User talk:Montag
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Hello, Montag, 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:
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- Help:How to upload images to the ISFDB wiki
Note: Image uploading isn't entirely automated. You're uploading the files to the wiki which will then have to be linked to the database by editing the publication record.
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! Hauck 15:25, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
Correcting publication titles
Hi. Thanks for the correction to Great Science-Fiction Stories About the Moon. I took the core of your note to the moderator, describing the discrepancy between jacket and title page, and put it into the publication notes. Feel free to adjust. :-) Two other comments for you:
- If you have the book, please consider making yourself a Primary Verifier. Click on the above link and pick "Verify this Pub" from the menu at the left. Then click on the button in the Verified column (Primary and Primary2 - Primary5 should be used when you own the book and will have it available in the future; Primary (transient) should be used when you have the book only temporarily). This helps us know the information came from the book itself.
- Publications have TWO records of the title. One is the "Title" you see in the Edit Publication screen (this shows up as "Publication: xxx" when you view the publication entry). The other is the actual Title record (one title can have many publications). This is the "Title Reference: xxx" link when you View Publication, and it is also the first entry in the "Regular Titles" subsection of the "Contents" section when you Edit Publication. If you want to correct a title, you need to edit both. I fixed the title record to match, so just something to keep in mind for the future.
Oh, if you do have the book, is there a price on the dust jacket? I see our record is missing a price. Thanks, and thank you for contributing. --MartyD 14:46, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
The Kiss of Death
Hello, I've made the changes as per data given in the note to moderator field. IMHO it would have been faster for you the make the change directly (via the "Edit This Pub" hyperlink on the right). The existing order was not "wrong" per se, it was just following a strict alphabetical order. If you own the book, think about setting you up as its "Primary verifier". Thanks. Hauck 13:56, 17 May 2016 (UTC)