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You do not need to notify me if you add missing content (departments, covers, interior illustrations), correct typos, or link entries (series, reviews). I would be interested in knowing about major changes to entered data (credits, titles). <span style="color:red">I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.</span>-- Rkihara (Ron Kihara)<br />
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:::Great, thanks. I will split them up. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 16:58, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Who Goes There? ==<br />
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I'm going to make a number of changes to your verified copy of the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57402 August 1938 issue] of ''Astounding''. First off, I'm going to add a link to a scan of the issue from the Internet Archive. I'm also going to change the title of Who Goes There? to include the quotation marks as it appears on the storie's title page (also in the table of contents). Lastly, the story note in the recent reprint of the novella in the Fall 2018 issue of ''Black Infinity'' identifies the artist as H. W. Wesso, so I'll add him as the artist for those illustrations and note the source. Please let me know if you have any problems with these changes. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:10, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:No problem.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:51, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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Ron, thanks for taking the trouble to nominate me for moderator. I'll try to make it look like you have good sense. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 15:07, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:You're welcome. It was long overdue.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:36, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== ''Analog'' July 1975, 'Reference Library' essay credit ==<br />
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I've not made any change to the record yet for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57126 Analog, July 1975] as it's not a straightforward problem requiring a simple fix, and you appear to be the only available Verifier who is around these days. Dave Langford has been in touch with me regarding his forthcoming Algis Budrys essay collection, pointing out that our [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?827144 'Reference Library' record for that issue] is in error credited to Lester del Rey when it was in fact a guest editorial by Budrys. This is in fact the same essay that is also currently in the database as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1621085 Foundation and Asimov] by Budrys from 1996. Before I can proceed on connecting the latter essay as a variant of the former, I need to double check with you how the original was actually credited (del Rey or Budrys), and ask how you would like to proceed with regard to the name – we could credit the essay to Budrys and in the Note for that pub point out that it was given the usual byline of Lester del Rey. Could you please take a look at the pub and let me know what you think would be your preferred course of action as Verifier? Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 17:08, 12 February 2020 (EST)<br />
: OK, Dave Langford has retrieved a copy of that issue from his vaults and confirms it is credited to Budrys. I'll make the change, please let me know if you have any problem with this and we can look at it further. Cheers. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 04:50, 13 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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::No problem, go ahead.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:00, 15 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Second set of eyes on Japanese ==<br />
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Hi Ron, <br />
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Would you mind looking at [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?41420 this series] for me? We have the author as 谷甲州 but looking at Amazon, it seems like the author for all the novels is actually 山田正紀. [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%9F%E7%A5%9E%E5%85%B5%E5%9B%A3 Wiki Japan] seems to also be agreeing that we have the wrong author. I will be more than happy to change them but as you have more Japanese than I do, I would appreciate a quick second look to see if I am missing something. Thanks in advance! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:46, 6 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:Yes, it should be 山田正紀. I'm not sure where 谷甲州 was associated with it, but there is no connection as far as I can tell. They should all be changed to 山田正紀. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:43, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:: I will fix them. Thanks a lot for checking! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:44, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956 ==<br />
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Dave Langford is reporting that the review of "Stories" by "И. Ефремов" on pp. 147-150 of your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57551 ''Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956''] is by Algis Budrys as opposed to P. Schuyler Miller. The [https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v57n04_1956-06_EXciter-LennyS/page/n145/mode/2up Internet Archive] agrees. (Other primary verifiers have been notified.) [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 06:54, 8 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Planet Stories, Summer 1946 ==<br />
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I added some letters to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60036 Planet Stories, Summer 1946]. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 00:40, 2 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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:No problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 02:13, 4 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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== F&SF July 1980 query ==<br />
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Hi. I was reviewing something else in this July 1980 F&SF issue via scanned version on archive.org. (I don't have the paper copy). I found that the page numbers for "Siriusly Speaking" and "Found" appeared to be off by 1 page. The archive.org scanned copy has "Siriously Speaking" on p 134 and "Found" on p 144. I assume that you have a paper copy and can check this; I assume that the scanned copy matches, but would like to be sure. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:21, 2 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know. They start on pages 134 and 144 as you stated. Go ahead and make the corrections.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 14:04, 3 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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Hi. As you know (I'm sure you have moderated some of my edits), I've been working on several aspects of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction entries.<br />
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I just looked at this issue of F&SF: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2006 Publication Record # 115661 <br />
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The Notes for the issue on ISFDB include the information 'Cover illustrates "White Goddess."'<br />
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Now, I would check the cover art title attribution, but I do not have a paper copy, and there does not appear to be a scanned/digital copy at archive.org.<br />
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I did not find any title in the TOC for "White Goddess".<br />
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I am assuming that one of the primary verifiers for this issue has a paper copy and can check this.<br />
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If you don't have access to a paper copy, I'll go on to the others. I started with you because I know you are active on ISFDB.<br />
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Thanks<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]]<br />
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::The cover art is not necessarily linked to a story. The name of the piece is identified at the bottom of the index as "White Goddess" by Max Bertolini.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:50, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
Thanks. Yes, I do see that. At the same time, in this era for F&SF, it was not that common, so I wanted to confirm this was not an error. I've just looked at the SFSITE.com entry for this issue, and it does list the title as being noted on the Contents/copyright page, with no story attached. So, we're done. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 20:27, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Jaida Jones ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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Where is [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3005253 this] birthday coming from? None of the sources we had listed seems to have it, your update does not have a moderator note? I am holding an update to the same date waiting for a source by the submitter... can you please update the notes with the source (or point me to where it is in the 3 sites we list). Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:10, 23 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:Looking back through my spreadsheet of author edits, I retrieved the data from the Wikipedia. It's been five years since I made the edit, so the birthdate may have been removed. I'm pretty much inactive at this point, so I have no problem if anyone wants to change it. I've found that many authors are willing to give or verify their birthdate if there is a question.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:00, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: I misread my dates last night - because of the edit I was holding, I thought it was a recent change. Sorry for bugging you :( Тhe change I hold is changing the year from 1980 to 1986. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 08:28, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1986 ==<br />
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The cover art of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61109 this], the ascribed to G. P. Lendino, a one hit wonder, is claimed by James Gurney in a "Works by" list in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1149930 Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist]. The style is very similar, so I'll make GP Lendino a pseudonym of James Gurney. [[User:Horzel|Horzel]] 09:03, 27 August 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:Okay, no problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:37, 29 August 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Catalyst for Power! ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=birchl&type=Name; Birchly PV by you, should probably be Birchley and merged with same title under that name. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:39, 12 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Account compromised? ==<br />
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Ron,<br />
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It looks like your ISFDB account may have been compromised since it's been used to blank Al's User page. I have reverted the bad edits and disabled the moderator flag on your account until we can get it back to you. Please send an email message to my email address, which is listed at the top of my User page. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:58, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
: It is very easy to rollback something in the new format of wiki by mistake when working on a small touchscreen for example (I got caught in it the first day [https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Rudam#Das_grosse_Warten here] (look at the history of the page to see what happened) and did not even realize that happened until I looked at the Watchlist). I had been a lot more careful when working from small screens (and touch screens) since. So it is possible that this is what happened here as well - although it may as well be a compromised account. We may want to look into adding a "Are you sure?" or something like that? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 19:09, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:: That's a good point. [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/488048/ Show confirmation prompt on rollback links] is a MediaWiki patch which apparently added support for this feature. Let me check if $wgEnableRollbackConfirmationPrompt is mentioned in our settings file. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:34, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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::: Done. I'll post a note on the Community Portal. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:43, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:::: I have reset your password programmatically and sent the new, temporary, password to you via email. Please let me know if it works. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 05:34, 20 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Japanese book words ==<br />
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I decided to make a [[User:Nihonjoe/Japanese book word glossary|Japanese book word glossary]] for quick reference when I need it, and I figured you might be interested in it, too, since you do some Japanese stuff. Feel free to update it. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:26, 16 November 2022 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks for the thought. I've pretty much backed off from editing, although I'm constantly checking things here. I probably have nothing to contribute, as I haven't used Japanese for decades and I've forgotten most of it.—[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 01:42, 17 November 2022 (EST)<br />
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== She and Her Cat ==<br />
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Ron, I've added the UK edition for [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1979732 She and Her Cat] and have a few questions, although I see you're not involving yourself with Japanese titles any more. I have a couple of questions about the title, so could you drop by at Nihonjoe's page [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Nihonjoe#She_and_Her_Cat here] and add any comments you may have? Many thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] ([[User talk:PeteYoung|talk]]) 13:13, 29 November 2022 (EST)<br />
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== Willis Couvillier/W. C. Roberts ==<br />
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Hi Ron,<br />
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I am not sure if you recall the details, but it looks like way back [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/author_history.cgi?147501 in March 2017] you approved a submission which turned {{A|W. C. Roberts}} into an alternate name of {{A|Willis Couvillier}}. Our policy, as stated in [[Template:AuthorFields:CanonicalName]], says:<br />
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* For authors who publish under multiple names, the canonical name is the most recognized name for that author within the genre.<br />
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and "W. C. Roberts" is how this author is credited in the vast majority of cases. A [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions/Archive/Archive15#Author.27s_wishes_vs_ISFDB_practices Rules and Standards discussion of this author's records] followed. Since there was no easy way to see Author History at the time, the participants may not have realized that you were one of the moderators who had worked on the record and didn't invite you, so you may have missed it. Do you recall anything else that may help sort this out? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 15:00, 16 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:That's too long ago for me to remember, especially since I've stopped editing for the most part. [[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 14:58, 20 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:: No problem, thanks for responding! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:31, 20 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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: By the way has my moderator flag been removed? I can't seem to access the moderator functions.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 14:58, 20 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:: Yes, your moderator flag was unset [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Rkihara#Account_compromised.3F back in September] due to unusual activity on your account, which made me worried that the account may have been compromised. I believe I contacted you about this issue via email. A bit later it turned out that the "unusual activity" was due to the way the new Wiki interface worked and your "rollback" changes had been an accidental mis-click. I restored the moderator flag on your account a few minutes ago. Sorry about the hassle!<br />
