User talk:Thenixondive

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Specimen Days

I've approved your edit to the title Specimen Days, and thanks for picking this up. Also, as you are a new editor I appreciate you may be unsure how to complete the job as this change will affect all the title's publications, which will also need to be changed from NOVEL to COLLECTION, with the stories added.

I haven't read the book yet to offer an opinion of whether I think it's a novel or a collection, but I'll side with collection as it will allow your addition of an award to one of the stories to be added (as explained in your Note to Moderator). I'm the only editor who has verified any of these publications, so it's an open field for you – the convention at the ISFDB is that verified publications require the permission of the verifier first before other editors can change them.

You'll need to add all the story titles and story length to one of the publications, then import them to the rest – use 'Import Content' in the sidebar for a publication then enter the record numbers (found at the end of the URL) under Option 2 (You can omit doing this for the Hungarian translation for now). Then go ahead with the award to one of the stories. I have started the ball rolling by changing the publication records for Specimen Days from NOVEL to COLLECTION. It's probably also worth adding a note to the title record that this was sold by the publisher as a novel but is a collection of linked stories.

If you run into any problems or have a query, just add it here starting with a colon then adding 4 tildes (~) to the end, which adds your name & time. Thanks once again, and I'll keep an eye on how you get on. PeteYoung 00:09, 26 March 2019 (EDT)

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