Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #7

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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It has been suggested many times that there be a single thread for LT'ers to post combining & separating problems so that;
** they can learn how to do it
** they can get help when needed
** just want someone else to do it (usually, they can't understand how to do it... which is normal... or don't have the time)
**and finally, those LT'ers who "enjoy" combining can have a place to look to first to see what fun can be had helping LT be the best place to catalog books.
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WHEN YOU POST:
Please give us HYPERLINKS, not touchstones. Hyperlinks to the pages where the problems exist are much more accurate than a touchstone when there is a problem.
Give us the title & author, plus any other information you think we might need.

Then you can just wait, "and someone will be with you shortly."

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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 thing 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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My 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.

and yes, this thread is similar to putting all of our problems together for people to see & say, "oh, no!! LT isn't perfect!!" or "Look at all of the problems that LT has." That isn't the case here. This is a place to gather "challenges" together to make it easier & faster to "fix" them. Let's just remember that "bad" data comes from people... people who make mistakes.. WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES! (ok, there are a couple of perfect people around here) Instead of complaining about the problem, let's fix it.
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When this thread reaches approximately 200 posts, DO NOT POST HERE, but go to POST #8. 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 & Discussion Thread at:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/50653
That thread is for combining information, discussion in general, not for problems....

Could someone please combine Highlights of Modern Literature (http://www.librarything.com/work/397657/book/39458350) with (http://www.librarything.com/work/6996984/book/39458350)?

Thanks,
KCGordon

>2 CarlSandburgLibrary:
Done. Both works had the same author, so you can do that from the author's combine/separate page.

Portable Thomas Wolfe has all kinds of issues: Mine here: http://www.librarything.com/work/book/39362011 and the others as well:
http://www.librarything.com/search_works.php?q=The+portable+Thomas+Wolfe

Thank you, felagund, for my fixing my three combining issues on the previous thread.

Portia:

This series needs to be de-duped:

http://www.librarything.com/series/Teachings+of+Presidents+of+the+Church+-+Pub

>6 Katya0133:, Done (but not Portia)

>4 benjclark:, I'm not sure what you see as "all kinds of issues" -- the various Portable Thomas Wolfes are already combined; only the search index is behind (it often is cached for anything up to a few days).

Q&A carried over from thread #6:

Message 185: PortiaLong
>184 Nicole_VanK:
That search result is a list of individual issues of a magazine. I don't really see any "combining" to do as I don't (at fist glance) see any duplicates.

For a discussion of how some people have decided to treat periodicals you could peruse this thread:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/51179

So, one way that these magazines could all be linked would be to create a "Series" for the Magazine and list the Vol|number as the work order.

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vintage_books:

I will list duplicate magazines to be combined with hyperlinks and leave it to Portia or people with more brain cells and expertise than me to decide the correct titles to list. :)

I did persue the thread (3x so far!) and read some great discussion but no answers. However, I searched far and wide for information about a "series" and did not find anything. Should I be looking somewhere specific as to what a series is and how to build one?

I personally want to be able to see which individual magazines I have and do not want to have them bundled together unless I can list them individually under a series.

Advice please?

Thank you,

vintage_books

Addendum to message above:

When I search my library for the words Needlecraft Magazine I find 52 results within my library.

When I use the Search query button on the top menu bar of LT for Needlecraft Magazine I find 54 results total, and only 7 results from my library. Some of the results *could* be skewed due to the inclusion of the word the in the title, but I would think the Search query results would be able to skip that word and still produce more accurate results.....

Thoughts?

vintage_books

Hi folks.

Somebody has gone and combined partial books of the Earth's Children series. The Valley of Horses and The Plains of Passage in particular.
I don't currently have the motivation to try and separate out the partials.

>11 Avron:

Well, I've done volumes 2, 4 and 5. I've added some disambiguation notices. I've probably not done everything, so it's worth checking.

9 & 10>

Maybe I'm misreading what your writing, but I think the idea is to use the common knowledge series field to "bundle" the issues together.

Please combine these two works. For some reason they don't show up together under the author, maybe that's another thing to fix, too. My copy is the first one listed.

http://www.librarything.com/work/5662959
http://www.librarything.com/work/4813238

Thanks!

>14 SaintSunniva:, Done by combining the authors under the "Can I combine with an author not suggested above?" link.

In a frenzy of uniting a singleton from my library with others, I combined two (which were both in my own library, as well as a few others') which should not have been, and would appreciate someone uncombining them. With a bit of checking, since I have both books, I realized the selection of songs is, while similar, not identical.

Fifty favorite songs for boys and girls
http://www.librarything.com/work/378209

is not the same work as
A collection of Fifty songs for children
http://www.librarything.com/work/378209/details/4961042

Thank you,

Hi SaintSunniva, Mary Nancy Graham's songbooks should now be five distinct entities:

1. Christmas Carols
2. A Collection of Fifty Songs for Children
3. Fifty Favorite Songs for Boys and Girls
4. Fifty Favorite Songs for Girls and Boys
5. Songs for Children

As seen here: http://www.librarything.com/author/grahammarynancy&norefer=1

and of course, in your library, they should now both be orphans again.

Can you shed any light on the boys/girls, girls/boys distinction?

>9 vintage_books:

To create a Series you just add a Series Name to the Series CK field on the work page (click on the pencil icon next to the field to edit). If a Series with a same name already exists it will likely pop up while you are typing. When you add the Series Name to the next one your (newly created) series will pop up as a suggestion. You can add the order (Vol|No) as you are adding it to the series.

Once you have "saved" the CK information you can then click on the name (which is now a hyperlink) where you will be taken to the series page where you can add a little info about the series and see which works have already been added.

>10 vintage_books:
Re: search results not showing all your issues - search results lag significantly behind the rest of the database - I have no idea how long it takes for your work to show once it is entered but it is definately a while.

This book and this book are the same work and should be combined. I've faced this multiple times, with an anthology -- sometimes listed under the name of the editor; sometimes under a contributor. How do I combine the two? Thanks!

#20:

Done

I added three copies using one of the ISBNs & changing the author to the "other" one... then combined via the author page. Then I removed my temporary copies.

Can some one please combine these two? One is the hardcover version of the other, but was uploaded without an author. Both have ISBNs. Thanks.

http://www.librarything.com/work/1099988
http://www.librarything.com/work/3875184

21: Thanks! Having done similar things in the past I don't know why it didn't occur to me this time!