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:: That said, if you don't have the time for moderator work these days -- which is perfectly understandable, especially given the fact that none of us is getting younger (who knew?!) -- please let me know and I can change it to the recently implemented "self-approver" flag. It would let you approve your own submissions but not submissions created by other editors. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:31, 20 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't plan to work as moderator again, especially since rules and standards have changed so much since I was last moderating. So putting me down as a "self-approver" is fine by me. [[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 16:03, 21 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:::: Done! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:22, 21 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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::: I still can't change my password, so I'm using the default that you set.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 16:03, 21 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:::: The inability to received ISFDB email has to do with the way our email server is configured. Many email providers only accept email messages from properly configured and registered servers, which cuts down on spam, phishing, etc. Al is currently looking into what we need to do to get our email server configured/registered in a way that would satisfy these requirements. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:22, 21 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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== Review of ''Ringworld'' in ''Amazing Science Fiction, May 1971'' ==<br />
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Just a quick note to let you know that I have changed the author of [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?879040 this review of ''Ringworld''] in your verified [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56142 Amazing Science Fiction, May 1971] from {{A|Ted White}} to {{A|Richard A. Lupoff}}. The review is signed "Richard A. Lupoff" and is followed by a short "TW" note, which reads: "For a scientific evaluation of Niven's Ringworld concept, see 'The Science in Science Fiction', last issue." [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 11:05, 2 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Gregg Mullen/Suvin Book ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5668473; I made a bunch of fixes/additions to your PV. EDIT: This, too; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5668492. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:19, 18 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Magarian ==<br />
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I noticed a very weird note on [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58066 this entry]. Albert and Florence Magarian were not Siamese twins. They were [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58066 married] and often worked together. Not sure where that erroneous info came from and not sure whether I needed to run it past you before changing it. >> [[User:Mphillips|Mphillips]] ([[User talk:Mphillips|talk]]) 13:12, 13 August 2023 (EDT)<br />
:https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5740526; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5740527. I have these 2 pending edits. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:28, 13 August 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::That is a pretty strange note, I would have remembered it if I had made that entry. Make any changes you feel are necessary.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 14:38, 14 August 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== IASFM, October 1986 ==<br />
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https://archive.org/search?query=Asimovs_v10n10_1986-10; There are 2 ISFDB credits for Koszowski, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?202206; one is in an obscure magazine but this one is easily found and I think that name should be made a variant of the artist Allen Koszowski. Also, the page number for the art should be 14, not 16; I didn't check anything else for accuracy but you may want to and fix if needed. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 21:26, 7 October 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:I've pretty much stopped editing. Make any changes you feel are necessary.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 21:25, 10 October 2023 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Rkihara&diff=669146User talk:Rkihara2023-08-14T18:38:42Z<p>Rkihara: /* Magarian */</p>
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:::Great, thanks. I will split them up. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 16:58, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Who Goes There? ==<br />
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I'm going to make a number of changes to your verified copy of the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57402 August 1938 issue] of ''Astounding''. First off, I'm going to add a link to a scan of the issue from the Internet Archive. I'm also going to change the title of Who Goes There? to include the quotation marks as it appears on the storie's title page (also in the table of contents). Lastly, the story note in the recent reprint of the novella in the Fall 2018 issue of ''Black Infinity'' identifies the artist as H. W. Wesso, so I'll add him as the artist for those illustrations and note the source. Please let me know if you have any problems with these changes. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:10, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:No problem.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:51, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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Ron, thanks for taking the trouble to nominate me for moderator. I'll try to make it look like you have good sense. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 15:07, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:You're welcome. It was long overdue.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:36, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== ''Analog'' July 1975, 'Reference Library' essay credit ==<br />
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I've not made any change to the record yet for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57126 Analog, July 1975] as it's not a straightforward problem requiring a simple fix, and you appear to be the only available Verifier who is around these days. Dave Langford has been in touch with me regarding his forthcoming Algis Budrys essay collection, pointing out that our [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?827144 'Reference Library' record for that issue] is in error credited to Lester del Rey when it was in fact a guest editorial by Budrys. This is in fact the same essay that is also currently in the database as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1621085 Foundation and Asimov] by Budrys from 1996. Before I can proceed on connecting the latter essay as a variant of the former, I need to double check with you how the original was actually credited (del Rey or Budrys), and ask how you would like to proceed with regard to the name – we could credit the essay to Budrys and in the Note for that pub point out that it was given the usual byline of Lester del Rey. Could you please take a look at the pub and let me know what you think would be your preferred course of action as Verifier? Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 17:08, 12 February 2020 (EST)<br />
: OK, Dave Langford has retrieved a copy of that issue from his vaults and confirms it is credited to Budrys. I'll make the change, please let me know if you have any problem with this and we can look at it further. Cheers. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 04:50, 13 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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::No problem, go ahead.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:00, 15 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Second set of eyes on Japanese ==<br />
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Hi Ron, <br />
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Would you mind looking at [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?41420 this series] for me? We have the author as 谷甲州 but looking at Amazon, it seems like the author for all the novels is actually 山田正紀. [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%9F%E7%A5%9E%E5%85%B5%E5%9B%A3 Wiki Japan] seems to also be agreeing that we have the wrong author. I will be more than happy to change them but as you have more Japanese than I do, I would appreciate a quick second look to see if I am missing something. Thanks in advance! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:46, 6 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:Yes, it should be 山田正紀. I'm not sure where 谷甲州 was associated with it, but there is no connection as far as I can tell. They should all be changed to 山田正紀. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:43, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:: I will fix them. Thanks a lot for checking! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:44, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956 ==<br />
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Dave Langford is reporting that the review of "Stories" by "И. Ефремов" on pp. 147-150 of your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57551 ''Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956''] is by Algis Budrys as opposed to P. Schuyler Miller. The [https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v57n04_1956-06_EXciter-LennyS/page/n145/mode/2up Internet Archive] agrees. (Other primary verifiers have been notified.) [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 06:54, 8 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Planet Stories, Summer 1946 ==<br />
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I added some letters to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60036 Planet Stories, Summer 1946]. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 00:40, 2 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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:No problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 02:13, 4 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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== F&SF July 1980 query ==<br />
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Hi. I was reviewing something else in this July 1980 F&SF issue via scanned version on archive.org. (I don't have the paper copy). I found that the page numbers for "Siriusly Speaking" and "Found" appeared to be off by 1 page. The archive.org scanned copy has "Siriously Speaking" on p 134 and "Found" on p 144. I assume that you have a paper copy and can check this; I assume that the scanned copy matches, but would like to be sure. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:21, 2 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know. They start on pages 134 and 144 as you stated. Go ahead and make the corrections.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 14:04, 3 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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Hi. As you know (I'm sure you have moderated some of my edits), I've been working on several aspects of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction entries.<br />
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I just looked at this issue of F&SF: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2006 Publication Record # 115661 <br />
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The Notes for the issue on ISFDB include the information 'Cover illustrates "White Goddess."'<br />
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Now, I would check the cover art title attribution, but I do not have a paper copy, and there does not appear to be a scanned/digital copy at archive.org.<br />
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I did not find any title in the TOC for "White Goddess".<br />
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I am assuming that one of the primary verifiers for this issue has a paper copy and can check this.<br />
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If you don't have access to a paper copy, I'll go on to the others. I started with you because I know you are active on ISFDB.<br />
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Thanks<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]]<br />
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::The cover art is not necessarily linked to a story. The name of the piece is identified at the bottom of the index as "White Goddess" by Max Bertolini.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:50, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
Thanks. Yes, I do see that. At the same time, in this era for F&SF, it was not that common, so I wanted to confirm this was not an error. I've just looked at the SFSITE.com entry for this issue, and it does list the title as being noted on the Contents/copyright page, with no story attached. So, we're done. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 20:27, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Jaida Jones ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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Where is [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3005253 this] birthday coming from? None of the sources we had listed seems to have it, your update does not have a moderator note? I am holding an update to the same date waiting for a source by the submitter... can you please update the notes with the source (or point me to where it is in the 3 sites we list). Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:10, 23 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:Looking back through my spreadsheet of author edits, I retrieved the data from the Wikipedia. It's been five years since I made the edit, so the birthdate may have been removed. I'm pretty much inactive at this point, so I have no problem if anyone wants to change it. I've found that many authors are willing to give or verify their birthdate if there is a question.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:00, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: I misread my dates last night - because of the edit I was holding, I thought it was a recent change. Sorry for bugging you :( Тhe change I hold is changing the year from 1980 to 1986. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 08:28, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1986 ==<br />
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The cover art of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61109 this], the ascribed to G. P. Lendino, a one hit wonder, is claimed by James Gurney in a "Works by" list in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1149930 Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist]. The style is very similar, so I'll make GP Lendino a pseudonym of James Gurney. [[User:Horzel|Horzel]] 09:03, 27 August 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:Okay, no problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:37, 29 August 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Catalyst for Power! ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=birchl&type=Name; Birchly PV by you, should probably be Birchley and merged with same title under that name. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:39, 12 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Account compromised? ==<br />
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Ron,<br />
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It looks like your ISFDB account may have been compromised since it's been used to blank Al's User page. I have reverted the bad edits and disabled the moderator flag on your account until we can get it back to you. Please send an email message to my email address, which is listed at the top of my User page. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:58, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
: It is very easy to rollback something in the new format of wiki by mistake when working on a small touchscreen for example (I got caught in it the first day [https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Rudam#Das_grosse_Warten here] (look at the history of the page to see what happened) and did not even realize that happened until I looked at the Watchlist). I had been a lot more careful when working from small screens (and touch screens) since. So it is possible that this is what happened here as well - although it may as well be a compromised account. We may want to look into adding a "Are you sure?" or something like that? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 19:09, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:: That's a good point. [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/488048/ Show confirmation prompt on rollback links] is a MediaWiki patch which apparently added support for this feature. Let me check if $wgEnableRollbackConfirmationPrompt is mentioned in our settings file. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:34, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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::: Done. I'll post a note on the Community Portal. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:43, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:::: I have reset your password programmatically and sent the new, temporary, password to you via email. Please let me know if it works. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 05:34, 20 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Japanese book words ==<br />
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I decided to make a [[User:Nihonjoe/Japanese book word glossary|Japanese book word glossary]] for quick reference when I need it, and I figured you might be interested in it, too, since you do some Japanese stuff. Feel free to update it. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:26, 16 November 2022 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks for the thought. I've pretty much backed off from editing, although I'm constantly checking things here. I probably have nothing to contribute, as I haven't used Japanese for decades and I've forgotten most of it.—[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 01:42, 17 November 2022 (EST)<br />
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== She and Her Cat ==<br />
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Ron, I've added the UK edition for [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1979732 She and Her Cat] and have a few questions, although I see you're not involving yourself with Japanese titles any more. I have a couple of questions about the title, so could you drop by at Nihonjoe's page [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Nihonjoe#She_and_Her_Cat here] and add any comments you may have? Many thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] ([[User talk:PeteYoung|talk]]) 13:13, 29 November 2022 (EST)<br />
