Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #24!!!

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 or URLs, 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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Portia's 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 #24. This thread will be easier to handle if we keep it under 200. (faster loading) Please copy any notes or instructions to the new thread.
Thank you.

Feel free to add comments &/or suggestions... not just "challenges"

**There is also a Combiner's Group Information, FAQ & Discussion Thread #2 at:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/57164
That thread is for combining information, discussion in general, not for problems....

**The wiki page is here:
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Book_combining

Could someone cleverer than me please combine the following works please?

http://www.librarything.com/work/293779
http://www.librarything.com/work/5791739

I tried EveleenM's method from the last thread but couldn't get it to work..

Thank you!

>2 souloftherose:
Done.

And for those of you with pending requests, don't worry about the bunch that concluded thread #23... we'll take care of them eventually ;-)

Please combine
http://www.librarything.com/work/4848916
http://www.librarything.com/work/1320985

http://www.librarything.com/work/5399181
http://www.librarything.com/work/2453045

http://www.librarything.com/work/7675875
http://www.librarything.com/work/6902152
http://www.librarything.com/work/2526320
http://www.librarything.com/work/5789033

http://www.librarything.com/work/5115378
http://www.librarything.com/work/3605695

http://www.librarything.com/work/1423940
http://www.librarything.com/work/6705424

http://www.librarything.com/work/963896
http://www.librarything.com/work/8104640
http://www.librarything.com/work/4701423
http://www.librarything.com/work/4774927

http://www.librarything.com/work/8276235
http://www.librarything.com/work/3932283

http://www.librarything.com/work/24096
http://www.librarything.com/work/3622285
http://www.librarything.com/work/4813807
and does this edition belong to it as well?
http://www.librarything.com/work/4477253

Thanks

>236 (old thread) done

Could you please combine this one:
http://www.librarything.de/work/1952176
http://www.librarything.de/work/3890259 (no author here)

Thank you very much!

Should this:
http://www.librarything.com/author/jkrowlingmarygrandpr
be combined with J.K. Rowling? ( http://www.librarything.com/author/rowlingjk )
It appears that the author is an odd mashup of Rowling and GranPre (the illustrator of the American editions) -- only Rowling's books are listed under this author, so it would make sense to me to combine them . . . but I am only an occasional combiner and usually stick with the most basic stuff, so I thought I'd leave this question to the "hardcore" combinders!

#7
The usual thing in that case seems to be to combine the works, not the authors, so I'm doing that.

Edited to add:
I couldn't do the last one http://www.librarything.com/work/9904851 - the version of é in that form of Dupré is not showing up in my browser, so I can't match it.

#8 -- Thanks, EveleenM.

I think all pending request from thread #23 have been addressed now. If not, don't hesitate to repost them here.

These by Robert Benchley could get moved off the "Robert" page with a little combining:

http://www.librarything.com/work/42878
http://www.librarything.com/work/8457868

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/8457867
http://www.librarything.com/work/29935

>11 PhaedraB:
Done.

This book

http://www.librarything.com/work/8418515

has been incorrectly attributed to Anne Perry instead of Elizabeth Peters. Can this be fixed by combining it with

http://www.librarything.com/work/5270602

which has the correct information.

Having sorted through some "Robert"s, I have turned my attention to "John":

St. John the Divine DONE
http://www.librarything.com/work/2427906
http://www.librarything.com/work/82157

John Rowlands DONE
http://www.librarything.com/work/1453669
http://www.librarything.com/work/1444865

John C. Chapman DONE
http://www.librarything.com/work/7790446
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639215

I think the following works should be combined,

http://www.librarything.com/work/9909676

http://www.librarything.com/work/9909679

http://www.librarything.com/work/9909682

http://www.librarything.com/work/29502

Also, these two works may need to be combined. But I’m not sure if they contain the same set of plays.

Playboy of Western World & Other Plays

http://www.librarything.com/work/9909670

The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays: Riders to the Sea; The Shadow of the Glen; The Tinker's Wedding; The W

http://www.librarything.com/work/93578

Sorry if I’m wrong. Thank you in advance.

could you please combine:
http://www.librarything.de/work/5402813
http://www.librarything.de/work/5854866/book/54706593

and tell me how to combine books with different authors but not combining the authors? I feel at a loss in that respect.

Thank you in advance!

>16 Tallulah_Rose:
a cautious question: when looking at the Synonymelexika, I have the impression that they are quite different: for example they have a different number of words explained, and some or with the old rules. I would prefer to leave them uncombined.

Ich denke, die einzelnen Auflagen sind zu verschieden, als dass sie tatsächlich kombiniert werden sollten (verschiedene Anzahl Synonyme, alte und neue Rechtschreibung). Ich will Dir nicht zu nahe treten, aber ich würde die verschiedenen Ausgaben nicht kombinieren. Danke

okay, yeah thank you. It seemed I wasn't aware of that. Nevertheless it's difficult to combine dictionaries isn't it. I think I'll leave them alone. But thank you for your answer.

#15
It looks as if that version of Synge's plays is already wrongly combined:
http://www.librarything.com/work/93578
The Penguin edition seems to have only 3 plays, while the Oxford Classics has 6, so they should really be separated.

Edited to add:
I've separated out the three-play Penguin edition, and combined a number of different works which were all collections of six plays. I left http://www.librarything.com/work/9909670 out of this combination, since the title doesn't name the other plays, and the only match for the ISBN is an edition of the indivdual play The Playboy of the Western World. (Noted this in the disambiguation notice).

I've been working on Mary H. Herbert and combining the books.

Unfortunately, I don't which works these German translations should be combined with.
http://www.librarything.com/work/1667486
http://www.librarything.com/work/9866232
http://www.librarything.com/work/9866261
http://www.librarything.com/work/6753895
http://www.librarything.com/work/9912568

oops, duplicated from Post #14

Here's some works from the John author page:

More "John"s:

Carver DONE
http://www.librarything.com/work/720892
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639195

Calvin DONE
Institutes Of The Christian Religion 1
http://www.librarything.com/work/8027831
http://www.librarything.com/work/9478922
http://www.librarything.com/work/9366022

Institutes of the Christian Religion (volume 2)
http://www.librarything.com/work/9473536
http://www.librarything.com/work/9366023
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639169

Drane DONE
Early Christians
http://www.librarything.com/work/1663172
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639354

Introducing the New Testament
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639355
http://www.librarything.com/work/65815

And more Johns:

Gillies DONE
Historical Collections of Accounts of Revival
http://www.librarything.com/work/505438
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639498

Eddison DONE
Who Died Why?
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639369
http://www.librarything.com/work/4249817

John F. MacArthur, Jr. DONE
The Convicting Ministry of the Holy Spirit
http://www.librarything.com/work/1457880
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639886

Maxwell DONE
The Winning Attitude
http://www.librarything.com/work/320952
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639951

Benton DONE
Coming to Faith in Christ
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639040
http://www.librarything.com/work/8605249
http://www.librarything.com/work/468276

Blanchard DONE
Pop Goes the Gospel
http://www.librarything.com/work/430739
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639072

MacArthur DONE
Empowered to Serve
http://www.librarything.com/work/1457742
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639883

Please combine
http://www.librarything.com/work/3764569
http://www.librarything.com/work/9050599

http://www.librarything.com/work/3769838
http://www.librarything.com/work/935643

http://www.librarything.com/work/3757828
http://www.librarything.com/work/9740403

Thanks

Please combine,

http://www.librarything.com/work/5487874

http://www.librarything.com/work/2837449

Sorry if I’m wrong. Thank you in advance.

