Yep, wish this were different and it's not. I think there was going to be an item merge option on the "to do" list for the last development team (before my time) but we have an all new development team and we're starting with a new list. If you don't want to make those edits, I totally understand.
________ Jessamyn librarian.net ::: jessamyn.com ::: jessamyn.info ::: box 345, randolph vt 05060 On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Jon Leech <oddh...@sonic.net> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