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== Willis Couvillier/W. C. Roberts ==<br />
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Hi Ron,<br />
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I am not sure if you recall the details, but it looks like way back [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/author_history.cgi?147501 in March 2017] you approved a submission which turned {{A|W. C. Roberts}} into an alternate name of {{A|Willis Couvillier}}. Our policy, as stated in [[Template:AuthorFields:CanonicalName]], says:<br />
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* For authors who publish under multiple names, the canonical name is the most recognized name for that author within the genre.<br />
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and "W. C. Roberts" is how this author is credited in the vast majority of cases. A [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions/Archive/Archive15#Author.27s_wishes_vs_ISFDB_practices Rules and Standards discussion of this author's records] followed. Since there was no easy way to see Author History at the time, the participants may not have realized that you were one of the moderators who had worked on the record and didn't invite you, so you may have missed it. Do you recall anything else that may help sort this out? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 15:00, 16 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:That's too long ago for me to remember, especially since I've stopped editing for the most part. [[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 14:58, 20 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:: No problem, thanks for responding! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:31, 20 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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: By the way has my moderator flag been removed? I can't seem to access the moderator functions.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 14:58, 20 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:: Yes, your moderator flag was unset [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Rkihara#Account_compromised.3F back in September] due to unusual activity on your account, which made me worried that the account may have been compromised. I believe I contacted you about this issue via email. A bit later it turned out that the "unusual activity" was due to the way the new Wiki interface worked and your "rollback" changes had been an accidental mis-click. I restored the moderator flag on your account a few minutes ago. Sorry about the hassle!<br />
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:: That said, if you don't have the time for moderator work these days -- which is perfectly understandable, especially given the fact that none of us is getting younger (who knew?!) -- please let me know and I can change it to the recently implemented "self-approver" flag. It would let you approve your own submissions but not submissions created by other editors. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:31, 20 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't plan to work as moderator again, especially since rules and standards have changed so much since I was last moderating. So putting me down as a "self-approver" is fine by me. [[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 16:03, 21 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:::: Done! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:22, 21 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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::: I still can't change my password, so I'm using the default that you set.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 16:03, 21 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:::: The inability to received ISFDB email has to do with the way our email server is configured. Many email providers only accept email messages from properly configured and registered servers, which cuts down on spam, phishing, etc. Al is currently looking into what we need to do to get our email server configured/registered in a way that would satisfy these requirements. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:22, 21 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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== Review of ''Ringworld'' in ''Amazing Science Fiction, May 1971'' ==<br />
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Just a quick note to let you know that I have changed the author of [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?879040 this review of ''Ringworld''] in your verified [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56142 Amazing Science Fiction, May 1971] from {{A|Ted White}} to {{A|Richard A. Lupoff}}. The review is signed "Richard A. Lupoff" and is followed by a short "TW" note, which reads: "For a scientific evaluation of Niven's Ringworld concept, see 'The Science in Science Fiction', last issue." [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 11:05, 2 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Gregg Mullen/Suvin Book ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5668473; I made a bunch of fixes/additions to your PV. EDIT: This, too; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5668492. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:19, 18 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Magarian ==<br />
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I noticed a very weird note on [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58066 this entry]. Albert and Florence Magarian were not Siamese twins. They were [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58066 married] and often worked together. Not sure where that erroneous info came from and not sure whether I needed to run it past you before changing it. >> [[User:Mphillips|Mphillips]] ([[User talk:Mphillips|talk]]) 13:12, 13 August 2023 (EDT)<br />
:https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5740526; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5740527. I have these 2 pending edits. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:28, 13 August 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::That is a pretty strange note, I would have remembered it if I had made that entry. Make any changes you feel are necessary.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 14:38, 14 August 2023 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=ISFDB:Community_Portal&diff=666231ISFDB:Community Portal2023-06-30T16:27:19Z<p>Rkihara: /* Biomass Bob (Robert E. Lumpkin passing 6/20/2023) */</p>
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== Looking for one book. ==<br />
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Hello. I am Looking for one book. I only remember the beginning of the piece. Some guy found a derelict computer, sat down at it and started doing something, and then he saw a man with a gun walk up to the desk, they looked at each other in silence for a while, then the guy mechanically pressed the Enter button and the man shot him back. The work was read in the 1990s or very early 2000s. The piece appeared no later than the 1990s (probably earlier). I also remember that the guy was doing something enthusiastically on the computer: at first he typed without looking at the screen, but the message on the computer monitor made him do his work more slowly and carefully. The phrases went something like this. The message on the computer screen made him work more carefully. Behind the desk stood a man with a gun in his hand. The guy had never seen a real gun, except in the movies, but he knew immediately what it was. The guy's hand dropped mechanically to the Enter button, and the same second the black muzzle of the gun burst into flames, ending his life. Thank you in advance. --[[User:Strannik27|Strannik27]] ([[User talk:Strannik27|talk]]) 01:23, 6 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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: Nothing comes to mind, I am afraid. There are a couple of Reddit forums that may be worth a shot: [https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/ Tip of My Tongue], which handles all types of media, and [https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/ PrintSF], which specializes in printed speculative fiction. The Usenet group [https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.sf.written rec.arts.sf.written] may be another place to check. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 13:49, 6 January 2023 (EST)<br />
:: Sadly. Thank you. Wrote in the first and third place, in the second they require 2 days from the date of registration. --[[User:Strannik27|Strannik27]] ([[User talk:Strannik27|talk]]) 15:05, 6 January 2023 (EST)<br />
:::Another possible place to check is [https://community.abebooks.com/s/forum-topic-results?language=en_US&topicId=0TO3n0000003yS1GAI&type=Community%20Forum Book Sleuth] on the AbeBooks site. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:09, 6 January 2023 (EST)<br />
:::I've updated the [[ISFDB:FAQ#I need help finding a book|ISFDB FAQ]] with a section containing the above links. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 6 January 2023 (EST)<br />
::::Thank you, I wrote. --[[User:Strannik27|Strannik27]] ([[User talk:Strannik27|talk]]) 05:02, 7 January 2023 (EST)<br />
::::I wrote: 1. [https://community.abebooks.com/s/question/0D53n000092akFOCAY/a-guy-gets-into-an-unattended-computer-and-gets-killed-with-a-gun-for-it-a-detective-or-maybe-a-thriller?language=en_US&topicId=0TO3n0000003yS1GAI Book Sleuth], [https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/1046dwp/tomtmovie2000sa_guy_gets_into_an_unattended/?sort=new tipofmytongue], [https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/105spj3/looking_for_one_book/ printSF] and [https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.sf.written/c/4p_Z6o_Uc38?pli=1 rec.arts.sf.written]. Where else to write? --[[User:Strannik27|Strannik27]] ([[User talk:Strannik27|talk]]) 06:58, 8 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Title Merge -- post-submission pages enhanced ==<br />
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Post-submission pages for Title Merge submissions have been enhanced. They now correctly display embedded HTML and properly link to third party Web sites. Displayed field names are now more meaningful. If you come across any issues, please let me know. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 17:52, 6 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Award Editor -- post-submission pages enhanced ==<br />
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Post-submission pages for Edit Award submissions have been enhanced. They now link to the main Award Type page for the award's type, correctly display embedded HTML and link to IMDB where applicable. If you come across any issues, please let me know. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 17:52, 6 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Request Currey check (print, 1979) ==<br />
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''The Body Snatchers'' (1955) publication record {{p|211333}}, primarily by User:Bluesman who is no longer with us, implies that Currey is the source for cover artist "Stuart Treslian". That reference should be to print [[Reference:Currey]] rather than the L. W. Currey website, which does not name Stuart T nor any cover artist in current descriptions of two copies ([https://www.lwcurrey.com/pages/books/129296/jack-finney-walter-braden-finney/the-body-snatchers one at US$4500]).<br />
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Spelling "Stuart Tresilian" may be expected. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Tresilian Stuart T at Wikipedia]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 14:04, 12 January 2023 (EST)<br />
:The entry for this book in Currey is not the source for the cover artist, and doesn't ordinarily provide the cover artist in the entries. I'm certain that [[Reference:Currey|the reference]] is what [[User:Bluesman|Bill]] was referring to in the note. However, I believe he was only indicating that Currey stated that there was no statement of printing. You may also find [[Reference:Verification Sources|this chart]] helpful. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:15, 12 January 2023 (EST)<br />
:: Thanks. Layout supports your interpretation.<br />
:: That chart of ISFDB Verification Sources will be useful. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 09:03, 13 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Fiction series(?): Body Snatchers, The; Invasion of, The ==<br />
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We have 1955 T{{t|437}} and rewritten 1978 T{{t|186595}} versions of this Jack Finney novel, as distinct parent titles with multiple variants (some under shared titles), presumably because the rewrite has been judged "great enough" (DO NOT MERGE, Mhhutchins, 2008-12-13).<br />
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Those need some linkage. (I will need to re-revise the former parent Title note, item 2.) I suggest a Series containing numbered versions 1 and 2. Is there any reason not to link them by a fiction series, rather than multiple cross-reference links? --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 09:16, 13 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== New Publication -- post-submission page in the process of being updated ==<br />
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Post-submission pages for "New Publication" submissions are currently in the process of being updated. The first patch was installed a few minutes ago. It tweaked the way the "Title" section is displayed.<br />
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Upgrading the software behind this Web page is a delicate process because some of it is shared with other post-submission pages like "Clone Publication". It will take a few patches to get everything updated. In the meantime, if you come across any issues, please let me know. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 17:15, 13 January 2023 (EST)<br />
: It does look a little jarring without a label at the top of the first table but I will wait to see where that ends before complaining about it properly. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 17:30, 13 January 2023 (EST)<br />
: Oh, one thing - html in the Moderator notes is not resolving. See [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5540454 example] [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 17:31, 13 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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:: Investigating... [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:05, 13 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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::: OK, the missing header ("Title Data") has been resurrected and "Note to Moderator" has been changed to display HTML correctly. All previously upgraded post-submission pages had the same HTML display issue, but it didn't become obvious until NewPub was upgraded since Fixer uses HTML in moderator notes. Thanks for reporting the problems! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:32, 13 January 2023 (EST)<br />
:::: Looks good now. Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 19:16, 13 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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(unindent) The "Title" section has been further enhanced for AddPub submissions. It now displays all field values for the title record that the new pub is about to be attached to. It doesn't include reviews, tags, a link to the parent title (if there is one), variants or other fancy things that the regular Title page displays, but it's a lot more data than what was displayed before the change. The new format also has a new section header, "Automerge title data", which hopefully makes it easier to tell that the submission is an AddPub and not a NewPub. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:52, 14 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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: The "Publication Metadata" section has been updated to display embedded HTML tags correctly and to allow multiple warnings per field. A few yellow warnings have been tweaked and I plan another pass to upgrade the rest of them once I update ClonePub, Import/Export and EditPub to use the same software. If you come across any issues, please let me know. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 17:32, 17 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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:: I suppose that "Post-submission pages" include "Approved ..." among others. Approved New Publication; Approved ClonePub; Approved Publication Update --all retain(?) link label "New record:" in the footer. Approval timestamp 2023-01-17 21:28:23 for the mildly offending PubUpdate. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 12:09, 19 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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::: Checking [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?928677 this recently created pub]'s [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pub_history.cgi?928677 Edit History], I see that the [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5527716 NewPub submission] which created it links to the new record at the bottom of the page, which is as it should be. The subsequent [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5527989 PubUpdate submission] also says "New record" and links to it even though it's no longer a new record.<br />
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::: It looks like it's an old bug introduced back when Edit History was implemented a couple of years ago. {{Bug|824}} has been created -- thanks for identifying it! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:14, 19 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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:::: It should be fixed now. Thanks again. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:36, 20 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Looking for a sci-fi title ==<br />