Please combine
http://www.librarything.com/work/3685682
http://www.librarything.com/work/6517369

http://www.librarything.com/work/6078321
http://www.librarything.com/work/3016116

http://www.librarything.com/work/4514940
http://www.librarything.com/work/6078400

http://www.librarything.com/work/8472233
http://www.librarything.com/work/8472229

http://www.librarything.com/work/7466578
http://www.librarything.com/work/8343797

http://www.librarything.com/work/4104030
http://www.librarything.com/work/7466807

http://www.librarything.com/work/7567484
http://www.librarything.com/work/9162047

http://www.librarything.com/work/2255866
http://www.librarything.com/work/9182299
http://www.librarything.com/work/5972084

http://www.librarything.com/work/2201399
http://www.librarything.com/work/4694692

http://www.librarything.com/work/5668474
http://www.librarything.com/work/685339
http://www.librarything.com/work/342806
http://www.librarything.com/work/952820

Thanks

Please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/215653
http://www.librarything.com/work/6061807

Thanks!

This book is by Eve Ensler, and somehow it comes up under Howard Zinn. I'm not sure what the appropriate way of getting into out of Howard Zinn and into Eve Ensler's name. (It says by Eve Ensler (otherwise under Howard Zinn))

http://www.librarything.com/work/3575319

You can see which books go into a work by clicking on the editions link on the left side of the works page. Doing so shows that most people (38 vs. 8) who have the book in their library have the author as Howard Zinn. If you can find out where the bad data is coming from (probably Amazon) you can ask them to change their data and over time as more people add the correct data it should correct itself.

The odd thing is that only 37 members have the book so there are 9 extra copies floating around. Maybe someone added a lot of duplicates in an effort to change the name?

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/68370

http://www.librarything.com/work/7623954

Thanks

Just checking re-canonical titles.

I entered Ruso and 'The Root of All Evils' as the UK title and combined with the US title 'Persona Non Grata'

Although by far the most copies are the US title my view of it is showing the UK title as taking precedence

http://www.librarything.com/work/6574324

Someone had already filled in the canonical title field with an entry for BOTH the UK and US titles but since I assume both US and UK viewers will mostly be using the English language site I'm thinking it's coming up with the UK title in the US too.

Maybe removing the secondary canonical title would clear it but I'm not sure if I should do that (it's not as if the entry is wrong)

Not sure if it matters...

Okay, I've been working on Carolyn Keene for three hours straight, it's 2am, and I'm finally tired enough to admit I need help.

Apparently someone has been adding stray editions of other works into CK-works with a lot of members. I've only seen it on books with a lot of members, like Secret of the Old Clock, Scarlet Slipper Mystery, etc.

For example, I've separated about fifteen stray, random editions from Secret of the Old Clock (everything from the Brass-Bound Trunk to Vanishing Veil was combined, but only stray editions, not the bigger ones).

I don't know if I'm making sense, and I'm using abbreviations for the titles 'cause I can't think right now. But if anyone wants to help out I'd much appreciate it.

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

>4 paulstalder:,6,13 (a.k.a. 21)
Done.

Jasen / Jansen problems.

By temporarily combining David Jansen with David A. Jasen I was able to shift copies of Tin Pan Alley to Mr Jasen's page where they belong. Separation of David Jansen was successful.

I tried the same trick with this author - http://www.librarything.com/author/jansendavida .
The author of The Uncollected Wodehouse is David A. Jasen. Despite the correctly spelled author having more copies of this work, combining the work sent all to Jansen. I tried separating the original Jansen editions but got a room full of monkeys error.

I suppose I could leave the mis-spelled author combined with David Jasen but, as there is another David Jansen, this seems untidy. Can anyone fix this?

>33 Heather19:
I have combined a few stray Dutch translations with the original works, using this webpage http://www.nancydrewworld.com/dutch.html. I'd be happy to use this site to combine other translations (e.g. French) at a later time.

It seems to me weird that it is possible to have multiple canonical titles and I don't know what should happen when you do. Perhaps this deserves it's own thread in Bug Collectors or Talk About LibraryThing or the CommonKnowledge group as it really isn't a combining problem.

>35 abbottthomas:

Isn't the author of The Uncollected Wodehouse P.G. Wodehouse with David A Jasen as an 'other' author? If so, could somebody please combine and problem solved.

http://www.librarything.com/work/2336168
http://www.librarything.com/work/314287

>32 Littlemissbashful:,37
I deleted both Canonicals. It should revert to the "majority" title. I agree that it shouldn't be possible to enter more than one title.

Isn't the "multiple Canonical Titles" usually an artifact of combination?

38> ......Ermmm! Well, yes ;-)

ETA - Actually, my problem is fixed, either by some self-effacing Combiner or the roomful of monkeys.

40> You must be right since LT doesn't give me the choice to add another second canonical title.

Another John

John Barth DONE
Giles Goat Boy
http://www.librarything.com/work/9909102
http://www.librarything.com/work/125070

>40 lorax:, 42

Yes - I always check the canonical title after a combibnation to clear such things. And to remove duplicate (usually not exactly duplicate but the same) entries from other fields in CK.

Thanks to whomever did #31 up there.

edit: I think I submitted this one before but these need to be combined:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3836196/

http://www.librarything.com/work/740061

Thanks again,
-drmike

Please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/4999756
http://www.librarything.com/work/9926135/book/59934531

Can anyone figure out why
http://www.librarything.com/work/6477526/60002072
is listed under Neil Beckett? None of the editions show that name, nor does that name show up anywhere in my copy of it.

The author Rolf Dübner exists twice in the database, and I cannot get the entries to combine. See
http://www.librarything.de/author/dbnerrolf
http://www.librarything.de/author/duumlbnerrolf

Also, under series there are six titles, but site search brings up only one when searching for "Dübner"
http://www.librarything.de/series/ARBIT%20Schriftenreihe%20Bitumen%20%2850%29

There are two William Youngs
http://www.librarything.com/author/youngwilliam

William P. Young is a Canadian author who wrote "The Shack" a novel. He was born in 1955.

William Young (Composer)

Lived from 1610-1662. I have one of William Young's(Composer) volumes needs to be separated from the works of the author.

I've forgotten how to do this. Thanks for reminding.

