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The old ISFDB had a place for author biographies; where did they go?

April 26, 2017author biographies isfdb

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The old ISFDB had a place for author biographies; where did they go?

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The ISFDB database layout is great for well-structured data like titles, series names, and ISBNs. It doesn’t work so well for free-form text like an author biography. The ISFDB author biographies were always an area of great churn, and mediating submitter differences could be difficult. We’re now mostly relying on Wikipedia as the location for author biographies, and we formally support linking an author’s bibliography to their Wikipedia biography. (Wikipedia has a template for linking back.) Authors not eligible for Wikipedia articles can have a short, neutral, factual biography that is professional in tone on a “Bio:” page in this wiki. See ISFDB:Policy#Biography Policy and Help:Contents/Purpose#Biographies for more details.