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Hello everyone, I am looking for the title and author of a SF short story (or novel) in which a NASA-type company sends chronically unlucky people to unknown planets. Since these people are dogged by ill luck, the company figures they will encounter all the problems there are : monsters, eruptions, and so on. And that will be a good way to prepare for the planets’ exploration. Does anybody happen to know, by any chance, the title or/and author of this story ? Yves Lavandier {{unsigned2|07:15, January 18, 2023 |Yves Lavandier}}<br />
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: I have no recollection of a plot like this. Can you perhaps give a line of time it might have been published in? (It sounds more like a classic plot: 1940s to 1950s, I'd say). [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] ([[User talk:Stonecreek|talk]]) 12:15, 18 January 2023 (EST)<br />
:You can try one of the resources listed [[ISFDB:FAQ#I need help finding a book|here]]. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:33, 18 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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::Sounds like the plot of Robert Sheckley's [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?46023 The Minimum Man]. --[[User:Willem H.|Willem]] ([[User talk:Willem H.|talk]]) 14:07, 18 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Annals of Klepsis ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?2779; https://archive.org/details/annalsofklepsis0000laff; Active verifiers, look at this, it's got stuff crossed/whited out on front and back covers, a pasted string of numbers on copyright page, etc. Alternate edition or something, maybe, if anyone wants to enter it. It was added in Feb. 2021, just after the last PV. EDIT: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5547100; This was uploaded in April 2021; I made an attempt at entering it ("borrowing" the phrasing of the price info from other records on ISFDB) but I'm sure editors who enter French books regularly can add some stuff after my edit is approved. I notice someone named AlainLeBris did a lot of them; is he still editing? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:44, 18 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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: AlainLeBris's last activity date is 2022-01-22, almost a year ago. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:03, 18 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Robert Silverberg's "We, the Marauders" and "Invaders from Earth" ==<br />
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Silverberg's 1958 novella, {{T|67050|name=We, the Marauders}}, came out a few months earlier than his 1958 novel {{T|2798|name=Invaders from Earth}}, although they are basically the same story. As such, it has often been viewed (including in our records) that the novella came first, and was then expanded into the novel. In a post yesterday on the FictionMagsIndex mailing list, Silverberg corrects that impression, writing:<br><br />
"After 65 years I don't have a clear recollection of how the changes in INVADERS FROM EARTH came about. I do recall that I wrote the book for Don Wollheim at Ace and then offered it to Bob Lowndes, whose pulp magazine SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY could handle long stories. The title "We, the Marauders" on the magazine version was Lowndes', though I liked it. I don't recall whether he or I did the cutting, or how the changes in plot came about. The Ace version was the original one, though."<br><br />
I have updated the title notes to both the novella and the novel to reflect this information. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] ([[User talk:Chavey|talk]]) 13:08, 18 January 2023 (EST)<br />
: (I reviewed those Title notes but don't know the story.) I submitted update, and noted "hold for User: Chavey", of the NOVEL note as "the same story" ==> "nearly the same story" ... "and the cuts create a different resolution to the main character's personal story." The latter information, from the novella Title note, seems too important to omit from either one. Also I showed strong approval of the paragraph break by replicating it here for the novel, which unfortunately creates a mass of text in the "Differences".<br />
: I would have named the "writer's blog" that is also the "FictionMagsIndex mailing list", if I understand correctly. I won't make the call that it belongs in the Notes but hope you will identify it here with a link. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 11:53, 19 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Ohioana Book Award ==<br />
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Here's another award I found. It's not a specifically genre award, but there are genre winners regularly appearing in its list of winners. [http://www.ohioana.org/programs/ohioana-book-awards/past-award-winners/ Main list], [http://www.ohioana.org/programs/ohioana-book-awards/other-awards/ additional list], [http://www.ohioana.org/programs/ohioana-book-awards/ general info]. They appear to be all juried awards, given out since the early 1940s.<br />
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List of categories:<br />
*Fiction<br />
*Nonfiction<br />
*Middle Grade & Young Adult Literature<br />
*Juvenile Literature<br />
*Poetry<br />
*About Ohio (not sure if there are any genre winners in this one as I haven't had time to look)<br />
*Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant (not sure if there are any genre winners in this one as I haven't had time to look)<br />
*Readers’ Choice Award (the only non-juried award)<br />
*Alice Louise Wood Award<br />
*Anniversary Award<br />
*Award of Merit<br />
*Career Award<br />
*Citation Award<br />
*Editorial Excellence<br />
*Head Award<br />
*Krout Poetry<br />
*Ohio Favorite Author (not sure if there are any genre winners in this one as I haven't had time to look)<br />
*Ohio Favorite Book (not sure if there are any genre winners in this one as I haven't had time to look)<br />
*Pegasus Award<br />
*Sesquicentennial Award<br />
*Ohioana Fellowship<br />
*Ohio Favorite Book<br />
*Ohio Favorite Author<br />
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I can enter them once they're created. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 17:13, 18 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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: I am not sure how many of their categories have SF awards, but I have found at least a few genre authors: Andre Norton, Lois McMaster Bujold, Virginia Hamilton. If there are no objections, I can create a new award type, which will let moderators create categories as needed. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:01, 18 January 2023 (EST)<br />
::Yup, that's pretty much along the lines of what I found. Edward Eager is in there, too. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:00, 18 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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::: Done. It's our [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?100 100th Award Type]! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 15:32, 21 January 2023 (EST)<br />
::::An auspicious beginning, to be sure. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:12, 23 January 2023 (EST)<br />
::::Took a while, but I think all of them are entered now. See [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?100 here]. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:35, 3 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== S.E.P. SF ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?29174; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?363483; Likely these 2 records are for the same book, but each contains info the other doesn't. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:39, 19 January 2023 (EST)<br />
:I agree. I've merged everything to [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?363483 this one]. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:13, 19 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Amazon cover images in publication records ==<br />
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[1] Given some stable image file.jpg under "images/I" at Amazon, do we have any reason to prefer one of the addresses https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/ and https://m.media-amazon.com/ ? Is it valuable to change our URL from one to the other, upon noticing an address change at the Amazon product page?<br />
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[2] Do we have any reason to prefer linking a cover image at Amazon or linking one at Open Library? If not in general, then a match with stated printing number, available via "Look inside" at Amazon or "Preview" at Open Library but not both, is one attractive criterion. Image quality is another. Most recently I chose to [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5545586 link m-media-amazon.com] rather than [https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28305950M/The_particular_sadness_of_lemon_cake Open Library OL28305950M] because the latter image looks "too dark" to me. (Only now I see that "Preview" reveals a 9th printing, and Amazon UK/US provide no "Look inside".) <br />
<br>--[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 12:56, 19 January 2023 (EST)<br />
: Amazon: Either works and points to the same place for EVERY image. If we discover that one of the spaces is discontinued, we can swap them programmatically but for the time being, either can be used (ebooks usually use the media one these days; paper books can use the images-na). As long as the ID at the end is the same, the two domains are identical for all intents and purposes and will always show the same image.<br />
: As for the OL/Amazon - both are stable (As long as it is an /I/ image in Amazon so use whichever looks better and is of better quality overall. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 17:37, 19 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Clone/Export/Import -- post-submission page updated ==<br />
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The "Publication Data" section of the post-submission review page for Clone/Export/Import submissions has been updated. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 20:02, 19 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Clive Barker Author Photo ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?71; I did some Clive Barker book edits recently and, as far as I can recall, his photo was broken because it was from one of those sites that don't display HTTP images correctly after our server move (or possibly it was just a bad photo and I decided to replace it), so I substituted a color photo from FantLab of Barker in his library that's very recent judging by his appearance, which is not very pleasant these days due to all his medical problems. Today I randomly came across his page again and saw that someone replaced that with a different photo that's not only in black-and-white but very old judging by his youthful appearance, plus it has one of those long WEBP URL's Amazon was using for a while recently. Is there any way to see a history of who edits author records? I'd like to know who changed it. I'm going to re-replace it with the FantLab photo and hopefully it will stay that way this time. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:36, 22 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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: Author records do have Edit History information on file, but only moderators can access it. The reason is that our [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Policy#Data_Deletion_Policy data deletion policy] lets living authors request removal of ''biographical'' (as opposed to ''bibliographic'') data from their author records. Making authors' Edit History publicly available would defeat the purpose of the policy.<br />
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: In this case the change was made by [[User:Stonecreek]] in submission [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5527111 5527111] on 2023-01-01. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 13:13, 22 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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:: Stonecreek, you say? What a shock. Anyway, my edit is pending to change it back. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:40, 22 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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:::In order to prevent a continuing edit war, I've put the further edit on hold. Could [[User:Username|Username]] and [[User:Stonecreek|Christian]] as well as any other editors with an opinion on which image should be used please come to an agreement here before we further churn the author image? Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:21, 23 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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:::: My opinion is a recent image, like the one I added from FantLab seems to be (they have 2 others which are old and B&W), is better because he doesn't look anything like he did in his heyday when he was rather handsome. However, if someone feels like they really need to see an overly bright B&W photo from decades ago on his ISFDB page, so be it. Maybe after he's dead (which may be soon judging by his appearance these days) perhaps a recent photo will be more appropriate then. I doubt I'll be around to add it, but maybe someone else will. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:34, 23 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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::::: There were two reasons for me to change the image: the first is the more handsome look (I do think that we should aim to have no images that would possibly intimidate an author or his/her readers), the second that Amazon seems to be more stable & is somewhat more official. I could live with the other image but do fear that it would lead towards users escaping Barker's summary page as fast as one could. [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] ([[User talk:Stonecreek|talk]]) 11:48, 23 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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:::::: Pending edit's been sitting in my list for a long time so I just cancelled it. I did, however, make another edit today (pending) replacing the ancient Ramsey Campbell B&W photo on ISFDB with a recent color one on Amazon of him in all his chubby glory, so one Brit horror writer falls, another rises. It's hard to say who looks more unhealthy these days, Barker or Campbell. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 14:39, 26 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Australasian Horror ==<br />
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https://australasianhorror.com/competition/ahwa-competition-past-winners/; I was doing some edits for the first issue of Hub Magazine and 1 of the stories by Liam Rands was an honorable mention for this award (he won for another story the next year); there was discussion here recently about awards so this may be something someone would want to enter. Awards are still going as of 2022. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:39, 22 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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: Interesting. It looks like the Australasian Horror Writers Association has two separate/parallel projects:<br />
:* [https://australasianhorror.com/australian-shadows-awards/award-entry-rules/ The Australian Shadows Award] with the usual menagerie of categories like "short story", "novel", "novellete/novella", "collection", etc.<br />
:* [https://australasianhorror.com/competition/ The AHWA Robert N Stephenson Flash Fiction & Short Story Competition], which has two categories for ''unpublished'' horror stories:<br />
:** ''Flash Fiction'': Stories up to 1000 words in length<br />
:** ''Short Story'': Stories from 1001 to 7500 words.<br />
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: We already have [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?68 the Australian Shadows Award listed], but we don't cover "The AHWA Robert N Stephenson Flash Fiction & Short Story Competition" at this time. One thing to note is that the latter is a true "competition" in the tradition of pulp magazines. To quote their [https://australasianhorror.com/competition/ rules page]:<br />
:* The winner in each category will receive an engraved plaque and the winning stories will appear in Midnight Echo, and receive the pay rate commensurate with that edition.<br />
: Runner-ups presumably benefit by being able to claim that their stories were "runner-ups" when they try to sell them to other markets.<br />
: This is a bit unusual, but we do have precedent for including awards given to unpublished texts -- see [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?57 Prix Jean Ray], which is given to "Best unpublished fantasy text by a Belgian writer".<br />
: Thoughts? [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:59, 22 January 2023 (EST)<br />
::I'd support adding it. Some of the more prestigious Japanese SF awards are contests where the winner(s) get publishing contracts (as do some of the runners up, often). ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:11, 23 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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::: If there is no objection, I will create a new Award Type tomorrow. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 15:59, 27 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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:::: A new award type and two award categories [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?101 have been created]. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:58, 28 January 2023 (EST)<br />
::::: Jusges?--[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:36, 28 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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:::::: Fixed, thanks. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:51, 28 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Nick Fox/Bantock Cover ==<br />
