User talk:Mothman

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Hello, Mothman, 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:

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! -DES Talk 18:54, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Bards and Sages Quarterly

Hi, I accepted your Bards and Sages Quarterly submission, and I made a few changes to it. You got the Look Inside/reader link as the cover image, which I changed to a link to the image (in IE, right-click on the image, choose Properties, then copy the name; in Firefox, right-click and choose Copy Image Location; in either case then see Help:Screen:EditPub#ImageURL for some hints about how to convert that to a link to a clean and properly-sized image). To my knowledge, you can't actually copy the front cover out of what the reader displays. The others were all minor ISFDB data entry standards sorts of things:

  • In a situation such as this, where it's the "April 2010" issue, you can use April as the publication month if you don't know the actual publication date. Having the month helps with proper ordering of the titles and publications in various displays.
  • We usually enter magazines as name comma date (or name comma issue number for magazines explicitly using issue numbers in their titles), always using comma as the separator. E.g., Bards and Sages Quarterly, April 2010.
  • Initials in authors'/artists' names should usually be regularized with periods and spaces (e.g., "M. D. Jackson" instead of "MD Jackson") unless the author is known to eschew the punctuation. I recommend erring on the side of sticking them in.
  • The capitalization of the words in the contained titles should also be regularized according to Help:Screen:EditPub#Title_2 -- generally short prepositions and determiners should be in lower case.

As I said, all minor things. I'm only mentioning them in case you're planning to enter the other issues of this magazine, which I hope you are. If you're ambitious, see this page for instructions about magazine series (if not, that's ok, too). This looks like a nice find! --MartyD 11:11, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi again. I accepted your April 2012 issue submission, too. Many of the same comments as above applied: I put ", April 2012" in the title, I moved the ISSN from the catalog#/isbn field to the notes (and added the ISBN from Amazon), I put spaces between initials (and periods where missing). I also added the publisher and some format information. Please review and make sure it all look ok. Thanks. --MartyD 10:35, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Cover of Darkness, May 2011

I accepted this with minor changes to capitalisation, but the cover art points to www.sdpbookstore.com. Do you have permission to deep-link to them? If not, we'll have to find a source that lets us link to them, or you can upload a cover here. BLongley 17:09, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Over The Brink: Tales of Environmental Disaster

I approved your addition of this pub, but had to change the binding from "digital (various)" to "ebook". See here for the standard formats. Thanks for editing! --Willem H. 13:39, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

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