Over on the right, under Author Disambiguation is the link to 'split this author'.

BTW I doubt that there are only two authors there.

I got up to 8 different William Youngs. There are still several unknowns.

ETA And the author of 'The Shack' has now left this page to be only on the William P Young page.

i can't do it i m not smart enough

>47 MarthaJeanne:

Neil Beckett problem. Hmmm. Looks like it's tied up with the author Universe, somehow.

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

Touchstones: Neil Beckett

ETA: I've emailed Tim about this now.

Someone please fix this book:

http://www.librarything.com/work/342266/

Somehow The Iron Thorn by Algis Budrys has become combined with A Dictionary of the Bible (Oxford Paperback Reference) by W. R. F. Browning.

The Iron Thorn should be this one:

http://www.librarything.com/work/323700

{humour}Now I know some folks look down on us Science Fictions readers but gotta admit that this is taking it too far.{/humour}

Thanks,
-drmike

edit: The title appears under the author's page as well and fairly highly ranked:

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

I don;t see the Browning name listed under his "Also known as" bit though.

reedit: These titles need to be combined as well:

http://www.librarything.com/work/90250/

http://www.librarything.com/work/3661925/

The author merged on the first one too please.

>23 PhaedraB:, 24, 54
Done.

Here is an extremely complicated author combination that I'm guessing is impossible until the whole homonymous author thing gets worked out. But I'll toss it out there just in case.

Paul Doherty (1) is the same person as P.C. Doherty (http://www.librarything.com/author/dohertypc). Is there some sort of complicated combining and separating process that would allow Paul Doherty (1)'s books to wind up under PC? Probably not, but I figure it can't hurt to ask.

First of all, all the works need to be combined. Has that been done? Then it may be possible to float each work to P.C. Doherty if there aren't way more Paul's than P.C.'s among the editions.

>51 MarthaJeanne: -- The Shack is back on the William Young author page

What I don't understand is how it got there in the first place. If you look at the editions page fewer than 20 copies have been entered with William Young as author. a pittance really.

I was able to move it off the William page last night by separating the copies entered with the single surname Young ( and then combining them back again to the work now listed properly under William P. Young on that page. I just tried this again, let's see what happened.

Same book, listed under editor:
http://www.librarything.com/work/6525886
And the author of the forward:
http://www.librarything.com/work/2011692

Can't combine from the editions page... can you kindly combine?

>59 wademlee: Done, but it has to stay with Gavin rather than Amy as he has a significant majority of copies.

ETA Done by temporarily combining the two authors, combining the works and then separating the authors again. This process is easy when both authors have few works.

>57 jjwilson61: Unfortunately, that won't work. Doherty has like 50 pen names, one of which is Paul Doherty. Those he has written under that name appear only under that name; the rest of his pen names appear to have been combined with the P.C. name being canonical. There are no works to combine. I'm afraid this will have to wait until there is a way to deal with several authors of the same name.

Please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/538457

With:
http://www.librarything.com/work/788216

More from the John page: DONE

John Grisham
A Painted House
http://www.librarything.com/work/861174
http://www.librarything.com/work/8445175

Maxtone-Graham
The Only Way to Cross
http://www.librarything.com/work/591620
http://www.librarything.com/work/6171584

John R Whiting
Treasury of American Gardening
http://www.librarything.com/work/6107292
http://www.librarything.com/work/2009816
http://www.librarything.com/work/6171595
http://www.librarything.com/work/313409

Johns galore: DONE

W. E. Johns
Biggles in the Orient
http://www.librarything.com/work/108127
http://www.librarything.com/work/6114145

John and Jean Silverwood
Black Wave
http://www.librarything.com/work/6868638
http://www.librarything.com/work/5269690

John Pollock
The Apostle: A Life of Paul
http://www.librarything.com/work/114916
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640212

Re: 54: Thanks but there are some incorrect covers still being shown on this one:

http://www.librarything.com/work/342266/

Is that something that needs to be fixed or do we hope users will see that?

edit: May also want to remove the fiction and science fiction tags as well before someone more vocal than me sees them. :)

The tags come from what people have used in their own catalogs and no one can change what is in another's catalog.

ETA: After a combination or separation it sometimes takes a day or two for the covers to settle down to the right ones.

Thanks. I assumed that but didn't know if an admin could overwrite. Would hate to see a "How dare you call the bible fiction!" thread. :(

Anyway...

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

Author #1 and the Unknown one are the same. This author needs to be combined into that record as well:

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

Thanks,
-drmike

edit: Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/5995244/

http://www.librarything.com/work/1886899/

reedit: This author's last name is spelled incorrectly as it;s missing the 'l':

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

It's actually this author:

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

For reference, take a look at the cover of this book:

http://www.librarything.com/work/5314059/

>67 theapparatus: I've done the very first part of your requests. Combining the two Tank Girl author pages is beyond me (without including the radiation author).

Thanks. Hopefully someone can make sense of that.

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/4175248

http://www.librarything.com/work/1926289

Please combine these as well:

http://www.librarything.com/work/108229/

http://www.librarything.com/work/2972638/

Thanks,
-drmike

Please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/139395

with:
http://www.librarything.com/work/8258075

and:
http://www.librarything.com/work/6713382

Please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/912141

http://www.librarything.com/work/6050591

http://www.librarything.com/work/3540298

thanks!

These two are the same book

http://www.librarything.com/work/3830692
http://www.librarything.com/work/8031809

Thanks!

Here's something for someone with some time on their hands:
http://www.librarything.com/work/120562
http://www.librarything.com/work/9102078
http://www.librarything.com/work/8199770
http://www.librarything.com/work/9759316
http://www.librarything.com/work/4261222
http://www.librarything.com/work/5328796
http://www.librarything.com/work/1474325
http://www.librarything.com/work/8420902
http://www.librarything.com/work/3770744
http://www.librarything.com/work/4761051

The following two seem to have some extra material, but I think it's less than what's usually deemed necessary to keep editions separate:
http://www.librarything.com/work/5389871
http://www.librarything.com/work/3863767

I had to enter this book manually as I couldn't find a valid match when I went to add it:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9933870/book/60003392

It needs to be combined with:

http://www.librarything.com/work/6162710

but I don't know how to do that when no combinations are offered, so... help!

> 75: done

If there's no proposed combinations on the editions page, but the author is the same on both works, you can combine from the author page. Look for the combine/separarte works link (small writing) on the top right.

I'll do #74. (Saying so here because it's a longer one.)

Okay, #74 is finished.

> 73: The first one is only a zero copy work that I think someone created just to show up on the series page when there weren't any real copies in LT yet (the same still applies to the fourth book in the series). Where I'd normally just leave zero copy works uncombined, I will do the combining on this one so it's CK info will be 'transferred' to the real copies. Off to do that now.

> 73: Hmm, that didn't work as planned. Ended up just copying the CK to the second work.

> 76, 75: Thank you stortemelk!

