User talk:ThomasJStone
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Cast the First Stone
I accepted your addition of Cast the First Stone, but made some changes to match ISFDB standards:
- Author: We credit as per the publication's title page. Since the publication uses "Thomas J. Stone" per the Amazon look inside, I updated the entry to include the period.
- Binding/Format: I changed the format from "paperback" to "tp". The ISFDB uses a specific set of values. I used "tp" (for trade paperback) based on the dimensions supplied by Amazon.
- Title Case: We have specific rules on case and "the" is entered as lowercase.
- Goodreads: The Goodreads entry should just be the number, not the whole URL.
- Image: I added an image from Amazon. Feel free to upload a local image (see instructions above).
- Publisher: Amazon is not a publisher, only a printer. We use the author as the publisher for self-published books that do not have a publisher name.
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