User talk:Garybak

Welcome!
Hello,, 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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I hope you enjoy editing here! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~&#126;); 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 18:32, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

The Ardly Effect
Accepted the submission to add [this] publication to the DB, but had to make some changes to match the standards we employ. The binding of Trade paperback is short-formed as 'tp'. You downloaded the image correctly, but when using Amazon images, certain parts of the URL need to be deleted so the image shows properly. In every Amazon URL there will be ....L.xxxxxxxxx.jpg. The part I put as 'x's' usually covers the size of the image and if left in creates white borders of varying sizes. Once you've pasted the URL into the field, just delete everything between the periods and one of the periods so the final URL will end with ....L.jpg, which will eliminate everything which isn't the cover. You had entered data in the Publication Series fields that does not belong there. A Publication Series is used only for books that don't necessarily have anything to do with each other in the sense that an Author's series does [or series like Star Trek or Star Wars]. This type of series is more like the old ACE Doubles. If this book is part of a series, it can be created at the Title level. Now that the book is in the database, there is an associated [Title Record] that can be opened by clicking on the "Edit Title Data" from the editing options on the left side of the page. Once [there] you can see the lines for Series Name and Number where the data you had entered properly belongs. I also deleted the publisher's review blurbs from the synopsis as they do not form a part of the synopsis, not bibliographic. The Help pages, linked in the Welcome massage above, can explain a lot more of how the database/editing works. Cheers! Thanks for editing, and again welcome! --~ Bill, Bluesman 18:48, 4 February 2011 (UTC)