Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #41 - The Truth is in Vegas, Baby! Editi

**Please read as there have been modifications**
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This thread is for LT’ers or thingamabrarians, or members, or their designees, to post combining or separating problems with their books.

** If a book has been combined with a book that is extremely different from the original.
** If a book won’t combine with the other books just like it.
** There is a problem with the entry & it is just too overwhelming to deal with.

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WHEN YOU POST:

Give us the TITLE & author, plus any other information you think we might need & please NUMBER them if you post more than one.

Example:
..Please combine:

#1: The story of the life of you
http://www.librarything.com/work/XXXXXX
http://www.librarything.com/work/YYYYYYYY

#2: The story of the life of everyone else
http://www.librarything.com/work/WWWWW
http://www.librarything.com/work/ZZZZZZZZ

** Please do not give us search pages or author pages.
Give us concrete & specific works to be combined, not groups of possibles, unless you have questions. Series pages can be helpful.

** You can ask us to look at a set of works to ask our opinions or ask if someone with a specific language or subject knowledge look at your request, but please be brief.

** Make your request easy for yourself & for the combiners who will help you.

Then you can just wait, “and someone will be with you shortly.”
Please, keep in mind this work is done by volunteers, not LT staff.

*** If you number multiple requests, it makes it easier if someone can only work on part of a request.

*** If you edit your post to add new items to be combined, please indicate that they are new by preceding with “ETA:” or “Edit:”.

*** Also, please indicate when a request has been "DONE".
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Tim’s Guidelines for Proper Etiquette for contacting members about their book records:

“For this topic, I still feel strongly that I’d like to consider it bad form. Many others agree with me. But a few think I’m dictating and are angry about that. So, fine. Let’s just write some guidelines up. I propose that the guidelines be something along the lines of:

* Remember that LibraryThing is used for many different reasons. The way you use and enjoy the site is not necessarily the way others do.
* Be sensitive to how the member is using LibraryThing. Approach members who show no interest in the social side more cautiously.
* Try to provide helpful information and ask questions rather than dictating.
* If the user indicates displeasure at the request, let it drop.
* When in doubt, raise the issue in the Combiners! group before sending a message.”

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Skittles’ note: I would like to add that we should ALWAYS use private comment when we absolutely must contact a LT’er, even when their response isn’t private.
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Dr Mike’s (aka theapparatus) note:

If both works that need to be combine have more than 200 records, please post your request in this thread:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/95602

You need staff intervention to handle that request.
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When this thread reaches approximately 200 posts, DO NOT POST HERE, but go to thread #42. This thread will be easier to handle if we keep it under 200 (faster loading). Please copy any notes or instructions to the new thread. Thank you.

Feel free to add comments &/or suggestions ... not just “challenges.”

** There is also a Combiner’s Group Information, FAQ & Discussion Thread #2 at: http://www.librarything.com/topic/57164 . That thread is for combining information, discussion in general, not for problems ... .

** The wiki page is here: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Book_combining

Not a combination requestion but does this book:

http://www.librarything.com/work/8175

belong in this series:

http://www.librarything.com/series/Black+hole

Thanks

For things to combine, please see my 192, 196, 198 in the previous thread.

For sorting out a work that may not really be a single work, see 194.

http://www.librarything.com/work/11249117 (Trío de asesinatos by Rex Stout) claims to be #6 on the series page (apparently inputted somewhere besides the English Common Knowledge). But it doesn't sound like a translation of Some Buried Caesar by Rex Stout, and Google Translate gives me Trio of murder, which makes it sound like one of Rex Stout's collections of three short stories. As for which, it could be a literal translation of either Death Times Three or Homicide Trinity (or Three for the Chair, or Curtains for Three), or a new title for any number of books.

4>World cat gives a first publishing date of 1963 which would make Homicide Trinity (1961) very likely.

5> Thanks, I'll go with that.

>2 theapparatus:

Yes - the collected edition collected all 12 issues of the original series.

http://www.librarything.com/work/11490441/editions
http://www.librarything.com/work/10492628/editions

More Bibles...

1. Catholic Answer Bible (NAB)
http://www.librarything.com/work/295209
http://www.librarything.com/work/3087688

2. New Catholic Answer Bible (NAB)
http://www.librarything.com/work/5280904
http://www.librarything.com/work/8249605
http://www.librarything.com/work/7013590
http://www.librarything.com/work/324024

DONE

Someone please combine these please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3183227
http://www.librarything.com/work/6512638

edit: This one will probably need to be checked. Locked down terminal and all that:

http://www.librarything.com/work/7820686
http://www.librarything.com/work/11180539
http://www.librarything.com/work/10472326

I'm doing the first one in #11. I got my thingie working again. If you need the new url, drop me a comment please. :)

Someone else is going to have to check on the second request though.

Can anyone see any reason why these two versions of the complete works of Shakespeare ought not to be combined? Some editions of the main work must include Symmons' biography. It also looks like the main work could use some cleaning up. I saw some Norton editions in there, and possibly some other annotated versions that could be perhaps considered separate.

http://www.librarything.com/work/2480465/
http://www.librarything.com/work/7629978/

Please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/4727450/ without author

with

http://www.librarything.com/work/10424883/ by Mellini, Gian Lorenzo

Thanks for your time

ALL DONE

1. Gospels & Acts (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11674329
http://www.librarything.com/work/11674331
http://www.librarything.com/work/11674332
http://www.librarything.com/work/11674338
http://www.librarything.com/work/1881104
edit: http://www.librarything.com/work/5460111

2. Letters of St Paul (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/956972
http://www.librarything.com/work/11674357
http://www.librarything.com/work/11674352

3. Acts (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/34501
http://www.librarything.com/work/11674365
http://www.librarything.com/work/11674364
http://www.librarything.com/work/9605367

4. Revelation, Hebrews, etc. (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/2542532
http://www.librarything.com/work/3062891

