User talk:Thessilian
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Hello, Thessilian, 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:
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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 01:20, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
Handling of anthologies and Letters from the Dead
Hi. Welcome, and thank you for contributing Letters from the Dead. I made a couple of minor changes to your submission that I wanted to let you know about.
- For anthologies, we record the editor where we'd normally record the author(s) for a novel or other non-anthology. In this case, it seems to be just Mark M. Johnson. Credit for all of the other authors is handled by adding "Content" entries, one per contained work, and crediting each to whoever wrote them. 69 entries is a lot to do, but that's how it would work. The Amazon Look Inside preview seems to include the full list of credits, if you're ambitious. :-) Anyway, I removed the other three authors from the main credit.
- Amazon likes to do things with images, such as resizing them and putting white borders around them. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GYAyuf8zL._SS500_.jpg is one where the "_SSS500_" adds a white border that you can get rid of: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GYAyuf8zL.jpg. If you're interested, see Help:Screen:EditPub#ImageURL for more examples. I removed the border portion from the URL.
- I noticed both Amazon and CreateSpace listed the price as $10.95, so I added that.
As I said, all minor things. Thanks again for contributing! --MartyD 01:40, 13 August 2010 (UTC)