Bug 103948

Summary: Bibliography Database should be empty for new installs
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG    
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: Inherited From OOo   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Attachments: biblio.odb
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Description Jeremy Bicha 2016-11-16 03:40:54 UTC
Created attachment 128776 [details]
biblio.odb

LibreOffice 5.2.2.2 64-bit edition on Windows 10

I opened LibreOffice and clicked Tools>Bibliography Database and was surprised to see 20 entries. My opinion is that these entries are not useful and are "clutter". Were these entries intentionally included?

Screeenshot and biblio.db attached.
Comment 1 Jeremy Bicha 2016-11-16 03:42:02 UTC
Created attachment 128777 [details]
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Comment 2 Alex Thurgood 2016-11-16 12:08:22 UTC
Yes, the inclusions are deliberate and so, not a bug. 

LO installations have always included them as an example of the type of data to use in the bibliography.odb file, indeed, this was inherited from OpenOffice.org.
Comment 3 Jeremy Bicha 2016-11-16 14:04:42 UTC
(In reply to Alex Thurgood from comment #2)
> LO installations have always included them as an example of the type of data
> to use in the bibliography.odb file, indeed, this was inherited from
> OpenOffice.org.

Ok, but I think it *is* a bug. Microsoft Word has a 'Source Manager' feature accessible from the References tab which is roughly equivalent to LibreOffice's Bibliography Database. It's empty by default.

I don't think the sample data is useful at all. I think someone that is going to use the Bibliography Database understands what 'Author', 'Title', and 'Publisher' mean. All we need is the database structure, not the data.

Please reopen this bug.