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'''Current status: Active'''. Please feel free to leave a message on my [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|Talk page]] or, in case of technical difficulties, e-mail me at (user name:) ahasuerus (domain:) email.com.
  
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==Background==
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I began helping [[User:Alvonruff|Al von Ruff]] with ISFDB design in 1995. I also helped with the original ISFDB testing/data entry and provided bibliographic data for {{A|John Clute}}/[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?123992 John Grant]'s [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?26658 ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy''] in the mid-1990s, but [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFIA gafiated] in the late 1990s-early 2000s. After re-emerging in mid-2005 and upgrading [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Speculative_fiction/Article_announcements numerous SF articles on Wikipedia], I have been active as an ISFDB moderator, administrator and tester since moderator editing was enabled on May 1, 2006.  I wrote the original [[ISFDB:Policy]] and created the [[Sources of Bibliographic Information]] page back in 2006.
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==Current responsibilities==
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I have been the acting ISFDB administrator responsible for software development, server maintenance, the backups and so on since 2009. I also maintain [[User:Fixer]], a data cleanup/import robot.
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In the mid-late 2000s I worked on verifying my collection of some 20,000 speculative fiction books and magazines. Unfortunately, many of my verified publications are currently in boxes and hard to access.
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==To Do List==
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===Short Term===
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Test
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===Long Term===
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* Investigate {{A|Bobby Akart}}
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* Reconcile Benjamin Medrano
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* Reconcile Skyler Grant
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* Reconcile {{A|Sean Platt}} with [https://sterlingandstone.net/books/ his Web site]
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* Reconcile {{A|Jamie Hawke}}
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* Reconcile [https://www.amazon.com/AC-Cobble/e/B01GA7NZTE AC Cobble]
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* Reconcile [https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B00FVWV54W Ken Lozito]
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* Reconcile [https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B079HXBQG4 ''Shingles'']
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* Reconcile {{A|Dean Crawford}} with his Web site, especially the Ethan Warner series of secret history novels
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* Reconcile {{A|Michael Robertson}} with his Web site
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* Reconcile {{A|E. M. Foner}}
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* Reconcile {{A|Jennifer St. Clair}} with [https://www.amazon.com/Jennifer-St.-Clair/e/B001JOTZ3O Amazon]
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* Reconcile {{A|Darren Hultberg, Jr}} with [https://www.amazon.com/Darren-Hultberg-Jr/e/B079FKXDQT Amazon]
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* Reconcile {{A|Stefon Mears}} with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Andrew Dobell}}'s series
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* Reconcile {{A|George S. Mahaffey, Jr.}} with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Justin Sloan}} with the author page
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* Reconcile {{A|Zach Bohannon}} with [http://zachbohannon.com/books/ the author's Web site]
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* Reconcile {{A|R. R. Haywood}}'s "The Undead" series
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* Reconcile "Peter Roe Series" with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Ian J. Malone }} with [https://www.amazon.com/Ian-J.-Malone/e/B00BJ5QO50/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1 Amazon]
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* Reconcile {{A|J. F. Holmes}} with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Jon F. Merz}}'s [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?24200 Lawson Vampire] series with the [https://jonfmerz.net/writer/novels/lawson-vampire-series/ author's list]
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* Reconcile the [https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B01N9HJNRY Shadow Detective series]
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* Reconcile {{A|Peter Meredith}}
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* Add {{A|R. J. Carter}}'s ''Destroyer'' books
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* Reconcile {{A|John Whitbourn}}'s [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?53306 Binscombe Tales] with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Amber Lynn Natusch}} with [https://www.amazon.com/Amber-Lynn-Natusch/e/B006WU49GS Amazon]
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* Reconcile {{A|John Moralee}} with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Richard Parks}} with Amazon
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* Check [https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/163373451X/isfdb-21 Lines of Sight (Boundary Solution)] in December 2018
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* Reconcile {{A|Mac Park}}'s [http://macparkbooks.com/boy-vs-beast/ "Boy vs Beast" series]
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* Reconcile "Armchair Fiction Lost World-Lost Race Classics" with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Erik Lynd}} with Amazon
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* Reconcile Flame Tree's [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubseries.cgi?4334 Gothic Fantasy] pub series with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Ali Cross}} with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Darius Brasher}}'s three related superhero series with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Kal Spriggs}} with [https://kalspriggs.com/ his Web site]
