User talk:Todd Mason

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Hello, Todd Mason, 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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Bedtime Stories

I accepted your addition of Bedtime Stories, but make some changes:

  • Image URL: I replaced the image URL with an Amazon one. The link in this field needs to be to an image, not to a page containing the image. In addition, we can only use images from sites that have explicitly given us permission to do so. See ISFDB:Image linking permissions for a list of such sites.
  • Web Page Field: I removed the URL in the web page field as it did not discuss the book. ISFDB provides the ability to add links to publication, title, and author records. At the publication level, they should be links specific to that publication (edition, format, etc.). At the title level, they should be about that title (story or book) independent of a specific publication. At the author level, it should be links to pages about the person.
  • External IDs: The values in the these fields should be the applicable record number, not a URL. The software will automatically create the link from the record number.
  • Authors: The author field should just be the author's name as credited on the title page. Translators are added to the notes (pub notes and title record notes).
  • Dates: Translations are dated as of the first appearance of the translation, not the original text.
  • Essays: Essays should be entered as of type Essay. Nonfiction is for books only. For generic essay titles (Acknowledgments, Introduction, Preface, Foreword), we add the publication title in parenthesis.

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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5701786; PENDING edit adding link to your PV and I'll mention there's another Archive.org copy which seems to be the UK edition. Also, there's a Todd Mason record on ISFDB; if that's you, did you really only publish 2 genre stories between 1994-2010? --Username (talk) 13:24, 25 June 2023 (EDT)
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