User talk:J-Sun

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Welcome!

Hello, J-Sun, 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 10:36, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Your edits were perfect! . . .

. . . thanks for submitting them. But nobody is constantly perfect and so the respective editors who submitted the initial shortfictions didn't catch it when submitting (and didn't so later) - so it's good to have a second look on everything!

On the matter of NONGENRE material: well, strictly speaking, they wouldn't belong here, but we overcame at one point to have all works by writers who are major authors of speculative fiction (and really are prominent through their sf work). Robert Silverberg does certainly fit into this category, for other writers this is debatable (and is debated from time to time) on the Community Portal or the page for Rules and standards discussions. Check it out or ask there if you are not sure in some cases. Again, thank you! Stonecreek 10:44, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome and the comments. As far as Silverberg, while he is inarguably an SF giant, the problem with allowing his non-SF is that it then opens up a huge can of words, so to speak. He's written a lot of non-SF. But, as you say, I may take that up in the appropriate place later. Speaking of, I've finally read the direct links the welcome template points me to and some follow-on links (there's an overwhelming amount of information here) but I'm still not sure I'm clear on what the appropriate place is for some things. Basically, I'm supposed to only respond on this page and ask questions on help or mod pages? Because, while it's not very important at the moment, I can't seem to edit User:J-Sun, which seems odd to me. So I should ask about such things at the help desk? It seems like most of those questions are about the real work of the ISFDB and not about "personal problems", so to speak. --J-Sun 04:38, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

The Pleasure of Our/Their Company

Hi. FYI, Locus1 lists both "Our" and "Their" variations of that title. Other places seem to corroborate that. So a variant was the right thing to do. --MartyD 12:13, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, that's good to know - and I'm glad I got it right despite not being sure about the titles. :) --J-Sun 04:40, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

O Correio do Tempo

Good catch - O Correio do Tempo turned out to be a Portuguese translation of Up the Line. Ahasuerus 03:19, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks and thanks for finding that out. I forgot to mention another case like that, except that it's a story: 1518433 ("Un loup dans la ménagerie") seems to mean "A Wolf in the Zoo" but I know of no such Silverberg title. But I also (think I) know that he published no original short fiction in 1977. (This relates to the above point about proper places - should I drop a note to User:Hauck (primary verifier) or drop a note on a mod page or something other option? --J-Sun 04:44, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
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