I thought I would have a go at another, but this one has no author!

http://www.librarything.com/work/3776881/book/20276818

There are various other copies, but I'm not sure whether all the different editions are really the same. I know that this one (which was my grandmother's) is not quite the same as the one my mother owns, which is a few years younger.

>76 stortemelk:
Thank you!

Here's another bunch I found that needs to be combined with eachother:
http://www.librarything.com/work/433581
http://www.librarything.com/work/7980205
http://www.librarything.com/work/3863783
http://www.librarything.com/work/5874916
http://www.librarything.com/work/8250926
http://www.librarything.com/work/9296457
http://www.librarything.com/work/5989432
http://www.librarything.com/work/8437214
http://www.librarything.com/work/9171401
http://www.librarything.com/work/9419810
http://www.librarything.com/work/6955894
http://www.librarything.com/work/6564907

Okay, I'll do 81 as well - finished now!

> 82: the 'Thank you!' in 81 was meant for you.

Yes, didn't mean to imply you would also have to do the second set (but thanks for those as well!)

Please fix this

http://www.librarything.com/work/1873188
http://www.librarything.com/work/4162154

Thanks!

85: Done

James Boswell and Thomas Jefferson share this work; can it be combined?

http://www.librarything.com/work/3946068/book/21288793
and
http://www.librarything.com/work/9950492/book/60154176

>87 JamesBoswell:
Done

*sigh*

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1538960/

http://www.librarything.com/work/9952444/

Some lovely person added this ISBN under a different gaming system. I tried to separate them and add it in via it's ISBN but it created a new book instead of placing it under the previous one.

Thanks,
-drmike

89: Done

Thanks.

Strange. We lost our covers.

Another John: DONE

The Songs of Elton John
http://www.librarything.com/work/2871403
http://www.librarything.com/work/7156766

And more:

John Piper DONE
Let the Nations Be Glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions
http://www.librarything.com/work/62865
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640201

John Varley DONE
The Persistance of Vision (UK Title: In The Hall of The Martian Kings)
http://www.librarything.com/work/94156
http://www.librarything.com/work/9779457

Greets again:

It's the reference screen that won't die! ;)

Here's the one from the previous combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9952444

The correct author is Tom Moldvay. It is not TSR Hobbies. That's the publisher. Can that be corrected? I've done so on my work record but I get the "otherwise under" error.

http://www.librarything.com/work/9952444/book/60168172

These need to be combined into it:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9850117

http://www.librarything.com/work/3937639

Please note the second one there is another one showing it as Gamma World as the problem up above. The ISBN for the 1st edition ISBN Gamma World Reference Screen is 0935696784. The Boot Hill ISBN is 0935696776. At least my copies have them. Scans available upon request.

Thanks,
-drmike

The fact that everyone but you has listed the publisher as the author is not a LibraryThing error.

"Otherwise under" isn't an error, it's just showing the author that most other users have entered in their catalog.

I've combined the first one (http://www.librarything.com/work/9850117), but not the second, as I think it is intended to be Gamma World and they've used the wrong ISBN.

In fact, I separated the second from itself, and it split into
http://www.librarything.com/work/3937639 with 0 copies, and
http://www.librarything.com/work/9957041

and I've combined the latter into
http://www.librarything.com/work/6284153

>93 PhaedraB: I finished the first one. I'm not sure why, but every time I try to add a book to fix the 2nd, it automatically adds the first-name only to the John Varley title. Anyone else want to take a crack at it?

93: Done. It was showing 2 members, but only 1 copy in Editions, so I split it off from itself. The second work listed now goes to a 0-copy work; I've combined the real copy in where it belongs.

Please help, these are all the same book!

http://www.librarything.com/work/2998427
http://www.librarything.com/work/5373292
http://www.librarything.com/work/8232679
http://www.librarything.com/work/8364365
http://www.librarything.com/work/3951330
http://www.librarything.com/work/6788036

Thank you!

99: Done.

Greets:

These need to be combined please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/7899674/
http://www.librarything.com/work/5441238/

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/7899739/
http://www.librarything.com/work/5441229/

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/7899731/
http://www.librarything.com/work/5441227/

And

http://www.librarything.com/work/3851804/
http://www.librarything.com/work/7899603/

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/3265112/
http://www.librarything.com/work/7899424/

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/5441198/
http://www.librarything.com/work/3851837/

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/3851841/
http://www.librarything.com/work/7899439/

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/3851844/
http://www.librarything.com/work/7899591/

Thanks,
-drmike

edit: Also please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9012318
http://www.librarything.com/work/9012325

John, John, John ...

Boorman DONE
Zardoz
http://www.librarything.com/work/202364
http://www.librarything.com/work/1616687
http://www.librarything.com/work/9779365

Albert C. Outler
John Wesley DONE
http://www.librarything.com/work/1715546
http://www.librarything.com/work/8706842

Pope John XXIII DONE
Journal of a Soul
http://www.librarything.com/work/464083
http://www.librarything.com/work/1088074

Prayers and Devotions from Pope John XXIII
http://www.librarything.com/work/9696232
http://www.librarything.com/work/5030310
http://www.librarything.com/work/3993517

Ad Petri cathedram: Truth, unity, peace: First encyclical letter of Pope John XXIII
http://www.librarything.com/work/4551369
http://www.librarything.com/work/2316331

DONE

So many Johns ...

John Wesley
A Plain Account of Christian Perfection
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640633
http://www.librarything.com/work/59362

John MacLeod
Some Favourite Books
http://www.librarything.com/work/105825
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639920

John Orberg
The Life You've Always Wanted
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640122
http://www.librarything.com/work/17121

DONE

John Charles Pollack
Billy Graham: The Authorized Biography
http://www.librarything.com/work/371577
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640210
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640216
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640209

Wilberforce
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640217
http://www.librarything.com/work/289080

Moody Without Sankey
http://www.librarything.com/work/410484
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640211

> 100

Thank you! Merci! Gracias! Grazie!

Another batch of Johns:

John White DONE
Excellence in Leadership
http://www.librarything.com/work/62824
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640648

Eros Defiled DONE
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640647
http://www.librarything.com/work/486299

John L. Benton DONE
The Gospel of Isaiah
http://www.librarything.com/work/6235652
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639038

John F. MacArthur, Jr.
The Tragedy of Rejecting Salvation
http://www.librarything.com/work/1463010
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639889

Paul's Perilous Journey
http://www.librarything.com/work/1457739
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639885

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639887
http://www.librarything.com/work/2210562

Is there any way short of canonical name to make this author stop showing in caps?

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

>25 paulstalder:, 26
Done.
Lots of catching up to do, though...