Can someone please help with this one?: It's about the book "woeste avonturen van de Bokkerijders" by Guus Rademakers. As you can see the other books have different authors, but I really would like to have the books combined. To help I have combined the authors temporary:

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

>24 royalhistorian:
the 4 copies are combined - unfortunately they are assigned to the "mashed" author - (I assume that is a combination of co-author names)

Work can be found:
http://www.librarything.com/work/5784605

>22 inge87:
done

#23: Winter/Holiday/EndoftheYear Mind Tiredness?

>19 PortiaLong:

Thank you Portia.

I'm really not sure what I'm doing or how to do it. As a sample series, I created Needlecraft Magazine 1922.

http://www.librarything.com/series/Needlecraft%20Magazine%201922

How do I add individual issues for this year?

Sorry, I actually looked around LT and even checked the Wiki and could not find instructions.

Try reading the text to the right of your series page, 'How do series work'. Basically, put the year/issue in parentheses after the series name. eg, 'Needlecraft Magazine (1922.10).

27> There's also this LT group dedicated to series: http://www.librarything.com/groups/inallseriesness

They may be able to help with your series-related questions directly, as you keep working on your magazines. :)

>27 vintage_books:
What the others said - also - I don't know that I would create a series for each year - I would probably include the year in the ordering number like 28 said:

So -
http://www.librarything.com/series/Needlecraft%20Magazine

To add the issues - you go to the work page of the issue and edit the series field - if you start typing Needlecraft Magazine You can select the entry and edit the month/year number. Then remember to save.

If you want to work on the ones in your library I will start adding the others in LT and combining for you.

Thank you everyone, for your kind assistance.

I do admit to still being confused, and I've never seen that group before! I joined and started reading, but there doesn't seem to be a "beginner's page" or FAQ, so reading just added to my confusion.

It's certainly easy enough to modify when someone like PortiaLong and Avron do the work for me! ;-) Thank you for your hard work!

So....more questions.

1) If the results are not showing in the site search to add to the series, is there something I should be doing so they:
a) Show up in the site search
b) Are readily shown in the series

2) The magazine happened to be combined with another magazine called Home Arts in later years. The name of this magazine was changed to: Needlecraft Magazine, the Magazine of Home Arts. Should this magazine also be listed under this series?

3) I usually create a spreadsheet of my magazines and than upload them. Is there a formatting or tagging I can include which would make creating series easier in the future?

Thank you for answering my questions. This is all new to me, so I am trying to learn.

vintage_books

So...more answers ;-)

1.a.) I don't know that there is anything you can do to get items to show up in the site search except wait, wait, wait
b.) the only way you can get them to show in the series is to add the series info in CK for the individual work so you have to find them first (which is complicated by 1a) - SO - if you happen to see that someone owns several in the series you could go to their library and search their catalogue for others to add the info to

2.) I, personally, would include the later "Needlecraft Magazine, the Magazine of Home Arts" in the series and just add that info on the series page (which I will do momentarily).

3.) I don't know of any - since the only way to create a series is to add the series info in the CK section you still have to go to each work to add the series info - I don't know that adding the tag "Needlecraft Magazine" would have made it any easier (since all you have to do is search your catalogue to find the titles anyway).

Edited to add:
Added to series description:
"This magazine was with another magazine (called Home Arts) in later years. The name of this magazine was changed to: Needlecraft Magazine, the Magazine of Home Arts."

PS - vintage_books: looks like you have about 13 ultb tags to change

Thank you for the quick and detailed answers!

vintage_books

If you check the author page for Julie Cummins http://www.librarything.com/author/cumminsjulie she has three titles all beginning Children's Book Illustration and Design: http://www.librarything.com/work/3497692 , http://www.librarything.com/work/7025678 , and http://www.librarything.com/work/5512523 . There should be two: CBID (or CBID volume 1), isbn 0866361472; and CBID Volume II, isbn 0866363939. I tried to separate one of the miscombined editions but it seemed to get worse -- it left the wrong title behind. Could someone accomplish this separation and recombination?

>34 muumi:, Done

*Struts around proudly like a peacock*

Just completed combining magazines into my first series!

http://www.librarything.com/series/American%20Needlewoman

Can someone please check for errors?

Very nice!

If you want, you can make it say the month under "order," instead of just the number code you've currently got. If you enter this as series info:

American Needlewoman (1923.03|March 1923)

The series will sort by the number to the left of the pipe sign (this -> |) but what you'll actually see is whatever shows up to the right of the pipe sign.

You don't have to do this, by any means, but I think that sometimes it looks a bit more elegant.

>35 sabreuse: Wow! I'm impressed! Thanks. It's never been right but I forgot about it for long enough to accumulate a few more wrong ones.

>36 vintage_books:
Very Good! I applaud the fact that you took the time to ask, investigate, and learn how to use an LT feature you would find useful. Better watch it though - combining, CK and series can be seriously addicting (as is LT in general)!

>36 vintage_books:

Read >39 PortiaLong: carefully. Addicts have much to teach each other. (I speak of myself, not Portia!) Had I read that a month ago, I might be enjoying the holiday with my family, rather than sitting here typing this now. :)

> Message 37: Katya0133
Very interesting - thank you for posting!

> Message 39: PortiaLong
Thank you, but really the kudos goes to you and others who were patient enough to spend time (on Christmas Eve, no less!) to answer questions and provide answers so that I could learn!

> Message 40: stellarexplorer
LOL! Get away from the computer and enjoy your loved ones!

Please combine:

Lace Making
by Eunice Close

http://www.librarything.com/work/2361542

http://www.librarything.com/work/7028752/book/39542558

Thank you,

vintage_books

Done.

Do you know if the two books on 'How to make gloves' are also an old book and reprint as this seemed to be?

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

I have the old copy. I'll check it shortly; as perhaps I jumped the gun.

I've just put in some separating and combining time with the Larousse dictionaries (for instance, I believe that Concise French/English Dictionary, Concise Spanish/English Dictionary, Concise Portuguese/English Dictionary, and Concise Italian/English dictionary are NOT the same work), but there's more work to be done for someone who feels motivated.

I did a little work on Larousse. A big problem is that a number of these books are using Collectif as an author (e.g. Petit Larousse Illustré) rather than Larousse. There are 4,169 works under Collectif -- this must function in French like Various does in English.

