Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #64

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#1: The Story of the Life of You
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http://www.librarything.com/work/BBBBBBBB
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https://www.librarything.com/work/15255282 wants combining with https://www.librarything.com/work/13096881

both are Naruto volume 62.

Thanks.

(with the sheer amount of combining and separating I've done of that series today, anyone would think that I actually read it...)

> 2: Done.

ETA: I also find https://www.librarything.com/work/7132837 , which may go with https://www.librarything.com/work/3538485 ; and https://www.librarything.com/work/5886558 , https://www.librarything.com/work/6777504 , https://www.librarything.com/work/5886559 , https://www.librarything.com/work/4744859 , and https://www.librarything.com/work/6615155 , none of which I can place. Thanks for any guidance you can give!

>3 jasbro:: https://www.librarything.com/work/7132837 does seem to be the chinese version of https://www.librarything.com/work/3538485 - this is the work in question: http://www.paperbackswap.com/NARUTO-Naruto-24-AnBenQiShi/book/9861136398/

https://www.librarything.com/work/6777504 has now been combined with another version.

https://www.librarything.com/work/5886558 is a unique work and does not want combining (the one that looks like it might be the same is not).

https://www.librarything.com/work/5886559 is a novel from the franchise and is the same as https://www.librarything.com/work/2501262 (the latter being the English translation of the former), which need combining.

https://www.librarything.com/work/4744859 is http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4088741935 and is its own entry that doesn't need combining with anything

https://www.librarything.com/work/6615155 was actually 3 different works combined together. These are now separated and combined with a couple of other versions of the same things that were lying about in the wrong place.

Hi all:

Robert A McConnell - Introduction to Parapsychology in the Context of Science

and Roberta McConnell - Never Marry a Ranger

are combined as one author.

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

Sorry, I can't figure out how to fix this one.

>5 streamsong:

You need to split the author - for LT they are the same author (same name) so you basically split the page to give them their own sections and subpages. Done now.

Please combine records https://www.librarything.com/work/4199933 and https://www.librarything.com/work/2459100. They both are for The Little Mermaid: Her Story, the Writer, and the Fairytale. The primary author on both records is listed as Per Eilstrup, whose name appears on the title page of the edition with the ISBN of 8787108984; he wrote about the statue in Copenhagen and the history and writing of the fairytale. However, Hans Christian Andersen's name appears prominently on the cover, and the text of his story, "The Little Mermaid," is given at the end of the book. All of the text of both the introductory material and the fairytale has been translated into English.

Thanks.

>7 sallylou61: Done.

Here's another one to rack your brains:
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

This one has a Postscript to The Name of the Rose, which has a separate entry here on LT. Yet, in the main entry, the very first edition says: "including the author's postscript".
A quick look reveals that there are also dozens of Dutch editions that include the Postscript.

I know for a fact that my edition and most German ones don't usually have it (there might be some special editions floating around, though).

Question: separate or just leave it be?

I see an English edition of the Postscript having 84 pages and a Dutch one having 95 pages. I think that's sizable enough to have editons of The name of the Rose with and without it separated.

#9 by @leselotte> I would separate; but then that how we have each Work in our library -- separately.

Please combine http://www.librarything.nl/work/2317257 and http://www.librarything.nl/work/14870008/book/111891970.

I thought I knew how to do it myself, but I didn't manage to do it. The second one is the Dutch translation of the first one.

Thank you.

>12 Daisy_zn: Done.

#10, 11
Thanks for your input! I'm afraid to create a mess, though, since this is one of the more popular works on LT and the numbers are huge. Looking at the entry, it seems more convenient to separate all the editions NOT containing the postscript, since the first 4 entries (1940, 1042, 1001, 924 copies each) all have it.
This is going to be a lot of work, so it might take a while! I'm not starting yet, either, since I'd like a bit more feedback.

This is one of those cases where I'd really appreciate an edition layer where we would have one entry for one main work, but could still filter by edition, regardless of secondary texts surrounding it (yes, I'm looking at you, Norton Critical Editions!). Separating the Eco will influence a lot of connections, and I think most people bought the book to get the main novel and didn't much care whether the Postscript was included or not. Yet, the Postscript is also available separately, so by LT rules, the separation should really be done!

>14 leselotte: It sounds like one of those cases where it's clear what ought to be done, but it isn't really practical given the limits of LT. If you do go through the huge task of separating, is it likely that someone will just come along and combine them again?

>15 jjwilson61: A Disambiguation notice might be helpful; something like please do not combine (1) The Name of the Rose, (2) Postscript to The Name of the Rose and (3) The Name of The Rose with Author's Postscript.

#15 by @jjwilson61> Consider this: http://www.librarything.com/work/15271547 . We already have 5600 copies using combinations of a particular ISBN and occurrences of the word "Postscript." At a minimum, it would require LT staff or a knowledgeable Combiner to override the 200-copy "Too much love!" restraint. Hopefully, with the Canonical Title reflecting both Works and somebody's (already!) identifying "contains/contained in" Work-to-Work Relationships, I think we stand a good chance of keep them distinguished. Now to complete the separating / recombining, and to give it a really effective Disambiguation Notice! Thank you.

