Help:How to update cover artist data

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Cover artists are sometimes added later to a publication record for several reasons, for example if they were not known when the publication was entered initially. Changing or adding cover artists can require multiple steps.

1. Change or add the artist(s). For detailed help on the individual fields on the screen, and what should be entered in them, please refer to Template:PublicationFields:CoverArt.
2. Create pseudonyms and variants if necessary in the same way you'd do it for authors.
3. Check if a cover image had been uploaded into the wiki already. That's the case if there is a cover image, of course, and if the Cover art supplied by link goes to the ISFDB wiki. In this case, you have to change the cover art's wiki page as well:

• If the number of cover artists has not changed, just replace the old with the new artist for the Artist= value (or Artist1=, Artist2= etc. values for multiple artists).
• If the number of cover artists has changed, you must change the author(s) and replace the wiki template:

1. Choose a wiki template based of the number of cover artists (see below) and replace it. Example: if there was one artist before and now there are two, replace {{CID1 with {{CID1-2
2. Enter each of the cover artists as described in the respective template itself (see links below). The templates for multiple artists usually use a numbering scheme for the "Artist" value, for example for two cover artists:

|Artist1=

|Artist2=

As of 2017-12-27, the available cover art templates are:

• Template:CID1 for a single cover artist
• Template:CID1-2 for two cover artists
• Template:CID1-3 for three cover artists

There's no template for 4 or more cover artists.