User talk:Chris DeVito

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Welcome!

Hello, Chris DeVito, 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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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! Stonecreek 09:36, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Van Gelder's Lonely Souls

Thank you very much for adding this interesting e-book. I have two questions, though: 1) You entered 'B00D301292' in the field for the ISBN. Could you please explain on what this sigle stands for and where it does appear (because it is NOT a ISBN I added a leading # to it, to avoid a report of mistake). 2) The system automatically adds 'Data from another source (details should be provided in the submitted Note)' in the notes to the moderator, but there were no explanatory notes to be found in your submission. You may add the information in the publication's notes, accessible via the 'Edit This Pub' tool on the left tool bar of this page. Thank you again, Stonecreek 09:43, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Hello! To answer just click on the 'edit' of the particular item of discussion (here to the right of Van Gelder's Lonely Souls). I saw that you uploaded an image, so you should have already logged in to the wiki and there should be no further problem for you in answering.
I have approved of your new submission but as before the ISBN field had to be changed. For future addition of publications that feature no ISBN please do add a leading '#', which transforms the name of the field into 'Catalog ID' or leave it blank. Please also add a note to the publication that there's no ISBN to be found in the publication and where it stems from. Very much here at ISFDB is about sourcing the data so that other users and editors know from where a particular information is taken from.
Your story 'Notespinning' from Pulphouse now appears twice as you may have noticed. Would you like to merge them on your own or shall we step in? Stonecreek 05:23, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Song Stories, Volume 1

The ASIN is a number unique to Amazon, and as such, is not considered to be a catalog number or placed into the ISBN/Catalog # field. It's OK to add it to the "Note" field of the record. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 05:43, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

One concern: the Amazon description states that the stories in this anthology are "from across the genre spectrum". If there are any which are not spec-fic (sf, horror, fantasy), they should be removed from the record and deleted from the database. Thanks. Mhhutchins 05:46, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

One last thing: the editor is given on the title page as "Wakefield G. Mahon III" and that is how it should be credited in the record. Also, I've disambiguated the the "Foreword" by adding parenthetically the title of the publication. This is done to generically titles works, such as "Introduction", "Preface", etc. Mhhutchins 05:51, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, found another problem. There's a story "Raquel's Photograph" credited as written by "Raquel's Photograph". Please correct that when you get the chance. I've also corrected the link to the Amazon image. The URL you provided was for the page and not just the image itself. Thanks. Mhhutchins 05:58, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

I had to reject the submission which was an attempt to correct the author credit for this title. Go to that title record and click on the "Edit Title Data" under the Editing Tools menu. On the next page, in the Author1 field, enter the full name of the author as credited on the title page of the publication in which the story appeared (not the contents page). If you need to respond to any of these messages, click on the [edit] link to the right of the topic, a window will open, go to the bottom of window, start typing your message by adding a colon to the number in the previous response, and at the end add four tildes (~~~~, found on the first key on the top row of most keyboards) which will sign and date the response. Thanks. Mhhutchins 20:34, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Never mind the above advice on changing the author of the miscredited story. Your second submission accomplished this in the update to the publication record. Thanks. Mhhutchins 20:35, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! Chris DeVito 18:16, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Hey Stonecreek, I just tried to upload a cover scan of the Jan. 1957 issue of Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, but it gave me an error message. Did it come through? Chris DeVito 04:59, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Alaska?

Nothing to do with the DB or any submissions. I knew a Chris De Vito a number of years ago from a job in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Though from Alaska he spent a lot of time in the Carolinas. Odds you are the same are slim, but I have to ask .... ?? --~ Bill, Bluesman 01:23, 7 July 2013 (UTC)


No, that's not me. There are a lot of Chris DeVito's out there, including at lease two musicians with websites; not me either. I am the Chris DeVito who's done two books on John Coltrane: The John Coltrane Reference and Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews. Chris DeVito 18:04, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

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