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- Data is submitted to the ISFDB either from the online editing tools, or by the [[Web API]]. Accepted submissions are placed in the [[Data * [[XML:AuthorMerge]] - Merges two author records together.4 KB (589 words) - 10:21, 27 June 2019
- ...ISFDB is of two types. First, there are individual '''publications'''. “Publication” is the ISFDB term for a physical, published entity. It can be a book, a ...it is clear that the goal of the ISFDB is not endless modification of the records, which is likely to be the case for Wikipedia, for example; instead the goa10 KB (1,773 words) - 03:49, 14 April 2008
- ...the current editing status. 0=offline, 1=public editing, 2=moderator-only editing. The value is changed through the moderator cpanel. * '''SQLbornToday'''() - Returns an array of author records of authors born on today's date (local time).13 KB (1,888 words) - 07:58, 4 June 2008
- ...cover art record (or records for a Dos-a-Dos work) and to any interior art records, and there should be a visible indicator if the notes field of any such rec ...to COVERART, but when we do want notes visible it seems to clutter up the publication record. E.g. "Cover shows a detail from ''Thor's Fight with the Giants'',8 KB (1,402 words) - 17:57, 30 September 2008
- ...as been deprecated and is here for archival purposes only. Please file new Editing Bug reports at: [http://sourceforge.net/projects/isfdb/ http://sourceforge. ==Old Editing Bugs==11 KB (1,909 words) - 22:13, 25 June 2007
- ...mple, an editor who adds a thousand new novel publication records via "Add Publication" has probably gained far less useful experience than one who spends two hun ...ow the basics of bibliography. This is a skill that can be acquired while editing the ISFDB.6 KB (952 words) - 12:49, 9 February 2018
- ...e pubs were listed; I was expecting that after the unmerge, two more title records would be generated, each pointing to one of the three pubs. [[User:Mike Chr ...what you needed from the description. Unmerge creates new titles from the publication name, so the unmerge above created two new stories in Aldiss' bibliography:3 KB (446 words) - 12:28, 6 January 2007
- * Editing was turned on for the general public Friday, starting an official Beta peri * Added support for publication and title delete reasons.14 KB (2,176 words) - 08:39, 1 January 2007
- ..., and the old state is lost. As such, simply looking at the old submission records can never work, as the original data it relied on is gone. So, I created a ...ake at least my entire 2 week vacation to implement this across all of the editing apps. This is easily more work than the pseudonym change (which I worked on5 KB (939 words) - 15:07, 19 December 2006
- This page is intended to be a clean specification for the support of creating/editing/displaying translations. Discussions about the data here should be entered ...language translations of English language books do not get their own title records; they are entered as Publications under the canonical English language titl13 KB (2,027 words) - 17:27, 19 June 2010
- | Make Moderator Note field required when editing PV'd publications | Make Moderator Note field required when editing PV'd publications - Part 2 - JavaScript bug fix23 KB (2,973 words) - 21:49, 13 September 2022
- ...ations|Improve "How to enter foreign language editions" page regarding the publication date of translations]] ...2F.22shortfiction.22_during_editing|Eliminating "sf"/"shortfiction" during editing]] and [[ISFDB:Community_Portal/Archive/Archive41#2016-11-27_downtime|2016-116 KB (2,237 words) - 15:13, 27 September 2022
- |New Pub form [and other publication editing forms] allows author-less reviews and interviews |Deleting a Publication doesn't delete its verifications23 KB (3,326 words) - 21:56, 13 September 2022
- * 10002 FIXED some time prior to 11/22/2206: The "Publication Listing" screen displays alternate titles separated by caret signs ("^") in * '''Fixed 12 July 06'''. When editing Content data, deleting the first Author in the list of Authors results in a36 KB (5,466 words) - 19:27, 22 November 2006
- ...ed listing of the works produced by an author. Annotations may include the publication history of the work, notes and synopsis, a list of awards won by the work, ...annotated with details such as original copyright date, location of first publication, translators, variant titles, or pseudonym resolution.27 KB (4,307 words) - 01:53, 29 January 2015
- ...it as important in any way whatsoever unless it allows for things that the publication date alone doesn't make feasible. Which seems to be banned under the curren ...=125405]. I'm not Wiki-knowledgeable enough to know why this happened, but editing evidence to match a current proposal looks wrong to me. I'm annoyed. Severe22 KB (3,758 words) - 10:35, 20 August 2009
