User talk:I.E.Lester

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Hello, I.E.Lester, 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:

Please be careful in editing publications that have been primary verified by other editors. See Help:How to verify data#Making changes to verified pubs. But if you have a copy of an unverified publication, verifying it can be quite helpful. See Help:How to verify data for detailed information.

I hope you enjoy editing here! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); 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 20:03, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Shroud #1

Thank you very much for your submisison of Shroud #1. I have approved it.

There are, however, a few changes i am going to have to make to conform to ISFDB style and practice.

  1. The ISFDB Normalizes author names with initals to have a space after the period. See Help:Screen:EditPub#Author, the section Initials.
  2. Since the ISSN does not identify particular issues, we do not list it in the ISBN/Catalog # field. Instead we list it on the magazine's wiki page, in this case Magazine:Shroud.
  3. Is it possible that "No I Lay Me Down to Dream" is a typo for "Now I Lay Me Down to Dream"?
  4. I presume that "What the Hell Was I Thinking?" was an editorial. Editorials are entered as ESSAYs. The EDITOR record is created automatically, and a user need add one only in rare cases where a record is damaged, or was entered in the very early days of the ISFDB.
  5. The NONFICTION type is for book-length non-fiction -- all shorter nonfiction works are entered with type ESSAY.
  6. Having entered an interview in the interviews section, there is no need to enter it again as an essay.
  7. Issue dates or issue numbers (dates are prefered) are placed at the end of a magazine's title. See Help:Screen:EditPub#Title, the sub-sections Magazines and Missing or variant dates.

All of these are relatively minor points, which i mention largely for your future information. The ISFDB is not as obvious as we might like, and all of the code and help text has been written by volunteers like me, and now like you.

Again, welcome, and thanks for your contributions. Do you have the other issues of Shroud available? we currently have only #4 on file. -DES Talk 23:49, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

The final result of my changes is here. Please check and see that no errors have been made. Again, thank you. -DES Talk 00:16, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Wolf's Gambit

I accepted your edit, but had to make a few adjustments: the ISBN is "978-0-8439-6249-9", you had "978-0-8439-6349-9": the price needed a currency symbol: and mass market paperback format is just entered as "pb". See here for the final result. Thanks for editing. BLongley 15:02, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Murky Depths #11

This pub. Nancy Farmer was credited as Nancy Famrer in the interview. Updated. Also "Dead Girls, Episode 3" should be "Dead Girls, Episode 3 (Part 3 of ?)". If you know how many parts are planned the ? can be changed to that number; otherwise we will have to wait until the serial is completed. Should "The Story of Andrew Haddock, Part II" also be a serial? Also created magazine series. Is it possible there is a more precise date for the publication.--swfritter 14:14, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Outer Reaches, #1

Created Editor series. As above, is there any possibility that there is a more precise date?--swfritter 14:24, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Murky Depths 14

I accepted your submission and corrected a couple of minor points:

  1. The NONFICTION type is for book-length non-fiction -- all shorter nonfiction works are entered with type ESSAY.
  2. The cover image link didn't work - it was probably a link the page the image was on, rather than the image itself

Thanks for editing! BLongley 17:05, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

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