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* Reconcile {{A|M. C. A. Hogarth}} with Amazon
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* Check [https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1626929173 Boogiepop Omnibus Vol. 1-3] after 2018-10-16
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* Reconcile {{A|John Wilson}} with [http://johnwilsonauthor.com/weet-trilogy his Web page]
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* Reconcile {{A|Rob Howell}} with [http://www.robhowell.org/ his Web page]
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* Reconcile {{A|eden Hudson}} with [https://whitetrashcappuccino.com/ the author's Web site]
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* Reconcile {{A|J. R. Castle}}'s "The White Road Chronicles" (books 2-6) with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Sabrina Chase}}
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* Reconcile {{A|Clea Simon}}'s paranormal mysteries with [http://www.cleasimon.com/ the author's Web site]
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* Reconcile {{A|Michael Wallace}}'s books with Amazon
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* Reconcile Michael-Scott Earle's [https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B071P9ZPQC/ Star Justice series] and other books with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Zach Zombie}}'s "Diary of a Minecraft Zombie" books with his Web page and Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Colin R. Parsons}} with Amazon UK
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* Reconcile {{A|Joely Sue Burkhart}} with Amazon.com
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* Reconcile {{A|Margaret L. Carter}} with [http://www.margaretlcarter.com/complete-works/ her online bibliography]
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* Reconcile the [http://www.casca.net/ Casca] novels written by {{A|Tony Roberts (I)}}
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* Reconcile {{A|Erin Hayes}} with her Web site and Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Becca Andre}} with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Ray Morand}} with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Milly Taiden}} with [http://millytaiden.com/books/ her Web site]
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* Reconcile {{A|Ryan Kirk}}'s ASIN-only e-books with Amazon
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* Reconcile [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?6098 ''The WindLegends Saga''] with [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Series:The_WindLegends_Saga this Wiki page]
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* Reconcile {{A|Dan Rix}}'s biblio with [http://www.danrixauthor.com/p/books.html his Web site].
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* Enter {{A|Walter Rhein}}'s ASIN-only books from Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Brian Godawa}}'s bibliography with [http://www.godawa.com/chronicles_of_the_nephilim/index.html his Web page] -- note the two versions of the Chronicles of the Nephelim series
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* Reconcile {{A|Linda McNabb}}'s bibliography with [http://www.mcnabbnz.com/styled/index.html her Web site]
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* Reconcile {{A|Gordon Boshell}}'s Captain Cobwebb boosk with Wikipedia, BLIC and OCLC
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* Check what happened to Melanie von Orlow's (annine@chemie.fu-berlin.de) bibliography.
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* Add Disney's "Jewel Stories" following [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1423168909 these links]
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* Reconcile [http://www.neconebooks.com/index.htm Necon E-books] with the publisher's Web page
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* Reconcile {{A|Ruth Chew}}'s biblio with [http://www.ruthchew.com/about-the-books/ the list on ruthchew.com]
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* Reconcile {{A|Sigmund Brouwer}}'s bibliography with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Brouwer Wikipedia] and [http://www.sigmundbrouwer.com/ his web site]
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* Check whether {{A|Robin D. Laws}}'s "New Hero" anthologies ever got published - mid-2013
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* Reconcile {{A|Terence Blacker}}'s [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?25617 Ms Wiz] series with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Blacker the author's Wikipedia article]
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* Enter the contents of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?347127 ''Tales of the Council of Elders''] from Amazon's Look Inside
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* Enter the contents of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?400611 ''Alt-Zombie: The Alternative Zombie Anthology''] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?400612 ''Alt-Dead: The Alternative Dead Anthology ''] from Amazon.com's Look Inside
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* Reconcile {{A|David Orme}}'s biblio with his [http://www.magic-nation.com/ Web page]
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* Reconcile {{A|Donna Grant}}'s e-books with [http://www.donnagrant.com/category/books/?pgtype=printable her Web site]
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* Reconcile {{A|Jonathan Moeller}} with [http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/writer/ his Web site] and Amazon.com.
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* Reconcile {{A|Kris M. Hawkins}} with her Amazon biblio, especially the "One Buck Horror" anthologies (we have the first one but not the subsequent 4)
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* Reconcile Roberto Pavanello's books with [http://www.robertopavanello.it/?page=ilibri.php his Web site]
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* Reconcile Ramble House/Dancing Tuatara Press ''Classics of Horror'' books from Amazon's [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1605436275 Look-Inside data] for {{A|Raymond Z. Gallun}}'s [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?388732 ''Old Faithful and Other Stories''].