- ...ies, but a pub_content record is not created, so it doesn't show up in the publication listing. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] 05:40, 21 Dec 2006 (CST) * 20037 FIXED I clicked on the first link in the section on "Editing omnibuses" in the Community Portal and got the following error:59 KB (9,023 words) - 18:26, 26 December 2006
- * [[Open Editing Bugs|Obsolete Open Editing Bugs]] (Bug reports numbered 10000 to 19999) ...a publications contents]] FIXED I tried to remove the page numbers from a publication’s contents and discovered that the edit is not included in the XML blob a40 KB (6,314 words) - 20:31, 20 August 2009
- ...ll of the time spent on the ISFDB this year was involved in getting online editing facilities up and running. Accomplishments include: ** Creating the fundamental ISFDB editing tools.25 KB (4,372 words) - 11:04, 16 April 2006
- # Develop a SQL query to find potentially problematic records. Your query should return only one column, which should contain the record ...ry describe in the first step except that it also limits the search to the records stored in the table "cleanup" for this report number. To do this, add the f17 KB (2,651 words) - 11:02, 16 September 2022
- | Shared COVERART titles deleted while still referenced when editing artists in pub editor | Display series number in the publication Content section35 KB (4,818 words) - 22:11, 13 September 2022
- |Make unlinked titles link to original publication |Add pub info to Proposed Publication Update41 KB (5,830 words) - 22:11, 13 September 2022
- ...iptions and ISBNs to LoC, there is a good chance that at least some of the records may be still there even though that small press went under shortly thereaft ...Z39.50 servers may be down at random times and, besides, if you get 2,000 records back for a popular title, you may not be able to do meaningful verification37 KB (6,425 words) - 17:22, 17 December 2015
- | Create an Edit History page for Publication Series | Create an Edit History page for Series records56 KB (7,647 words) - 21:59, 13 September 2022
- | Add a Transliterated Name field to Publication Series records | Make browser tab names display publication titles78 KB (10,513 words) - 22:04, 13 September 2022
- | Advanced Search should be able to display the count of matching records ...- Added this functionality to regular Search results that find 0 matching records60 KB (8,522 words) - 22:00, 13 September 2022
- | Disable pub tag editing | Editing awards for Unicode titles is messed up - Part 179 KB (10,892 words) - 22:10, 13 September 2022
- ...display the parent title and under that the variants. If all of the title records are variants the author display is usually empty. One exception is if the a * [[DisplayBug:20104 Tête-à-Tête interview]] On page 23 of publication {{p|JRNLWRDSPR1990}} (''Journal Wired, Spring 1990'') is a ''Tête-à-Tête49 KB (7,728 words) - 11:07, 3 February 2008
- | Tweak the date gap in the "Title dates after Publication dates" report ...characters fails - Part 3 - Create cleanup reports for Authors, Series and Publication Series88 KB (12,011 words) - 22:05, 13 September 2022
- ===Editing=== * 02/28/2007 - Awards editing. (Have add; need edit and remove)110 KB (17,630 words) - 20:24, 3 January 2020
- ...tories -- they will need to be reviewed for accuracy once magazine content editing goes live. McCollum's self-published "how to" and related non-fiction has n ...ass done. Reconciled with {{LOCIS}} and {{OCLC}} except for the 50ish OCLC records for "Phantom Tollbooth". [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 13:41, 2 Jun 2006 (CD34 KB (4,285 words) - 00:52, 5 December 2006
- | Advanced Publication Search displays "month" as a valid sort value | Advanced Publication Search displays "month" as a valid sort value179 KB (24,447 words) - 22:06, 13 September 2022
- | Display translated INTERIORART titles as variants in Publication listing | Do not display non-genre and graphic checkboxes when editing reviews and interviews131 KB (18,114 words) - 22:03, 13 September 2022
- ...ppeared in "Page & Spine" (which doesn't publish reprints), but this first publication data is not yet being captured for the ISFDB.--[[User:Explorer1000|Explorer ...eculative fiction, poetry and/or essays, then ''only'' this portion of the publication would be considered eligible for indexing? This would apply a general rule122 KB (19,747 words) - 15:13, 27 September 2022
- ...at almost no one else has seen this as well considering there are only two records in the entire database credited to "N/A". I've always used "various" as the ...my local newspaper carries the disclaimer that all letters are subject to editing. [[User:Kpulliam|Kevin]] 03:03, 4 October 2012 (UTC)191 KB (31,181 words) - 17:28, 17 December 2015