Secret Diary of a Call Girl by Belle de Jour is simply a retitled version of The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, which is also called Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl...

http://www.librarything.com/work/5274973
http://www.librarything.com/work/1006427

> 47
Done.

Work 333083 has three seperate series entered into the common knowledge section and each is the only time that particular series is currently used on LT.
With the mass of non-english language titles in the editions list I'm unwilling to do anything with the book. But I expect that it's either the first book of a series and the other info in the series CK is for the next two books, or, someone has combined the three books in question.

I think the person who put in the three series thought one could do it at one place, instead of going to the each work. One needs some verification that the book is indeed a series. A peak at the German wiki site for Imre Kertesz indicates a "tetralogie" for the author, but I am not totally sure without enough research that the author or the publishers indeed do think of the three works as a trilogy.

>47 Stevil2001:/48
Information in post 47 added to CK information of the work - this can help keep them from being mistakenly "separated" in the future.

http://www.librarything.com/work/100312
http://www.librarything.com/work/3491

Can someone separate the tag Humanx from Humanx Commonwealth, please? There's at least one book I'd like to tag Humanx, but isn't about the later commonwealth.

>52 owen1218:, Done

>53 prosfilaes:
Done.

I've been trying to combine these two but can't get it to work. The authors look the same to me, but aren't showing that way. Please help!

Star Wars Omnibus: Early Victories by Terry Austin
http://www.librarything.com/work/7032693

Early Victories by Terry Austin
http://www.librarything.com/work/6355350

Thanks!

>56 lorin77:, Combined. Both were already on Austin's combine/separate list, so were readily combinable -- I'm not sure why they didn't show up that way for you, but it's sometimes something as simple as needing to refresh the page and/or clear your cookies and cache.

(edit: combineable? combinable? who knows...)

Please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/2701978
http://www.librarything.com/work/2701980

Hopefully, that will straighten out the two identical listings on the series page (for book 58)
http://www.librarything.com/series/Vision+Books

Thanks!

Done. I combined the authors and had to choose a canonical name as the one that 'won' was rather garbled. Please check that you think I chose the right one.

Series page looks good.

57> Thanks! Yeah, I was wondering why the two titles weren't showing on the one author page for me. Next time I'll try clearing my cookies.

>59 MarthaJeanne: Thanks, MarthJeanne - it looks perfect.

Here's a set of three to be combined:

http://www.librarything.com/work/6139537
http://www.librarything.com/work/4910046
http://www.librarything.com/work/6270562

Thank you.

Done.

Here are two books to be combined:
http://www.librarything.com/work/3108925
http://www.librarything.com/work/7080476

If it can be done without combining authors, that would be ideal because the book is definitely by Florence Meiman White, but the other books under "Florence White" are (I think) probably by a different Florence White.

Thanks so much.

Also, I combined Snow White and Rose Red (1997 title) with Shadow of the Bear (later reprint title)
http://www.librarything.com/work/book/39694976
I checked first lines and then the author's website, and made absolutely sure that they are identical... where do I put the information to encourage people not to uncombine them?

>63 muumi: - looks like they have been combined...

You put the information in the work's disambiguation notice - If you go to the work page you scroll down through the common knowledge and the disambiguation field is near the bottom.

I usually write something along the lines of:

"Variant Titles: Shadow of the Bear is the title of a reprint of Snow White and Rose Red."

http://www.librarything.de/author/roepkewilhelm and the combined authors have not really combined - I cannot combine the works properly. Unfortunately, as always with Umlauts, LT's beahviour is quite a mess here.

>65 AndreasP: - I found another one to combine by searching "Wilhelm R*pke" - which provided an obvious combination to do on the combine/separate page. Unfortunately I don't read ?German..so I don't know if the others are combinable.

Did this help?

66: Thanks, but no. All the "authors" are already combined properly. If you click on the various "combined authors" on the very author page I linked above, you'll find that "their" works have not combined with the "authors".

>64 PortiaLong: Thank you.

> 67

Perhaps we are not seeing the same thing...if I go to the .com version of the link you provided I see that the entry includes 4 authors in addition to the main author...

The main author is Wilhelm Röpke -
He has 15 works credited :
A humane economy : the social framework of the free market (38 copies) - A
Economics of the free society (9 copies) B
AGAINST THE TIDE (8 copies) C
The Social Crisis of Our Time (Library of Conservative Thought) (7 copies) D
The Moral Foundations of Civil Society (Library of Conservative Thought) (5 copies) E
International economic disintegration (4 copies) F
The German Question (3 copies) G
Crises and Cycles (3 copies) H
Welfare, freedom, and inflation (2 copies) I
Jenseits von Angebot und Nachfrage (2 copies) J
Wirrnis und Wahrheit : ausgewählte Aufsätze (1 copy) K
Mass und Mitte (1 copy) L
South Africa: an Attempt at a Positive Appraisal (1 copy) M
Das Maß des Menschlichen. Ein Wilhelm-Röpke-Brevier (1 copy) N
Wort und Wirkung : 16 Reden aus den Jahren 1947 bis 1964, mit einem… (1 copy) O

The second author is Wilhelm Ropke (no dots over the O) - who has 4 works:
Economics of the free society (9 copies) B
The German Question (3 copies) G
Welfare, freedom, and inflation (2 copies) I
South Africa: an Attempt at a Positive Appraisal (1 copy) M

The third author looks the same as the main author to me - and has 4 works:
Economics of the free society (9 copies) B
The Social Crisis of Our Time (Library of Conservative Thought) (7 copies) D
Jenseits von Angebot und Nachfrage (2 copies) J
Mass und Mitte (1 copy) L
Wort und Wirkung : 16 Reden aus den Jahren 1947 bis 1964, mit einem… (1 copy) O

The fourth author is Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Röpke
who only has the same 9 copies of Economics of the Free Society as everyone else. B

The fifth author is Wilhelm Röpke (which looks to me as the same as the main author and the third author) and has 11 works:
Economics of the free society (9 copies) B
AGAINST THE TIDE (8 copies) C
The Social Crisis of Our Time (Library of Conservative Thought) (7 copies) D
The Moral Foundations of Civil Society (Library of Conservative Thought) (5 copies) E
International economic disintegration (4 copies) F
Crises and Cycles (3 copies) H
Jenseits von Angebot und Nachfrage (2 copies) J
Wirrnis und Wahrheit : ausgewählte Aufsätze (1 copy) K
Mass und Mitte (1 copy) L
Wort und Wirkung : 16 Reden aus den Jahren 1947 bis 1964, mit einem… (1 copy) O
Das Maß des Menschlichen. Ein Wilhelm-Röpke-Brevier (1 copy) N

So... I am not seeing any works listed under the "sub"-authors that are NOT listed under the Main Author. Are you seeing one that does not show up on the Main Author page that shows up on one of the "subs"?