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* Reconcile {{A|Julie Sykes}}' "Silver Dolphins" series with [http://www.juliesykes.co.uk/silver.htm the page maintained by the author]
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* Reconcile {{A|Leo P. Kelley}} with OCLC and SFE3
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* Reconcile {{A|Pseudonymous Bosch}}
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* Reconcile [http://www.janet-quinn.com/books.php Janet Quinn's Web site]
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* Reconcile the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?26288 ''Ghost Whisperer''] novels
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* Reconcile [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Wright_%28fictional_character%29 Jack Wright] with Wikipedia and other sources
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* Move Doc Savage series data to Lester Dent and his co-conspirators
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* Reconcile [http://www.entangledpublishing.com/ Entangled Publishing]'s Web site
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* Reconcile Dark Moon Books with the [http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/ publisher's site]
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* Reconcile [http://www.cathyhopkins.com/category/books-archive/the-zodiac-girls-series/ Zodiac Girls]
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* Reconcile {{A|Kailin Gow}} with Amazon
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* Reconcile {{A|Colin Thompson}}'s "The Floods" series with http://www.booktopia.com.au/neighbours/prod9781742751009.html and other AU sources.
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* Reconcile the Zac Power books with [http://www.zacpower.com/home/books.asp the official list] and [http://chrismorphew.com/2009/09/03/lifting-the-lid-on-h-i-larry/ Chris Morphew]'s blog post about pseudonyms
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* Reconcile {{A|Michael Scott}} with his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scott_%28Irish_author%29#Bibliography Wikipedia bibliography]. We are missing a couple of YA series
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* Reconcile {{A|Ally Blue}}'s "Bay City Paranormal Investigations" with the author's site and Samhain Publishing
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* Reconcile {{A|Todd Strasser}}'s "Help, I am Trapped in ... Body" series
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* Reconcile {{A|Philip Henry}} with Amazon.co.uk
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* Reconcile {{A|Vera Nazarian}} with her [http://veranazarian.com/pubs.htm on-line bibliography]
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* {{A|William Mayne}}
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* Reconcile {{A|Kenneth Tam}} with his Wikipedia entry
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* Reconcile {{A|Titania Woods}}'s Glitterwings Academy titles with Amazon UK
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* Fix {{A|Lester Dent}}'s Doc Savage entries: move the Series data from VTs to the parents; create magazine pubs; creates SERIAL records
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* Reconcile [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaddon_Books Abaddon Books] and [http://www.solarisbooks.com/titles/ Solaris Books]
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* Reconcile [http://24.99.158.33:8080/Garrett/Chronography.htm Randall Garrett's Chronography]
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* Reconcile [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Pepperpot Mrs._Pepperpot]
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* Reconcile [[User:Ahasuerus/Lyon|Richard K. Lyon]]
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* Reconcile [[User:Ahasuerus/Harness|Charles L. Harness]]
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* Enter Eva-Lis Wuorio's YA SF
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* Reconcile {{A|Brian Stableford}}'s recent (mostly POD) books with [http://greatsfandf.com/AUTHORS/BrianStableford.php Great SF&F]
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* [[User:Ahasuerus/Russian vts|Russian vts]] - a more thorough pass, add pubs, etc
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* Reconcile [http://www.cedarfort.com/catalog/fiction.html#anchorADVS Cedar Fort] SF
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* Add [[User:Ahasuerus/SF Cozy Mysteries]]
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* Reconcile Valerie Griswold-Ford with Amazon.com
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* Reconcile "Cat of Nine Tales" (Amazon YA series, we only have #1)
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* Reconcile [[Magazine:Thrills Incorporated]] with the [http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/5792/thrills.htm checklist]
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* Reconcile Zumaya Otherworlds based on OCLC and http://www.zumayapublications.com/otherworlds/
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* Set up vts for "Alex Archer" based on Mel Odom's Web site and other sources
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* Investigate/reconcile [http://www.midnightshowcase.com/SciFi_Index.htm Midnight Showcase]
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* Add missing O. R. Melling titles from [http://www.ormelling.com/Book%20Pages/booksusa.html her Web page]
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* Sort out Charles Phipps
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* Reconcile [http://www.leonaur.co.uk/category/bookcategory.php?categoryid=7 Leonaur]'s SF/F/ghost stories catalog.
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* Check different versions of G. C. Edmondson's biography
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* Verify [[ISFDB:Verification requests#1941 magazine essay "Strange but True"|two magazines]]
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* Sort out various "du boi" authors, delete non-SF
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* Reconcile http://www.batteredbox.com/Pulps/index.htm
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* Reconcile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_and_planet
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* Reconcile the [http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=196137 Black Cat press] catalog
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* "Kemsley Newspapers" in OCLC
