Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #45

**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 #45. 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

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Les+grands+maîtres+de+la+photo
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Pour+la+liberté+de+la+presse
3
is it possible to change cover of http://www.librarything.com/work/4851176 with this picture http://www.fotocollector.fr/content/product_1978410b.jpg ?
4 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Les+7+vies+de+l%27épervier

thanks

Please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11832494
http://www.librarything.com/work/11818875

Thanks!

>2 supersidvicious: Done.

For 2.3 the default cover displayed cannot be authoritatively changed, but you can select or upload the one you want to see when looking at the work in your catalogue, if enough people move to a "good" cover the irrelevant one will eventually cease to be the default.
Here after recalculating the current default cover has shifted to a correct one, but of the german edition since it has the most copies listed.

>3 Stevil2001: Done.

Could someone who knows French look at this:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11596544/editions

I think these are different works all combined together.

http://www.librarything.com/work/8547346

http://www.librarything.com/work/332636

I think these should be combined.

I found how to get the numbers. Does one have to post the first number and then find the second number and edit the message? I don't know how to get both urls on the same post without posting the first url and then editing the post ot add the second

I have this book: http://www.librarything.com/work/book/80636269 Het gefluister in de duisternis
This are the editions: http://www.librarything.com/work/1632793/editions/80636269
There it says that it is the short story, not the collection, but the book I have is the collection. Can someone separate these out?

>5 fdholt: Done, all 6 were separate works.

>6 Schmerguls: Done.

>7 divinenanny: Attempted and moved the disambig notice to the short story version.

0-copies that need reeling in :

Gone with the Wind, Part 2/3
http://www.librarything.com/work/12008728
http://www.librarything.com/work/12013084

Gone with the Wind, Part 3/3
http://www.librarything.com/work/12008760
http://www.librarything.com/work/12008879

Thanks.

For some reason Swift's Gulliver' Travels--some 11k copies are on the page of Paul Turner http://www.librarything.com/combine.php?author=turnerpaul

> 11: Confusing at first, yes; but it actually looks OK to me. The key? Click "go to work" for Gulliver' Travels on the "Combine works: Paul Turner" page, then click "other authors" where it says "Other authors: See the other authors section." There, Paul Turner's confirmed as Editor and secondary author of some editions, but the Work is still clearly attributed to Swift. (Remember seeing that on clicking "go to work"?) If you have other questions, please ask; thanks.

>10 Jarandel:

Done.

These should be
combined:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10568247

http://www.librarything.com/work/33995

>14 Schmerguls:
Done

14> Done.

I thought the numbers did something funny!

>16 MarthaJeanne:
Hm? Funny?

Please combine

1
http://www.librarything.com/work/11952959
http://www.librarything.com/work/6096320
http://www.librarything.com/work/25980

2
http://www.librarything.com/work/460615
http://www.librarything.com/work/7198775

Thank you

>18 sneuper: both done.

please combine

1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/12021414
http://www.librarything.com/work/9989866

thanks

>20 supersidvicious: Done.

Darke / Angie Sage

http://www.librarything.com/work/11930861
http://www.librarything.com/work/book/75144900

Greets:

I;m out of time and am trying to get going. I cleaned up this author:

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

Could someone double check those for me please and do the book combining?

The Understanding Nutrition on that page needs to combined with the ones on this page as well:

http://www.librarything.com/author/whitneyeleanornoss
http://www.librarything.com/author/whitneyeleanor

I'm assuming from the titles that the second author there is two authors put together.

Thakks,
-drmike

Please check on these as well:

http://www.librarything.com/work/5730746/

http://www.librarything.com/work/3813485

Could someone combine these The Common Muse?

http://www.librarything.com/work/5563125/editions/73817094

http://www.librarything.com/work/772274/book/15100154

Thanks.

Please can someone combine these pairs of works:

Number 1:
http://www.librarything.com/work/4281012
http://www.librarything.com/work/12022938

and

Number 2:
http://www.librarything.com/work/4458231
http://www.librarything.com/work/11577847

and
Number 3:

http://www.librarything.com/work/4281005
http://www.librarything.com/work/11011667

Many thanks.

0-copy of Ulenspiegel, Part 1 by Charles de Coster

http://www.librarything.com/work/10585230
http://www.librarything.com/work/12023340

0-copy of Ulenspiegel, Part 2 by Charles de Coster
http://www.librarything.com/work/8370538
http://www.librarything.com/work/12023352

Thanks.

>23 theapparatus: Done except "Alien Number Eleven", aliased the nutritional guide Whitney into http://www.librarything.com/author/whitneyeleanornoss-1

Didn't combine the Instructor's guide into it as it seems to be a companion work.

