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Archive2017-2021

On the Wheel

Hello,

I removed the BN number from here because it was the ISBN. When the BN number is ISBN13 or the ASIN number is ISBN-10, we don't record them in the two external IDs - as they are in the ISBN field and we already have live links to them based on the ISBN in the left menu. Annie 20:06, 4 February 2022 (EST)

Not a problem aardvark7 11:15, 5 February 2022 (EST)

Matching Amazons

While Amazon.de is not a bad source here, I'd also check Amazon Italy for any Italian books - the different Amazons may have different data (look Inside in one and not in the other, some extra comments or reviews and so on) so I would check all of them and always list the "proper language one" (plus any others that gave me additional info). Just saying :) Annie 17:18, 22 February 2022 (EST)

I was using links from DuckDuckGo to check different sites. Actually most of the info came from Libroco & Book Depository. I thought I added a link to Luca Oleastri's site but it didn't seen to attach. I can across this by accident.

L'impero dei Mizar is on the site as part of record 1493455 Millemondi Estate 1996 as one of the 3 stories. AShould these be linked somehow?? aardvark7 17:30, 22 February 2022 (EST)

Well, you added Amazon.de on an Italian book so I stopped by to mention that Italy has their own Amazon version as well. :)

Merged now. Next time when we already have the novel, instead of using NewPub, you can use AddPub - then we won't need to merge after it is approved :) Annie 17:38, 22 February 2022 (EST)

I was debating, but since it was a story in a book of a different title, I wasn't sure. My link was missing the h in the href. It goes to his page that shows the art and the cover. aardvark7 17:55, 22 February 2022 (EST)

It is a novel in an omnibus (added as an anthology because of a very old obsolete rule - I am looking into how to fix - as the authors need to be different in that case) :) You cannot use ClonePub (because there was no publication with just the novel) but that is what we have AddPub for :) Annie 18:00, 22 February 2022 (EST)

Clone, Add, New. Multiple pages for the same book (Title, the book, the cover). I keep learning how big and complicated this turkey is!! aardvark7 18:05, 22 February 2022 (EST)

Beneath Nightmare Castle

Hello,

Regarding this cover. Please upload it again using the "Upload new cover scan" link in the book. That allows us to cross-link a bit if we want/need to (that's why you had a yellow warning message :) ). Thanks! Annie 10:38, 1 March 2022 (EST)

Hi Annie, I thought that is what I did. If I remember I went to the page and selected "upload new cover" then moved the new link to the page.

If not, I just did it. It said it already existed but I told it to save. I did not sub the new link since the words would be the same. Obviously I am not doing something right. aardvark7 13:27, 1 March 2022 (EST)

All good now. I suspect that last time you changed "Destination filename:" in the upload form - thus the weird tag :) One more thing left here - when the image is already there and not by you, you need to edit the Web page and replace the previous uploader name with yours - it is always a manual step - if you see the "already exist" warning, you need to go edit that post upload. Annie 13:31, 1 March 2022 (EST)

OK a question. There are two versions of this book. One has the Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone title in Black and the other in Red. Other than that, the covers look alike. ISFDB has the black letters. The copy I found has red letters. This version is shown on Amazon. It has the same ISBN-10: 0140322388 as the black but fewer pages (256 red vs 400 Blk (per ISFDB data base but black version on ebay has same 256 pg count)). I find both versions on Ebay (US). At least one of the ebay listings with black says it was published in England. None of the other Black or any of the red say, just that they are in English. I found back sides of both versions and they are also the same. (UK, Aust, NZ & Can pricing).

One unrelated question. I have a warning saying my page is 77 KB and I should break it up. How do I do this? aardvark7 14:05, 1 March 2022 (EST)

Do you want just a step by step or do you want me to do that for you and give you a step by step? Annie 14:30, 1 March 2022 (EST)

Right now I am recovering from surgery and a bit fumble finger. Could you please step in, then give me a step by step that I can look over?? aardvark7 14:37, 1 March 2022 (EST)

Apparently my fingers were also unhappy with me so sorry for the multiple edits :)

• Open a new page under your own User page where you want to archive your older messages and go to its Talk (or start from there directly). Just go to your talk page here and add the new page name at the bar (I added "/Archive2017-2021" after some fumbling). Edit that page.
• Open your Talk page for editing and move the old messages to the new page. Save the new page.
• Add the new page address to the Archives section I started above under your Welcome (I leave the welcome in place as it has useful things - if you want to move it out to the archived page - go ahead).
• Save the old/regular Talk page. All done. When the page gets too large again, or at the start of each year if you prefer or even more often, you can do the same -- create a new archive page, move messages, add the archive page to your list of archived pages.

Let me know if I can assist further. Hope your recovery is going well. Annie 14:52, 1 March 2022 (EST)

PS: The link above in Archives will get you to the page but here is the direct link: Archive 2017-2021. Annie 15:02, 1 March 2022 (EST)

new page archive

At bottom of page uder views click on EDIT Create a new section "== name ==". Note this looks like code so copy and paste old archive name then rename. New item will appear in Contents square. I assume you then open new section and old section in seperate windows and copy-paste stuff from old to new section. Then save both.