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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)
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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 Miéville" 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.
