User talk:Dsorgen

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Removal of page content
I would have hoped that you had moved the content to an archive page before deleting it. This would have made it easier for those who had asked questions and recorded comments to check their status. Please reconsider the decision. Thanks. Mhhutchins 05:25, 2 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I have created an archive of the old content in anticipation of the upcoming purge of old versions. Ahasuerus 23:26, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Appreciated. Thanks, Harry. --Dragoondelight 23:10, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Wild Cards Dealer's Choice
Date of 1st edition is incorrect. Editing to correct. --Astromath 05:32, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

The Moon and the Sun
Replaced the amazon scan on your verified here and added notes. Hauck 14:13, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Spelling Error
I added a missing space to the author's name here0 [[User:Jonschaper|Jonschaper] 01:56, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

New Dreams for Old
Replaced the amazon scan on your verified here and added note. Hauck 15:56, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Berserker lies
Added a scan to your verified here and added note and guess at the artist. Hauck 16:53, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

The Diamond Age
Added a scan and notes to your verified here. Hauck 16:27, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Legacies
Morning! This. . I added notation and cover image after matching my copy to your ver. Thanks, Harry. --Dragoondelight 13:32, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Shockball
Morning! This. . I added a cover image/notation after matching my copy to your ver. Thanks, Harry. --Dragoondelight 14:08, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Finity's Ends - adds
Afternoon! This. . I added notation and changed the cover image to ISFDB after matching my copy to your ver. Thanks, Harry. --Dragoondelight 21:43, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Down to Earth
Replaced the amazon scan on your verified here. Hauck 18:33, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Beyond Varallan
Replaced the amazon scan on your verified here and added scan for Stardoc also for this pub. Hauck 11:56, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

City on Fire
Replaced the amazon scan on your verified here and added note. Hauck 14:36, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

The Madness Season - added notation
Morning! This. . I have the alternate cover as stated by Locus 1 and added notation to the record. Thanks, Harry. --Dragoondelight 11:36, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Island of Doctor Death and Other and Other Stories - added cover/notation/changed one story title
Afternoon! This. . After matching my cover to your ver, I added a matching cover image, added notation, and changed one story title to match it on story title page. Thanks, Harry. --Dragoondelight 19:10, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

The Halloween Tree cover upload
You uploaded a cover for at more or less the same time as you edited the pub record to add the artists' names, and before a moderator could approve the change. That meant that the automated upload did not catch the artist's names and I had to edit Image:BKTG21540.jpg manually to properly record the artists on the image page. In future it would be best to wait for any artist change to be approved before using "upload new cover" unless you are willing to edit the image page yourself. -DES Talk 16:41, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

edit to The Fury Out of Time
Hi. Don't know if you can see your submission. I've placed it on hold in case you can. It contains no changes to. Your two other submissions around that time added ISFDB-hosted cover images, so I'm guessing maybe you were doing that here and hit Enter without pasting the URL? --MartyD 17:10, 4 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I've rejected the submission due to lack of response here. I hope the info above will be enough to help you figure out what you intended.  Thanks.  --MartyD 00:05, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

The Shadow of Ararat - made notation etc.
Afternoon! This. . I matched my copy to your ver and then added notation, including that my edition was not affected by note. Thanks, Harry. --Dragoondelight 21:49, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Notifications
I REALLY REALLY wish that you would notify verifiers when you add cover images or other content to primary-verified publications. It is a courtesy and the normal practice here, as you should know. -DES Talk 03:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Flames Across the Border: 1813-1814
You submitted an entry for Flames Across the Border: 1813-1814 which you listed as NONGENRE. However, it appears to be in fact NONFICTION, this is a straight work of history about a section of the War of 1812 between Canada and the US. The author currently has only one work on file at the ISFDB, and his wikipedia page lists him as primarily a writer of non-faction. This book appears to be OUT according to the Rules of Acquisition #10. If rhere is any reason for including the work, please post it here. -DES Talk 18:34, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Rejected after lack of response. -DES Talk 05:12, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Chung Kuo: Book Eight: The Marriage of the Living Dark
You submitted a publication of Chung Kuo: Book Eight: The Marriage of the Living Dark. This apears to be a duplicate of, so i am rejecting it. -DES Talk 18:44, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Beneath the Tree of Heaven
You submitted an edit which added a cover image to and also added it to a new publication series, "Chung Kuo". The book is already part of a regular (title) series "Chung Kuo", and should not be made part of a publication series. See Help: How to work with series for more on publication series. -DES Talk 18:50, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

