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This page lists ongoing bibliographic cataloging and cleanup projects within ISFDB. (For archived projects see [[Bibliographic Projects ==General Cleanup==

...ear the beginning of the file, most of the lost entries were high-profile, award-winning stories (like "A Rose for Ecclesiastes", or "Ill Met in Lankhmar", * Fixed a minor bug in the awards listing routine (caused awards with extremely long catego

|Various Minor Navbar fixes, updates, and improvements |Data cleanup script to delete defunct pseudonyms

...s, I'm now shooting for July 15th as the target date. In the meantime some minor features may be firmed up, some known bugs fixed, some updates to the onlin ...ures. Most of this is already complete, but need about 1 day to finish and cleanup.

...created COVERART records for them, rather than the "stub"s you can do for award finalists that don't exist in the database (cf horror works that aren't spe ...ot add a non-fiction book that is not genre even if it is nominated for an award; why would we treat covers differently. We are a fiction DB - we have the n

...ory) is one of the most objective we have, and it is based on the relevant award rules to boot. I see no good reason to change or blur it. If a work is shor ...an D. Vinge [his current wife], and Frederik Pohl (all winners of the Hugo award), Andre Norton, Loren D. Estleman, Dan Simmons and Greg Bear." However, the

::::::***shortlisted for a major award ...no if [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/edit/cleanup_report.cgi?100 the price cleanup report] would/could pick them up?) [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 11:

...ule. The remaining 229 SERIALs do their own thing. I was going to create a cleanup report to find these miscreants, but then I took a closer look and decided ...be made into variants of COLLECTIONs, but then we would need to change the cleanup logic to allow COLLECTIONs within MAGAZINEs. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 0

...awards, they are usually awarded to the editor, and the year given for the award should be a good enough clue about what they are for. ···[[User:Nihonjoe ...multiple title records for an award year, we have to either duplicate the award record for each separate title, or choose one from among the many title rec

...ouse names that I spot checked were valid uses. I do have it on my list to cleanup some of the 'Noname' house name ones as any of the Frank Reade Jr.'s are by === Help Cleanup: Proposed First Step ===

...omeday if ISFDB ever morphs into something more like IMDB which tracks the minor/supporting roles someone can at least copy/paste the data. ...y found with one-two SQL queries, and it shouldn't be too hard to automate cleanup tasks at some point. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 18:58, 3 Apr 2007 (CDT)

...a followup change to the pub-editor help about this, & another (hopefully minor) change in the same section. This is for [[Help:Screen:EditPub#Reviews|Rev ...e fix! Also for mentioning that you '''made''' the fix: some edits do seem minor but eventually people realise they could cause problems not thought about.

...ple 3rd party URLs per author and, later on, per title, per publisher, per award type, etc. ** shortlisted for a major award

...s a published work and the letter writer as the author, and I would ignore minor ancillary editorial commentary (e.g., an editor's note or a brief response :::The ANV includes minor changes to spelling as well as translations and transliterations. They have

...ajor author, then better sources typically exist. OTOH, if he or she was a minor author or better known for other things, then the obituary writer is unlike ...ink of something not in a publication containing the content.), but that's minor so don't mind it being added if you feel it makes more sense. Thanks. --&nb

* [[Feature:90148 Edit Author Data]] OPEN People sometimes e-mail me with minor updates to the author data on ISFDB. I'm thinking the link that says "Autho ...ove and when looking over the finished result I'll see a detail that needs cleanup resulting in a second (or even third) edit/approve. I can think of two sty

::::: A minor problem with such a quick discussion/change cycle: I started reading. I c ...ermit. I am trying to do as much as I can while I am available (at least 1 minor bug fix/feature per night or one major feature in 3 days), but there are li

...ith Magazines, except maybe ones like Destinies. (Which I see has given us Award problems... but that's another topic.) However, I think either the Coverart ...//www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?9581 Pan/Ballantine]. Hopefully, the cleanup process will help us come up with better ideas. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]

...ns with the April 1926 issue of ''Amazing Stories''. With a couple of very minor exceptions the only other legitimate title that predates that is ''Weird Ta ...e not in a series. Of course, we still have a lot of magazines, mostly the minor ones, that don't have editor records.--[[User:Swfritter|swfritter]] 16:31,