User talk:Kapotun
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- Appreciate the warm welcome and all the help, thank you. --Kapotun 14:36, 1 January 2021 (EST)Kapotun
The Magician's Nephew
For this submission, can you please double check the ISBN? It is showing up as invalid. Please post here whether there is a typo or that is the number on the book. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 09:20, 1 January 2021 (EST)
- Yes, that is a typo, only realized after I hit submit. The ISBN should be 0-06-447110-1, without the extra 0. Let me know if I can fix it somehow or if it's something you can do, thanks! --Kapotun 14:26, 1 January 2021 (EST)Kapotun
The Horse and His Boy
For this submission, what is your source for these changes? You did not verify the pub. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 09:42, 1 January 2021 (EST)
- I own the physical copy of this one (along with the other 4 changes/new publications I submitted), I just hesitated because I read this help page beforehand: Help:Screen:Verify and the line "Although Verification is useful, we'd appreciate you making the effort to add any other information you have about the publication, so Editing the publication might be more appropriate" indicated to me editing might be more useful than verifying. If that's not the case though, I can add a primary verification as well. --Kapotun 14:35, 1 January 2021 (EST)Kapotun
- I approved the edit. We actually like both. :-) Verification lets us know that the data is from the book. If there is any additional data that is not from the book, it should provide a source (for example, using Amazon for a publication date when the pub only has a year). We weren't too good about this in our earlier years, but we're trying to be better. I will tweak the help text. Thanks for pointing that out! -- JLaTondre (talk) 14:57, 1 January 2021 (EST)
- Got it, thank you! --Kapotun 15:42, 1 January 2021 (EST)Kapotun
- I approved the edit. We actually like both. :-) Verification lets us know that the data is from the book. If there is any additional data that is not from the book, it should provide a source (for example, using Amazon for a publication date when the pub only has a year). We weren't too good about this in our earlier years, but we're trying to be better. I will tweak the help text. Thanks for pointing that out! -- JLaTondre (talk) 14:57, 1 January 2021 (EST)
Prices and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Hi, and welcome! I accepted your submission of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, with one very minor change: I modified the price field to include a '$' (I assume that's what it should be). We often have publications priced in multiple currencies or where the only obvious distinction between geographic editions is what currency the price is in, so we capture currency symbols as part of price information. As I said, minor -- just something to keep in mind for the future. Thanks, and thank you for contributing. --MartyD 11:38, 1 January 2021 (EST)
- Thank you! Will make sure the currency sign is there next time, I think I just assumed at the time all prices were in USD by default. --Kapotun 14:27, 1 January 2021 (EST)Kapotun
Price and The Magician's Nephew
HI, I have a same issue for The Magician's Nephew here: US dollar, or Pound Sterling? As we are an international database, there is no currency default..--Dirk P Broer 10:28, 2 January 2021 (EST)
- Hi, it is USD, sorry for not adding that initially. I think I maybe did in a more recent edit (at least it is showing there now). Let me know if it's something I need to edit, thanks. --Kapotun 13:24, 2 January 2021 (EST)Kapotun