User talk:Fixer/Archive/2012
Title <-> Pub type matching
Hey Fixer, do you suppose that if you were going to add a publication to an existing title of type COLLECTION, you could make the pub's type be COLLECTION, too, instead of ANTHOLOGY? Love your work, thanks for the contributions. --MartyD 13:32, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
- Why, that's impossible, my code is perfect! Here, let me show you...
- Oh. You mean *that* bug? Right. Got it. Fixed. And thanks for the kind words! Fixer 10:54, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
- Apparently "bot" accounts do not show up in Recent Changes, so I had to remove Fixer's bot flag. He is a big boy now, 3 years and counting, so we should let him speak when he wants to. Ahasuerus 12:32, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Missing pub
I just read Michael Dirda's review in the Washington Post of the Old Earth Books reprint of Keith Robert's brilliant Pavane. Amazon categorized it correctly. How did Fixer miss this one? Mhhutchins 03:10, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
- An ISBN search on "9781882968398" finds two pubs: a novel version submitted by Fixer on 2011-12-01 and a collection version created over the last 24 hours.
- I know about the last, because I'm the editor who created it. I'll delete the novel record. Thanks. Mhhutchins 04:47, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
- It looks like Fixer didn't attempt to associate the new pub with the existing title because we have two Title records for "Pavane", one in English and one in German. The approving moderator didn't realize that we already had a record for Pavane and didn't merge/correct the new Title. Ahasuerus 23:05, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
- On the plus side, this prompted me to run a custom search of Amazon's data for "Old Earth", which found 3 ISBNs that we didn't know about. And at least one of them is not vaporware! :-) Ahasuerus 23:11, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
- Old Earth has been quiet over the last few years. Maybe because they mistakenly reprinted an Edgar Pangborn novel without the rights? Mhhutchins 04:47, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
- Oops! It looks like they didn't publish anything in 2009, 2010 or the first 11 months of 2011. Hopefully the appearance of Pavane means that they are back in business. (And too bad that Davy hasn't been reprinted by a major house in 20+ years. There was something magical about that novel.) Ahasuerus 05:03, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
- Totally agree about Davy and most of Pangborn's work. That's why I get so pissed off about all the schlock that gets published these days. Mhhutchins 05:58, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
- The people who read the schlock would be unlikely to be interested in Davy and vice versa :-) Ahasuerus 02:18, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Seven Princes
Did the original submission of this record indicate it's an ebook? From the Amazon listing, it appears this is a digital audio player with a preloaded file of an audio recording of the book. It was the price that made me check. I didn't think ebooks were this expensive. Mhhutchins 03:18, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
- Let's see. According to Fixer's logs, the data sent by Amazon said "Preloaded Digital Audio Player". Checking Fixer's logic -- which is supposed to auto-suspend audio books -- I see that it doesn't know about this "binding" type. I have made a change and it should auto-suspend these critters in the future. Thanks for catching it! Ahasuerus 03:27, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Omnium Gatherum
Hey Fixer, is there any chance you might consider changing Amazon's "Omnium Gatherum Media" to plain "Omnium Gatherum"? That's what they call themselves on their website, and the Look Insides show the books with an OG + Omnium Gatherum logo (unfortunately, they don't show title pages, nor is the publisher listed on the copyright page, so I only have the cover and website to go by). Many thanks. --MartyD 13:30, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
- Actually, I found a Look Inside showing "Omnium Gatherum" as the publisher credit on the interior, too. --MartyD 13:38, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
- Done! Ahasuerus 15:46, 23 July 2012 (UTC)