User talk:Rainbowfrog

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Welcome!

Hello, Rainbowfrog, 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:

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! --MartyD 02:34, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II

Hi, and welcome! I researched your proposed changes to Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II's authorship and decided the information you provided should be recorded a little differently. I'm going to "reject" your submission, but I've moved all of the new details elsewhere, so please make sure I didn't miss anything.

For authorship, we always record the author's name as it appears on the title page. For this, it's "Dryasdust". Where the name used is a pen name (or even alternate spelling or elongated/shortened form of the real name), we make the name used a pseudonym of what we call the canonical name. In this case, Dryasdust is a pseudonym for Alexander Huth. I have set that up. To then make the title appear in the canonical author's bibliography, we make the title by the pseudonym be a "variant" of the same title except using the canonical name in place of the pseudonym. So instead of changing "Dryasdust" to "Alexander Huth" on the original title, I made it a variant of a new parent title by Alexander Huth.

For illustrators, we do a special treatment that isn't at all obvious when you're starting out. Because illustrations (and, likewise, covers) may change each time the work is published, we record these details on the publication instead of on the title. Publications have a field for cover artist that you will see. Illustrations are handled by adding "content" entries within the publication. These are given a type "INTERIORART" and can be entered one per illustration -- titled appropriately -- or as a single omnibus sort of entry, for which we use the title of the publication itself. So I added INTERIORART entries for Jellicoe and Prince to the ebook publication record.

I hope that makes some sense and when you look at the various pages you will find everything you expect. Thanks much for contributing! --MartyD 03:13, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

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