User talk:Gcomyn

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Welcome!

Hello, Gcomyn, 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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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! BLongley 19:52, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to Hard Times

I've held your submission to add this publication to the database for a couple of reasons:

  • It's slightly incorrectly formatted - we have E. L. Doctorow here under that exact name and to get the software to link everything together we need to get names exactly right, even down to the spacing between initials. Not a big problem, and normally I'd just correct it for you anyway and let you know. But there's also the issue of
  • Is this really a Speculative Fiction book? Wikipedia describes it as a Western. We're not totally against adding Non-Genre titles for notable SF authors, but we normally ask for a fair bit of SF before we'll add everything else by the same author. If it is SF, it's welcome here but any more details you can add would be appreciated. BLongley 20:03, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
I've let it through for now but be aware that it might be deleted later, without more information to support it. BLongley 20:43, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Beam Piper

Sorry to sound so negative on your first day, but we keep the periods after initials except in exceptional situations where people do really have single letter names like the "H" in Steven H Silver. Here, we'll accept "Henry" or "H." for Beam Piper - we do want to distinguish between when it was just an initial or a full name - but we do want to avoid too many variations so initials get a period by default. There's a lot of rules to make things work, I know - don't try to read all the help in one go or it will put you off for life, but if you start by adding a few books exactly as it says on the publication then we can guide you on the exceptions. BLongley 20:17, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

I hope this hasn't put you off - we try to be helpful, and always want to support new editors, so carry on please! BLongley 20:17, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Bolos 3: The Triumphant

Sorry, me again! :-/ BLongley 22:37, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the synopsis, that looks good. When adjusting a title date though, it needs to be in YYYY-MM-DD format, our software can't interpret xx/yy/zzzz dates - they might be US format (Month/Day/Year) or Almost-Everyone-Else format (Day/Month/Year). I'll let it through for now and edit it back, as I suspect the approval will make it "0000-00-00" ("unknown") automatically. I'm going to guess "09/01/1995" means September 1st to you rather than 9th January? If not, I've guessed your preferences wrong, which kind of proves we can't let software judge it either! BLongley 22:37, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

As for the Authors being "David Weber+Linda Evans" rather than "Anonymous" - the intention is that Anthologies get the EDITOR of the Anthology credited, and so if the editor isn't known we use "Anonymous" instead. But people seem to be a bit loose on that, and there's nothing wrong with a pair of authors editing their own anthology. As it only affects one publication I'll let that through. BLongley 22:37, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Here's how it looks now - I suspect we could remove the "Bolos 3: " prefix from the title too, as we already have it as number 3 in the Bolos series anyway? It's not recorded in the publication title. (You might not have understood the difference between Titles (which cover multiple publications) and Publications (individual printings of a book) yet, so be aware that although the Title now has known authors, the Publication still doesn't - it still says "Anonymous"). If that's the same publication as yours, you can make the same author edit on the Publication. BLongley
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