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* Add pubs to George Griffith titles
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* Reconcile Jayne Castle (including Ghost Hunters) with Amazon.com
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* Clean up Ernest Bramah
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* Reconcile Henderson's occult detective stories
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* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Gillian_Rubinstein Gillian Rubinstein], a prolific YA author, is underrepresented
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* Reconcile [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Terry_Denton Terry Denton's] "Storymaze" novels (part fiction and part comic books) with Amazon.com and OCLC
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* Robert Weinberg's 1970s anthology series and OCLC
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* Reconcile Basil Wells with http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/basilwells/index.html
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* "Robert Morgan" - all/some novels part of a series?
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* Reconcile "The World of the Lupi" universe and other Eileen Wilks books with Amazon.com
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* Clean up Mel Odom, especially his game guides
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* Clean up Wollheim's "Up There and Other Strange Directions" - wrong pseudonymous records
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* Create a Publication series somewhere in the Wiki to document Columbia Publications' "Science Fiction Classics" from 1941-1942: [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?249614 1], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?252999 2], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?253002 3], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?252998 4], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?253000 5], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?253001 6]
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* Add Carole Nelson Douglas' non-genre works and the Midnight Louie complexities from Wikipedia once non-genre series display has been beefed up
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* Reconcile with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Moore_%28author%29 Christopher Moore's Wikipedia article]
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* Check my copies of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?93611 Stuart Gordon's ''Time Story''] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?44928 The Other Log of Phileas Fogg] as per [[User talk:Marc Kupper#King of Argent|this discussion on Marc Kupper's Talk page]]
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* Clean up William Peter Blatty's bibliography: add pubs, clarify which titles are SF, link to Wikipedia
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* Add pubs to "Richard Middleton"
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* Check the apostrophe situation in ''Imagination'' as per the Rkihara/Swfritter discussion
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* Reconcile Michael Marshall Smith and his (primarily) non-genre pseudonym Michael Marshall using OCLC and Wikipedia
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* Reconcile "Kevin D. Randle" with FF/OCLC
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* Finish Keri Arthur reconciliation with Amazon.com and OCLC
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* Add Matthew Hughes' non-fiction, collection contents and assign short stories to the correct series
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* Add missing Kenneth Oppel books from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Oppel Wikipedia] and OCLC
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* Enter [http://www.amazon.com/gp/series/9273/ref=pd_serl_books/104-0798164-1131952?ie=UTF8&edition=mass%5Fmarket the Smallville YA series] from Amazon.com
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* Enter [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/104-0798164-1131952?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Brian%20S%20Pratt Brian S. Pratt's books] from Amazon.com
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* Review [[User:Ahasuerus/OldBiblios]]
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* Finish Worldcat reconciliation for Nicholas Stuart Gray; additional sources of shortfiction dates?
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* Post about Unicode issues
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* Post about the [[User talk:Thomas conneely#Finis by Frank Lillie Pollock|Frank Lillie Pollock]] situation.
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* Create a project page for the LIAM project once the beta phase is over
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===Data Cleanup and Scripting===
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* Change "Locus Poll Award" to "Locus Poll" and "British Science Fiction Award" to "British Science Fiction Association Award"
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* Find all Titles whose Synopsis and/or Note fields contain %%, a remnant of the pre-ISFDB-2 days
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* Write a script to cache cover scans
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* Find all titles that differ from similar titles for the same author due to capitalization
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* Replicate Contento's list of most frequently reprinted stories?
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* In each magazine issue, find all fiction titles whose title_title is identical - will help identify suspected Interior art titles entered as fiction
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* Post a list of bad prices, starting with "None" and including the name of the Verifier
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* Find all VTs whose title records are identical
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* Find all Titles whose date is after the Author's death date
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* Find all Magazine Titles that have more than 1 Publication record associated with them
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* Find all Publications whose contents do not match the Publication type:
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**Anthology/Collection/Omnibus Pubs with 0 or 2+ Anthology/Collection/Omnibus Title records
