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message 1: by Cait (new)

Cait (tigercait) | 4988 comments I noticed this problem today looking at the books by Ai Morinaga, who writes a lot of manga books in series which all have the same title except for the volume number. It looks like the worldcat title import didn't pick up this volume number, so every volume in many of these series is now given exactly the same title.

For example, this book shows this in the change log:
worldcat updated the book Le Fabuleux Destin De Taro Yamada by Ai Morinaga
title: 'Le fabuleux destin de Taro Yamada, Tome 8 :' to 'Le Fabuleux Destin De Taro Yamada'
--despite the fact that the worldcat entry for this edition displays the title as "Le fabuleux destin de Taro Yamada. Volume 8".

I can recreate all of these titles manually from the worldcat data just by opening each one and checking it, but is there any way to re-run the worldcat import to fix this?


message 2: by Louise (new)

Louise | 17 comments Oops looks like we missed the volume field. I can look into this and run a re-import to get the volume info in there. Sorry about that!


message 3: by Cait (new)

Cait (tigercait) | 4988 comments Yay, thank you! I'm so glad there's a way to get that data which doesn't involve me hand-entering it. :)


message 4: by Louise (new)

Louise | 17 comments Ok I fired up a script to fix the volume issues, so it should be solved in a day or so.


message 5: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
The script is done, so this should be fixed now. Please give a holler if you see it happening again.


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