User talk:Kleistke

Welcome!

Hello, Kleistke, 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:

• Help pages
• Field-by-field guide to entering new publications into the database
• Help:Getting Started
• What the ISFDB Wiki is for
• FAQ
• Wiki editing help - Tips on how to use the wiki-specific features when editing wiki pages.
• Wiki Conventions - How things are usually done on this wiki.
• Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki

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! Stonecreek 09:42, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Hello, Kleistke! Thank you for submitting additional information on the book. Alas, I had to delete the information on William Webb in the artists field. We really do use this field only for the name of the artist(s): the addition of (Jacket Design) would lead to the creation of a new artist named 'William Webb (Jacket Design)'. The additional information does belong to the notes, though - if you feel that he should be credited for the cover art at all. If you own the book you may primary verify it and decide on the artists.

I also changed the asterisks to another standard - assuming that you intended to have new line beginnings for every bit of information. Again, thank you for your submission! Stonecreek 09:51, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

A Game of Thrones

I had to reject your submission to change the cover art field of this record. Only the cover artist is credited in this field. Cover designers are credited in the Note field. Maps are credited by creating a separate content record. Please look at the record to see how this is handled. Thanks. Mhhutchins 03:56, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Sourcing data

When editing or creating new publication records for books in your collection, please let the moderator know this in the "Note to Moderator" field. This helps us know that you've working from the primary source. A note as simple as "Book in hand" will suffice. If you are editing or creating publication records for books based on reliable secondary sources, you must provide the source for the record's data in its "Note" field. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 04:00, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

The Summer Tree cover

Hi, and welcome. I accepted your modifications to The Summer Tree, but there are a couple of problems with the cover image that require some changes.

• The link to a cover image must be to an actual image (for example, a file ending in .gif, .jpg, .bmp, etc.), not to a web page (which usually end in .htm, .html, .asp, .aspx, or .php). The link you provided -- http://www.brightweavings.com/artgallery/canfthb1.htm -- is to a web page and so would not work properly. If you right-click on that image on the website and pick "Properties...", you will see the URL for the image itself is http://www.brightweavings.com/artgallery/canadafionavarhard1.jpg.
• Because the ISFDB software loads the linked images from the remote site each time the publication record is viewed, which puts a load on the remote site's server, we only link to images on sites that have given us permission to do so. Otherwise, we require that images be uploaded to the ISFDB's Wiki and that the link be made to that instead. We do not have permission from brightweavings.com to link to images on their site, so we cannot make such links for covers. See Help:Screen:EditPub#ImageURL and ISFDB:Image_linking_permissions for more details.

So here you would need to upload the cover to the ISFDB. It is not very difficult, if you would like to give it a try. Do do it:

1. Save the image from brightweavings.com to your computer (right-click on the image, and Save Picture As...).
2. Go to the publication record and click on the "Upload cover scan" link that appears below the Notes.
3. Upload the file you saved in #1 above, changing the last line of the Summary from "Source=Scanned by [[User:Kleistke]]" to something more appropriate, such as "Source=Downloaded from www.brightweavings.com".
4. WARNING: When you save that, you will be shown a page like http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:NRDSTTNDRF2012.jpg. The URL you need is NOT that page's URL, but rather the link to the image shown on this page. That appears below the displayed image, immediately below the "No higher resolution available" text. Copy that shortcut or click on it and then copy the URL the browser takes you to.
5. Go back to the tab that opened in #2, pick Edit This Pub from the menu along the left, paste the URL you copied into the Image URL field, and submit. You're all set.

Please give this a try. If you'd rather not, I am happy to do it for you. If you try it and get stuck, just ask -- any moderator will be happy to help you out. Thanks, and thank you for contributing. --MartyD 12:03, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Death Draws Five

There are a couple of problems with this record, which I will explain and then edit to correct. You gave the page count as "299pp" and it should just be "299". The system automatically adds the "pp" when the number is displayed. Also, you can only give one currency in the Price field. Other stated prices have to given in the Note field. So I'll remove " (C$30.95)" from the Price field and move it to the Note field. These standards and others are explained on this help page, the single most important help page for editing the ISFDB, and the one that should be bookmarked by all ISFDB editors. Thanks. Mhhutchins 04:47, 14 January 2013 (UTC)