User talk:Etler

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Welcome!

Hello, Etler, 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! Mhhutchins 19:12, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Kaliban's Christmas

The submission adding this publication was accepted into the database, but a couple of changes had to be made in order for it to comply with ISFDB standards. (Those standards are in the help pages linked in the Welcome section above.) I had to remove the link to the cover image file on imgur.com because it's not a stable website and the server's owner hasn't provided us with explicit permission to deeplink to their images. If you have a copy of the book, and a scanner, you can upload the cover image file to the ISFDB server using the link on the publication record. If not, you can copy the file on imgur.com and upload it to our server. (Be sure to use the "Upload Cover Scan" link on the publication record to do this.)

A question: is there a month of publication given on the copyright page? Tor usually provides the month of publication. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 19:21, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Linking uploaded images to the database record

Thanks for uploading this cover image to the ISFDB wiki. The next step is to link it to the book's publication record. As the instructions (step 6) explain:

Once the file has been uploaded, the image's wiki page will appear. In order to get the URL (address) for the image you just uploaded, left click anywhere on the image and copy the URL from your browser's address window. (Or right click on the image and choose "Copy Image Location".) If you're adding a cover image to a pub record, this is the URL which you would enter into the pub record's "Image URL" field.

So once you have the image's URL, go back to the pub record (it's linked on the image's wiki page) and then click the "Edit This Pub" link under the Editing Tools menu. This opens up an edit page. Under the Publication Metadata section, there's a field labeled "Image URL:" Enter the URL of the image you uploaded into this field, and then click on the "Submit Data" button at the bottom of the page. Once the submission has been moderated the cover image will be linked to the publication record. If you have any questions please feel free to ask here or at the ISFDB:Help desk. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 05:39, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

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