5. Mark (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11674400
http://www.librarything.com/work/11674401
http://www.librarything.com/work/732525

6. Matthew (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/732524
http://www.librarything.com/work/11328489
http://www.librarything.com/work/9664572
http://www.librarything.com/work/2104915
http://www.librarything.com/work/133149

7. John (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/133147
http://www.librarything.com/work/10482852
http://www.librarything.com/work/9715439

8. Corinthians (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11674411
http://www.librarything.com/work/736962
http://www.librarything.com/work/9657030
http://www.librarything.com/work/4817769
http://www.librarything.com/work/2789158

9. Thessalonians etc. (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/4548262
http://www.librarything.com/work/1072392

10. Catholic Epistles (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/736933
http://www.librarything.com/work/9876859
http://www.librarything.com/work/2032895
http://www.librarything.com/work/2885180

11. Captivity Epistles (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/736982
http://www.librarything.com/work/6373909

12. Revelation (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/592360
http://www.librarything.com/work/4884079

13. Hebrews (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/4259756
http://www.librarything.com/work/736974

14. New Testament Compact Edition (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/434233
http://www.librarything.com/work/4276554

15. New Testament Expanded Edition (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/7559514
http://www.librarything.com/work/11674446
http://www.librarything.com/work/11674449

16. entire series (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/5206758
http://www.librarything.com/work/9400416

17. Wisdom Books (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/9277907
http://www.librarything.com/work/857615

18. Chronicles etc. (Navarre)
http://www.librarything.com/work/4885961
http://www.librarything.com/work/857620

ALL DONE

thanks

The naughtiest girl keeps a secret
http://www.librarything.com/work/1960626/book/77400533 appears to be showing on the wrong author page.
The author is Anne Digby
http://www.librarything.com/author/digbyanne-1
and it should be on Anne Digby's page, not Enid Blyton
http://www.librarything.com/author/blytonenid&all=1
(this is not one of the original naughtiest girl books, but a spinoff written by Anne Digby)

> 15 done

>16 bookel:
More people had entered it with the wrong author. Not much that we can do...

18 - It's been done before hasn't it? It is the only one on the incorrect page...

>19 bookel:

It could be done before when we could create books and then delete them and they still counted for the author calculation. This is no more the case... so I don't think it is doable anymore. Might be wrong of course but do not see how.

Then 'aliasing' the book into the correct author page wouldn't work? (I've no idea what that does, so sorry if this is not a good suggestion. It seems to be fairly new whatever it is.)

Do'h. Note to self: Stop posting in the middle of the night. Sorry:)

16, 18-21 - Done the best I can think of.

I'm usually pretty good at figuring this out, but if I go to this book from my library http://www.librarything.com/work/45525/book/56130825 and click on the author page http://www.librarything.com/author/edutophira, it isn't showing up as me having the book. You can see that the book Body Outlaws has 99 members if you click the link, but on the author's page it shows only 40. Can't figure out what to combine to make this work.

This is an updated version of a previous request. I've been working on The Socialist Register, a lefty political economy journal that has been published annually since 1964 (except 1986 for some reason). I've combined and separated a great many works and more recently I've gathered as many stray editions into the series as possible by tracking down ISBNs and adding the proper CK information, so all issues are now in the series page. All that remains is to combine the 20 or so issues that are still wrongly listed as being separate works and have separate (or no) authors. If someone is itching to do some combining, i'd love some help.

Following my CK rampage, on the series page it's now easy to see what needs combining: if multiple works are listed as being the same annual issue, they belong together.
http://www.librarything.com/series/The+Socialist+Register

Thanks in advance.

(ETA lack of a 1986 edition)

>23 lemontwist:

Check now? There was a stray work with 40 copies as an addition to the 99 one.

ALL DONE

Dutch Bibles

a. Willibrordvertaling 1978 (or 1975)
http://www.librarything.com/work/7974345
http://www.librarything.com/work/7974342
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676387
http://www.librarything.com/work/7974480
http://www.librarything.com/work/7974416

b. Willibrordvertaling 1995
http://www.librarything.com/work/7974466
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676353
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676360
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676364
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676365
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676370
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676374
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676382
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676385
http://www.librarything.com/work/7974404
http://www.librarything.com/work/5985486
http://www.librarything.com/work/5628901
http://www.librarything.com/work/7974482

c. Willibrordvertaling 1995: NT with Psalms etc.
http://www.librarything.com/work/4154387
http://www.librarything.com/work/4860735

d. Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling (Protestant edition)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676468
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676459
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676466
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676496
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676497
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676498
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676515
http://www.librarything.com/work/7974411
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676542

e. Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling (interconfessional & literary edition - more books than d.)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676463
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676462
http://www.librarything.com/work/7974348
http://www.librarything.com/work/3877998
http://www.librarything.com/work/7974344
http://www.librarything.com/work/4807414 (going by the cover)
http://www.librarything.com/work/9328958
http://www.librarything.com/work/9328956
http://www.librarything.com/work/11082201
http://www.librarything.com/work/7974398
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676540

f. Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling (Catholic edition - more books than d., fewer than e.)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676561
http://www.librarything.com/work/7974419
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676562
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676563
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676564
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676565
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676566
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676568
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676569
http://www.librarything.com/work/4072677

g. Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling study bible (same number of books as e.)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676461
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676458

h. Groot Nieuws Bijbel (1996) with deuterocanonical books
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676599
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676597
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676595
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676593
http://www.librarything.com/work/8483205

i. Groot Nieuws Bijbel (earlier edition) with deuterocanonical books
http://www.librarything.com/work/10284274
http://www.librarything.com/work/11676603
http://www.librarything.com/work/3740999

j. Groot Nieuws Voor U (NT)
http://www.librarything.com/work/5500880
http://www.librarything.com/work/4156365
http://www.librarything.com/work/735090

k. Herziene Statenvertaling
http://www.librarything.com/work/10938404
http://www.librarything.com/work/10702047

ALL DONE
thanks

I want to be an airline hostess by Dawn Beal
http://www.librarything.com/work/book/77438023

I Want To Be An Airline Hostess by Dawn and David Beal

This book belongs on the Dawn Beal author page:
http://www.librarything.com/author/bealdawn

David Beal is the other 'author', not the primary one however, and should not have two combined.
http://www.librarything.com/author/bealdawnanddavid

> 126 done a

Someone appears to have gotten the Star Trek Generations mixed up again. I'm thinking that because when you look at the Disambiguation Notice on this page:

http://www.librarything.com/work/161496/editions

it says not to combine the record with another one and then it links to that record.

