How to flag inconsistent / eroneous LT information at various levels

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1gangleri
Okt. 18, 2010, 7:21 pm

Hi! I was looking at a Dutch series: Series: Privé-domein. I noticed that two works have the "SORTORDER" 17:

a) http://www.librarything.com/work/6916700 ; CK works history :
CK works editions
related catalogue link from KB.nl showing
Series (Reeks): Privé-domein ; nr. 17

b) http://www.librarything.com/work/3661914 ; CK works history :
CK works editions
related catalogue link from KB.nl showing also
Series (Reeks): Privé-domein ; nr. 17

For safty the series syntax could use Privé-domein (17.1|17) and Privé-domein (17.2|17).

Question: How to flag inconsistent / eroneous information as the line:
"Omzien in verwondering 1 / Romein-Verschoor, Annie (ISBN 9029535997) (1 copy separate)" at http://www.librarything.com/work/6916700/editions (the first volume).

The line in question is using the title of the first volume but the ISBN from the second volume.

Such LT records can generate a lot of subsequent faults. Any automated LT prodecures should ignore such eroneous information because it will propagate and might harm other information.

There are other examples: It happened to me that I imported a book but the generated ISBN10 was a kind of ISBN13 prefix shared among many users when this error ocured. I will search taht one (and if possible other works sharing this fancy ISBN10 kind number which fails ISBN checksum procedures).

Regards Reinhardt

2lorax
Okt. 18, 2010, 7:51 pm

You can't flag this sort of thing. Users can do whatever they want with their data, and a title/ISBN mismatch is among the less severe of problems. Generally it's assumed for combining purposes that the title is correct, rather than the ISBN.

3fdholt
Okt. 18, 2010, 10:45 pm

#1

Also remember that there is an isbn for the individual volumes and usually a collective isbn for the set if sold that way.

If snagging the record from a library, the member may get the record several times and edit each one to a particular volume without changing the isbn.

Not wrong so definitely go with the title and volume information if present as suggested by lorax.

4gangleri
Okt. 18, 2010, 10:53 pm

I raised this question because I do not know what feature request should be posed as the end of this / such a discussion. Please remember that computers with their automated procedures are not humans. They might detect conflicts but normaly the apply some rules depending on patterns and conditions. For computers it might be unpredictable if they take one way or another.