User talk:Memgab

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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! --MartyD 01:57, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849

I accepted your submission of The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849, but had to make some changes to bring it in line with ISFDB standards:

  • Format: Based on size, I changed the format to a trade paperback (tp) vs. a mass-market paperback (pb).
  • Price: I added a "$" as the price field should have the currency.
  • Cover Artist: I removed John Polidori. This field is for who created the cover art. I don't see any artist credit on the publisher's website, editor's website, or via Amazon Look Inside. As it looks like a modern photograph, that seems to rule out Polidori.
  • Image URL: Amazon image URL's need to be edited to make them usable. See Help:Screen:EditPub#Image URL.
  • Pub Series: I removed "Best Short Stories 1800-1849". I don't see any indication from the book or the publisher's website that this is a formal publisher series (a publisher level series like Ballantine Adult Fantasy). IF I missed something please let me know.
  • Synopsis: I removed the list of stories from the synopsis. There is no point to including them as they are listed in the pub.

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) 12:27, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

I also changed some of the author credits to match the publication per Amazon Look Inside. -- JLaTondre (talk) 12:33, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Best Witch Stories 1800-1849

Hi. I accepted your {P|945271|Witchcraft Classics: Best Witch Stores 1800-1849} submission and made some minor changes to it I wanted you to be aware of in case you have more like these in the future. Sorry, it looks like a lot, but they are all really quite minor:

  • When we have an anthology with a known editor, we credit the anthology to the editor alone and not also to the authors of the contained works. If no editor were credited, then we would credit the anthology to the contributing authors. So I removed everyone except Barger.
  • The ISFDB software wants us to use the full Amazon URLs, not the tiny URL equivalent, for cover images, so I switched that.
  • When a record with an ISBN gets created, a link to the Amazon page will be provided automatically. There is no need to provide an Amazon URL as one of the website URLs. So I removed that.
  • For the Goodreads external ID, all you need is the ID number, not the full link. The software will turn that into a link. This applies to any of the possible IDs. So I changed that from a full link to just the ID.
  • One exception to the "exactly as it appears in the book" rule involves publisher names. We try not to have a proliferation of names, so if the name is similar to something we already have a record for, we use that. Here, we already have Bottletree Books, so I removed the LLC and made it be that.

I also found the price on Amazon and added that with a note. Please check and make sure everything looks ok. Thanks, and thank you for contributing. --MartyD (talk) 21:51, 5 April 2023 (EDT)

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