The Somnambulist
You have submitted an edit to add a cover image to , AND to change the publisher from "William Morrow / HarperCollins / SFBC to "Harper". Ifg your copy is an SFBC edition it should include "/ SFBC" in the publisher name, whatever else is there. If it is not, then you are updating the wrong publication. This submission is on hold pending your response here. -DES Talk 18:54, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * There was no trade paperback edition from the SFBC of this title. It looks like someone cloned the SFBC's hc edition, but forgot to change the publisher.  Submission looks good (see this OCLC record.) Mhhutchins 00:35, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah That makes sense. Will approve. In the mean tiem I have sent email to the address in the history of the talk page. -DES Talk 02:14, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * See ISFDB:Community Portal for a follow-up thread. -DES Talk 15:50, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Duplicate of Travellers in Magic by Goldstein
I accepted the submission adding the tp of this title, only to discover that it's already in the database. So I deleted the record from your submission (which was incorrectly titled Travelers in Magic.) Mhhutchins 23:36, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Topper
Expanded Notes in Topper from "First Ballantine Books edition" to "Stated first Ballantine Books edition. No number line. Cover artist credited on the copyright page." Ahasuerus 05:24, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Necromancer Nine
I added notes to this verified pub after a Verification request. If you see this, please check your copy for the ISBN. Thanks, --Willem H. 19:31, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, I know you won't respond, but just to let you know, the two entries are almost certainly the same. The ISBN on the backcover (0-441-56852-1) is used for Gordon Dickson's Necromancer. This means I deleted your's, if you want, you can verify this edition. --Willem H. 18:57, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Children of the Atom
I've put your proposed addition of the "O20"-coded Children of the Atom on hold. My reading of Help:How_to_enter_a_SFBC_publication is that we usually just record the additional gutter codes in the one publication (here, the ). It looks like the catalog number is identical. Do you see any differences other than the gutter code? Thanks, --MartyD 03:00, 29 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I rejected this submission and incorporated the note about the "O20" gutter code into and also updated the Wiki page.  --MartyD 14:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

The Trouble with Tycho
Just a note that I have moved the The Trouble with Tycho  cover scan that you recently uploaded from the 1976 printing of this book to the 1983 printing. If you take a closer look, you'll notice that although the art is the same, the rest of the cover is significantly different. Ahasuerus 19:32, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Mindswap
Added artist, Howard Darden, to [MNDSWPPMXX1978 Mindswap] witth the note: "Artist not credited but signature is visible". Signature appears to be identical {CDCSWLDGVF1978 to the one on this cover]. Thanks. P-Brane 01:44, 18 December 2010 (UTC).

Shallows of Night
I added an artist, notes and an actual cover scan, to Shallows of Night since I have the book in my possession. AndonSage 11:50, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Orion in the Dying Time
I added notes to your verified. AndonSage 03:25, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

The Dragons of the Cuyahoga
I uploaded a cover image to your verified. AndonSage 22:18, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Aldair: The Legion of Beasts
Added cover for your verified here. Hauck 09:24, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Changing Women
Hi, I've left a cover scan and notes for. Why is it dated 1992-06-00 instead of 1992-07-00? --Dirk P Broer 13:45, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
 * User:Chavey did a primary-2 verification that included adjusting the month and noting the book provides the month. --MartyD 09:54, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

The Phoenix Guards - cover and notes
I replaced the default Amazon cover image with a scanned image, and added notes to your verified. AndonSage 11:51, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

The Universal Prey
Added the OCLC record number. --Dirk P Broer 08:54, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Dominion
I uploaded a cover scan and added "First printing" on the copyright page under comments for http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?10561 Dominion by Fred Saberhagen. If you have a problem with these actions, please contact me. Biomassbob 03:17, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Sorry, I had to reject your submission for adding a publication to 'The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'. Reason: By our standards this is a variant title. What you can do is: Add a new anthology and enter the metadata (title, author, publisher etc.), but not the actual contents. These can be imported after the approval. You can make this before or after importing into a variant title of the original anthology (you'll need the title.cgi? number from the address window of your browser to do that). Stonecreek 13:43, 1 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I accepted the variant, but if it contains only 26 of the titles seen in The Best Fantasy Stories..., I wonder if it should just be a separate, unrelated title. That much of a difference strikes me as being a completely different anthology.  --MartyD 11:22, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

City on Fire Walter Jon Williams 1998
Added Tim White as cover artist in this pub BarDenis 16:56, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Guess I'm just wasting my time posting this but...
I held your submission adding the titles to this record because there were several problems. If you would respond to messages on your talk page, I could have saved you and me much time and effort.

