User talk:Mskerstetter

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Hello, Mskerstetter, 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! Annie 19:20, 6 June 2020 (EDT)

N. K. Jemisin's books

I approved all 3 but made a few small changes:

  • When the price is not specified as here, do not put "see note", just leave the field empty.
  • We use "Orbit" for the UK Orbit and "Orbit (US)" for the US one - so I corrected that in the Publisher field.

As these were issued as a set, you should also add the complete set (as an omnnibus, then you import inside the 3 novels and the collection and all stories from it). I can assist with that if you need help and/or guidance. The results are here, here and here. I responded to you over in the Help page but if you have any additional questions, do not hesitate to ask here or over there.

Welcome again! Annie 19:25, 6 June 2020 (EDT)

Annie, is clicking on the + tab and typing in here how I reply to you? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mskerstetter (talk • contribs) .
That starts a new conversation but it works as well :) Instead look next to the title of this conversation ("N. K. Jemisin's books"), on the far right side of the screen. there is a small Edit there. Click that. It will open the editor. Scroll to the bottom and type your message. You can sign using ~~~~. Annie 20:40, 6 June 2020 (EDT)

Ah, thanks. Hopefully I'll learn quickly. I just submitted the collection except that I forgot to indicate hardcover format. Looking back, I think I was also supposed to put C in the Contents field. I'm still unclear about adding/merging/importing the contents as you mentioned in the Help Desk post. Do I sign off literally with just the four tildes or do I need to type in the surrounding html codes, the user id and date information? Guess I'll try the tildes now. ;^) Mskerstetter 21:09, 6 June 2020 (EDT)

Nope, no need to add C - it will happen automatically. The Contents field is only for Omnibuses :) I fixed the format while approving and fixed the title - we normalize case (See the help page. Each field on the form has a small question mark - if you click it, we have a help page there).
It is just the tildes - they get converted :)
For the import. Let me explain with "The Awakened Kingdom". You go to the author page or use search to look for it here on the site. You find it here. See the number in the corner - 2734851? Note that down somewhere. Find this number for all stories in the collection.
Now go to the publication I just approved. here it is. Look on the left menu and find "Import Content" and click on it. It will open this page. As we will import individual titles and not all titles from another book, you need Option 2. Add the IDs we found earlier, one per line in there (the + sign opens new lines). Press Import Titles. Now you can add the page numbers and you can also add any additional titles that you cannot import because we either do not have them OR we do not have them under the exactly same title as they are in the book. And then submit and a moderator can approve.
Let me know if I can explain something more :) Annie 21:19, 6 June 2020 (EDT)
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