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https://books.google.com/books?id=GDPwBhpEtAIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=shadrach&f=false; Nick Bantock's art book The Artful Dodger includes a Silverberg cover, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1139072, which is credited to a studio (and back cover seen online does credit it to that studio) but he says he did it under his Nick Fox name. So what to do? Also, Google Books copy seems to be a 2nd printing of the Chronicle Books edition on ISFDB and there's a Canadian edition from Raincoast on Archive.org which isn't on ISFDB. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:49, 25 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Inter-author collections of speculative drama ==<br />
Good afternoon, everyone. Are there inter-author collections (Anthology, Almanac) of speculative drama? Thank you in advance. --[[User:Strannik27|Strannik27]] ([[User talk:Strannik27|talk]]) 02:48, 27 January 2023 (EST)<br />
:* [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?30649 "Six Science Fiction Plays"] anthology, edited by Roger Elwood, Washington Square Press, 1976, ISBN 0-671-48766-3. <br />
:* [http://borealispress.com/BookDetail/rid/913/New%20Canadian%20Drama%20Vol.%208 "New Canadian Drama Vol. 8: Speculative Drama: Roswell, Eden's Moon, Alien Bait"] edited by Scott Kesi Duchesne, Borealis Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-88887-265-4. <br />
: --[[User:Zlogorek|Zlogorek]] ([[User talk:Zlogorek|talk]]) 11:01, 27 January 2023 (EST)<br />
::* Thank you so much, are there more examples? --[[User:Strannik27|Strannik27]] ([[User talk:Strannik27|talk]]) 13:40, 3 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Edit Pub -- post-submission page updated ==<br />
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The Metadata (i.e. top) section of the post-submission review page for Edit Publication submissions has been updated. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 20:02, 19 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Robert Bloch Book Duplicate ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1941501; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?551231; I started to enter the HC edition, mentioned in the note by the PV, using FantLab's copy but decided to check further and it's already on ISFDB; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?30351. Both HC and TP were entered many years earlier so I guess nobody checked first before approving PV submission. I've made a (pending) edit adding ID, full cover and cover design note to the HC, but there's a problem. PV did a lot of work entering the contents, which nobody did for the 2 records entered earlier, but he got the format wrong and entered it as a collection instead of non-fiction (it has both fiction and non-fiction, so who knows). So some more astute people here should decide what to do, which to keep, possible merges, etc. I'll leave a brief note on PV page about this; they're still active. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:48, 27 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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:I still have the TP handy if you want to point me in the right direction. Still mostly a novice at this. I appreciate this resource and like to contribute how I can. [[User:Fenrix1958|Fenrix1958]] ([[User talk:Fenrix1958|talk]]) 21:10, 27 January 2023 (EST)<br />
::Thanks for responding so quickly. I randomly came across the Bloch book you entered and thought I'd enter the HC edition you mentioned in your note since FantLab has many photos of it, but I found it hard to believe that nobody ever entered it, and after checking further I found both HC and TP editions which, judging by edit history, were entered in the very early days of public editing here. Yours was in 2015, so I'm not sure why a moderator approved it when it already existed and had the same ISBN, but the problem is that you actually did the hard work of entering the numerous contents, unlike the others, but didn't enter the month, made it a PB instead of a TP, made it a collection with Bloch as author instead of non-fiction with Matheson and Mainhardt as editors (I'm not even sure what's correct because it includes Bloch stories but also essays from many other people about Bloch, so anthology, maybe?). So I was wanting people who, unlike me, have been doing this for a very long time to chime in and suggest what should be done because your hard work shouldn't go to waste, but several different people made edits for the edition you didn't enter so it wouldn't be right to just delete that. I've been editing for just over 2 years but am rapidly losing interest due to a variety of reasons, so I won't be of much help to you, I'm afraid; I just do simple stuff these days. Someone else will respond shortly, I'm sure, and this will be resolved soon. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 23:03, 27 January 2023 (EST)<br />
:::This is the most relevant section of [[Help:Screen:NewPub#Publication_Type|the help]]:<br />
::::''NONFICTION. This type should be used for books that are predominantly or completely non-fiction. This includes book-length works of non-fiction or books containing essays by one or more authors. A publication that contains both non-fiction and fiction should be typed by that which is predominant. A single work of fiction in an Isaac Asimov essay collection does not make it a COLLECTION. A book of fiction (NOVEL, COLLECTION, or ANTHOLOGY) containing a generous, but not predominate, amount of non-fiction, such as introductions, essays, and other non-fiction works, should not be typed as NONFICTION. Mixtures of fiction and non-fiction are more usually found in magazines than they are in books, so the question does not often arise.''<br />
:::I'd wait a bit to see if there are any opposing viewpoints, but it looks to me like the book is '''''predominantly''''' the Bloch stories and poem, and most of the essays are introductions to those works. However, it also has more -- and a wider range of -- essays than we would normally see as supplemental material in a typical collection. So it strikes me as a book assembling Bloch works and a lot of other material, as opposed to a book about Bloch that happens to contain some of his works. If you have the book, you can make a more informed judgement that I can. If it's primarily a book of Bloch works, I would use ANTHOLOGY as the least bad fit, with Matheson and Mainhardt as the editors. If the book is primarily about Bloch, then NONFICTION would be more appropriate. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 07:45, 28 January 2023 (EST)<br />
::::My edit for the HC was just approved after a long wait (I made a minor error in the note so that new edit still has to be approved), but I think I'm done and so someone should decide what to do with the 2 separate but equal paperback editions now. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:03, 14 February 2023 (EST)<br />
:::::HC copy just uploaded to Archive.org, I added a link, now I'm really done with this and so someone may want to decide what to do re: the above. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:35, 31 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== L. R. Giles/Lamar Giles - Canonical Name ==<br />
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Our canonical name for this author is currently {{A|L. R. Giles}}, presumably because that's how his first three SF stories credited the author back in 2004-2007. However, over the last 6 years he has published 4 SF novels and 2 stories as "Lamar Giles". A 2018 reprint of a 2006 story also used "Lamar Giles".<br />
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Are there any objections to changing the canonical name to "Lamar Giles"? [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 13:41, 28 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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: [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?276372 Done]. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:58, 1 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Page & Spine: Fiction Showcase - call for editors to assist ==<br />
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Hello everybody! As all webzines, including those with mainly non-genre content, are now being indexed following a policy change in October 2022 regarding the Rules of Acquisition (as per [https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Webzines_inclusion:_Proposed_extension_of_ROA this discussion]), I recently started indexing speculative contributions appearing in the last two-and-a-half years of [https://pagespineficshowcase.com/index.html Page & Spine: Fiction Showcase]. This webzine began publication in 2012 and ceased on 6 May 2022. It will be taken offline permanently on or about 6 May 2023, i.e., in about three months or so. My focus on those issues published between January 2020 and May 2022 is mainly because of the addition of a speculative fiction and poetry section called 'Outta This World' from May of 2020. However, some speculative contributions continued to be published in different sections, such as 'Crumbs' (for drabbles, jokes and short-form poetry) and 'Kid Stuff' (stories and art by under-eighteens) and, prior to the establishment of the 'Outta This World' section, speculative stories and poems could be found in other sections across the site (e.g., in 'The Reading Lamp' and 'Stories'). <br />
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It will be a challenge for me to complete the period from 2020 to 2022 in the three months available but there's no way I can cover the earlier years alone (if at all). Would anyone else be interested in covering the earlier (nine) years? It's possible that after May 2023, most - if not all - of the webzine could continue to be indexed using the Internet Archive but I suspect that lacunae would occasionally be found in the latter's coverage.<br />
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It may be the case that earlier issues contained only a small amount of speculative material so this might facilitate more rapid indexing, though of course the stories, poems and essays will still need to be read to determine their eligibility.<br />
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Note that 'issues' are distributed across different sections and have been archived in different ways (e.g. under a specific section or under a particular author). The final issue appears on the current home page with items shown listed under each section. Each item appearing in the same issue will bear the issue date in brackets after the title. They can be found grouped according to month under most sections, e.g. 'The Reading Lamp' section is indexed for the period December 2013 to May 2020 [https://pagespineficshowcase.com/the-reading-lamp-archives.html here] while that for 'Crumbs' is indexed for the period December 2012 to April 2022 [https://pagespineficshowcase.com/crumbs-index.html here].--[[User:Explorer1000|Explorer1000]] ([[User talk:Explorer1000|talk]]) 12:34, 29 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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:Oh, and the series page on ISFDB is [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?68935 here].--[[User:Explorer1000|Explorer1000]] ([[User talk:Explorer1000|talk]]) 12:51, 29 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Rozic/Rosick ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=letter+to+roger&type=Fiction+Titles; I was adding a few links to stories from bloodrosemag.com that are on ISFDB and this dude's name is a mess. He had a story in Pulphouse which was reprinted many years later in a horror anthology under a different name; his story on Blood Rose, https://www.bloodrosemag.com/archives/sep%202001/craziedaze.html, spells his name differently at top and bottom. I did an edit (pending) making Rozic an alternate name of Rosick, but I'm not touching anything else. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 14:24, 29 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Ongoing cleanup of post-submission pages ==<br />
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I am in the process of removing obsolete code which was previously used to display post-submission pages and was deactivated last week. I am also making minor improvements to yellow warnings as I go along, e.g. I am currently working on making the "Price" field support multiple yellow warnings. If you come across any issues, please let me know. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 15:07, 29 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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: Catalog ID- and ISBN-specific yellow warnings have been upgraded to support multiple warnings per entered value. Pre-1970 pubs with an ISBN now generate yellow warnings. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 17:42, 29 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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:: Price-specific yellow warnings for prices now support multiple warnings per entered value. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:04, 29 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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::: Yellow warnings for image URLs now support multiple warnings per entered value. Certain odd Amazon URLs may generate more than one warning because they break more than one of our rules. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:35, 30 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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:::: Yellow warnings about alternate and/or disambiguated names are no longer displayed for submissions which do not change them. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:17, 1 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Broken Galactic Central image links ==<br />
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Can anything be done about this? —[[User:Rosab618|Rosab618]] ([[User talk:Rosab618|talk]]) 13:45, 30 January 2023 (EST)<br />
: See [https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Community_Portal/Archive/Archive53#Galactic_Central this post] for an explanation. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 14:04, 30 January 2023 (EST)<br />
::Rats! Thanks for the info. Is there a way I can make Google Chrome show the images, by allowing insecure images? I tried allowing both isfdb.org and philsp.com to show insecure content, but it didn't seem to do anything. —[[User:Rosab618|Rosab618]] ([[User talk:Rosab618|talk]]) 16:33, 30 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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:::I would tell you to switch to a less arrogant browser, but I did a little research and found you can actually convince Chrome to do what you want in this case:<br />
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:::# Click on the lock icon to the left of isfdb.org in the address bar.<br />
:::# Click on <code>Site settings</code> in the drop-down menu that appears.<br />
:::# If <code>Privacy and security</code> is not already selected in the list at the left, select it.<br />
:::# You should see a list at the right with "www.isfdb.org" at the top.<br />
:::# Scroll way down through the "Permissions" and look for <code>Insecure content</code> with a danger triangle to the left and "Block (default)" to the right.<br />
:::# Click on the little down-arrow next to "Blocked (default)" and switch to "Allow".<br />
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:::That's it. Now if you refresh (or go back to) the ISFDB page with the blocked image, you will see the image.<br />
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:::I hope that helps. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 19:25, 30 January 2023 (EST)<br />
::::HOORAY! It works! Thank you so much! —[[User:Rosab618|Rosab618]] ([[User talk:Rosab618|talk]]) 20:33, 30 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Biffignandi ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?107101; https://archive.org/details/aless-andro-biffignandi-illustration-art; https://archive.org/details/sex-and-horror-the-art-of-alessandro-biffignandi; Biff apparently did a ton of art but ISFDB, oddly, only has 2 German krimi covers and an American cover for an Anne McCaffrey book (?!?) Anyway, I have a feeling the books linked above may be of use to those who enter all those obscure foreign covers. Be warned, however; there is much, MUCH nudity, including some pretty racy stuff. I do like the cover near the end of the 2nd book, however, where a weird-looking shark is chasing a woman swimming with a BABY in her arms. Is that an Italian thing? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 23:33, 30 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Drew S. ==<br />
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Drew Struzan is a well-known artist, today I added a link to an Archive.org copy of a novel he did the cover for, credit was to Drew Struzman, searching for that name only hit on that book, I asked PV who entered it as Struzan to check but SFJuggler doesn't always respond, so if anyone else has a copy of the 1991 Bantam Falcon edition of Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils you may want to check the copyright page. Struzan has no alternate names on ISFDB, so this may be the first. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 23:43, 30 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Creative Guy From Canada ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubs_not_in_series.cgi?23801; I did some editing for Lucy A. Snyder book, publisher is Canadian, my price fix adding the "C" is the only one, should all be "C"? There's also 1 price missing and 1 where editor entered British price for some reason. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:15, 31 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Riley Art ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1468203; Is this, https://fantlab.ru/images/editions/plus/big/220727_19, actually by David A. Riley, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?19937? He has 2 cover art credits, both discovered by me some time ago, and I think this may be another piece of art by him. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:29, 31 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== French Bardin and Dick ==<br />
