User talk:Zinnia

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A Favor for a Fiend

Hello, I've approved your submission with a few changes: 1) added currency symbol (I supposed USD), 2) deleted PubSeriesNum (redondant with SeriesNum), 3) changed format to tp as per dimensions given by amazon. The result is here. Hauck 17:47, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Initials

When submitting author names with initials, they should be entered with a space after the period. So for example, "R.S. Pyne" would be entered as "R. S. Pyne". I have made the necessary corrections in In a Cat's Eye. We do appreciate your submission. ISFDB has some conventions that need learning, but everything should be in the help links in the welcome message above. We hope you will continue to contribute. And please let us know if you have any questions (ISFDB:Help desk is a good resource for asking). -- JLaTondre (talk) 03:12, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Yes, please have an eye on that. There were some (E.T.A. Hoffmann, for example) whose names had to be corrected for Swords & Steam Short Stories. For this anthology, there now has to be done some merging for previously published fiction. Do you know how it's done? Stonecreek 04:48, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
Couldn't find Stonecreek's talk page to reply, so hope this is another good way to do so. Thanks, Stonecreek, for the info that users will have to be merged. Sorry! I don't know how to do that (and will look on the help pages.) I'll do better next time. Zinnia 01:22, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

The Dragon's Hoard

Hi. I accepted your submission adding The Dragon's Hoard, but I have also found a second submission for what looks like the same anthology, which I have on hold. There are a few differences in the proposed contents, plus some additional page numbers. Are these two different editions of the same book, or two submissions for information about the same book? If the latter, then you should propagate any changes from your other submission into that (and cancel the other submission). If they're different, that's fine, and I will accept the held one. Some of the differences I notice:

  • "When the Next Wind Blows" credited to H. Holt vs. K. I. J Anderson
  • additional "Mosaic" by K. L. J. Anderson on p. 71
  • page numbers for things prior to p. 120

I'm guessing these are the same, and there's a correction to be made to When the Next Wind Blows (plus the addition of "Mosaic")? If that's the case, you can change both, and add the page numbers, by clicking on the publication link I gave at the top and using Edit This Pub. In there, you can work with all of the contents, so supply the page numbers, change the authorship of "When the Next Wind Blows" to H. Holt, and add another content title for "Mosaic". If you need any help, just ask. If my guess is right but you'd rather I made the changes, let me know. Thanks. --MartyD 12:09, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have told you to respond here. The community has settled on keeping entire conversations on one talk page, with the poster responsible for watching for responses. So to answer your follow-up questions:
  • Question, because I did forget Mosaic in the TOC the first time, and entered it at the bottom of the entries when I updated. Is there a problem entering TOC contents out of order? (If so, how do I make it right?...)
No, there is no problem entering them out of order. The display sorts by page number (and has some clever handling for roman-numeral pages that appear before arabic-numeral pages). The page number mechanism also allows you to provide sorting hints (which can be used to override/augment sorting by page numbers and to force sorting in publications that have no page numbers at all).
  • Also: the poem is on an unnumbered page, and it looks as though I've forgotten the page number. Should I make a note of that?
Yes, noting it is on an unnumbered page at location X is a good idea. But you can probably also give it a page number, depending on where it appears. If it's between other numbered pages, you can just give it the appropriate page number (e.g., if there were a page numbered "1", followed by an unnumbered page with the poem, followed by a page numbered "3", you'd just assign it "2"). If it's before the page numbering starts or after the page numbering ends, you can count backward/forward and put the resulting number in brackets (e.g., if the first page number is "9" and the poem appears on an unnumbered page before that, you could use "[8]").
More details and examples are available in Help:Screen:EditPub#Page. Please ask if anything is unclear. Also, don't be afraid to make your best guess and submit a change -- use the Note to the Moderator to explain what you're trying to do and what you're unsure of, and whoever handles the submission will be able to help you out. --MartyD 15:03, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
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