User talk:Tinman

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Dreams and Visions: A Brief Journey into the Remarkable Imagination of Arthur Machen

Hello and welcome to ISFDB.

I have your submission temporary on hold because I have a few questions.

• Chapbooks are reserved for publications that contain a single story or poem. This looks like a non-fiction book. Am I correct?
• You added two separate covers. Can you give me some details about where the second cover is (so I can add them to the notes)?
• The ISBN you added cannot have been added in 1987 so either you have a later printing with the ISBN13 on it or I will need to swap it with a ISBN10. Which ISBN exactly is printed on the book?

Thanks in advance for any answers and as soon as I know how to handle this submission, I will approve and correct it. Annie 12:49, 14 June 2018 (EDT)

I approved it and did some changes based on my research online. Please look at the result and let me know if something needs changing. Annie 02:27, 18 June 2018 (EDT)

Hi Annie, thanks for the welcome and accepting my submission, and apologies for the delay in getting back to you. I only access isfdb occasionally, usually when I'm looking for something, and I haven't been back for a while. Re your queries:

• I tend to use chapbook for anything short but yes, this is non-fiction, perhaps pamphlet would be more accurate given it's length?
• No idea about the covers, I'll get back to you on that!
• it does have a 10 digit ISBN, 0948482044, I must have translated this to the 13-digit one thinking it was more precise

Author names

Hi, be sure to read this part of our wiki. before you enter author names.--Dirk P Broer 18:51, 24 November 2018 (EST)

it would have been helpful if you could have included, "specifically the use of capitals" here, instead of just on the reasons rejected section of the rejected page Tinman 16:21, 26 November 2018 (EST)

Images

Hi, be sure to read this part of our wiki before you place image links.--Dirk P Broer 18:52, 24 November 2018 (EST)

Your recent submission for adding A Brilliant Void

Hello, please respond to this: you seem not to have read the sections you were directed to above. I have put your submission on hold for that reason, as there would be many corrections to be made, and they could quite easily be avoided. So, thanks for contributing, but do read the instructions first (and tell us so here, please). Stonecreek 13:34, 26 November 2018 (EST)

Hi User:Stonecreek I can see what changes have been requested, even though not actually mentioned on this page, but I'm afraid I can't actually see how to make the changes as I'm not au fait with wiki editing

how do I make the changes to what I have already submitted please?

and is this possible with a rejected submission, or do I have to submit it again? Tinman 16:21, 26 November 2018 (EST)

Unfortunately, it's not possible to edit a rejected submission, you'll have to resubmit. Thanks, Stonecreek 23:31, 26 November 2018 (EST)

I have made "Mercia, the Astronomer Royal" marked as an excerpt, because it strongly seems to be one, and we do this with those. Thanks for the renewed submission. Stonecreek 03:34, 28 November 2018 (EST)

thanks Stonecreek, Mercia is indeed an excerpt

two other quick queries, why is Richard Dehan credited as the author of Lady Clanbevan's Baby & The Great Beast of Kafue when that is the pseudonym of Clotilde Graves, rather than the other way round, and it is Graves who is credited with those stories in this anthology?

what is the expected turnaround time between a submission being critiqued and then put on hold and/or being rejected? There was scarcely 43 hours between Dirk P Broer's comments and your putting my submission on hold, which actually seems to be a rejection Tinman 12:13, 28 November 2018 (EST)

The somewhat seemingly obscure way the titles are displayed is caused by our rule to usually go with the name connected to most of the titles by one author. See also this recent discussion.

The turnaround time depends on several factors: available moderator time and the number of submissions in the pipeline are the main ones. It also does help if there's a communication when there are questions or remarks. In every case, a submission put on hold should not be seen as rejected. It may take some time to come back to it, though. Thanks, Stonecreek 12:41, 28 November 2018 (EST)

sorry to protract this Stonecreek but at 13:34, 26 November 2018 you said my submission was on hold and when I tried to edit it at 16:21 it had been rejected. that does seem a very short period of grace. Is it always that short a period?