101, 102: Done

Please combine: DONE

Josh McDowell
Evidence that Demands a Verdict
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639968
http://www.librarything.com/work/8149304

John Newton
Out of the Depths
http://www.librarything.com/work/127596
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640096

John Steinbeck
A Russian Journal
http://www.librarything.com/work/17399
http://www.librarything.com/work/9052640

John Keegan
http://www.librarything.com/work/69865
http://www.librarything.com/work/8706626

Frere John of Taize
The Pilgrim God DONE
http://www.librarything.com/work/724179
http://www.librarything.com/work/2722146

#109, Thank you!

I've got a few old ones way above I don't want to get lost:

Posts 63, 64, 92

63, 64: Done

Greets:

I believe these are the same books:

http://www.librarything.com/work/624116
http://www.librarything.com/work/9023974

Thanks,
-drmike

Those were easily combined from the author's combine/separate page.

Re: 114: Rather have someone verify that what I;m looking at should be combined. Too easy to make a mistake with these records that would affect other folks. If you flip though my previous mistakes, you'll note that some folks have caught stuff that I have missed.

Thanks though for your time.

DONE

Yet more Johns:

John Holzmann
The Kingdom Strikes Back
http://www.librarything.com/work/486480
http://www.librarything.com/work/8910286

John Owen
Sin and Temptation
http://www.librarything.com/work/156035
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640133

John McCollister
God and the Oval Office
http://www.librarything.com/work/53449
http://www.librarything.com/work/8706664

John Punshon
Testimony and Tradition
http://www.librarything.com/work/489914
http://www.librarything.com/work/8916158

Foxe's Annals of Martyrs
http://www.librarything.com/work/9644841
http://www.librarything.com/work/1046397
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639442

>27 paulstalder:, 28, 45, 46
Done.

92: Done

These two books need to be combined:

http://www.librarything.com/work/5868692/
http://www.librarything.com/work/3331045

For some reason, the first one isn't appearing on the author's page.

119: Combined from the Editions page on the first work.

Here's another pair:

http://www.librarything.com/work/2018757
http://www.librarything.com/work/301192

Second one is correct.

121: Done.
116: Done, except that I haven't combined Foxe's Annals of Christian Martyrs and Annals of Martyrs. They're both on John Foxe's page, so you can combine them yourself if you're sure they are the same.
110: Done. The Pilgrim God is currently showing 3 members, including me, since I had to add one to get it on John of Taize's page. I have deleted mine, so hopefully it will sort itself out eventually. (now at http://www.librarything.com/work/9970433)
106: Done.

Thanks!

The "John" page is shrinking nicely :-)

Please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/134913
http://www.librarything.com/work/8338796

Thanks!

103, 104: Done
106: Done, really.
124: Done
67: Girl who Fell into the Sky - Done
38: Uncollected Wodehouse - Done (ended up on Wodehouse's page)

Johnnie, I hardly knew ye until I started working on the John page ...

John Ford DONE
Perkin Warbeck
http://www.librarything.com/work/1236121
http://www.librarything.com/work/7841446

John Fischer DONE
Humor from Harper's
http://www.librarything.com/work/5978368
http://www.librarything.com/work/198849
http://www.librarything.com/work/8706570

John Irving
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
http://www.librarything.com/work/856057
http://www.librarything.com/work/23780

John R. W. Stott
Issues facing Christians Today
http://www.librarything.com/work/295903
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640440

John Mallon DONE
Bridge Bidding
http://www.librarything.com/work/847990
http://www.librarything.com/work/5808122

John Wimber
Power Evangelism
http://www.librarything.com/work/2432306
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640708

John Blanchard
What in the World is a Christian?
http://www.librarything.com/work/1385300
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639073

John Young
The Case Against Christ
http://www.librarything.com/work/1639704
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640744

Going to start calling you Johnboy. :)

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1987496/
http://www.librarything.com/work/21350/

Thanks,
-drmike

edit: Dang, I looked at the Mike page.

These should be combined:

http://www.librarything.com/author/mikejanm
http://www.librarything.com/author/mikeretoldbyjanm

and this title should be assign to that author:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1759527

127: Done, and picked up a few more copies of The Two Georges. Combined the Jan M. Mikes, but 25 people have cataloged Opossum and the Great Firemaker with just "Mike" as the author, compared to only 11 who have cataloged it by "Jan M. Mike" - it's hard to fight those odds.
126: Done

This - http://www.librarything.com/work/7733587
And this - http://www.librarything.com/work/682185
are the same. Could someone combine them under Larsson.
And, while you are there, Bjorn Larsson has one of Steig Larsson’s books on his page which needs shifting. Thanks in anticipation ;-)

I swear, I'm almost done with Johns:

John Fox
Trail of Lonesome Pine
http://www.librarything.com/work/325421
http://www.librarything.com/work/8706572

Judith Turner/John Hejduk
Between Spaces
http://www.librarything.com/work/9976751
http://www.librarything.com/work/9976781
http://www.librarything.com/work/9976780

John Sandford
Rough Country
http://www.librarything.com/work/8253856
http://www.librarything.com/work/8715908

John Barnicoat
Posters
http://www.librarything.com/work/8885203
http://www.librarything.com/work/774684

John Sladek
Bugs
http://www.librarything.com/work/9400567
http://www.librarything.com/work/48204

John Dickson Carr
A Bengala de Estoque (He Who Whispers)
http://www.librarything.com/work/9400734
http://www.librarything.com/work/247565

JohnPodhoretz
Hell of a Ride
http://www.librarything.com/work/8706742
http://www.librarything.com/work/1436880

John Zarrella
System Architecture
http://www.librarything.com/work/8706712
http://www.librarything.com/work/9976849

Steinbeck
The Long Valley
http://www.librarything.com/work/9052641
http://www.librarything.com/work/4847151
http://www.librarything.com/work/74694

Re: 127: Actually that's how it's cataloged with Amazon. The author is listed as Mike:

Mike: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0816730563/ref=nosim/librarythin08-20

Jan M. Mike: http://www.amazon.com/Opossum-Great-Firemaker-Mexican-Legends/dp/0816730555

edit:

Please combine these authors:

http://www.librarything.com/author/keithwilliam
http://www.librarything.com/author/williamhkeith

With this one:

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

As noted in the notes for that author.

Thanks,
-drmike

edit: Just reread those notes:

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

William Keith #1 with the title of Renegade's Honor is the same as douglasian. The British plantation author is a different one. If you look at the cover, you'll see the correct name listed along the bottom:

http://www.librarything.com/work/383786

Those pesky fairies are causing trouble:

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3945245
http://www.librarything.com/work/2454897
http://www.librarything.com/work/2305229

As well as:

http://www.librarything.com/work/2454880
http://www.librarything.com/work/9803148

And watch yourself next time you walk through that field of flowers. ;)

Thanks,
-drmike

These two need to be combined:

http://www.librarything.com/work/959547
http://www.librarything.com/work/1487992

First one is correct.

Greets:

You'll be happy to know that I just sat down and figured how how to do this on my own. :)

Thanks again,
-drmike

edit: At least for the ones that the system is picking up as potential dupes. Still haven;t figured out how to do it for the ones that I see as dupes but the system does not.

reedit: I got my Fairy Meat one up there. If anyone has a suggestion on how to add an author to a record where the Add Books selection won;t pick up the specific title where you;re trying to add an author onto, I'd love to hear it.

