User talk:Chris Winter

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Ringworld Engineers edition
Hello! I responded to Your Help Desk post. Follow the link to read and respond further, please. -DES Talk 00:21, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I see you submitted the data for your publication, and it was accepted. Now for the cover image -- do you have a scanner or access to one, and would you be willing to scan and upload a cover image? If so i can help if you would like. -DES Talk 03:25, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I have access to a scanner and have a cover image ready to go, at what I think is an appropriate size and resolution. Please let me know what the guidelines are for those, and also tell me how to upload the image.Chris Winter 18:15, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The usual standard is that uploaded images should be less than 600 pixels in the longest dimension. In some cases some editors upload larger images when they feel it is essential to clearly show the cover images involved. However, overly large cover images take up a disproportionate amount of storage on our server. Also, relatively high-resolution images could harm our case for fair use if anyone ever challenged it -- which no one has to date.
 * To upload a cover image, you must be logged in to both the ISFDB and the ISFDB wiki.
 * From the, click the link labeled "Upload cover image". This will open an ISFDB wiki upload form in another browser window or tab, and fill in a license template with data from the publication record. It will also set the file name to the publication tag.
 * Fill in the path and name of, or browse to, the file on your local computer.
 * Click "Upload file".
 * 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".) This is the URL which you will enter into the pub record's "Image URL" field.
 * Edit the you started from. (It will be linked to on the image description page).
 * Insert the image URL from the wiki (see above) into the "Image URL" field. Click "Submit data".
 * See Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki for more details. You will be using the "semi-automated procedure". I hope this is helpful. -DES Talk 18:41, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Also you might want to verify the record. -DES Talk 03:28, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I did that thing.Chris Winter 18:32, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Time Story
The submission adding a record for the tenth printing of this title was accepted. A question: is the price and catalog number the exact same as the first printing? Thanks. Mhhutchins 22:43, 9 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, both are exactly the same &mdash; in the upper right corner of the front cover. Chris Winter 17:03, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Isle of Woman
I placed your submission to add a new publication of Anthony's "Isle of Woman" on hold for several reasons. The note you added states Copyright page says: "First edition: September 1993 First mass market edition: September 1994" Printing history line: "0 9 8 7 6 5 4". This means it's a fourth printing (the last number in the printing line). We already have a fourth printing in the database here. The only real difference was the price, which we had as $7.99. I checked Locus1, and corrected it to $6.99. Please consider dropping the submission, and verifying the existing 4th printing. Other (minor) issues with your submission are the publisher (you entered it as "Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.", we regularise the name to "Tor") and the binding (you entered PB, this should be the lower case pb). You also entered the title series (Geodyssey) as a publication series (the difference is explained here. Don't let this get you down, thanks for editing! --Willem H. 10:15, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I have no problem in withdrawing my entry. As I say, I'm just getting up to speed with the conventions here. I do have one question: The existing record has a page count of 476. I guess you're counting everything from the title page through the last numbered page, which is #470. The math works out right. Chris Winter 23:13, 11 December 2011 (UTC)


 * How we handle the page count (and a load of other topics) is explained on this page (under 1.5). In short, you take the last printed pagenumber, unless the text (novel, story) ends on an unnumbered page, then you count forward to the end of the text. I just checked my copy of the 1st printing, and saw I had to correct the page count from 476 to 470. Thanks for pointing me there! --Willem H. 19:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)