User talk:Calberga

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The Man Who Sold the Moon

It appears that you are trying to add records for several printings of the Signet edition of The Man Who Sold the Moon by Heinlein. It looks as if you started with the title record for "Let There Be Light" and clicked "Add Publication to This Title". That looks natural, and would actually work, but not well. it would create a publication record for The Man Who Sold the Moon with "Let There Be Light" as the only contents, and you would then need to enter the other contents. A better route is to start with the title record for The Man Who Sold the Moon (the collection) and pick a publication that has the same contents as yours does. Display the publication record. From the pub record, click "Clone This Pub" and proceed from there.

A few notes on entering books:

  • If no price is specified, simply leave the price field blank, and (optionally) add a note in the notes field that there was no prince on the book.
  • The binding code for a Mass Market Paperback should be pb. (a trade paperback gets tp, and a hardcover gets hc, other bindings are less common)
  • If there is a catalog number that is not an ISBN, put a # before the number so the software does not try to parse it as an ISBN.
  • Prices should be entered with a currency symbol. For example, a price of thirty-five cents is entered as "$0.35". (There are special rules for pre-decimal British currency, but you don't need to bother with those unless you are entering such pubs)
  • The Year field should be the publication date of the actual printing you are entering, not the copyright date. If no year is listed, and none can be reliably determined from other sources, use "0000-00-00" which means "unknown". If a year is not listed but you can determine the year from other sources, include a note as to the source.
  • List printing numbers in the notes, not in the publisher field.

Thank you for your contributions. -DES Talk 17:21, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Two of your submisisons duplicated existing publication records: this one and this one. As a result i have rejected them. -DES Talk 22:38, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

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