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Bad work titles that include multi-copy packaging #30

Open LeadSongDog opened 4 years ago

LeadSongDog commented 4 years ago

Amazon-listed multiple copy packs with mangled titles and often-mangled authors:

https://openlibrary.org/search?q=title%3A+%22Copy+counter%22&mode=everything https://openlibrary.org/search?q=title%3A+%22Copy+display%22&mode=everything https://openlibrary.org/search?q=title%3A+%22Copy+dump%22&mode=everything

Other similar forms may be added to the issue. Handling suggested: These “works” should first be reassigned to the correct author Packaging info should be moved to the edition’s physical description Edition titles should be stripped of packaging info and merged to the appropriate work Redundant now-void work should be deleted

seabelis commented 3 years ago

Ideally, these would not be imported in the first place. I generally agree with the steps listed except I think the retails packs should probably just be deleted as non-books. Unless I'm mistaken, the associated ISBNs are not for the individual volumes, but for the packs (displays, etc.) themselves.