User talk:ApeMind

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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:

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)

Impulse, June 1966

I've rejected your submission to add a record for the June 1966 issue of SF Impulse, as it's already in the database as Impulse, June 1966. Please check this record to see if it matches your copy and make a submission if any changes are necessary. Thanks. MHHutchins 22:39, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, that is the same pub - what confused me was that the magazine changed its name from Impulse to SF Impulse between the July and August issues... so the copy I've got wasn't in the series I expected it to be in. Thanks for the due dilligence though! (This is more complex than I thought - I'm learning a lot though.) ApeMind 22:49, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
I figured the confusion came from the name change. Magazines records are not currently easy to search for using database search (which is based on editor records, not issue records.) But there is an alternative. The best place to look for magazine issues is the list of links here. Most magazine Wiki pages have a list of issues which link to that issue's database record. And if a magazine changes names, it should be made clear on its Wiki page. Unfortunately, the current page for Impulse isn't as clear as it should be about the name change. When I get a chance I'll try to work on it. In the meantime you can still use the list of issues to get to the database record.
And yes, it can be quite complex. But you should be able to get the hang of it before long. Thanks for contributing. MHHutchins 23:05, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

A few questions

I'd like to get an impression of how the ISFDB looks to people new to editing it. To that end, here are a few questions. Feel free not to answer if you don't feel like it.

  1. How did you find the ISFDB?
  2. What made you want to start entering data?
  3. How did you find the ISFDB wiki? (In the past, some editors have had trouble finding it.)
  4. What is your impression of the ISFDB as a whole? What confused you, and what was helpful? What can we improve?

I am hoping that we can do better on some things, but it is often too easy to become used to things and not realize how they look to someone new to the site. -DES Talk 23:17, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

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