>24 theapparatus: Seems someone else already did it.

>25 abbottthomas: Done.

> 22, 26, 27: Done.

>25 abbottthomas:: (Somebody did it.)

Someone find me a home please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11670308

Also seems to be too many ways for kids t be making money:
http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=50+Money+Making+Ideas+for+Kids&amp...

>29 theapparatus:
Home found: http://www.librarything.com/work/9733988

And the kids had even more options than you thought (fifty and 50 are different in search if the books are not combined): http://www.librarything.com/work/935949

So all done I think :)

Please combine :
http://www.librarything.com/author/gahlinhansthorvald
http://www.librarything.com/author/gahlintorvald
Thank you!

>31 prussia_cove:
Done

Thanks @AnnieMod. I'm still doing my belringing and am very time limited with hosting support and other things. Supposed to be 3 hours in the morning and 1 in the evening has turned into 90 and 15 minutes. Please excuse my shortness over the next few weeks. If I find somehting I woud hate to lose it.

>33 theapparatus:

That is what this thread is all about. :)

Can these books be combined?

http://www.librarything.com/work/9594774
http://www.librarything.com/work/10158851


It's a collection (hence the amazon.fr automated author "collectif") of short stories by these authors, who should all get equal billing:
Mohammed Berrada, Mohamed Zafzaf, Ahmad-I Al-Faqih, Izz Ed-dine Al-Madani, Nafila Dhabhab, Zehour Ounissi

Thanks!

>35 parlerodermime:

Combined.
You can add the rest of the authors in the "Other Authors" section on the work page (as you have them, you can as well add them). Let me know if you need assistance with that? :)

>That is what this thread is all about. :)

No, I mean I'm only throwing out a single link and asking others to d the research and the lookups and the checking.

>37 theapparatus:

And I had mentioned more than once that it is better to do that than to just leave them hanging if you do not have the time. It is much easier when you have the work numbers - but if we don't we can find them. :)

Thanks! (I've already done that, but the book only shows up through the Zehour Ounissi author page)

>39 parlerodermime:

I do not see anyone added in the Other Authors section?

Oh thank you! I must have been only editing my version of the work and missed that section originally.

>41 parlerodermime:

You had one of them twice so I cleaned it up. :)

Hi everybody,

This series needs cleaning up. I've adressed most of the issues, now it's combining time....

http://www.librarything.com/series/El+Croquis

thanks for the help!

0-copy of a polish "A Meeting with Medusa and other stories" by Arthur C. Clarke that needs nabbing down :

http://www.librarything.com/work/12030028
http://www.librarything.com/work/12030022

Not to be combined with the similar spanish and german collections that both seem to have a different selection of tales.

Another 0-copy, the single story this time :

http://www.librarything.com/work/3565713
http://www.librarything.com/work/6011430

Thanks.

> 43: Partly done, through 72.2

>44 Jarandel:: Done.

*sigh*

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

I'm sure at least one person here has National Geo in their database so those will all have to be combined.

I'm sure at least one person here has National Geo in their database so those will all have to be combined.

theapparatus has me blocked but maybe someone else can explain to me what this means. To have Nat Geo in their database is to have it in their LT catalog? And what does that have to do with whether they should be combined or not?

And what does that have to do with whether they should be combined or not?

Exactly. They should be combined with other copies of the same issue -- but not necessarily with each other.

>47 jjwilson61:,48

I think that is what 46 means -- that these need to go combined into the proper issues.
Yikes - 244? That will take a while...

PS: What it has to do with people having or not having NG is a different story - probably means that it will be easier for someone that have them. Don't see how but cannot decipher it in another way.

PS2: And I left a message to the user - he has review of '' in every single one of those - looks like a weird import.

#47 Not just you. theapparatus has a busy holiday season and somewhere in the lists, he said he was temprarily (?) shutting down his comments. Correct me if I am wrong.

Edited to add: thanks AnnieMod - I noticed the wonky reviews also but slipped my mind to mention.

Well, the first step is to combine the authors Nat.Geo.Magazine with National Geographic isn't it. Then it will be obvious what to combine (except with over 2000 works maybe the page will be too big to work with).

ETA: 50> No. theapparatus decided a while back that I said something that was personally insulting to her and blocked me.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/8428976
http://www.librarything.com/work/8161395
http://www.librarything.com/work/8444888
http://www.librarything.com/work/4730665

thanks

#52 done

@jjwilson61 no I blocked you because you have made multiple bigoted statements at me and others here. As I and others have explained to you multiple times as you have continued to harass me.

Just like you just did in that post by getting my gender wrong.

I flagged you again for whatever it's worth but I know Tim won't do anything about it.

