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*'''Purpose:''' used to edit author information. * '''self.author_id''' - The database record number for the author.

...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.

* '''Authors''' - The '''Author''' list associated with the publication. This XML tag will enclose: ** '''Author''' - There should be one '''Author''' entry for each individual who wrote or edited the publication.

...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.

This page is intended to be a clean specification for the display of author bibliographies. Discussions about the data here should be entered on the di ==Author Bibliography Layout==

...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. ...hor records will have two optional fields added. The fields will store the author's "working languages".

* Image uploading to the ISFDB wiki is now enabled. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 10 * [[User:Roglo]] check in a change to fix author's chronological bibliography.

| Suffix handling in author LegalName field | Suffixes that are part of the author's legal name are recorded; format ''Lastname, Firstname Middlenames, Suffix

!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 | Author directory doesn't handle apostrophes in author names

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

=== How to Add a New Banner Image === # Make sure that the new image file contains a valid JPG image

Also finished the script that downloads the current image of the SQL database, strip out submissions, login information, and the wiki ...over the next few days, and if they work okay I'll turn on the editing of author data, later followed by titles and publications. Ability to add/edit anthol

...for every book ever published." They can be searched by ISBN or by title, author, Publisher and other fields. Once a book is found it can be linked to by IS ...-1993 bibliographies] Add /author/1stnamelastname to retrieve; the list of author is available as a drop-down list [http://eidolon.net/index.html?pagename=au

!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 ...e Advanced Search options for all ISFDB record types - Part 14 - Displayed author names(s) in the Advanced Award Search results table

!Author | Display "Other Bibliographies" at the top of the Author page

...by artist '''provided''' that uplaoders take the trouble to use {{tl|Cover Image Data}} rahter than one of its simplified forms. Thumbnails would apper in t ...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 | A review with an empty author causes NewPub submissions to error out

...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

...do it as 'Iino Fumihiko / 飯野 文彦'. My choice is based upon what I think the author would consider his/her legal name and than giving a translation in English ...rated legal name. It wouldn't take long since legal names are only used in Author records. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 23:37, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

...publisher text can't be copyright (you can't copyright story titles), some author names may be trademarks, etc. but I can't recall if I've ever seen someone ...es, NOT cover or spine. (Although I have convinced a Moderator to allow an Author-merge based on a French Title just because coverart clearly showed "Terry P

!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. -- [[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

::::::***published by a market which makes the author eligible for SFWA membership (listed here), OR ...tabase) has them as a publication series to make the titles visible on the author's pages. --[[User:Willem H.|Willem]] 15:37, 28 March 2022 (EDT)

...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 ::*The only role credited would be the author. (This is debatable. What if the artist is already in the db for his cover

...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 : Coverart records don't have any relationship to the Coverart Image URLs on a pub, so yes, it seems safe to do so at the moment. If the databas

...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

== Standard for disambiguating author names == Is there a standard for disambiguating author names? I picked up a specfict book by Nicole Marie and discovered:

...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 ...ne with the most comprehensive bibliographic and biographical data. If the author is deceased and has no official or authorized sites then alternate web site

...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

...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 ...he title page, and sign his name Virgil Finlay. I use Virgil Finlay. If an author is credited on the table of contents with a full name and signs his last na

== 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