User talk:D43pro

I've rolled back your edit to Lovecraft's Providence and Adjacent Parts. The way you edited the name caused the template for the infobox to fail. I tried to find an article for "David P. Ireland (artist)" as it looks like you were trying to link, but I can't find any such article on Wikipedia. Do you have a source that David Ireland that illustrates books has the middle initial "P"? There are several other articles that link to David Ireland (artist) that refer to the illustrator.

Unfortunately, I'm in the middle of a move at the moment and my reference works are packed. ISFDB uses David Ireland (author) for the illustrator credits and I believe that is also incorrect. After I unpack my books, I'll see if there is an entry in either The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction or The Encyclopedia of Fantasy on David Ireland and see if we can get the page you edited and the others that improperly link to David Ireland (artist) corrected.

Thanks. --Rtrace (talk) 16:54, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

David -

I saw your note on Talk:Lovecraft's Providence and Adjacent Parts and have updated the corresponding article to remove the link to the incorrect David Ireland. If you check the What Links Here on the other artist's page, you'll note that there are several other pages for other books that you illustrated or for which you did covers that are incorrectly linked. I'd like to eventually fix these as well. As for doing an article about you for Wikipedia, as I understand the policies, we need to have a secondary source in order to write such an article. However, as I alluded to above, the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, also has you confused with a third David Ireland, an Australian Author. I work on that site as well and would be happy to split apart the records there. It would help if I could get your birth date and place and any webpage you may have. With that in place, I could then create a stub record in Wikipedia. As I recall, you are credited as simply "David Ireland" in the articles on these books in Chalker and Owings Guide to Science-Fantasy Publishers, my chief source for these articles. I do own The Bowl of Baal and a few of the Centaur Press books that you illustrated and can check those directly after my move.

The only reason I reverted your previous edit was that it caused problems for the infobox template. The problem was that you deleted half of the link notation ([[ and ]]), thus the template didn't know where the link ended and it displayed the page weirdly. If you want to take a stab at correcting some of the other links, what you would need to do is replace "[[David Ireland (artist)|David Ireland]]" with "David Ireland". You can also use the "Show Preview" button to see if it looks OK before you save the page.

I'll also note that you can respond here on your talk page. I'll keep it in my watch list while we're working on these pages and I'll see any responses you make. I do enjoy your art and I look forward to getting the records corrected both here and in the ISFDB.

- Ron --Rtrace (talk) 20:08, 15 April 2010 (UTC)