>reedit: I got my Fairy Meat one up there. If anyone has a suggestion on how to add an author to a record where the Add Books selection won;t pick up the specific title where you;re trying to add an author onto, I'd love to hear it.

Huh? Can you repeat that question (with an example if possible)?

Thanks:

Let me put it another way. How would one combine these two:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3945245
http://www.librarything.com/work/2305229

I'm throwing up my hands on this one as well:

Top Secret 1st edition Boxed Set. ISBN 0935696164 Author: Merle Rasmussen

Rapid Strike Module ISBN 0935696571 Author: Mike Carr

Bother were listed together as this work:

http://www.librarything.com/work/386454/

Completely different. I tried to separate and correct but the the system is still showing it as the boxed set. Copies are available upon request.

edit: It's affecting the series as well.

If you look at the author's combine/separate page, you will see that there are several ghost copies still in there that are affecting the work title. I would separate out the two real copies and recombine them so that they have their own work. (Not done yet so that you can see it.)

If the work title doesn't match the books, this is usually the problem. Ghost copies don't show up on the editions page.

I tried that again. 0935696571 still comes up as the boxed set when I go into Add Books and search via ISBN.

comes up as the boxed set when I go into Add Books and search via ISBN.

Try using a different source for your search.

ETA: If you were using amazon as a source, you might want to submit a correction to them. I think there is some sort of mechanism on their site for reporting errors in their data.

Unfortunately it appears to be an issue elsewhere as well:

http://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/0935696571

And is it me or has Amazon removed it;s search box from their site?

edit: Amazon does have the wrong cover up:

http://www.amazon.com/Top-secret-espionage-role-playing/dp/0935696571

The green cover with the scuba drives is the module. The boxed set is a red cover with a picture of a pistol and some leg.

Can someone please combine the following?
http://www.librarything.com/work/6507664
http://www.librarything.com/work/6612550

The first is assigned to an author name somehow "no longer in the system"...

I'm not certain if this is a combining or a separating problem. I was splitting the author Richard Fox when I happened to notice that one of the combined authors on the page must really be Richard Wightman Fox which I finally clued onto by looking at the author address:

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

I was confused when doing the splitting why all these Richard Wightman Fox works in #1 ended on the Richard Fox page in the first place, as very few copies were entered as by Richard Fox. (See for example work/606654/editions). Now I know why, but how did this happen? Could some eager work combiner do this?

I didn't see any sign that a Canonical author has been set, but I may have missed it. Can anyone help fix this?

If you do View History in the CK section, someone entered a Canonical Name of "Fox, Richard" on the Dutch site. I would separate the versions of the author's name, log in to the dutch site (www.librarything.nl, same username and password), fix the Canonical Name, and then recombine as appropriate.

Edited to add: let me know if you'd like me to do it, I didn't want to step on your toes if you were still working on the author.

141: Done. I separated the first from itself, which got it away from the bogus author, then was able to combine from the author's page.
I wasn't sure if http://www.librarything.com/work/9985549 and http://www.librarything.com/work/6612550 should be combined. If so, it can be done from the author's combine/separate page.

143: Thank you rorrison. I never thought to look in View History for a Canonical Name before combining the two Richard Fox names. I combine identical names all the time when working on authors. I'll be more suspicious in the future, especially when the majority author name on one of the works doesn't end up on the author page expected.

I was able to log into the Dutch site, with your help, and make the Canonical Name change. Thank you for this too as it is the first time I've tried something like this.

http://www.librarything.com/work/7642706
into
http://www.librarything.com/work/231902

http://www.librarything.com/work/5662357
into
http://www.librarything.com/work/28097

http://www.librarything.com/work/4441386
into
http://www.librarything.com/work/138257

http://www.librarything.com/work/4035646
into
http://www.librarything.com/work/2660645

http://www.librarything.com/work/8249572
into
http://www.librarything.com/work/132287

http://www.librarything.com/work/5077525
into
http://www.librarything.com/work/1293244

please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9663423/editions
http://www.librarything.com/work/1193342/editions

Thanks!

Can anyone combine these authors?
http://www.librarything.com/author/selbysamuelm
http://www.librarything.com/author/samuelselby

I get error messages.

And these books:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3121912/editions
http://www.librarything.com/work/8636987
http://www.librarything.com/work/1293366

I'm trying to find Ride to Win http://www.librarything.com/work/4669441/46508211
It says it is on the author page, but I can't see it http://www.librarything.com/author/steenwykelizabethvan
, and I'm supposed to have 3 books listed by that author, not 2. Help please? I couldn't find any other author pages to combine...

And another query, where is this book http://www.librarything.com/work/4331442
Susan, Bill and the Wolf-Dog by Malcolm Saville, on the author page? http://www.librarything.com/author/savillemalcolm

Another batch of Johns:

John of Avila
Audi, Filia
http://www.librarything.com/work/6121848
http://www.librarything.com/work/1540965

John Kramp
Out of their faces and into their shoes
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639762
http://www.librarything.com/work/483482

John Saul
Sleepwalk
http://www.librarything.com/work/153661
http://www.librarything.com/work/6183869

John Foster Fraser
Round the World on a Wheel
http://www.librarything.com/work/2505016
http://www.librarything.com/work/8885235

John White
When the Spirit Comes with Power
http://www.librarything.com/work/284627
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640653

The Shattered Mirror
http://www.librarything.com/work/410919
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640652

The Iron Sceptre
http://www.librarything.com/work/52781
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640651

Putting the Soul Back in Psychology
http://www.librarything.com/work/368098
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640649

The Cost of Commitment
http://www.librarything.com/work/410119
http://www.librarything.com/work/7640650

>151 bookel:

Sorted - they now appear. For one, all I had to do was remove the zero-copy works, and then it appeared. The other was a case of removing a copy and then combining it back in.

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/5683576/
http://www.librarything.com/work/5683578/

Tried to do it via the author's page after adding in the author to both of them but only one is being listed.

edit: Also:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1293404
http://www.librarything.com/work/3115496

And:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3173552
http://www.librarything.com/work/948611/

Please combine
http://www.librarything.com/work/3387131
http://www.librarything.com/work/9731058

http://www.librarything.com/work/8222590
http://www.librarything.com/work/3299793

http://www.librarything.com/work/6893413
http://www.librarything.com/work/4080236

http://www.librarything.com/work/7087614 (Hürlimann chose the pix)
http://www.librarything.com/work/7093571 (Muschg wrote introduction)

http://www.librarything.com/work/4992086
http://www.librarything.com/work/8642869

http://www.librarything.com/work/6581998
http://www.librarything.com/work/7531398

Thanks

As proved by this page: http://www.margaretclark.com/booklist.htm
Lucky Last Luke (Supa Doopers) and The mystery of the talking tail are by the Australian author MARGARET D. CLARK http://www.librarything.com/author/clarkmd, not Margaret Goff Clark http://www.librarything.com/author/clarkmargaretgoff

Disambiguation notes were put on ages ago, but someone has gone and put them on the wrong page again. :/
Someone please rectify this? Thanks!

