User talk:ApeMind

Welcome!

Hello, ApeMind, and welcome to the ISFDB Wiki! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Please be careful in editing publications that have been primary verified by other editors. See Help:How to verify data#Making changes to verified pubs. But if you have a copy of an unverified publication, verifying it can be quite helpful. See Help:How to verify data for detailed information.

I hope you enjoy editing here! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will insert your name and the date. If you need help, check out the community portal, or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! -DES ^Talk 21:32, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

13 Great Stories of Science Fiction

Thank you for adding page numbers to 13 Great Stories of Science Fiction. I have approved the edit.

If the publication record is now correct and complete, and you have the actual book at hand, you might want to verify the record.

Again, welcome to the ISFDB. -DES ^Talk 21:36, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for adding the introduction to 13 Great Stories of Science Fiction. However, we have a convention that you would not have known of. When a title, usually an essay, has a "generic" name such as "Introduction", "Preface", "Afterword", "Author's note", "Editorial", or the like, we qualify it by putting the title of the book or other publication in which it appears in (parentheses). In this case, I have approved your edit, but changed "Introduction" to "Introduction (13 Great Stories of Science Fiction)".

This is because we don't want many entries on an author's page all with titles like "Introduction", with no easy way to tell them apart or know which introduction is associates with which book. Consider what the essay section of Issac Asimov would look like otherwise.

You can see more about our data entry conventions at Help:Screen:EditPub. But don't worry about them too much at this stage. If you get the data in, a moderator will check formatting conventions and either make the changes or guide you in doing so.

Again, welcome. -DES ^Talk 21:48, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks DES! (I wondered for a second where that suffix to the Introduction came from! :-) I'll be sure to add it myself in future.) And I've now verified the publication too. Am now trying to figure out how to upload a cover image.. ApeMind 21:56, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

See Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki. Also useful, Help:Wiki Conventions, although you are following them pretty well so far.

I hope this is just the first of many publications you will enter and verify. Once more, welcome. The links in the "welcome" section above may be useful. -DES ^Talk 22:38, 31 August 2009 (UTC)