(Perhpas you could just post the links to the works that you think should be "combined"...then I could see which works are improperly attributed.)

I have just combined TOM HOPKINSON & THE EDITORS OF LIFE with Tom Hopkinson. The former had just 2 copies of 'South Africa (Life World Library)' - the latter

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

has all his works including 10 copies of 'South Africa' - the same book. Both the 2 and the 10 feature on the author page, but the 2 are not on the
combine/separate page. Am I just being impatient? Can anyone find them and combine? Thanks.

>70 abbottthomas:
Got them. There was another Tom Hopkinson name that needed to be combined.

Gosh! Quicker response time than 911! Thanks, fleela.

>70 abbottthomas:/71

Now that's odd. I still see 10 copies only.

Got the little (£&$%^".

They were on the author page, but not the combine/sepatate page. Had to go to them, separate them, and then chase them down one at a time before they would go where they belonged.

Please combine:

The boy scouts in camp

http://www.librarything.com/work/book/39538612

http://www.librarything.com/work/4513113

Thank you.

>75 vintage_books:, Done

Thanks!

Could someone have a go at Walt Disney's Bambi: Friends of the Forest? It's a picture book based on the start of the movie which has picked up lots of copies of the original Bambi : A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten, and looks like a bit of a tangle.

http://www.librarything.com/work/107481/editions/39789698

I'd normally dive in, but I've just been given a lot of old books by my downsizing mum and have piles of cataloguing to do (chortle!).

>78 kaffles::

So far I've tried to separate the Disney adaptations from the Salten originals, and left disambiguation for both plus a canonical title on the Disney version.

I'm afraid lots more will need to be done however, since I suspect the Disney adaptation still includes full video, complete book adaptations, etc.

Please combine these authors. The correct spelling of the last name is Heagney.
Thanks.
http://www.librarything.com/author/heagneyharoldjerome
http://www.librarything.com/author/haegneyharoldjerome

>80 SaintSunniva:
Done. In the green sidebar on each author page there is a link that opens a search box to look for name misspellings and combine them.

Hi, I've read a LOT of the various threads/instructions on combining, series, CK etc. and make a point of combining as I add works (why isn't that working automatically these days?) but ran afoul of the "iron law of hubris" on the following:

I set about to combine the work: A Nation of nations : the people who came to America as seen through objects and documents exhibited at the Smithsonian / Peter C Marzio http://www.librarything.com/author/marziopeterc on that page. Then discovered 2 more @ Peter Marzio http://www.librarything.com/author/marziopeter. So thought I should combine the authors. This seemed to put the works on the "wrong" author page so "separated"/re-combined etc. A mess.

Then discovered 3 more of this title (2 w/o author and 1 w/ Smithsonian Institution as author!

So, could someone please check the status of this cock-up?

All six works (8 editions) will come up on a Works (keyword) search for: nation nations smithsonian.

The works are:

http://www.librarything.com/work/4072179
http://www.librarything.com/work/608214
http://www.librarything.com/work/1344897
http://www.librarything.com/work/1919406
http://www.librarything.com/work/6245253
http://www.librarything.com/work/7125637

BTW, I still don't understand if one can combine works w/o authors or totally different, thus uncombinable, authors.

Thanks

82> This seems to have some problems at the moment with 0 members, but several listed. The first thing I would do is leave it for a while to settle itself down.

This books also does not seem to have an ISBN, so you can't combine in editions, which is the easiest place to do it. It is going to take real expertise and patience, so I hope someone with those attributes will take it on.

>82 rce1nyu:
Done. Happy New Year!

Help! This book:
http://www.librarything.com/work/7125007/editions/39832292

Should be combined with this book:
http://www.librarything.com/work/7136979/editions/25615083

But they don't show as combine/separate options. Can someone tell me how to do it because I can't seem to find out how ...

Thanks.

>85 klarusu: done

Hiya Portia, thanks a lot. Is there any chance you can tell me how though? Thanks, Claire

Riddle me this:

Why did a "potential work combinations" suggested for http://www.librarything.com/work/7140435/editions/
with (incorrect) author Patricia Gallagher (no "C.") http://www.librarything.com/author/gallagherpatricia

result in that author "hi-jacking" the five copies on the work http://www.librarything.com/work/1309757 linked to the correct author (Patricia C. Gallagher)? http://www.librarything.com/author/gallagherpatriciac

I've separated the "wrong" work back so "C." gets to keep at least the bulk of her work!

BTW, you'll note the disambiguation note (which should not be necessary) http://www.librarything.com/author/gallagherpatricia

>88 rce1nyu:
Some people have the book as being written by Patricia No-C Gallagher - likely because this is how it imports from Amazon (there are 3 that are found when you look from Amazon on the Add Books page - two show the "C" and one does not). The LT algorithm that picks the "elected" author does not always come up with the answer that seems the most reasonable (oh, for a canonical author field...)

The "wrong" work should still be combined with the others - even if it ends up on the wrong author page - because they are, after all, the same work. I tried to "float" the Patricial With-a-C Gallagher author to the top but was unable to do so. We will have to wait for someone with better "floating" skills to come along.

In the meantime, I think the correct thing to do is add disambig notices to the author pages and the work itself.

Aaaah! All of the editions of Little Women have been combined together, including the abridgments. The page is to big for my computer/internet connection to handle at the moment, so if anyone is looking for a project--have at it! At least the titles with "abridged" should be separated out, and then perhaps a follow up comparing ISBNs to track down others.

Cheers!

90> I could certainly do with a project on a winter's day such as this! It looks a right mess at the moment, but I'll give it a go.

Edited to say that it looks like someone is already working on it; I'll let them have at it so as to not confuse things...

>90 PhoenixTerran:

I think it's sorted now.

>91 mountebank:

mountebank - please join in if you see a task like this, because sometimes the task can take a very long time if you're doing it on your own. Don't worry about confusing things.