I pointed out the Nation Geographic to have individual issues combined. Not to have them all combined into a single record.

Excuse me for the confusion. It was one of those "My time is very short" posts and I had to move on.

A few comments, since I was asked to look at this:

1. Except in rare cases, Jeremy, Abby and I only react to situations brought before us explicitly. That is, if you want something done about a post, you have to complain. We often read that we're "ignoring" something and smile. That's literally so because we aren't out there reading thousands of posts every day. What do you expect?!

2. If you want personal replies from me about a problem, please ensure that you have comments turned on, or send me your email so I can write back.

3. I can't judge statements like "No. theapparatus decided a while back that I said something that was personally insulting to her and blocked me." I have no idea if it's an accurate representation of the history, and it's not clearly an attack without that background. Further, it would get me involved in a dispute in a way I won't do. Personal attacks covered by the TOS are generally obvious—you're a pig! fuck you! and so forth. To get into who said what to whom and what they meant by it is beyond me, and would lead to all sorts of bad calls.

4. Come on people now, smile on your brother. Everybody get together, try and love one another right now.

>54 theapparatus:

Getting someone's gender wrong is not being bigoted or harassing people -- I honestly do not remember the gender of half the people I deal with here in LT... and for some I am not sure I ever knew this information.

I did look at the's profile and the only thing that hints at a gender is the profile picture which is Kim Possible. So, if you want people to get your gender right, put it in your profile.

I honestly don't remember any more what I did to upset theapparatus in the first place.

Kim Possible

Aha! Thanks. I was wondering who that was.

- ignore me

>59 Robert_Weaver:

nah - we do not like ignoring people here. I would take this as "My problem is now solved"?

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/232861
http://www.librarything.com/work/11571188
http://www.librarything.com/work/136091
2
http://www.librarything.com/work/10947065
http://www.librarything.com/work/2418290
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/8181901
http://www.librarything.com/work/4707876
4 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/2578737
http://www.librarything.com/work/4131236
5 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/7950317
http://www.librarything.com/work/5014222

thanks

>44 Jarandel: Great, thanks so far!!

> #61: 1 already done (somebody else?); 3, 4 & 5, done. But please confirm #2 -- are these really substantially the same? And, if so, how 'bout the other half dozen examples having separate records on LT? Glad to combine them if appropriate, but I'm not familiar with them at all. Thank you.

>#43, 62: Still working -- up to 114. (You might check that I'm not screwing it up ... .) Thanks!

This is probably the wrong page to ask this question, but I believe that the author picture shown for David Einhorn #1 (link: http://www.librarything.com/author/einhorndavid-1 ) belongs with David Einhorn #3. Although I do plenty of combining, I never work with pictures.

I figured out how to move the picture. I clicked on the picture, and there was some language about reassigning the photo, which I did and it now shoows under # 3.

> #63
I guess there are at least 5 different works in this http://www.librarything.com/work/534496

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11354877
http://www.librarything.com/work/55332
http://www.librarything.com/work/9925912
http://www.librarything.com/work/10441831
http://www.librarything.com/work/10505567
http://www.librarything.com/work/11329774
http://www.librarything.com/work/10994910
http://www.librarything.com/work/3459010
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/12037828
http://www.librarything.com/work/10165526
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10116209
http://www.librarything.com/work/11475397
http://www.librarything.com/work/11585790
http://www.librarything.com/work/67368
http://www.librarything.com/work/11475417
4 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/3868889
http://www.librarything.com/work/9449284
5 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/272831
http://www.librarything.com/work/11363044
http://www.librarything.com/work/11291313
http://www.librarything.com/work/3670768
http://www.librarything.com/work/10258226
6 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/6334391
http://www.librarything.com/work/675969
7 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/7340776
http://www.librarything.com/work/6237144
8 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11346317
http://www.librarything.com/work/172052

thanks

Hi group,

This DVD also has a completely unrelated work mentioned. Yes they are all zero copies (I separated out the one with a copy) and shouldn't matter.

But it looks ugly. Can this be fixed?

Thanks, Guido.

#68 is done. You might want to add a year to your copy though, because there are three different movie versions.

Thanks SimoneA,

Do you think I should put the year in the title?

Guido.

PS. What did you do? How does one get rid of zero copies?

>70 guido47: You could put the year in the title or use the director as author. Either of these things should help distinguish versions. You can separate zero copies just like other copie, on the editions page. There is a link behind each edition to separate it from the main work. Hope this helps!

>67 supersidvicious: 1/2/3/4/5/6 Done I think.

67.7 is a 0-copy which I can't currently do.

