User talk:MartyD/ProposedDateHelp

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No Publication Date

We have one more special date:

• 9999-00-00 - when the book is rescheduled for the future but does not have an exact date yet.

While rarely used, it is an option when a book is added early, looks stable and gets all weird just before publication. Annie 13:17, 18 January 2022 (EST)

Missing sources

Where will Goodreads and other bibliographic projects (FantLab for Russian (and Russian adjacent), databazeknih.cz for Czech and so on) fall into this list? The English language ones (bar Goodreads) are in our verifications list but there is nothing there for the non-English ones (yes, some may cover some books but...)

Same question for library sources which are not OCLC - due to their policies, some library sources may have better information than OCLC - DNB often has a month for the German books, some others may record even dates - none of that gets into OCLC even when OCLC links the record. Annie 13:27, 18 January 2022 (EST)