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https://archive.org/search?query=%22terrain-vague-pour-la-traduction%22+&sin=TXT&sort=-addeddate; I added Archive.org link to Tor TP of P.K. Dick's The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike and added another link to the Paladin edition I did an edit for a long time ago, but there's another edition, a French one, and while searching for other books by the publisher I found they did an edition of Bardin's Deadly Percheron, although the French title is Big Clogs or something similar. So if anyone who regularly enters French editions wants to enter those. Oddly, there are publishers with the same name on ISFDB, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=terrain+vague&type=Publisher, but one published LONG before these 2 books came out and the other I'm not sure about, having published only an art book and a French novel, with no translations of American books. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 21:36, 31 January 2023 (EST)<br />
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== The Big O ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?936; I added a D. Wheatley edition from this publisher and noticed the series, Plus, spells the publisher with a capital O. So should the publisher be spelled with a capital O, too? Also for the other series with A.C. Doyle books? Because on the Wheatley book it does look like they made the O big, since it stands for Oswald and so it makes sense that a person's initial would be capitalized. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:00, 1 February 2023 (EST)<br />
:That seems appropriate. I found [https://archive.org/details/untramwaynommemo0000iris this scan] where the cover and title page have a stylized "NéO" logo (where it's hard to tell whether the "O" is capitalized), but title page says "Nouvelles éditions Oswald" and the copyright page says "&copy; Nouvelles éditions Oswald (NéO) 1981". So it seems they used the big "O". Two more scans corroborating that: [https://archive.org/details/troissaigneursde0000finn] and [https://archive.org/details/lhopitaletautres0000walt]. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 10:38, 1 February 2023 (EST)<br />
::Based on that title page, the publisher should be "Nouvelles éditions Oswald" rather than "Néo" or "NéO". ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 11:56, 1 February 2023 (EST)<br />
:::All three of those scans have: "NéO" [in stylized form] (over) "Nouvelles éditions Oswald" on the title page. The copyrights use "Nouvelles éditions Oswald (NéO)". Dates are 1981, 1982, and 1986. In the 1986 book on the page facing the title page is "Voir liste des libraries NéO en fin de volume." and "Maquette: Studios Knack/NéO" (referring to the cover illustration). The 1982 book's copyright page's list of other books by the same author has a citation that uses "Nouvelles éditions Oswald/NéO". Whether it should be "NéO" or spelled out doesn't seem clear-cut to me. But if the short form is what should be used, then I think it's clear the capitalization should be "NéO", not "Néo". --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 14:53, 1 February 2023 (EST)<br />
::::Yes, the stylized "NéO" is the logo, and the name of the publisher is "Nouvelles éditions Oswald". If the publisher information is on the title page, we always go with that over anything on the copyright page or elsewhere. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 18:43, 2 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Frankenstein Glut ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5569772; PV is very gone, as can be seen there's a bunch of messy details I've tried to note/fix, LCCN ID on OL leads to a record which mentions a collector ed. and a paperback but there's only one edition on ISFDB, copyright page also mentions the 1977 Mews edition was shorter and substantially different and so wouldn't it be considered a separate book? Anyway, I noticed somebody made an edit for a Glut book today so they or someone may want to look at this after it's approved and see if they can do anything more with it. Donald N. will need to be made a variant of his real name, anyway. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:53, 1 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Making of ROTJ ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?957601; $4.25 edition has been here for years, I added $3.50 edition recently, I moved 2 ID over, $4.25 either is Canadian with higher price, later printing, whatever, but both PV are gone, so if anyone here knows what's up a C should be added to price or date should be changed to 0000, etc. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:33, 2 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Alien Sex ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?192541; Several PV, some active, nobody added Roman numerals to page count, one of the PV should do that. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:32, 3 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Self-nomination for self-approver - Pwendt ==<br />
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Happy New Year (or Groundhog Day)! <br />
I nominate myself for self-approver. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 16:20, 3 February 2023 (EST)<br />
:'''Support'''. [[User:Kraang|Kraang]] ([[User talk:Kraang|talk]]) 21:32, 7 February 2023 (EST)<br />
:'''Support'''. Does a good job. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:46, 8 February 2023 (EST)<br />
: '''Support''' (and changing the title of the thread so it is clear what this is for :) ) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 15:55, 8 February 2023 (EST)<br />
: '''Support''' -- Apologies for missing this earlier and not responding sooner. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 12:45, 9 February 2023 (EST)<br />
: '''Comment'''. I haven't worked on Pwendt's submissions lately, so I'll abstain. One issue that I encountered in the past was lack of clarity in Notes. My recommendation would be using shorter complete sentences with a subject, a predicate and an optional object. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 12:54, 9 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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=== Outcome ===<br />
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Self-approver flag set on the account as per the consensus above. Congratulations! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 11:40, 11 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Disch Ruins ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?285521; I added links to 2 club editions recently, today a link to Arrow edition, Hutchinson edition has no price or cover artist, SFE says Chris Yates, this STAINED eBay copy has a flap photo which is blurry but a 2 seems to be the start of the price, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/380896522207, so if anyone can find somewhere that shows better photos or owns a copy then price can be entered and cover artist (on back flap, I assume, although it may just be design) can be entered if warranted. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:43, 3 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== The Turner Diaries ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1601834; I came across a copy, uploaded to Archive.org a little over a year ago, and while making an edit remembered I had done an edit previously, which turned out to be not long before the copy was uploaded (I hate when that happens). Anyway, after my new edit is approved, there's 2 questions: name's spelled Macdonald, not MacDonald, but when changing that it still looks like MacDonald even though it's in a new column so it sees it as a change even though it doesn't look that way. Is that a quirk of ISFDB? More importantly, there's an essay by someone with the same name who I highly doubt is the same guy who wrote this notoriously violent and racist novel, and none of his 5 wives mentioned on his Wikipedia page were named Gina (I suppose it could be a relative), so I'm sure the essay writer, assuming they're still alive (it's been 40 years), would like their name moved to a separate record if they're not that other guy. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 22:11, 4 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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: When you enter or edit an author name, a publisher name, a series name or a publication series name, the ISFDB software first checks the database to see if we already have it on file. The check is not case-sensitive, so "ace books" will find "Ace Books", "george orwell" will find "George Orwell", etc. Once a matching name has been found, the software uses it instead of the form of the name that was actually entered. The process ensures that we don't end up with multiple separate records for the same author/series/publisher/etc due to capitalization mistakes during the data entry process. If we determine that the capitalization of the canonical name/series name/etc is incorrect, as is apparently the case with {{A|Andrew MacDonald}}, we can edit the main record directly.<br />
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: That said, the fact that [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5574438 this submission] shows "Andrew MacDonald" in the "Proposed Changes" column may be a bug. I'll take a closer look tomorrow. Thanks for reporting the issue. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 23:17, 4 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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:: I have confirmed that this problem affects both Edit Title and Edit Publication. {{Bug|826}}, "Edit Title and Edit Pub do not check for author case properly", has been created. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 13:23, 5 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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:::Coincidentally, famous artist LeRoy Neiman has all 4 of his credits on ISFDB as Leroy. Fixing the first one, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5575086, I subbed R but pending edit says r. So I assume it takes a while for your bug fix to start working? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:54, 5 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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:::: {{Bug|826}} is just a document describing the reported bug and how to recreate it. I am currently working on a software patch which should fix the problem. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 21:39, 5 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Red Skelton Book ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5575145; I asked about this last July 4 on this board, MartyD agreed with adding the "e", neither of us ever fixed it, I came across this randomly today and am finally fixing it. I trust nobody has any objection? PV is gone. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 21:34, 5 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Price Of Three Women ==<br />
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This is a bit complicated. A stray mention of Anne McCaffrey on this site spurred me to see if I could enter anything interesting by her, skipping over her endless Pern books, and I decided to start with her non-genre works. That was a mistake. She published 3 gothic novels in the 70's which were collected by Tor as Three Women and published in either Dec. 1991 or Jan. 1992. So searching ISBN on OL found a record with no book but it did find a copy on Archive.org; searching for their URL, threewomen00mcca, on OL found a record with a link to the copy, so why ISBN doesn't is unknown because it's there on the page. Anyway, the copy is ancient, having been uploaded in 2010, but is missing the copyright page. Noticing the price was higher I created a new record with an "unknown" date and a note about it, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5575697. The problem is that I can't find a single photo online of a cover with the $4.99 price on it; I suspect there is none and the real original price was $5.99. Locus has much incorrect info, and searching ISBN in contents found these, https://archive.org/search?query=0-812-50587-5&sin=TXT; ignoring the 4 unrelated books, that Brown/Contento book is Locus with the same info found on their site, but that YA guide says $5.99. I find it very strange that multiple copies with extensive photos can't be found since most of her books were big sellers with large print runs and many were reprinted. I was going to cancel my edit and just add the copy link and the page numbers to the existing record, but decided not to because there's still a slim possibility it was originally $4.99. So check your shelves or the dark corners of the web, readers, and let me know if you can find a copy with that price. EDIT: My edit was rejected for some reason over my head so if anyone else wants to enter it, go ahead. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:22, 6 February 2023 (EST)<br />
:If you were confused as to why it was rejected, you could have asked. I rejected it because it was creating an new OMNIBUS record without any content. Nor was there a moderator note stating that you intended to add the content in a subsequent edit. There are three ways you could have added this publication record. You could use the add publication tool, and manually add the contained novels in one edit. Then you would need to merge each novel separately. You could also use the add publication and in a subsequent edit import the three novel titles. If this was your intent, it's a good idea to note this in the Moderator notes, so that we'll know that you intend to finish the edit. However, the most efficient way to add this publication is with the Clone this Pub tool. That way, all the contained novels will automatically be copied and it will all be accomplished in a single edit rather than 2 or 4 edits. Hope that helps. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 18:22, 16 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Stockholders in Death ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubseries.cgi?3560; Archive.org copy of #7 since 2010 that nobody ever entered here so I just did in a (pending) edit, but publisher is Warner PL; several entries omit the Warner on ISFDB, so should all of them, including this one, be made Warner PL, too? Did PL, no Warner, publish any of them? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:47, 7 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Author name validation enhancements ==<br />
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The way the ISFDB software handles author names in Edit Title, New Pub, Add Pub, Clone Pub, and Edit Pub has been enhanced. The following scenarios are now processed correctly:<br />
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* The same author name is entered using different capitalization, e.g. "David Weber" is changed to "david weber"<br />
* The order of co-author, co-artist, co-interviewee, co-interviewer, co-reviewer or co-reviewee names is changed<br />
* The same author name is entered two or more times (for the same title) using different capitalization, e.g. "David Weber" and then again "david weber"<br />
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In all of these cases the software now ignores the submitted "change".<br />
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Hopefully every permutation has been addressed/fixed. If you come across anything unexpected, please let me know. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:53, 7 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Great SF About Doctors ==<br />
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https://archive.org/search?query=%22Great+science+fiction+about+doctors%22; I added a link to original edition, fourth printing is on ISFDB with correct date but wrong printing and date in note, I added a link and fixed the note, cover artist is Don Ivan just like the fifth printing, so there's a lot of confusion, especially since the 2nd printing has no PV and nobody's entered the 3rd. So maybe someone can look into that and unmerge/un-variant; I have a feeling all the editions with that cover have Don Ivan on the back. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:22, 8 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== C. Alexander London canonical name ==<br />
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Are there any objections to swapping the canonical name [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?231877 here] to Alex London. The longer name had not been used for a long time and all new books use the shorter name. SFE also has the record under Alex London. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 12:46, 9 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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: It's a slightly unusual case in that his first series appeared as by "Alex London", the second one came out as by "C. Alexander London" and the last two went back to "Alex London". Be that as it may, "Alex London" is currently leading 8:3, so I think it should be the canonical name. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 14:01, 9 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Series with non-fiction and short-fiction only ==<br />
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When a series has only non-fiction and short-fiction in it, it shows up in an author list as a "Nonfiction Series" (As the only container title is non-fiction, it kinda makes sense). However, it is factually wrong and we are a fiction DB after all. As novellas/novelettes are popular (both as "juvenile novels under 40K" and as self-published or e-only non-juveniles), this is happening more and more often. As soon as a collection of more than one of the stories show up, the collection title bumps the series into the Fiction category. But in the meantime, it lags under Non-fiction.<br />
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Any chance to have these shown up in the Fiction series list? Example: [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?37710 this series]. See where it shows on the [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?112144 author page]. Thanks! <br />