#156
The problem seems to be that amazon.com and amazon.co.uk (for Lucky Last Luke) and amazon.co.uk (for the Mystery of the Talking Tail) have the incorrect author, so any new owner adding the books from those sources will pull the books back onto the Margaret Goff Clark page. There's a way of pointing this out to amazon to get them to change it, but I'm not sure what evidence you have to use to get it to work. With any luck, some more knowledgeable combiner should be along soon.

I'm showing http://www.librarything.com/work/9998965/book/60623287 as the same work as http://www.librarything.com/work/9998965/book/60623270 but they're totally different books. Either I'm really confused, or could someone please separate them?

Thanks.

#158 That's part of a wider problem where many (all?) books added or edited are defaulting to/combining with this book. Not sure what's happening exactly, but it's very widespread.

See also here, here and here.

And now fixed: http://www.librarything.com/topic/92085

Can someone combine the following?
http://www.librarything.com/work/9999604
http://www.librarything.com/work/book/60115280

Thanks.

As far as I know and understand things, agridged (audio) versions should not be combined with the proper work, is that right?

If so, could you please insert a note here: http://www.librarything.de/work/book/60130553
that this is the abridged audio version and should therefore not be combined with the other ones (http://www.librarything.de/work/1014691)? I don't know if I caught all the abridged ones, is isn't very likely, but it's a start.

Thanks in advance!

Greets:

I feel the need! The need for combining! :)

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1350619
http://www.librarything.com/work/2079677

http://www.librarything.com/work/2079678
http://www.librarything.com/work/7720305

http://www.librarything.com/work/6808569
http://www.librarything.com/work/403581

http://www.librarything.com/work/7205787
http://www.librarything.com/work/3967028
http://www.librarything.com/work/2079640

http://www.librarything.com/work/7210962
http://www.librarything.com/work/3967089

http://www.librarything.com/work/7694365
http://www.librarything.com/work/428615

http://www.librarything.com/work/1364467
http://www.librarything.com/work/8038904

http://www.librarything.com/work/2081736
http://www.librarything.com/work/8663616

If someone would like to walk me through how to combine, say for example, the first pair, I would be grateful.

Thanks,
-drmike

Here's some more:

http://www.librarything.com/work/123282
http://www.librarything.com/work/8663629

http://www.librarything.com/work/123288
http://www.librarything.com/work/8663637

http://www.librarything.com/work/3054469
http://www.librarything.com/work/3083009

This rocks. Thank you.

Please combine these, or tell me how I can combine them:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1023697
http://www.librarything.com/work/3682825

http://www.librarything.com/work/3649462
http://www.librarything.com/work/2086764

http://www.librarything.com/work/2468637
http://www.librarything.com/work/93724

http://www.librarything.com/work/39418
http://www.librarything.com/work/2577431
http://www.librarything.com/work/3251680

Updating this message, June 2, 2010, I have managed to combine all of the books except one, which has repeatedly failed, so I guess maybe I'll try again later.

Hello
Couldn't find how to correct work title. I've made a mistake during work submission, is it possible to correct this? Or at last is it possible to delete this work I'll submit it again. Thnks
http://pl.librarything.com/work/10002296/details/60653407

> 166 It was a matter of separating out the wrong title copy (which you'd already deleted from your library, so it was just an empty title remaining). Did this through the editions page (bottom link on the left of the work page).

Actually I'm going to echo juglicerr's and my own request from up above as this here is a perfect example of where I'm scratching my head:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1023697
http://www.librarything.com/work/3682825

Now looking at that, I would combine the authors, Collectif into Miriam Grace Monfredo, and then combine works from the author's combine page. (In all honesty, I don;t see where "Collectif" comes into the picture) Is that right or wrong or is there a better way to do it?

As a personal aside, both records have the same ISBN number. I gather the Editions page doesn't check against ISBN repeats. It would be a plus if it did.

Thanks,
-drmike

edit: Actually looking at the Collectif author, I don;t have a clue as to what's going on there. There is a number of authors listed though where other folks have done combines:

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

> 168 It's the French way of saying multiple/various authors

> 163, 165, 168

At the top of this thread are links to methods for combining works with different/no authors, without combining the authors. I found AnnieMod's to be the most usefull. Still not entirely straightforward though...

@stortemelk, please note who copied and pasted the first post in this thread. :)

I get hung up on Step #2 when I try to manually add in. For me, it usually adds in a new record and we now have three records that need to be combined. Must be missed a field in there somewhere but I am careful.

edit: Could someone please take Keith Douglas #2 and add those three books into Keith Douglass? The correct spelling is with the extra s at the end. You can see that on the book covers:

http://www.librarything.com/author/douglaskeith
http://www.librarything.com/author/douglasskeith

I'm looking at the Seal Team Seven novels, not the poetry.

Thanks,
-drmike

> 171 ah... now noted :-)

When that happens to me: ** 'no other members' :-( ** , I don't bother with trying to correct; I just delete my copy and try again. It's usually the author field that makes the problem: the edition that you're copy/pasting had the author entered first name-last name, instead of the other way round. Also, Dutch 'van der' names and the likes, are notorious for having their comma in unexpected places. I often (with singletons) go into an owner's catalogue to check how they've done it.

Greets:

Someone may want to take a look at the 20k Leagues Under the Sea. I read the Disambiguation Notice about leaving out the children's and annotated versions but yet the default image is for the Scholastic Classics version and I see a number of annotated versions in the Editions page.

http://www.librarything.com/work/32715

I don;t know about the title (OK, I watched the Scooby Doo version.) to take that one on.

Thanks,
-drmike

> 171 edited: hmm, floating of works to a different author. That I can't do.

> 170. Thanks for pointing that out. I've gotten one book combined. I'll have to see if there is a thread about cataloging anthologies, because that is where a lot of the trouble is coming from.

173 re: the Scholastic Classics version of 20k Leagues Under the Sea. I searched for the ISBN 0439227151 on WorldCat, this Scholastic Classics version has 426 p. and has an introduction by Alex Colville? (short term memory not working), so this edition most likely belongs with the main work.

LT is planning to add more publication information such as page numbering on book entry, so separating out picture books from full text works should be easier in the future.

ETA: this page does still need work though, I just separated out the Fast Trak Classic edition (ISBN 0237526883) which is a retelling of the story by Pauline Francis and has 48 p. This information was also found out by searching for the ISBN on WorldCat.

http://www.librarything.com/work/32715

See post 156, http://www.librarything.com/work/9998963 Lucky Last Luke still needs moving to the Margaret D. Clark page. This has been fixed before and I thought amazon listings had been corrected. http://www.margaretclark.com/booklist.htm That is Margaret D. Clark's website, by the way (official author's website). Seems proof enough.

