User talk:Philfreund/How tos

How to handle non-responsive verifiers

The official FAQ: "If you want to change or remove information, please ask the verifier first. If the verifier doesn't respond in a week or so, post a note on the Moderator noticeboard and someone will help you."

Post on the Moderator board for posterity and submit them with a reference in the moderator note of each submission to both the Moderator board note and the notification on the unresponsive user talk page and the fact that you did not get a response from the PV.

22:22, 11 March 2022 (EST)

Handling excerpts

Don't worry about minor presentation differences. If both titles show the same chapter(s) and are the same length, merge. Add a title note. For example "The excerpt comprises the first 2 chapters, approximately 4,000 words." If one of the excerpts is just a portion of the same chapter(s), then we don't merge. Beware, we do not disambiguate. We add a merge warning to our description. I don't believe this is specifically addressed in the help section, perhaps it should be. It would surely facilitate merge decisions. P.S. When I don't know anything about the excerpt, I add a note like this.John Scifibones 08:39, 31 May 2023 (EDT)

Creating serials for novellas

1. Create a CHAPBOOK pub. The regular title in it should be type SERIAL.
2. Make the new SERIAL title a variant of the pub title.

Barcode price info

The smaller 5 digit barcode is the supplementary section of the barcode and contains a EAN-5 code. The first of the five digits is a currency code. If the first digit is 9, that means the supplementary section does not contain price information. It's explained in this Wikipedia article.

EAN-5 codes first digits:

• 0 and 1 -- UK
• 3 - Australia
• 4 - New Zealand
• 5 - US
• 6 - Canada

Special pseudo-price values, i.e. that "9999" means "100.00 or more" while "90000" means "no price given".

Reversing a canonical relationship

This is the order. Do all the titles of each type together.

1. Use 'Make/Remove Alternate Name' on the variant name to remove the current relationship.
2. Use 'Make/Remove Alternate Name' on old canonical name making the old variant name the new parent.
3. Titles only as the new canonical name - Use advanced search and merge the titles making sure the the radio button for the variant is cleared. All data from the old parent will now reside in the merged title. Don't worry about the titles which also have a variant 'title' as well as author. The variant will be correctly linked to the merged parent.
4. Titles also as - Reverse the variant relationship.
   1. Use 'Make this title a variant' and break the current relationship by replacing the old parent ID with 0.
   2. Use 'Make this title a variant' making the previous parent a variant of the new parent. Note the date of the new parent, make sure it reflects the oldest occurrence of the title. This will transfer all the data from the old parent to the new.
5. Titles only as the old parent name - Make these variants of the new canonical name.
6. Interviews - you simply replace the old interviewee with the new canonical name (added for completeness).
7. Transfer the metadata from the old canonical to the new canonical.