I think they got combined.

Not a clue as to what goes with what.

Have fun. :)

edit: Just checked. I have ISBN 0743454243. That's the one written by J. M. Dillard.

redit: Which isn't in the index. Nice....

Yet again: Digging through Amazon's Look inside feature, the first sentence matches up with 0671537539 and 0671517422.

Could someone please just run through Strange New Worlds and combine the couple of loose ones in there?

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=strange+new+worlds&searchtype=...

I just ran out of time today and noticed these.

thanks

DONE.

Could someone combine :

Le gouffre aux garous, G.-J. Arnaud : http://www.librarything.com/work/3548091

And its Czech translation : http://www.librarything.com/work/6330583

Thanks.

31> Done.

Can some one who knows his works (and French) have a look at http://www.librarything.com/author/arnaudgeorgesjean. I aliased Arnaud (2) into it, and I think it needs a lot of work.

If someone gets bored, please search for

Free Associations

and make them into a series.

thanks

edit:

Free Grace Broadcaster

as well.

>32 MarthaJeanne: The works are already about as grouped as could be except for a few of the czech translations I wasn't 100% sure which title they were of, there's several long series in the same world with relatively close names which I had to go through with a finecomb and other single volumes vs. omnibus or novel vs. graphic novel stuff I would appreciate *not* to see lumped together again.

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DONE

Anyway, could someone combine those :

#1 The Wyvern's Spur, Jeff Grubb & Kate Novak
Same work, different co-author listed as the main
http://www.librarything.com/work/4353635
http://www.librarything.com/work/1047144

#2 Night Masks, R.A. Salvatore
http://www.librarything.com/work/156638/
http://www.librarything.com/work/5353061/ French translation, apparently not showing up for combination on the author page or the other usual places

Thanks.

I've got 34. edit: Done

I've also got the rest of 26 although it may take me a bit. drmike is working on something. :)

More like my previous message, dominant incorrect spelling of the author on the stray copies because of crummy Amazon data seems to prevent easy combining.

# The Fallen fortress, R.A. Salvatore
http://www.librarything.com/work/151704
http://www.librarything.com/work/5352999/ Stray french translation

# The Chaos Curse, R.A. Salvatore
http://www.librarything.com/work/175649
http://www.librarything.com/work/5339625/ Stray french translation

Thanks.

I've got 36.

edit: Nice to see someone else doing the TSR stuff. :)

reedit: 36 done

Someone did 30. Thanks

edit: 26 is done. I'm working on my 33.

edit: 33 is done. I'm going home.

Why is Stuart Little by E. B. White on the illustrator's page and E. B. White's page? Is this some new change?

Garth Williams' page
http://www.librarything.com/author/williamsgarth

http://www.librarything.com/author/whiteeb-1

Stuart Little by E B White
http://www.librarything.com/work/6295

39> I've seen this on a few things. I don't think it has been released to the rest of us yet, but people in the BETA group can do this.

Looking Glass Wars
http://www.librarything.com/work/9005803
http://www.librarything.com/work/11267564
(Both no author) Probably belong in

http://www.librarything.com/work/57069

The first one is coming up as the main touchstone.

> 40 done

OT: nice thing you're working on, drmike!

Not a problem. It's a pain though. Spent 6 hours Sunday working on the new code only to discover that I was modifying the wrong file and the changes i were making didn't apply.

For those who use my method of combining, drop me a comment if I haven't contacted you already. I had to move the page. I also have a beta script that I would love some feedback on.

And if you should happen to see Jeremy, bug him about my question. :)

Could someone combine these two:

http://www.librarything.com/work/637882

http://www.librarything.com/work/5145569

Thanks.

>43 liao:

Done

Sorry, two more:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9832747
http://www.librarything.com/work/9380652

>45 liao:
Done

>46 AnnieMod: Thanks.

One more:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3693820
http://www.librarything.com/work/91273

>47 liao:
Done

The author is not Patricia Coombs according to WorldCat.org and the below information.

Mean, Mean Maureen Green / Patricia Coombs (ISBN 0439193699)
http://www.librarything.com/work/7747444/summary

It belongs here:
Mean, Mean Maureen Green
by Judy Cox
http://www.librarything.com/work/3023959

Mean Mean Maureen Green
Author: Judy Cox
Gr 2-4--Lilley looks forward to third grade until she learns that mean Maureen Green will be on her school bus. She dreads meeting up with the bully, but she is even more terrified of riding the new bike she got for her birthday--without training wheels. Ever since she lost control on a bike when she was four, she's been afraid to ride at al... more »

ISBN-13: 9780439193696
ISBN-10: 0439193699
Publication Date: 2001
Pages: 89

>49 bookel:

I have a stupid moment - do we need these two combined?

>49 bookel:/50

End of stupid moment. And combined:)

A Manual of Catholic Devotion for Members of the Chuch of England
http://www.librarything.com/work/5531219
http://www.librarything.com/work/10241972
http://www.librarything.com/work/6122587

Two of these have no author. The other one a subject line as author.

A search for First and Second Prayer Books of Edward VI shows several different works with various authors, and none. Could someone please combine them?

>53 MarthaJeanne: done

Sorry, there is one more of those.
http://www.librarything.com/work/11687312

(main work http://www.librarything.com/work/2192906)

I hadn't noticed that this one needed the title recalculated.

