User talk:S. Qiouyi Lu

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Hello, S. Qiouyi Lu, 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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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.

Please be careful in editing publications that have been primary verified by other editors. See Help:How to verify data#Making changes to verified pubs. But if you have a copy of an unverified publication, verifying it can be quite helpful. See Help:How to verify data for detailed information.

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! Mhhutchins|talk 17:23, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Webzine eligibility

I'm holding your submissions to add publication records for the webzine Inkscrawl to the ISFDB. The current ISFDB policy is that webzines are only eligible for inclusion under specific conditions. The Rules of Acquisition states:

Works published in a web-based publication (webzine) and available only as an HTML readable file are not eligible for inclusion with the following exceptions:

• It is published by a market which makes the author eligible for SFWA membership (listed here).
• It has been shortlisted for a major award. (This last may include works which are self-published by an author on their own website. Otherwise such works are not eligible.)

Based on this policy it doesn't appear that Inkscrawl is eligible. Do you have further information that would allow it to be indexed in the ISFDB? If so, please respond here. I regret that you made so much effort into creating these records, since the policy as outlined here is linked to the front page of the ISFDB wiki. Also, posting a question on the ISFDB: Community Portal would have helped as well. Mhhutchins|talk 17:32, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Reviews of ineligible titles

The policy of inclusion states:

• Reviews of media products (films, TV shows, games, music and dramatized recordings), stage productions, magazines and fanzines (regardless of their genre), and books that are not eligible for inclusion in the database (graphic novels, nongenre novels by authors that are below the threshold, nonassociational nonfiction works), should not be entered into the "Review" section of the data entry form. A record should be created in the "Regular Titles" section typed as ESSAY. If the review is not titled, this title format is suggested: Review of "Work" by Responsible Person(s). Descriptions of the type of work are also encouraged.

So I have deleted the REVIEW of The History of White People in this publication and added a content record as an ESSAY. Thanks. Mhhutchins|talk 00:31, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

About the ...

I accepted your edits to The SEA Is Ours, but deleted the "About the Authors" and "About the Editors" entries. We generally do not include these as content records unless they are of substantial length or quality. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 00:40, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Also, you should provide the source for the data in the record's Note field. If the data is from a primary source (the publication itself), then you should do a primary verification of the record. This would have been done automatically during the entry process if the correct selection of the source had been made. Thanks. Mhhutchins|talk 00:44, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Interview of Chandler Davis

Is this interview of the author who is usually credited as Chan Davis? If it isn't that author, and the interviewee is an unknown author, we will have to disambiguate their name. If it is not an author or sf personality, the INTERVIEW record should be removed and deleted, and it should be replaced by a new record typed as ESSAY. Thanks. Mhhutchins|talk 00:41, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Based on the biographic blurb that accompanies the interview, it is indeed Chan Davis. Thanks! S. Qiouyi Lu 14:27, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I've updated the interviewee field of the record. When a non-canonical form of the name is given as the interviewee, it must be corrected to the canonical name. But we don't change a pseudonymously credited interviewer or the title of the interview...only the interviewee. Mhhutchins|talk 18:51, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Account confirmation via e-mail

Our e-mail has been fixed and you should be able to force a new confirmation e-mail to be sent using the My Preferences at the top of this page. Sorry about the hassle! Ahasuerus 03:06, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

I was able to confirm my email; thanks so much! S. Qiouyi Lu 14:28, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Primary (transient) verifications

Thanks for adding contents to the various publications you submitted for! As you noted that these were based upon transient verifications you'll likely want to document it (and we encourage that): this is possible via the left tool bar. Also it is recommended to change the note texts for the respective publications, as the former deducted data and contents are now ensured (or modified). Thank you very much for your contributions! Stonecreek 16:14, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

By "documenting" do you mean verifying the pubs (which I have done) or adding notes to the listing? Also, how do I handle older pub notes if the primary pub has a vaguer publication date and doesn't include price anywhere? Thanks! S. Qiouyi Lu 16:22, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Glitter & Mayhem

I should not have accepted your submission adding a new publication record for this title, as there was already one in the database. The duplicate publication record will have to be deleted. I'll also have to delete the title records for all of the contents you added to the duplicate publication record. Please be certain that a publication isn't in the database before making a submission to create a new record. As you can see, it causes some unnecessary work...for both of us. Thanks. Mhhutchins|talk 19:09, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

I will delete the duplicate records after you've responded to this post. Mhhutchins|talk 19:18, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

My apologies—I searched "glitter mayhem" and it didn't show up, but I'm seeing that it does show up if I search "glitter & mayhem". I'll be sure to double-check in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience. S. Qiouyi Lu 19:21, 14 January 2016 (UTC)