Hi, thanks again for your feedback, everyone! I'm afraid I won't be able to tackle the Eco till next month or so since my laptop broke and till it's repaired, I'm on my good old faithful Windows XP Toshiba (seriously, they don't make 'em like that anymore!). It works all right, but omg, it's.so.slow. Seriously. So. slow. On LT especially regarding larger combinations. So I'm going to keep this in the back of my head, or if someone else wants to have a go before I get my computer back, please go ahead! Thanks!

Oscar Wilde (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) -

Zero-copy https://www.librarything.com/work/15278275/summary needs to be combined with https://www.librarything.com/work/15278276/summary

>19 DuncanHill: : Done.

Unsure if they are the same as https://www.librarything.com/work/15279331 and https://www.librarything.com/work/15279342 , so leaving those out of the mix for now.

@BarkingMatt - Thank you. "Bloom's Modern Critical Views", "Bloom's Classic Critical Views" and "Bloom's Major Dramatists" are three different series - so yes you are right not to combine the other two. Bloom has written/edited many books with the same title but in different series and with different content, which does lead to confusion and mis-combination.

Hello

Could someone seperate https://www.librarything.com/work/3342625/book/110875148 into two books;

Harney, Songs of the songmen : Aboriginal myths.

Williams, Christianity Among the New Zealanders.

They are currently combined. I added the Aborginal book and all the details are correct.

Thanks

>22 SubEuclid: : Done. It may take a while for the covers to migrate along properly.

P.s.: "Songs of the songmen" is now at https://www.librarything.com/work/15286311

>24 Collectorator:: Correct. But at least they're separated now.

Sigh indeed.

This isn't exactly a combining/separating problem, and maybe it belongs in Bug Collectors, but I just discovered that my copy of The Count of Monte Cristo, at http://www.librarything.com/work/3728592/summary/102609329, doesn't show up on the list of works by Alexandre Dumas at http://www.librarything.com/author/dumasalexandre-1. I tried editing the author division, thinking that maybe my book ended up in the "unknown" category instead of author 1, but it wasn't there. However, it does show up on this author page, http://www.librarything.com/author/prealexandredumas, which should be the same as the above author page, so I don't know what's going on. If anyone can help, or tell me what to do, I'd be grateful.

Apart from the Alexandre Dumas page, which is divided into two authors, there are also separate author pages of Alexandre Dumas, père and Alexandre Dumas, fils, into which the two authors an the Alexande Dumas page have been aliased. So all works of your author can be found on the Alexandre Dumas, père page.

I know they all can be found on the Alexandre Dumas, père page, http://www.librarything.com/author/prealexandredumas, but The Count of Monte Cristo doesn'tshow up on the Alexandre Dumas main page (the disambiguation page), http://www.librarything.com/author/dumasalexandre, or on the page that you get to if you click on Alexandre Dumas (1) on the disambiguation page, http://www.librarything.com/author/dumasalexandre-1.

I am willing to give up on this if nothing can be done about it, or if it's too much trouble, but this seems wrong to me. That is, the Alexandre Dumas pages don't agree with each other.

>30 rebeccanyc: The only works that are meant to show on a split-but-aliased author's page are the works with the needed-to-be-split author listed as the work's primary author. Any changes to the primary author would remove the work from that page, anyway.

You could go in and change the primary author on all of them to per or flls as appropriate, but since that will remove the works from the disambiguation page altogether, is the opposite of what you want, anyway, if I am understanding you correctly.

>31 PhaedraB: Sigh. It's just confusing, because three of my Alexandre Dumas (père) books show up on the disambiguation page and one doesn't, but I'm certainly not going in and editing everything! And, yes, it's the opposite of what I want.

>31 PhaedraB: So, would you consider that from LT's UI that the per and fils pages are the real pages and the disambiguation page is just a way to get to the real page? Kind of like a See... card in a card catalog?

>33 jjwilson61: That is indeed the result of aliasing. All works on the aliased author page show up on the author aliased to's page, but not vice versa.

>34 henkl: All works on the aliased author page show up on the author aliased to's page, but not vice versa.

But . . . there is a page for "Alexandre Dumas -1" at http://www.librarything.com/author/dumasalexandre-1 which is the link you get if you click on the name Alexandre Dumas (1) on the disambiguation page. You have to click on the link below that (and much less prominent) to get to the aliased to page, which has all my titles.

>33 jjwilson61: Yes, that is how it is designed to work.

>35 rebeccanyc: On the disambig page right under the words Alexandre Dumas (1), it says very clearly Works have been aliased into Alexandre Dumas, père. with link. I don't know what could make it more prominent; it's right there. Bolding, maybe?

>36 PhaedraB: Maybe like:
ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE!!!

>36 PhaedraB: I know it says that right there; that's how I found it. It's just my instinct was to to click on the first name (Alexandre Dumas (1) because it was at the top and it was in bold. I would suggest something not as dramatic as >37 henkl: but Works have been aliased into Alexandre Dumas, père so it is almost as prominent as the first name. Many people (including me, the first time) will skip over that note, especially if they don't know what aliasing is.

>37 henkl: "Works have been aliased into Alexandre Dumas, père", that is what I really thought.