- :::::The bulk of the records are house names where the true writer is not known. That is a valid use. I :::::: Probably those Arabian Nights records should be "uncredited" but I'd really like to look at the publications to s153 KB (25,708 words) - 03:05, 14 May 2020
- ...about how euros (and other currencies) were to be entered into publication records? [[User:Mhhutchins|Mhhutchins]] 17:30, 28 January 2015 (UTC) ::I was doing it based on records I had already seen in the database (I did not want to invent anything but a180 KB (29,287 words) - 15:38, 23 March 2017
- ...ut the dustcover. They have the same ISBN, cover artist (if listed on the publication data page), page count, quality, weight, and no indication that they are ot ...title search for "(Complete Novel)" you will see there's a little over 200 records, all of them of type SERIAL except for one INTERIORART where apparently a s124 KB (21,154 words) - 17:19, 17 December 2015
- ...you were handling these had ''nothing'' to do with the unmerging of editor records, but how you were numbering them. That was non-standard, and the whole poin ...a year, listing all editors that worked that year. Having multiple title records per year causes a bit of problem when linking awards that are mostly given246 KB (40,297 words) - 20:05, 26 September 2017
- ...ittle data from there, and you're able to program Fixer to create a single publication record, then I'm not going to argue where it came from. If you can confiden ...at's what we enter. The problem with Amazon.com/UK is that some of their e-records, including ''Damnation Road Show'', show what it calls "Digital List Price"227 KB (36,842 words) - 17:29, 17 December 2015
- | Change non-fiction to nonfiction on Publication pages | Title page displays a publication twice63 KB (8,484 words) - 22:02, 13 September 2022
- ...se of the verification for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?52194 this publication] which I can find in the Ray Russell and Playboy entries of SFE3, but not i ...t want anyone to leave over this, and also it doesn't resolve the issue of records being marked incorrectly (assuming we stick to the latest consensus). So t231 KB (38,975 words) - 12:44, 29 June 2022
- ...hange or remove non-trivial data which doesn't come from a copy in hand to records which are already primary-verified, i.e. that an editor who isn't the prima After edits like this, and if there's is no hint in the publication note about unverified data, it ''appears'' that all data of the record are225 KB (36,311 words) - 12:24, 12 April 2021
- : Would being able to clone magazines just like a normal publication be enough or are you looking for something extra? Adding the ability to cl ...is as "Introduction (%title%)" then ISFDB could fill in the title when the publication is submitted. Likewise, %author% would also fill in and maybe we could shor206 KB (35,390 words) - 17:20, 17 December 2015
- :If one of the two stories is genre, then the publication is in. I think that given it's dos-a-dos, and the author has a bunch of sp :*The APA ''Publication Manual'' (5th edition) goes into very little detail, saying only "Capitaliz172 KB (28,464 words) - 13:26, 14 November 2019
- For serials that were later published in book form, we give the first book publication as the "work" date, right? E.g.: ? This can be misleading since the original magazine publication was in 1933/1934, but now it looks like the work first appeared in 1949 --168 KB (27,880 words) - 17:18, 17 December 2015
- ...- perhaps they should wait until basic searches no longer return cover art records. -[[User:DESiegel60|DES]] <sup>[[User talk:DESiegel60|Talk]]</sup> 14:31, 1 ...this issue would be to add a new navbar option to enable "mass VT creation/editing". I expect that it will have two fields, one for the Author ID of the paren208 KB (35,083 words) - 17:26, 17 December 2015
- Should "GRAPHIC NOVEL" be added to Pub Type? It's not always clear a publication is a graphic novel when only NOVEL is shown, i.e. "V for Vendetta" or "Watc ...book issues in which they first appeared, such as ''Watchmen'', would have records (Bill's suggestion).212 KB (35,169 words) - 17:27, 17 December 2015
- The author {{A|C. H. Badet|127434}} appears in the ISFDB with only a single publication, which was published only in French, Italian, and (not documented in ISFDB) ...rt, an English-language database, exceptions are made for English-language publication of stories that first appeared in another language. If ''Voyage au centre d267 KB (43,901 words) - 17:27, 17 December 2015
- ...culative fiction and/or articles about it. This can be regarded as a genre publication and catalogued in its entirety, even though other issues of the magazine ar ::Agreed. If the whole issue is genre, then that issue is a genre publication. -- [[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08376 KB (62,546 words) - 20:32, 27 June 2019