User talk:Fixer/Archive/2013

Mundania Press [LLC]

Hi Fixer, welcome back! Do you suppose you could normalize "Mundania Press LLC" to "Mundania Press"? Thanks, and keep up the good work. --MartyD 11:45, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

I had a chat with Fixer and he swore that Mundania Press was normalized weeks ago. However, a line by line review of the code found a typo ("Mindania" instead of "Mundania"). You just can't trust robots to program themselves correctly any more! Thanks for catching the bug. Ahasuerus 00:46, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Walker and Amazon UK submissions

Don't know if you can do anything about this, but in dealing with a submission from Amazon UK using "Walker", I discovered it should be "Walker Books (UK)". I found we had 5 or 6 other books as "Walker", and all likewise should have been "Walker Books (UK)" (and without them, we now no longer have "Walker"). I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to assume Walker Books (UK) for anything Walker from Amazon UK.... --MartyD 10:48, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Done -- the results may still be in the queue in the morning. Ahasuerus 06:16, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Orion Childrens

Along the same line as above, I found an "Orion Childrens", which should have been "Orion Children's Books". Upon reviewing the entries using "Orion Childrens", all so far have shown "Orion Children's Books" in the Look Insides (I'm still going through them). Looks like Orion uses "Orion Childrens" as shorthand, but the books all have "Orion Children's Books", usually typeset in logo-like fashion. --MartyD 11:12, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Done as well. Ahasuerus 06:23, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Harper Voyager (UK)

And while I'm whining.... :-) An Amazon UK submission used "Harper Voyager", but should have been "Harper Voyager (UK)". Our Harper Voyager (UK) page says the ISBNs will be 978000..., as distinct from 978006... used by Harper-Voyager-not-UK. That was true of this particular submission. Perhaps a rule that could be encoded? --MartyD 11:44, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

OK, I have added a rule to change "Harper Voyager" to "Harper Voyager (UK)" for Amazon UK-originated submissions. I then added a similar rule for Tor/Tor (UK) and may need to do something similar for other "(UK)" publishers. ISBN-wise, I decided not to touch them for now because it's a separate can of worms. Ahasuerus 06:36, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

All very lovely. Thanks much! --MartyD 10:53, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Test

Testing. Fixer 23:26, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Testing part 2. Fixer 19:56, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Testing part 3. Ahasuerus 03:57, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Chapterbooks by Philip K. Dick

There seems to be a whole bunch of new chapterbooks by Dick similar to this, published by either Moran Press (as stated at amazon) or Read Books (to which my book is copyrighted). I wonder if Fixer could add them. Stonecreek 19:14, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Done! Ahasuerus 23:28, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Fine, looks great! Thank you very much! Stonecreek 13:38, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Theaker's Quarterly Fiction

I don't know if you can do anything about this, but I figured I'd ask.... See the TQF #41 submission I have on hold. It looks like with Theaker's new Amazon deal, the past issues are being republished and are being assigned ISBNs (check out the Look Inside -- it's still the original Lulu production, but an ISBN bar code that the original didn't have has been slapped onto the back cover). The main problem is that these are magazines, not novels. This #41 maybe didn't get recognized due to the year consolidations. I have fallen behind on my entry and haven't done #45 yet, so there was nothing for that one to match. Is there any way to either at least have these go in as magazines or have them match up to the consolidated title records or not be done at all (or maybe just be auto-assigned to me, if nothing else)? Thanks, --MartyD 12:45, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Hm, sounds complicated. How about I change Fixer's logic to automatically move all new Theaker's-related ISBNs to one of the low priority queues? They will remain there indefinitely until you (or someone else) enters the data in ISFDB, at which point the weekly backup-Fixer reconciliation process will remove the ISBN from Fixer's queue. And if you ever wonder if you may have missed an issue or a related ISBN, just let me know and I will query Fixer's database to see if there is anything under that name. Ahasuerus 20:21, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Not a big deal. I had a feeling it wasn't going to be easy/possible. Theaker does publish other books, so having everything with their ISBN go into a black hole probably isn't so good. So never mind. I'll try to keep an eye on it. --MartyD 11:42, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't even think about their ISBNs. Let's see... Yes, we were missing one collection, but now everything has been reconciled. Thanks! Ahasuerus 23:17, 8 December 2013 (UTC)