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  • This page lists ongoing bibliographic cataloging and cleanup projects within ISFDB. (For archived projects see [[Bibliographic Projects ==General Cleanup==
    5 KB (724 words) - 00:18, 14 December 2021
  • ...ographic records maintained by the OCLC inter-library cooperative. Covers books, serials, music, films and some other types of holdings. OCLC is in the pro ...ten lists cover prices on books that have ISBNs -- rarely if ever on older books.
    29 KB (4,201 words) - 15:37, 1 February 2022
  • ...h works, or b) one or more novel length works, plus one or more previously published collections or anthologies, kept intact and under a separate title ...of the anthology when two works of short fiction by different authors are published as a Double.
    76 KB (13,019 words) - 21:00, 12 November 2008
  • ...y enter the starting page number for novels so that we can later see which books have unnumbered pages before the start of the novel also to help accurately ...another code to flag publications that were announced but apparently never published. <span style="border: 1px solid rgb(250,0,255); border-bottom-style: none;
    40 KB (6,314 words) - 20:31, 20 August 2009
  • Fixed a date calculation problem that resulted in no forthcoming books for the month of December. ...d fixed a problem in the forthcoming books app that prevented the December books from being displayed.
    25 KB (4,372 words) - 11:04, 16 April 2006
  • ...ouse names that I spot checked were valid uses. I do have it on my list to cleanup some of the 'Noname' house name ones as any of the Frank Reade Jr.'s are by ...nd of an early version of the "limited edition" concept. We consider them "published" even though 99.999% of the public had no access to them.
    153 KB (25,708 words) - 03:05, 14 May 2020
  • (unindent) I am sorry I have not had time to address such things recently (work has become oppressive lately). I fully intended to bring this topic h ...the title. When a novel length work (generally over 40,000 words or so) is published in a single issue of a magazine or other periodical, the parenthetical stat
    180 KB (29,287 words) - 15:38, 23 March 2017
  • ...o TP, using the current rules. We are going to see more and more of these books, since I suspect publishers are making more money selling a slightly taller ...g them in the database should be straightforward, as you can search for TP books costing $9.99 (and perhaps those costing $10.99).
    225 KB (36,311 words) - 12:24, 12 April 2021
  • ...book is glossy and illustrated, first published by {{Pubr|5869|Stone Arch Books}}. ...reference material is now available. I'm now off to check other reference books. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 18:48, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
    172 KB (28,464 words) - 13:26, 14 November 2019
  • ...and, although the editorial content is constantly changing and expanding, books are rarely removed from bibliographic sections. <br>Rules and stanmdards clearly state that exclusions include "Comic books, manga, and graphic novels"
    231 KB (38,975 words) - 12:44, 29 June 2022
  • Which way books from Pocket Books where the decisions you make determine which page you go to next in the sto ...ve though that are like this, such as the Choose Your Own Adventure series books, are not specfict (well, some of the adventures the young children get invo
    124 KB (21,154 words) - 17:19, 17 December 2015
  • ...e interested in. So I ran a few more Google searches and found the [http://books.simonandschuster.net/Let-the-Storm-Break/Shannon-Messenger/Sky-Fall/9781442 ...price ($21.99) is clearly stated. Amazon does the same thing with regular books, but not with ebooks.
    227 KB (36,842 words) - 17:29, 17 December 2015
  • ...'. So, I think it's better to restrict the exception to magazines that are published less than four times a year: at least that's how I handled this up to now. ...ee everything someone has done, listed by the titles under which they were published, not grouped and hidden in some arbitrary way that no one else anywhere use
    246 KB (40,297 words) - 20:05, 26 September 2017
  • ...he same cover, it creates two COVERART records one for each year, yet both books have the same covers. Is it OK to merge these two entries into the same CO ...variant titles, the date to enter is the first time the variant title was published." The downside to this approach is that if someone's looking at a title in
    206 KB (35,390 words) - 17:20, 17 December 2015
  • ==''Work'' dates for books first published as serials== For serials that were later published in book form, we give the first book publication as the "work" date, right?
    168 KB (27,880 words) - 17:18, 17 December 2015
  • ...ay have been more to it since I have modified well over a dozen MZB titles recently. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 16:04, 18 Aug 2006 (CDT) :This was probably fixed in the cleanup I did a month or so ago, and wasn't the only field that could generate 'Non
    59 KB (9,023 words) - 18:26, 26 December 2006
  • ...or a single print copy (both of those outlets generate both ebooks and PoD books for the same author-provided source text). Just where should we draw the li ***Known Work (Work has been previously published and is already considered 'in' in one of its publications)
    208 KB (35,083 words) - 17:26, 17 December 2015
  • ...0 has been implemented). There is no easy/integrated way to see all titles published by a pseudonym, which can be sometimes useful, especially when working with ...m. It would be better to improve the display to clarify that the book was published under both names. Reported as a bug; changed to a feature request. [[User
    110 KB (17,630 words) - 20:24, 3 January 2020
  • I've recently been told by multiple moderators that there's a policy to always write an a ...continue, but we have a page in which writers names are listed as they are published, but then these names have a link to the author's standardized name? I.e.,
    376 KB (62,546 words) - 20:32, 27 June 2019
  • ...h issue are archived by month according to the sections in which they were published. As a general fiction and poetry site, speculative fiction was originally published alongside general fiction, romance, mysteries, and so on, with microfiction
    115 KB (18,749 words) - 13:00, 12 September 2022

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