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Citoid (Add a citation→Automatic) is not working for certain ISBNs.

Examples:

• ISBN 978-4-641-14469-9 - Works
• ISBN 978-4-284-20446-0 - Does NOT work
• ISBN 978-4-01-077721-3 - Does NOT work

Are those something to do with T302521?

@Mvolz (WMF), is this one for you?

All three have WorldCat entries:

• https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=isbn:9784641144699
• https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=isbn:9784284204460
• https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=isbn:9784010777213

Thx for your reply.

Those 3 examples are just examples of many other cases, and they may work at this time. However, I would like to know why Citoid does not work for particular ISBNs with Visual Editor so often. There are more instances with which Citoid (Add a citation→Automatic) does not work, frustrating many Visual Editor users.

There are limits to the service (it's reading from the WorldCat database), so if it seems like nothing works one day, it could be that we have exceeded our quota, or that their website has a problem.

In the meantime, if the ISBN look up doesn't produce good results for me, one workaround I've used is to give it a Google Books URL for the same book.

I'm getting results for those now - it's possible it was T302521.