User talk:Unstern

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Hello, Unstern, 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! Stonecreek 16:41, 17 October 2017 (EDT)

Your recent submissions

Thanks for contributing. I had to make some small changes, most of all to remove the image link for Nina Horvath, because it links to a publisher's page we have no allowance to link to.

For Darwins Schildkröte we also have no allowance but I grasped that you are associated with the website and could give us the allowance? And another thing: Shouldn't it be Bernhard Weißbecker instead of Thomas Weißbecker? Stonecreek 16:48, 17 October 2017 (EDT)

Yes, it is Weißbecker. Sorry for the mistake and thanks for your awareness! - Well, yes, this author´s club actually loves any reports about their/OUR books! I can grant you that it is okay. The photo of myself (I am Nina) is a private photo from a holiday trip. The publisher wanted to use it, got the permission, no restrictions (well, as long it is for promoting me and my works - like cutting out a portrait, brightening the colours). But you can also go to the webpage and ask, the publisher won´t have a problem with that.

Hello, Nina, thanks for the allowance! I am afraid that I can't find the photo on Wurdack's site: if I search for your name, it doesn't show. Maybe you would be able to upload it? The first question was really about the forename (Bernhard or Thomas?). Thanks again, Christian Stonecreek 23:29, 17 October 2017 (EDT)
It is Bernhard. I still have to find out how to upload pictures here, but basically yes. Unstern 00:02, 19 October 2017 (EDT)
It's quite easy: for publications there is a link 'Upload cover scan' right under the main bibliographical data, and for other photos there's the toolbox right here on the left side with the item 'Upload file'. For the licence information (that we may display it) we do need to know who's the copyright holder (if any) and who took the photo. Christian Stonecreek 01:49, 21 October 2017 (EDT)
Thank you for the explanation! I tried it now. I also edited the author´s name in "Darwins Schildkröte", what had been approved. Unstern 20:31, 21 October 2017 (EDT)
And it worked. I just had to add some of the licence information.
Another thing: please use only ESSAY for essays, articles, listings etc. NONFICTION is only for whole books or book-length publications. Usually only SHORTFICTION, POEM, ESSAY, REVIEW, INTERIORART & SERIAL are used for the contents in a given publication (though the other are possible for OMNIBUSes that collect book-length works, like this example.
And just one more: for old german prices please use the format DM XX.XX, for the new Euros €X.XX (and for Schillings S XX.XX). It may seem a bit pickerish, but maybe someday we will run some reports on the developments of prices, and it's much easier to have only one format. Thanks, Christian Stonecreek 15:21, 22 October 2017 (EDT)
And what term do you suggest for a preamble? I used "non-fiction", so what else is suitable? Or should I just leave it out? (Non-fiction cannot be for whole books only, as there is the option for short texts inside a book and I saw that also others used it for preambles.)

I will keep the format for prices in mind. Thanks for informing me.

Fantastisches Österreich

Hi, I think the publication date of (Fantastisches Österreich) and the contained stories is 2005-12-00 (not 2015-12-00), isn't it? Or maybe the pub you have verified is a reprint? Boskar 08:37, 2 December 2017 (EST)


Yes, you are correct. There is no second edition. Will coorect this. Unstern 00:13, 11 December 2017 (EDT)
Hi. I accepted the changes and also changed the date of the COVERART entry to match (it had the same 2015-12-00). --MartyD 19:32, 10 December 2017 (EST)
Thank you! --Unstern
I added the preface and some notes to the book. Christian Stonecreek 00:04, 8 February 2018 (EST)

Fiction x Science

Hello, Nina! I have put your submission on hold, since the second editor seems to be credited as just Michael Kaufmann. What is the credit on the title page? Christian Stonecreek 16:11, 25 January 2018 (EST)

As there is now a look inside feature at amazon available, and that has only Michael Kaufmann, I finally rejected your submission. Christian Stonecreek 10:53, 1 February 2018 (EST)
Thank you for taking care of this matter! And yes, the impress says Michael Kaufmann. I tend to copy author´s/editor´s names from files to avoid typos. Unstern 18:45, 15 February 2018 (EST)

Aufstand der Betrogenen

Hello,

You had an image linked to a site we have no permission to link to in your verified. I replaced it with the amazon one but feel free to upload your own. Thanks! PS: You had http://wurdackverlag.de/verlag/images/DLK01AufstandEB.jpg in the field. Annie 01:53, 28 May 2018 (EDT)

Thank you very much, I am happy about the solution you offer. Though I know this publisher (who is also the cover artist) would be more than happy if you "steal" that image off his page.
If you have permission, you can upload it - instructions on how are higher in your Talk page :) The problem with deep links (what you had done by adding the link directly) is that every time someone opens the page of the book here in ISFDB, it will serve the image from the site where it is hosted - which may get very expensive very fast for the owner of the site :) Annie 15:19, 28 May 2018 (EDT)

Scherben

Hi, I've put your submissions for "Scherben" on hold because there are several questions and issues:

  • You made the same submission 4 times. Was that by accident, or did you have something else in mind than submitting the same publication 4 times?
  • You provided no data source in the note field of the publication, but a data source must always be provided there (unless you are primary verifying the publication). I guess that the web link to "defms.blogspot.com" is your source. Is that correct?
  • You set the "Format" to "unknown", but provided an ASIN which leads the the Kindle ebook. But Amazon also has an entry for the paperback edition. Is it correct that your submission is for the paperback edition? If that's the case you mustn't use the ASIN for the ebook there. If you want to record the ebook as well, it has to become a separate publication record (which can easily created by the "Clone This Pub" feature after the paperback version as been approved).
  • You set the "Publisher" to "Create Space", which would become a new publisher in the database. However, we already have "CreateSpace" (without the space before the "Space") in the database. It's always good the search for the publisher or use the publisher directory when entering the data in order to get the correct publisher name and how it's spelt. I can change this once the submission is approved.
  • You entered "C.M. Dyrnberg", which doesn't exist in the database yet, but we already have "C. M. Dyrnberg" (space between the initials) in the database, which should have been entered. If you're not sure about the correct spelling, the best way to check if an author already exists and how it is spelt in the database is to use asterisks as placeholders. Like this: "C*M*Dyrnberg". I can change it to the correct author after the submission is approved.
  • You added a story by "Uwe Herrmann", which doesn't exist as author in the database yet, but we already have "Uwe Hermann" (with one "r"). Do you know if they are the same author?

So, lots of questions, but don't worry, these are mostly minor things and we should be able to get the publication into the correct shape eventually. :) Jens Hitspacebar 19:49, 1 August 2018 (EDT)

I see now that Amazon states "Uwe Hermann" as author, therefore the last question is answered now. I've approved your first submission and changed everything so that it is now the record for the paperback edition. The result is here. If you own a copy of the book, you may want to primary verify it, which means that you have a physical copy in your hand and can confirm that all data in the database are correct and entered as printed in the book. You could also enter the length of the stories (see the information about "Length". I guess most are short stories, but a few look like they could be novelettes.
I rejected the other 3 submissions because they were the same anyway. Jens Hitspacebar 12:35, 3 August 2018 (EDT)

Obsolescenza programmata

Thanks for adding this. However, there seem to be some points missing: 1) there's no format and the price seems to be erroneous (amazon.it lists a diferent one). 2) the individual items have neither an indexed length, nor have the titles the translator or are varianted to their parents, all of which needs to be done. Would you like to do this? Christian Stonecreek 03:14, 3 January 2020 (EST)

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