User talk:Cjearkham

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The Black Book, #1, 2002

I accepted your change to The Black Book, #1, 2002. I see you have verified the publication, but the pub note still has "Data from The FictionMags Index." If you have the pub and are basing the data from that, than this note should be removed (or updated if some information is from pub and some from the secondary source - in which case the note should be changed to say what information if from FictionMags Index).

We do appreciate your submission & hope you will continue to contribute. ISFDB has some conventions that need learning so please check out the help links in the welcome message above. And let us know if you have any questions (ISFDB:Help desk is a good resource for asking). Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 09:12, 3 May 2020 (EDT)

I've removed the pub note. -- Cjearkham 15:04, 24 June 2020 (EDT)

Collected Essays Volume 4: Travel

It is curious to have all content titles in double in Your verified pub here. Can You please approve? --Zapp 02:57, 17 June 2020 (EDT)

It's an error, probably caused when I tried to remove an extraneous "r" at the start of one of the titles. I tried to edit out the doubled entries, but they were still there even after the edit was approved. How do I correct this? -- Cjearkham 15:11, 24 June 2020 (EDT)

I removed the double entries. Should be better now, please check the contents. --Willem 04:27, 9 August 2020 (EDT)

Looks good. Cjearkham 19:18, 9 August 2020 (EDT)

The Dark Messanger Reader #1

Your verified magazine here does not indicate the format. Please see this section which describes the various formats you can choose among and pick one.Bob 20:46, 17 June 2020 (EDT)

Corrected. -- Cjearkham 15:12, 24 June 2020 (EDT)

Told by the Dead

Hello. I have your submission on hold for a moment, as I was wondering if the publication date of 2019-08-01 is on or in the book somewhere? If not, it is best to leave a note that says 'Date from Amazon.com as of 2019-09-18'. That way there is no ambiguity where that info came from. Also, I noticed that you added an introduction starting on roman numeraled page vii. Does the total no of pages include these roman numeraled pages, or not? If not, how many are there, as in that case the number of pages should be entered something like ix+306 or some such. Thanks! MagicUnk 14:33, 13 August 2020 (EDT)

Thanks for your comments. The August date came from the publisher's website: https://www.pspublishing.co.uk/told-by-the-dead--trade-paperback-by-ramsey-campbell-4869-p.asp . I ordered my copy direct from them. The total number of pages should be x+306. Cjearkham 13:28, 5 September 2020 (EDT)

Thanks for the confirmation! I've accepted your submission and updated total no of pages, added a note, and changed date from 2019-08-01 to 2019-08-00 - note if there is no certainty about the day the book was published, do not use 01, but 00. This also holds for month (and year): if we don't know the exact day, month, or year, use '0'. Regards, MagicUnk 14:04, 5 September 2020 (EDT)

Noted. Thanks! Cjearkham 11:27, 6 September 2020 (EDT)

Masters of the Weird Tale

You did not do anything wrong, not really. However, the way the system works is that when you add a new title, it stays on its own and does not get automatically matched to a pre-existing one. So if the stories are already in the DB, instead of typing them in a PubUpdate submission, use Import - it is on the left menu on the publication. For this book, it would have opened this and then you could use Option 2 and list the stories' IDs. You could also do them in portions :) There is a link to the help page on top of the submission page - but if you have ANY questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

By the way - in case you had no found it yet, there is a link on the publication level to find the duplicates leading to this page for the book -- so you can use that to find all the duplicates. You also have a similar link on the author level if you prefer - look for Duplicate in the left menu. I will let you submit the merges but if you want a hand, I will also be happy to submit and approve all of them for you so you do not need to worry about them. Just let me know. :) Annie 19:12, 12 November 2020 (EST)

That was fast! Thanks. I'll keep Import in mind in the future. Cjearkham 19:16, 12 November 2020 (EST)