Series

[SkyBubble]

How does the automated system determine what is and isn't a series? For example, I have one series of four C/FF stories, same title with different subtitles (after a colon.) Lit's system identified the first three as a series, but not the fourth one.

I know I'm going to have to fix this manually and once I do that, I'll have to do all my series manually, which is a bother, but how did it decide the first three are a series but the fourth one isn't?

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Which series? Rebecca St. James has way more than four parts, Homecoming has four exactly.

 

[SkyBubble]

The "Boning Libby" series. It lists the first three stories as a series, but not the fourth and last one.

 

[SkyBubble]

Which series? Rebecca St. James has way more than four parts, Homecoming has four exactly.

Homecoming has 5 parts, 4 of which it put in a series. Looking at that one and Boning Libby, I noticed somethign which might be part of the answer.

Boning Libby (in series, yes or no?):

Boning Libby (Yes)
Boning Libby Ch. 02 -- After Dark (Yes)
Boning Libby Ch. 03 (Yes)
Boning Libby: Endgame (No)

Homecoming series (in series, yes or no?):

Homecoming (Yes)
Homecoming: Morning Has Broken (No)
Homecoming ch. 02: Same Time Next Year (Yes)
Homecoming Ch. 02 Part 2 (Yes)
Homecoming Ch. 03 (Yes)

 

[IWroteThis]

It seems obvious to me. The ones that have "Ch. 0#" are included, while those that don't aren't. If you put a colon in the same place on all of them, it might pick up the two oddities as series members, but it's not likely.

 

[AlinaX]

I think I’ve noticed colons breaking the detection before.

 

[TheLobster]

The way the automatic series algorithm works seems to be by looking for a pattern like:

TITLE ((Ch|Bk|Vol|Pt)[.]?)? NUMBER

and then grouping stories by TITLE matches. There almost certainly has to be a NUMBER it; if merely sharing the same title fragment counted, you’d see prolific authors with nonsensical series created solely because a few of their story titles begin with the same word (“Mom” comes to mind).

Also, as indicated above, prefixes like Ch./etc. are optional. I have a series where I omitted it due to lack of space and it works just fine.