But thank you. The search page looks a lot better.

Light on the path: the anthropology and history of the southeastern Indians, ed. Thomas J. Pluckhahn and others.
http://www.librarything.com/work/5195466
http://www.librarything.com/work/9797174

Charles M. Hudson had nothing to do with this book, except directing the dissertations of some of the contributors. Somehow the Library of Congress got the idea that he was the lead author. My copy ascribes him no role at all. WorldCat is also confused, but academic reviewers are not. The introduction celebrates Hudson and makes this book a kind of festschrift, but still he's not an author/editor.

My #3 and #10 still have some works left to combine. Thanks to whoever did #192 from the previous thread.

The book The Crown of Columbus is written by both Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich.

This copy has Louise Erdrich as the author http://www.librarything.com/work/2929

This copy, has Michael Dorris as the author
http://www.librarything.com/work/5950495

is there any way to get them combined together? Thanks!

(I'm not sure that it matters but MD is listed first on the cover of my advanced reading copy).

The system is fighting me. Can someone combine these two authors please?

http://www.librarything.com/author/weinberggeraldm

http://www.librarything.com/author/geeraldmweinbert

One's a misspelling of the other.

>59 theapparatus:
Done

>58 Mareofthesea:
Done

>10 235711:
Done

>57 235711:
Thread 40. 196 and 198a done.

>56 Muscogulus:
Done and i also found 3 more stray copies :)

>55 MarthaJeanne:
Done

>52 MarthaJeanne:
Done and 1 more stray copy found as well

>57 235711:
Thread 40. 198b-through-the-end done. Which gets thread 40 finished
Note:
http://www.librarything.com/work/9017125 in e is not from the same group so I combined it with its own similar ones but not into this group.

And I think that gets us to current - if someone has a request above that is still not handled, please shout.

OK - a few more left as it seems

>9 agneson9:
Done

>13 DemetriosX:
Shakespeare's complete works are a mess... I am planning to get a crack at it... so leaving this one for now as it is

>14 guurtjesboekenkast:
Done

>29 theapparatus:

Working on this one.

I think this time I got all but 33 which will need some more time.

>29 theapparatus:

CK in http://www.librarything.com/work/161496 still need cleanup and half of it to be moved to http://www.librarything.com/work/11696105 but at least they are separated and I moved series and disambig note.

63: Thank you. You're right, that's two different translations with the Jerusalem commentary, I hadn't spotted that.

>66 235711:

I am not sure if these should not be combined as well honestly but I would not combine two separate English translations... so I usually extend the same courtesy to any language... OH well - Bibles are always interesting for combining

As a general rule different translations should be combined (although I've argued that with work-to-work relationships they should separate the translations and connect them with a translated relationship). However, I believe bibles are a special case.

>68 jjwilson61:
Yep - any other book, translations get combined. Bibles and similar... I am not so sure so I keep them separate (but don't go out of my way to separate them)

Hi, would somebody be willing to combine these two separate entries for Voltaire's Zadig:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11401311
http://www.librarything.com/work/140785
please?

>70 sakayume:
done

>71 AnnieMod:: Thank you. :) It was so strange previously having the "only" copy of Zadig.

Could someone combine these separate entries of "Bo Knows Bo," the autobiography of Bo Jackson?

http://www.librarything.com/work/445616
http://www.librarything.com/work/9838799
http://www.librarything.com/work/9821630
http://www.librarything.com/work/3288266
http://www.librarything.com/work/5401301

The Socialist Register project i described in #24 above is complete - many thanks again to jasbro and sneuper.

I'll get 74.

edit: Done. Should have had Bo do it.

>74 I-_-I:,75

Found one more copy of the Bo book hidden in the middle of http://www.librarything.com/work/43239 :) Separated, added to the proper one and so on

Was wondering why that was coming up as a possible. Swear I looked.

Another one of those Go Nuts requests for some clean up:

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=dragonriders+of+pern&searchtyp...

One concern is this record:

http://www.librarything.com/work/438882

It's got a kids tag on it. I'm wondering if maybe it's a children's version of this one:

http://www.librarything.com/work/2463615

There are also a few single work records floating around.

>76 AnnieMod:

I saw it on the third pass through the list - I was almost ready to blame it on ISBNs. :)

Now... I am pretty sure that McCaffrey's books do not have children versions - and I know people that would tag them as children books. So I suspect this is the explanation.

>75 theapparatus:, 76: Thanks!

One more: José Bové's "The World Is Not For Sale" plus two foreign-language editions. Thanks in advance.

http://www.librarything.com/work/298989
http://www.librarything.com/work/8827636
http://www.librarything.com/work/8460884

I'll get 79

edit: Done.

-- ALL DONE -- Thank you, @AnnieMod!

Dragonflight:

http://www.librarything.com/work/4220
http://www.librarything.com/work/8156709

Dragonquest:

http://www.librarything.com/work/18644
http://www.librarything.com/work/6161238

Dragonriders of Pern:

http://www.librarything.com/work/438882
http://www.librarything.com/work/2463615
http://www.librarything.com/work/7512669
http://www.librarything.com/work/8336842
http://www.librarything.com/work/8937034
http://www.librarything.com/work/9539726
http://www.librarything.com/work/10898709

The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall:

http://www.librarything.com/work/40554
http://www.librarything.com/work/5692581

And the following may need placement (in context) with the Dragonriders/Pern canon:

The Dolphins' Bell, http://www.librarything.com/work/516

A Diversity of Dragons, http://www.librarything.com/work/297594

Rescue Run, http://www.librarything.com/work/3391139

The Smallest Dragonboy (story), http://www.librarything.com/work/3849099

The Dolphins of Pern, http://www.librarything.com/work/7148351

Otherwise, I *think* most of 77 is at least identified with the "Dragonriders of Pern: Publication Order" Series, if not also with other, similar or related Series. But I only know a few of these, so I'm sure somebody else can make better headway from here.

