User talk:Nik Neville
Welcome!
Hello, Nik Neville, 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:
- Help pages
- What the ISFDB Wiki is for
- ISFDB FAQ
- Help:Screen:EditPub#General contents - Warning and a note on how to update a publication's contents
- Wiki editing help - Tips on how to use the wiki-specific features when editing wiki pages.
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! -DES Talk 22:28, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Author data
There are some format issues with your author data update to the Slater Brown record.
- The legal name field, unlike our other fields, is entered in the format "Lastname, Forenames", in this case "Brown, William Slater".
- All dates must be in the format "YYYY-MM-DD" or the software will not recognize them. When a day or a month is unknown, use "00" for that element, but do not omit it. "0000-00-00" means an unknown date, used for undated publications, but not on author records.
- Wikipedia does not permit us to link directly to their images -- you must download a copy and upload back to the ISFDB.
- The Wikipedia link should be to an article, if one exists, not to an image. The image link should be to the ISFDB itself, or to a site that has given us linking permission. See ISFDB:Image linking permissions and Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki.
I am going to reject this edit, and re-enter the data in the correct formats. -DES Talk 22:37, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
There was a somewhat similar problem with Meir Gillon. Again the format "1999" does not work, it must be "1999-00-00". Silly, but that is computers for you.
Also, your submitted website works only for a user who is logged into the site, so i had to delete it. Otherwise the submission is fine, and i approved it and re-edited to deal with those points. -DES Talk 22:56, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Please read Help:Screen:AuthorData for more on entering author data. -DES Talk 22:56, 3 November 2008 (UTC)