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PS: Another related case is a series with only short-fiction. Now these show all the way at the bottom, with the short fiction until they get a collection and then they sail up under Fiction series. Maybe we can solve both usecases together and just treat short fiction entries as the fiction containers and just list all fiction series under the normal series heading. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 13:45, 9 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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: I am looking at the code that drives the Summary Bibliography page and here is what I am seeing.<br />
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: First, the software organizes all titles by series. Then it builds "series hierarchies" so that embedded series appear under the top series -- note how "Star Wars: The Clone Wars (animated)" appears under "Star Wars: Clone Wars", which appears under "Star Wars Universe" on {{A|Tracey West}}'s page. Then it checks the title type of each parent title in each "series hierarchy" to determine which section of the Summary page the hierarchy belongs under. The current logic is as follows:<br />
:* If a "series hierarchy" contains at least one NOVEL, COLLECTION, or SERIAL title, it is displayed in the "Fiction Series" section.<br />
:* OTHERWISE:<br />
:** If it contains at least one ANTHOLOGY title, it is displayed in the "Anthology Series" section.<br />
:** OTHERWISE:<br />
:*** If it contains at least one NONFICTION title, it is displayed in the "Nonfiction Series" section.<br />
:*** OTHERWISE:<br />
:**** If it contains at least one OMNIBUS title, it is displayed in the "Fiction Series" section. (This check is performed after the ANTHOLOGY and NONFICTION checks so that OMNIBUSES with only ANTHOLOGY/NONFICTION titles would appear in their respective Anthology/Nonfiction series sections.)<br />
:**** OTHERWISE:<br />
:***** If it contains at least one SHORTFICTION title, it is displayed in the "Short Fiction Series" section.<br />
:***** OTHERWISE:<br />
:****** If it contains at least one POEM title, it is displayed in the "Poem Series" section.<br />
:****** OTHERWISE:<br />
:******* If it contains at least one ESSAY title, it is displayed in the "Essay Series" section.<br />
:******* OTHERWISE:<br />
:******** If it contains at least one COVERART title, it is displayed in the "Cover Art Series" section.<br />
:******** OTHERWISE:<br />
:********* If it contains at least one INTERIORART title, it is displayed in the "Interior Art Series" section.<br />
:********* OTHERWISE:<br />
:********** If it contains at least one REVIEW title, it is displayed in the "Review Series" section.<br />
:********** OTHERWISE:<br />
:*********** If it contains at least one INTERVIEW title, it is displayed in the "Interview Series" section.<br />
:*********** OTHERWISE:<br />
:************ If it contains at least one title of some other type, it is displayed in the "Other Series" section. (This should never happen because CHAPBOOKs cannot be added to series.)<br />
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: Once all eligible titles have been placed into series, the displayed order of sections is as follows:<br />
:* Fiction Series<br />
:* Standalone novels<br />
:* Standalone collections<br />
:* Standalone omnibuses<br />
:* Standalone serials (should never happen because SERIAL titles are supposed to be turned into variants)<br />
:* EDITOR series<br />
:* Anthology Series<br />
:* Standalone anthologies<br />
:* Standalone chapbooks<br />
:* Nonfiction series<br />
:* Standalone nonfiction<br />
:* Short Fiction series<br />
:* Standalone short fiction<br />
:* Poem series<br />
:* Standalone poems<br />
:* Cover art series<br />
:* Standalone cover art<br />
:* Interior art series<br />
:* Standalone interior art<br />
:* Review series<br />
:* Standalone reviews<br />
:* Interview series<br />
:* Standalone interviews<br />
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: If we decide that we want to fold the "Short Fiction Series" section into the "Fiction Series" section, it would be easy to add "SHORTFICTION" to the list of title types which trigger placement in the "Fiction Series" series, then delete the "Short Fiction Series" section. It would also take care of the NONFICTION issue since series with a mix of NONFICTION and SHORTFICTION titles would appear in the "Fiction Series" section.<br />
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: As to whether combining "Fiction Series" and "Shortfiction" would be a desirable change, I'll have to think about it. Annie's example is a good argument in favor of making the change, but then non-series short fiction, which appears below magazines, anthologies, chapbooks and non-fiction, would be treated differently than the other title types which drive inclusion in the "Fiction Series" section. I guess we could move the "[standalone] Short Fiction" section up the page, but then it would be above book-length works like magazines and anthologies. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 15:43, 9 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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::What a blast from the past! I remember working on that code.... The organizational thought behind that evaluation chain was that "books" should be the primary driver of the series type. But perhaps that's a mistake when it comes to NONFICTION. It seems reasonable to suppose there might be a NONFICTION work about any series of works, and if we want to put that NONFICTION work into the series, it shouldn't affect the series type, whatever that may be. So maybe it would be best to move NONFICTION to the bottom of the chain. just before the "Other Series" catch-all. Then Nonfiction Series would only contain NONFICTION. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 19:04, 9 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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::: Currently, a series with a mix of NONFICTION, ESSAY, COVERART, INTERIORART, REVIEW and INTERVIEW titles is displayed in the "Nonfiction Series" section. Would you say that it should be displayed in the "Essay Series" section instead? [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 17:24, 13 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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:: The one gotcha I see with that is a nonfiction series that happens to contain an OMNIBUS as well (do we allow that?); we wouldn't want that to end up in Fiction Series. So that evaluation might need a tweak of some sort. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 19:04, 9 February 2023 (EST)<br />
::: The official [https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Help:Screen:NewPub rule is]: "A publication may be classified as an omnibus if it contains multiple works that have previously been published independently, and at least one of them is a NOVEL, ANTHOLOGY, COLLECTION, or NONFICTION." So technically - yes, an omnibus can contain 3 NONFICTION items. In practice it is rare but it happens. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 19:10, 10 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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:::: {{A|H. P. Lovecraft}}'s [https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?309615 ''Collected Essays: Complete''], which collects HPL's essays originally published as 5 NONFICTION volumes, would be one example. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:45, 13 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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::: Maybe the easiest way will be in the omnibus line to have a secondary check if there is at least one SHORTFICTION or POEM title - everything else on the fiction side is before the Omnibus so we will only reach that case when there are no novels and collections/anthologies. <br />
::: I won't insist on moving short fiction series higher but... I still think that having fiction series in two different places on the screen is confusing, especially for authors who write on the border between novella and novel and that end up with their series split in weird ways. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 19:10, 10 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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=== Outcome ===<br />
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I have changed the software to display series with a mix of NONFICTION and SHORTFICTION/POEM titles in the "Fiction Series" section. We may want to start another discussion about merging the two "Fiction Series" sections. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 17:35, 13 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Embedded HTML is now displayed correctly ==<br />
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After close to a hundred patches over the course of many months, embedded HTML is now displayed correctly on all ISFDB pages. If you come across any irregularities or bugs, please let me know. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:51, 9 February 2023 (EST)<br />
:What does embedded HTML mean? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:01, 9 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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:: Consider [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2145123 this record] whose title is "<sarcasm>Adventures in Gaming</sarcasm>". It could just as easily be "<nowiki><b>Adventures in Gaming</b></nowiki>". Angle brackets like "<" and ">" are the building blocks of HTML tags, so browsers interpret them as HTML commands to use bold, italics, underlining, etc. Or, in the case of "<sarcasm>" just stand around looking very confused :-) That's what "embedded HTML" is.<br />
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:: In order to prevent browser confusion, the ISFDB software needs to do something special to tell the browser that these particular angle brackets should be simply displayed "as is" instead of being interpreted as HTML commands. It took me a while to get everything updated, but I think I am finally done. I think I'll go have a tankard of non-alcoholic Klingon ale to celebrate :-) [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:45, 9 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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:::<clanks tankard/> For the Empire! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 15:29, 10 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== MV of SK ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5579477; It says 19.95 on back, librarian typed 21.95 on first page like ISFDB says, Locusmag says 19.95 but also says 1989 is the date yet they didn't see it until Aug. '90 for some reason, after this is approved someone more hip to these tangled Starmont/Borgo things may know more about if this is a 2nd printing, if they suddenly decided to raise the price before the 1st printing, etc. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:44, 10 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== HELP! A Bear Is Eating Me! ==<br />
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https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL9881165A/Mykle_Hansen; English edition just uploaded to Archive.org, I added a link, but French version uploaded back in 2021 in case anyone wants to enter that. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:13, 12 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== SFE Clute ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5581010; Why is this happening now? Did they change again? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:09, 12 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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: This is the first "clute_uk" URL that I have seen. I am going to ask the SFE administrator whether it's a typo or a new part of their URL structure. Thanks for reporting the issue. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 13:31, 12 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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:: It turns out that "clute_uk" is a new publicly "linkable" subdirectory. I have updated the software to recognize it as legitimate. Thanks. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:48, 12 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Bradbury's Twice Twenty-Two ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?38262; Search on Archive.org only brings up 1 copy but as can be seen at the OL link, https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5981610M/Twice_twenty-two, there's 1 of those weird "preview" copies; it doesn't really have the cover art like the thumbnail shows, just red cloth binding like the other copy, but it's a different copy. So if anybody knows which edition they belong in, if it's one of those later ones mentioned in the ISFDB notes, etc., then link(s) can be added; note also that OL mentions a 1994 Buccaneer edition. Also, Mugnaini's cover art was missing the month and his frontispiece was only included and dated based on the book club edition, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=twice+twenty&type=All+Titles, so I've fixed all that in (pending) edits; note also the last entry with a month that matches neither edition and is from a Virgil Finlay book. What's that about? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:47, 14 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Tainaron ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1440471; https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=13630&recCount=25&recPointer=3&bibId=3359893; The original Finnish edition is not on ISFDB but it is on the Library of Congress site in case anyone fluent wants to enter it. I just added an Archive.org link to the Prime Books edition. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:17, 14 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Grindhouse ==<br />
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https://archive.org/details/grindhousethesle0000unse; Would the inclusion of the entire screenplay for Planet Terror qualify this for entry here? I've been wanting to find something with Tarantino's name on it so I can add his bio and find the most unflattering photo of him possible. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:57, 15 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Richard Morris ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?147497; Interview is with this guy, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606889/, not the guy from the 1800's, but does that interview about a movie really belong here? If it does, some addition to interviewee's name is needed to differ him from the dead guy. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 15:50, 15 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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: I'll differentiate the name: thanks for finding this. The interview does belong here because it was published in a genre magazine. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] ([[User talk:Stonecreek|talk]]) 01:36, 16 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Whimper of Whipped Dogs ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=whipped+dogs&type=All+Titles; Today is the anniversary of 911 calls here in America, starting in 1968 and prompted by the murder of Kitty Genovese a few years earlier which was the inspiration for this story by Harlan Ellison. I was looking for an online PDF and found this, https://xpressenglish.com/whipped-dogs/. I'm going to add the link but I'm curious where that drawing came from. Anyone recognize it? also, at the link above, the 2 essays seem like the same thing but there's no variant. Are they the same? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:24, 16 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Lester Dent Bibliography ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=lester+dent+bibliography&type=All+Titles; https://archive.org/details/lester_dent_bibliography; 1996 date doesn't match either version on ISFDB and it seems to have been published as an e-book or something. Lots of Doc Savage work done recently here so maybe somebody wants to enter this or at least knows where it originally came from. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:52, 16 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Squires Knight ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?834417; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?173963; I added an Archive.org link to the Leisure edition by Knight and checked his real name and found that he originally published What Rough Beast under that name. What's the variant rules here? Who's the parent? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 00:45, 17 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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:Where it's only one title under each name, it doesn't matter much. But I found an archived copy of his website http://www.harrysquires.com/ in the Wayback Machine, and in a 2012 version there is: "Now writing horror as H.R. Knight, Harry...". So it seems he deliberately changed his horror-writing identity from Squires to Knight. So I'd make Knight the canonical (which also works well because the publications under that name are more recent and more plentiful). --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 10:01, 17 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Post-submission display of Contents sections improved ==<br />
