User talk:Nihonjoe

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鏡の国のアリス

When you have a moment, could you please take a look at this Japanese title? I am not seeing any differences between the parent title and its variant, so I am wondering if I am missing something or if they need to be merged. TIA! Ahasuerus 06:33, 1 May 2022 (EDT)

Yeah, they were the same thing. I unvarianted them and then merged them. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 12:54, 2 May 2022 (EDT)

Thanks! Ahasuerus 15:38, 2 May 2022 (EDT)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

I accepted this submission and this submission (which impact your verified pubs) per this discussion. The second submission is showing a "Mismatched double quotes" warning, but as far as I can tell that was in the original also. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 08:23, 8 May 2022 (EDT)

Fixed. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 13:01, 9 May 2022 (EDT)

Shaun Jeffrey

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5310781; There's no date because the story was imported into an anthology with the same date as in this edit, an importation that you approved at the same time that you rejected this. Un-reject this. --Username 19:29, 12 May 2022 (EDT)

I didn't say there wasn't a date. I said you didn't provide a reason for the date change. Please always provide a reason for the changes you submit. Thank you. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:39, 12 May 2022 (EDT)

Also, the importation submissions appeared after this submission, so I had no way to know you had submitted the importations. I work through them in the order they were submitted. This is another reason to include a reason. Something as simple as "It was originally printed in an anthology with an earlier date" would work. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:41, 12 May 2022 (EDT)

Cemetery Dance Artist

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5311260; That's not part of his name, that's a photo studio or something similar, like all the cover artists on ISFDB with / Fotolia after their name. Whoever entered this entered it as if Stone was Wildsmith's last name; he has a separate record with 7 Harry Potter covers. --Username 20:49, 12 May 2022 (EDT)

That makes sense. I haven't run into too many of those myself. I've updated the entry. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 21:00, 12 May 2022 (EDT)

Legacy of the Darksword cover image

I've uploaded a new scan for the fourth printing of [1] that could match your ISBN based Amazon image for your PVed 1st printing. cover. --Glenn 18:38, 15 May 2022 (EDT)

Cheshire Crossing

Can you take another look at the various publications of this title? I suspect the first four (#1 to 4) are a serialization of the story, and should be type SERIAL, not SHORTFICTION. Also, I believe e-books don't get pagenumbers, and the 2019 title is varianted to the 2008 title, but title and author are exactly the same. Shouldn't these be merged instead? I found these on the "Variant Title Length Mismatches" cleanup report. Thanks for checking, --Willem 17:07, 20 May 2022 (EDT)

Myth & Magic

Perhaps you missed my response here? I uploaded scans of price and copyright page a week ago, and would like to delete these again. Thanks, --Willem 17:13, 20 May 2022 (EDT)

Hiyoko Kurisu

Cross Infinite World has published Rapunzel of the Magic Item Shop by Hiyoko Kurisu. As far as I can tell, this novel has not appeared in Japanese, at least not as a book. It may have been serialized online, but Google has been no help. Would you happen to have any ideas? TIA! Ahasuerus 08:42, 25 May 2022 (EDT)

Done! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 13:02, 25 May 2022 (EDT)

Thanks! Ahasuerus 13:25, 25 May 2022 (EDT)

Reject

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5331548; The reason for the change is that's the title in both books it appears in, both of which I did edits for very recently, as seen by clicking the edit history for both books. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5332365; The reason for the date change is that's the date it was first published, as seen by clicking the OCLC link in the edition on ISFDB and seeing the many 1979 editions when you click "View all editions and formats". --Username 18:55, 8 June 2022 (EDT)

Thanks! Next time, please include all that information in the submission note. When you submit something and give no reason for it, We don't have any way to read your mind to see where the information is from. Given the volume of your submissions, we don't have time to spend trying to figure out why you might have submitted a change. Please use the submission note field to save everyone a lot of hassle. Thanks! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:04, 8 June 2022 (EDT)

Thanks! Next time, maybe mods who accept my multiple edits for a book shouldn't leave 1 edit unaccepted because then the next random mod who comes along doesn't know about the previous edits for that book and thinks this is just a random edit with no connection to anything else. Also, next time the regular title date is changed to an earlier date than the edition(s) on ISFDB that means whoever entered those editions didn't bother to enter that date or didn't know there was an earlier edition; in those cases, WorldCat's your friend (and I assume you're going to un-reject that edit, too, eventually, right?). Thanks! --Username 19:33, 8 June 2022 (EDT)

It's your responsibility to make sure each individual submission has everything needed for a mod to make a decision about the submission. Assuming that the same mod will be working on all related submissions is completely unrealistic. Once a mod gets into reviewing submissions, they may not necessarily look at the full list of submissions as they can simply click on the "Next Submission" button that appears once a submission is handled. If more than one of us are working through the submissions at the same time, it's possible every other submission is being handled by a different mod. So please make sure every individual submission you make includes whatever links or comments are needed for a decisions to be made. We shouldn't have to redo all of the research you already did just so we can review your submission.

As for this particular submission, I unrejected it when I made my first reply. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:44, 8 June 2022 (EDT)

Reject II: The Quickening

1) http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?50036; Notice where it says "month of publication" and "first edition". 2) Unmerging of Henderson's Place/The Girl with the Summer Eyes is because I made an edit for Night Terrors issue recently and changed a few things including changing this title to the shorter one as it appears in that zine, but longer title was used for Castle's collections so I was told by RTrace to unmerge or variant or break the child or whatever you're supposed to do in such cases. 3) I see you uploaded image of Kurt W. Aigner so that's done; I wouldn't waste my time "fixing" book covers used for author images because there were thousands and thousands of them I've come across, I've added many of my own, and nobody really cares like some of you think they do whether you use a cover; in many cases that's the only place where an obscure author is pictured, no photos being available online. Most publishers are probably glad that their books are linked on a site with hundreds of thousands of users like this one, money being all that matters to most of them. 4) I just cancelled something a few minutes ago but I've already forgotten what it was; something about a price change, I think? You wrote something about 2 and 7 and someone not being around for a year and opening a discussion on the moderator board and I lost interest and just killed it. --Username 17:46, 15 June 2022 (EDT)

Please provide the links to the submissions for 2-4. It's very difficult to find them otherwise. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 12:37, 16 June 2022 (EDT)

I don't know if this is a rib or something, but I'm getting pretty tired of it. First of all, after seeing the note a previous editor wrote saying the March 1983 edition is the first edition I changed the preface's date to match, and after I just showed you that in the link I provided you didn't un-reject my wrongly rejected edit but just entered the date in your own edit as if you had discovered it needed changing. Second, the link to the issue of Night Terrors was added, by me, to the issue's record; why would I need to provide a link when it's already there? Third, there's no link to provide for the Aigner issue; I was just making a point that it's a waste of time for anybody to comb through the, probably, tens of thousands of author records that have a photo contained in a book cover, especially since many of them weren't just linked from Amazon or similar sites but actually uploaded to the Wiki. It would be a massive undertaking for a minor problem; if any specific publisher or person or whatever complained about a specific cover being used then that cover could be replaced, or left blank, but there's no need to replace most of them because no one's ever complained about them and almost certainly never will. Fourth, maybe you didn't understand the part where I said that I got tired of reading your explanation about what was wrong with it and just rejected it. You left a message on my board about it, RUBICON BEACH. Don't you remember that? If you want to contact some PV who may never respond and fix whatever needs fixing, be my guest. --Username 15:27, 16 June 2022 (EDT)