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**Novel Publications with 0 or 2+ Novel Title records
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**Novel Publications with <100 pages
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**Publications with 2+ occurrences of the same Title ID
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**Publications with 0 Title records
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**Magazines and Fanzines with zero or 2+ Editor record
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* Check Author names - canonical and legal - for formatting problems
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* Check Titles and Publications for more than 1 capital letter in a row
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* Find identical Titles and Publications
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===Coding===
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* Moderator warnings column in the approval screen:
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** Missing spaces (e.g. "X.Y.Author") in author names
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** Irregular page numbers (ampersands etc)
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** Merging different title types, e.g. Essay and Collection
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* Double quotes to single quotes: Edit Title, Edit Pub, Clone Pub (pub level only?), Edit Award (currently inactive). Change regular and advanced Author searches to display a warning when trying to search using double quotes
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===Possible Additional Data Elements===
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* Printing number
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* A new "fixup" relationship similar to the "Contents" relationship
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* "Roles" for non-anthology/magazine editors, dust jacket designers, translators, etc.
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* Separate city and publisher
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* "Bibliography of XYZ"
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* Character names (requested on rec.arts.sf.written)
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===Library Topics to search===
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*Alien abduction -- Juvenile fiction. 180 2008-04-13
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*Alien abduction -- Fiction. 1450 2008-04-10
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*Alternative histories (Fiction). 18579 2008-0413
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*Androids - Fiction 2841 (2341?) 2008-0426
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*Animals, Mythical -- Juvenile fiction. 5160 2008-04-13
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*Anti-Utopias. 21 2008-04-14
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*Apocalyptic fantasies. 931 2008-04-15
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*Area 51 (Nev.) -- Juvenile fiction.
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*Area 51 (Nev.) -- Fiction. 521 2008-07-12
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*Artemis (Greek deity) -- Juvenile fiction.
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*Astral projection -- Fiction. 1233 2008-04-24
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*Atlantis -- Fiction. 3198 2008-04-21
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*Atlantis (Legendary place) -- Fiction. 10399 2008-04-22
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*Cartoons and comics -- Fiction.
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*Dragons -- Fiction. 49582 2008-04-23
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*Dystopias 22075 2008-04-25
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*Dystopian fiction 15 2008-04-25
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*End-of-the-world fantasies 206 2008-05-01
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*End of the world -- Fiction. 10677 2008-05-04
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*Epic fiction.
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*Extrasensory perception -- Juvenile fiction. 3409 2008-04-28
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*Extrasensory perception -- Fiction. 9793 2008-04-28
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*Extraterrestrial anthropology -- Fiction.
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*Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction. 16341 2008-04-28
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*Extraterrestrial beings -- Juvenile Fiction.
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*Fairies -- Fiction. 30974 2008-04-27
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*Fairies -- Juvenile literature.
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*Fantastic fiction.  '''Python'''
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*Fantasy Fiction.  '''Python'''
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*Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism. 10248 2008-07-13
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*Ghosts -- Fiction 41536 2008-04-16
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*Ghost stories '''Python'''
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*Ghost stories, English History and criticism. 1242 2008-04-28
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*God -- Proof -- Fiction.
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*Hades (Greek deity) -- Fiction.
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*Haunted Houses -- Fiction. 13437 2008-05-07
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*Horror fiction '''Python'''
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*Human-alien encounters -- Juvenile fiction.
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*Human-alien encounters -- Fiction. 17974 2008-05-05
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*Human evolution -- Fiction. 2787 2008-05-08
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*Imaginary creatures -- Fiction. 1488 2008-04-17
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*Imaginary creatures -- Juvenile Fiction.
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*Imaginary places -- Fiction. 5998 2008-04-17
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*Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction. 17958 2008-04-30.
