How the report false book entries
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1ecureuil
By chance, I came across this entry: https://www.librarything.com/work/9480228/workdetails
It seems like somebody has been registering tags instead of books?
What is the proper way to report something like this? I'm only aware of the Spam report feature, which doesn't apply here.
It seems like somebody has been registering tags instead of books?
What is the proper way to report something like this? I'm only aware of the Spam report feature, which doesn't apply here.
2SandraArdnas
Why do you think this isn't a normal entry? The author writes short stories
3ecureuil
Not sure if these are short stories. The same LT user logged more similar looking entries that look like tags to me, see below. If these actually are short stories, then my bad. Independently of it, how can we tag false entries?
1 School 1 copy
6 New York 1 copy
9 French 1 copy
8 Second London 1 copy
5 Post War 1 copy
4 Second World War 1 copy
2 Oxford 1 copy
3 First London 1 copy
7 African 1 copy
1 School 1 copy
6 New York 1 copy
9 French 1 copy
8 Second London 1 copy
5 Post War 1 copy
4 Second World War 1 copy
2 Oxford 1 copy
3 First London 1 copy
7 African 1 copy
4MarthaJeanne
You can't. This member has made the entries, they are part of that catalogue. In this case, they are chapters from Any Human Heart
5lilithcat
They aren't short stories.
They are segments of his novel, Any Human Heart, which consists of a series of journals. I assume the numbers refer to each journal's position in the series.
They are segments of his novel, Any Human Heart, which consists of a series of journals. I assume the numbers refer to each journal's position in the series.
6MarthaJeanne
Yes, Amazon's Look Inside has the Contents page.
I've put in work to work relationships.
I've put in work to work relationships.
7gilroy
>1 ecureuil: I think the important thing to realize is that we can catalog anything here. Perfumes, music, dresses, even an inflatable rhino (at one time. Not sure if it's still here) There isn't a "false book entry" here. As long as they aren't blatantly advertising or purposefully trying to bring down the database, anything can be cataloged.
9SandraArdnas
There are occasionally entries that aren't commercial spam, but are not what I'd consider a legitimate entry. I once flagged a work that was clearly a note, a reminder, with the title something along the lines 'interesting - check out' and the author a list of some 20 names, all as one author. I have no idea why that would be a convenient way to keep a note, but there it was. Still, I believe the majority of those who voted let it stay, presumably because this doesn't happen often and isn't really interfering with anything
11DanieXJ
>9 SandraArdnas: Sometimes people aren't doing it on purpose either. There has been a long history of, I'm gonna go with, interesting... import errors too. So.
12SandraArdnas
>10 r.orrison: Well, exactly,which is why I posted the story - it is an example of a situation that might warrant some kind of flag, as the OP thought was the case here. It was quite obviously not any kind of entry that exists outside that particular digital record on LT. But like I said, I get why this isn't an issue. Besides, even works flagged as spam still show up in search, so there isn't much point in flagging something that's not commercial spam anyway.
>11 DanieXJ: Yes, I intimately know jumbled import data as I find them regularly when combining authors. It seems for every work with more than one author there are dozens imports with their names jumbled up into a single one in random order with random commas in between. Titles usually do fine, but multiple authors often come through as a complete mess
>11 DanieXJ: Yes, I intimately know jumbled import data as I find them regularly when combining authors. It seems for every work with more than one author there are dozens imports with their names jumbled up into a single one in random order with random commas in between. Titles usually do fine, but multiple authors often come through as a complete mess
13lilithcat
>12 SandraArdnas:
It seems for every work with more than one author there are dozens imports with their names jumbled up into a single one in random order with random commas in between.
Those aren't always from imports (though may are). Sometimes it's ratty data from Amazon, and sometimes it's people trying to figure out how to get both names in the author field and getting it wrong.
It seems for every work with more than one author there are dozens imports with their names jumbled up into a single one in random order with random commas in between.
Those aren't always from imports (though may are). Sometimes it's ratty data from Amazon, and sometimes it's people trying to figure out how to get both names in the author field and getting it wrong.
14PhaedraB
>13 lilithcat: If it's a particularly old entry, it might be from before we had a feasible way to enter multiple authors. I went back and changed all my old entries, but I doubt if everyone did.