User talk:Moordragon

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Welcome!

Hello, Moordragon, 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:

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 06:03, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Dark Art

Hello, I'm sorry but I had to reject your submission for this book as it seems (to me) to fall outside our scope (see our policy) as it's not "about" speculative fiction but "about" the art of drawing. Of course, you may feel that I'm wrong in this opinion so you can evoke the matter here. Thanks. Hauck 06:09, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. I only recently discovered this website and noticed my publishing credits listed here. Prior to this, I never heard of isfdb. I noticed the listing is incomplete and I also found my name listed three different ways. Bob Hobbs, Bob E. Hobbs and Robert Hobbs. Is there a way to consolidate all three lists under Bob Hobbs? And how do I go about adding all the publishing credits that are missing?
Done. For the missing publishing credits, if the record exists, just update it, if not you'll have to enter the publication that contain your artwork. Don't hesitate to ask here, I'll follow your page. Hauck 07:45, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. It may take awhile to update my listings, I've published over 300 illustrations over the years! But I'll give it a shot. :)

Sorry to bother you about this. I'm still trying to figure out how this works...so if I did an interior illustration for Tomorrow Magazine, for example, I need to enter all the information about that magazine and then somewhere during the process, enter the info on the illustration itself? Is that basically how this works?

Alas it's more complicated than that. First of all, we're a "fiction" database so the exhaustive listing of non-written items is not our main aim. Then, there is the concept of "genre" book as we only enter those in full. For non-genre titles (e.g. an issue of a slick magazine) we only enter the FICTION pieces. It means that an issue of TV Guide will be in the ISFDB only if it contains a short story by Asimov (and that will be the only item listed), if there's an essay about Asimov or a full page illustration of a spaceship, nothing at all will be entered. In your case, only interior illustrations by you that are published in genre magazines are inside our scope. Hauck 11:17, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Zombie Pandemic

Sorry to bother you again. I was the artist (both cover and interior art) for the graphic novel "Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic" which was produced by the CDC in 2011. Is that a legitimate speculative fiction piece and how would it be entered? As a novel or as a magazine? or....?

You're not bothering me at all. In this case, we do not enter graphic novels, so there is the only option to add this data in your bibliographic page here which is void for now. Hauck 08:07, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
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