User talk:Jessicaboo

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Hello, Jessicaboo, 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:

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Subtitles

The title record represents the essential title of the work, regardless of how it is presented when published. It's OK to add a subtitle to the title field of a publication record, but the title field of the title record should only be updated if every publication of that work, past and present, will be titled exactly that. For example, if the first printing of Malarat doesn't have the subtitle, and a later one does, we only add the subtitle in the title field of the publication record of that later printing, and do not change the title record. Mhhutchins 19:46, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Malarat, Children of the Shaman, The Glass Mountain

Hello - I am sorry, slightly out of my depths here. There was an earlier eBook edition of Malarat but it has been superseded by the current edition, which bears the subtitle.

Also - the new editions of Children of the Shaman and The Glass Mountain as eBooks are revised editions. Do I need to add a separate record for each one?

Please forgive my ignorance - I am an author editing my own work on the database and am learning as I go along.

Kind regards

--Jessicaboo 20:01, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Revisions typically do not have their own title records (sometimes they will if the revisions are significant, but that is not the standard practice). Instead we add notes to the publication (and optionally to the title record). If you want to add a new edition, go to the title record (ex. Children of the Shaman) and select the "Add Publication to This Title" link in the menu on the left of the page. Entire the information for the new publication (there is a link to the help on the enter screen) and in the notes field, state that it's a revised edition. If you wish you can also edit the title record to add a note stating that the new pub is a revised edition. Let me know if that wasn't clear. -- JLaTondre (talk) 11:48, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
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