User talk:RedDragonBooks

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Hello, RedDragonBooks, 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:

Note: Image uploading isn't entirely automated. You're uploading the files to the wiki which will then have to be linked to the database by editing the publication record.

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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! --~ Bill, Bluesman 22:06, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

The Four Wishes

The 'new' pub you submitted is already in the database [here]. Also check [here] as most of the notes you put in the submission seem to have been dealt with. --~ Bill, Bluesman 22:10, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Charlotte Stone pseudonym

Have a look at [this] discussion, please. I had held the submissions creating the pseudonym creation and it looks like the link would have been wrong. --~ Bill, Bluesman 01:34, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Queen's Own Fool

I accepted your submission adding this publication to the database, but had to make some changes based on ISFDB standards (please see the Help links in the Welcome section above for any future submissions.) The publisher's name was normalized. The binding was changed from "hardcover" to "hc". A dollar sign was placed before the price. The date of publication and cover image came from Amazon.com. Also, a source for the data was given in the note field. If you wish to do a primary verification of the record (meaning you have a copy of the book and can confirm each of the fields) use the "Verify This Pub" link on the pub record's page. Ordinarily subtitles such as given are not used in a book's title record, so I removed it, but left it on the publication record. I also changed the title record's type to NONGENRE based on your submission. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 21:23, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

The Last Fathom

Hello, I've approved your submission for this novel's artist and added data in the notes. nAs you seem to own the book, please consider to become its "primary verifier". Hauck 09:02, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

If, April 1966

Hello, I've put your submission on hold and passed the information to the sole active primary verifier. Hauck 07:56, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Most confusing. The artist died 16 years ago so you must have seen him before that. There doesn't seem to be any other 'Nodel' [artist] that I can find. The style of the interior art is similar to the cover art, credited to Morrow. Nodel seems to have signed his work and these aren't signed. It's also not the first time credit does not match the artist, in the July '65 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow [which became part of IF] a story's artwork is credited to Morrow but the pieces are signed by Nodel. Maybe a little quid pro quo?? i'll add a note to the record. --~ Bill, Bluesman 17:18, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Science-Fiction Plus, June 1953

I have your edit to Science-Fiction Plus, June 1953 on-hold as I have a question:

  • For The Petrified Planet, I'm assuming that instead of the current shown review of John Russell Fearn's The Petrified Planet, it is instead for Fletcher Pratt's anthology containing stories by Pratt, Piper, & Merrill? If so, it should credit just Pratt per how we handle reviewed author names and Piper, & Merrill's names would go in the notes.

As for Witches Three and Fantasy Twin, 'uncredited' is correct per the same principle and the individual author names should go in the notes. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 01:29, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

I have rejected your edit per the above, but I have updated the pub to show The Petrified Planet is the Pratt book. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 16:49, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Publisher for 1904 The Bretheren

Hi. I accepted your The Brethren addition, but I changed the publisher credit from "McClure, Phillips and Company" to use our existing McClure, Phillips & Co.. We try not to have a proliferation of publisher records, so we will normalize minor variations to conform to match existing records. If you'd like, it would be ok to record the exact publisher credit in the pub notes. --MartyD 07:28, 20 October 2018 (EDT)

Publisher for Dragon Teeth

Hi. I accepted your submission of Dragon Teeth, but I changed the publisher from "Easton Press" to "The Easton Press" to match our existing publisher record. See The Easton Press. Unlike most other data from publications, we sort of normalize publisher credits to keep all of their publications under a single entry (we don't have a "pseudonym"-like feature for publishers). --MartyD 06:44, 20 May 2019 (EDT)

Commentary: Science Fiction and the World

Hello,

I approved the split, added a note, fixed a typo (Janes -> Jones) and cleaned up the variants (Paul J. McAuley is used as Paul McAuley so we have variants). Do you plan to verify the book? Or another version of it? :) Thanks for finding that one! Annie 14:23, 15 November 2019 (EST)

The Warrior Rearmed

I accepted your edit to add a synopsis for The Warrior Rearmed, but can you please check the first sentence of the second paragraph? I can't make sense of it! Thanks. PeteYoung 16:46, 21 February 2020 (EST)

Your question

Hi. Questions like Hi, this book seems to be part of two of the Sharon Green series. Tiran and Alexia are the focus characters in the Silver Princess series and Chalaine and Bariden are the focus characters in the Hidden Realms series. I'm not sure exactly where this book falls in those two series, the first edition of the book currently listed second in the Silver Princess series lists Dark Mirror Dark Dreams as already published but doesn't specify series position, the same seems to be true for the book listed as being second in the Hidden Realms series, it lists Dark Mirror as already published. I haven't made any changes related to this as I'm not sure how it should be handled. you've entered in the Note to Moderators field are much better asked over at the Community Portal. I don't have the answer myself, but surely there are other editors and moderators out there that may be able to help if you post it over at the Portal :) MagicUnk 18:27, 21 February 2020 (EST)