Hopefully someone has more time than I have to sort this out too please? (I feel like screaming, like in an hilarious I Dream of Jeannie episode I just watched guest starring Jim Backus, arrrrgh!). Thanks in advance. There should be 81 books on Lynn Hall's page: http://www.librarything.com/author/halllynn
The three missing are on the Hall page: http://www.librarything.com/author/hall&norefer=1
which are:
The Secret Life of Dagmar Schultz http://www.librarything.com/work/4068177
Dagmar Schultz and the powers of darkness http://www.librarything.com/work/4068168

Thanks, Danger Dog still needs sorting. I've submitted corrections to Amazon.

Danger Dog http://www.librarything.com/work/493914

Rogers, mostly, this time

Roger Zelazny
The Dream Master
http://www.librarything.com/work/8457974
http://www.librarything.com/work/5679338

The Last Defender of Camelot
http://www.librarything.com/work/5679761
http://www.librarything.com/work/8457975

Eye of Cat
http://www.librarything.com/work/5679323
http://www.librarything.com/work/9779472

George Muller
Admiring God
http://www.librarything.com/work/6597322
http://www.librarything.com/work/10013171

Roger Shattuck
Candor and Perversion
http://www.librarything.com/work/407088
http://www.librarything.com/work/5808136

Roger St. Pierre
The Book of the Bicycle
http://www.librarything.com/work/606488
http://www.librarything.com/work/8885271

Roger F. Hurding
The Tree of Healing
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639652
http://www.librarything.com/work/10013197

Albert Camus
A Happy Death
http://www.librarything.com/work/88297
http://www.librarything.com/work/9401228

The Stranger
http://www.librarything.com/work/9401229
http://www.librarything.com/work/2150

The Fall
http://www.librarything.com/work/8482
http://www.librarything.com/work/9401230

I have about 5 minutes of access time left for the night. Just came across this:

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

All those Dixon's listed with Casefile in the book titles are probably Franklin W. Dixon. I say probably as there are some who say he didn't write all of those. But they probably should be taken out of Dixon and dropped into the Franklin W. author.

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

Thanks,
-drmike

edit: I'll take a shot at them tomorrow if no one has the time tonight.

Fred Heeren
http://www.librarything.com/work/184776
http://www.librarything.com/work/7639589

Old Yeller
http://www.librarything.com/work/33877
http://www.librarything.com/work/8500833

179: Done
180: Done (A Happy Death was already done)
182: Done

>146 shmjay:, 147, 150, 152, 154, 155
Done

The baby-sitters club : the summer before / ann m. martin

The Baby-sitters Club : the summer before
The Baby-sitters Club : the summer before
The Summer Before

>185 agneson9: Ooo, I get to do one for someone else. Wait a minute. :)

edit: OK, I can;t do anything with this one since it has zero books attached to it:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10015993

This one is the Australia paperback version:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10016006

And this one is a mix of ISBNs with both a hard cover and a paperback version under the same work number. I;m assuming US versions here.

http://www.librarything.com/work/8946407

I'm going to go ahead and merge these since there's already a paperback version inm the main work record.

If I did something wrong, please let me know.

While flagging spammers, I found an author named "Frank" with several spam works and an assortment of stranded titles from authors with incomplete names. I was going to split the author to isolate the spam, but this author also had quite a few copies of Diary of a Young Girl. I separated out the Anne Frank copies from the "Frank" copies, which allowed most of them to float over to the correct author. However, the numerous disambiguation notices left me reluctant to combine the freed copies. I will leave that to someone more familiar with the various versions.

Is it possible to combine these two works?

http://www.librarything.com/work/8430749
http://www.librarything.com/work/8137606

These two as well:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9769056
http://www.librarything.com/work/9769058

Thanks!

http://www.librarything.com/work/4498038

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/2386269

*

http://www.librarything.com/work/4945512

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/3341372

#189 Done
#188 second pair done

Any chance of splitting Wendy & Richard Pini (http://www.librarything.com/author/piniwendyrichard) into their individual components?

Dealing with their works is a separate headache entirely.

Edit: These belong under Wendy Pini as well. http://www.librarything.com/author/elfquest

thanks!

The Pini's have done stuff apart from one another? What are you trying to do? Give me a heart attack? :)

I know the Weis Hickman material is mostly under Weis with Hickman listed as a second author. Maybe that would be the way to go. Are one of them more involved over the other? (I haven't read ElfQuest in years.)

I have a little book of naughty poetry from the 1930s put out by Peter Pauper Press called An Uncensored Anthology. There appears to be 11 copies on LT, and 5 or 6 versions of those that I've looked at combining, but they are uncooperative and I certainly don't want to make a mess of it. Could one of you kind, experienced combiners take a look and maybe give it a go?

All the following are the same work (A voyage round the world:

http://www.librarything.com/work/2554943
http://www.librarything.com/work/2408787
http://www.librarything.com/work/3817043
http://www.librarything.com/work/9307269
http://www.librarything.com/work/1395858
http://www.librarything.com/work/8833470
http://www.librarything.com/work/7652742
http://www.librarything.com/work/9306595

There looks like more on the George Anson's author's page as well:

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

I;m not familiar with the title so I would prefer someone else deal with this. I see some editions with Introductions and other added content so I;m not sure if this should be combined or not.

edit: No kids versions right off though.

Could someone combine these works?
Surgical care made incredibly visual!
http://www.librarything.com/work/5167931/editions
and
http://www.librarything.com/work/3021935/editions

Professional Guide to Assessment
http://www.librarything.com/work/6387708/editions
and
http://www.librarything.com/work/6406146/editions

Thanks!

Here is something going wrong:

When I go onto the author page of Stephen King (http://www.librarything.de/author/kingstephen)) there are two "Salem's Lot". The first one (5681 copies, 57 reviews currently) is actually "Wizard and Glass" and this also shows when you on the actual page of the book: http://www.librarything.de/work/9597161
I have already seperated the copies named "Salem's Lot" in there but it still says that the book is called "Salem's Lot" on the author page. Can you fix it someway (or should I try to explain things better?)
Thanks in advance!

>197 Tallulah_Rose:

I think I see the problem, on the .de site someone had set the canonical title to "Brennen muß Salem". You should be able to fix the problem on the .de site (it's ok on the .com site) by changing the canonical title. I would do it, but I have no languages other than English and a bit of French and I'm afraid I'd mess it up more.

Ah okay thanks. I would never have thought of that, I try it out.

I started thread #25. I believe we should start posting there:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/92822

I hope that was ok.

As an aside, looking at those Visual Surgical guides, I'm surprised that the Potential work combinations feature doesn't check against ISBN number. Granted I know some publishers reuse ISBNs (*cough* Random House *cough*) but most don't.