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I'm holding your last series of submissions and will eventually accept them. It seems you're consistently making the same errors in most of them which I will list here and ask that you keep these in mind when making future submissions.  Almost all of the corrections I'll be making are explained on [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Help:Screen:NewPub this help page]. I will link to the specific sections below.
 
I'm holding your last series of submissions and will eventually accept them. It seems you're consistently making the same errors in most of them which I will list here and ask that you keep these in mind when making future submissions.  Almost all of the corrections I'll be making are explained on [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Help:Screen:NewPub this help page]. I will link to the specific sections below.
  
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* Title field: Do not give an alternate title in the field. (As in the case of ''Tattered''. You must give the title as it appears on the book's title page, and nowhere else. If the work has been published under a different title, you can variant its title record to the other publication's title record.
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* Title field: Do not give an alternate title in the field. (As in the case of ''Tattered''.) You must give the title as it appears on the book's title page, and nowhere else. If the work has been published under a different title, you can variant its title record to the other publication's title record.
 
* Author field: Only the author or editor is credited in this field. Translators are credited in the Note field. Introducers are credited by creating a content record for the introduction. Also, you must add a space between initials in the author field. "S.C. Hayden" should be entered as "S. C. Hayden".
 
* Author field: Only the author or editor is credited in this field. Translators are credited in the Note field. Introducers are credited by creating a content record for the introduction. Also, you must add a space between initials in the author field. "S.C. Hayden" should be entered as "S. C. Hayden".
 
* Date field: If there is a stated date of publication in the book, giving the month, or your data is from Amazon which gives the day of publication, it should be entered in the format YYYY-MM-DD. All of your entries were dated as just 2013.
 
* Date field: If there is a stated date of publication in the book, giving the month, or your data is from Amazon which gives the day of publication, it should be entered in the format YYYY-MM-DD. All of your entries were dated as just 2013.

Revision as of 16:01, 29 October 2013

Welcome!

Hello, Downwarden, 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! --MartyD 10:41, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Diverse Tales

Hi, and welcome. I accepted your submission of Diverse Tales and made a few minor changes so that the entry would conform to ISFDB standards (notably: I swapped around the publisher credits, and switched the cover image link to one from Amazon, to which we have permission to make links). While researching, I found the contents listed in Amazon's Look Inside, so I added them. Please review and make any changes you deem appropriate. Thanks, and thanks for contributing. --MartyD 10:57, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Red Wet Dirt

Hi again. I accepted Red Wet Dirt and made some similar changes and additions. If you could help with the imprint / publisher, that would be great. I couldn't figure out how to interpret what's there. Thanks. --MartyD 11:11, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Latest submissions

I'm holding your last series of submissions and will eventually accept them. It seems you're consistently making the same errors in most of them which I will list here and ask that you keep these in mind when making future submissions. Almost all of the corrections I'll be making are explained on this help page. I will link to the specific sections below.

  • Title field: Do not give an alternate title in the field. (As in the case of Tattered.) You must give the title as it appears on the book's title page, and nowhere else. If the work has been published under a different title, you can variant its title record to the other publication's title record.
  • Author field: Only the author or editor is credited in this field. Translators are credited in the Note field. Introducers are credited by creating a content record for the introduction. Also, you must add a space between initials in the author field. "S.C. Hayden" should be entered as "S. C. Hayden".
  • Date field: If there is a stated date of publication in the book, giving the month, or your data is from Amazon which gives the day of publication, it should be entered in the format YYYY-MM-DD. All of your entries were dated as just 2013.
  • Pub format / binding field: You should use those formats which are listed here. A trade paperback should be entered as "tp", mass market paperback as "pb", etc.
  • ISBN field: You should only give the ISBN which is stated in the book. A book published in 2003 wouldn't have an ISBN-13. If you're using a secondary source and don't know which one to use, choose the ISBN-10 for pre-2007 books and the ISBN-13 for 2007 and later books.
  • Price field: You have to add the currency symbol. For US dollars enter "$" before the number. Other currencies are explained here.
  • Artist1 field: Only give the name of the person credited with the cover art. Do not add "(cover)" to their name. The system automatically creates a record showing it is for the cover.
  • Image URL field: Your links are to the "Look Inside" image. The Amazon URL must be "manipulated" to get a clean image. You should remove all characters between the two periods of the URL, leaving one of them. An detailed explanation of how to do this is here under "Amazon".
  • Image URL field: Do not link an ISFDB record to a cover image file on a website for which we don't have permission to link. (As in the case for the Masters of Horror anthology.) There's a list of permitting sites in the previous bullet point.
  • Pub type field: If a publication is a single work of less-than-novel length fiction, it is entered as a CHAPTERBOOK. You must also add a content record for the contained work as well (which is the same title and author credit as the publication 99.99% of the time).
  • When creating a record for a new publication of an existing title, do not use the ADD NEW work function. Go to the title and click the "Add Publication to This Title" link. (As in the case of a new edition of Halloween IV, The Invisible Man.)

Please take the time to go over the field-by-field instructions on the page I've linked to above. Give me time once I've accepted these submissions to clean them up. It may take me a while. Mhhutchins 19:59, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

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