Can someone please combine these two:

Rance and the Trappist Legacy by A. J. Krailsheimer

http://www.librarything.com/work/3769591
http://www.librarything.com/work/2650704

Thanks.

>73 inge87: Done

@AnnieMod:

Getting someone's gender wrong is not being bigoted or harassing people

Exactly. I've long since lost track of how many times people get mine wrong, online or in person. The only time I bother to correct people is if their error indicative of a more generalized cluelessness -- like if they assume I must be male because I have a wife. But I certainly don't see it as an insult.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/2541007
http://www.librarything.com/work/4483300
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/106529
http://www.librarything.com/work/5745005
thanks

>#43, 62: Still working; assistance will be appreciated. Thanks!

> #66: I think this one's sorted out. There were a few young reader's adaptations, and a two-fer (bound with "The Magic Porridge Pot"); but, otherwise, the remaining editions (essentially three of them) all appear to be translations, with various illustrators, of Tolstoy's original story. Thanks for pointing it out! Now, if somebody want to tackle "The Magic Porridge Pot" ... .

> #67.7: Done.

> #76: Done.

Dear Group,

Having added some DVD's I started looking through them looking for other members with same.

I am sure than more than one other member has this! Why, I will even bet $10,000 (or I would if I was running for President) that there are many copies out there.
Any suggestions on how to find them and then "combine" them?

Guido.

ETA. Supplimentary thought. I will go through mine and add the director as Author to my earlier ones. :-)

>78 guido47:
Search for "Lord of the Rings dvd" or "Lord of the Rings film"? The search is not caching anymore so what you see is what is in the DB at the moment.

Or "Lord of the Rings videorecording"

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/4187937
http://www.librarything.com/work/6019909
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10987292
http://www.librarything.com/work/4603902
http://www.librarything.com/work/9147689

thanks

Hi, back again,

Finding "common DVD's is not simple.

Consider "Clint Eastwood's" Pale rider:

There is a book, but I also discovered these -

http://www.librarything.com/work/2335482/book/80789219
http://www.librarything.com/work/10617693/workdetails
http://www.librarything.com/work/8743731/editions
http://www.librarything.com/work/9279875/members

They are ALL the Film, albeit some are VHS, but still the same work.
How do I combine them all? I can combine similar works, but these? Before I do combine I will study each work carefully and seperate out any Non-obvious cases.

Guido.

Guido,

If you manage to clean them up, just post the links that need combining and the group here will be more than happy to combine them.

Thanks AnnieMod,

I have separated out the zero copies from the 4 links in #82.
All the ISBN's are for the film. So.

"make it so..." as Captn Aubrey would say :-)

I am still interested in how you combine such disparate titles and authors.

Guido.

>I have separated out the zero copies from the 4 links in #82.

Hold on a second. IF they belong to the correct works, even if they are 0-copies, they need to stay combined... Only wrongly combined books should be separated.

Oops, I go back and recombine them.

>82 guido47:-85
Got all of them combined including the 0 copies I could find.

Ah ha, I thought there must have been some magic elf there. By the time I looked they were all combined. Thanks.

>81 supersidvicious:
Done

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11346317
http://www.librarything.com/work/172052

thanks

>90 supersidvicious: done

Please combine,

http://www.librarything.com/work/8309268&titleauthorredo=286998325

http://www.librarything.com/work/545272/editions

I am not sure why I couldn't get my copy to be recognised by the other "bunching".

I went in by author. Since I expect many more of these examples PLEASE tell me what you did.

Guido.

In this case - both were in http://www.librarything.com/combine.php?author=langwalter so this was the easiest way...:)

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5260065
http://www.librarything.com/work/6043020
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/6573117
http://www.librarything.com/work/10696142
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11937510
http://www.librarything.com/work/1114805
4 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/7130753
http://www.librarything.com/work/901165
5 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/901165
http://www.librarything.com/work/1350597
6 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/8434898
http://www.librarything.com/work/10674102
7 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/243077
http://www.librarything.com/work/10822055
8 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/494190
http://www.librarything.com/work/7528124
9 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/3250562
http://www.librarything.com/work/5826977

thanks

More DVD's,

Please combine :

http://www.librarything.com/work/9816340/editions

http://www.librarything.com/work/6735327/editions/79890151

http://www.librarything.com/work/4275635

http://www.librarything.com/work/824719/workdetails

I have another 9 or so "Fred Astaires" films to go, and I think they are also spread out like these. Any tricks I should know so I can do them myself.

Guido.

Oklahoma! this time. Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/834855

http://www.librarything.com/work/9513174

http://www.librarything.com/work/8471999

http://www.librarything.com/work/2673323/editions

http://www.librarything.com/work/11230573/book/80296051

Guess I don't know how to combine works with different authors and different titles.

