User talk:Ctorok

Help: Just added some ISBNs to James T. Aubrey, Jr. - would like to remove the "need ISBN" but don't know if there is some process (other than removing it) that I need to go through. Am new; joined 20 dec 2004. Looks like it's been done! (29Dec2004)

Greetings!

Salve, Ctorok!
Glad to have you aboard Wikipedia. I've only been here about five months myself, but I've been busy and was recently elected an admin.
The ISBN needed template was one I created. Once you've supplied the numbers, just delete the reference from the source code, and you're done. I'll take the tag off Pierre Burton. The James T. Aubrey article came to my attention because I wrote it originally, but didn't have the ISBNs in my notes. So I tagged it in the hopes someone would supply them; thanks for doing so.
Finally, I see from your homepage you work in Purchase, New York (you have the wrong purchase linked, however). What's in Purchase besides Pepsi? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 18:26, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)

My first talk!

Posted on User talk:PedanticallySpeaking:
Thank you PedanticallySpeaking, for the tip on the Purchase link. Besides Pepsi, Mastercard is here too.
I've done some more work on the ISBN research, now on the H. Beam Piper page; I've been adding the ISBN numbers for reissue editions... Your thoughts? Ctorok 19:27, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)

• Where a book has editions, ISBNs are a bit tricky. My personal preference--i.e. this is not an official policy anywhere--would be to cite the ISBN of the original hardback edition, if it had one; with this gentleman, it appears his books were originally issued long before ISBNs, so that's inapplicable. Failing that, I'd cite the edition in print, if any, or the most widely available edition of an out-of-print work.
  I do like you citing just what edition your number refers to. With some authors there will be a standard edition, say the Oxford set of Charles Dickens, and if you should be working on someone like that, those numbers would be best. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 19:45, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)