Events with ONLY time & date

No title, no other information in the details.

I've deleted some if it looked like they were trying to duplicate something that was already there, I didn't realize that it was a widespread problem.

I suspect a bad feed from somewhere, probably it's really a feed bug, not a LT bug, but folks are complaining:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/159487

Did some research:

http://www.librarything.com/venue/27077/George-Mason-University-Fairfax has them

http://www.librarything.com/venue/3193/University-Bookstore has them

http://www.librarything.com/venue/83859/Ritz-Carlton-Half-Moon-Bay has them

http://www.librarything.com/venue/81017/Santaluz-Club has them

http://www.librarything.com/local_add_v2.php?event=673001 is from randomhouse

http://www.librarything.com/venue/3578/Warwicks has them

http://www.librarything.com/venue/1948/Tattered-Cover-Book-Store-Colfax-Avenue-D... has them

Some of them are as far as 1 year in the future, so this will continue to annoy people

An interesting variation that may yield a clue:

Oct
5
Untitled event
The Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project Authors Series, Saturday, October 5 at 12pm
Oct
5
Untitled event
PAWLP Teen Writers Festival, Saturday, October 5 at 12pm

Nov
12 Untitled event
The Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project Authors Series, Tuesday, November 12 at 5pm

Nov
13 Untitled event
Marketplace

Untitled event
The Doylestown Bookshop, Saturday, September 6, 2014 at unknown time
Sep
15
Untitled event
West Elm Chestnut Street, Monday, September 15, 2014 at 1pm
Sep
18
Untitled event
African American Museum in Philadelphia, Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 6pm
Sep
24
Untitled event
Free Library of Philadelphia - Central Library, Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at 12pm
Sep
26
Untitled event
Penn Bookstore, Friday, September 26, 2014 at 6pm
Oct
5
Untitled event
PAWLP Teen Writers Festival, Sunday, October 5, 2014 at 12pm
Oct
5
Untitled event
The Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project Authors Series, Sunday, October 5, 2014 at 12pm

What I take as the title of the event is listed as the venue. No person is given credit for adding, so it is coming in via some feed.

Also discussed here.

I was about to post a topic and decided to search first. There's a bunch showing up in my events list as well.

Thanks. Fixed. Simon and Schuster changed their format. It's been updated.

These are increasingly coming up (still? again?), including duplications of the same event on the same date, only next year. And, when deleted, they return within 24 hours. What gives?

Lots here, too: http://www.librarything.com/venue/21186/Barnes-Noble-Booksellers-Skokie-Old-Orch...

Just from places near me:

*This venue has a blank event this Sunday that won't stay dead. And a little subsidiary zombie in 2018.

* Ditto for here next Tuesday.

* And here and here on Wednesday.

* This one managed to avoid them in the immediate future, but has a blank on November 9th 2015/2018 (and a one-off blank in May '18).

* This place has several strings of blank-ness starting this July.

I could keep going. (Edited for stray line break.)

Oh, and it's also talked about here and here. I don't care whose fault it is, I just want a way to swat the problem events and have them stay dead.

Spotted at Brooklyn Public Library Central Library's main branch. Here's a screenshot:

There is an event at that time this year. http://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/joseph-califano-jr-lyndon-central-library-d... but somehow I doubt that it recurs every year.

The blankness of a valid event isn't the big problem here. I'd be less annoyed with the truly one-off blankdoms, if most of the events properly translated themselves. It's the whole repeater business that gets me, and that the recurrances often won't stay gone.

Another example, spotted June 24. Venues are in metro Birmingham, Ala., US.

BUMP. What, if anything, can we do to fix these? You say Simon & Schuster changed its feed. Did Random House? FSG? And ... and ... and? I've now proposed deletion multiple times of the numerous, substantially the same "untitled events" with only time & date (some extending 15 months out -- nothing else scheduled that far in advance gets a notice on LT Local). I seriously doubt it's the venues causing the problem; most venues in our town don't list their own events, much less trouble to list untitled ones. And, if it's just me wanting to see substance instead of nuthin', I can't figure out how to filter them out of my own LT Local feed. Does somebody at least understand what's causing them? Is there anything we, as LT Members, can do to assist? Thanks!

Bump. Today's pair:

1. The Mysterious Bookshop


2. Strand Bookstore

As a consequence of this continuing bug, there are no "real" local events in my feed, and I am out of the habit of checking Local. I would guess that fewer events are being submitted as well.

Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Citigroup Center and Harlem Book Awards 2015 both have a bunch starting tomorrow.

New York Public Library - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has a series of them starting Saturday.

Greenlight Bookstore is a mess.

Next week's batch include:

* New York Public Library - Mid-Manhattan Library (7/21)

* McNally Jackson Booksellers (New York) (7/23 and 9/8)

* Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center (7/25 and 8/9)

Later this year:

Museum of the City of New York (9/8)

Hilton Hotel West (10/20)

Museum of Modern Art (10/21)

Looking at this.

Okay, this should be fixed. All old ones are removed. I believe there's a step in place to prevent it in the future.

>22 timspalding: Thanks! Wish I had seen the fix sooner.