Thanks for the heads up, Noisy. I was worried about getting in the way.

>91 mountebank:, 92

I had wondered what happens if two or more people are trying to do things at the same time - are there never any problems if this happens?

>94 abbottthomas:

Occassionally when "many hands" are making "light work" of an issue you will find that you are combining something that has just been combined - in which case one of the items you are combining will show "0 copies" but it doesn't create an error or anything. On a big project you will often find several people "separating" on the editions page and when they go to the author page to combine someone has already taken care of it.

The only time you sometimes see something funny is when someone is using a trick that temporarily puts two things together that don't belong so they can get some stray copies together with the intention of plucking out the "wrong" copies when they are done - but it would be rare you would be looking at EXACTLY that place before they get things back where they go. (Obviously this is the sort of trick that should never be started if you don't have time to finish the job!)

Just a note -
When separating I would encourage people to keep track of "orphans" - works without ISBN or Author info - so they can track them down later to combine back with the appropriate work.

Can someone take a look at Lives of the Later Caesars, which currently has Anthony Richard Birley as the author, despite the fact that he only seems to have made a partial translation?

I would tend to leave Anthony Birley as the author, as the original Latin authors are probably all anonymous. Birley seems to be at least the chief translator and also the compiler (from looking at the LOC record). Birley seems to be at least a significant Latin scholar, so I don't really see a problem with his name being associated with this book. The Latin original is: Scriptores historiae Augustae. I think the David Magie and Anthony Birley versions are combined at this point. Perhaps they shouldn't be, because they may be separate compilations.

I added a book "the best from fantasy and science fiction 22nd series", via its ISBN
0 441 054617

http://www.librarything.com/work/book/40009861

I was told 4 members had this book. Being cautious, I then went to the combiners page

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

and it said that there were 32 copies. I could not find my fellow 4 member to try and combine them .

Is this a cache lag or something else?

Go look on the editions page, not the author page and you'll find what you want.

v

Can't combine http://www.librarything.com/author/giuseppepederiali with http://www.librarything.com/author/pederialigiuseppe - LT tells that "This author is no longer in the system" but you can see he is...

100> I get the same thing from both ends.

> 100/101:

It seems to be a bug (which I reported earlier) - I've "bumped" that thread.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/50138

It's aggravating because I know I combined authors yesterday. These bugs that only exist on some combinations are very pesky. Of course there is also the question as to why there are two identical authors in LT at all, never mind that they can't be combined.

> 103: I think author combination still works generally - so your work from yesterday is probably still okay. But for some reason some authors resist combining by a claim that they're no longer in the system. It's weird.

You're right it's also puzzling that identical author names end up as two or more "authors" on LT. Some of these I do understand - for example the combination "ij" (often used in my native Dutch) can be created by typing "i" and "j" separately, but also as a ligature (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographical_ligature). We can't expect a computer just to understand that the different codes used there really mean the same thing.

However, this doesn't seem to be the reason here.

>98 guido47:/99

Guido47 - for some reason going to the work page your book was associated with came up with "no title." So I think that was the problem and why it didn't show on the author page or the combine potentials page. These have now been combined with the rest.

I recently came across this book: http://www.librarything.com/work/1346759 and its clone http://www.librarything.com/work/3146427

The clone has no author, yet 11 people have copies. How should I go about combining these works?

You go to the Editions page to see if one if offered as a potential combination, which I see is indeed the case.

I just combined them. Thanks for the help!

You're welcome!

I was looking at the work Wild Animus , and noticed that when I click onto the author page, the author page shows 0 books written by him. Although there is CK, and wikipedia page link, so they apparently used to be there.

There doesn't seem to be any other author name to combine.

Does anyone know how to fix the author page?

edit: Oops, to be precise, from someone's catalogue, I clicked on the author page and arrived here http://www.librarything.com/author/shaperorich&norefer=1 (which has CK but 0 books), however the author link from the work also shows 0 but does not have CK.

This request is more about seperating Authors.

http://www.librarything.com/author/hornerarthur&norefer=1

The book "incorrigible Rebel" still appears on Arthur wakefield Horner's page. It is by the Union leader.

I put up a disambiguation notice, but don't know how to untangble this. In fact I have not yet learned how to combine etc. Authors. Since he is one of my favourites... Help.

Thanks, Guido.

If that book is by another author of exactly the same name, there is no way (at this moment) for LT to make a distinction - in which case your disambiguation notice would also need to be corrected.

>111 guido47:
Since, as BarkingMatt said in 12, there is no current way to distinguish between identically named authors in LT, the only thing you can do is post a disambiguation notice that there is more than one author represented on the page and post in this thread:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/8136
so that when LT eventually does have that capability we have a starting point for sorting them out.

Please combine these. For some reason, my copy doesn't show up on the author page,

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

So I gave both works the same canonical title, however my copy still doesn't show up with the other ten.

My copy:
http://www.librarything.com/work/1636539/book/6138209

the other ten copies:
http://www.librarything.com/work/118899

Thank you.

I found another large page separation project for anyone in the mood: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell has had various "parts" combined with the whole that need to be separated out (i.e. Book 3 shouldn't be in there with the entire work unless it accompanies books 1 and 2).

okay, so I was going through my series stats page and clicking on various things, and found this ...
People of the Mist by the Gears and Het volk van de nevel also by the Gears, both listed as number 9 in the series. I don't speak whatever language the second is in, so I'm not adsolutely sure it's the same book. Can someone investigate?
http://www.librarything.com/work/2406100
http://www.librarything.com/work/6185282
Thanks!

And another one that doesn't list each other on the editions page:
http://www.librarything.com/work/6187725
http://www.librarything.com/work/3773957

please combine?
Thanks!

> 116. The language is Dutch which I don't speak either. I do find Google translator very helpful in these cases. It is probably reasonable to assume that if a literal translation of a title matches another, then you are dealing with the same work.

The problem with the Gears seems to be which Gear wrote what. I will leave all that to someone who knows more about the authors han I do.

Thanks, #112,113.
I added the middle name to my Arthur Horner.
Somehow the other Arthur Horner seems to have acquired this middle name.
I am thinking of changing the one book (owned by the union leader)
I am thinking of deleting his middle name and then see what I can do.
I will wait for your comments.
My initial message was in this post #111.

Edited to add the mantra...do no harm.

