User talk:M2EU

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Hello, M2EU, 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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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! -- JLaTondre (talk) 16:45, 20 March 2020 (EDT)

Sci Phi Journal 2019Q2

I approved you submission of Sci Phi Journal 2019Q2. Your question about "Letter from a Slave-Making Ant" can be handled fairly easily. You give credit to the author and mention the translator in the notes section of the story. If the story was already in the data base, you would merge the two stories. If the story was in the data base under its Spanish title, you would make the story in the magazine you entered a variant of the Spanish one. But it is neither, so you should also enter in the notes for the story where it originally appeared. Just click on the story, and the the screen with the notes section will come up on the screen. The same applies to the translations in the Q3 and Q4 editions. Bob 16:52, 22 March 2020 (EDT)

Thanks, Bob, I will proceed accordingly. Best regards, --M2EU 18:57, 22 March 2020 (EDT)

Sci Phi Journal, 2020Q2

I'm holding your addition of Sci Phi Journal, 2020Q2. You provided a format of webzine, but also provided page numbers. Previous issues you have submitted (except for the first one) have been ebook. Are you submitting the on-line or downloadable PDF version? And that first one (Sci Phi Journal 2019Q1) also has page numbers which would not be valid for a webzine. Is that one also the on-line version or the ebook version? Please let me know and I will accept and make the appropriate changes. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 15:47, 2 July 2020 (EDT)

Apologies for not getting back to you earlier, JLaTondre! I might have made some mistakes indeed - all the SPJ publications since 2019 have been downloadable as ebooks, in fact, I reckon even the ones from before all the way back to 2014 (not sure about before that). So it's all ebooks with numbered pages. Many thanks for your kind help!! --M2EU 05:21, 7 July 2020 (EDT)
Thanks, I accepted it and changed both to an ebook. I also changed the 2020Q2 publication year from 2019 to 2020. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 19:51, 7 July 2020 (EDT)

Sci Phi Journal, 2020Q3

Hello,

When dealing with ebooks, we leave the "pages" field empty and specify printed length in the notes. So I rejected your update and instead added the note. While I was there, I did a few more things:

  • The price format was wrong - no space should exist between the euro sign and the number :)
  • I renamed the EDITOR record so that it matches the Yearly record name - thus allowing me then to merge them. While there are other ways to do the merge (this advanced search query would have found them and we could have merged from there or you could have gone to the author page of one of the editors (for example and used Show All Titles which would have also allowed a merge), I was editing the publication anyway so that was easier :)

I have a small question here though. Is there a date printed inside of this magazine. We have a somewhat different system for dating magazines (we date based on the printed dates and not based on actual publication date as we do with books) and this magazine seems to be a bit out of policy :) Let me know if you have any questions.The magazine entry is here Annie 13:52, 8 October 2020 (EDT)

Dear Annie,
apologies for not reacting sooner! Alas, as I only make a poor attempt at adding a record to ISFDB every three months or so, I tend to forget how to do the finer points from one quarter to the next, much to my shame.
We normally don't put dates inside our journal, just note the given quarter on the cover. I really appreciate that you took the initiative to fix the entry and make it appear correctly under the SPJ series, even if, as you rightly point out, our format is somewhat 'out of policy'. An earlier incarnation of the Journal used to have an ISBN number in Australia, but now that we are based in Belgium, the publishing market here is a lot more liberal in terms of rules and formatting. Hope that is alright.
Many thanks for all your help! Best regards, stay safe, --M2EU 16:04, 21 October 2020 (EDT)
We are an international site but we try to follow the same standard for everything. Which makes it a bit... weird sometimes :) So I understand. I may be US based these days but I am actually from Bulgaria and I tend to work in the Central and Eastern European languages in the DB when I have a chance so I know perfectly well what you mean - standards between countries are different. And most of the standards here are US based due to historical factors. So we make do. :)
For magazines with no printed dates, we usually date just by the year unless we find a date in other ways (such as from a published schedule) :) Annie 16:39, 21 October 2020 (EDT)

Revista Hélice, junio 2016

This one somehow got lost in the shuffle so apologies for the delay. A few notes:

  • Journals are magazines so you enter that as a magazine, not non-fiction
  • Magazines have somewhat different naming and dating rules - the exact issue number goes only in the notes, we use the cover date as a date and as part of the title.
  • A few capitalization changes in the English title (we use Title case with some modifications and not sentence case).
  • For magazines, the title record becomes an yearly record so the issue link goes into the publication Web pages.
  • 18872905 is definitely not an ISBN so it cannot stay there. I moved it to Catalog ID for now.
  • The reviews will need connecting.

Let me know if you have any questions! Annie 03:53, 22 November 2021 (EST)


Also, the review section is only used for reviews of works that are allowed in the ISFDB (written speculative fiction, publications about written speculative fiction, etc.). If the reviewed work is not allowed, it should be entered as an essay. I converted the review of the television series "El Ministerio del Tiempo" from a review to an essay. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 12:59, 28 November 2021 (EST)

Dear Annie and JLaTondre, many thanks for your kind assistance and for putting things right. I have studied the changes and it all makes sense now, I believe - thanks, Annie, for the explanations above. I will speak with Mariano, the editor of Hélice, in the coming days and use this entry to explain the main concepts of how ISFDB works to him, as best as I can. So your help in getting it right is much appreciated. Take care, all the best, and have a lovely Christmas season! --M2EU 15:14, 2 December 2021 (EST)

Sci Phi Journal, 2021Q1

I corrected the author's name in Until the Bubble Pops contained in your verified publication 'Sci Phi Journal, 2021Q1'. Originally entered as 'Robert L. Jones III' changed to 'Robert L. Jones, III' (note the ','). Here is the relevant help section. John Scifibones 19:46, 23 April 2022 (EDT)

Sci Phi Journal, 2022Q4

You got most of that one done perfectly :) A few small changes were needed though:

  • We capitalize based on our own house style. So I had to change a few titles
  • The link for a specific issues goes into the links of the publication, not the title (the title will become the yearly record so individual issues notes and links do not belong there)
  • Magazines are dated based on cover date and not based on when the ebook was available. So 2022-12-00 is the value to use for this one (or technically even 2022-00-00 but as the month is easily retrievable, we can use it).

The result is here. And while I was around I also completed the second step (always a second step post-approval) and connected it to the rest of the 2022 issues. I also fixed the Q3 issue which was never cleaned up post-approval. Let me know if you have any questions! Annie (talk) 10:22, 22 December 2022 (EST) PS: One more thing: Robert L. Jones III is always recorded as Robert L. Jones, III. See the explanation. Annie (talk) 10:24, 22 December 2022 (EST)

-- Dear Annie, many thanks for your kind help, much appreciated! Best regards,--M2EU (talk) 15:41, 27 January 2023 (EST)

Sci Phi Journal in general

I did some regularizing of titles (please take a look at the help) and fitting length to shortfiction pieces for 2022Q2. This seems to have to been done to other issues too, so don't be surprised if there are more such changes. Christian Stonecreek (talk) 09:44, 16 January 2023 (EST)

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