On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 01:48:14PM -0500, jessamyn c. west wrote:
> Generally that's what it means.
>
> Usually when there are multiple editions of the exact same item that
> exist, one is more complete than the other. Merging them by hand means
> moving over the information from the less-complete item into the
> more-complete item and letting the admins know that the duplicate can
> be deleted. We do have users that will do it.
>
> I think you may be referring to when there's an editing that is
> erroneously linked to the wrong work? We see this sometimes but it's a
> lot more rare.

    I'm referring specifically to

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4280505W/The_wonderful_flight_to_the_Mushroom_Planet
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16311408W/The_wonderful_flight_to_the_Mushroom_Planet

    There are two works - which ought to be only one - and three
editions in the same year (1954), at least two of which appear distinct
due to having different ISBN numbers (can't tell about the third). My
thought was to move the single edition from OL16311408W to OL4280505W
and then look at whether all three editions were distinct.

    Unfortunately the editing tools through the public web interface are
so poor as to really discourage me from even attempting stuff like this.
Something that should take seconds would take more like 10 minutes were
I to attempt it, between slow website loading, repeated captchas, manual
cut & paste and new records... unfortunate.

    Jon
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