User talk:Davidleesummers

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Publication Series
This is a relatively new category and a number of editors, new and old, have entered books incorrectly using this field. It is intended for Publishers' Series, not Author Series. Examples would be Ace or TOR Doubles, Avon Rediscovery and so on. To properly create an Author Series [or a series of books by several authors but one Universe, like Star Trek or Star Wars, etc.] once a title record has been created [and it doesn't matter how many editions/publications are a part of that record] the series can then be created from the title record. As an example, your novel [Pirates of Sufiro]. From this page you would select "Edit Title Data" from the "Editing Tools" on the left side which would give you [this] page. You can see the fields for Series and Series Number. Enter the information and submit. Be careful that the Series name is identical for each entry as any difference will create another Series, so punctuation, spacing needs to be consistent. From your [Bibliography] page, you can see that I've created the series Old Star/New Earth for your other novel Children of the Old Stars. There is no need to add the word Series as the display already has it under "Fiction Series". If you want to re-do the existing edits, that's fine, or I can do them for you. Cheers! And, again, welcome! --~ Bill, Bluesman 17:29, 1 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for the welcome and the help! I have just given the edit a try with The Pirates of Sufiro.  If it looks like I have that correct, I'll see about adding Heirs of the New Earth again.  Thanks so much, David.  Davidleesummers 14:23, 2 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, that looks correct. BLongley 14:45, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Heirs of the New Earth
I accepted the submission adding this record, but had to make some changes in order for it to conform to ISFDB standards (see the help link in the Welcome section above). We can only link to images on servers for which we've been given explicit permission. I removed the link you provided and added a link to the image on Amazon.com. I also changed the ISBN-10 to the ISBN-13, and dated it based on the listing on Amazon. If either of these are incorrect please make a submission updating the record. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 15:05, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

The changes appear to be correct. Thanks for the information and for making the corrections so the entry conforms to ISFDB standards. Davidleesummers 08:31, 18 November 2010 (UTC)