User talk:Jeffrey1

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Hello, Jeffrey1, 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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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! Hauck 18:08, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Chaining the Lady

Hello, I've approved your submission for this publication (result is here). I've just add the currency and regularized the publisher (form "Avon Books" to simply "Avon"). Perhaps may it be interesting that you add some data in the notes as the price of your 1984 copy is inferior to the 1985 re-issue. Can you confirm the date? Note that you can also upload a scan as the artist seem to be different from other Avon printings. I've rejected a second quasi-identical submission. Hauck 18:15, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

It's no use to upload the cover twice, as disk space is one of our concerns, a moderator will have to delete the superflous images, I've linked the cover to the publication. Hauck 10:41, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

I've changed the date of your verified publication to "0000-00-00" (it wil be displayed as "unknown"), the price that you gave seems to indicate a 1986-1987 printing, coherent with the change of cover. Diverse sources (this one for example) give a $2.95 price for the 1984 printings. If you have additional data (content of the copyright page, number line) that may shed a new light on the subject, please answer here. Thanks. Hauck 10:47, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for linking the cover! I couldn't figure out how to do it. My date of the edition comes from the "84" printed in the cover painting next to the artist's logo: "(c) 84" The date inside says "First Avon Books printing March 1978" but that's inconsistent with the date on the cover. The price is right there on the front cover. Jeffrey1 05:47, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes, Avon is one of those publishers that don't give a lot of information to pinpoint the date (or the prinitng). Is such case, it's better to enter an unknown date in hope that some secondary source may help later. The enter the image, when you've uploaded the image (here), you have to "go" to it by clicking on the hyperlink just below (here "CHNNGTHLDL1984.jpg‎"), it will take you to the image's URL (here "http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/a/ae/CHNNGTHLDL1984.jpg") that you will be able to copy and then paste in the "Image URL:" field. Hauck 11:19, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Chaining The Lady

When accepted I cloned your submission on this book. However, you should list what printing your copy is, and if it is the same as mine, feel free to take my notes and delete my submission. If your printing is different, you can still take liberally from my notes. I got hammered for not listing the printing of a book when I first started out. MLB 02:51, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Die Terranauten, #28: Die Psi-Sucher

Hello, the fact that this cover is the same as the one used for Anderson's novel should be materialised by a variant link, not entered in the properties of the image. I've deleted the info.Hauck 12:57, 21 March 2018 (EDT)

I've rejected two submissions. Do you need assistance in varianting covers? Hauck 13:11, 21 March 2018 (EDT)

I would like some help, yes, please!

OK, in this case I've already done the varianting for you but the principle is the following:

1) You usually start with a book which has a re-used cover, to stay with Whelan consider this french publication which borrows the artwork of that one. So we need to materialize the fact that the french cover (Les feux d’Azeroth) is a variant of the US (Amazons!) one.

2) you need first to know the Title Record # of the original cover (a "Title Record #" (or Title Record Id) is an unique numeric identifier for a title record of any kind (cover, novel, essay, etc...). You can obtain it by clicking on the "Cover" hyperlink on the original publication page, this will lead you to the COVER title record and you'll be able see its Title Record # on the top right of the screen, in this case it's "237421".

3) with this number in mind, you'll have to go to the "variant" cover record, via its publication record that will lead you to the variant cover record.

4) at this level (the variant cover title record), you'll have to create the link between those two records by using the "Make This Title a Variant Title or Pseudonymous Work" link on the left, then using the top of the screen ("Option 1") and just enter the "master" (the original) Title Record # into the "Parent #:" field (remember it's 237421) and then submit.

Hope that my explanations were clear, this may sound complicated but, you'll quickly get the hang of it. Hauck 14:49, 23 March 2018 (EDT)

OK,thanks a lot!

Your recent submissions

Hello, I took some action based on some of your recent submissions:

• for Das Buch Corum, I've varianted the cover art.
• for Der scharlachrote Prinz the varianting is already done as can be seen following the link of this page, ditto for Die Königin des Chaos (see here).Hauck 13:56, 12 April 2018 (EDT)

OK, thanks a lot! Is that something I could've done myself?

Yes for the first point by the method outlined in the thread just above this one. No for the second point as work has already been done. Hauck 15:06, 12 April 2018 (EDT)

OK, thanks, I'll try using the above method next time.

How do I link an image to the page? I found the cover for Confessions d'un linceul (it's Michael Whelan's "dead End") but cant' figure out how to link it. I uploaded some other covers, too, but didn't link them, either. Thanks!