(Whew!) Thanks.

>81 jasbro:

Combining - done.

Looks like someone got 81. Thanks. and thanks to jasbro for looking at it.

>83 theapparatus:

Sorry... :)

>81 jasbro:
The Dolphins of Pern, http://www.librarything.com/work/7148351 - taken care of (including the single copy hiding into one of Balsac's works -- from all places)

ESV NT reverse interlinear
http://www.librarything.com/work/1640588
http://www.librarything.com/work/8348248
http://www.librarything.com/work/10642788

done
thanks

>85 235711:
Done

Thanks Annie.

Two versions of Frommer's Washington, D.C.
http://www.librarything.com/work/834615
http://www.librarything.com/work/7628590

I'm iffy on 88 there as they're different editions with about 10 years apart.

I can't combine these two authors. Someone take a shot at them please:

http://www.librarything.com/author/strapinskihelen

http://www.librarything.com/author/stapinskihelene

Could someone combine these please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1104390

http://www.librarything.com/work/10102441

I'm on my locked down terminal and can't do it.

Looks like the Zardoz movie/DVD and the novelization have been mixed together. I can;t verify ISBNs from here so I'm not sure which one is which:

http://www.librarything.com/work/924600 (Please note that this is labeled as the movie.)

http://www.librarything.com/work/202364 (probably should be the book)

thanks

Just one:

DONE
The god-kings & the Titans
by Jim Bailey
http://www.librarything.com/work/9735518
by James Bailey
http://www.librarything.com/work/10397293

Faded Steel Heat by Glen Cook

http://www.librarything.com/work/252934
http://www.librarything.com/work/8890148

>90 theapparatus: done
>92 PhaedraB: done
>93 prosfilaes: done

Need an option please on these:

http://www.librarything.com/work/700087/

http://www.librarything.com/work/4477093/

http://www.librarything.com/work/493763/

Please note the "Winning ways" subtitle in all three.

The Fred Basset books and calendars probably could be made into a series if anyone wants the CK credit:

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=Fred+Basset&searchtype=work&am...

Yup, it's me again.

The Jerry Patterson's of the world appear to have a problem.

We have two that appear to have been mixed together.

Jerry L. Patterson is a casino author:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_L._Patterson

Jerry M. Patterson is an educator:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_M._Patterson

Their books appear to have been mixed up:

http://www.librarything.com/author/pattersonjerry

http://www.librarything.com/author/pattersonjerryl

I have to admit that I'm tempted to combine them and then alias them out to the correct middle names.

opinion?

Please combine:

Tell ye your children
http://www.librarything.com/work/771266
http://www.librarything.com/work/8991213

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/6619322
http://www.librarything.com/work/6263856
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11601512
http://www.librarything.com/work/694821
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/6619315
http://www.librarything.com/work/7128142

thanks

#97

Jerry L did write the education books: see Patterson, Jerry L., 1944- (LC 83046504)
The blackjack person is Patterson, Jerry (LC 83046504)

Jerry M. Patterson is a lawyer and maybe an educator but not the same as Jerry L. the author of the books listed in LT.

I would split the Jerry L page. The Jerry M. you list has 3 listings in WorldCat but not the books on the "J" page. In fact we don't have anything by him on LT.

The Jerry Patterson page also needs to be split and aliased onto the "J" page after combining the titles that are common to each page. I would not combine since there may later be a James Patterson without initial. It's harder to separate later.

If you'd like me to do it, let me know. I've been splitting authors all last week.

#95

The American Guide (http://www.librarything.com/work/700087)
is the 1999 ed

The other 2 are 2004 rev eds. By LT rules as I understand them, they can be combined.

Re: 100 It's all yours. :)

thaks

#102 Patterson split done

And I corrected the LC number on the blackjack author. (Cut and paste can be tricky!)

> #88, 89: At what point do we not combine revised editions with earlier ones? Absent clear justification to keep distinct works separated, one Frommer's Guide for any given city is essentially the same as another. Sure, each editons may have slightly or substantially different contents, but they're still all city guides for the same locale. Why distinguish?

> #95: I'd combine 'em. According to WorldCat.org, they're all by Andrew Brisman; two are the 1999 edition, and the third is revised 2004.

> #98: Done.

> #99: Done.

ETA: Ref to post #88. Oops.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/book/77745803
http://www.librarything.com/work/807597
http://www.librarything.com/work/11131174

thanks

105: I was able to get the english language books together, but the AC works page is so large it won't load in my browser. If someone could try to combine http://www.librarything.com/work/book/77745803 in that would be appreciated.

Also, at quick glance the Agatha Christie page has tons of single copies and non-english books floating around if someone can actually get the 1600+ page of works to load...

#106 I tried Agatha's page and I can't get it to load.

> #105, 106, 107: Done! @Mareofthesea & @fdholt: I think the trick was @supersidvicious gave us a book link, not the work URL. Once I found the applicable work URL, @theapparatus' super-secret-handshake Thingie, together with a bit of pixie dust, worked like a charm.

#108 I was a bit unclear - I can get the main author page. When I click on the combine/separate link for authors with many, many works, I cannot get that page to load.

Ah! Me too. But I was focused on combining the stray edition (from #105), not so much the AC Author/organize page (from #106 & 107). Maybe try using Combination proposals from some individual works' pages, at least until the massiveness subsides?

#110 Your method is the only work-around for me in these cases.

>Once I found the applicable work URL

One of the reasons why I was asking for an interface API. :)

Just a reminder that the /work/book/ urls will screw things up on my script. I actually to add code in to reject those.

#111: I actually got 8-10 combinations done that way -- in under 30 minutes! Not bad, considering, if I do say so myself. Then again, not particularly good, since AC didn't really publish 1600 distinct books. (It just seems like that many.) We've got a LOOOONG way to go, and help will be appreciated!

