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Oct 12, 2022 03:36AM
I stumbled upon a DVD listed on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... It is of the film adaptation Lust for Life, based upon the Irving Stone novel of the same name. I've never before seen a DVD listed on Goodreads and wonder if it needs to be deleted completely from the database. It has an ISBN 9780790795720
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DVD's should indeed not be listed on GR. Marked as Invalid (see https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...), which is the replacement of marking it as NOT A BOOK, which is the appropriate action for items like this.
Thanks Arenda. That's useful to know. I wasn't sure if it needed total deletion or not, since nobody has rated it so its loss from the database would not affect any members.
Deleting would remove the isbn (or isbn-like identifier) from the database and it would be imported again. That's the reason the NOT A BOOK function was designed, to prevent these items from being re-imported. This is how the old situation worked. From the link about the new system, it seems the 'deleted' status will also prevent the isbn from being re-imported.
'Invalid' replaces the 'NOT A BOOK' behavior according to the explanation, so that's why I chose it.
Per this thread, marked several Tony Shalhoub tv & movie DVDs as invalid, and referred to this thread in the changelog.All 4 have 0 ratings and 0 reviews, so should they have been marked deleted instead?
Here are the 4 titles:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
I did a quick search for “dvd season” and you get 7 pages of results. Many of the entries are clearly in this same category (tv shows and the like.)Can you automate taking care of them or would it be helpful to have us go through them, review, and invalid those that aren’t books with accompanying DVDs?
Kat wrote: "Can you automate taking care of them"Do you mean you = Superlibrarian? No, we can't, just have to do it manually.
(GR wrote the script that imported them along with valid items/books. I don't want to know what happens when they try to mark them all as invalid with a script.)
Besides, marking an item as invalid doesn't require a Superlibrarian, any Librarian can do it. (Since it's in the Superlibrarian folder).
Kat wrote: "All 4 have 0 ratings and 0 reviews, so should they have been marked deleted instead"From the Librarian Manual:
Deleted Books
Books should only have their status set as "Deleted"
1. if they are duplicate editions; or
2. if they are items that have no ISBN/ASIN, no member shelvings, and they do not meet our criteria for being a valid book record (see below).
I've added the numbering there. Since these DVD's have an isbn, they don't have all three requirements to mark them as deleted.
Gotcha - it wasn’t clear that all three elements in #2 needed to be present. Thx for the clarification.
