User talk:Breity
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Novels to collections transmographication
Thanks for submitting all that data! One quick note about changing Novels to Collections. When you pull up a Novel publication using "Edit This Publication", you usually see just one fiction title listed in the Content section, plus the odd introduction/foreword. If you change that Novel Title in the Content section to the first story in the collection, it will zap the Novel Title record instead of converting it into a Collection Title record. Thus it will no longer appear on the Summary Bibliography page. We are thinking about making the software handle these situations better, but for now, please change the Novel record in the Content section to a Collection record of the same title and then add the short fiction stuff at the end. Thanks! Ahasuerus 17:53, 4 Jan 2007 (CST)
- Oh dear, I am really not doing a good job of explaining this :( I'll give it another shot in a few hours after taking care of a couple of unrelated fires, but for now let me just answer the series question. Yes, please mark short fiction pieces as belonging to their proper series. Keep in mind that short stories may be reprinted in all kinds of other collections, anthologies, magazines, etc. As long as we indicate which series they belong to, their series name will appear next to their titles (in parentheses) when they show up in books/magazines that are not exclusively dedicated to one series. Thanks! Ahasuerus 00:50, 5 Jan 2007 (CST)
- Gotcha re: series. I know you have like fifty billion other things to do, but it would be really nice to have some sort of distinguisher on the series bibliography page between which items are novels and which items are short fiction (like how Locus does it). Otherwise it makes it look like there are ten more books to run out and buy to make a complete set :-), and you don't know which is which unless you actually click on each title to see if they're a novel or not. Breity 02:33, 5 Jan 2007 (CST)