User talk:ErickSoares3/2020 (archive)

A Luneta Mágica

Hello. I have your submission on hold, as I suspect that L&PM Pocket as publisher should be replaced with the already-existing publisher L & PM (which is also how Amazon Brazil reports it). Additionally, I also think that L&PM Pocket should refer to the publication series Coleção L&PM Pocket instead, although I couldn't find proof that that is correct. Could you have a look and confirm? Thanks! MagicUnk 18:23, 8 January 2020 (EST)

Hello! According the publisher website is "L & PM editores" inside the "Coleção L&PM Pocket". Thanks, ErickSoares3 18:32, 8 January 2020 (EST)

Thanks! I've approved and updated accordingly (no need to have subseries). The result is here. Hope you like it like this :) MagicUnk 18:48, 8 January 2020 (EST)

Thanks! ErickSoares3 18:50, 8 January 2020 (EST)

Manual do cientista do Franjinha

Does this contain any speculative fiction at all (comics not counted -- the author is a cartoonist after all so I have to ask)? If it does, they need to be listed (and I suspect the whole book will need to be marked as a non-genre as we do not need to index scientific experiments and other similar non-SF contents :) Annie 21:54, 10 March 2020 (EDT)

I think I explained it in the description. There's time travel stories, robot stories and even a parody from the "Doctor and the Monster" story. ErickSoares3 14:18, 18 March 2020 (EDT)

Visually is a common book. There's illustrations, but is like "Alice" and etc - not as a comic. The author is mainly a cartoonist, but also did some books inside this franchise. ErickSoares3 14:25, 18 March 2020 (EDT)

Google books. ErickSoares3 14:27, 18 March 2020 (EDT)

Contos de Fadas em suas versões originais

Hi, thanks for correcting the author entries. However, titles should have case regularized, which is not the case for this submission. Also, the date of publication (1st of January) - as you should be aware - is very unlikely, and can safely be assumed to have been erroneously added by some source. How shall we proceed with this? Stonecreek 13:36, 19 April 2020 (EDT)

The thing with the titles are because several like "Pequena Sereia" (The Little Mermaind), "Bela e a Fera" (Beauty and the Beast) and so on refers to characters names. We could regularize "Aladdin e a Lâmpada Maravilhosa", "Os Três Porquinhos", "O Príncipe Sapo", "João e o Pé de Feijão", "As Doze Princesas Dançarinas", "O Bravo Soldado de Chumbo", "O Alfaiate Valente" ("Alfaiate" is the character), "As Roupas Novas do Imperador" ("Imperador"/"Emperor"), "O Pequeno Polegar" ("Polegar is the character"), "A Pequena Vendedora de Fósforos", "Pele de Asno", "O Semideus Maui" ("Maui" is the character), "Sapatinhos Vermelhos", "Irmãozinho e Irmãzinha", "O Flautista de Hamelin" ("Hamelin" is a place, in this case), "Os Cisnes Selvagens", "Chicken Little", "A História dos Três Ursos", "As Três Irmãs", "O Rouxinol e o Imperador da China" (Rouxinol and Imperador are characters). This date is from Amazon - the publisher doesn't have any date in their page.

"Hua Mulan" is considered speculative fiction?

I didn't put the format in this and this because the official page doesn't give any size, only "X pages in bold pollen 70g".

The author from this short is cited only as "Anônimo", but the site connect with an Italian version. Should I submitt as "Anônimo (Portuguese)"? ErickSoares3 14:57, 19 April 2020 (EDT)

Contos de Fadas em suas versões originais

Hello,

Can you review the capitalization in this one? I believe Portuguese uses capital letters only for personal names but not for every noun. Thanks! Annie 19:12, 20 April 2020 (EDT)

Done! ErickSoares3 17:24, 21 April 2020 (EDT)

Thanks! :) Annie 17:29, 21 April 2020 (EDT)

Chicken Little and Hua Mulan

I rejected both variants for two reasons:

• We do not know the exact title in the original language
• The author name is the same in both languages so we do not need a variant to move the story to the correct author.

Until we can find the correct titles, adding the variants does not add any new information or helps with how things look on pages - we can add the original language in the notes for example. Let me know if you disagree and I will recreate them (and/or discuss). As always - your input is welcome and if we determine that was the wrong place to do, I would correct it. Thanks for the understanding. Annie 12:15, 22 April 2020 (EDT)

I will send an email to the publisher asking about informations in the stories that I couldn't find the originals (like the one by Charlotte Hapai). When they reply I will update. For Huan Mulan, I think that is the case of the original alphabet: 花木兰. ErickSoares3 14:17, 22 April 2020 (EDT)

If you hear from the publisher, just submit the updates. If you are sure this is the Chinese original, please submit a variant with that name. Thanks for taking time to add and update this book! :) Annie 14:23, 22 April 2020 (EDT)

