User talk:Chenqiangpan

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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! --MartyD 11:33, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

流吧！我的眼泪

Hi, and welcome! I have a question about your submission that I have on hold. I think you are trying to record 流吧！我的眼泪 as a Chinese translation of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Is that correct?

The ISFDB records publications (books, magazines), using those to identify when and where titles appeared. So to record a Chinese translation of Dick's work, we would find and record a Chinese publication of it. Do you have the book in Chinese? If so, you should submit that. If not, we can find information from a secondary source, such as Amazon.cn, and construct an entry from that. I did find Kindle and paperback editions. You would do that by using Add a New Novel. Once that submission is accepted, it will create the Chinese 流吧！我的眼泪 title record for you, and we can then find that and make it a variant of the original English Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.

Please go ahead and try doing that. If you need help, just ask. If you prefer that I make the entries from the Amazon information so you can see what they look like, let me know -- I am happy to do that. We try to keep conversations on one page -- I will monitor this page. Respond, or ask questions, here. Use ':' at the beginning of your text to indent your responses.

Thanks, and thank you for contributing. --MartyD 11:49, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Because you did not respond, I added an entry for the paperback I mentioned above and made the variant so that Chinese now shows up as a translation here. Please review that publication, adding anything that is missing and correcting anything that is wrong. I cannot read the Chinese, so I was only able to do some very basic things. Your proposed variant is no longer needed, so I rejected that submission. I am happy to answer any questions you have about any of this. --MartyD 15:07, 18 June 2017 (UTC)