Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control/LCCN errors
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This page aims to collect all LCCN entries which have errors of some type, in order to have them corrected in the future at the LCCN website. Please correct the errors here at Wikidata first. They can be reported at https://loc.gov/contact/catalog-record-error-report/.
Conflation errors[edit]
- George Van Santvoord (Q61782159) and George Van Santvoord (Q61782109)
- nr97044281 contains elements of Alexander Ramsay (Q19036641) and Alexander Ramsay (Q72560088), the former being the newspaper editor and cattle expert who wrote Goldsmith and His Literary Friends (OCLC work id 2289027307) and History of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (OCLC work ids 3863620644 and 377055576); the latter being the scientific editor and writer b. 1839, d. 1916, in the old Library of Congress catalog as "Alexander Ramsay F.G.S.," who authored the Scientific Roll, the Rudiments of Mineralogy, and the introduction to Manual of Mollusca, with the following OCLC work IDs: 10200115878 15218483 1812655257 23693313 2517124647 2972066531 3134319095 33316330 3373836527 3375087664 376768111 4144363402 4248026652 46790519 478991120 51313116 8909016479 6717408 4917216933 3768639480 4535650985 5614964543 8906977646 9021454941
- nr99040347 conflates Lucy Johnston (Q99676857), contemporary curator at the V&A, with Lucy Pratt (Q99676837), author of Ezekial Expands published 1914. Publication date of 2019 for Ezekial Expands is a red herring; that's a reprint of a public domain work. - PKM (talk) 19:38, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
- name authority n2011087333 conflates Gavin Robinson (Q60664224): British historian and Gavin Robinson (Q93421287): EU law researcher (born 1984).--DrGavinR (talk) 20:21, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
Incorrect association[edit]
- Authority n84145429 should be linked to James Baker (Q88218745) not Charles H. Baker (Q5078504)