Do not update citations if reading citations did not work out
tthuem opened this issue · comments
If something goes wrong while updating the citations, -1 and the current time stamp is stored. Instead, it should rather be untouched.
Proposal for citation numbers:
0 or larger means that the entry was found and indicate the number of citations
-1 means that it was never checked (initial value of every new entry)
-2 means that it could not be found on Google Scholar
-3 means that something went wrong when checking the entry (could indicate a bug in MibTeX or a problem with that particular paper title)
Also, could you use 0 as timestamp if a value has never been checked? (as initialization)
Not updating the timestamp is no option, as it may lead to the situation where always the same entry is checked again and again. When updating the timestamp, it is also no option to not update the citations. However, we can still introduce -1, -2, and -3 for citations. And prefer updates of -1 values.