User talk:Biswas

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Welcome!

Hello, Biswas, 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:

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 19:32, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Zahir

I have your submission wishing to add an issue of a magazine titled Zahir. Are all of the stories speculative fiction (sf, fantasy, horror), or is this a general fiction magazine? There are a few more problems as well with the submission, but those can be easily fixed once we've determined if the issue qualifies for inclusion in the database. Thanks. Mhhutchins

Through my research, I discovered this website, and it's apparent that it's a speculative fiction magazine. I accepted the submission, but are making these changes:
  1. Added "Winter 2005" to the title (to disambiguate different issues)
  2. Changed "trade paperback" to "tp", the standard entry here on the ISFDB
  3. Added "$" before the price to indicate US dollars (also ISFDB standard)
  4. Changed the dates of all of the contents to 2005, assuming these stories are original to this issue and that they would have the same date.
If you have any questions or comments about this record, you can post them here. Just select the "[edit]" function and an entry form will open for you. Add a colon (:) for each section to separate my comments from yours. Sign with four tildes (~~~~) and the system will automatically add your user name and date the entry. Any further information about ISFDB submissions can be found on the help pages which are linked about. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 18:18, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
I added the issues through 2007 from Locus information - see here. If you own more than just contributor's copies, please help us out with checking the data. BLongley 19:53, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Entering magazine issues

When entering issues of magazines, please place the date of the issue in the title field so that the records of each issue can be distinguished from the others. For example, the two issues of Lost Worlds were both entered with the same title, so I changed the title of the first to Lost Worlds, December 1992 and the second to Lost Worlds, July 1994. If these are not monthly dated (let's say "Winter 1992" or "Issue #4"), please update the records. Thanks. Mhhutchins 20:36, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Penny Dreadful

Hi. I don't know if you entered all of those other Penny Dreadful issues, but I've placed them into a series and merged the titles into year-based groups and have set up a basic Magazine:Penny_Dreadful page, linked from Magazines. Feel free to edit any/all. Thanks for contributing! --MartyD 12:24, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I've been adding those issues. I'm new here and didn't even know about series or year-based groups. But your edits look great!! I still have a few issues of this magazine to add. Will additional entries automatically show up in the series box? Thanks again! Biswas 19:35, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Yes, they will eventually. The Title record (once the new issue addition has been approved) needs to be put into the "Penny Dreadful" series. But what we do for magazines is merge all of the year's individual titles into a single, year-wide title (as I have done with the entries you submitted so far). If you add an issue for a year not represented yet, once the addition is approved, edit the title (in this case, to be "Penny Dreadful - yyyy") and give it "Penny Dreadful" as the series. Then it will appear in the lists. I couldn't find a help entry, but Help:Entering_non-genre_magazines#Steps_to_take is a pretty good explanation (although ignore the "only SF content" parts -- a magazine for horror is a "genre" magazine, and we'd record all content). If you try it and need help, ask on the help desk or on any moderator's talk page. --MartyD 11:53, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Date of The Nocturnal Lyric

Was this issue dated in any way other than the year? Mhhutchins 00:38, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that! Yes, the front cover says "Fall/Winter 2004." So I assume I should change the title to read "The Nocturnal Lyric, Fall/Winter, 2004". Is that correct? Biswas 02:04, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Untitled poem

In the case that a poem is untitled (as in this pub), it's a good idea to give the first line of the poem as in "Untitled ("There once was a man from Nantucket")". This makes sure that later untitled poems by the same author won't get merged accidentally. Thanks. Mhhutchins 18:18, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Will do. I only have the table of contents pages for some of these early issues, but I know the editor of this magazine and will ask him for the initial lines of untitled poems.Thanks! Biswas 01:51, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

The Iconoclast

I can find no evidence that this is a speculative fiction magazine. The little I was able to find online (a submissions guideline) indicates that it accepts "Avant-garde, Free Verse, Haiku, Light Verse, Traditional". Are the issues you've entered special sf issues of the title? Mhhutchins 21:26, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

I forgot to add: if this is determined not to be a genre title, we do accept the submission of records for non-genre magazines, but only the spec-fic portion of the contents should be entered into the database. Mhhutchins 21:29, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
The Iconoclast is an interesting magazine. Part traditional spec-fic (fantastic fiction and poetry), part spec-fic in the broader sense (pieces that "speculate" & ask "what if"). Rather hard to classify! I think this is Phil Wagner's intention, though--he's the editor of The Iconoclast--to push the boundaries of speculative fiction (hence the name "The Iconoclast"). It is definitely not a general literary magazine. Not sure where this leaves the magazine as far as the isfdb goes. Please advise. Thanks! Biswas 17:59, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
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