User talk:Nik Neville

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Hello,, and welcome to the ISFDB Wiki! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
 * Help pages
 * What the ISFDB Wiki is for
 * ISFDB FAQ
 * Help:Screen:EditPub - Warning and a note on how to update a publication's contents
 * Wiki editing help - Tips on how to use the wiki-specific features when editing wiki pages.

I hope you enjoy editing here! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~&#126;); this will insert your name and the date. If you need help, check out the community portal, or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! -DES Talk 22:28, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Author data
There are some format issues with your author data update to the record.


 * The legal name field, unlike our other fields, is entered in the format "Lastname, Forenames", in this case "Brown, William Slater".


 * All dates must be in the format "YYYY-MM-DD" or the software will not recognize them. When a day or a month is unknown, use "00" for that element, but do not omit it. "0000-00-00" means an unknown date, used for undated publications, but not on author records.


 * Wikipedia does not permit us to link directly to their images -- you must download a copy and upload back to the ISFDB.


 * The Wikipedia link should be to an article, if one exists, not to an image. The image link should be to the ISFDB itself, or to a site that has given us linking permission. See ISFDB:Image linking permissions and Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki.

I am going to reject this edit, and re-enter the data in the correct formats. -DES Talk 22:37, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

There was a somewhat similar problem with. Again the format "1999" does not work, it must be "1999-00-00". Silly, but that is computers for you.

Also, your submitted website works only for a user who is logged into the site, so i had to delete it. Otherwise the submission is fine, and i approved it and re-edited to deal with those points. -DES Talk 22:56, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Please read Help:Screen:AuthorData for more on entering author data. -DES Talk 22:56, 3 November 2008 (UTC)