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I correct these whenever I see them. I don't know that there's any specific tip I can provide.
Anyone who wanted to help clean these up could simply click on the gold add book/author link directly above the comment box at the end of this thread and type in a given name followed by a dot. Every entry that comes up on the pick list would be a candidate for correction and by clicking on them one would be taken to the author's page. e.g. typing in ralph. gets me two. I've already cleaned up all but one found under stephen. (he's a goodreads author) and the twenty or so I found under martin..If a staff member could clean up Stephen. Boston, that'd be great!
I can help with this - but it's not quite that easy, because then we need to combine editions for the correct author, right?
Yep, I've been doing that as well. I'm not sure if there's a periodic run of an auto-combine process but if there is, that would take care of it as well.
I doubt there is - never heard of such a thing. Good idea, though.Well, feel free to poke me with a PM every week or so and I'll do a few more. I'm off to look at "Lee." right now, but I'm a little concerned how many I might find...
Nice work! Lee. looks all cleaned up. I find that the German sounding names were the worst. Martin. was a REAL mess. I'm guessing that a German data source is where most of these errors came from. Alex. is pretty bad too.
Looking at librarian edits for some of the books, I'm seeing isbndb as source of periods after given name in author field:
Also Worldcat and Open Library feeds but I suspect one or more is taking feeds from the others.The "Robert." is a really long to-do list. So are "George." and a lot of the words (where ^ = a space) "from^"and "with^" in author fields need cleaning. I had actually started on the "with^" a while back but was taking longer as you had to edit each work to add the after with secondary authors.
Whenever I'm looking for 5 minutes of "houskeeping work" I also check for common names followed by middle initials with a trailing space e.g. George M There are always plenty of those that need fixing as well.
I have a little unrelated question(please excuse me :D): isbndb is an acceptable source for information and covers, along with WorldCat? Thnx :)
Catalina wrote: "I have a little unrelated question(please excuse me :D): isbndb is an acceptable source for information and covers, along with WorldCat? Thnx :)"Worldcat is acceptable source for covers.There's a longish list in librarian manual at http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/26...
I am not positive, but I believe data from isbndb was acceptable but that some of their cover images were questionable. I'd avoid any that seem to have turned corners, odd shadings, teensy tiny ones that might have come from paperback swap — but I'm not sure if it was isbndb or another "something db" site so I'll let staff or other librarians weigh in.
Duh...I'm not seeing bookcovers on the isbndb site (I'm on my iPad so maybe not seeing full site). There are a lot of fictiondb and other db variations so likely I am confusing.
Debbie wrote: "Duh...I'm not seeing bookcovers on the isbndb site (I'm on my iPad so maybe not seeing full site). There are a lot of fictiondb and other db variations so likely I am confusing."You might be right, I don't use it! In a particular case it was the only site beside Amazon i could find the info i was searching for, and i was simply wondering if it's a legit source or not. :)
Okay, I was bored so I did a bunch of these: John, Jon, Joe, Joseph... more later, maybe.
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I am correcting some every time I come across a group of these but this is a LARGE effort. If anyone could provide a tip or even some assitance that would be great!