Guido.

#95 & 96 are done. What you can do, is add the author of one work to all the other works as 'other author'. Then, all works will be on that author page and can be combined. Afterwards, you can clean up all 'other authors' again. Does that help?

94 1/2/3/4/6/7/8/9 Done.

94.5 Those two are not the same thing, there's a Spiderman comics compilation and a Cyberpunk RPG supplement, cleaned up both and rounded up some strays but didn't combine the two.

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Some 0-copy combining needed too :

1
At All Costs, Part 1/2 by David Weber
http://www.librarything.com/work/12043096
http://www.librarything.com/work/12043082
http://www.librarything.com/work/12043838
http://www.librarything.com/work/12043840

2
At All Costs, Part 2/2 by David Weber
http://www.librarything.com/work/12043078
http://www.librarything.com/work/12043066

3
War of Honor, Part 2/2 by David Weber
http://www.librarything.com/work/12043613
http://www.librarything.com/work/12043605
http://www.librarything.com/work/12043599

4
Echoes of Honor, Part 1/2
http://www.librarything.com/work/12043891
http://www.librarything.com/work/12043882

5
Echoes of Honor, Part 2/2
http://www.librarything.com/work/12043901
http://www.librarything.com/work/12043877

6
The Shadow of Saganami, Part 1/2
http://www.librarything.com/work/12044027
http://www.librarything.com/work/12044022

Thanks.

> #98: Done, but please check results (especially item 1?), as I'm not familiar with these Works and their various parts. Thank you.

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11257547/editions

http://www.librarything.com/work/11931627/editions/79890035

http://www.librarything.com/work/10152546/editions

http://www.librarything.com/work/9907185/editions

http://www.librarything.com/work/4275502/editions

http://www.librarything.com/work/9816314/editions

I thought about #97s approach, but not YET confident.
Please tell me if that is the way you went.

Oh, could I add a "place holder, eg xxqw say" as a other
author and then delete that?

Guido.

PS. I also looked at Lord of the rings and shuddered.

>100 guido47:
There are a lot of ways to skin a cat...
The approach in 97 is one way :)

Adding and deleting a book will leave a 0-copy work:)So yes - it can work but has a side effect.

And nothing is unfixable - so try - if you make a mess, post back here and someone will help you fix it. :)

OK, I'll "fiddle" but please give me an approach for works without authors. One approach I just though of was to create a dummy Work exactly like the Non-author work, with a secondary author, combine these etc.

Seems like a lot of work!

#100 is done. In this case, I added Thornton Freeland as an other author to all works and combined them on his author page. A placeholder would probably also work, but maybe you will create a nonsense author page, so I prefer to use an actual author. And there are of course other ways to do this, but this works well for me.

>102 guido47:
Isn't that method unnecessary now? You can simply add other authors on the main work page. That's what I've been doing, and it works charmingly.

Just stumbled onto that "main work page, add another author", an hour ago.

All seems to be stumble, stub toe, stumble...

Bloody DVD adders who don't look up and use directors as authors.
Oh wait, that was me yesterday.

Just a thought. Should I keep asking questions on this thread, which is designed to solve specific problems, or go somewhere else? Where though?

Guido.

> #105: @guido47: This is our "Please Fix This Book!" request thread, and each continuation starts with guidelines similar #1 (above) including more info referenced at "Combiner's Group Information, FAQ & Discussion Thread #2," http://www.librarything.com/topic/57164 .

With these notes in mind, anything that helps us with Work combinations is fair game, and learning about stubbed toes is part of the process. (I can be gracious on this point, 'cause I don't keep the wet noodles or administer the dungeons.) If an off-topic discussion threatens to derail our primary purpose, it's best to start a new thread, and maybe post its URL here.

I did this once myself for the LOTR books: http://www.librarything.com/topic/64126 ; and another Member tried to help too: http://www.librarything.com/topic/94222 . (Unfortunately, we've got a ways to go before LOTR will be in any kind of order.)

Take a look at these resources, let us know of other questions, and keep those "Please Fix This Book!" requests coming.

Thank you!

Please combine:

Doom: Knee-Deep in the Dead
By Dafydd ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver
(there are seperate copies under each author's name)

http://www.librarything.com/work/6926580
http://www.librarything.com/work/187934

Similarly:

Doom: Hell on Earth
By Dafydd ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver
(there are seperate copies under each author's name)

http://www.librarything.com/work/5786834
http://www.librarything.com/work/1021237

> #107: Done.

guido,

No offense but if you do not know what are you doing, why someone would give you a method that will allow you to bypass some of the checks the site had put in place to stop people from making mistakes that will take hours to clean?