I'm posting this here because I'm not sure how aliasing works. I separated the authors named "Peter De Rosa"

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

BUT

Peter De Rosa 2 and 3 are not "Peter De Rosa" at all; they are actually separated people both named "Neil Boyd". The confusion comes from the fact that Peter De Rosa 1 wrote his novels under "Neil Boyd".

I don't know how to fix this.

Please combine:

https://www.librarything.com/work/246504
https://www.librarything.com/work/10534924
https://www.librarything.com/work/14342702

Thanks in advance!

>42 AndreasJ: Done

These should be combined:

https://www.librarything.com/work/12740370/book/112184915

and

https://www.librarything.com/author/mooregeorge

>44 Schmerguls: Your second link is an author. But the editions had another listed in the potentials that I combined, is that what you were looking to have done?

>45 .Monkey.:

I read George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man and it was the Modern Library edition thereof which came out I think in 1917. When I put that edition of the book in 'my library' I was told that I was the only reader or owner of the book. I want to combine the copy of Confessions of a Young Man I read with all the other copies thereof but I don't know how to do that. It looks like you have done that and now I am not the sole reader or owner of the book--I only put books in my library that I have read and all the books I have read cover to cover are in my listings. By going to my books in LibraryThing I can easily determine if I have read a particulasr book. Thank you.

Right, we can't combine a work and an author, we can combine two works by an author. So those are the links we look for to know what it is that's being requested. But as I said, I combined the extraneous copy of the work, so I'm pretty sure 44 is done.

Here's a work where someone has combined several entries, seemingly disregarding 6!!! disambiguation notices.
I have no idea where to look up the corresponding log?

http://www.librarything.com/work/7779039/editions

Thanks!

#49 by @leselotte> Ai-Yi-Yi! FWIW, none of our H.C. Andersen Title are affected here, but I suspect that's merely good fortune. Any body have thoughts or suggestions on how to remedy this one?

>50 Collectorator:-53 Thanks! I'll try to untangle at least the copies that have an ISBN tonight!

> Ah, okay, that what comes of it when one doesn't look very closely! I'm being bad and posting this while at work ;)

http://www.librarything.com/work/13926424

http://www.librarything.com/work/11948762

http://www.librarything.com/work/12684366

Same book, of which Buttner/Buettner is editor. Drost and Kopp are contributors. I'm not getting anywhere with but I'm sure someone here will.

>57 bluepiano: Done.

#56 by @leselotte> It looks like we still have a few editions with ISBNs specified that could still be separated out of the "generic" http://www.librarything.com/work/7779039 .

I'd suggest a three-pronged approach to distinguish the various HCA story anthologies (and hopefully to discourage further, inappropriate combinations). The first two steps were apparently tried before, without sufficient effect but still helpful, namely: (1) list contents in the Common Knowledge Description fields (WorldCat by ISBN can be helpful in this regard), and (2) include Disambiguation Notices, with reference to the contents being listed in the Description. The third step may add some "umph": (3) add a Canonical Title, to include a distinctive descriptor in brackets, as I've done with http://www.librarything.com/work/15308684 , http://www.librarything.com/work/7877141 and http://www.librarything.com/work/15308716

These last two I actually separated and recombined as different Works just this morning. Both have substantially the same Title and Kay Neilsen as illustrator (which may have been the basis for combining them thus far), but checking the two ISBNs on WorldCat suggests one Edition has 14 titles, but the other only 11.

I'd welcome other Combiners' thoughts, suggestions or objections before I take this task any further. If there are none, I'll appreciate y'all's help with implementation. Thank you!

Toradora! volume 2 (light novels)
https://www.librarything.com/work/15308951 is the same as https://www.librarything.com/work/15308952

Toradora! volume 3 (light novels)
https://www.librarything.com/work/15308971
https://www.librarything.com/work/15308972
https://www.librarything.com/work/15308976
https://www.librarything.com/work/15308978
are also all the same.

Please do not combine with any other works that have the same name.

(The listed entries for combination are 0 member versions where the version with members isn't in the list of potential combinations)

Thanks

>59 jasbro:
Looks great! I'm going to jump in and see what else I can do!
(Sorry, I got caught up with a Capote issue that turned out bigger than I thought!)

>59 jasbro:
I managed to make a tiny dent in the mess that is Andersen's fairy tales. Maybe you or someone could have a look and give an opinion (you can also use private comments if you want).
Also, there's still loads of work there, so any help and/or input is appreciated! I might take a little break from Andersen for a few days - it makes my head hurt ;)

http://www.librarything.com/work/425280/112361986#

?

>64 bluepiano: Sorted but future entries may still end up wherever as there seems to be some ISBN overlap.

#62 by @Collectorator> I understand the problem, but don't know what more to do about it. WorldCat clearly associates both the 11-story collection with the corresponding cover image at www.librarything.com/work/15308716 , and the 14-story edition with one particular cover image at http://www.librarything.com/work/15311116 (which is where http://www.librarything.com/work/7877141 wound up after my separating & recombining). For what it's worth, I've flagged five occurrences of the 11-story cover image on the 14-story Work page as inapplicable to the Work; not that it'll help reduce confusion. For that, we'd need the Members using that image to either change it, or to separate and re-combine their copies with the corresponding 11-story edition. I'm always open to any suggestions, critiques or proposals for what we might do more, better or different; until then, I'm satisfied that I've gone as far as I can with these two in particular. Thank you.

