User talk:Malcolmf

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Welcome!

Hello, Malcolmf, 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! Mhhutchins 17:32, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Linking uploaded cover images to the publication records

Thanks for uploading cover images to the ISFDB wiki. The next step is to link those images to the records of the books for which these are the covers. As the instructions (step 6) explain:

Once the file has been uploaded, the image's wiki page will appear. In order to get the URL (address) for the image you just uploaded, left click anywhere on the image and copy the URL from your browser's address window. (Or right click on the image and choose "Copy Image Location".) If you're adding a cover image to a pub record, this is the URL which you would enter into the pub record's "Image URL" field.

So once you have the image's URL, go back to the pub record (it's linked on the image's wiki page) and then click the "Edit This Pub" link under the Editing Tools menu. This opens up an edit page. Under the Publication Metadata section, there's a field labeled "Image URL:" Enter the URL of the image you uploaded into this field, and then click on the "Submit Data" button at the bottom of the page. Once the submission has been moderated the cover image will be linked to the publication record. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 17:33, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Machen's Holy Terrors

Thanks for adding a record for this title. I've made a few changes to conform to ISFDB standards:

  • The binding was changed from "paperback" to "pb".
  • The note of "Penguin book #526" was moved to the ISBN/Catalog # field as just "#526". (We give all non-ISBN numbers in this field the symbol "#" to differentiate them from ISBNs.)
  • I added the price as given in Tuck's encyclopedia. He gives the page count as 140 instead of 144. Can you recheck your source?

If you have a copy of the book, please do a primary verification (linked in the Welcome section above). If you don't have a copy, please update the record to give the source for the data in the record's note field. Thanks again and welcome to the ISFDB. Mhhutchins 17:50, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries

I accepted this submission to add the contents to this book with an assumption that the majority of the stories are speculative and not just mystery stories. If this is not the case, you should remove and delete the non-spec-fic stories, and note that the record is incomplete and only indexes the spec-fic stories. A few problems: you didn't give the entire URL of the cover image. You should have entered http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/49/THRLLSCRMS1935.jpg into the field, not just the file name. Also, there is an author with an initialed name in which the initials were not separated by spaces: "L.A.G. Strong" should be "L. A. G. Strong". There is one story in which you reversed the title and the author: "Dorothy L. Sayers • shortstory by A Shot at Goal". Also I think this story may have the author's name misspelled: "Gold Like Glass • shortstory by Fraderick Carter". (I saw a "Frederick Carter" earlier in the anthology.) All of these can be corrected with one submission to update the record. This was a big submission so you did pretty good considering all the contents. Personally, I usually try to break up adding so many content records into several submissions to avoid losing data by hitting the wrong key, which I've done on more than a few occasions! Thanks. Mhhutchins 20:02, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Linking images

As I pointed out above, you should enter the entire URL of the cover image. Be sure not to enter the URL of the image's Wiki page, but the URL of the image file itself.

Astounding (UK)

I have your submission on hold, not because there's anything wrong with it, but if accepted as-is will require at least 30 merges of contents. I've asked another Moderator, who is much more familiar with magazines, to have a look [their entry, especially to get a new one into an existing [grid] is a little trickier than a new printing of a book]. --~ Bill, Bluesman 22:06, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

My two cents (if I may interject): Because magazines can't be cloned, if the majority of the contents are from a single issue already in the database, you can use the import function, but you must first create a contentless record. The existing record for Astounding Nov. 1953 fills the bill. You will then have to remove or add contents in order for the new record to match your issue. Mhhutchins 22:56, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm going to try to recover your Astounding entry as it's only lacking a tag to link it to the magazine page (hopefully I don't make things worse). If you have more Astounding UK to enter, let me know the dates and I'll try to generate the blank records on the mag page.--Rkihara 01:08, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Notes in editor records

It really doesn't pay to add notes to editor records (like the one you added to this record.) This record will eventually be merged with all the editor records for the same magazine title and year. The note in the pub record was sufficient. Just a heads up. Mhhutchins 19:16, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Cover image tied to the wrong record

You uploaded the image for the August 1954 UK issue of Astounding, but it's tagged to the March 1954 US issue. You should have uploaded it from this record which would have automatically tagged it with the correct issue. It is best to wait until the record is in the system and then use the "Upload cover scan" function from the record whose cover you're uploading. Or perhaps you accidentally uploaded the image from the wrong record? Mhhutchins 19:39, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

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