> 116 They are indeed the same work. The problem here is that Kathleen O'Neal Gear is the first author of the English edition, while W. Michael Gear is listed as the first author of the Dutch edition. I changed their series so that they match, and added a canonical title for the English one, so perhaps that will help in the future.

All the works of W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear have similar problems with authorship - the first author listed varies by edition (witness an English edition in the edition section of your Dutch copy).

>114 SaintSunniva: - looks to be done

>116 masterdeski: - thanks to the info in 120 - these have been combined

>117 masterdeski: - done

>120 yue:
Do you know the translation for this one:?
http://www.librarything.com/work/4122561/editions/

>119 guido47:

Author page for Arthur No Middle Name/Wakefield Horner:
http://www.librarything.com/author/hornerarthur

I'm not sure what is going on here - if you remove the canonical author you get the middle name back - if you add "Arthur Horner" as the canonical name the "Wakefield" disappears entirely. Theoretically I thought there should be a author page for every author that has a book entered with that author in the author field (at least until it is combined)

For instance:
Author page for Arthur Geoffry Horner:
http://www.librarything.com/author/hornerarthurgeoffrey

All I can say is that you should enter the MOST COMPLETE author name on your individual copies of the books and then see how the chips fall.

>121 PortiaLong: I worked on all the Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear Books to the best of my ability, but I was unable to definitively say that "Tage der Schlange" (http://www.librarything.com/work/4122561) is a translation of "The Summoning God" (http://www.librarything.com/work/2406064) or if it is a translation of the previous book, "The Visitant" (http://www.librarything.com/work/2406061). I know that "The Visitant" has been translated as "Tage des Wolfs", which seems to preclude "Tage der Schlange" from being a German "The Visitant", but I also know that "The Summoning God" has also been translated as "Der Schatten Gottes".
In the end, I left it alone.
In case anyone adds "Tage des Feuers" (no one has yet), you may without hesitation combine it with "The Bonewalker" (http://www.librarything.com/work/177887).

Hi,

Should this author and work (http://www.librarything.com/work/5133881) be combined with Brave New World (http://www.librarything.com/work/1977) somehow?

Thanks

A quick Google (http://www.librarycatalogue.act.gov.au/ipac20/ipac.jsp?index=BIB&term=447560#focus) refers to this as a new work by "H A Cargledge" and describes it as a retelling by the author of the original "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, apparently intended for non-native, new speakers of English.

Robert A. Mosher

>124 krazy4katz:, No. The Penguin Readers are abridged editions with exercises and the like for EFL students. I've added a canonical title and disambig notice in hopes of making that clear for the next combiner who stumbles across the work.

Can someone do some Javascript combining magic on

Demon Kind
http://www.librarything.com/work/1267760
http://www.librarything.com/work/1503442

Roger Elwood is the anthology editor, while Anne McCaffrey wrote one of the short stories.

I changed the canonical title of the Anne McCaffrey version and added Roger Elwood as the Editor, but they can not be combined because the "authors" are different, even though Anne McCaffrey is not the author.
The members who have the Anne McCaffrey version would have to change the versions to Roger Elwood to make the incorrect version disappear, but we are not able to contact them in order to do so. So, we just hope that in the future people who add this title will choose the Roger Elwood version.

128: It's possible for people to combine them manually with the correct Javascript code, but I'm not messing with that. I know about the canonical title bit.

>129 infiniteletters: Well, Javascript is a trifle beyond me. I would try to combine them via ISBN, but neither versions have a listed ISBN.

I need some serious decombinant and recombinant help over on http://www.librarything.com/author/cohendavid . Five authors are conflated here: David Elliot Cohen (photographer, 1955- ), David C. Cohen (mathematician, 1942-2002), David W. Cohen (mathematician, 1940- ), David William Cohen (historian of Africa, ca. 1943- ), David Cohen (psychiatrist, 1946- ).

This work:

http://www.librarything.com/work/7216182

and this:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3462992

are one and the same, but as one has no author and no ISBN (the second work above) I don't know how to go about combining them. (Although I'll look into what infiniteletters is referring to in #129 above.)

But in the meantime, if someone is able to meld them into one I would appreciate it.

132> Done. It was possible to see the ISBN of the second work (which ended up being the same ISBN as yours) by clicking on "Editions", located on the left hand side of the page under the book (it's the last link in a column of links).

>127 infiniteletters: & 132, done.

Thanks, sabreuse and mountebank. mountebank - I was sure I had checked that before I posted but I could be wrong. Or else it was a side-effect of whatever sabreuse was doing in parallel. But thanks anyway.

134: Thanks!

>131 Marchbanks:

Currently LT does not have a way to distinguish identically named authors. The best thing you can do is add a disambiguation notice (which you have done) and post the information to this thread:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/8136

In the meantime, ambiguous author names should NEVER be combined with any of the more precise author names. For instance David Cohen should NOT be combined with David D. Cohen. You should try to include the fuller author name (middle initial/name) on YOUR copies of works - if enough people do this the work should then appear on the appropriate author's page.

Thanks, 125 and 126. I guess what I really meant is whether it should be on the same page as the other versions of Brave New World, but uncombined - like the Cliff Notes, Spark Notes etc.

>138 krazy4katz:, generally speaking, notes shouldn't really be on the same page either, as they're not the same work (at least, I hope they haven't been combined again!) -- they just frequently show up there automatically because the system suggests them for combination, usually because people or import sources have labeled them to look identical to the real book. Not a good thing, as it leads to a lot of confusion and wrong combinations.

#128 -- My wish is that users would give up on trying to combine books without a clear, unambiguous author name together just to be social. So Elizabeth Driver wrote some historical notes for a series reprinted selected editions of Canadian Cookbooks, that doesn't make her the author of the reprint let alone the author of the original and previous and later editions of the same work. I separated out my copy and it will remain a singleton thank you. Too bad, before the faulty combining it did share a home with a few other copies entered from library sources without an author.

>140 kathrynnd:

Skittle's discussion and information thread would benefit from a discussion of this -
Please see my reply to your post above in this thread:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/50653&newpost=1#lastmsg
(message 75)

kathrynnd, I'm going to reply to this in the discussion thread....

Thanks for bringing this up to be discussed.

