User talk:Obivatelj

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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! Ahasuerus 01:24, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Kentaur

Thanks for submitting the first batch of Kentaurs! I have approved the submissions and changed "Izdavački zavod »Jugoslavija«" to "Jugoslavija" since "Izdavački zavod" stands for "publishing house" and we generally do not include the word "publisher" or its equivalents in the name of the publisher.

I have also turned the approved records into "variant titles" of the following books:

1. "Neoprezni putnik" - Le voyageur imprudent
2. "Pavane" - Pavane (also changed the title type from NOVEL to COLLECTION)
3. "Dveri Vremena" - The Gate of Time
4. "Venera plus iks" - Venus Plus X
5. "Metusalemova deca" - Methuselah's Children

Could you please confirm that the VTs (variant titles) have been set up correctly?

Yes, they are correct, thanks alot! If i see correct, after my other titles are approved, i will be able to make variant Titles by myself, right? --Obivatelj 23:39, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Also, in case you haven't run into it yet, an FYI that you can set your default language under User Preferences. That way if you plan to enter a few dozen Serbian publications you don't have to change the language manually every time.

Thanks again! Ahasuerus 01:39, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Cover image file limits

Thanks for uploading this image file, but at 1545 pixels tall, it far exceeds the limits given in the ISFDB standards: it should be no more than 600 pixels tall. I will resize it for you and ask that you stay within these standards for future uploads. Also, don't forget to link the file in an update to the publication record. Thanks. Mhhutchins 22:33, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

I've also resized this image. Mhhutchins 22:38, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

I see you've made a submission to link the image to the record. Thanks. Mhhutchins 22:46, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, and my apologies, i found way for myself to resize now, and retain some quality. Learning curve is not hard, and i am sure to make it better from release to release. --Obivatelj 22:52, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Author names

Just to let you know that we enter author names as they appear in publications and then create pseudonyms if necessary. For example, since Dveri Vremena is credited to "Filip Hoze Farmer", we want to enter the author's name as "Filip Hoze Farmer" and then create a pseudonym linking it to Philip José Farmer. That way if a user searches for "Filip Hoze Farmer", s/he can find this form of Farmer's name and then go to the author's main page. The only exceptions are non-Latin alphabets (Japanese, Chinese, Cyrillic, etc) since the software currently doesn't support non-Latin author names very well, so we are forced to transliterate names. The software does support non-Latin titles, publishers and so on, though.

Based on the above, I have changed the spelling of the "Kentaur" authors using the SFera list. Hopefully their data matches what's in your books. Thanks again! Ahasuerus 05:29, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Dnevnik o Minotauru

I have approved the submission, but I am not sure what Vladimir Vesović's contribution was. Was it limited to creating illustrations for the book (I have added an INTERIORART record to the publication) or did he also contribute to the cover art? Could you please clarify? TIA! Ahasuerus 20:09, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, quite correct, he was responsible for INTERIORART, Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Obivatelj (talk • contribs) .

Thanks, I have removed his cover art record. Ahasuerus 21:25, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Sirius

Thanks for your new submission. However, if approved there will arise the problem that you have 'chosen' English as language, so that the title of the magazine as well as all contents will appear under that language. You'll have to edit all of them or enter the publication anew. What's your preference? Stonecreek 05:19, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello there, Stonecreek, i started submission although there is a small problem, about Language. It has to be Language which does not exist as choice at moment, called: Serbo-Croatian. I will not go into details why i cannot choose croatian or serbian or bosnian, since there are strong linguistic evidences in meantime that splitting of serbian or croatian dialects (or other) in those misfortunate Regions of Balkan are solely based on ideological movements, and only appropriate Language term for Bibliographies is Serbo-Croatian (see: Snježana Kordić, and Pluricentric Languages. To cut a long story short, everything published in former Yugoslavia, before Civil wars which started in '91, should be catalogued as Serbo-Croatian. That was at least official State language till 1991. Therefore i would like to ask to add this as new Language Option. After that i could even correct my previous ISFDB entries.

So i guess this would be work for Admin of Wiki, and new Language to add would be: 'sh' => 'srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски', # Serbocroatian , see: afaik, this is place in code of mediawiki, and after that this Language would be possible Option. --Obivatelj 22:25, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Indeed, the line dividing "languages" from "dialects" is often arbitrary or, as they say, "a language is a dialect with an army and navy" :-) In most cases we (ISFDB) are not in a position to pass judgment, so we have to go with what is stated in our (primary/secondary) sources. There are some exceptions, e.g. if the copyright page of a book states that it was "printed using British English", we use "English" since we don't recognize "British English" as a separate languages, but thankfully these cases are uncommon.

As far as Serbo-Croatian goes, we can easily add another language code, but there are a few issues to consider. Should we distinguish between "Serbo-Croatian-Cyrillic" and "Serbo-Croatian-Roman" the way the MARC standard did prior to 1991? For that matter, should we distinguish between post-1991 Serbian titles printed using Cyrillic vs. Serbian titles which use the roman script? The MARC standard doesn't have a separate code for the latter, but this information is supposed to be recorded in field 546 (see the link above.) Ahasuerus 23:40, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Knowing the History of Balkans, heh, who knows what comes next? So, if we stick now to scc and scr (prior to 1991) we will have proper way for dealing with titles published before 1991. I am working only with Books and Magazines published before 1991. This work will take for sure some time, Year or two. So when and if some Editors start working with Titles published after that change one could also incorporate Database with new recognized entities. That way, imho, the historical Correctness will be also respected. --Obivatelj 00:04, 9 March 2014 (UTC)