User talk:Gilgamesh

Welcome!

Hello, Gilgamesh, 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:

• Help pages
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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! Marc Kupper (talk) 14:50, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Images

Hello - I approved your updates and addition of images. Three notes about the images.

1. The image link need to be to the image itself and not the wiki page for the image. From an image such as Image:MissionOfGravity1stEd.jpg you would click on the "Full Resolution" link that's just below the image. That will take you to the image file itself where you can get it's URL. (or you can right click on "Full Resolution" and select Copy Shortcut or Copy Link Location depending on which browser you use).
2. As you have probably noticed - we don't have the image scaling library installed meaning they don't display on the image's wiki page for now.
3. Image uploading is fairly new to ISFDB and uploads remind me that we need to develop standards in a couple of areas.
   1. I've noticed that most people are naming them using the ISFDB publication tag. Thus we will see an image file such as Image:RCTRSLNDNG1978.jpg and can translate that to the matching publication at RCTRSLNDNG1978. This also means we don't need to get creative in figuring out what name to use.
   2. While I love the full size scans you did I suspect we need to scale them to be no more than 500 pixels high or wide. The issue is copyrights and fair use. Amazon.com seems to have set a defacto standard of no more than 500 pixels though I have no idea if this has ever been tested in court. The law does not lay out specific sizes or percentages. What you have uploaded so far at 800 pixels looks fine but this is a heads up. I'll start discussions on the Rules and standards discussions page.

Here's the publication's you have updated so far. Could you also please verify then and mark them as verified? The link for this is at the bottom of the Editing Tools list at the left of the page.

• Peace
• Gene Wolfe's Book of Days
• The Castle of the Otter
• Mission of Gravity

Marc Kupper (talk) 15:14, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Images of more than 600 pixels (in the larges dimension) will not display on the wiki pages, until/unless we add the "image magic" library that supports dynamic down-scaling (and other features). Therefore I for one prefer to keep all images under 600 pixels in each dimension if at all possible. -DES ^Talk 20:12, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Titus Groan

I have approved the addition of the 1983 Penguin edition of Titus Groan, but I am not sure I understand the comment in the Notes field, "1974 reprint". Is this printing a reprint of the 1974 Penguin edition, perhaps? Ahasuerus 06:47, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Looks good, thanks! Ahasuerus 16:49, 12 October 2008 (UTC)