Listen to Sirtel.
Tighten up your Metadata sources so you ca cherry pick better.
On the
Preference:metadata download form
1)set the cover (source) priority 1 being preferred over 3
Note: the ticks on the right side are the Master (allow)
select the
source: then click the
Configure selected source button
I can get
Tags only from source F,
Comments from A,B,F by removing those item ticks from the source I DON'T LIKE
But you also have to deal with inconsistent publishers (and Authors)
The Series started out as Foo, and later changed to Bar
You need to just fix that one way or the other.
Then there is the spinoff of a series. {series} only allows 1 name and 1 Index
Again, this is you choice. I do this as Hierarchical: (there are no sites that provide it in this form)
Pern.Harper Hall
Pern.Dragon Riders
Then there are overlapping series. For these I use a Custom Column for one of them.
J.A. Jance does this with Johanna Brady and JP Beaumont
I don't bother going deeper (collections/box sets).
{series} becomes '<various>' and {#split_series} gets my fav of them
Manage Series Plugin will help you renumber the selections.
Again different sources number differently. I use N.n for shorts between issues.
Is my way Right? Is it the only way
And I guarantee there is
no way that fits all conditions you will find