User talk:Skyring
Welcome!
Hello, Skyring, 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
- Field-by-field guide to entering new publications into the database
- Help:Getting Started
- What the ISFDB Wiki is for
- FAQ
- Wiki editing help - Tips on how to use the wiki-specific features when editing wiki pages.
- Wiki Conventions - How things are usually done on this wiki.
- Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki
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! -- JLaTondre (talk) 12:15, 24 December 2023 (EST)
Body of Work
I had to reject this submission as the publication was already in our database here. It didn't have the contents so I copied them over from your entry so you didn't have retype them. I couple of comments on your entry:
- We can only use images from sites that have explicitly given us permission to do so. See ISFDB:Image linking permissions for a list of such sites.
- Goodreads URLs do not need to go into the web page fields. Instead, as the Goodreads number as an external ID on the publication record and the software will auto-link to Goodreads.
- The ISFDB uses a specific set of values. This would be "tp" (for trade paperback) based on the dimensions supplied by Amazon.
- We use the currency from the location of the publisher.
We appreciate your submission & hope you will continue to contribute. ISFDB has some conventions that need learning so please check out the help links in the welcome message above. And let us know if you have any questions (ISFDB:Help desk is a good resource for asking). -- JLaTondre (talk) 12:21, 24 December 2023 (EST)