User talk:Dixonium
Welcome!
Hello, Dixonium, 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:
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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 11:51, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
Recording magazines
Hi, and welcome. I accepted your submission of Revelation and made one change to it I wanted you to be aware of. ISFDB practice is to record magazine issues by including the date and/or issue number at the end of the title, separated from the rest of the title by a comma. We prefer to use the date, if the issue is dated. Issue number is usually only included if it figures prominently in the magazine's titling (we don't go hunting down the issue number in the fine print somewhere). Here, where the issue number is prominent and even has clear artistic intent -- structured to look like chapter:verse -- it definitely should be included. So I made the title be Revelation, 4:2 March 2012.
One reason for that practice is our software will find the first comma in the title and will parse off the remaining information to populate a grid for the magazine series, once the title is added to the magazine's series (I made a Revelation series and put this one in it). See what you think. Again, welcome, and thank you for contributing. --MartyD 12:00, 3 August 2013 (UTC)