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In Flanders Fields

1EGBERTINA
Bearbeitet: Okt. 25, 2022, 10:36 pm

So, I entered a book with the above-named title.

It joined to similar title of In Flanders Fields and Other Poems.

I had to do a bit of research. The Book that I was entering was a bestseller in 1919- and did include some of his other poetry- but that was not reflected in the title. I cannot find an image of it for certain.

how can we be certain that these are identical? do we need to be certain that these are identical? i had to flag some covers of a picture book- which clearly didn't belong, but i have not seen any wrong titles in the group- unless the two titles are separate works.

https://www.librarything.com/work/628439/edit/228051563

2Nicole_VanK
Okt. 26, 2022, 5:43 am

I suspect over-combining. But I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable about this work / author to attempt separating this myself.

3AnnieMod
Okt. 26, 2022, 12:46 pm

>1 EGBERTINA: "how can we be certain that these are identical? do we need to be certain that these are identical?"

By doing research outside of LT - OCLC often has contents listed, Google Books and Archive.org can also be useful; Look Insides on publisher sites and on the different Amazons, Kobo or Apple books.

We are supposed to do all possible due diligence. Does this end up with mistakes occasionally? Sure. But it is a lot less likely to happen if in such cases we do some digging.

In this case, I suspect that the work contains a LOT of different versions which needs untangling...

4MarthaJeanne
Bearbeitet: Okt. 26, 2022, 12:59 pm

Except without ISBNs for most of them it is probably impossible.

There isn't any reason to believe that the copies in

In Flanders Fields/McCrae, John (6 copies separate) or

In Flanders Fields and Other Poems/McCrae, John (6 copies separate)

all have the same contents.

5AnnieMod
Okt. 26, 2022, 1:08 pm

>4 MarthaJeanne: And even if the ISBNs are there, sometimes you really cannot rely on that because the title was changed and but a weird ISBN remained...

PS: It is not that uncommon for "and other Poems" to be omitted by sources and/or on covers while being there on a title page. So they may have the same contents -- but we do not have a good way to determine that. Just saying.

6EGBERTINA
Nov. 4, 2022, 1:44 pm

so, I was viewing this title, again, yesterday from a list.

even though I flagged wrong covers- some people still have a children's book- with a SIMILAR name combined in this.

I can separate out editions of the children's work- but the problem is in the CK/ information/ review portion. some of the reviews are for the children's book. and some of the ck is for the children's work. I added disambiguation notices to both versions- but that won't get the children's book information out of the 1919 version of poetry.

I noticed that where I had flagged the covers- at least one person voted not to flag??- not really clear what the yes and no mean- yes flag? yes don't flag?

I'm gone this weekend and won't be working on this. but can help with any advice given when I get back.

RECAP: 1919- book- in Flanders fields ( and other poems). John mccrae

1995 - a children's picture book- includes the title of the poem in its title- but adds more- because it is a book about wwi and the making of the poem.

completely different works, without hesitation.

thx

7EGBERTINA
Nov. 5, 2022, 2:52 pm

Thank you anonymous helper. it looks better.

8gilroy
Nov. 5, 2022, 4:16 pm

It can sometimes take up to 24 hours for the reviews to catch up with the separations.