I don't normally log into ISFDB very frequently, does this mean I have to check it hourly if I have a submission or edit pending? Sorry about all this but I am very new to this and keen to do the right thing, but the guidance on the wiki is not always the clearest Tinman 14:38, 28 November 2018 (EST)

Sorry, but I don't know exactly what happened: to my memory you submitted the same entry two times, one of which I rejected. It is true that the other was gone when I looked again to work on it, but I thought you were the one who cancelled it. Stonecreek 13:06, 5 December 2018 (EST)

edits needed to The Yellow Sign submissions

1. #6 should have the cover artist as D J Tyrer and the internal artist as Steve Lines but I can't see a way to edit a pending submission until it's been moderated?
2. I have scans of the covers for both but I can't see how to add these at the submission stage though I think I can add those scans once they have been approved by a moderator?

Tinman 11:47, 5 December 2018 (EST)

Yes, that's the best way to do it: thus you'll have the necessary template attached to the image file.

If you allow, I'll manage the magazines in the way they're done here at ISFDB. One question remains: there are two cover artists for issue #7, is that correct, or shall it be the same way as for issue #6? Stonecreek 13:13, 5 December 2018 (EST)

• thanks, I wasn't sure if I was missing a button or link for adding the cover images
• please feel free to adjust these entries to fit the house style, I wasn't sure if the series should be the same as the magazine title or not. I have another 6 to add to this series but I'll wait until you've made the changes so that those can match the correct format
• also yes, apologies, both issues should have Tyrer as the cover artist and Lines as the interior artist. I thought I'd got it right with #7 but I seem to have selected cover artist twice by mistake. Cheers Tinman 15:43, 5 December 2018 (EST)

Done. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them. There does remain one on our part, the one on the format of the issues: which one is it for "The Yellow Sign"? Stonecreek 23:44, 5 December 2018 (EST)

thanks Stonecreek I've changed the format to A5, it's not as specific as I would have liked (staplebound, card covers) but it's the nearest of the options available Tinman 06:28, 6 December 2018 (EST)

Well, you always may add notes as detailed as you wish to a publication entry. Stonecreek 07:03, 6 December 2018 (EST)

The Yellow House

I accepted your edition of The Yellow House, but made a couple of changes:

• We no longer use CreateSpace as a publisher. They don't really fill the traditional publisher role. We either leave the publisher blank if not identified in the pub or, if self-published, we use the author as the publisher.
• When entering Amazon URLs for image, remove the the underscores and the stuff between them from the URL. So https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512pCpW2T2L._SX311_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg should be https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512pCpW2T2L.jpg

Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 17:07, 8 December 2018 (EST)

thanks JLaTondre , I didn't know about the CreateSpace thing but I'll bear that in mind for future as I have a few others from them to submit.

Does that also hold true for books published by lulu.com?

I spotted the warning about the Amazon image after I'd submitted it, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to go back and correct that until after it's been accepted, which is what I'd intended to do, so thanks for fixing that Tinman 09:24, 11 December 2018 (EST)

Query about "The Professor's Experiment"

Hi -- I am looking at your record for A Brilliant Void and have a question about "The Professor's Experiment" by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (page 105). We already have a record for a novel of that title by Hungerford. There's a note in the novel record that says "The 'experiment,' and the science fiction associated with that, lasts only up to p. 36 (in the original edition), at which point the story becomes a romance for the next 400 pages." So could it be that what's published in A Brilliant Void is just the science fiction part excerpted from the novel? Could you check, and if that's true, please put a note on the short story saying so. Also in that case you should change the title to "The Professor's Experiment (excerpt)" because when an excerpt has the same title as the full work, we add the notation (excerpt) to distinguish them. Thanks ... --Vasha (cazadora de tildes) 02:39, 16 December 2018 (EST)