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*Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction. 18983 2008-04-29
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*Interstellar communication -- Fiction.
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*Jinn -- Juvenile fiction.
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*Jupiter (Planet) -- Fiction. 1745 2008-04-10
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*Life on other planets -- Fiction. 60090 2008-04-30
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*Magic -- Fiction. 5927 2008-05-08 '''Partial, needs Pyhton'''
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*Magicians -- Fiction.
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*Manned space flight -- Fiction.
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*Monsters -- Fiction.
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*Monsters -- Juvenile fiction.
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*Mythology, Greek -- Juvenile fiction.
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*Mythology, Greek -- Fiction.
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*Nanotechnology -- Fiction.
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*Occult Fiction 57120 2004-04-18
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*Poseidon (Greek deity) -- Fiction.
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*Psychic ability -- Fiction.
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*Rejuvenation -- Fiction.
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*Robots -- Fiction.
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*Saturn (Planet) -- Fiction
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*Science fiction.  '''Python'''
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*Science fiction -- Authorship.
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*Science fiction, American.
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*Space and time -- Fiction. 29302 2008-04-26
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*Space colonies -- Fiction.
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*Space ships -- Fiction.
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*Space warfare -- Fiction.
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*Star Trek fiction.
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*Talismans - Fiction
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*Time travel -- Fiction.
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*Titans (Mythology) -- Juvenile fiction.
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*Utopian fiction
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*Vampires -- Fiction
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*Voyages, Imaginary. 49213 2008-07-12
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*Witches -- Fiction. 26935 2008-05-09 '''Partial, needs Python'''
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*Zeus (Greek deity) -- Fiction.
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 +
===Amazon categories to monitor===
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*Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost
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*Books › Romance › Gothic
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*Books › Romance › Time Travel
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*Books › Romance › Vampires
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*Children's Books › Ages 9-12 › Series › Fantasy & Adventure
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*Children's Books › Ages 9-12 › Series › Horror
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*Children's Books › Ages 9-12 › Series › Science Fiction
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*Children's Books > Literature > Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths > Greek & Roman
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*Children's Books › Literature › Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths › Stories
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*Children's Books > Literature > Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror > Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
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*Children's Books > Literature > Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror > Spine-Chilling Horror
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*Children's Books > Literature > Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror > Superheroes
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*Children's Books › Series › Fantasy & Adventure
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*Children's Books › Series › Horror
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*Children's Books › Series › Science Fiction
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*Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Dark Fantasy
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*Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Ghosts
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*Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Erotic
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*Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Occult
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*Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Vampires
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*Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Mythology > Children's Books > Greek & Roman
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*Teens > Literature & Fiction > Adventure & Thrillers (a lot of SF)
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*Teens > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy
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*Teens > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Horror
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*Teens > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction
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===Amazon subjects to monitor===
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*Fantasy fiction
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*Romance - Fantasy
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*Romance: Gothic
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*Romance - Gothic
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*Romance - Paranormal
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*Vampires

