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Fixer is a bot account, which is used to create submissions via the new Web API. It is currently owned by User:Ahasuerus. Fixer 13:08, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Contents

Publishers processed

  • Pyr - done (5)
  • Roc - done (50)
  • Baen - done (70)
  • Ace - done (80)
  • Tor - done (450?)
  • Del Rey - done (396)
  • Tandem - done (but not Tandem-somethingelse)
  • Gollancz - Amazon UK only

To Do

Amazon and friends

  • Redo Authors
  • Reformat Subjects, RejectReasons and SuspendReasons
  • Combine US and UK records and upgrade the logic to submit the resulting composite records intelligently
  • Capture Amazon CA
  • Upgrade notes/modnotes
  • Address incomplete 2009 pubs -- stop submitting 2009-03 and later ones?
  • Require no SF Subjects and no SF Nodes before Suspending books?
  • Add support for "creators", e.g. Role="Editor" and Role="Illustrator"

Other

  • Correct _S* and _A* URLs
  • Move non-genre authors to Biblioholics
  • Grab LOCIS, Melvyl, the British Library, etc using subject headings
  • Scan Locus Online's ISBNs
  • Merge duplicate titles
  • Add EDITOR Titles to Magazines that are missing them

Done

  • Books/magazines with ISBNs published prior to 1966 are now auto-suspended
  • Authors with no spaces between the initials, e.g. "H.G. Wells", now have a space added (i.e. "H. G. Wells") at submission creation time
  • Amazon US records are now marked as submitted when their related Amazon UK record is submitted and v.v.
  • If there is more than one pre-existing book length Title (with the same Authors) on file, auto-merge is no longer attempted
  • Books marked as "westerns" are now automatically rejected
  • Books scheduled to appear in 2010 and October-December 2009 are now automatically suspended
  • Books marked as "Abandoned" by Amazon UK are now automatically suspended
  • Books with "Manga" in the title are now automatically suspended
  • Merged the two eligibility checks so 999 and 555 ISBNs are always suspended
  • Fixer now uses ISBN-13 for books published in 2008 and later
  • Made the author field mandatory. It now uses "uncredited" instead of leaving it blank.
  • Amazon-provided formats (e.g. "Large Print") are now added to Notes. "Bargain Price" is ignored.
  • Added a big warning when the book is marked "Import" by Amazon.com
  • Rejected all maps, "*.exe"s, calendars and NTSC
  • Fixer will now use "MP3 Audio" and "CD" as the binding if no other binding information is available
  • Fixed apostrophe/quotes
  • Removed "General" and "General AAS" browse nodes from the mod notes
  • Changed the logic to automatically merge Amazon's accent-less records for "China MiĆ©ville" and similar authors
  • Implemented automatic merging with pre-existing titles

Known UK Publishers

  • Aldine
  • Allen & Unwin
  • Allen Lane
  • Allison & Busby
  • Armada
  • Armada Lions
  • Arrow
  • BBC
  • Badger
  • Beccon Publications
  • Big Finish
  • Bodley Head
  • Boxtree
  • Brown Watson
  • Cape
  • Cassell
  • Century Hutchinson
  • Chatto & Windus
  • Collins
  • Corgi
  • Coronet
  • Dobson
  • Eyre & Spottiswoode
  • Eyre Methuen
  • Faber
  • Fontana
  • Four Square
  • Futura
  • George Allen & Unwin
  • Gollancz
  • Grafton
  • Granada
  • Hamlyn
  • Hart-Davis
  • Heinemann
  • Hodder & Stoughton
  • Hodder Headline
  • Howard and Wyndham
  • Hutchinson
  • J. M. Dent
  • John Spencer
  • Jonathan Cape
  • Legend
  • Lions
  • Magnet
  • Mammoth
  • Mandarin
  • Mayflower
  • Mayflower-Dell
  • Methuen
  • Michael Joseph
  • Millennium
  • NEL
  • New English Library
  • Orbit
  • Orion
  • Paladin
  • Pan
  • Panther
  • Panther Granada
  • Peacock
  • Penguin
  • Picador
  • Piccolo
  • Puffin
  • Quartet Books
  • Rupert Hart-Davis
  • Scion
  • Sidgwick & Jackson
  • Sphere
  • Star
  • Tandem
  • Target
  • Telos
  • The Science Fiction Foundation
  • The Women's Press
  • Titan
  • Triad
  • Triad Grafton
  • Triad Granada
  • Triad Panther
  • Unwin Hyman
  • VGSF
  • Venture SF
  • Virago
  • Virgin
  • Vista
  • Voyager
  • W. H. Allen Star
  • W. H. Allen
  • Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • William Kimber

You have to be careful with some: e.g. "Pan" alone is probably British, but "Pan Macmillan" is global.