Lady Blade, Lord Fighter

Hi, I see no problem entering the omnibus, with two novels in it and having the first of those be varianted to another novel, bearing the same tile as the omnibus. I even found the OCLC record for it. According to Fantastic Fiction both parts were published separately in 2011.--Dirk P Broer 08:43, 23 February 2020 (EST)

Closed System

Hi, I partly agree with you. Partly, because Closed System's cover art is more than the three figures, I'm afraid.--Dirk P Broer 19:52, 15 March 2020 (EDT)

I sense a John Harris-ness in the common part, but can't prove it so far.--Dirk P Broer 20:00, 15 March 2020 (EDT)
Bingo: Zones of Thought.--Dirk P Broer 20:29, 15 March 2020 (EDT)
You can reply by clicking on 'edit' at the far right of the subject line.--Dirk P Broer 10:49, 16 March 2020 (EDT)

AddPub/ClonePub and language

When you use AddPub or ClonePub, the language cannot be set because you are attaching a new publication to existing title(s) - and the titles are the ones carrying a language. Thus being enable to specify it is Swedish. I also found some more information about the book - see here. :) Annie 17:57, 27 April 2020 (EDT)

Two different sizes

About your questions with the uploads. We check for two different kind of sizes:

  • Image size - the 600 px thing
  • File size.

How big is the file you are trying to upload? Most of the covers will be under 100Kb, we allow a bit higher but my guess is that you took the scan with a high resolution so the file is bigger than we allow. Annie 03:34, 17 May 2020 (EDT)

As for the filesize, you'll get a warning if you exceed 150KB, and an error message when exceeding 200KB (I think that's the max size you can upload). A quick way to reduce filesize is to display the original, take a screenshot, and cropping that and downsizing to 600 px - works for me at least :) MagicUnk 14:02, 17 May 2020 (EDT)

Island in the Lake

About your comment here - if the imprint is credited, we credit the imprint. For some imprints, we have the name as "Imprint / Parent" for some it is just Imprint. :)Annie 13:55, 30 July 2020 (EDT)

The title synopsis

Hi, the texts you supply usually don't fulfill our rule to supply plot information that should maintain a neutral point of view; exaggerations and downright advertising are a normal part of any given cover (or inside) blurb: the publisher may do so, but we shouldn't cite that completely as written. As a result, your submissions in most cases need to be bettered and / or abridged. Please do try to maintain our standard for future submissions. Thanks, Stonecreek 07:02, 2 September 2020 (EDT)


Hi, frankly I think you're being unnecessarily judgemental about the descriptions. I do remove any out and out promotional stuff. One thing to understand, I'm not writing this stuff up to submit it here, I'm doing it to put the descriptions in the item descriptions for the books I'm selling on eBay, so that potential buyers have some idea what the book is about. Since I'm going to all the work to write it up, I thought it would be worth preserving it so that people in the future looking up books by title or by author on ISFDB would be able to find out what a particular book was about. Also, I think if we say the description came off the book, people will make allowances for it maybe presenting the plot in the best light.
But, if you decide you don't want the contributions, just let me know and I'll stop submitting them. I don't have time to rewrite this stuff to fit your definition of neutral, which seems to be very subjective. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by RedDragonBooks (talk • contribs) .
Hello, as it happens occasionally with this kind of things, this sparked a somewhat bigger discussion (see here) and we are re-clarifying the text of the help page. If that new language gets approved, I will go back and fix all of the ones that you added earlier and were changed.
In the meantime, the rule will be "If the synopsis comes from another source like a blurb or a bibliographic note, enclose the text in quotes and state its source. If you omit parts of the quoted text, replace the omitted words with three periods (...) " - so when you skip sentences and/or words when copying from the back cover, please use the ellipsis to indicate so. Thanks for your patience and let me know if you have any questions and/or concerns. Annie 17:45, 5 September 2020 (EDT)
By the way, your submissions -are- appreciated. We always welcome editors that are willing to add information to the ISFDB! Regards, MagicUnk 08:26, 6 September 2020 (EDT)

Thank you for the clarifications and the updated policy. I will have to change very little about what I've been submitting to comply with the new rules, I guess just add quote marks and make sure to indicate where I've removed words or sentences. As a book seller, I've regretted that so few titles in ISFDB had synopsis, as I like to make sure what I'm selling includes them, which is what has forced me into transcribing so many from the books. I'm glad to help make up for this lack with my efforts so that other people will have them for the future. RedDragonBooks 18:01, 6 September 2020 (EDT)

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