Somehow Rachel Backer and R. (Robert) Baker got put together on this author page.
http://www.librarything.com/author/bakerr

Since it's mostly Rachel Baker's books, I added her canonical name. But of course Robert's books are still sitting there. I didn't realize I should have taken care of his books first, because now they're listed with Rachel Baker as the author. I'm afraid to touch it now. Anyone care to have a go?

The following two books come up (now) with Rachel Baker as author, but originally they had, and should still have, R. or Robert or Robert L. Baker as author.

Russian for Everybody was originally listed with author of R. Baker -- but when I look for the book on Amazon by the isbn, there is no author, just a Russian publisher. But I guess it should go back to R. Baker anyway, right?
http://www.librarything.com/work/188736

Selected Papers On British Warship Design In World War II (author should be R. Baker)
http://www.librarything.com/work/5768469

I separated them again and reset the canonical name of the Russian for Everyone and Selected Papers author back to R. Baker here:
http://www.librarything.com/author/bakerr
Disambig notice posted (feel free to modify for clarity - it's almost my bedtime).

Once you have added a canonical author you have to keep SOMETHING in the field to prevent a bug creating blanks. (See Bug Collectors for more details.)

? Perhaps someone could float Robert L Baker as the author for:
http://www.librarything.com/combine.php?work=188736

Can someone help me with this please.

Tooth and Claw by Gabrielle Lord has two work pages: http://www.librarything.com/work/3100711 and http://www.librarything.com/work/book/38523418

Going to the 'Editions' page of either - there is no way to combine them that I can see.

If some kind soul could do this I'd be grateful, and even more grateful if you could outline what you did in the process. Thanks.

>145 crimson-tide:: Done - you can also combine from the author's page.

>146 Nicole_VanK: Thanks!

Found these two works that need to be combined:
http://www.librarything.com/work/7242789/editions/
http://www.librarything.com/work/7242734/editions/

I think there may be a few others out there as well.

#148: ok... I checked out the two links... shadowrun (3rd edition) and I combined it with another 3rd edition...

but the shadowrun: Where Man Meets Magic and Machine (1st edition).... I'm not sure that's the same book.

I checked worldcat.org & it doesn't indicate that they are different editions of the same book & the subtitle of the S:wMmM edition is not attached to the third edition...

I'm going to leave this to someone who works with RPG books to check on.

Crap...now how did that happen? I just had finished separating out all the third editions before posting those links. You're right skittles..3rd edition is not the same book as 1st edition.

Fixed the edition problem and added disambiguation notices. Thank you to whoever combined the works I provided above.

>143 SaintSunniva:, 144

PortiaLong, what do you mean,

Once you have added a canonical author you have to keep SOMETHING in the field to prevent a bug creating blanks. (See Bug Collectors for more details.)

What "field"?

I think she means the Canonical Name field on the author page.

> 144 / 152: And how does one create a "canonical author"???

> 153: Leaving the canonical name field open on the author page does not create blanks - or does it??? it shouldn't!

> 155
Unfortunately it does create blanks, both Canonical name on the author page and Canonical Title on the work page :-(
But only when there was a name and it is removed later on. If it is still blank because no one entered any content, it does not create blanks.

These (http://www.librarything.com/work/6497495) two lonely copies should be combined with http://www.librarything.com/work/50132

Thanks!

#157: Done, but it was kicking & screaming until the very end!!

>152 SaintSunniva:-156

Yes, sorry for the ambiguity. I did, in fact, mean the canonical name on the author page (there is, as yet, no such thing as a canonical author for a work).

Authors do not need to have the canonical name field filled in, however, once anything HAS been entered in the field then there always MUST be something entered in the field in order not to create the buggy "blank" authors.

I have not encountered the same bug with regards to Canonical Titles for works - although I have noted certain bugs regarding this field which I recently posted in the Bug Collectors group here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/53981

Hi, I just posted this to the wrong group, I'm sure.

I entered my copy of Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, and then combined it successfully (or so it seemed). However, my copy still shows that I share it with no other members.

I've waited a couple days, to see if daily database maintenance solved the problem (that's usually what happens), but it's still "broken."

Can you help?

http://www.librarything.com/work/book/40153679

>160 carport:

Hmmm...I don't know what you are seeing but when I follow the two links that you gave, as well as when I look in your catalogue, I see the book as having 67 members (including you) owning the book.

Perhaps this is a cookie issue on your end?

Not a cookie issue, have viewed it on four different computers, and tried at least two different browsers on each system. But it's working now for me also -- so perhaps someone else fixed it. Thanks!

>161 PortiaLong:

I didn't use the convention of referring to the message number in my #162 response, but after I read it, I wondered if just by another user viewing it that it "fixed itself" after generating a view for that user. (????) Could that be possible?

Sorry, yes I combined several singlets from the author page, then got distracted...Sir Walter needs work.

There is a disambiguation note about the the Lung Cancer book on the page but nothing in CK. Where is it? I'd like add that the Lung Cancer book, is by Walter Scott, b. 1954.

>164 kathrynnd:
I saw the disambiguation notice when I originally combined my copy of Marmion, and separated the lung cancer books at that time (probably 36 hours ago or so)

>164 kathrynnd:

Here's the CK: http://www.librarything.com/work/7232846/commonknowledge/

I left it for you to update. Also, to be clear, I separated the lung cancer titles from a "Sir Walter Scott" author record that seemed to be a "master."

>160 carport: and >164 kathrynnd:

BTW, I also checked for singlets of Marmion multiple times (ensuring no cookie issues) over the past day and a half, and they did not appear for me. I am usually logged on to LT on at least three computers simultaneously; don't know if this could be a factor ....

I checked only in the "Sir Walter Scott" author record that my copy linked to. Perhaps my singlet existed in a different Walter Scott record?

158>Done, but it was kicking & screaming until the very end!!

Thanks, skittles! Your devotion to the cause is appreciated. :-)

>166 carport: >167 carport: Something needs to be done about the Sir Walter Scott author page certainly. Before writing a disambiguation notice for on CK for the Sir Walter Scott author page I'd like to have some indication it will stick. What happened to a previous notice not to combine the author name Walter Scott with Scott Walter?

There are currently four authors in LT with the name Walter Scott. The author names Sir Walter Scott and Walter Scott are combined, and to all practical purposes in LT they probably should be due to the large number of copies of Sir Walter's books involved.

