User talk:Jrickers

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Adding publications to ISFDB

You submitted an addition of the anthology Decades of Science Fiction edited by Applewhite Minyard. I've approved this but had to do some fixups as you had added it as a publication under the title "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman. There are three ways that a publication should be added to ISFDB

1. A publication record for another edition already exists - In this case you can clone that publication record. The benefit of this method is that if it's a collection or anthology that the story titles will already be set up for you and your new publication will already be "merged" with those tile records.
2. A title record for the publication you want to add and either there are no publications or there are none that are suitable for cloning. In this case use the "Add Publication to This Title" option. A benefit of this method is the title and author/editor names will already be filled in and the new publication will be linked to the title record.
3. A title record does not exist and possibly the author/editor does not exist yet either. In this case you would use one of the "Add New Data" options (New Novel, New Magazine, New Anthology, etc.).

What you had done was #2 from "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman. You would normally only do this if you wanted to create a publication titled "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman and as the title was Decades of Science Fiction and there was no existing title/author record you should have used New Anthology under #3 above. The new publication record is at Decades of Science Fiction and I've fixed this up so that it's under the Decades of Science Fiction and for now just has the single title you wanted to add. Do you have a copy of the anthology? The reason I ask is that you said the date was 1998 when Locus shows November-1997. To reply to this message you can click on the "edit" link at the top of this page and to add your text just below this. Marc Kupper (talk) 22:06, 1 Apr 2007 (CDT)