#112: Fortunately, it doesn't look like LT has as many works as the book number given; otherwise, I'd have (inadvertently!) combined The Rose and the Yew Tree with ... oh ... maybe an edition of Holy Bible, or The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, or even (shudder!) Elric, Stealer of Book Records. If we're just plugging in numbers, how can your Thingie distinguish between work records and book records?

Re: LT combination proposals...

I managed to get a few last night using that method. I had to be careful however, as the LT recommendations aren't always correct.

A bit more D&D stuff :)

Extinction by Lisa Smedman http://www.librarything.com/work/129376
Stray copy somewhat incorrectly attributed to R.A. Salvatore http://www.librarything.com/work/10772254

Thanks.

>115 Jarandel: done

Hello everyone,

Just checking because I haven't done much separating/combining for a while. Are we still separating out Norton Critical Editions from the main work?

Thank you in advance,

k4k

117> It depends.

118> OK...any general guidelines?

Right now I am looking at A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, but if it is too complicated, maybe I should leave it alone.

> 117
I still seperate them out, because they are significantly different from the original work (background information, context information, biographical information and some critical commentary). These additional texts differ from regular forewords and/or additional information that is sometimes added in specific editions of a work. The difference is the quantity and the purpose of the additional texts: multiple authors talk about various objects, which makes it altogether a new work (more like an anthology), in which the focus is not only on the original text but also on al the other information. Because of this, the NCE are meant for study purposes and the sources in the book are considered seperate quotable sources. See the instructions on how to quote NCE on http://writing.yalecollege.yale.edu/critical-editions.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.it/work/10752365
http://www.librarything.it/work/11601502
http://www.librarything.it/work/23850
2 done
http://www.librarything.it/work/6699947
http://www.librarything.it/work/5598801

thanks

>121 supersidvicious:: Done.

>121 supersidvicious: done
apparently henkl and I were working on it together :-)
joint Dutch cooperation

118> My understanding is that they can differ quite a bit in the amount of extra materials.

http://www.librarything.com/work/book/71953640
http://www.librarything.com/work/11187543

> #114: Yes, it often takes some searching to figure out what I want to combine. I typically to look for Disambiguation Notices on each work's Main Page, scour the list of other information down the left-hand side, and check other sources where there's an outside record -- especially WorldCat -- in weighing "To combine, or not to combine ... ." I'd appreciate knowing of any additional quick, convenient resources that other Combiners! also use. (Thanks to you all!)

> #117, 118, 119, 120, 124: I'd welcome knowing of any instances where we SHOULD NOT distinguish between an original work and its corresponding NCE, and mutually recommended practice for noting as much. Personally, I almost always prefer distinctions, but I'm (hopefully) Waiting Very Patiently for LT's Expressions and Editions utility. In the meantime, I want to respect judgments, preferences and needs of the larger LT community, and avoid using our collective time and resources to repeatedly undo each others' efforts. With NCEs, I thought that meant uniformly keeping them as separate works. If I'm wrong, please let me know.

126> This seems to be the thread from the last time NCEs were discussed, http://www.librarything.com/topic/106976.

127> Thanks for the link. I skimmed the discussion and I think I will separate. At least it will be better than having some combined with the main work and some separated. Then, if later people think the NCE should be combined with the main work, it will be easy.

>125 agneson9: done

Would someone run through these please:

http://www.librarything.com/series/Knights+of+the+Dinner+Table%3A+Black+Hands

I'm on my locked down terminal.

>130 theapparatus:
They seem different issues to me?

130-131 They actually came up on a combination page right after I posted that and I did them myself.

Thanks though for your time.

edit: I'll fix the dates.

DONE; THANK YOU!

Please combine:

1. Collected Poems by Marianne Moore:

http://www.librarything.com/work/2961475
http://www.librarything.com/work/9837295
http://www.librarything.com/work/11634980

2. Selected Plays by Tennessee Williams:

http://www.librarything.com/work/190790
http://www.librarything.com/work/9761273

Note: On the latter, the cover image appears to be from a Library of America retail edition of Williams' plays for a particular range of years; however, the title -- including "(A Limited Edition)" -- and the tag "fine binding" are consistent with the Franklin Library edition of Williams' plays, and not with the LOA edition pictured.

Hi,

Is there anything that can be done about this?
http://www.librarything.com/author/jamesjoyce

Thank you.

134: Fixed, I think... :)

>135 Mareofthesea:

Joyce James is a legitimate author (as in http://www.librarything.com/work/3279493) ... Why should it be combined under James Joyce?

136: The other one had books that James Joyce had written in it. Portrait, etc. Mainly 1 copy audiobooks.

edit... although that one book is by Joyce James... I didn't notice that.

So perhaps, someone with more experience could fix that. Sorry.

>137 Mareofthesea:

I saw that. But I still do not think that it is a reason to combine two different authors when we know that they are different...

PS: Talking about http://www.librarything.com/author/jamesjoyce&norefer=2
And someone even went to the trouble to post a Disambiguation Notice at one point exactly because they should not be combined...

>138 AnnieMod:

Ah - typing at the same time:)

Separated again: http://www.librarything.com/author/jamesjoyce

http://www.librarything.com/work/5309865
http://www.librarything.com/work/8621023

The second one has, I think, the editor as the primary author.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/9702582
http://www.librarything.com/work/9467002
http://www.librarything.com/work/7062445
http://www.librarything.com/work/9641074
http://www.librarything.com/work/6543701

thanks

Here's an exciting "go nuts" Combiners! opportunity for somebody with time and inclination:

http://www.librarything.com/combine.php?author=sjmanvilgot

Thanks for your interest.

#136-138

What would be wrong with splitting the Joyce James page and aliasing the James Joyce to his page?

>143 fdholt:

Nothing - that what needs to be done I think
The conversation above was because the Joyce James page was directly combined into James Joyce

PS: Done.

#144 Thanks - looks great!