What we are trying to tell you is that there are ways to do it and we are happy to help but we are not handing it to people that still do not understand how the system works. Cleaning after that is a pain and there is no way to "un-tell" you.

Make sense?

With this being said - if someone decides to hand you the information, it is up to them. I personally wait to see people doing all they can using the standard methods before going and passing it around. Call it a precaution if you want...

I have to second AnnieMod - I have gotten into a lot of trouble in a wink of an eye which took hours for me to fix.

Except in rare cases, Jeremy, Abby and I only react to situations brought before us explicitly. That is, if you want something done about a post, you have to complain. We often read that we're "ignoring" something and smile. That's literally so because we aren't out there reading thousands of posts every day. What do you expect?!

=============================================

What I would expect is that, if you are going to maintain these forums, you reasonably police them. If I owned an empty lot and gangs regularly used it as a gathering point, a base of attack to mug anyone who wandered by, I would be personally legally liable. It wouldn't do for me to say "Hey, I'm busy, can't bother to police my property. Let someone else take care of it." You can't legally turn a blind eye to what is being done on and with your property.

Now due to our mutual anonymity and the first amendment, the same legal standard does not apply here. However, the same social dynamics applies. You let people do whatever they want with no effective rules and no enforcement of the rules that exist and you get pages long rants by nazis (as you have recently had) and persistent abuse by the irrational and just plain assholes of everyone else - the everyone else who want to have a rational conversation.

But that is apparently what you want, since you don't have the time.......

111> You're perfectly free to create your own discussion group and invite those who you think want to have a rational conversation. Good luck with that.

I don't know why you think Tim is obligated to provide you with a certain type of forum. You must like something about it since you keep posting here.

Can we get back to "Please Fix This Book!" -- please?

Please combine
http://se.librarything.com/work/13981/book/80848146
http://se.librarything.com/work/12044662/book/80865716

> #114, @schleiermacher: What's Swedish for "Done"?

Klart!

These two books have, erronously, the same ISBN number. I guess the publisher is to blame. The Royal Library of Sweden also has the same ISBN number for them. What should be done?
http://se.librarything.com/work/270979/edit/80836814
http://se.librarything.com/work/270979/edit/80890771

>117 schleiermacher:

Nothing for the books themselves but I split the two separate works so they are now showing as separate works. So... Klart :)

PS: the way links work in LT, the above ones will still appear to be pointing to the same work but now the non-matching book is here: http://www.librarything.com/work/12051930/edit/80890771

Dear Group,

A repost. Please combine:

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

http://www.librarything.com/work/1053436/editions/79917885

http://www.librarything.com/work/10077918/editions

http://www.librarything.com/work/10624152/editions

http://www.librarything.com/work/11698026

http://www.librarything.com/work/2692450

http://www.librarything.com/work/3601230/members

http://www.librarything.com/work/6488499

http://www.librarything.com/work/5257464

They are all versions of the 1962 Film "The longest day", which had at least 3 directors! I just think of it as the Producer "Darryl F. Zanucks" film. :-)

For once the producer probably put more into the film than the Director/s.

#119 is done

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/7202704
http://www.librarything.com/work/3666653
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/595994
http://www.librarything.com/work/5739994
thanks

>121 supersidvicious:
Done.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11799518
http://www.librarything.com/work/11529577
http://www.librarything.com/work/497747

thanks

>123 supersidvicious:
Done.

These should be combined, I think:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3930834
http://www.librarything.com/work/390656

125: Easily done from the author page

These should be combined:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11773752
http://www.librarything.com/work/1458557

I've tried doing it through the author page but for some reason the first doesn't come up. Any tips gratefully received...

#127 done

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5572026
http://www.librarything.com/work/6222445

thanks

#129 done - found some other copies including zero copies and combind those also.

#130 great thanks

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Mégascope
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/1435224
http://www.librarything.com/work/5405899

thanks

132 #2 is done.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5135958
http://www.librarything.com/work/7031243

thanks

>134 supersidvicious:
Done

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10012240
with the right edition
http://www.librarything.com/work/8196210
or
http://www.librarything.com/work/8196602
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/3992544
http://www.librarything.com/work/4143092
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5393616
http://www.librarything.com/work/11685125
4 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Le+guide+Hachette+des+vins
5 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/8566864
http://www.librarything.com/work/8566325

thanks

Please combine the following:
http://www.librarything.com/work/4534778
http://www.librarything.com/work/6185749
http://www.librarything.com/work/8591788
http://www.librarything.com/work/12061778

and these:
Silouette
http://www.librarything.com/work/8626571
http://www.librarything.com/work/10224949

Breathless
http://www.librarything.com/work/10872
http://www.librarything.com/work/1438239

Moment
http://www.librarything.com/work/1218528
http://www.librarything.com/work/1438242

Duotones
http://www.librarything.com/work/8626615
http://www.librarything.com/work/334251

thanks, and probably more to come as I continue to add my seasonal cds.

