On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
See also http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/114-not-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]
