User talk:Arch
Welcome!
Hello, Arch, 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:
- Help pages
- Field-by-field guide to entering new publications into the database
- Help:Getting Started
- What the ISFDB Wiki is for
- FAQ
- Wiki editing help - Tips on how to use the wiki-specific features when editing wiki pages.
- Wiki Conventions - How things are usually done on this wiki.
- Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki
Note: Image uploading isn't entirely automated. You're uploading the files to the wiki which will then have to be linked to the database by editing the publication record.
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! Mhhutchins 04:10, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Binding/pub format field
Please use the standard designations for publication format as shown in this list. In most cases, the terms are not capitalized, so "quarto" should be used instead of "Quarto", just as we don't capitalize "pb" or "hc". Thanks. Mhhutchins 04:13, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Series
Series data can only be entered in the designated field in an edit/update to the title record. It should not be entered into the title field when entering a content record into a publication record. I've corrected the two content records which were added to this publication. Thanks. Mhhutchins 04:20, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Reviews of multiple titles
When adding reviews to a publication record, you should create separate records for each book being reviewed, regardless of whether they're reviewed within the same essay. So the review of the Gunn and King works in this issue will have to be split. Just change the current review into the Gunn title and create a new one for the King title. Thanks. Mhhutchins 15:06, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
You'll have to do the same thing with the review of the art books on page 11. Mhhutchins 15:08, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for ALL of this very useful information. My partner in crime, Artem, just told me this about reviews of multiple books, so I'm chagrined to have put you to the trouble. But on Tuesday, I'll work on fixing up and finishing my current issues. Arch 05:17, 3 September 2013 (UTC)