Difference between revisions of "User:Mike Christie"

Revision as of 17:39, 26 February 2007

Welcome to my user page. I'm a salesman in Austin, Texas, in the oil and gas industry.

Schedule: I will be travelling from about 2-7 March, with some access to the net; then again 10-17 March, with no access to the net.

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Notes on the EDITOR type

Every magazine Publication should have the "Editor" field filled out, but this data element is specific to the Publication and doesn't affect Titles;
Every magazine Publication should have a Title (type "EDITOR") associated with it and its Title_title should be the same as the title of the magazine issue and the author/editor is the magazine editor'
This EDITOR Title is created automatically for newly entered magazine issues, but it is not displayed in the Contents area and not pulled up in Edit Pub;
Some previously entered magazine Publications do not have this EDITOR Title associated with them, so they will be showing up as Stray Publications in their Editor's biblio until an EDITOR Title is added to them;
We typically do a Title Merge on all EDITOR Titles for the same magazine/year so that someone like John W. Campbell or Stanley Schmidt doesn't have 300 "Editor" records in his biblio. This results in each Editor record in the Author/Editor's biblio fanning out into up to 12-13 Publication records when you pull the Title up;
The way to fix pre-existing magazine Publications without this EDITOR Title (Open Display Bug 20036) is to go through affected Pubs one at a time, manually add an Editor Title to them, and them merge them when needed.

Help pages

Help:ScreenList

Templates

Publication fields

Publication content fields

Title fields

Author fields

Miscellaneous useful templates

Things there have been debates about that might come up again

Moved to subpage: User:Mike Christie/Debates

Things to do

Make sure Ace Doubles rules are correct and that they work in practice
Clean up Rene/René Vidmer records in Beyond once bug is fixed.
Unmerge Signet edition of "Galaxies Like Grains of Sand" when unmerge comes back; it is missing some fiction that is in the Panther edition.
Unmerge Panther edition of "Starswarm" when unmerge comes back; it should be written as by "Brian Aldiss".
Unmerge Hothouse from Long Afternoon titles.
Check cover art on Ace Doubles per posts to CP
Clean up Buffalo Gals chapbook; post query on title update to CHAPBOOK
Fix ISBN on Catwings
Enter DatEotW first ed when clonepub fixed; also enter/verify later eds.
Le Guin Locus1: done through Changing Planes in 2004 list -- stories need to be added to some editions of CP.
Check outcome of discussion on use of # in ISBN field
Unmerge "The Best of Murray Leinster" versions
Write help for Awards, and for Diff Pubs
Sort out Dangerous Visions volume 1,2,3 titles -- unmerge from parents
Add "jvn" etc. to story length help
Clean up Emsh, Orban, Bowman aliases
Document the tag field in newpub help
Revisit prefixing zero to ISBNs -- in ISBN field or notes
Ensure rules in help define when to overwrite a pub and when to leave it there and create a new one
Add unmerge to Help:Screen:Moderator
Fix The Coming of the Terrans per community portal note
Revisit subtitle defs in help files once consensus reached on regularizing (or not) author names
Add notes to pubtype and entrytype about types that are invalid (such as NONGENRE invalid for pubs)
Mention in the help about adding a page number to the NOVEL title in a novel
Test unmerge on various test pubs
Fix Helliconia pagination
Figure out why the ISBN in [1] this gets resplit from 0-8600-7857-4 (on the book, and entered into ISFDB) to 0-86007-857-4 (as displayed).

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 Welcome to my user page.  I'm a salesman in Austin, Texas, in the oil and gas industry.
-Schedule: I will be travelling from about 26 Feb through 7 March, with some access to the net; then again 10-17 March, with no access to the net.
+Schedule: I will be travelling from about 2-7 March, with some access to the net; then again 10-17 March, with no access to the net.
 ==Things that look useful==