User talk:Chris Winter

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Welcome!

Hello, Chris Winter, and welcome to the ISFDB Wiki! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Note: Image uploading isn't entirely automated. You're uploading the files to the wiki which will then have to be linked to the database by editing the publication record.

Please be careful in editing publications that have been primary verified by other editors. See Help:How to verify data#Making changes to verified pubs. But if you have a copy of an unverified publication, verifying it can be quite helpful. See Help:How to verify data for detailed information.

I hope you enjoy editing here! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will insert your name and the date. If you need help, check out the community portal, or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! -DES Talk 00:00, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Ringworld Engineers edition

Hello! I responded to Your Help Desk post. Follow the link to read and respond further, please. -DES Talk 00:21, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

I see you submitted the data for your publication, and it was accepted. Now for the cover image -- do you have a scanner or access to one, and would you be willing to scan and upload a cover image? If so i can help if you would like. -DES Talk 03:25, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
I have access to a scanner and have a cover image ready to go, at what I think is an appropriate size and resolution. Please let me know what the guidelines are for those, and also tell me how to upload the image.Chris Winter 18:15, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
The usual standard is that uploaded images should be less than 600 pixels in the longest dimension. In some cases some editors upload larger images when they feel it is essential to clearly show the cover images involved. However, overly large cover images take up a disproportionate amount of storage on our server. Also, relatively high-resolution images could harm our case for fair use if anyone ever challenged it -- which no one has to date.
  • To upload a cover image, you must be logged in to both the ISFDB and the ISFDB wiki.
  • From the publication record display, click the link labeled "Upload cover image". This will open an ISFDB wiki upload form in another browser window or tab, and fill in a license template with data from the publication record. It will also set the file name to the publication tag.
  • Fill in the path and name of, or browse to, the file on your local computer.
  • Click "Upload file".
  • Once the file has been uploaded, the image's wiki page will appear. In order to get the URL (address) for the image you just uploaded, left click anywhere on the image and copy the URL from your browser's address window. (Or right click on the image and choose "Copy Image Location".) This is the URL which you will enter into the pub record's "Image URL" field.
  • Edit the pub record display you started from. (It will be linked to on the image description page).
  • Insert the image URL from the wiki (see above) into the "Image URL" field. Click "Submit data".
See Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki for more details. You will be using the "semi-automated procedure". I hope this is helpful. -DES Talk 18:41, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Also you might want to verify the record. -DES Talk 03:28, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
I did that thing.Chris Winter 18:32, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Time Story

The submission adding a record for the tenth printing of this title was accepted. A question: is the price and catalog number the exact same as the first printing? Thanks. Mhhutchins 22:43, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes, both are exactly the same — in the upper right corner of the front cover. Chris Winter 17:03, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Isle of Woman

I placed your submission to add a new publication of Anthony's "Isle of Woman" on hold for several reasons. The note you added states Copyright page says: "First edition: September 1993 First mass market edition: September 1994" Printing history line: "0 9 8 7 6 5 4". This means it's a fourth printing (the last number in the printing line). We already have a fourth printing in the database here. The only real difference was the price, which we had as $7.99. I checked Locus1, and corrected it to $6.99. Please consider dropping the submission, and verifying the existing 4th printing. Other (minor) issues with your submission are the publisher (you entered it as "Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.", we regularise the name to "Tor") and the binding (you entered PB, this should be the lower case pb). You also entered the title series (Geodyssey) as a publication series (the difference is explained here. Don't let this get you down, thanks for editing! --Willem H. 10:15, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

I have no problem in withdrawing my entry. As I say, I'm just getting up to speed with the conventions here. I do have one question: The existing record has a page count of 476. I guess you're counting everything from the title page through the last numbered page, which is #470. The math works out right. Chris Winter 23:13, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
How we handle the page count (and a load of other topics) is explained on this page (under 1.5). In short, you take the last printed pagenumber, unless the text (novel, story) ends on an unnumbered page, then you count forward to the end of the text. I just checked my copy of the 1st printing, and saw I had to correct the page count from 476 to 470. Thanks for pointing me there! --Willem H. 19:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Cover artist for In the Wet

Sorry, but I had to reject your submission since it would have automatically generated an Artist with the name "not credited in book, and no visible signature on cover". Please do add this note to the notes section of the publication. Thanks, Stonecreek 20:21, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Frank Herbert's The Green Brain

I believe there's already a record in the database for the printing you want to add of this title. Please check it out to see if it matches. Keep in mind that when a printing has no explicit publication date, and there is no secondary source for the date, we have to zero out the date field and it is displayed as "date unknown". If you determine that this is the same as your copy, please cancel your submission. If you're not sure that it is the same, leave a message here on your talk page. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 02:28, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Nevil Shute's An Old Captivity

Submission adding this record was accepted, but two changes were made. The # symbol was added before the catalog number, which indicates that the number is not an ISBN. Also, "artist not credited" was moved from the cover art credit field to the Note field. Leaving it in the cover art field creates a artist named "artist not credited". Thanks. Mhhutchins 02:34, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

The Yearling

I had to reject your submission to add a record for this title, because it is not speculative fiction, and the author isn't considered a spec-fic author. Otherwise, non-genre works by spec-fic authors are eligible for the database. A mystery by Isaac Asimov is eligible, but a mystery by Raymond Chandler would not. But a spec-fic story by Chandler would be. I know it can be confusing. If you have any questions about eligibility, post a message at the ISFDB:Help desk before making a submission to create a publication record. Thanks. Mhhutchins 02:40, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Okay. I saw there was another title by Rawlings in the database, so I assumed The Yearling was permissible. Chris Winter 20:44, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

The Mask of the Sun

I holding your edit for The Mask of the Sun pending a chance for the primary verifier to double check the publication. When making a change to a primary verified publication, you should be notifying the verifier (see Making changes to verified pubs). In this case, I have notified Hauk and will process the edit once he's had a chance to double check the publication. Also, the ISBN should be entered as just the ISBN10 or the ISBN13 (depending on which one the publication has). The software will automatically convert to the other for display purposes. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 17:09, 16 January 2018 (EST)

OK. Sorry about the gaffe.

New Questions

I have in hand a copy of Podkayne of Mars identified as "Ace edition / May 1987". The cover does not match the one shown there, which is primary-verified, but matches the one dated 1989-11-00. My copy is the fourth printing, and names the cover artist as James Warhola. Do I need to notify the primary verifier in this case? Chris Winter 16:38, 30 January 2018 (EST)

We create different publication records for different printings. Go to the first printing's record, select "Clone This Pub" under the editing tools links on the left menu. On the next screen, select "Reuse COVERART title(s) and image URL?" (since yours has different coverart) and click the button. On the next screen, set the date to "0000-00-00" (since it is an undated printing), change the publication notes to state it is the 4th printing, and make any other necessary changes. Once the new record is approved, you can verify it and upload the cover art. Since you are creating a new publication, you don't need to notify any existing verifiers. -- JLaTondre (talk) 17:29, 30 January 2018 (EST)
Submission approved. The date was still set to the first printing so I changed it to 0000-00-00 as explained above. Thanks for submitting the record!Annie 21:11, 8 February 2018 (EST)
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