User talk:JesseW

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Welcome!

Hello, JesseW, 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!Kraang 01:59, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Re Welcome

Thanks! I don't know how active I'll be, but I'm glad to pop in and out. JesseW 02:04, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

The Callahan Chronicals

I approved two of your edits to this publication, but then made a few changes. You wanted to change the date for two of the essays. For titles we use the date of first publication see this help page.

  • "Backword (The Callahan Chronicals)": The essay is dated January 1997, but the date of first publication is october 1997. This should not be changed.
  • "Spider Robinson: The SF Writer as Empath": I changed the date to June 1977, then made it into a variant of this title.

I had to reject your edit of "Foreword (Callahan's Crosstime Saloon)". You wanted to change the date to february 1976, but the first publication was in june 1977. You also wanted to add a note about the essay (Postscript states: February, 1976 Phinney's Cove, Nova Scotia) to the title record. A title record can have more than one publication however, so general notes can be added, but notes about a single pub should go with the pub. Hope you're not depressed by this. Thanks for editing, and again, welcome. --Willem H. 18:08, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

All of those things make perfect sense. Thanks for your time checking them -- I'm certainly not depressed by the corrections! I wondered why I couldn't find the corresponding publication records for the previous publications of the SF-Writer-As-Empath introduction -- thanks for finding that. Regarding the note, I'm still slightly confused -- I (now) understand that we don't use the date-as-written but instead the date of first publication, so the postscript (including it's date) isn't particularly relevant, but it does seem like it should in the title record, not the publication, as it's part of the text -- more like a synopsis -- rather than a fact about a particular publication, like a price or publisher. Do I have this right? JesseW 04:44, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
I think you're right. Didn't see it that way at first. I dug out my copy of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, which has the same dating. This suggests there was a 16 month time lag between the writing and publication. I added your note again, see here. Thanks, --Willem H. 11:19, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

A Phule and His Money submission

Hi. I have your submission of A Phule and His Money on hold. It is trying to change a 9th printing to a 4th printing. It looks like you meant to Clone this but ended up editing it instead. You should cancel this and re-submit as a clone (you can copy and paste the notes and other info before cancelling). Thanks. --MartyD 17:04, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Will do, sorry about that! Maybe this will motivate me to send in the patch I was thinking about, to change the look of the clone page... JesseW 08:35, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

ISFDB banner

I am reviewing and testing your makefile/css changes and one thing that I am wondering about is the replacement of "IsfdbBanner.jpg" with "IsfdbBanner.gif" in biblio_css_stub 1.2. The software currently uses IsfdbBanner.jpg as the image at the top of the page. There is a nightly rotation process that replaces the current IsfdbBanner.jpg with one of the 10 composite images that Al created a few years ago -- see "updateBanner.py" in the "scripts" directory on Sourceforge.

Does this make sense? If so, I will drop the proposed change. Thanks! Ahasuerus 04:16, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

OK, I think I have sorted everything out. The "jpg" version of the banner file has been uploaded even though it's just a placeholder which will be quickly replaced by the nightly rotation process. All references to the "gif" version have been reverted to the "jpg" version, but the replacement of "www.isfdb.org" with localdef data has been kept. I also updated a few out of date copyright dates and made other cosmetic changes. The changed scripts have been committed and installed on the live server. Everything looks good, thanks! Ahasuerus 05:34, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Development - December 2010

Sorry, haven't had a chance to review and test your changes yet. Hopefully, I will get to them in the next 2-3 days. Ahasuerus 22:17, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Analog Jan-Feb 2011

I add the cover scan to this verified publication. Tpi 19:58, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, it looks correct to me. JesseW 22:15, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

I corrected the title of the McMullen story, from _Enimga_ to _Enigma_. Hauck 13:59, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

This one? Looks good. JesseW 22:15, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Chanur’s Legacy

What evidence do you have that the third DAW printing was also 1993? BLongley 17:47, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

As it's been a month since I asked, I'll reject this and let other moderators possibly see an empty submission queue. ;-) Feel free to resubmit later if you get time. BLongley 22:11, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I should have seen this earlier. I don't remember what the change was now, but I'll try and look at the book again and see if I can figure it out, and re-submit with more evidence. JesseW 19:49, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

page count for Analog May 2011

Should the page count for the pub be 116? The page count for magazines should also include the covers.--swfritter 14:32, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

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