Need advice on Listopia

[Melanti]

There's this Listiopia, which was created to list books published by a small publisher named Quirk Books.

There's no explanation as to what the list is for, and some people seem to have interpreted the list as "Quirky Books" and have added books from other publishers to the list. I'd have to double check, but I think about a quarter of the books listed are published by other publishers - mostly concentrated in the last half of the list.

I'm not sure what to do in this case...
To preserve the original intent of the list, I'm tempted to add in a description, and remove the mainstream publishers' books.

But I hesitate to make any changes to the list without a second opinion since the quirky non-Quirk published books were added in good faith and without a description, the Listopia is really vague and the books that don't fit the intent of the list aren't explicitly ruled out by the title of the list.



Second opinion, please?

[Melanti]

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[Melanti]

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[Melanti]

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[Koenraad]

I'm not really into listiopia, but it seems to me you could try contacting the creator (apparently a librarian herself), and see how she feels about the present situation and what she wants to do about it.

[Lobstergirl]

1. A description should be added specifying that only books from this publisher should be added.

2. All books not from that publisher should be removed. Whether people added them in good faith or not doesn't really matter; people mistakenly add books all the time to lists that don't belong, either "in good faith" or because they're not paying attention, and these books get removed if they don't fit the list description.

3. She should maintain the list and cull the books that get voted on which don't belong.

There's no point in having a list which is all the books published by Quirk Books, plus any other book any random person thinks is "quirky." It makes no sense.