Could someone please combine these two:

http://www.librarything.com/work/4596298

http://www.librarything.com/work/6779420

Thanks

>138 liao:
Done before I got to it. The second link is the one that "stuck."

> #136.1 & 136.4: Done (others previously done by somebody else).

> #137: Done.

> #138: Ditto AnnaClaire, at 139.

Thank you all!

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/8566859
http://www.librarything.com/work/8566331

thanks

>141 supersidvicious:

These were easy - they were visible on the editions page :)

Do you need help with the combinations here: http://www.librarything.com/series/Environmental+Health+Criteria ?

>142 AnnieMod: It would be really appreciated. I'm also trying to add numbers to the series thanks

> #43, @sneuper: Done, what I can. (I think.) Thanks!

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/author/hnanderbengta
http://www.librarything.com/author/oumlhnanderbengta

Thank you!

>145 prussia_cove:: Done. I also combined two books.

>144 jasbro: Thanks, it looks great now!!

>142 AnnieMod: done, thanks SimoneA !

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5839670
http://www.librarything.com/work/9812682
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5227593
http://www.librarything.com/work/2376310
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/9340109
http://www.librarything.com/work/6593545
4 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/3645582
http://www.librarything.com/work/1355321

thanks

Can someone please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/4925053
http://www.librarything.com/work/1766883

They're definitely the same work from the same series.

ETA: Done

> #148: Done (what wasn't already -- thanks, somebody!)

> #149: Done, but please double-check the results for us. Thanks!

Please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11870263
http://www.librarything.com/work/11885894

Thanks!

> #151: Done; thanks!

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10421610
http://www.librarything.com/work/4666079

thanks

>153 supersidvicious:
Done.

>150 jasbro:, looks OK to me. Thanks.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/9253378
http://www.librarything.com/work/8292035
thanks

>156 supersidvicious:
Done!

can you please help me with this
0 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/FMR+Franco+Maria+Ricci

also
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10621341
http://www.librarything.com/work/4178942

thanks

> #158: Done?

~112

I would suggest you read the thread entitled "Dystopian II." Obviously you aren't getting an oft repeated very basic point, and I have no intention of repeating it again.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/1785036
http://www.librarything.com/work/1493039
thanks

> #160: Terms of Use; Social features; Good advice: Consider the context before posting. A political religious dispute does not belong in a knitting group ( http://www.librarything.com/privacy#terms ). Thank you for drawing attention to the Dystopian II thread ( http://www.librarything.com/topic/128896 ), and also for respecting this Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread.

> #161: Done!

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/4447678
http://www.librarything.com/work/1351910
thanks

> #163 & 165 (below): Done.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/9935347
http://www.librarything.com/work/8589606
thanks

A 0-copy of Alcools: Selected poems that needs to be tucked in :
http://www.librarything.com/work/12073071
http://www.librarything.com/work/12073081

Thanks.

>166 Jarandel:
Done!

>165 supersidvicious:
Done before I got to it!

Keats's Neighborhood:
http://www.librarything.com/work/1228452
http://www.librarything.com/work/11342305

>168 Moomin_Mama:: Done.

>169 henkl:: Thanks :)

> #171: Thanks for pointing out the difficulties with this record, and with the related Series. I think I've got "Vienna" largely straightened out. Please see also a new thread at http://www.librarything.com/topic/129167 .

A french translation of the Mabinogion in need of combining :

Main : http://www.librarything.com/work/58729
Stray : http://www.librarything.com/work/12077929

Thanks.

> #173: Done.

Please combine:

Main: http://www.librarything.com/work/9678333
Stray: http://www.librarything.com/work/11145632

175 Done.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/I+maestri+del+colore

thanks

(Done.)

Please combine

http://www.librarything.nl/work/227132
(Markus Zusak - I am the messenger)

with

http://www.librarything.nl/work/11871269/summary/81235490

(Markus Zusak - de boodschapper)

179 Done

Please would you mind combining a book side:
http://www.librarything.de/work/11823909/book/81200247

with the author side:
http://www.librarything.de/author/redipeter

Thanks a lot for your help :-)

181: Done. Combined the authors, the winning page is http://www.librarything.de/author/ruumledipeter

182
Thanks a lot! :-)

0-copies that need combining

Caligula / Cross purpose
http://www.librarything.com/work/383500
http://www.librarything.com/work/12091917

The Adulterous woman
http://www.librarything.com/work/10988519
http://www.librarything.com/work/12091947

Thanks.

