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| − | Hello, and welcome to the ISFDB! I have had to reject [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5212645 your submission] to change the author and date for Black Joe O' the Bow | + | Hello, and welcome to the ISFDB! I have had to reject [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5212645 your submission] to change the author and date for Black Joe O' the Bow, as that would result in loss of content information of {{p|362384|More Great Tales of Horror}}. The right way to add the original 1874 title by James Smith is to variant the current 1935 J. Smith title to the original one. To do that, display the {{t|1330738|Black Joe O' the Bow}} title record, and select [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/edit/mkvariant.cgi?1330738 Make This Title a Variant] from the left-hand menu, and then use the 2nd option to create a new parent title with the original date & name of the author. Also, when the alternate name doesn't exist yet (as is the case here), the alternate name needs to be varianted to the author's canonical name (Make/Remove Alternate Name menuitem on the left). Doing so, will display the title as ''... by James Smith [as by J. Smith]''. I've done that for you. |
Oh and by the way, if you plan on contributing more, then a great starting point are the links provided in the welcome message above. And you can reply here by clicking on the small 'edit' at the right of this message's title and signing with four '~'. Also, do not hesitate to ask questions over at the [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Help_desk Help Desk] or [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Community_Portal Community Portal] - there are always helpful editors & moderators around that are more than willing to help you out. Regards, [[User:MagicUnk|MagicUnk]] 02:54, 3 February 2022 (EST) | Oh and by the way, if you plan on contributing more, then a great starting point are the links provided in the welcome message above. And you can reply here by clicking on the small 'edit' at the right of this message's title and signing with four '~'. Also, do not hesitate to ask questions over at the [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Help_desk Help Desk] or [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Community_Portal Community Portal] - there are always helpful editors & moderators around that are more than willing to help you out. Regards, [[User:MagicUnk|MagicUnk]] 02:54, 3 February 2022 (EST) | ||
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Black Joe O' the Bow
Hello, and welcome to the ISFDB! I have had to reject your submission to change the author and date for Black Joe O' the Bow, as that would result in loss of content information of More Great Tales of Horror. The right way to add the original 1874 title by James Smith is to variant the current 1935 J. Smith title to the original one. To do that, display the Black Joe O' the Bow title record, and select Make This Title a Variant from the left-hand menu, and then use the 2nd option to create a new parent title with the original date & name of the author. Also, when the alternate name doesn't exist yet (as is the case here), the alternate name needs to be varianted to the author's canonical name (Make/Remove Alternate Name menuitem on the left). Doing so, will display the title as ... by James Smith [as by J. Smith]. I've done that for you.
Oh and by the way, if you plan on contributing more, then a great starting point are the links provided in the welcome message above. And you can reply here by clicking on the small 'edit' at the right of this message's title and signing with four '~'. Also, do not hesitate to ask questions over at the Help Desk or Community Portal - there are always helpful editors & moderators around that are more than willing to help you out. Regards, MagicUnk 02:54, 3 February 2022 (EST)
Oh, and probably it's author James Smith (I), going by the dates of the titles that are already in the database. MagicUnk 02:57, 3 February 2022 (EST)
The Dead Bride
Hello again! I have your submission on hold, as I have difficulty linking The Dead Bride unambiguously with Die Todtenbraut. Are you sure that the text as it appears in Marjorie Bowen's Great Tales of Horror and Walpole's The Second Century of Creepy Stories is the same as the Gutenberg translation by Marjorie Bowen, credited to Anonymous? While wildly different, I can see the connection between the translation by Marjorie Bowen and the The Death-Bride translation by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson, credited to Friedrich August Schulze (directly from German, I suppose). But what I'm wondering is, is why Bowen nor Walpole credited The Dead Bride to Schulze in the first place? Any idea? Thanks! MagicUnk 08:15, 3 February 2022 (EST)