I don't know if it is the original, but is how the Chinese Wikipedia writes. Ok! ErickSoares3 14:26, 22 April 2020 (EDT)

O pequeno príncipe

The original of "O pequeno príncipe" has only 14K words which makes it a novelette and not a novel. So Your verified was just converted to a chapbook. Annie 14:31, 8 May 2020 (EDT)

International editions of Brás Cubas

Hello,

When adding a book in a different language, it is a good idea to check the data in that specific language as well (when possible). I had fixed the Dutch one (and added the first printing of that translation) and the Czech one which was added as Dutch by mistake. I also had to fix the publisher for this Czech one (the letter ø just does not exist in Czech - no idea why the Portuguese sources use it):) Annie 03:26, 5 June 2020 (EDT)

Thanks! I'm trying to recover these editions to make the bio more variable (or would seem that it was only released in English). Sadly it seems to be the only of Machado's novels to fall under the ISFDB topic - and even made the 19th century readers very confused. ErickSoares3 14:31, 5 June 2020 (EDT)

Goodreads is a good place to look for versions in other languages - it will at least give you a start. From there, go to local sources :) I will see if I can add some more Eastern and Central European ones to our DB over the weekend. Annie 14:45, 5 June 2020 (EDT)

Yeah - most of his others are not magical realism or anywhere near the genre -- he is an odd Latin American writer from the times (most of his contemporaries dipped heavily in magical realism). Oh well... Annie 14:45, 5 June 2020 (EDT)

Thanks! In the introduction of my edition the author said that the reaction of the reading public at the time as something like "what heck is that?!" and in a way it was a novelty in the Brazilian literature at the time . Do you already had opportunity to read some of his works? A new Penguim English translation of Brás Cubas sold out in 24 hours some days ago.

Also, is possible to add this image in the author page? It is released as Creative Commons share-a-like. ErickSoares3 15:21, 10 June 2020 (EDT)

I've read some of his stories :) The "sold-out" is a bit of a misnomer - Amazon is a bit weird with books (and other non-essential products) these days so a lot of books show up that way even though they are not sold out. And Penguin print big runs. Not sure about the image (although didn't we discuss that one a few months ago?) Annie 15:32, 10 June 2020 (EDT)

We discussed about the image: you said that since it's is "free use" we could do something - but nothing happened about that. ErickSoares3 13:33, 16 June 2020 (EDT)

O festim dos corvos

I've approved your addition of this publication. The edit had the format as "Unknown" and I am hoping that you can update it to the correct format. Thanks. --Ron ~ Rtrace^Talk 09:53, 17 June 2020 (EDT)

Also this one. Thanks. --Ron ~ Rtrace^Talk 09:56, 17 June 2020 (EDT)

Hello, I know! I understand that here, to know the format, we need to know the size of the book - but the site doesn't give the any measures, only that is is a brochure. ErickSoares3 10:04, 17 June 2020 (EDT)

But you own the books, physically or so your verification shows. Does it look like an American style mass market paperback? If so - it is "pb". Or is it a standard paperback? Then use "tp". Or just measure roughly and see if it is 19 cm or less. Annie 13:45, 17 June 2020 (EDT)

I own the books. By the description that I found, really looks the mass market paperback (like the smaller one). I found this unboxing of these books. ErickSoares3 14:08, 17 June 2020 (EDT)

So if they are like the smallest one in that picture of 3, then they are probably pb indeed. Use your hand - a mass market is much smaller than the span of the hand of an adult (of course... sizes vary...). Or just measure it - is it a 20 cm book or a 17/18 cm one? :) Annie 14:19, 17 June 2020 (EDT)

However - the books in this Youtube video are definitely tp. so if these are your books, they are tp and not pb. Annie 14:21, 17 June 2020 (EDT)

Ok! ErickSoares3 15:58, 17 June 2020 (EDT)

Sin-léqi-unnínni

Regarding this edit: I have asked for community input given how The Epic of Gilgamesh is currently entered in the database. Please feel free to contribute to that discussion. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 18:40, 29 September 2020 (EDT)

Thanks! ErickSoares3 10:48, 30 September 2020 (EDT)

Ebooks and pages

Just a gentle reminder that the number of pages for ebooks need to be added to the Notes, not to the Pages field. I fixed it here and added the ASIN. Annie 16:52, 25 October 2020 (EDT)

One more reminder: we want List prices when we can get them. So when there is "Preço digital sugerido", please record that. Foxed it here. :) Annie 16:55, 25 October 2020 (EDT)

And the link to the specific edition on the publisher site belongs on the publication level, not the title level. I moved them while approving the last few. :) Annie 16:57, 25 October 2020 (EDT)

Ok! ErickSoares3 21:10, 25 October 2020 (EDT)