Someone seems to have added an author picture as a book or work:

http://www.librarything.com/work/12649693
http://www.librarything.com/author/boynejohn

Is there a way to put the picture where it belongs and delete it as a book? I'd try to do it if I had a clue how to.

How does one separate an inappropriate title from a series list?

http://www.librarything.com/series/Rosebud

The third listing, Very Funny!, belongs to a different series of journals which are also called Rosebud.

>68 bluepiano: just go on the work page, in the common knowledge section, onto the language in question (in this case German), and edit the common knowledge entry, changing it to the right series name, or deleting it if it isn't a part of a series.

But keep in mind, that book might possibly belong to another series also named "Rosebud". If so you might have to create two different series - Rosebud Magazine vs. Rosebud whatever.

It happens if titles of series are ambiguous.

#67 by @Taphophile13> There's a particular, private LT Member who's done quite a bit of that -- entering various Authors' names in the Title field and pictures of each corresponding Author in place of a cover image, to create a distinct LT "Work" record for the Author rather than for any real Work that the Author may have produced. If you're curious to see more, look for the Tags "autori" & "scrittori." There may be some method to the madness, but I've never figured out what it is. Personally, and not understanding it any better than I do, I don't much like it; I'd prefer to have the Author information and photos entered on the corresponding LT Author page. But, unless & until LT decides to take some action with respect to such entries, they're unlikely to change.

>71 jasbro: There may be some method to the madness

When his catalog is ordered by author/title, all books by a particular author are preceded by the author's picture. At least, I suppose that's his reason.

>69 kuuderes_shadow:, I'm sorry but I don't understand.

>70 Nicole_VanK:, if I get you right, that's the problem. There are 2 series called 'Rosebud'; on the page I linked to, the Very Funny! issue of design journal Rosebud is in the otherwise correct listing although it belongs with the other Rosebuds. I thought about adding the subtitle of the Rosebud literary journal ('The Magazine for People Who Enjoy Good Writing' on all the CK pages for the issues listed but not only do I not know whether that would result in Very Funny! being off that series' list but it seems like a tedious & roundabout way to eliminate one book.

This is an author page with nothing in it but there is a page of the author which should be combined with it, not?

https://www.librarything.com/author/gardnersharpabigail

This shows the author has a book:

https://www.librarything.com/work/1972312/edit/11820649

How can we get the author to have an author page with something in it?

Thanks, Collectorator.

1
Loncon 3 - The 72th World Science Fiction Convention
http://www.librarything.com/work/15337088
Loncon 3 : The 72nd World Science Fiction Convention by Johna-Martijn Flaton
http://www.librarything.com/work/15272509
Loncon 3; the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention by Loncon 3
http://www.librarything.com/work/15269504

2
Loncon 3 display catalogue by Loncon 3
http://www.librarything.com/work/15269509
Loncon 3 Display Catalogue by Jude Roberts
http://www.librarything.com/work/15273283

>77 ringman: Done.

http://www.librarything.com/work/5291123

http://www.librarything.com/work/9294850

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/5291126

http://www.librarything.com/work/6452459

>80 Collectorator:, thanks. I don't know how to deal with instances like those, where 'add another author' allows only for changing primary author as opposed to adding another one in order to combine.--In last page you link to, looks to me as if all editions are Issue 30, as they should be; if you meant the '39' that was in heading when it should have been '30', I've corrected that.

Hi: could someone please combine these two editions of
"The History of the Celebrated Nanny Goose and The History of the Prince Renardo and the Lady Goosiana"? One is listed under the author "Anon," and the other, "Anonymous."

https://www.librarything.com/work/14030708

https://www.librarything.com/work/15047049

Thanks for the help!

>82 AbigailAdams26: Done.

Thank you, henkl!

My pleasure!

I'd been perusing today's born/died statistics, and just happened to notice this:

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

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

I believe that's the same woman. Perhaps one name is a maiden name, but it's surely the same person otherwise. I'm trapped in the library right now, with only my laptop for company, or I'd just do it.

If someone else doesn't take this on before I finally go back home, I'll probably try doing it. Serendipity strikes again. ;-}

Okay, I'm back home, and I just combined the two. It seemed to go fine, but if someone wants to check on me, that'd be great.

Libraries are fine, but I'd rather be home.

BTW, I suspect (but am not positive) that the work Journey through the Song of Solomon is a different Cherie Blair.

http://www.librarything.com/work/14659903

or

http://www.librarything.com/work/14659903/book/105475109

I could be wrong. I've been wrong before.

#87 by @Lyndatrue> It looks like you're right on both points. One Cherie Blair, wife of the former UK Prime Minister and Author of Speaking for Myself: My Life from Liverpool to Downing Street and other Works, goes by Cherie Booth professionally; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherie_Blair and http://www.librarything.com/author/blaircherie-1 . The other appears to be Chérie Blair (with an "é"), the Author of both Journey through the Song of Solomon and Altogether Lovely--The Perfect Man; see http://www.librarything.com/author/blaircherie-2 . Thanks for the tip!

