User talk:Gervaisharry

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Xcrath!
Hi, and welcome. I approved your submission. I have a question about it: Beyond that question, I made a couple of minor changes to what you submitted: See what you think. You may want to move either or both links from the author page to Notes on the Xcrath! title. If you need any help, just ask. You can reply here by editing this section. Indent your responses by adding colons (":") at the beginning of the line, one colon per level of indentation. Don't forget to "sign" your responses by using the signature button at the top of the editor or typing " ~ " (four tildes) at the end -- the Wiki software will replace that with your user name and a timestamp. Sorry this got so long. Again, welcome, and thank you for contributing. --MartyD 12:30, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I see you provided a publication date for the CreateSpace edition as 2004-00-00, but the CreateSpace link you provided lists 2005-03-03 as the publication date. Is this latter date correct?  We have two dates related to publications -- the publication's date (in this case, it might be 2005-03-03), and the title's first publication date.  So if the Trafford publication was 2004-00-00, that would be the title's date.  A publication contains a title, and the two dates can be different.
 * For largish paperbacks, we use "tp" (trade paper back) instead of "pb". "pb" is only used for what was once the common standard paperback size and smaller.  Help:Screen:EditPub has many details about this.
 * In general, unless the capitalization in the title has special meaning, we regularize capitalization to be normal mixed-case. See Help:Screen:EditPub for lots of details, but the end result is I changed "XCRATH!" to "Xcrath!".
 * The image URL needs to be a link to an actual image file (such as a jpg or gif), not to a website. On top of that, the display style used actually puts a load on the linked-to server (so-called "deep linking"), so we can only make links to places that have given us permission to do so.  See Help:Screen:EditPub for lots of details about that.  I change the http://www.xcrath.ca/ you provided to this link to Amazon (to which we do have permission to link).
 * The Publisher Series is for something like "Ace Double" or "Ballantine Adult Fantasy" -- a publisher's label for a set of otherwise unrelated publications. You provided https://www.createspace.com/3355256 for this, which isn't really appropriate.  For now, I've moved both this link and the xcrath.ca link to the new  record as author webpage links.  The former had good biographical information, the latter seems like your personal website.