Strategy needed to clean up a bit of a mess

[Foxtower]

Egads... all I wanted to do was add a review and a cover photo. Turns out this four volume set is listed by title only, by title and volume numbers, by publisher,title and then volume numbers, and by misspelled publisher, title and volume numbers. Also lets throw in a few different editions just for fun!

Could someone please suggest a strategy for fixing this mess. I don't mind doing the work, but I'm not sure where to start....

foxtower

[Foxtower]

Carpenters and builders library

[Lobstergirl]

I cleaned up author John E. Ball, combining a bunch of editions. Is there anything lacking that you can see?

[Foxtower]

Hey lobstergirl... the problem is duplication with incorrect spellings...

Gee, One response. I guess I made the unanswerable request. Guess I'll just plug along and see what I can do....

[vicki_girl]

I looked at the link you provided, but did not see any major issues, other than some title formatting that could be cleaned-up. I assumed Lobstergirl had addressed the main problem.

Are you looking for help cleaning up the titles in the link or others? Is this something that showed up in a search? If so what are you searching on?

[Lobstergirl]

Foxtower wrote: "Hey lobstergirl... the problem is duplication with incorrect spellings...

Gee, One response. I guess I made the unanswerable request. Guess I'll just plug along and see what I can do...."

I just corrected a few misspellings. I'm not sure what you mean by duplication. Every edition listed under John E. Ball has its own ISBN, therefore there are no duplications among editions. If you have a specific issue, please link to each edition you have a problem with.

[Foxtower]

Thank you... haven't had time to get back to it, but I'll start combining editions and adding what covers I have when I have time.

foxtower

[Lobstergirl]

I already combined the volumes that had the same titles.