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Fiction House's Lily Renée is featured on Newsweek site
narfstar:
And Jim becomes the king of coinkedink.
GCD underwent one recent major revamp. Advanced search can do a lot of things. It still has another major upgrade to come that will make it the premier site for research. I think you can not beat having actual copies like are scanned here for the best of research with seeing the real thing
JVJ (RIP):
The GCD's major weakness, IMHO, is that you never really know to what degree you can trust the accuracy of the data. There was never the "gatekeeper" aspect that Bails provided for the Who's Who and, while I completely understand and appreciate the magnitude of the task it set for itself and the unselfish efforts of all those who contributed, you are still left with uncertainties in the data and they cast a pall over ALL the efforts. I'm not the "final say" in such matters, but the number of errors I encounter is staggering and I simply don't have the time to start correcting them all. I have a life, as does everyone who ever input data to GCD, but the site needed a much more liberal supply of question marks in its infancy.
Still, it is an amazing effort to be applauded, and I do.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
Drusilla lives!:
Regarding the GCD, I think they've gotten really behind for some reason on updating stuff. I reported a couple of minor inker credit errors a few weeks (or perhaps now it's maybe almost two months) ago and they never made the changes.
Not that they were of any great importance, in fact they're pretty obvious (for people who'd care to double check such things), but still, it's somewhat off-putting. I mean, I hate to admit it, but I'm not sure I'd care to bother next time I run across something that looks in error if it's not going to make a difference. :(
narfstar:
I do not really do the error corrections. Most of the guys get on simple things right away so not sure what went wrong. One of the problems others have with the GCD is the effort they take to try and verify things. Yes early on it was screwed up but now everything is checked. Yes some errors still get in but compared to open wiki it has to be less
NobbyNobbs:
One thing about the GCD that irritates me is that there is no standarisation of creator names, I have found series where the same artist have been written differently 4-5 issues in a row.
That said, Comic Book DB, where they try to standarize names also have some creators show up as both Robert, Bob and Rob, so probably not an easy solution to this.
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