>88 jasbro: Thanks for the comments. I'd have never known about the second one, but the first did not look like it belonged in politics. No matter how unusual the name, it always seems there's more than one. Thanks for finishing up, too. :-}

Hello, Combiners... http://www.librarything.com/work/2081650 and http://www.librarything.com/work/686177 are the same book. Anyone up for combining?

>90 7sistersapphist: done.

2wonderY: Thank you!

Two zero copies need combining with the main entry:

https://www.librarything.com/work/15361338/summary

https://www.librarything.com/work/15361342/summary

into the main entry: https://www.librarything.com/work/15361304/summary

Work is "The Wit of Oscar Wilde", selected & with an introduction by Merlin Holland.

>94 Collectorator: done.

Same author: Barbara Corcoran. Please combine with Paige Dixon. Paige Dixon is a pseud. of Barbara Corcoran.
http://www.librarything.com/author/corcoranbarbara-1-5209321
http://www.librarything.com/author/dixonpaige

Children's Books and Their Creators - Page 169 - Google Books Result
Anita Silvey - 1995 - ‎Reference
Barbara Corcoran spent the early part of her career working in the theater ... She has written as Gail Hamilton, but her best-known pseudonym is Paige Dixon.

Paige Dixon should have been aliased into Barbara Corcoran (1)??? Barbara Corcoran is the legal name/main author name used. But thanks for doing it... I changed the canonical name.

This zero-copy:

https://www.librarything.com/work/15379867

Needs to be combined with:

https://www.librarything.com/work/15379867

Work is "F.E : the life of F.E.Smith, first Earl of Birkenhead"

Thanks (accidentally posted it in the old thread!)

Please combine these two authors - they are both the same person

Kathleen Daisy Miller

https://www.librarything.com/author/millerkathleendaisy

and

https://www.librarything.com/author/millerkd

Thanks a lot!

@Collectorator - Oh, not sure what I did there then!

>101 DuncanHill: You'll notice that I've done some minor clean-up with the title, author and disambig. I thought someone else had already combined.

@2wonderY thanks - the Campbell book and the F. W. book were all combined together under Campbell, I separated them out.

I found out a few of the books Barbara Corcoran wrote as Gail Hamilton, and separated them on the Gail Hamilton page. Therefore Gail Hamilton (1)
http://www.librarything.com/author/hamiltongail-1
can be aliased into the below page
http://www.librarything.com/author/dixonpaige
The pseudonyms should have been put on Barbara Corcoran's page
http://www.librarything.com/author/corcoranbarbara-1
but if you're avoiding confusion put it on the pseud. Paige Dixon, as I changed the canonical name to be correct (Barbara Corcoran is her real name).

It is likely the Gail Hamilton page has more than one author.
The picture does not look like Barbara Corcoran from what I've seen of book cover flap photos.

Please combine the following books. They are the same work:

http://www.librarything.com/work/6743676
http://www.librarything.com/work/13764388

Thanks

Thanks. That worked great.

Zero edition
http://www.librarything.com/work/11808531

Belongs in http://www.librarything.com/work/10332056

>108 MarthaJeanne: Done.

Aggghhh. Someone has combined Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book Volume 1 with the Disney/Little Golden Book version - and possibly with another version, looking at the disambiguation notice. I've pulled out some, but it's going to take a lot of work... separating, combining, and getting the CK back where it belongs.

https://www.librarything.com/work/9468398/editions

>110 jjmcgaffey: Oh no! I had a spare couple of minutes, so i separated out the ones without auhtor or ISBN, and a couple of unidentified Disney ones, which are here: https://www.librarything.com/work/15392356 and here: https://www.librarything.com/work/15392336 now. If I have some more time, I'll help more.

ETA: By ISBN alone, I separated out some more Disney versions:
https://www.librarything.com/work/15392383/summary
https://www.librarything.com/work/15392379/summary
https://www.librarything.com/work/15392367/summary
https://www.librarything.com/work/15392436
I don't have the time to do more, unfortunately. Good luck with the rest!

...because someone added something to a series...you combined an illustrated picture book with a novel, to make it "correct"?!?

Methinks we doth assist too much ... or something.

I tried and failed. I've taken the pledge to do no more harm. Please fix this book.
The author should be Robert J. Ackerman.

http://www.librarything.com/work/606945/book/113117057

That IS the work author. You can change the author on your copy to match either on the edit book page or in your catalogue.

>116 MarthaJeanne: Thank you very much.

104 still not done. Gail Hamilton is a pseudonym of Barbara Corcoran. There appears to be only three books she wrote as Gail Hamilton, according to a Google Books search.

#118 by @bookel> OK, how's this?

http://www.librarything.com/author/corcoranbarbara-1
http://www.librarything.com/author/dixonpaige-1
http://www.librarything.com/author/hamiltongail-1

Both "Francis Pope," co-Author of The Airplane Power Plant and Elements of Aeronautics, and "Frank Pope" { http://www.librarything.com/author/popefrank }, Author of Dragon Sea: A True Tale of Treasure, Archeology, and Greed off the Coast of Vietnam, are entangled with Pope Francis { http://www.librarything.com/author/francispope }. It's a nice association, but I'm not sure why it turns out this way. Any thoughts? Suggestions? Can anybody take a crack at clearing up the confusions? Thanks to you all.

