User talk:JosHil

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Salvation in Death

I accepted the submission for a new publication of this title, but had to change the binding from "softcover" to "pb", which is the standard entry for mass-market sized paperbacks. (Larger paperbacks are entered as "tp".) Does the paperback give a month of publication? If so you can update the pub while adding the cover image that you just uploaded. Thanks. MHHutchins 04:08, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

For more specifics on entering pubs, here's the link to the help page. MHHutchins 04:09, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
The link you added to the record was to the Wiki page, and not the image itself. Go to the page, click on the image, and its URL will appear in your browser's address bar. Copy this URL and place it in the record's image field. MHHutchins 04:17, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
I see that you chose the smaller of the two files that you uploaded. Perhaps the larger one would be better, because the system automatically thumbnails it for the publication record page, but allows a user to click on it to see a larger version. Also, if you have any questions, or responses, you can do so on this Wiki page which is your personal talk page. See the link in the Welcome about Wiki editing help. Thanks. MHHutchins 04:25, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Image:DOTDJAJPBF.gif

I see that you uploaded Image:DOTDJAJPBF.gif, a cover for Day of the Dead by J. A. Jance. However, it does not appear that you supplied any of the standard Image License Tags for this image, nor have you yet linked the iamge to the publication record. (See Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki for more information.)

However, in this cane, you need not bother, because Day of the Dead is a mystery with no speculative fiction aspects, and I plan to delete it from the database entirely in the near future.

If you know of any reason why we ought not to delete Day of the Dead from the database, please do mention it here.

I thank you for your contributions, and I am sorry that this one may be deleted. I do hope you will make many more contributions to the ISFDB. -DES Talk 08:18, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Making it "NONGENRE" might be more appropriate, as it was reviewed in a Spec-Fic magazine. I wouldn't encourage more editions of such though - we seem to have the first printing (to justify title date), and the edition that was most likely reviewed. I'd say that's plenty. (I am not adding the first British publication for instance.) BLongley 17:55, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
I have added the license tags, and linked the image in case it is decided to make it "NONGENRE"--JosHil 19:17, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Approved, but please don't put too much effort into Non-Genre publications - as suggested above, we are only suffering this title as it was reviewed, it's not part of our core speciality and we do try and keep focused on Speculative Fic - ooh look, a butterfly! ;-) BLongley 19:39, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Dune

I approved your addition of this publication but what's the source of the data? Thanks! --Marc Kupper|talk 23:27, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

-I don't understand, what data are you talking about (I'm new)--JosHil 23:32, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Dune hc

I also approved an update to this publication but am a little bit confused by the note you added which is "Some Later editions have a price of $29.95." What's the source of this information? Generally if we have evidence of the publication at a different price than the ones in ISFDB then we'd add a new publication record and cite the sources if it's not directly from the publication. For example, at the moment Amazon.com for ISBN 044100590X has

  • On sale for a list of $29.95.
  • A Look Inside that has the 10th printing at $27.95 (the price is on the back cover in the barcode area as "52795>").

Looking at the Dune title record I that the only Ace hardcover is the one this note is about meaning we can clone the $25.95 record to create versions at $27.95 and $29.95 citing the source for each of those. For both of these I set the date to 0000-00-00 as we don't know what it is. --Marc Kupper|talk 23:47, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

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