BadMoon — yes, and it’s done. Those author credit pages are in the database now, and the editions have their authors back.
39,300 author credit pages that never made it across have been imported. These are the ones you identified: where an author was only ever attached to editions and never to a Book, their credit page didn’t come over at all.
70,933 editions have had their author credits restored.
The cause: the importer put authors on the Book and stripped them off the Edition, assuming every edition had a Book to hold them. It also linked each edition to only the first Work it pointed at. So an edition with no Work lost its author completely, and where that was the only place an author appeared, their credit page went too.
Two details:
- Anything already fixed by hand was left alone — 308 editions.
- Authors go at the top of the credits list now, not the bottom.
46,420 editions still show no author. I checked those against the old database and there’s nothing to restore — they had no author there either.
auboisdormant — on the anthologies linked to the wrong Book, I’m not going to run another partial batch after the last one left plenty behind. I found why it happens: where an edition listed several Works, the importer kept the first and dropped the rest, so a collection got linked to whichever story came first. There are 5,049 of them.
The dropped references are all still in the old database — 55,160 of them, covering around 33,000 Works that were never imported. That’s the same data as the Contents question xceque has been raising. So rather than patch the links, I want to bring those Works back and record the full list of what each edition contains. That fixes the wrong Book links, restores the missing Work pages, and gives Contents something real to start from.
If specific ones are blocking you meanwhile, PM me and I’ll correct them directly.