I own two books by Shaun Tan :
http://www.librarything.fr/work/1779085/
and
www.librarything.fr/work/12091956/

They were combined on the author page :
http://www.librarything.fr/combine.php?author=tanshaun
I separate them (once again...) but now there are two "Recherches sur un pays sans nom" and the book "The arrival" is listed under the bad title. "Recherches sur un pays sans nom" is NOT the same book as "The arrival", it is the making of (English title : Sketches from a Nameless Land)

Could somebody look at those two books and write a desambiguation notice in good English ? Because I had separate them some time ago and someone recombined them.

Thank you.

>185 Louve_de_mer:

It was the canonical title playing tricks because of the double setting. All fixed now I think. I put a disambig note as well and cleaned up the CK that had leaked into the Arrival page)

Let's hope they stay separate

>184 Jarandel: - done

A note: I am working on Mikhail Sholokhov's page - the Don novels are in a total mess (nothing to do with the way they were published in the different languages of course..). Might take a while because I am checking and rechecking but should be able to untangle that mess.

>186 AnnieMod: : Nice ! Thanks.

> 187:

A special nod to @AnnieMod,
A learned friend of letters!
I can catalog our Don
After she makes it better ... .

(Thank you!)

Please, someone braver and abler than me, rename this book, so it will be the same as the rest of the set, in the list of works by the author.

The Axe: The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 1
http://www.librarything.com/work/10954542
should be The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 1: The Axe

following the pattern of the rest of The Master of Hestviken from the author's combination page:
http://www.librarything.com/combine.php?author=undsetsigrid
which are listed as

The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 2: The Snake Pit
The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 3: In the Wilderness
The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 4: The Son Avenger

Thank you!

Please combine:

1) Syv Søskende : Fortælling fra Australien is the Danish translation of Seven Little Australians, and Seitsemän sisarusta ja jatko-osa Sisarusten varttuessa is the Finnish version

http://www.librarything.com/work/7929181 and
http://www.librarything.com/work/8137879 into

http://www.librarything.com/work/363916

Thanks

>191 rodneyvc:: belay that order - I worked it out!

>189 jasbro:

There are 4 volume editions of the first volume (based on the original 4 books in it), there are 2 volumes editions of the same which are easy as long as I manage to figure out when book/volume 1 is from the first type and when from the second. There is at least one 5 volumes edition (I am still trying to figure that one out and how they split 4 books in 5). Add the second actual volume in the mix and they start getting ugly. Sigh. Why publishers do that? And I am afraid to even check some of the other Russian classics :)

Just grumbling. Working on it. And I was thinking Shakespeare was hard last time I was dealing with it.

>190 SaintSunniva:
Done. It just needed a canonical title :)

>191 rodneyvc:/192
Well.. The second one (Seitsemän sisarusta ja jatko-osa Sisarusten varttuessa ) was still out so I combined it in. All should be fine now.

Can someone smarter than me help me please?

I'm having some trouble, two of my books gets combined as they are the same book but, in fact, they aren't. One is the Vol.1 and the other is the Vol.2. I've tried to fix it myself but I can't or can't see how.

Vol.1:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11527514/book/77576881
Vol.2:
http://www.librarything.com/work/book/80716508

DONE.
>194 Menzel: Those 2 are separated, though that spawned a 0-copy of T.2 that needs combining :

http://www.librarything.com/work/505155
http://www.librarything.com/work/12096467

Someone may want to see if they have the same contents as the english language "Jeeves Omnibus" T.1 and T.2 for further combining as well.
Combined with equivalent english language versions.

Thanks. Yes, they both do have the same content as the english ones.

#195 done along with another "0" copy stray.

please combine: Helvetica
http://www.librarything.com/work/5543048
http://www.librarything.com/work/8257220

198 Done.

Please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/9597161
with:
http://www.librarything.com/work/2358701
and:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11778244

All are editions of Stephen King's Wizard and Glass.

#200 done

If you want personal replies from me about a problem, please ensure that you have comments turned on, or send me your email so I can write back.

0-copies of the Easy Readers' version of My Mother's Castle that need combining :
Main : http://www.librarything.com/work/12102887
Strays : http://www.librarything.com/work/12102903
http://www.librarything.com/work/12102897

Thanks.

Merde Actually, by Stephen Clark
Main : http://www.librarything.com/work/4864973
Others :
http://www.librarything.com/work/9243618
http://www.librarything.com/work/9491841

Thanks!

>203 Jarandel:
Done

>204 Hibou8:
Done

And we have a new thread as we are over 200.