On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Ben Companjen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > A week ago, Mike Maehr opened issue 152 on GitHub [1]: "Pattern with > thousands of really bad author names", referring to names like > Count Cddssa 27022 Basie > Jimmy Cddelt 24980 Buffett > Steve Cdduny 27009 Lacy > > It appears that the first and last words in these "names" are the real > names. But, getting to my point, they are musical artists and these > Authors (and their variants) are linked to music CDs only/mostly. I > know there are no rules at the Open Library, but I think these items > do not belong on OpenLibrary.org. > The items were apparently imported from Amazon (some do not exist > anymore on Amazon) and they were published by only a limited number of > publishers. That could mean it is not too hard to find (and delete?) > these records. > > What do you think?
I'd be in favor of deleting all non-book cruft with ISBN numbers like this, including calendars, blank diaries, multi-packs, posters, promotional displays, and CDs. Just because something has been assigned an ISBN number to that it can be sold in a book store, doesn't make it a book. Tom _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
