merge authors button on
the right hand side. That will give you authors with all kinds of
different spellings (but only for that single title search).
Tom, this is
Question: I want to edit Beam of Malice by Alex Hamilton. When I search authors
for Alex Hamilton, the results tell me he has 13 books
about Short stories, Horror tales, Description and travel, Buildings,
structures, Bibliography,
including Beam of malice. When I click on the author,
The hardware maintenance is complete and openlibrary.org is back online.
Merge authors is still not back up.
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