User talk:Yeahfine

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Hello, Yeahfine, 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! -- JLaTondre (talk) 20:16, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Accelerando Cover Artist

I have placed your edit to this pub on hold. There are two issues:

  1. When modifying a primary verified publication, you need to notify the primary verifiers.
  2. Frangie is the jacket designer per the verifiers' notes. Designer and artist are not the same roles. We will sometimes credit the designer if there is not an actual artist, but the notes also contain a corporate credit for the photo.

Please notify the other verifiers and gain agreement on this change. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 12:30, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

As it's been several days without a response, I have rejected the edit. -- JLaTondre (talk) 02:35, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

The White People by Machen

I've changed the publication date of this record from December 2011 to "0000-00-00" which is displayed as "unknown". It is not likely that a fifth printing appeared in the same month as the first printing. If the printing date is not explicitly stated or there is no reliable secondary source that provides that date, the field should be entered as described. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 00:25, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said Cover Art

I have your edit to Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said on hold. As previously mentioned to you, when changing a publication that has been primary verified, you need to notify the primary verifier. Please do so. Also, are you basing this edit on the publication or a secondary source? If a secondary source, it needs to be stated in the notes. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 23:59, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

I found a source for your addition of the cover artist. As such, I've accepted the submission, added a note to the pub giving the source, and notified the primary verifier. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:42, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Saguaro Riptide

I have rejected your change of Saguaro Riptide to make the cover artist George Long instead of George Long (artist). When there are multiple people with the same name, it is necessary to disambiguate the names. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 22:54, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Changing data in verified publications

Hi. When you want to make changes to publications having one or more Primary verifiers (you'll see the list at the bottom of the publication details screen, before you click on Edit), ISFDB protocol is to communicate with the verifier(s). If you are going to alter any of the information that's present, you should ask first (post a note on the verifier's talk/discussion page), before submitting the change; sometimes differences end up indicating different editions/printings. If you are going to add information, it is ok to submit the change and concurrently notify the verifier(s) that you have done so. Some folks post special notification instructions at the top of their talk pages, in which case you should follow whatever they say (including "don't bother notifying me"). So I have put your proposed artist name change to The Flies of Memory on hold while confirming that change with the verifiers. Once one of them concurs, I will accept that submission. Thanks. --MartyD 11:40, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

One of the verifiers confirmed, so I accepted your submission. I also adjusted the notes a little further, removing Locus1 as source of the artist credit and noting Locus1's error in the name. Thanks. --MartyD 10:39, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

The Time Traveler's Almanac

I was forced to reject the submission to update this record, because you'd made submissions in some of the content records which had not been approved before you made this submission to edit the publication record. If you're making changes (especially merges) of content records, you must wait until those submissions are accepted before making a submission to edit a publication record which contains those contents. When title records are merged, the record of one disappears from the system, so that a moderator doesn't have the ability to accept a submission to update a publication containing that missing record. Now that I've accepted the merges, you can make an update to the publication record. Thanks. Mhhutchins 19:13, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

A Season in Carcosa

Just to let you know that I have approved the addition of A Season in Carcosa with one modification. As per Help, "Name suffixes should be separated from the last name by a comma and a space", so I have changed "Joseph S. Pulver Sr." to "Joseph S. Pulver, Sr." Everything else looks good, thanks!

Now that the submission has been approved, would you like to add the contents as well? Ahasuerus 02:33, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

It Came From the North: An Anthology of Finnish Speculative Fiction

Now that the submission has been approved, would you like to add the contents of this anthology? I can see the table of contents via Amazon's Look Inside, but we go by the title page of each story, which can be subtly different, so it's usually best for the book's owner to enter the data. TIA! Ahasuerus 11:43, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

A Season in Carcosa

According to the Amazon "Look Inside", the introduction of this anthology is titled "This Yellow Madness". If it's the same in your verified record of the print edition, please update the title record. Thanks. Mhhutchins 15:13, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Responding to messages left on your talk page

I'm holding your submissions in the hope that you'll eventually find this page, your talk page, which contains messages from moderators and other editors, some of which need a response.

To respond to a wiki posting, you must first be logged-in, using the same username and password for editing the database. Then click on the "[edit]" link to the right of the posting. Enter your response in the dialogue box which opens. Start your message with a colon (:) which separates and indents it from the previous message making it easier to follow the discussion. In successive messages, add another colon to the number in the previous message. End your entry with four tildes (~~~~), which will automatically "sign" and date your message. Then click the "Save page" button. When someone has left a message on your talk page, you will be notified by a highlighted "My Messages" link when you log into the ISFDB. I have placed a "Watch" on your talk page so that I will be notified when you respond. Keep all discussions on the same page on which it began. Do not respond on the other person's talk page.

Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 15:20, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Replacing source note

I accepted the change you made in http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?472163 this record], based on your note that you are working from a copy of the book. Unfortunately, if you don't note your source in the record itself, a user (and a future editor and/or moderator) has no idea about the reliability of the data, especially since you removed Amazon as the source. Perhaps you intend to do a primary verification of the record later, but that increases the chances that the record may not be sourced or verified. Please consider doing a primary verification at the time you make an update to a record based on a book in hand. Appreciate it. Mhhutchins 21:25, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

The Madness of Cthulhu

Re this record: I changed the "Foreward" to "Foreword". If that wasn't the right thing to do, please change it back and note the odd spelling. Also, please do a primary verification of the record. It would also be nice if you could respond to the messages here so that we know you've located your talk page, and we don't feel like we're posting here for no reason. Thanks. Mhhutchins 03:11, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Year's Best Weird Fiction

I'm making a number of changes to Year's Best Weird Fiction. please let me know if you disagree with any of these:

  1. I'm changing the title to "Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume One" as it appears on the title page.
  2. I'm adding Michael Kelly as a second editor. Both the cover and the copyright statement use both editors. They do both appear on the title page, and I'll note how they are credited in the notes.
  3. I'm changing the publisher to reflect the Undertow imprint.
  4. I'm expanding the notes to indicate the first edition and the Canadian price.
  5. I'm changing the title of the Pulver story to include the ellipses.

Thanks. --Ron ~ RtraceTalk 02:15, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Cisco's The Divinity Student

This title was already in the database, so you should have gone to its title record and clicked the link "Add Publication to This Title" under the Editing Tools menu. By using the "Add New Novel" which creates not only a new publication record, but a new title record as well. I'll merge the titles as one. Thanks. Mhhutchins 01:48, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Also, there was no currency symbol given in the price field. I'm assuming this is US dollars so I added "$" to the field. Mhhutchins 01:57, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

I added a note about the source of the price and publication date, as well as a content record for the introduction and a link to the cover image on Amazon. Mhhutchins 01:59, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Midnight by Koontz

Submission adding this record was accepted, but I changed the author credit based on the title you entered it under. If the title page credit is to "Dean Koontz" and not "Dean R. Koontz", the record will have to be unmerged from its current record and merged with the title credited to "Dean Koontz". Also, I zeroed out the date, since the first Berkley printing was in November 1989, a later printing is likely not in the same month. Does your copy have either a number line or a printing statement? Thanks for checking. Mhhutchins 05:05, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Providing sources

When you're updating a publication record, and not doing a primary verification of it, you must provide the source for the data in the record's Note field. If you have a copy of the publication, doing a primary verification tells the moderator that you have the book and it is the source for the change. Thanks. Mhhutchins 01:33, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Nexus

I returned the source of the data into this publication record. As mentioned above, every record must provide the source of the data. You should only remove the source if you first do a primary verification of the record. Mhhutchins 23:56, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

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