>145 fdholt:

:) Did not even cross my mind last night -- I keep forgetting we can alias these days;)

http://www.librarything.com/work/2705241 (generic author)
http://www.librarything.com/work/10151180 (no author)

A Seperate Peace
http://www.librarything.com/work/1130926 {John Knowles (1)}
http://www.librarything.com/work/11700317 {John Knowles}
http://www.librarything.com/work/11700316 {John Knowles}

I'm not convinced the last two are truly different versions that need to be brought together though there appears to be something going on there but the second/third one should be combined into the first version.

148

I'll edit the division for all the other Separate Peaces, but some of them shouldn't be combined, and the ones that probably should be have over 2000 copies each so they need special handling.

Two versions of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
http://www.librarything.com/work/3665195 (by "Anonymous")
http://www.librarything.com/work/9389919 (by "Gawain Poet")

> 133 done
> 140 done
> 141 done
> 147 done
> 150 done

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/1001165
http://www.librarything.com/work/11479434
http://www.librarything.com/work/7228411
http://www.librarything.com/work/1135377
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11033085
http://www.librarything.com/work/3552339
http://www.librarything.com/work/1015244

thanks

> 152 done

Can someone combine...

#1 Those Mask of Cthulhu ?
The main work by Derleth : http://www.librarything.com/work/12595
The french translation, which usually has Lovecraft as the author most prominently displayed, presumably for marketing reasons : http://www.librarything.com/work/2780230

#2 Grey Star #1 by Ian Page & Joe Dever
http://www.librarything.com/work/161481 (main mostly attributed to Ian Page)
http://www.librarything.com/work/3095582 (german translation mostly attributed to Joe Dever)
http://www.librarything.com/work/8942862 (french translation with borked dominant Amazon author data)

#3 Grey Star #2 by Ian Page & Joe Dever
http://www.librarything.com/work/62480
http://www.librarything.com/work/11723700

#4 Grey Star #3 by Ian Page & Joe Dever
http://www.librarything.com/work/161468
http://www.librarything.com/work/3095583

Thanks.

> #154: Done. But, for some reason, http://www.librarything.com/work/62480/editions thinks http://www.librarything.com/work/161468/editions is a combination potential. I don't see the linkage; maybe you can double-check and fix it? Thanks.

>155 jasbro:

There was one volume 2 still tangled in the middle of volume 3 but even after I got it out it still proposes it as a valid option... Maybe the first N symbols somewhere match fully... I will look at it again though

Could someone please kindly look at these and see if they need to be combined. Currently doing something else and quickly running out of time:

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=Stupidest+Angel&searchtype=wor...

A couple with zero copies that are eluding me:

DONE
1. AFV-G2 (Volume 5, No. 10, November-December 1976)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11725844
AFV-G2 - A Magazine for Military Vehicle Enthusiasts Vol. 5, No. 10
http://www.librarything.com/work/11725986

DONE
2. AFV-G2 - A Magazine for Armor Enthusiasts Vol. 4, No. 05
http://www.librarything.com/work/11725927
AFV-G2: A Magazine for Armor Enthusiasts. Volume 4, Number 5 (June 1973)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11725849

>158 PhaedraB:

Done.

>157 theapparatus:
I think that there are at least two separate books there - the original and version 2.0. But they seem to be all mixed... so let me see how different are they really (enough for separate works?)

157 Dang if I know. I'm brain dead with all the Knights of the Dinner Table I've been entering. The system likes putting single issues everywhere but with the actual issue that I'm trying to enter.

> #157 & 159: Those are my DA notices, based on my understanding of the books after an author appearance. I've done what I can to sort them, as best I can, and freely admit we have only the original (2004) and not Version 2.0 (2005) to compare. And, yes, the two are intractably, inextricably entwined on LT, DA notices notwithstanding; Version 2.0 titles with original ISBNs, and vice versa. Some are even separated exactly as they should be! (I'm half hoping AnnieMod finds no difference whatsoever, so we can lump them all and go about our business ... .)

>161 jasbro:

No such luck
The original is a novel
Version 2.0 is the novel + a short story which is kinda sequel to the novel.
So they need to stay separate. Want to write the disambig notes in that effect?

PS: Name beats ISBN when deciding what to do with a book :)

The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians by E. A. Wallis Budge
http://www.librarything.com/work/9893432
and
http://www.librarything.com/work/10740770 (as by Sir E.A. Wallis)

Thank you.

>163 prosfilaes: done

I'm trying to go out the door for bloodwork. Can someone please check this author:

http://www.librarything.com/author/crookwilliamg

I see a number of single works with similar titles in there.

thanks

edit; And please see if this author records needs to be added in as well:

http://www.librarything.com/author/crookwilliam

Two (related) pairs:

1. Artforms
http://www.librarything.com/work/524773
http://www.librarything.com/work/5506639

2. Artnotes
http://www.librarything.com/work/314293
http://www.librarything.com/work/4347162

An authorless singleton:

DONE
New York (Portrait of America)
http://www.librarything.com/work/9579245/
By Kathleen Thompson
http://www.librarything.com/work/9832848/

#165 I split William Crook's page and aliased the one book to William G.

I cannot verify that The yeast connection and the woman (with title folded in The yeast connection and woman's health) is an earlier ed of The yeast connection and women's health so I let it alone. I think everything else is OK.

>155 jasbro:,156 I don't know if it's the one you moved or not, but there was an edition of #3 incorrectly numbered as 2 lurking among #2 editions, moved it to #3 on faith of the title.

Could someone join :
http://www.librarything.com/work/2454973
http://www.librarything.com/work/11728652 (same book of tales of the French Middle-Age, partly incorrect dominant author data prevents easy combining)

Thanks.

Not sure what's going on here,
My copy of wild flowers of the world has suddenly acquired a different (unrelated) cover. The ISBN of this new book is not even the same as the "Wild flowers..." book

http://www.librarything.com/work/book/77137847

I seperated out the zero copy book (which did seem to have this ISBN but was not prepared to go any further.

