User talk:Steve823

Welcome!

Hello, Steve823, 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:

• Help pages
• Field-by-field guide to entering new publications into the database
• Help:Getting Started
• What the ISFDB Wiki is for
• FAQ
• Wiki editing help - Tips on how to use the wiki-specific features when editing wiki pages.
• Wiki Conventions - How things are usually done on this wiki.
• Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki

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 02:22, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Linking uploaded cover images to publication records

Thanks for uploading cover images to the ISFDB wiki. The next step is to link those images to the records of the books for which these are the covers. As the instructions (step 6) explain:

Once the file has been uploaded, the image's wiki page will appear. In order to get the URL (address) for the image you just uploaded, left click anywhere on the image and copy the URL from your browser's address window. (Or right click on the image and choose "Copy Image Location".) If you're adding a cover image to a pub record, this is the URL which you would enter into the pub record's "Image URL" field.

So once you have the image's URL, go back to the pub record (it's linked on the image's wiki page) and then click the "Edit This Pub" link under the Editing Tools menu. This opens up an edit page. Under the Publication Metadata section, there's a field labeled "Image URL:" Enter the URL of the image you uploaded into this field, and then click on the "Submit Data" button at the bottom of the page. Once the submission has been moderated the cover image will be linked to the publication record. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 02:24, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Improper file upload

This file was improperly uploaded to the ISFDB server. Please go to the publication record and click on the link "Upload cover scan" and follow the procedure. The image will have to be first reduced to no more than 600 pixels tall. After it is uploaded, go back to the record, choose "Edit This Pub" and enter the URL of the image in the "Image URL" field. Once you've done that look at the wiki pages of both image files to understand why the file should be uploaded from the database, and not from the wiki. After that I will have to delete the original upload. Mhhutchins 01:56, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Unreasonable Facsimile

Hello, a first point: please do not use a bogus submission to ask a question, post it directly of the specific pages of the wiki. For the core of your remark, what you mean is not particularly clear. We have a record for Unreasonable Facsimile and another for Imitation of Death that are in no way linked. Do you mean that the short story titled Unreasonable Facsimile in the diverse versions of Early Del Rey is in fact Imitation of Death under a new title? Thanks. Hauck 06:03, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

I checked on my shelves and I can confirm that it's the case for the occurence of Unreasonable Facsimile whose texts matches the occurence of Imitation of Death. Hauck 06:12, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Without reply, I've made some corrections based on data from my shelves and rejected the submission. Hauck 06:45, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Terraforming Earth

Hello, concerning your submission; as a reminder, you should have edited the title record instead of providing the information in the Note to Moderator field. I've accepted your submission to retain the source of the change, and added the information you provided to the title record. MagicUnk 08:45, 1 August 2022 (EDT)