I'd like to move any discussion about what we should do about the disambiguation notice to the Combiner's Group Information & Discussion Thread (but later have to go out now):

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=50653

Thanks for bringing this all out in the open carport. "Sir Walter Scott" may appear to be the master, but that could be because "Sir Walter Scott" has been set as the CK Canonical author name to display for all the variant names, including the author of the Lung Cancer Guidebook.

>169 kathrynnd:
there was no disambiguation notice about not combining Walter Scott with Scott Walter when I was working on the page, so it was removed earlier I guess.

If anyone has some language skills...
http://www.librarything.com/topic/54527&newpost=1#lastmsg

>171 PortiaLong: As I don't have any language skills I take these as a challenge and thought I would remind users to search for the ISBNs of Foreign language titles on using advanced search on WorldCat. Quite often you can find the original titles this way. I found two 10 lbers and separated them from Smokescreen, can't remember the titles, Rivalen? Paparazzo? or something (short term memory is going).

As I said above I just mention this as I've found this to be a very satisfying exercise when I feel like doing a little combining. You can find WorldCat in the green buy swap area in the top right corner of every workpage. If the link is not there you can add it.

Dear Group,

I know I have seen a Latvian Library something as a reference. I cannot find it in my lookup list of libraries, BUT I have seen it
somewhere. Please help.

Yours Guido.

>137 PortiaLong:

PortiaLong,

Believe me, I have NO intention of combining the generic author with any of the others. I'm just cringing at the notion of having to separate several hundred copies of a book, one copy at a time, and then trying to combine them with the correct author. I was hoping someone who had table-level access would see this, and macro it into being.

Sam

#174: I'm just cringing at the notion of having to separate several hundred copies of a book, one copy at a time, and then trying to combine them with the correct author. I was hoping someone who had table-level access would see this, and macro it into being.

We could only wish we could!!

? Could someone who has "floating" skills get Ray Rimell :
http://www.librarything.com/author/rimellray

assigned as the author of THIS work:
http://www.librarything.com/work/4624478

This is another one of those casualties of the Amazon/Enid Blyton Incident.

Another Enid Blyton Incident:
http://www.librarything.com/work/4651565
Should belong to
http://www.librarything.com/author/carterisabelray
but there are not enough copies in LT for me to make it flip

(skittles - some day you will have to give me step by step instructions on how to "float" authors - mine always revert when I delete ghost copies)

Hi folks,

Just wondering why the single copies of "Mornings on Horseback..." that show up on the David McCullough author page (http://www.librarything.com/author/mcculloughdavid&all=books) don't show up on the combining page. Is there something that can be done, do you think?

Yours in confusion,

k4k

Hi, k4k -
That is odd.
There are technically ways to get these combined but you will notice that although they say 1 copy many (most?) do not have a member name listed.

I think that this may be a clue to some recent combining difficulties so I am going to leave them alone for now and have posted about them in this thread:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/52608

Thank you, Portia. I think I have seen this on some other pages, so it probably is best to let the grown-ups take care of it.

I wonder if they're "ghosts" of deleted copies??

Please combine The Lovable Ugly Duckling

http://www.librarything.com/work/2878183
http://www.librarything.com/work/519945
http://www.librarything.com/work/5930544

The singleton works have the same publisher (visible from book details).
http://www.librarything.com/work/details/955488
http://www.librarything.com/work/details/34050872

>182 picturebookperson: - done

>181 sqdancer:
I think they must be - I am seeing a pattern of two newish ?related/inverse? bugs.

First - works with 1 member that have no members listed
Second - works with 0 members that have a member if you click on the 0 a few times (these works will not present themselves for combining until you get them to admit that someone owns them).

This seems to be new...

> 183 : The first is new to me, but I've run across the second from time to time for over a year now.

Please combine

Chandeliers and Billy Tea: A catalogue of Australian life, 1880-1940

http://www.librarything.com/work/book/40282588

http://www.librarything.com/work/471118

Thank you

>185 vintage_books: - done, these were combinable on the author's combine/separate page.

>184 Nicole_VanK:
For examples of the first - see the work in msg 178

With regards to the second - I have seen this before when combining/separating and the cache hasn't seemed to catch up (along with negative numbers at times) - what I think is NEW is that this is now showing up on works from the TIME OF ENTRY on LT - these works have not been combined then separated.

My bug thread on this issue:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/54690

I've been doing some simple combining on various volumes of annual world's best SF, but there's more to be done (where the works are attributed to different authors, and ISBNs are lacking) so I'm asking for assistance. Interestingly, someone else has already spotted this needs to be done - they've added the various editions to the series and added disambiguation notices saying that they are actually the same work.

1967:
this http://www.librarything.com/work/3584204 with this http://www.librarything.com/work/2533474

1968:
http://www.librarything.com/work/5447826 with
http://www.librarything.com/work/729154 and
http://www.librarything.com/work/3108693

1969:
http://www.librarything.com/work/1266826 with
http://www.librarything.com/work/248748

and more in the same vein from the series page:

http://www.librarything.com/series/World's%20Best%20SF

Thanks to whoever can help.

I have been combine works buy Terry Brooks and have run into a language problem.

There are several works that I think are in German and it look like they can or should be combined with the other version of the same title, But I don't understand German or whatever language they are in.

Can someone who can understand these languages please take a look and see what they can do.

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

Thanks in advance.

>187 kevinashley:

Ah so...my crimes come back to bite me -
when I added those books to the series I put in the disambiguation notices so that maybe people would add the editor (didn't work, did it?) so I could combine them.

I have never found a satisfactory way to find the series(es?) that I have worked on (short of wading through hundreds of CK entries - I can't get them to sort very well) - I always meant to go back...thanks for pointing this one out.

Combinations have been done and the unnecessary disambigs deleted (left the variant title ones of course).

>188 Mercenary_Roadie: I have begun working on the German and Dutch titles, and my main problem now is that the translated titles aren't strict translations ("Running with the Demon" has been translated "Dämonensommer").

EDIT: I finished all that I could, but there are still a few German boxed sets out there which do not correspond with any of the others.

Please combine Sylvester and the magic pebble

http://www.librarything.com/work/5243902/

http://www.librarything.com/work/64538

Thanks.

>191 picturebookperson: Unfortunately, I can't say that they are the same work. They have the same title, but the first work shows the title "Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse," which appears to have written by Leo Lionni. I am going to leave it alone.

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>173 guido47:
Do you mean the
online catalogue of National Library of Latvia

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