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*'''Purpose:''' used to edit author information. ==Data==

...every author referenced by the database. This change is needed to support author normalization. * '''author_id''' - Unique record id for the author table.

The AuthorUpdate submission updates author information for a single specific author. * '''Record''' - Specifies which author record to update.

...ou should refer to [[Help:Screen:NewPub]] for more detailed information on data entry. The bold text in the description refers to specific labels found in * '''Authors''' - The '''Author''' list associated with the publication. This XML tag will enclose:

...d with the publication. This XML tag includes one more '''Author'''. An '''Author''' tag contains one entry for a person who wrote or edited the publication. * '''Image''' - The '''Image URL''' associated with the publication cover art.

...cification for the display of author bibliographies. Discussions about the data here should be entered on the discussion page. ==Author Bibliography Layout==

...support of creating/editing/displaying translations. Discussions about the data here should be entered on the discussion page. ...n be entered as canonical titles. The added title is then displayed on the author's Summary Bibliography page mixed with English collections and omnibuses.

* Backups of the ISFDB data are now available daily at [http://www.isfdb2.org/backups/isfdb-only/ http: * Image uploading to the ISFDB wiki is now enabled. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 10

...ions on the [[Rules and standards discussions]] page as well as functional data entry changes prompted by software patches. It began logging changes on 201 Note that this changelog is limited to changes to data entry standards. For a list of software changes see [[Development/Recent_Pa

!Author |Awards pages error out when the author is not in ISFDB

!Author | Wrong mouse-over Help links for author fields in Edit Title

!Author | Edit pub doesn't handle non-standard Storylen data

!Author | Import/export doesn't display Add Author/Reviewer/Interviewer

...olumn of the record ID and NNN is the report number. Display the retrieved data using other reports as an example. Use function <code>PrintTableColumns</co # Consider whether the new field should be added to the "New Pub" data entry form, similar to non-genre or graphic

...tections on many wiki pages and moderation on blog comments. Bibliographic data tends to be far more objective than encyclopedia articles, but detailed ver Also finished the script that downloads the current image of the SQL database, strip out submissions, login information, and the wiki

This page lists resources that ISFDB editors can use to verify bibliographic data. Note that this list is not intended to be all-inclusive. If you find yours ...'s Title/Publication view, but it's a work in progress. You can access the data in this catalog in the following ways:

!Author |Image Preview on Pub updates

!Author | SFE-hosted images are not displayed corrected on author pages

...been labeling single books containing multiple stories with the one common author and one common theme. ...e Oxford English Dictionary: "several previously printed works by the same author, sometimes on the same theme, published in one large volume". That's the de

...a search request, the code embeds a javascript redirection directly to the author's listing rather than show a one entry list of candidates. But, for securi * 20057 FIXED When an author has parentheses in his canonical name, his biblio pages dispay an extra "\"

!Author | Create an Edit History page for author records

!Author | Allow searching ISFDB data via Google - Part 4 - Added this functionality to regular Search results t

!Author | Warn users about more data on parent title's page

...ist '''provided''' that uplaoders take the trouble to use {{tl|Cover Image Data}} rahter than one of its simplified forms. Thumbnails would apper in the ca ...es" link in the navbar does dispay all Titles attributed to a "house name" Author, but it's hard to find and it doesn't tell you who the actual autor was. [[

!Author | Create a cleanup report to find author/title language mismatches - Part 3 - SHORTFICTION titles which start with

!Author | Reorganize the New Pub data entry form

...work should be entered as anthologies (or collections, if all by the same author). In my view an omnibus should contain either a) two or more novel-length w ...an anthology flavor. Specifically, each story has an Afterword where the author writes about the other story of the pair in a given publication. It's not u

...ts (FRs) here. The first FR is to split the data entry field for the Price data element in two, one for the currency symbol/abbreviation and the other for ...r non-decimal values. In addition, I don't think it would add value to our data. Numbers are needed if you want to add, subtract, multiply, etc, but we don

...over. They have the same ISBN, cover artist (if listed on the publication data page), page count, quality, weight, and no indication that they are other t ...s as needed. In other words, you make the best decision possible given the data available. It is this decision process that I'm trying to understand/define

!Author | Advanced Author Search lets you sort by Web Page and errors out

...as "uncredited" or "unknown"? Most of these old works have their canonical author as "uncredited" but [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1754129 Sir Orf ...y source that doesn't specify the author, but doesn't necessarily mean the author is uncredited. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#

''[https://www.fictiondb.com/author/carl-bowen~phantom-sun~788584~b.htm Phantom Sun]''/White Needle by {{A|Carl ...tic, dos-a-dos with another book in the series. [https://www.fictiondb.com/author/carl-bowen~white-needle~788583~b.htm White Needle], not obviously spec-fic

...Page & Spine" (which doesn't publish reprints), but this first publication data is not yet being captured for the ISFDB.--[[User:Explorer1000|Explorer1000] ::::::***published by a market which makes the author eligible for SFWA membership (listed here), OR

...ame clear that the book is popular -- we may want to consider adding a new data element. It could be as simple as an additional checkbox on the New Pub and ...author of the new work is the author of the older work is irrelevant. If author "Joe Smith" adapts Asimov's "Nightfall", it would be included in the db, bu

...SFDB could fill in the title when the publication is submitted. Likewise, %author% would also fill in and maybe we could shorten these to %a and %t. {{Marc K :::I was just thinking of the Meta Data. Say for Magazine SF you have entered the January, 1999 issue, and change

...ce for non-art titles is to make parent variant titles under the canonical author for those titles attributed to a pseudonym. A non-exhaustive, probably-not ...en more useful to create an option that would turn all non-VT Titles by an Author into VTs (somewhat dangerous in inexperienced hands). The second and the th

...try to smooth things over? I was just trying to resolve an issue with the data. Given the confusion by mentioning SFE3 in the Clute/Nicholls description, == Standard for disambiguating author names ==

...ction of the help page] (under "Anonymous or uncredited works") concerning author credit for letter columns that up until now I'd not been aware of. It stat ''If a work by its nature has no author or editor, use "N/A"; this applies to unedited letter columns.''

* Web Page - If the author has an official Web site, enter it here. The full URL should be listed, inc ...then alternate web sites with significant bibliographical and biographical data may be entered. If you need to enter additional Web pages, click on the "Ad

...software. The author field of a title record ''must'' be identical to the author field of the publication record. A way to get around this is to variant all ...arbitrary rule. Since my preference is for a clean display on series and author bibliography pages, I would argue that EDITOR title records should always b

== Revisiting standardization of author names == ...urrent thinking? I can see arguments both in favor of and against changing author names to a standardized form—I just want all moderators to agree on one p

...dard that seems to be developing for artists (now that we have significant data in the system) is the fullest name with credited artwork (Frank Kelly Freas ...t (Emsh in - my preference) even though he is categorized as the canonical author for four signatures. There are a number of covers assigned to Ed Emshwiller

== Foreign only author == ...tents of a non-English journal that contained some translations of English-author stories, that we would include only those English-language authors as conte

...op periods after Mr, Mrs, Dr, etc. Should a printing preference trump the author's title? There was a previous discussion which concluded (I think) that do ::True, but that rule applies to the Author field while the submission in question wants to make "Mrs Rinaldi's Angel"

...rintings, but I can't imagine that the second book by a relatively unknown author would have already gone into a second printing within weeks of publication ...hat ARCs should not be sold/redistributed as the neither the publisher nor author gets paid for them meaning we don't want to encourage or support ARC redist