User talk:Orcax

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Welcome!

Hello, Orcax, 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!Kraang 03:11, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome, Kraang :). I'll be hanging around, this is the neatest tool I've found on the web in a long time. I'm currently updating my books database and isfdb is a wonderful help. Orcax 19:22, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

The Revolving Boy

The ISBN you gave for The Revolving Boy seems invalid, can you check it again please? "0330025694" seems more likely. BLongley 21:32, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, and we enter UK decimal prices as "£0.25" rather than "25p" for instance, I've fixed that for you though this time. BLongley 21:32, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Starship Death

Could you please re-check the ISBN on Starship Death which you just added? You entered it as "0 352 33169 X". I suspect it's 0-352-31169-X. Note, if it's stated wrong in the book then we'll add a note about this. Also, even if a book shows an ISBN using spaces we enter it in ISFDB using hyphens or all in one as in 035231169X. --Marc Kupper|talk 23:42, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

You're both correct. Starship Death should be 0-352-31169-X and the Revolving Boy should be 0-330-02569-4. No spaces, check - I'll just be using the hyphens. And the £ notations. Orcax 10:40, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
OK, both ISBNs corrected now. BLongley 13:08, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Harrison's One Step from Earth

I imported story contents from a previous printing of the title you submitted. Please check to make sure that all the stories are in your edition as well. When you get a chance you can add the page numbers. Also, is there some roman-numeraled pages as in the 1981 Arrow printing? Thanks. MHHutchins 23:44, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Have added the page numbers. Will this thing autosort? Orcax 00:48, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

It'll autosort.Kraang 03:07, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Study War No More

Hi Orcax! I see you added this pub[1] without the contents. One of the easy ways of adding a new anthology or collection with contents is to find an existing publication and use the "Clone This Pub". Then change the date, publisher, page #'s, pub type(pb,hc etc), artist, etc. For the moment use this only if all the authors and titles are the same. Do not make any changes to the titles or authors names. By using the clone function the existing contents will be automatically linked. Try this pub again. You can leave any questions here or on the help page and someone will reply. Thanks!Kraang 03:05, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes. Looked for an input for contents, but there didn't seem to be any. But entered a collection today without that problem turning up, so I probably overlooked something.
Got another question: when using the command "embed file", does that file/picture get stored locally here on isfdb? Or do you have to link out to a host? Orcax 02:04, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
That's right, if you use the Upload file link in the toolbox on the left, the image will be stored locally -- see Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki for details. Ahasuerus 02:56, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Five Fates

This is a tricky case since Laumer wasn't credited as editor in most (all?) editions of this anthology. Does your edition credit him explicitly or did you get this information from Clute/Nicholls or some other secondary source? In the meantime, I have used Clone Publication and re-entered your pages numbers to create this record. Thanks! Ahasuerus 02:56, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it's kind of borderline. All the authors are actually listed on the binding/spine, Laumer first. But the copyright line reads:
Copyright (c) 1970 by Keith Laumer.
I figure if he gets the money, he's the titleholder. Orcax 03:13, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Unfortunately, copyright can be misleading due to "work for hire", ghosting and all kinds of other things. However, in this case Clute/Nicholls concurs, so I have set up a variant title to point to Laumer and the world is a better place now :) Thanks! Ahasuerus
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