User talk:Ryubyss

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Hello, Ryubyss, 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:

Note: Image uploading isn't entirely automated. You're uploading the files to the wiki which will then have to be linked to the database by editing the publication record.

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! Annie 16:02, 29 October 2019 (EDT)

Harry: A Ferret

You didn't include any kind of note indicating why you were marking this story as "non-genre". Since it's in a collection of horror stories, what is the reason for marking it as such? ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:18, 19 November 2019 (EST)

I apologies for not providing a justification. I finished it a few days ago and it has no supernatural elements. only horror in the "horrific events occurring" sense. next time I will put in an explanation. Ryubyss 17:37, 21 November 2019 (EST)
Sounds good. Thanks for verifying the content. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 15:02, 22 November 2019 (EST)

Page numbers for ordering purposes

Hello,

When you are adding page numbers strictly for ordering purposes (such as here), instead of putting the position as "1", use the pipe method ("|1") - it will achieve exactly what you need without looking as if we know the page numbers. The pages field should have a visible value only when they are actual page numbers. I fixed in the one linked above. Annie 12:56, 3 December 2019 (EST)

The Age of Broken Miracles

I rejected all three edits for this one as it is unclear what you were trying to achieve.

Where is the mdash coming from? Do you have a title page (if so, please verify the book you have - or indicate in the notes what you have)? If this is a subtitle, we use ":" as a separator, not mdash. If the mdash is there on the title page, we record it without spaces around it. I will be more than happy to update these but let's figure out what we have and where.

Generally, it is always a good idea to cite your sources for changes like this one :) Thanks! Annie 19:13, 3 December 2019 (EST)

I admit it! I added that because it had the subtitle on the cover. --Ryubyss 16:13, 4 December 2019 (EST)
We usually go by the title page for these but if we do not have one, cover it is. If you want to send them with a ":" as a separator, I will approve them. Annie 16:21, 4 December 2019 (EST)

The Madonna of the Abattoir

Regarding this submission: The ISFDB differentiates publisher series (publisher level series like Ballantine Adult Fantasy) from title series (universe or groupings of books independent of publisher like Dune Universe). Redemption's Heir / Sean Wyndham is a title series and belongs on the title record, not a pub series that goes in the publication. I have rejected this submission and instead edited the title record to add it there. I hope this explanation makes sense. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 17:34, 24 December 2020 (EST)

oh, okay. sorry about my misunderstanding. you for explaining this to me. Goodreads, where I usually edit, doesn't make this distinction. --Ryubyss 18:29, 27 December 2020 (EST)

Cover art credit for Ruby

Hi. I accepted your submissions adding cover art credit to the Ruby publications. Your submissions did not cite the source of the credit, and you did not make yourself primary verifier of either book, so I was unable to tell if your information came from a copy of the book or from somewhere else. (If you do indeed have the book, please consider making yourself a Primary Verifier!). For anything that does not come from the book itself, we document the source of the information in the publication notes. I was able to find on Nina Allan's website that she states Julia Lloyd did the cover art, so I added a note to that effect in each publication. If you know it to be credited in/on the book somewhere, then please change that note accordingly, and we'd also want to adjust the note on the other publication to say it is the same artwork as on the edition where it is explicitly credited. Thanks! --MartyD 12:19, 31 December 2021 (EST)

okay. next time I'll note this. FYI, the info came from Allans' acknowledgements page in the page. --Ryubyss 14:21, 31 December 2021 (EST)
That would be perfect information to state in the notes for whichever copy you have. We prefer to use the book as the primary source. So while the author's website is a reliable source, we would rather document that the credit is in the acknowledgements. The information about the credit on the author's website could be removed, or we could keep it as corroboration, since we have it -- that is up to you. Thanks. --MartyD 08:58, 1 January 2022 (EST)
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