User talk:MLEX

Welcome!

Hello, MLEX, 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
• 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! -- JLaTondre (talk) 19:53, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Daughter of Is

When making changes to verified publications, you should leave a note on the verifier's talk page (some people have specific instructions at the top of the page as to their notification preferences, please follow those if present). Also, it is always good to source non-obvious (i.e. not directly printed in the book) information within the publication notes. As such, I have accepted your edit, but:

1. Notified Rtrace of the change
2. Edited the pub to place your moderator comment (which gets dropped on approval) into the notes field.

The ISFDB has a number of conventions and it can take a bit to become familiar with all of them. I encourage you to read through the help (see links in welcome message above). Also, feel free to ask questions (either here in response to this or if a new topic you can post questions at the ISFDB:Help desk‎). We appreciate your contribution. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 19:53, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Emperor Fu Manchu

I have accepted your new publication for Emperor Fu Manchu, but have made the following changes:

1. Publisher changed from Fawcett to Fawcett Gold Medal.
2. Format changed from paperback to pb. We have a standard set of publication formats that we use.
3. Added the $ symbol to the price. As we're international, we need to list the currency. This appears to be a US printing, but if not, please correct.
4. Removed Gold Medal from the "Pub. Series" field based on the publisher change.
5. Removed the image URL as that is not a site we have permission to link to (see Help:Screen:EditPub#ImageURL).
6. Moved S929 from "Pub. Series #" to "ISBN / Catalog #". For older books, we use the publisher's catalog number (prefixed with the pound symbol) in place of the ISBN (see Help:Screen:EditPub#ISBN).

Do you have the book? If so, please fill in the page count and verify the book. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 20:07, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

The cover scan is uploaded to isfbd here: wiki/images/e/e2/EMPFUMANCHU_1959.jpg I tried linking it by editing the pub record above, but there is no moderator, so not sure how to get it approved? I don't have a copy of that edition, so don't know the page numbers... thanks. Lex 04:07, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

The wiki works differently from the database. You can upload images without moderator approval. However, when you upload the image, you need to do it from the publication listing otherwise it's not in the right place and won't have the right information added. In this case, you needed to wait for the publication creation to be approved, but once a publication exists:

1. Go to the publication listing
2. Click the "Upload cover scan" link in listing
3. Upload the image to the link using the pre-populated summary (which will become the page content). Change any information as necessary.

Once the image is loaded, you can then add it to the publication. I see you found out how to do that as you had a pending edit to add the existing image. However, I had to reject it as the image is not in the right place. Please re-load the image using the steps above and re-submit an edit to add it from the correct location with the correct tagging. Once that's done, I will delete the old image. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 12:50, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Cover image for Emperor Fumanchu

This file was uploaded incorrectly. It is best to use the semi-automated procedure to upload cover images. The file as uploaded lacks three essential elements: 1) it lacks an image license (this is required of all image files uploaded to the ISFDB server), 2) it lacks a link directed back to the pub record, 3) it doesn't have a unique file name that matches the publication record's "tag". (Look at this recently uploaded image and compare it with the one you uploaded.) Using this method has another perq as well: it links the file to a list of other images by the same artist.

To correct these problems:

• Go to the pub record here and click on the link "Upload cover scan" and follow the directions on the screen.
• Once the image file is uploaded, right click on it to get the URL, or left click on it and copy the URL from your browser's address window.
• Go back to the pub record and click the "Edit This Pub" link under the Editing Tools menu.
• Enter the URL of the file in the "Image URL" field, and submit.

Once the submission has been moderated, the cover image will appear on the publication record's page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 03:42, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Entering publication records for translated works

First create a publication record by using the "Add New Novel" function. (The link is on the front page of the database.) Once the submission to add the new publication record is accepted, then variant its title record to the English title record. Thanks. Mhhutchins 01:45, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

thanks, I will try it Lex 04:03, 10 November 2014 (UTC)