>120 jasbro: Both "Pope Francis" and "Pope, Francis" (correct form of Francis Pope) in the author field end up legitimately sharing http://www.librarything.com/author/popefrancis due to how LT generates URLs.

Edit : Francis Pope now has his own page back, future entries innocently using "Pope Francis" (or even "Pope, Francis" but meaning the Pope) will probably show up on it though.

119 - thanks very much.
The photo on this page
http://www.librarything.com/author/hamiltongail-1
does not look like the photo I've seen of Barbara Corcoran though. I've no idea which Gail Hamilton that refers to.

The 200+ copies of the Penguin Classics edition of Dombey and Son are separate from the 2,000 odd other editions. There is no disambiguation notice to say why or if this should be so and I can't combine them because of the numbers involved.

#121 by @Jarandel> Thank you! Not sure how you did that, but I appreciate the help. I also see that the problem for Frank Pope is only its pictures, which are now flagged with a request to move the to Pope Francis' page.

>124 Collectorator: That happens on separation. The CK publisher series info stays with the original work; it doesn't tag along with the separation. It's possible the separator did not know it was even there.

>127 Collectorator: How kind.

But didn't you say in another thread that you didn't change publisher series?

http://www.librarything.com/work/15400121/summary/113170096

http://www.librarything.com/work/1380623

2 different publishers have given different titles ('three' v '3') & different spelling of author's name ('Salles' v 'Sales').

I combined Salles & Sales, tried changing title of my edition to 'three' but still my copy is showing only one owner when I'm patently not the only one.

@bluepiano I fixed it - had to combine authors then combine the editions.

The photo see post 122 should be on Gail Hamilton (2), not Gail Hamilton (1).
See author's website on below page, photo matches.
http://www.librarything.com/author/hamiltongail-2

>132 bookel: I reassigned the photo to Gail Hamilton (2).

http://www.librarything.com/work/1713410

http://www.librarything.com/work/11109345

These books are being attributed to the Walloon author of short comic novels. Seems unlikely. I've googled them a fair bit and not only are they not listed under Toussaint's works, the only author attributions for them are 'various' and 'unknown'. Is it OK to separate them fr. Toussaint's books or should a German speaker here ask one of the members with the books whether someone named Toussaint had a hand in them? And if I do separate them, how do I take off Toussaint's name--by listing 'unknown' as primary author? Cheers.

Could someone combine this translated version to the original English version, please? I couldn't find out how.

Original http://www.librarything.com/work/232925
translated work http://www.librarything.com/work/10447594

Thanks! :-)

ETA ....And author too.

>135 Yamanekotei: Done. I first combined the authors; combining the works after that, was easy.

>henkl

Thank you very much! I will try next time :-)

Hi Fellow Combiners,

What do we do if an author page has the wrong name? This page http://www.librarything.com/author/bernsteinaline

should be for AliNe Bernstein, as in the URL, but instead it reads AliCe Bernstein. Any ideas?

Many thanks!

ETA: fixed it!

#134 by @bluepiano> WorldCat shows each Work to be edited by Philipp Oehmke and Johannes Waechter. The WorldCat detail for the 1990 Work doesn't list Jean-Philippe Toussaint, http://www.worldcat.org/title/1990-ein-jahr-und-seine-20-songs/oclc/718555963 . The directly related WorldCat detail for the 1988 Work doesn't give as much detail, but another http://www.worldcat.org/title/1988-ein-jahr-und-seine-20-songs/oclc/717035384&am... also doesn't list Toussaint. What does that information do for us?

Don't know what it does for you, but it reminds me to have another search at the very back of the fridge's bottom shelf for the red pesto that seems to have gone missing.

Shall try to change by noting one of those editors in 'other authors', then. Hadn't known of WorldCat site, so ta.

#140 by @bluepiano> WorldCat is one of the list of Quick Links in the upper, right-hand corner of a Work's Main Page -- or at least it's so on my LT Works' Main Pages. (I don't think I customized that display since the current style & formatting rolled out ... but I could be forgetful too.) I find these Quick Links to be a considerable help in finding details of particular Works.

I seem to have gotten myself into a muddle, and was hoping someone could help. I recently entered a book, published under the pseudonym "M.P." The author is, in reality, Dorothy Kilner. There is another M.P. in the system, so I separated the two M.Ps, and then tried to combine mine with Kilner. They both combined with Kilner however, and my attempts at separation still sees the non-Kilner M.P. associated with Kilner. What can be done about this? Thanks for any help:

https://www.librarything.com/author/kilnerdorothy

>142 AbigailAdams26: Done. You can't combine split authors, you need to alias the divided one to its main author page.

Thank you! I'm not sure I understand what it means, to alias something. I assume it's different from combining...? I just recently combined the pseudonym O.M. with Olivia More - should I not have done that?

Initials are often ambiguous to be possibly used for several authors, it's better to split and alias though if there's just one "O. M." for now it's not a big deal.

The aliasing tool can be found on the same page where you dispatch books to several authors for a split author page, there's a link toward the top. See as an example the one I just did for M.P. / Dorothy Kilner :
https://www.librarything.com/author_split.php?author=478438541&page=alias

What you should input into it is the end part of the target author page URL, for Dorothy Kilner that's :
https://www.librarything.com/author/kilnerdorothy
kilnerdorothy

OK, thanks! I will keep that in mind for the future. I haven't entered too many initial pseudonyms - they're usually more distinctive.