Latest revision as of 14:06, 10 October 2022

Current status: Active. Please feel free to leave a message on my Talk page or, in case of technical difficulties, e-mail me at (user name:) ahasuerus (domain:) email.com.

Background

I began helping Al von Ruff with ISFDB design in 1995. I also helped with the original ISFDB testing/data entry and provided bibliographic data for John Clute/John Grant's The Encyclopedia of Fantasy in the mid-1990s, but gafiated in the late 1990s-early 2000s. After re-emerging in mid-2005 and upgrading numerous SF articles on Wikipedia, I have been active as an ISFDB moderator, administrator and tester since moderator editing was enabled on May 1, 2006. I wrote the original ISFDB:Policy and created the Sources of Bibliographic Information page back in 2006.

Current responsibilities

I have been the acting ISFDB administrator responsible for software development, server maintenance, the backups and so on since 2009. I also maintain User:Fixer, a data cleanup/import robot.

In the mid-late 2000s I worked on verifying my collection of some 20,000 speculative fiction books and magazines. Unfortunately, many of my verified publications are currently in boxes and hard to access.

To Do List

Short Term

Test

Long Term

Data Cleanup and Scripting

  • Change "Locus Poll Award" to "Locus Poll" and "British Science Fiction Award" to "British Science Fiction Association Award"
  • Find all Titles whose Synopsis and/or Note fields contain %%, a remnant of the pre-ISFDB-2 days
  • Write a script to cache cover scans
  • Find all titles that differ from similar titles for the same author due to capitalization
  • Replicate Contento's list of most frequently reprinted stories?
  • In each magazine issue, find all fiction titles whose title_title is identical - will help identify suspected Interior art titles entered as fiction
  • Post a list of bad prices, starting with "None" and including the name of the Verifier
  • Find all VTs whose title records are identical
  • Find all Titles whose date is after the Author's death date
  • Find all Magazine Titles that have more than 1 Publication record associated with them
  • Find all Publications whose contents do not match the Publication type:
    • Anthology/Collection/Omnibus Pubs with 0 or 2+ Anthology/Collection/Omnibus Title records
    • Novel Publications with 0 or 2+ Novel Title records
    • Novel Publications with <100 pages
    • Publications with 2+ occurrences of the same Title ID
    • Publications with 0 Title records
    • Magazines and Fanzines with zero or 2+ Editor record
  • Check Author names - canonical and legal - for formatting problems
  • Check Titles and Publications for more than 1 capital letter in a row
  • Find identical Titles and Publications

Coding

  • Moderator warnings column in the approval screen:
    • Missing spaces (e.g. "X.Y.Author") in author names
    • Irregular page numbers (ampersands etc)
    • Merging different title types, e.g. Essay and Collection
  • Double quotes to single quotes: Edit Title, Edit Pub, Clone Pub (pub level only?), Edit Award (currently inactive). Change regular and advanced Author searches to display a warning when trying to search using double quotes

Possible Additional Data Elements

  • Printing number
  • A new "fixup" relationship similar to the "Contents" relationship
  • "Roles" for non-anthology/magazine editors, dust jacket designers, translators, etc.
  • Separate city and publisher
  • "Bibliography of XYZ"
  • Character names (requested on rec.arts.sf.written)

