User talk:Frink

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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! Annie 05:48, 1 December 2019 (EST)

Vorpal Glass, December 1960

I have accepted your addition of Vorpal Glass, December 1960, but made the following changes:

• Added the issue date to the title.
• Set the format to quarto as scans look like standard 8.5x11 pages.
• Changed the webpage link to be the specific issue.
• Added notes.
• Added contents.
• Added a local cover image.

I'm assuming you will add the other issues. If you need help, let me know. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 08:52, 21 May 2023 (EDT)

Thank you! I was unsure about some particular details of formatting, so having that fixed is a great help and I shall try to follow your layout.

Yes, I intend to add the remaining issues soon. --Frink (talk) 10:56, 25 May 2023 (EDT)

Vorpal Glass, June 1961

Hi, are You shure the name of the author in Your primary verified publication here is really "William Rostler" and not William Rotsler ? --Zapp (talk) 11:01, 30 June 2023 (EDT)

Oh, for... I can't *believe* I didn't catch that. Thank you! Correction submitted and I'll watch for it with the next issues I put in. Frink (talk) 20:00, 13 July 2023 (EDT)

Fermi's Question

Hi. I accepted your Fermi's Question submission but made two small changes:

1. We do not have permission to link to images on baen.com, so I switched to a URL on Amazon, where we do have permission (see Help:Screen:NewPub#Image_URL).
2. For unpaginated ebooks, we record the print-equivalent page length in the notes instead of in the Pages field, so I moved the 375 to the notes.

Just minor things to keep in mind for future submissions. Thanks, and thank you for contributing. --MartyD (talk) 08:00, 3 July 2023 (EDT)

If You use the Editing Tool 'Check for Duplicate Titles', You can see the 'Duplicate Finder' for to merge the identic titles. --Zapp (talk) 06:51, 12 July 2023 (EDT)

Thank you both, noted for future reference! Frink (talk) 20:03, 13 July 2023 (EDT)

Vorpal Glass, September 1961

If a mod drops by, two notes about this submission:

1. Obvious typo in Margaret St. Clair's name
2. Sorry about the link to fanac; didn't realize (or remember) that wasn't an acceptable source for cover images. Noted for future. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Frink (talk • contribs) . 03:32, 1 September 2023 (EDT)

Introductions in Top Science Fiction

Hi. I accepted your submission adding the introductions to Top Science Fiction: The Authors' Choice, but I made a couple of changes I wanted you to be aware of:

• Except in the rare case of an in-universe, fictional "introduction" (e.g., purportedly written by a character in the book or some fictional entity), introductions should be type ESSAY (which we use for all short non-fiction/non-poem), not SHORTFICTION. So I converted those.
• According to the book's introduction, the authors wrote those introductions for their submissions to this anthology. They are not introductions that appeared with the stories when they were first published. So I changed the dates on them to be the anthology's original publication date.
• There is a feature that allows you to control how the ISFDB's contents list is sorted, regardless of the visible page number. You do that by adding "|<sort key>" to the page number (or even by having that alone when there is no page number). That sort key is used to do the ordering but is not displayed. For example, if you have two works appearing on page 10, you can use "10|10.1" for the one that should be listed first and "10|10.2" for the one that should be listed second. The generated TOC will show "10" as the page number for both, but the one tagged with "|10.1" will be listed before the one tagged with "|10.2". I applied that to make introduction be listed before the introduced story.
• Very minor: I changed "Introduction" to "introduction". We use lower case for the disambiguation text unless it is a title in its own right.

I also imported all of that into the hardcover. Please review and fix anything that does not look right. If you have the book, consider making yourself a primary verifier ("Verify This Pub" in the Editing Tools menu at the left when you are viewing the publication record).

Thanks. --MartyD (talk) 09:07, 6 January 2024 (EST)