The problem with combining initials with the full name is what happens when Otto Molden, and Oscar Manning (to make up two names) are also listed as initials.

As we are talking about two books, one under each name, I would leave it for now, but it may have to be separated later.

Should I go in and separate O.M. from Olivia More, and then alias them? I don't want to cause headaches for anyone down the road. Or would they have to separate out their O.M. in any case?

ETA: disregard my question, MarthaJeanne - I posted quickly, and didn't read your second paragraph. From now on I'll definitely use the alias function.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Kalle+Ankas+bästisar

thanks

>149 supersidvicious: done

Please combine
#1:
http://www.librarything.com/work/15157215 (This should be the main one)
http://www.librarything.com/work/15380601
http://www.librarything.com/work/15110104

#2:
http://www.librarything.com/work/15380606
http://www.librarything.com/work/15284961
http://www.librarything.com/work/15380602

>151 serpil: done. and done.

#151 by @serpil> It looks like somebody's already combined the first and third of your #1, but I'm unsure the others should be combined. Rather, it appears to me that Member(s) are cataloging separately the individual (abridged) Works as collected in these Reader's Digest anthologies. If that's the case, should we be setting up Work-to-Work relationships instead of combining? Thanks for your thoughts & help!

ETA: OK, all of your #1!

>153 jasbro: Oh, I guess you're right. Hadn't thought along those lines.

I've run into another author combination/alias problem. I recently entered two book under the name William Mackenzie. Seeing that there were already two William Mackenzies, each aliased with a different name, I created a third William Mackenzie. Somehow though, my William Mackenzie is aliased to the same name as the second William Mackenzie, even though the alias field for him is blank. Here's the disambiguation page:

https://www.librarything.com/author/mackenziewilliam

How can I un-alias my William Mackenzie (author of The Academy, and of The Rector and His Pupils) from W.J.M. Mackenzie? Thanks for any help!

Why do you think your William Mackenzie (which is number 3) is aliased to William Mackenzie (1)? They seem to be clearly separated on the disambiguation page and when I click on the author name in your catalog it takes me to the mackenziewilliam-3 page.

Collectorator: it appears to have been fixed! When I originally posted, the third William Mackenzie read, on the disambiguation page, as 'William Mackenzie (3): W.J.M. Mackenzie.' Now the W.J.M. Mackenzie is no longer there. My thanks to whoever fixed it.

Another combination problem, this time having to do with an early nineteenth-century children's novel, 'The Adventures of a School-Boy,' published anonymously. Apparently there is a similarly titled nineteenth-century erotic novel, also published anonymously, with which the system has automatically combined my title. It would appear that this 'Anonymous' (no. 41), is the author of numerous erotic works. How can I separate my children's book from this erotic title, and from this particular anonymous?

https://www.librarything.com/work/4377659/113315651

Thank you for separating them. I'd tried to do it through the author page, and it didn't seem to stick. I'm sorry to be tiresome, but where would I put the disambiguation notice? Thanks again.

In CK on the work page.

Found it, and added a note. Thank you, MarthaJeanne.

>164 AbigailAdams26: There, I shook them out and I think they're sucessfully seperated. Do add CK data like original pub date and a description to help.

How odd. I can see the note:

https://www.librarything.com/work/15415991/commonknowledge/113315651

>167 AbigailAdams26: Yes, I moved it and put a similar disambig on the other title. Your record hadn't yet disentangled itself properly until I recalculated both titles.

Ah, I see. OK, thank you, 2wonderY.

Please combine these two books which are the same:
http://www.librarything.com/work/12298332/summary
http://www.librarything.com/work/13659657

Anna von Rottauscher is merely the translator, the author is anonymous.

>170 MissWatson: Done.

>171 henkl: Thank you!

Hi: could someone please combine these two copies of the same book:

https://www.librarything.com/work/15419672/book/113356520#

https://www.librarything.com/work/6313269#

>173 AbigailAdams26: Done.

Thanks, henkl!

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/15420098

into

http://www.librarything.com/work/2598890

>176 shmjay: Done.

Other Large Type combines:
#1
http://www.librarything.com/work/15380626
http://www.librarything.com/work/15157203
http://www.librarything.com/work/14904738
http://www.librarything.com/work/15380627
#2
http://www.librarything.com/work/14809201
http://www.librarything.com/work/15380622
http://www.librarything.com/work/15380616
#3
http://www.librarything.com/work/15380613
http://www.librarything.com/work/14678609

>178 serpil: Done.

Hi: could someone please combine these two:

https://www.librarything.com/work/15223484

https://www.librarything.com/work/15424454/113402320

>180 AbigailAdams26: Done.

Thank you, henkl!

It's really my pleasure, Abigail. I love combining.

I can't get this book
http://www.librarything.com/work/73401&titleauthorredo=1187785139
to show up on the illustrator's page here
http://www.librarything.com/author/smithsieglindeschoen

what am I missing?

The "h" in Schoen? ;-)

(ETA: I think it's fixed -- please check it out!)

It's there now, thanks!

