User talk:MathieuMD
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L'homme dans le labyrinthe
Your proposed edit to L'homme dans le labyrinthe looks like you are entering information from a later printing to the original printing. For ISFDB, these should be separate publications and, as such, I have rejected your edit. Instead, you should clone the original printing and update it with the information from your edition (ISBN, 2014 date, and price). We create separate records for each printing as they change over time (ex. ISBNs and Euros did not exist in 1973). Also for future reference, when modifying a primary verified publication, you should notify the primary verifiers. We do appreciate your submission. ISFDB has some conventions that need learning, but everything should be in the help links in the welcome message above. We hope you will continue to contribute. And please let us know if you have any questions (ISFDB:Help desk is a good resource for asking). -- JLaTondre (talk) 17:03, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
- Please note that the DL is usually not to be confused with our "Publication Date". The AI should be entered in this field (see here) and not the DL. In this case (as I've entered the publication myself), I've deliberately entered "1974-00-00" and gave the likely publication month in the notes.Hauck 18:11, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
LoveStar
Hello, I've approved your submission, title is here. You'll have now to enter the corresponding publication likely this one as the title is now publess and will show up in our cleanup report and may be deleted. Note that I usually advise new contributors to proceed the other way round, first enter the book itself then variant the obtained title to the original one. Hauck 07:17, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks Hauck. Actually, I started to create the publication via the "Add Publication to This Title" link, but got worried it would be attached to the English or Icelandic variants. I'm relieved to know that it's still the good way to go: I will try that right now (I kept the data opened in a tab since yesterday ;-))
- In fact you were right not to use the "Add Publication to This Title" link it would indeed add to the selected title (English or Icelandic), you can now do it from the french title. The easiest way is to use more simply the "Add New Novel" link and proceed from here. Hauck 11:09, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
- OK, I got it. But it'll be for the next book... Now, how do I move this French pub to this French variant? Sorry for the trouble. MathieuMD 13:41, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
- You can't (easily, I mean). I've done this for you.Hauck 14:48, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
- OK, I got it. But it'll be for the next book... Now, how do I move this French pub to this French variant? Sorry for the trouble. MathieuMD 13:41, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
- In fact you were right not to use the "Add Publication to This Title" link it would indeed add to the selected title (English or Icelandic), you can now do it from the french title. The easiest way is to use more simply the "Add New Novel" link and proceed from here. Hauck 11:09, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
- By the way, is it normal I don't receive any email notification when new topics are added to my talk page? MathieuMD 11:06, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
- I'm not aware that there is such an option. I notice new messages when logging to the db. Hauck 11:09, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
- ISFDB runs an old version of the Mediawiki software. It does not have that feature. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:34, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
- Too bad. Wikipedia has enabled such feature on Mediawiki, and ISFDB should probably do it too in order to keep unfrequent editors around... MathieuMD 13:41, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
- There would be quite a few benefits with upgrading, but unfortunately the original implementation tied the wiki and database side close together and it is apparently going to be a pain to upgrade so has been lower on the priority list of improvements. -- JLaTondre (talk) 00:35, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
- Too bad. Wikipedia has enabled such feature on Mediawiki, and ISFDB should probably do it too in order to keep unfrequent editors around... MathieuMD 13:41, 27 December 2016 (UTC)