Do I just wait for the cache or what?

#170 Encyclopedia of world mythology had several copies of the Wildflowers mixed in. I think it's sorted out now and the recalculate cover seemed to remove the incorrect cover.

Hi, please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10839817
http://www.librarything.com/work/11516118 - correct author

> #162: It's a deal -- let's do it!

ETA: Revised DA Notices, and moved a few titles around; but I'm reluctant to do more -- even where "title rules," these are essentially the same titles. If somebody doesn't like where their copy winds up, I'm willing for them make change(s) until they get it right. Please advise if you disagree. (Or go change it yourself!)

>173 jasbro:

Nah - that is what I meant. We do the best we can. If someone is in the wrong bundle, they can rename and separate/recombine or ask someone else to.

> #166: Should we discuss this one first?

As I understand our current practice, revised editions of a Work sometimes get combined and sometimes get distinguished, mostly based on the extent of revisions (see, e.g., Strunk & White's The Elements of Style: http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=strunk+white+elements+style&se... ).

Here, it looks like somebody, who may know these books (I don't!), combined editions through 7, and distinguished those from editions 8 and up. May the distinction is merely that the original author's involvement ended, and a new author took on further revisions; but the distinction's there regardless.

If we need a separate thread for this discussion, please start one -- or suggest where it should go, and I'll set it up. Or, just maybe, LT will get Editions and Expressions (this morning?), and we won't have to worry about it any more!

Thanks to all.

#175 Please do open a discussion. There are editions that are very different that are combined and editions that vary only by a preface or other non-essential material that are separate. Sometimes I am just inclined to let it be but consistency might be better.

I'm seeing an Around the World title within this one:

http://www.librarything.com/work/4075043/

I'm on my locked down terminal and can't really research this one. Can someone check on this for me please?

This needs to be combined in as well:

http://www.librarything.com/work/377381

thanks

177>I've done the separation.

> #166, 175, 176: Please see new discussion thread at http://www.librarything.com/topic/123465#2923187 . Thank you.

ETA: > #167, 169, 172, 177 (combination): Done.

Please combine

The Academic Marketplace
http://www.librarything.com/work/11732231/ (no author) with
http://www.librarything.com/work/1624856/ (Theodore Caplow)

Please combine

Rich Kid Smart Kid
http://www.librarything.com/work/11732358/
http://www.librarything.com/work/7842682
http://www.librarything.com/work/6733930
http://www.librarything.com/work/189743/ (right author)

I believe these two author records are the same. please combine them and then look at the books within:

http://www.librarything.com/author/dattcircatreya

http://www.librarything.com/author/datttreya

Someone in the know may want to look at the
Battleship Potemkin's we have. Seems like there's a lot of DVDs floating around.

I'm sure there's different versions though.

>182 theapparatus: done
>183 theapparatus: done

>166 AnnaClaire: done

I got 181.

edit: Done plus 2 more that I found. There's an audio in there and I'm hoping it's complete.

For those who were waiting for me, my script is back up and running.

> #185: Why?

Fairies, by Isaac Asimov
http://www.librarything.com/work/11736696
http://www.librarything.com/work/87516

I need serious help with http://www.librarything.com/work/6855 ; I came from someone's library, who has a Fairies, no author (RPG book), ISBN 1592630014, combined into the Froud work, and I can't find that ISBN in the editions list to separate it out.

Sovereign Stone - Sanctuary by Jeff Crook
http://www.librarything.com/work/11736703
http://www.librarything.com/work/11736704

Player's Handbook, 3.5 edition
http://www.librarything.com/work/1985817
http://www.librarything.com/work/2665437

Please combine

Ehen in Philippsburg
http://www.librarything.com/work/11095311 (wrong author)
http://www.librarything.com/work/379621 (right author)

>188 prosfilaes: For what it's worth : I don't see it either. I do see a single no author, no ISBN copy.

> 187 Because I noticed they weren't done yet, but I overlooked the thread about these (sorry for that). As far as I can see, no damage was done though.

189: Done.

edit: I've gone ahead and done it but am now looking at it. Can you confirm that Patrick (it won't let me copy the last name.) is also the author of this work?

I'll do 188 in a second. Doing site backups.

edit: All the D&D/AD&D hardcovers need work. I'm throwing this one out for work since it appears they're mixed together on purpose:

http://www.librarything.com/work/6070756

reedit: 188 is done. I don't see the 1592630014 work either. I know that ISBNs will stay around for a couple of days when they're removed from one work and added into another. This may be what you;re seeing here. I don't see the Wischstadt listed in there either or anything that looks like a RPG title.

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11738752/ (something wrong)
http://www.librarything.com/work/6434336/

TNX! )

193 doing.

edit: Done. Found another record of the 2008 version as well.

If someone gets board, they probably should go through and check the 2 different records for his title as there's a 2008 version as well as an earlier one:

Early: http://www.librarything.com/work/16108

Later: http://www.librarything.com/work/6434336

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11587822
http://www.librarything.com/work/8652051

thanks

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>194 theapparatus:

There were a few mixed in from a third work and I am not sure if the Russian edition is in the proper group (or the Spanish...) but I think this is the best we can do for now.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5991563
http://www.librarything.com/work/4667507
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/4667506
http://www.librarything.com/work/5580114
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/3327839
http://www.librarything.com/work/11030916
(author http://www.librarything.com/author/hrtelsusanne and http://www.librarything.com/author/haertelsusanne)
thanks

>198 supersidvicious: done

Lois Wilson needs some attention. I think Lois Wilson the gardener is different from Lois Wilson the AA founder who is different from Lois Wilson the nuke war person.

http://www.librarything.com/author/wilsonlois

That's 200. I'll start a new thread in a second.

This thread is closed. Please only post here to follow up on a request.

New thread is here:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/123666

thanks

#200 Done