Library Topics to search

  • Alien abduction -- Juvenile fiction. 180 2008-04-13
  • Alien abduction -- Fiction. 1450 2008-04-10
  • Alternative histories (Fiction). 18579 2008-0413
  • Androids - Fiction 2841 (2341?) 2008-0426
  • Animals, Mythical -- Juvenile fiction. 5160 2008-04-13
  • Anti-Utopias. 21 2008-04-14
  • Apocalyptic fantasies. 931 2008-04-15
  • Area 51 (Nev.) -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Area 51 (Nev.) -- Fiction. 521 2008-07-12
  • Artemis (Greek deity) -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Astral projection -- Fiction. 1233 2008-04-24
  • Atlantis -- Fiction. 3198 2008-04-21
  • Atlantis (Legendary place) -- Fiction. 10399 2008-04-22
  • Cartoons and comics -- Fiction.
  • Dragons -- Fiction. 49582 2008-04-23
  • Dystopias 22075 2008-04-25
  • Dystopian fiction 15 2008-04-25
  • End-of-the-world fantasies 206 2008-05-01
  • End of the world -- Fiction. 10677 2008-05-04
  • Epic fiction.
  • Extrasensory perception -- Juvenile fiction. 3409 2008-04-28
  • Extrasensory perception -- Fiction. 9793 2008-04-28
  • Extraterrestrial anthropology -- Fiction.
  • Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction. 16341 2008-04-28
  • Extraterrestrial beings -- Juvenile Fiction.
  • Fairies -- Fiction. 30974 2008-04-27
  • Fairies -- Juvenile literature.
  • Fantastic fiction. Python
  • Fantasy Fiction. Python
  • Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism. 10248 2008-07-13
  • Ghosts -- Fiction 41536 2008-04-16
  • Ghost stories Python
  • Ghost stories, English History and criticism. 1242 2008-04-28
  • God -- Proof -- Fiction.
  • Hades (Greek deity) -- Fiction.
  • Haunted Houses -- Fiction. 13437 2008-05-07
  • Horror fiction Python
  • Human-alien encounters -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Human-alien encounters -- Fiction. 17974 2008-05-05
  • Human evolution -- Fiction. 2787 2008-05-08
  • Imaginary creatures -- Fiction. 1488 2008-04-17
  • Imaginary creatures -- Juvenile Fiction.
  • Imaginary places -- Fiction. 5998 2008-04-17
  • Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction. 17958 2008-04-30.
  • Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction. 18983 2008-04-29
  • Interstellar communication -- Fiction.
  • Jinn -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Jupiter (Planet) -- Fiction. 1745 2008-04-10
  • Life on other planets -- Fiction. 60090 2008-04-30
  • Magic -- Fiction. 5927 2008-05-08 Partial, needs Pyhton
  • Magicians -- Fiction.
  • Manned space flight -- Fiction.
  • Monsters -- Fiction.
  • Monsters -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Mythology, Greek -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Mythology, Greek -- Fiction.
  • Nanotechnology -- Fiction.
  • Occult Fiction 57120 2004-04-18
  • Poseidon (Greek deity) -- Fiction.
  • Psychic ability -- Fiction.
  • Rejuvenation -- Fiction.
  • Robots -- Fiction.
  • Saturn (Planet) -- Fiction
  • Science fiction. Python
  • Science fiction -- Authorship.
  • Science fiction, American.
  • Space and time -- Fiction. 29302 2008-04-26
  • Space colonies -- Fiction.
  • Space ships -- Fiction.
  • Space warfare -- Fiction.
  • Star Trek fiction.
  • Talismans - Fiction
  • Time travel -- Fiction.
  • Titans (Mythology) -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Utopian fiction
  • Vampires -- Fiction
  • Voyages, Imaginary. 49213 2008-07-12
  • Witches -- Fiction. 26935 2008-05-09 Partial, needs Python
  • Zeus (Greek deity) -- Fiction.

Amazon categories to monitor

  • Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost
  • Books › Romance › Gothic
  • Books › Romance › Time Travel
  • Books › Romance › Vampires
  • Children's Books › Ages 9-12 › Series › Fantasy & Adventure
  • Children's Books › Ages 9-12 › Series › Horror
  • Children's Books › Ages 9-12 › Series › Science Fiction
  • Children's Books > Literature > Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths > Greek & Roman
  • Children's Books › Literature › Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths › Stories
  • Children's Books > Literature > Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror > Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
  • Children's Books > Literature > Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror > Spine-Chilling Horror
  • Children's Books > Literature > Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror > Superheroes
  • Children's Books › Series › Fantasy & Adventure
  • Children's Books › Series › Horror
  • Children's Books › Series › Science Fiction
  • Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Dark Fantasy
  • Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Ghosts
  • Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Erotic
  • Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Occult
  • Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Vampires
  • Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Mythology > Children's Books > Greek & Roman
  • Teens > Literature & Fiction > Adventure & Thrillers (a lot of SF)
  • Teens > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy
  • Teens > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Horror
  • Teens > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction

Amazon subjects to monitor

  • Fantasy fiction
  • Romance - Fantasy
  • Romance: Gothic
  • Romance - Gothic
  • Romance - Paranormal
  • Vampires
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