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How the report false book entries

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1ecureuil
jun 10, 2019, 10:00 am

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.

2SandraArdnas
jun 10, 2019, 10:12 am

Why do you think this isn't a normal entry? The author writes short stories

3ecureuil
jun 10, 2019, 10:21 am

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

4MarthaJeanne
Bewerkt: jun 10, 2019, 10:42 am

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
jun 10, 2019, 10:36 am

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.

6MarthaJeanne
Bewerkt: jun 10, 2019, 10:53 am

Yes, Amazon's Look Inside has the Contents page.

I've put in work to work relationships.

7gilroy
jun 10, 2019, 1:56 pm

>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.

8ecureuil
jun 10, 2019, 2:06 pm

Ok, thanks!

9SandraArdnas
jun 10, 2019, 2:32 pm

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

10r.orrison
jun 10, 2019, 3:00 pm

Flagged it as what? That's not spam, and that's the only allowed reason for flagging.

11DanieXJ
jun 10, 2019, 3:44 pm

>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
jun 10, 2019, 6:28 pm

>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

13lilithcat
jun 10, 2019, 6:40 pm

>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.

14PhaedraB
jun 10, 2019, 9:39 pm

>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.