Problem #1: You wasted a lot of time manually entering the contents of this record. It would have been a lot easier to just import the contents from this record (submission 1) and then removing any contents that were omitted from this edition (submission 2). Now there are 26 content titles that someone (read "me") will have to merge with the existing title records. That's 52 submissions, because I have to moderate each of the submissions as well.

Problem #2: For some reason you removed the image that you had uploaded. I can only assume this was a mistake, as why would you have uploaded it otherwise.

Problem #3: Your HTML is bad. Instead of using the break tag, you bolded (  ) the text, and by not closing the bold tag, it went over into the contents listing.

I'll merge the records, add the image back, and correct your HTML. It's very difficult to handle submissions from editors who won't communicate. Mhhutchins 04:18, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

There is No Darkness
cover art credit added for Jim Burns. The artwork itself appeared in his artbook Lightship.Ofearna 06:31, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

New Dreams for Old
In this verified pub I removed two of the notes ("Contents listing and artist (source: Locus index as of 2008-02-28) added to existing record." and "Locus index stated: page count 417, date Jun 2006. 'About the Author' p. 419. Previous page count in this record: 400."). These data are in the publication. I changed the pagecount from 417 to 419 and added other notes. --Willem H. 07:54, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

The Rediscovery of Man
I added the letter on p. 64 of your verified pub. I also added a note (and I hope all fits you and the copy you have). Stonecreek 19:35, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

The Planet on the Table cover artist
Just for the record, added a cover artist for The Planet on the Table based on my discussion here. Albinoflea 06:44, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

The Wild Shore
Added a cover scan, some notes, and entries for the maps to the first Ace printing. Albinoflea 04:24, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Cover image for The Prince of Christler-Coke
I had to add an image license to the file that your uploaded. In the future use the link "Upload cover scan" on the publication record, which will automatically add an image license, which is mandatory for all copyrighted images uploaded to the ISFDB server. Mhhutchins 01:25, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

A Judgment of Dragons
Corrected the Canada price on and added some information to notes. BungalowBarbara 04:21, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Wild Cards XI: Dealer's Choice
Re: Wild Cards XI: Dealer's Choice

Deleting "Wild Cards XI" from the title. Does not appear on title page. Adding notes about editor & assistant editor. Adding note about mosaic novel. Notifying verifiers of the changes.--Astromath 04:25, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Swan Song and one other submission
Hello, I accepted your submission and added your note to the moderator to the publication's note field. It'd be better, if you had done it by yourself. Much of the task of editing publications (& titles & information on other items) is in sourcing the information, so that others can see how the information was achieved. This publication is a good example.
 * It is etiquette to inform (active) primary verifiers of any change in the publication record. As there is at least one active PV (and one more transient PV) for The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr. you should have discussed the change with them before submitting. I have put your submission on hold waiting for it. Thanks, Stonecreek 14:41, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Cover image for Pocket ed. of The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr.
I will delete your second upload of this image file. The first upload, which replaced the old image, was sufficient. Once that was uploaded, there was no need to update the publication record, because the URL remained the same (only the image was replaced, not the URL). You may have uploaded a new file because you saw the old image when you tried to replace it. That's because the old one remained in your cache, which has to be cleared (F5 on most keyboards) before the new file you replaced it with is visible. You should cancel the submission that's currently in the queue that changes the URL. (Go to the link "My Pending Edits".) Thanks. Mhhutchins 15:14, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Editing primary verified records
It is ISFDB policy that you notify the editors who have primary-verified records which you want to update them. If the submission adds a link to a publication's cover image or adds notes to the record, it's OK to make the submission updating the record and then leave a note on the editor's talk page. (Many active editors have a message at the top of their talk page concerning their notification preferences.) If the submission changes or adds data in any other field, you must notify them before making the submission. Thanks for cooperating. Mhhutchins 21:50, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

The Dragons of Cuyahoga
I added some notes to The Dragons of Cuyahoga. Bob 17:02, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

The Ecologic Envoy
I added notes to The Ecologic Envoy. Bob 21:27, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

3 by Finney
Are you certain that the title given in this record is the one stated on the title page? Also, is there a printed price on the publication? Thanks for checking. Mhhutchins 20:58, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Because you don't respond to messages, I have no choice but to make changes based on the OCLC record. If this is wrong, don't make another submission to change it. Leave a message on my talk page. Mhhutchins 17:04, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Resnick's The Branch
How is your submission to add a new record for this title different from the one already in the database? Mhhutchins 02:49, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

I forgot that you don't respond to messages on your talk page. I will reject the submission. If your copy is not the same as the current record, make another submission and make it clear in the Note field how it is different. Mhhutchins 17:05, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

The Lovers
I've replace the Amazon link with a scan on http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?201005 Prof beard 15:39, 7 December 2013 (UTC)