User talk:Fuhsaz

Welcome!

Hello, Fuhsaz, 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:

• Help pages
• Field-by-field guide to entering new publications into the database
• Help:Getting Started
• What the ISFDB Wiki is for
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• Wiki editing help - Tips on how to use the wiki-specific features when editing wiki pages.
• Wiki Conventions - How things are usually done on this wiki.
• Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki

Note: Image uploading isn't entirely automated. You're uploading the files to the wiki which will then have to be linked to the database by editing the publication record.

Please be careful in editing publications that have been primary verified by other editors. See Help:How to verify data#Making changes to verified pubs. But if you have a copy of an unverified publication, verifying it can be quite helpful. See Help:How to verify data for detailed information.

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! Mhhutchins 19:28, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Offer to source data

I'm the Head Librarian for the University of Massachusetts Amherst Science Fiction Society, a group running since 1964 and having nearly 10 000 speculative fiction books. I have a small personal specfic library myself of about 300 books. The (meta)data I have is available to the ISFDB at large, merely request I verify or add something and I'll pop into the library and see what I can do. I'm currently working on building a digital catalog of all our works, with each book entry containing ISFDB TR and PR numbers, as well as the OCLC#. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fuhsaz (talk • contribs) .

Thanks so much for the offer to be a source for specific information on the speculative fiction titles in your library. We will surely take you up on the offer. I have copied it the community page so that other users are aware of your offer. Thanks again. Mhhutchins 19:32, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Changing information for primary-verified pubs

Hi. Thanks for the contributions! A word about editing publications having primary verifiers: It is ISFDB practice (policy, really) that when changing a publication record having primary verifier(s), the verifier be notified by leaving a message on their talk page or following any instructions (including "don't notify me") found there. As a rule of thumb, it's ok to submit additions and to notify in parallel, while if you're going to alter something, you should notify first and wait to see whether the verifier agrees. You'd be surprised how many times we've uncovered additional editions/printings based on very small differences. Since I'm the primary verifier of the 11th Bantam Spectra Red Mars, I'm considering myself notified. :-) Just something for you to keep in mind for the future. Thanks. --MartyD 12:26, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

Aha, thanks for the heads up, I was definitely not aware of this. I'll keep this in mind with my future edits. --fuhsaz 19:47, 13 July 2014 (UTC)