User talk:Ahasuerus
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A Gift from Earth
I have what appears to be the same printing/edition as [this]. However, my copy [printed in Canada] has the ISBN as 0-345-02296-3 on spine and copyright page. I'm assuming yours is a US edition. Could the error have been corrected for the CDN edition or is the number in the record incorrect? Thanks! --~ Bill, Bluesman 04:13, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
- Oops, that was my bad. Fixed now, thanks! Ahasuerus 06:24, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks! Added an image and expanded the notes. --~ Bill, Bluesman 17:35, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks! Ahasuerus 17:40, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Odd tag
Added some data and an image to [The Radio Beasts] which has a very odd tag "THRDBSTSWJno d". A leftover from old code or an error? --~ Bill, Bluesman 18:51, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Brings up another question: on records that had dates of '0000-00-00' but a source for the date has been found, is there any way of updating the tag so the new date is appended? --~ Bill, Bluesman 18:53, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, "Edit Pub" allows you to edit the Publication Tag. But I wouldn't recommend doing so, you may accidentally create a duplicate tag (which causes problems) or break a tenuous link between an ISFDB Cover Image and a Publication, or maybe even kill a link from an external source. Too much risk for my taste, especially when it's purely cosmetic (we mostly depend on Pub IDs instead now). BLongley 20:28, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
- Kind of what I figured. Thanks! --~ Bill, Bluesman 22:47, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Comic series "Kosmiczny detektyw" in "Fantastyka"
Ahasuerus, beginning with "Fantastyka 2'82" starts a comic series "Kosmiczny detektyw" ('Cosmic P. I.') by the trio Parowski, Rodek and Polch. Each issue has it's own title (f. e. "Licencja" ('Licence') in "F 2'82" or "Zodiakalna afera" ('Zodiac Affair') in "F 3'82"). All issues tell the story of Funky Koval, ex-Space Force-pilot. Nowadays there are four hardcover issues of the whole series, but it started in 1982 in "Fantastyka". Now comes my question: How do I handle such a series of artwork? Zoltar 12:10, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Stanisław Lem's canonical name is wrong
Hi, I just tried to edit Lem's data and got this error: Canonical name 'Stanisław Lem' already exists, duplicates are not allowed. Well, that's strange. Is a canonical name valid in english-speaking countries only? For in Poland he always used "Stanisław Lem"... Zoltar 07:38, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
- "Canonical name" is the name that "the SF world" uses to refer to the author. For example, William Fitzgerald Jenkins was a prolific pulp writer who published literally hundreds of western, adventure stories and science fiction stories as "Will F. Jenkins" , "William Fitzgerald", and "Murray Leinster". Most of his *SF* stories appeared as by "Murray Leinster", so we use Leinster as the canonical name even though his legal name was "William Fitzgerald Jenkins". In the final analysis, this doesn't really matter all that much because the rest of the names that he used are listed in the database as pseudonyms and you can jump from each pseudonym to the Murray Leinster Summary page with one mouse click.
- In Lem's case, we first entered his English language titles (back in 1995 when ISFDB was created.) All of them had been published as by "Stanislaw Lem", so that became his canonical name. When his Polish titles were entered ca. 2007, our support for Unicode characters was still weak, so many titles were entered as by "Stanislaw" even though they had appeared as by "Stanisław". Ideally, we should change all of his Polish titles to the "Stanisław" form of the name and then decide whether the canonical form should be "Stanisław" or "Stanislaw". I think that "Stanisław" is more appropriate, but it will mean undoing and redoing quite a few variant title relationships, so it will take a while. Ahasuerus 09:22, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
- I see. Soon I will start updating Lem's polish titles, that's why I asked. Well, I'll submit them for Stanislaw Lem, no problem :) Zoltar 09:48, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Cover credit for The Towers of Utopia
Artist for this pub is Bruce Pennington, based on the credited use of the same cover art here. I'll update the record. Mhhutchins 18:25, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks! Ahasuerus 19:00, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Cover art credit for Delta Pavonis
Can you confirm the spelling of the cover artist's credit in this record? If the spelling is correct, please make the cover art record into a variant by Peter Scanlan. I've set up "Peter Scanlon" as a pseudonym for Peter Scanlan. Thanks. Mhhutchins 05:17, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- VT created and Notes updated. Thanks! Ahasuerus 06:32, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
