An odd wrong combination - How to fix?

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An odd wrong combination - How to fix?

1Andy_Dingley
Fév 28, 2022, 6:47 pm

I have this book 'Great Western Railway Gas Turbines', ISBN 0862995418

There is a record for it here
https://www.librarything.com/work/15719810/editions

Yet when I add it, I end up here
https://www.librarything.com/work/27850345/editions/213336942

Which is combined with a clearly unrelated work
https://www.librarything.com/work/3990990
'Henry V and the Southampton plot of 1415'

How to fix? It seems as if some of the catalogue sources are misdirecting the ISBN to the medieval book?

2AnnieMod
Fév 28, 2022, 8:00 pm

Someone seems to have already helped. For future references, go to the Editions page on your book and look for a separate link next to the line of your book :) Once it is out of the mix, you can either combine via the author page or via the workbench :)

The most likely culprit here is a user not cleaning a mess: They added one book, then edited inside of their catalog to change the title and the author... and never fixed the ISBN or removed the book from the now wrong work.

3Andy_Dingley
Mar 1, 2022, 10:22 am

Yes, that 2nd link seems to have disappeared now.

But this is still pretty broken (the gas turbine wouldn't be invented until the 18th century)
https://www.librarything.com/work/3990990

4MarthaJeanne
Modifié : Mar 1, 2022, 10:35 am

Seems to be a reused ISBN.

Gas turbine book is now at https://www.librarything.com/work/15719810

WorldCat only lists Henry V for that ISBN.

We can only vote on the flagged cover.

5AnnieMod
Mar 1, 2022, 10:59 am

>3 Andy_Dingley: Nothing we can do about the user who uploaded this cover to the wrong book :( Cover flagged - that is the best we can do.

You can go to the cover https://www.librarything.com/work/3990990/covers, click on Information for the specific one and vote for its flagging.

6MarthaJeanne
Mar 1, 2022, 11:11 am

Every one of the entries for that book has that ISBN. as does Amazon. I really think it is a reuse case, maybe through a misprint, maybe deliberate.

7AnnieMod
Mar 1, 2022, 12:24 pm

Possibly - but the cover is member uploaded - and still around so attached to one of the remaining books - all of which are the correct title.