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Otherwere, again

I was reviewing your edit to the R.A. Salvatore story and noticed that Sharewere says it's "by" Shariann N. Lewitt as a variant of the same story by Shariann Lewitt BUT... there's no "N" anywhere on the copyright page, the ToC or at the story first page. How to fix this as a merge instead of a variant? Susan O'Fearna 00:49, 20 August 2022 (EDT)

I think the most basic thing to do is to "Remove Titles From This Pub" the story by "Shariann N. Lewitt" and then "Import Content" the story by "Shariann Lewitt" (and adding the 195 page number to it). That in turn I think will automatically remove the no longer needed Shariann N. Lewitt variant of the story, and in turn the "Shariann N. Lewitt" pseudonym will go, as that seems to be the only title associated with it.
Quite probably, just doing a merge on the two "Sharewere"s will accomplish the same end result in one rather than two steps, but I don't think I've ever done that with titles where one is a variant of the other, so personally I'd opt for the remove/import steps, just to avoid tempting fate doing something different for the first time. (Maybe someone else with more experience will see this convo and chip in?) I'm happy to do those two steps myself, given I have self-approver rights, and so I can do them at the same time, and not run the risk of having the data in an inconsistent state for more than a minute or so.
BTW, I'm mildly curious where "Shariann N. Lewitt" came from in the first place - it seems to date from a 2007 edit by an editor long gone - but I guess that'll be a mystery lost to time... ErsatzCulture 08:54, 20 August 2022 (EDT)

The Employees

Just heads up as you worked on this one: based on what I am seeing in the book I was holding and all other versions, the subtitle belongs up on the title here so I updated that (and added a note on the exact length and so on). Annie 17:24, 3 September 2022 (EDT)

No worries, thanks for letting me know.
Although you messaging about this prompted me to look at my accumulated data on this, and there's something weird going on with the UK ebook. At the time I submitted the original UK tp GR had an ASIN that Amazon UK didn't know about. I have data scraped from Amazon UK in Feb 2022 from the New Directions US ebook (which matches the pub you and Fixer added around the same time), but now Amazon UK has an ebook from the same publisher as the UK tp?!? But Amazon UK now no longer lists the UK tp, and Kobo still doesn't have any ebook, so seems I'm no closer to knowing if that has an ISBN. Sigh, will try to sort that out in the next couple of days.... ErsatzCulture 15:46, 4 September 2022 (EDT)
The US hardcover has the isbn and LCCn of the ebook (plus its own values) so the US ebook checks out everywhere. I will see if I can get it from my library to do another check on it anyway. As for the UK ebook - the publisher site shows the isbn as the UK ones which means that either they shared thus making tracking by isbn a nightmare (which would explain why it keeps sending you to the Tp or why an isbn link leads to the ebook now somewhere) or did not add an isbn to the ebook at all. Or their site is just crap. But at least it shows that there is an ebook and it has a price. And when I look at Amazon UK Fronten isbn it shows me the tp (just fyi) - not available for purchase and so on but it shows the tp under the isbn. :) Annie 18:22, 4 September 2022 (EDT)

Application

Hi! I don't know if you have seen my application for self-moderating. Would you mind to leave a comment? Christian Stonecreek (talk) 06:59, 25 September 2022 (EDT)

Hi Christian, I'm afraid I don't feel able to make an informed comment, as I only have self-approver privileges myself, so I don't have any visibility on the edits you've been making. (I skim through the "Recent Edits" list every day or so, and click on the ones that look relevant to my interests, but I don't think any of your recent submissions matched my personal tastes... ;-)
That said, I will make the observation that some of the edits you've made in the past to my submissions have annoyed me. A big one was User_talk:Stonecreek#Ministry_for_the_Future_title_.26_pub_dates, but I remember when I was a very new editor back in 2019, and you made edits to a couple of my submissions/PVs [1] [2] without any sort of message on my talk page to explain what I'd done wrong and/or why you'd made those changes. (You did add a comment re. the second one a couple of days after making your edit, which I had some issues with, as I don't think the Baxter book had "officially" been announced as the first in a series at that time - even though I agree that it certainly looked that way - but because I was a new editor, I wasn't going to argue with a moderator.)
The main reason I very quickly gave up contributing to Wikipedia - other than making very minor/quick corrections and additions - is that I got fed up with seemingly-long established Wikipedia editors coming in and making things (IMHO) worse and/or deleting my contributions, without any attempt to communicate about why I'd done things the way I did, or how I might improve something they thought was deficient. I switched over to ISFDB because I thought that contributions would be judged on quality rather than submitter, and I was a bit dismayed when some of my early ones were changed for little-to-no-reason, and with no explanation. (I have no idea what the addition of "New edition" to the note to the John Birmingham book is supposed to mean, and some of the changes in wording seem slightly awkward to my native-speaker ears, albeit the meaning is still clear, so I have never reverted things.)
Hopefully you no longer make changes like those/in that manner, but as I haven't looked at your recent edits, I don't know, so I'm afraid I won't comment on that talk item. Based on what I am aware of, my inclination would in any case be to neither add approval nor disapproval, but leave it to the consensus of other editors/moderators/admins. ErsatzCulture (talk) 08:48, 25 September 2022 (EDT)

DAW books

Hello John,

When adding the UK editions of books where the US publisher is DAW in the next few months, can you please check the dates on the DAW books and ping me if you see anything odd? I have it on my calendar to check them in the weeks of publication but after the move from one corporate owner to another, there had been a lot of shuffling of dates (in both directions from what I can see) so on the "two sets of eyes are better than one" principle, just heads up. I've marked the more suspicious ones with the watchPrePub but some seem stable (until they are not) and I would rather not mark them all or delay adding them. Thanks! Annie (talk) 15:03, 10 October 2022 (EDT)

Sure, no problem. I started a new job last week last week, so I probably won't have as much time to submit stuff as in the past, but will try to keep up with new adult UK pubs, and maybe let stuff like missing old ebooks and juveniles slide a bit. ErsatzCulture (talk) 16:52, 10 October 2022 (EDT)
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