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/I%20Classici%20del%20fumetto%20di%20...

thanks

please combine:
https://www.librarything.com/work/4917673 Norrøne guder og myter
https://www.librarything.com/work/6286505 Stora boken om vikingarnas gudar och myter

#187 by @supersidvicious> Done.

#188 by @Tumler100> Done.

I've been fiddling with these two all day but I can't seem to fix them.

https://www.librarything.com/work/15082355
https://www.librarything.com/work/15433385

I think the issue is stemming from some versions having the wrong author (the book was edited by Jean Rabe, not written by Mary Kowal), but I just can't figure out what needs to be done.

Thanks for any help!

>190 ligature: Done with some silent help by another.

All you needed to do was make sure they both shared an author, go to the author's page and combine from there. I added the editor and did it from her page.

Please combine
https://www.librarything.com/work/2222825
https://www.librarything.com/work/3485067

Hello,

I'm posting from a Russian-language Legacy Library account which has required a lot of author and work combining. I'm usually pretty good at getting it all worked out, but I recently had a book and an author disappear on me, so I'm coming to you for help.

The book Князь Серебряный ( https://www.librarything.com/work/15437466/ ) by Алексей Константинович Толстой ( https://www.librarything.com/author/1952162983&norefer=2 ) need to be combined with Prince Serebryani ( https://www.librarything.com/work/2014797 ) by Alexey Tolstoy. The first step I took was to combine Алексей Константинович Толстой with another name (I think it was graf Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy), which in turn was combined with Alexei Tolstoy (https://www.librarything.com/author/tolstoyalexei&all=1 ).

Unfortunately, that page includes works by both Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and Alexey Nicholayevich Tolstoy, which necessitates assigning Князь Серебряный to the correct author and then doing the work combination. (That's kind of a pain, but it's not ultimately a big problem.) My problem? Князь Серебряный and Алексей Константинович Толстой have somehow disappeared from the page for Alexei Tolstoy. When I start with the book Князь Серебряный and click on the author Алексей Константинович Толстой, I end up at the page for Alexei Tolstoy. But the book isn't listed anywhere on his page and the author isn't listed as one of the combined names, so I can't even separate out the name to see what's wrong.

Also, this all happened yesterday and I waited 24 hours to see if it was some sort of caching issue, but I'm still having the same problem, today.

Help?

- Katya0133

#194 by @Novodvorskaya> OK, I **THINK** I've been able to help -- maybe, a little:

(1) I combined the Works; they should both appear now at https://www.librarything.com/work/2014797 ;

(2) To the extent I could distinguish among variants of "Alexei Tolstoy" as Authors, I separated those that seemed to be "Alexei K."; those now appear at https://www.librarything.com/author/tolstojaleksejk . (Note that https://www.librarything.com/author/tolstojaleksejnikola is unchanged.)

(3) On the theory that "Alexei Tolstoy (2)" should be "Alexei K.," I changed that alias to point to the newly separated Author, https://www.librarything.com/author/tolstojaleksejk .

Assuming this much is correct, I think we need somebody more familiar with the Authors and their Works to (a) double-check the current assignments of generic Alexei Tolstoy Works as between the two, and (b) complete the assignments of "unknown" Works from the disambiguation page, https://www.librarything.com/author/tolstoyalexei , to the respective "Alexei K." or "Alexei N." Author pages.

Does that help? What other questions do you have? Thank you!

ETA: (Sorry I don't read Cyrillic, and I'm skeptical whether Google Translate could help enough to overcome that lack.)

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Niklos+Koda double works inside the series

2 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Jessica+Blandy double works inside the series

thanks

>196 supersidvicious: If those are the right links, it doesn't look like it should be done; they look like two separate series.

>197 prosfilaes: I think he means the double listings inside each series

>195 jasbro:

Thank you! One thing I'm mystified about is that Алексей Константинович Толстой ( https://www.librarything.com/author/1952162983&norefer=2 ) still doesn't show up on any of the combined author pages. I've got a couple more works by him to add, so I guess I'll see what happens when I do. Thank you again!

- Katya0133

Смерть Иоанна Грозного ( https://www.librarything.com/work/15440699/book/113557771 ) needs to be combined with The Death Of Ivan The Terrible ( https://www.librarything.com/work/12208469 ) and Царь Федор Иоаннович ( https://www.librarything.com/work/15440725/book/113559458 ) needs to be combined with Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch ( https://www.librarything.com/work/3199272 ).

>197 prosfilaes: >198 JerryMmm: yes please combine double listings inside each series

Noting posts 196, 199 and 200 above for follow-up, this thread is now CLOSED. Please continue our discussions at Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #65 -- http://www.librarything.com/topic/182238. Thank you!

Thanks!

#199 by @Novodvorskaya> You may need to go in an change the primary Author record on Works that you recognize as belonging to Алексей Константинович Толстой. (An LT Site Search takes me to the "Alexei Tolstoy" disambiguation page, suggesting that the complete name in Cyrillic has been combined with that generic form.) Assigning known Works from the disambiguation page to "Alexei Tolstoy (2)" may also help to separate them.

ETA: Did I mention, "This thread is now CLOSED"?

#196 by @supersidvicious> All done.

#200 by @Novodvorskaya> Both done.

ETA: I really mean it this time: "This thread is now CLOSED"!!