Fred Slota Posted January 16, 2023 Posted January 16, 2023 Thought I'd do a search for possible initial possessive titles that might need retitling. My initial search gave way fewer results than I expected, and I realized that CB mostly uses ’ and not the ' directly typable from my keyboard. Search for I.[Title] LIKE "%'%" returns: 11 results in Books 502 results in Comic Books 0 results in Magazines 0 Results in Newspapers A couple of finds searching for (I.[Title] LIKE "%’s%") and not(I.[Title] LIKE "%(%’s%)%") (typed by hand, probably has the wrong ', don't copy-and-paste) Comicbooks (searched through the J's...) Akira Toriama's Manga Theater Alberto Breccia's Dracula Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Pests and Pets Anna Malle's Dirty Deeds Bill Stern's Sports Book Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders (Magazine Enterprises) 3 assorted that start with Bru-Hed's Captain Billy's Whiz Bang (Fawcett) Clive Barker's Nightbreed Archive Ed Wheelan's Joke Book Frank Brunner's Carnal Delights Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Frank Miller's Sin City: The Making of the Movie George Pal's Puppetoons Gris Grimly's Tales from the Brother's Grimm H.P. Lovecraft's Beauty and the Beast H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror Ippongi Bang's Canvas Diary Jack Kirby's Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth Jack Kirby's Marvel Heroes and Monsters James Kochalka's Sketchbook Diaries James Lloyd's Other Stuff Jim Starlin's Dreadstar Omnibus Joe Matt's "Jam" Sketchbook: Feb. 1995to Ma 1998 John Buscema's Marvel Heroes John Byrne's Marvel Classics Artifacts Edition Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
Gregory Hecht Posted January 16, 2023 Posted January 16, 2023 A couple of those titles might need to be examined as to whether they should be re-titled with the author in parentheses at the end of the title name. Also, I believe that Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism is a prose book, not a comic, so that needs to be moved into the appropriate category.
Fred Slota Posted January 17, 2023 Author Posted January 17, 2023 Comics, K-Z Kia Asamiya's Dojinshi Sketchbook Michael Neno's Dream Mike Zeck's Classic Marvel Stories Artist's Edition Mort Drucker's MAD Show-Stoppers Nicholson's Small Press Tirade and Other Works: 1983-1989 Paul Terry's Comics R. Crumb's Carload O'Comics Ronald Searle's America Sam Glanzman's USS Stevens: The Collected Stories Schulz's Youth Shade's Cover Girls Shade's Goodtime Girls Shade's Superhero Sexcapades Virgil Finlay's Illustrations for Weird Tales Many "Walt Disney's" titles (as opposed to "Disney's") Walt Kelly's Pogo: The Complete Dell Comics Will Eisner's 3-D Classics: Spirit Will Eisner's Quarterly Will Eisner's The Spirit Woron's Worlds
Fred Slota Posted January 17, 2023 Author Posted January 17, 2023 Found 0 ' characters in Notes... Good job. Cleanup in Aisle Storylines... found 102 ' characters
Fred Slota Posted January 26, 2023 Author Posted January 26, 2023 Was 502 ' in Comicbooks, now 505. Was 11 ' in Books, now 12. Checked the first three initial possessives, none of them were changed. Poke, poke...
Fred Slota Posted January 27, 2023 Author Posted January 27, 2023 Submitted corrections to Storylines in the books of Babylon 5 Season by Season. Submitted 97 corrections to Storylines in ComicBooks.
Fred Slota Posted January 28, 2023 Author Posted January 28, 2023 Comic Books being my main concern, that's all I'm concerned with at the moment... Item Description - 596! Maybe I'll do them later, but this might be easier to do at CBHQ... Item Title - 42 cleaned and submitted. Notes - clean. Storylines - clean. Title - 502 issues, but fewer actual titles - Title changes must be done at CBHQ. My job is do... Oh, wait... names sometimes have apostrophes... Artists - 733 found! Arghhhh... That's too many for me. Plus, given that there are probably repeated instances of particular people, and these names might be in many name fields, this is probably better handled with find-replace at CBHQ.
Mark J. Castaneda Posted January 30, 2023 Posted January 30, 2023 I'll have the Editorial team take a stab at the clean up. Not sure how you're doing your editing but 'Find and Replace' option under the Edit menu is available for big edit jobs like this.
Fred Slota Posted February 3, 2023 Author Posted February 3, 2023 Not the best choice for apostrophes, as some times they come in left-right pairs. That, and I forgot that existed...
Fred Slota Posted February 10, 2023 Author Posted February 10, 2023 My list of 50-or-so Titles with apparently leading possessives that probably need to be renamed from "Joe Smith's Book" to "Book (Joe Smith's...)" has not been addressed et, based on my quick survey of the first three titles.
Fred Slota Posted February 17, 2023 Author Posted February 17, 2023 Looks like these 50-or-so-titles are still uncorrected. Poke, poke...
Mark J. Castaneda Posted February 17, 2023 Posted February 17, 2023 Please post (or email Support@comicbase.com) the 50-ish titles that need correcting. We're having trouble producing the results you're finding.
Fred Slota Posted February 17, 2023 Author Posted February 17, 2023 I listed them above, but I'll send them on. I searched through (I.[Title] LIKE "%’s%") and not(I.[Title] LIKE "%(%’s%)%") and looked through the results and collected the ones I thought were possessives from creators, as opposed to possessives of characters. There is no search that returns this list, as it falls to context and interpretation.
Fred Slota Posted February 19, 2023 Author Posted February 19, 2023 GMail told me my e-mail temporarily failed... TLS Negotiation failed: FAILED_PRECONDITION: starttls error (104): Connection reset by peer
Fred Slota Posted February 21, 2023 Author Posted February 21, 2023 Gmail has now told me that it failed on the retries. I'll resend again.
Fred Slota Posted March 3, 2023 Author Posted March 3, 2023 Had resubmitted, looks like there have been changes... Out of my 50 or so, I guess these didn't meet standards for being reversed Anna Malle's Dirty Deeds Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders (Magazine Enterprises) 3 assorted that start with Bru-Hed's 3 publisher's forms of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang Frank Miller's Sin City: The Making of the Movie James Lloyd's Other Stuff Paul Terry's Comics Many "Walt Disney's" titles (as opposed to "Disney's") Will Eisner's Quarterly Woron's Worlds
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