User talk:Isis

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Cat's Eyes

Hi, and welcome. Thank you for the Cat's Eyes submission. I accepted it, and a made a few small changes to it to have it conform with our policies and standards (and to fix up a gotcha that catches just about every new contributor):

  • I removed "(Land of Miu, #1)" from the title. Unless the series name is integral to the title, we do not include it in the title, but rather a different way. See the next item.
  • I changed "Land of Miu" from a publisher series (used for a group of publications having unrelated contents, where another publisher would not necessarily use the same grouping -- e.g., "Reprinted Classics" or "Fantasy Library") to a title series. This bites nearly everyone. A title series is for a group of related contents (e.g., the Harry Potter series), as you have here. But providing the title series is done on the title, and when you add a New Publication, the title does not exist until after the publication submission is accepted. So adding the series information is a second step. Unfortunately, because the new publication screen has only one "series" slot, it's natural to try to put the title series information there.

I also made one organizational change. "CHAPTERBOOK" (chapbook) is treated by our system as a sort of mini collection (in this case, of one work). Even though its title is usually the same as the contained work, we add that contained work of short fiction to its contents. I did that. If you look at Karen Lee Field's bibliography, you'll see both the Chapterbook and the Short Fiction (as well as the Land of Miu title series).

Sorry, it's not as complicated as it sounds, and please don't be daunted by these details. Getting the information into the database is the important thing, and moderators are here and happy to help with massaging it into the form the ISFDB wants. Thank you for contributing. --MartyD 12:39, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

100 Stories for Queensland

I hate to ask, after all the effort put into creating this submission, but... are all of these stories speculative fiction? If some of them are, you should only add them to the record with a note about the incompleteness of the record's contents. I've placed it on hold and will wait for your response. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 16:29, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

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I haven't read the entire book to be able to say exactly how many are speculative fiction, however, I know not all of them are. I should have asked about this first, I wanted to, but didn't know how to go about doing so. It took me ages to work out how to leave this reply.
I plan to read the book soon, so when I know which stories are speculative fiction how do I enter them onto the database? Do I go through the same process but only add the spec fic stories? And how do I leave the note about incompleteness? And, for future reference, how would I ask a question BEFORE submitting to the database?
Thanks for your time and patience. Isis 23:35, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Sorry about the difficulty in navigating here. It's not very intuitive and, like you, most of us tend to stumble upon the Wiki, but wind up using it for 99% of our communication. You'll find a list of links in the Welcome section above that should be helpful. To ask questions directly to any of the moderators you can post a message on the Help Desk.
I'm going to accept the submission, and ask you, when you get the chance, to remove any stories that you believe have no speculative fiction content (i.e. science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, magic realism, etc.). I'll walk you through that process whenever you do. You can leave a message on my talk page, or the Help desk link I've given above. Thanks for contributing and welcome to the ISFDB. Mhhutchins 03:24, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
The submission was accepted and here is the publication record. A couple of questions and remarks: Is the price in Australian dollars? If so, it should be entered as "A$19.99". Is the book trade sized (more than 7 inches or 18 cm tall)? If so, the binding field should read as "tp". If not, it should be entered as "pb". A few other things will also need to be changed. You notice a white frame around the Amazon cover image. That can be removed by taking out all characters between the last two periods of the URL: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61-wjo7NHgL._SL500_AA300_.jpg should be entered as http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61-wjo7NHgL.jpg. Also generic titles such as "Introduction" should be disambiguated by adding the title of the book to the title of the essay: "Introduction (100 Stories for Queensland)". Do you want to attempt these changes or should I? Just click on the "Edit This Pub" link and change any applicable fields. Thanks. Mhhutchins 03:33, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for accepting the submission. I will removing the non-speculative fiction stories as soon as I can...and will no doubt need help at that stage so thank you for offering. I will attempt to make the changes you've mentioned as I enjoy fixing things up as much as creating them, besides it's good to learn new things. I will contact you if I run into any problems. Thanks again. Isis 09:43, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
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