More incorrect records beyond #1

[BrittanyBunk]

Problem

The publisher date is incorrect on multiple records past the ones with 9999 (that was figured out) were found in the data dump. I put together all the ones I could into one file.

Notes of document

• this is an estimate of the records that should be changed, so some on here may be legitimate and some that need correction are not on this spreadsheet).
• the first column is the OL ID, one would just add OL in front and M behind it to make it complete

Solutions

As mentioned in #1, the number of records that need a correction are almost 1/2 million. There are methods to approach it: by hand or by bot. Since I don't really know the answer, I'm opening this up so that it's known and there's a way to work on it. Not every record is incorrect, but should be evaluated. Here's how far I got with the manual process, so feel free to improve it:

• fill in https://openlibrary.org/books/OL__________M with the number in column 1 and verify if it's correct and change the year if it's not.

[seabelis]

Please give more detail about what the issue is and what the expected result is.

[BrittanyBunk]

@seabelis updated :)

[seabelis]

This is outside the scope of this repo's purpose. This is an issue that needs to be solved programatically. It's not reasonable to ask a human to sort through a half-million records manually.

[BrittanyBunk]

@seabelis Cool! You don't mind putting something like that into the description of the repo? That way, people will know when they come in that bigger librarian issues that require bots would go to the main github page.