User talk:Mhhutchins


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"The Bleeding Man", by Craig Strete
I added the cover artist for this book (your copy didn't have a dust jacket) based on the dust jacket credit for my library binding edition of that book. Based on the same edition, I also added a cover image. Chavey 16:48, 10 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for adding the artist credit. I will update the record to give your edition as the source. Thanks. Mhhutchins 18:08, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Cover image for Soucoupe volante
Thank you for your tips. I'll have another go at it soon — but not tonight, Josephine Mhhutchins ! Linguist 23:01, 13 January 2014 (UTC).


 * If you need further assistance, just ask. I could walk you through the steps. BTW, wiki etiquette suggests that you respond to messages on the pages on which the discussion began. I know it may sound silly at first, but it keeps everything in one place, and makes it easier to follow the discussion. Thanks! Mhhutchins 23:05, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Bone Dance
I have added a slight bit of content to Bone Dance by Emma Bull. MLB 00:12, 16 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I'll accept the submission, but such pieces fall into the category of "Totally Unnecessary and Trivial Content", in my humble opinion. Mhhutchins 00:36, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Testing new messages notification
Let's see how well it works... Ahasuerus 18:44, 22 January 2014 (UTC)


 * The white text on gold background (to my eyes) doesn't pop as much as I would have expected. It also opens in "diff" mode. Is it possible to just go directly to the talk page itself? The editor should be able to figure out what's been added by the dates of the posts. (I never liked the "diff" mode from the start, and would just go directly to my talk page instead of clicking on the "My Messages" link. Maybe that's just me. I think most editors new to the wiki environment would be even more confused by the "diff" display.) Thanks. Mhhutchins 18:48, 22 January 2014 (UTC)


 * That's a good point about the "diff" mode. I'll see if I can change it later tonight. Ahasuerus 19:16, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Pictures lie
Mine seem too, anyway (I don't know about Katherine MacLean's) : I tried to upload with a better definition than the existing one, but it came out exactly the same. I must have done something wrong, but what ? Any idea ? Thank you in advance, Linguist 20:32, 23 January 2014 (UTC).


 * Hit the "F5" button on your keyboard. When you loaded the original image, your browser kept it in your cache. The ISFDB server doesn't have an auto-refresh, so you have to do it manually (with the "F5" key in most browsers) and that will clear you cache. Then you'll see the image you uploaded. It's something that has happened to ALL of us. Mhhutchins 20:38, 23 January 2014 (UTC)


 * OK, thank you for the explanation ! Linguist 22:13, 23 January 2014 (UTC).


 * Magic ! It works ! (as the incomplete enchanter eventually said). Linguist 22:17, 23 January 2014 (UTC).

Journey Into Space
There are two Pan editions of Charles Chilton's Journey Into Space (more easily seen via the cover art record). One is primary verified and the other is a Tuck verification by you. I suspect the primary verifier might have missed your record (or was confused by the price on the cover image though that looks like it was added by a reseller; at least it doesn't match the price in your record) and created a new record. Mind checking to see if you think these should be consolidated into a single record? Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 19:32, 25 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm pretty sure that's what happened (the verifier was confused by the stickered image, even though the price is stated in the record, and whoever added the image to the record didn't note the discrepancy.) I'll delete the original record and ask the verifier of the second one to confirm the price as given by Tuck. Thanks for finding this. Mhhutchins 19:44, 25 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I've decided to keep both records in the database. A check with the verifier of the other record shows that it is not priced at all. As I surmised to him, his copy was probably printed for the overseas market. I've replaced the image of the original record with one that clearly shows the price. Thanks again. Mhhutchins 21:07, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Fixer changes
Well, it looks like we are getting there. The only concern that I have is that moving Amazon's "page count" data to Notes may have made it easier to miss CHAPTERBOOKs like "Spying on Gods".

BTW -- not that it has anything to do with ebooks -- it would appear that the editor of Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume IV is Brian James Lewis, "president of the Empire & Great Jones Creative Arts Foundation", rather than the artist who died in 1978. Ahasuerus 05:39, 29 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for finding that. I'll disambiguate Lewis into another author. About overlooking CHAPTERBOOKS, it would be no more harder to look for it in the Note field than in the Page Count field. (If the Moderator is one who looks for such things to begin with.) While we're on the subject of Fixer, even though the Amazon categorizes a publication as ANTHOLOGY, he always types it as NOVEL. Was that intentional? Mhhutchins 06:43, 29 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Originally Fixer submitted Amazon's "anthologies" as ISFDB ANTHOLOGIES. Unfortunately it turned out that Amazon was using the term "anthology" to describe single-author collections as well as multi-author anthologies, so it was causing more trouble than it was worth. Especially considering the fact that it takes only one edit to change a NOVEL to a COLLECTION/ANTHOLOGY, but multiple edits to change an ANTHOLOGY to a COLLECTION.


 * However, now that I am thinking about it, Amazon tends to list anthology authors as well as editors, so perhaps it may be possible to fine-tune the algorithm by looking at the number of authors in the Amazon record. I'll see what I can do :) Ahasuerus 17:16, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

James Bama
Michael, the book James Bama: American Realist appears as it should in Bama's Summary Bibliograpy, but the cover (also by Bama) does not. How come? Bob 18:56, 31 January 2014 (UTC)


 * It's there as a variant. (Doing a title search would have found it.) When you added this publication, I remembered the cover art as a Doc Savage paperback. So I did a quick search of his Doc Savage covers and found it. Mhhutchins 19:17, 31 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Figured you would know. Thanks. Bob 20:08, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Change needed to Science Fiction Review #18
There is a missing review in Science Fiction Times Aug. 1976. It is of Robert E. Howard's A Witch Shall Be Born (Grant, 1975) by Richard E. Geis on p. 42. This was verified by personal communication with James Van Hise, who reprints said review in his Sword & Fantasy #7. Lee 17:32, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Storylen bug
Based on our recent discussion I have done some further digging and found the Title Merge bug that was causing storylen values to be set to "None". As luck would have it, the bug was fixed on 2014-01-24 as a side effect of the Series Number changes, so we should be all set. Unless, of course, there is some other place in the software where the value of "None" is not handled correctly. Oh well, one bug at a time :-) Ahasuerus 04:23, 8 February 2014 (UTC)