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...to work to improve the ISFDB, and comply with the consensus gained on the ISFDB Wiki on the resolution of various bibliographic debates. ...hem. Though they can seek input from other editors on pages such as the [[ISFDB:Community Portal|community portal]], they are also expected to exercise the

...the correct cover. OK, "owning a scanner" shouldn't be a prerequisite for editing here, but some small encouragement toward scanning/finding the right covera ...ists at all. And unless somebody has been happily editing them without any ISFDB software support, we could probably reduce them down to ONE coverart record

...les separated by caret signs ("^") instead of "vt [...]". E.g.: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?LSTLEGC1960 shows contents as: ...(dumb programmer error - have to have a disussion with him)'''. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/eas.cgi?Garth_Nix errors out in both Firefox and IE. Here is th

...ent for the ISFDB2. This is an updated version of the original [http://www.isfdb.org/CONOPS.pdf ConOps] published in 2001. ...ses the system. Finally, the impacts, advantages, and disadvantages of the ISFDB are summarized.

{{Isfdb-general-header}} This page serves as the hub for discussing ISFDB-related software development.

...copied out some sections from the ''Chicago Manual of Style'' [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Vasha77/Chicago_Manual_of_Style_on_Capitalization h ...e copied some sections from the ''MLA Handbook'' (7th edition) [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Vasha77/MLA_Handbook_on_Capitalization here], for g

...e note about SFE3. I'm asking because of the verification for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?52194 this publication] which I can find in the Ray Russ ...hat says "'''Note: There are other authors with the same name: [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?310610 Nicole Marie (I)]'''"

...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 paren ...capitalized in titles. I'm verifying a book and see ''Not With a Bang'' in ISFDB. Some style guidelines use wording such as "Generally, capitalize nouns, ve

...e not accepted into the database. See [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Policy#Contents.2FProject_Scope_Policy the definitions and inclusion policy ...rate issues here. The first one is whether graphic novels are cataloged by ISFDB. As Michael said, with rare exceptions, they are not.

...euro symbol while others do not. (The differences can be seen [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisheryear.cgi?4472+2012 here].) Was there ever a discussion :::::I've always used (not only at the ISFDB but everywhere) the [http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-370303.htm Ru

...it has nothing to do with the publisher grouping them that way, but rather ISFDB choosing to do it for whatever reason). ...the publications under this editor annual grouping is displayed, and their ISFDB records are linked to that list. But I do agree that there's no reason to c

...when we tackle the larger issue of how serials should be displayed within ISFDB. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 14:14, 2 May 2006 (CDT) :::I [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template%3ATitleFields%3ADate&diff=0&oldid=10221 u

...hese old works have their canonical author as "uncredited" but [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1754129 Sir Orfeo], for one, is "unknown." --[[User:V ...here are evidently a LOT of things that need correcting on the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2862 unknown] summary page, and the task of figuring out

...o the '''publication note''' which must be phrased in a way that a regular ISFDB users will be able to distinguish which data is primary-verified and which ...How to update a publication]] as that is more likely where people learning ISFDB would come across it. It can than be referenced in [[Help:How to verify dat

Italics copied from [[ISFDB:Help desk#magazine issue on genre topic]]. See that discussion for context: ...that it's a concern, but let's consider the following scenario. Suppose an ISFDB user who is aware of our "period and space after an initial" rule comes acr

[http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template:AuthorFields:WebPage Template:AuthorField ...t I am currently in the process of implementing [https://sourceforge.net/p/isfdb/feature-requests/361/ FR 361], "Merge Web pages, Wikipedia links and IMDB l

...orm of their name almost exclusively (as far as we know), e.g. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Blair Blair]. Using a very infrequent form of an artist' ...has influenced perceptions of canonical artist name selection. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Frank%20Kelly%20Freas Frank Kelly Freas], on the other h

...entered when the credit is based on the signature. It came up [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?213249 here] where it had been primary-verified as "{{a| ...y appear on the title page was to ensure that users who know nothing about ISFDB could find information by simply entering the title in the search box (or v

...vel ''The Cipher'' and it's also a second printing. There's a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?THCPHR1991 verified copy] that matches mine but the prin ...se not to include a complete number-line printing, because it went against ISFDB policy concerning ARCs. The note in the first publicly available edition w