CK attributed to me that is NOT MINE

I did a search on the CK page looking to see if there was any way to see which series I have created (is there?) and I find that there are a number of items there that list the "Whom" as ME when I did not enter them.

For instance - the first think on the list is the "Last Words" for The Annotated Mother Goose - and while I may very well have done some "Combining/Separating" on that work, I do not own it and therefore would not have filled in the last words field. None of the Wintersmith stuff was me either.

On my homepage it says that I have CK=1,106 but the search yields 1,195 results. I did not check through them all to see if there are, in fact, 89 misattributed CK facts but I really can't verify that the facts entered by NOT ME are valid in any way.

If it helps, I recall that the history of the CK attributes every populated field to you even if you only update one field. I.e. it picks up the last user name that updated the CK for the work . A tip for future is to check ALL the fields and see if they're accurate before changing any of them. Personally I don't like the way it does that as it leads to misperceptions on behalf of other LT members about who actually edited a particular field.

Did you populate any of the CK fields for any of the listed works? If so, that's why.
If not - then I'm puzzled.
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(Subsequent edit to say that my above explanation is wrong. See http://www.librarything.com/topic/49478 - Basically it's NOT every populated field but just the rows within that field. So if someone added an 18th character today, they'd be credited in the history logs today for all 18 character names. Which leads back to OP supposition that combining is the likely cause of CK author attribution.)

I'll fess up that I combined on The Annotated Mother Goose (I have another "Mother Goose" work so I can see that I would have worked on that) but I don't know of any association I have with the Wintersmith works - unless it was a random combining request in the "Combiners" group that I don't remember.

It does look like a stray combining thing that caused a hiccup in the CK history log?

The log for that work is quite inaccurate as there's several populated fields that oddly do NOT appear in the changelog. ie, there's well over 15 different characters listed in the CK but they're not credited or attributed to any LT member in that work's CK changelog. Which makes me suspect that the log got 'smooshed' in some combination at some time and didn't recover properly :-)

On another note - is it usual for the changelog to only show month and day? I can't recall, but it's really hard to tell if some changes were made Oct 2008 or in Oct 2007....

Ok. I've been looking at this and have found that one of our slave databases is missing some CK entries. This isn't a life-threatening thing because the slaves are just mirroring the master database and sometimes that replication gets "off" for one reason or another.

It just so happens that your Zeitgeist uses information from the master. The CK search page hits one of the slaves. Of course, only one of the slaves is wrong so sometimes you may see one number or the other when you do a CK search. Confusing, I know.

In the meantime we're working on getting the missing data back into CK.

Also in the meantime I took the time that I was looking into this to re-engineer the way that CK search works. I have made some pretty drastic search time improvements and should be pushing the new version out once I've tested it a bit.

Ermmm....OK?

I'm not concerned that my CK numbers are wonked and not counting CK entries that I DID make. I am concerned that some CK entries that I DID NOT make list ME as the "Whom".

The numbers don't bother me - the fact that I could be blamed for someone else's bad data does.

In the cases I mentioned it seems that I am getting credited with any CK fields that "move over" to a work when I do a combining.