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The way Contents sections are displayed on post-submission pages is in the process of being changed. At this point NewPub and AddPub submissions have been upgraded. Their Contents sections now properly display multiple yellow warnings when warranted. They also indicate which submitted author name is new, which one is an alternate name or which one is a disambiguated name. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:55, 17 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Filaria ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1258490; A copy was uploaded a few months ago on Archive.org; it revealed that the page count and the price here were wrong, I fixed those and added the link, but the review at Strange Horizons calls this the first book from Chizine and says 2008, as do all copyrights in the book itself. Why it has a late 2009 date here I don't know, and I also don't know why there's such a big gap between the first Chizine book here, January 2009, and the rest of their 2009 books. So real date is needed for this book and probably others from this publisher. Also, while researching this I saw an expired eBay sale for a 100-copy HC, which I believe Chizine did for many of their books, often including extra material, but very few seem to have been entered here, so there's that, too. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:42, 20 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Earthman, Come Home ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?229485; I noticed a M. Ayme Mayflower edition said Dell on cover and Google Books had it with Mayflower-Dell on copyright page so I fixed that but this isn't on Google. It says Dell on cover, both PV haven't been around for years, but knowing these old paperbacks I hesitate to fix it without someone seeing a copyright page. So if anyone owns this edition can you check and see what it says inside the book. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 16:17, 20 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Come Softly, Come Sweetly... ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?362038; I added info to the only issue of D. Sutton's British Shadow fanzine, from 1971, that's on ISFDB and Eddy C. Bertin has a story, "Come Softly, Come Sweetly", in it which isn't on ISFDB but his 1971 Dutch collection, linked above, has a title which translates to the English title, just with added words, so any Dutch people who are familiar with his extensive bibliography will probably know which came first and can variant as needed. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 16:36, 20 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Mark ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?325553; Does that seem right? It should be other people named Mark Williams, shouldn't it? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:04, 20 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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:Two things: (1) That "Mark (Wills) Williams" is matched up with forms of "Mark" is a bug. I would bet the issue is the "(". The ambiguity matching logic probably isn't paying attention to whether the parenthesized expression is at the end or is embedded in the middle. (2) That "Mark (Wills) Williams" is not matched up with forms of "Mark Williams" is a limitation/feature of the current matching, which doesn't consider names containing middle names (or initials, etc.) to be ambiguous vis-a-vis the same combination of first and last name without any middle name. I don't think we'd want "Mark XYZ Williams" to be shown as ambiguous with "Mark Williams", but I guess I could see showing "Mark Williams" as ambiguous with "Mark ABC Williams" and "Mark XYZ Williams". You'd have to lobby Ahasuerus on that one. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 09:41, 22 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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:: Good catch. {{Bug|827}}, "'Same name' logic fails for records with embedded parentheses", has been created. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 09:50, 22 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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::: It should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting the problem.<br />
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::: Re: ''showing "Mark Williams" as ambiguous with "Mark ABC Williams" and "Mark XYZ Williams"'', that's a whole different can of worms. If you do a name search on "John%Smith", you'll get a list of a dozen names, including:<br />
:::* John Claude Smith<br />
:::* John D. Smith<br />
:::* John Hirschhorn-Smith<br />
:::* John Smith<br />
::: First we'd have to decide which ones are considered ambiguous. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 20:04, 2 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Created By Matheson ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?8191; The advance reading copy, https://archive.org/details/createdby00math, says 352 pages on the first page, it's actually 344, ISFDB says 324. Anyone own a copy who can verify what the actual page count is? There are also Roman numerals at the front; no editions here have them. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:30, 21 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Brutarian ==<br />
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https://archive.org/search?query=brutarian&sort=-addeddate&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22; Heads up that someone, after uploading 3 random issues years ago, started uploading more issues recently. This was not strictly a genre magazine but included some genre fiction/non-fiction, especially in later issues, some of it by big names. ISFDB only has a few late issues entered; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=brutarian&type=Magazine. I distinctly remember seeing issues on the newsstand at some store in New York City back in the 1990's or maybe a bit later, so it got some distribution, I guess. I got an R. Crumb vibe from it, though, probably due to the type of cover art they used, and didn't really peruse it. Crumb's art always made me nervous for some reason. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:27, 21 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Bonus fiction in novels ==<br />
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Why is a 'bonus' short fiction title allowed in a novel, but a serial installment is specifically excluded? There are a number of publications, [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?714319 example 1], [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?714583 example 2], [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?714262 example 3], where we're forced to misclassify what is clearly a serial installment. I don't see a downside to lifting the exclusion. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 19:05, 22 February 2023 (EST)<br />
: Because allowing SERIALs in books at all is a relatively new development. It used to be magazines and fanzines only. Then we allowed chapbooks. I think we should allow it in anthologies, novels and collections as well - especially because Magazines reprints are added as anthologies/collections AND because in our digital world, serials are used as bonus almost anywhere. Post over on R&S and we can hash it out and change the rules for serials. One thing to make sure we clearly separate - excerpts vs serials (it is intent that separates them essentially) :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 19:13, 22 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Moonchasers TP ==<br />
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I've done a lot of Ed Gorman edits recently and this, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?284334, is a problem because the HC is & on the title page but no photos of the TP title page can be found. Does anyone own the TP? I've got a half-dozen edits on hold because mod won't change unless I show that it's & in the TP title, too. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:09, 23 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Sword & Fantasy ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?33789; Some weeks-old edit of mine was finally approved, fixing an artist's name in one of these issues, but now that I look at the series page something's not right. Why do only the last 2 issues have a comma after the issue #? Also, is the # really supposed to be in any of them instead of in the notes? Isn't that magazine policy there? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:13, 23 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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: The title records reflected the individual publication titles since they hadn't been 'rolled up' by year. I took care of that.<br />
: Regarding the comma:<br />
:* The placement of the comma, in a periodical title, controls what is displayed in the [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/seriesgrid.cgi?33789 issue grid]. Basically, everything after the first comma appears in the grid except the year as long as it matches the date field. If the year differs, it will also be displayed. Notice how the issue number doesn't appear in the two titles you question.<br />
:* Yes, current policy is to show the issue number in the publication notes. 21:57, 23 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Flashing Swords! Help ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?8495; I've just added Archive.org links in (pending) edits to #1 (2 Doubleday), #2 (Mayflower), #3 (2 Dell), #4 (2 1977 Doubleday), and #5 (Doubleday). Now there are some issues. Some people unnecessarily entered the series title in the book title, others didn't; some people entered Roman numerals in the page count, others didn't; some people entered the book title as it appears on the title page, others didn't. Also, #3 doesn't have the Doubleday book club edition entered; #'s 1, 2, and 4 have the book club dates as earlier than the Dell PB dates but #5 has both as the same date, so it's possible that the story dates for #3 are wrong because the book club edition was probably published earlier. There are many PV for all volumes so if any of them would like to add/fix anything it would help. EDIT: The only thing I fixed was importing Carter's essay in #1, "A Last Word", to the Doubleday edition; it was only entered here in the Dell edition. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:30, 25 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Backward(s) ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?93690; I just stumbled across a copy of Mitchell's Crystal Man which was uploaded in June of 2022 so I added a link and the missing page numbers to the many stories included in that book, but I noticed 1 story, "The Clock That Went Backwards", is actually "Backward". According to ISFDB the only instances of the singular title are the original, uncredited appearance in a newspaper and reprints in various books starting in 2013. So when my edit is approved that story needs merging with the singular or removing/adding the singular or whatever needs doing; the question now is if it really was the plural in the many books it appeared in between the above collection in 1973 and 2013. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:16, 25 February 2023 (EST)<br />
:Thanks, Pwendt. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 22:23, 10 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Secret Asia's Blackest Heart ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?855765; Something in the recent edits accidentally led me to this and some of those titles are already on ISFDB, specifically the Webb which was published in 2014 as "U-PAO. The Black Sutra", the Blackmore which is in 3 separate books on ISFDB starting in 2007, not 2009, and the Carter/Cornford story which is under the same title in 3 merged publications but its appearance in this book wasn't merged even though the editor did at least date it correctly as 1997. Person who entered it hasn't responded to anything for a long time so if anyone owns a copy a lot of re-dating/re-titling/merging is probably in order. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:21, 25 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Borgo Question ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5592414; One of those annoying situations where they include both editions but don't specify which it is. Was it Borgo's style to print the correct barcode in red as it appears on the back cover in the Archive.org copy or is that totally unrelated and somebody just felt like coloring it? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:40, 25 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== O.J.'s Nightmare ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1706087; Willem and Bob PV separate editions, pretty sure it should be David, also could be related to other artists named Bowers, first name starts with D, here. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:18, 26 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Maelstrom ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5593175; A challenge to anyone who can find a bigger cover image and replace mine. This anthology has been on ISFDB for years and there are a few online mentions of it including Locus where the contents came from but, as can be seen in the notes, it seems to have either been barely published or not at all. While on an archived author's site I was trying to get info from there was an image in her bibliography of this book so I uploaded the .jpg, but it was very tiny and after blowing it up as big as allowable here the author names are illegible. The title and cover art still come through nicely, though. Maybe someone here actually owns a copy (HA!)? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:56, 26 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Further Adventures of Batman Printing Dates ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?34733; https://archive.org/details/furtheradventure00gree; There's a bit of confusion here. The original printing was July, PV Vasha77 did the 2nd printing but made an error by entering the month based on an ad on the last page which says 10/87 when the book was obviously published in '89, Archive copy above is a 3rd printing not on ISFDB with that same ad but 2 pages before it is an ad for G.R.R. Martin's Wild Cards with 7/89 on it. So since PV is gone and it was transient anyway I suggest we change month of 2nd to July also and then enter the 3rd with that month, too. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 23:38, 27 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Goldstrom ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?25621; My edit making R. Goldstrom an alternate of Robert was just approved but I see there's 2 separate credits for Skeleton-in-Waiting. I think they need merging or something. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:23, 28 February 2023 (EST)<br />
: Merged, as you correctly pointed out. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 11:05, 1 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Davis Grubb Stories ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5783; I've done a few edits for his rare 1978 collection Siege of 318 and recently stumbled on the fact that the title story was a retitled reprint of "Cry Havoc", which is why both have a 1976 date here. I've made a variant but I am suspicious that "The Idiots" from the 1976 horror anthology Frights and "The Idiot" are the same, too. Does anyone own a copy who can compare the 2 stories? Frights has an Archive.org link so story is readable. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 17:12, 28 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Content sections of Clone/Import/Export upgraded ==<br />
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The Content sections of Clone/Import/Export Publication post-submission pages have been upgraded. Rows can now display multiple yellow warnings per row. Yellow warnings are now more specific, telling you which authors they refer to. Auto-merge rows no longer warn you about disambiguated/alternate author/artist names. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:44, 28 February 2023 (EST)<br />
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== The Changing ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?36975; I added LCCN ID and noticed 244 pages which is a lot different than 320. No online copies I can see so if anyone owns this can you check page count and fix if needed. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:52, 1 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Derek Neville ==<br />
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https://kylerader.net/2014/12/30/ghost-box-a-discussion-with-author-derek-neville/; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?161858; I suspected the short story was not by the old Neville; there's a guy with the same name who self-published Ghost Box, which isn't on ISFDB but should be, but the only mentions of that name and the short story's title are our site and this, https://kristipetersenschoonover.com/2015/01/12/shitty-almonds-now-available-in-bugs-teaser-toc-here/. So story author should probably get a (I) after their name or something to differ them but unsure whether the same Neville wrote Ghost Box, although it seems likely. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:56, 1 March 2023 (EST)<br />
:[https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?359885 Done]. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 17:57, 1 March 2023 (EST)<br />
::Needs space after 1st period of artist to make it the same as artist already on ISFDB. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:35, 1 March 2023 (EST)<br />
:::Looks like that was handled as I can't see what you mean. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 11:41, 2 March 2023 (EST)<br />
::::Scifibones fixed it today. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:46, 2 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== 1995 SPGA Showcase ==<br />
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http://www.locusmag.com/index/t742.htm#A37177; The Goldman story has the right original date on ISFDB but no mention of where it came from so I entered the info that it originally came from this anthology; the Everson story has the wrong date (2007), a different title ("Warming the Women"), and no mention of where it came from, so I added where it came from but didn't change date or title because it may have the same title in the anthology and should be merged or it really is different in which case it would be a variant; the Jacob story already has a note here about where it first came from. The Danley work being a story is suspicious because all his works (as Robert C. Danley) on ISFDB are poems; it's also weird that Locus listed all the poems after the stories instead of listing everything in order. So on the very slim chance that anyone owns the anthology some fixes would probably be needed after entering it. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:27, 1 March 2023 (EST)<br />
:I've added [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?938058 that anthology here]. If it turns out the Danley work is actually a poem, we can easily change it. In the meantime, it's listed now. I also varianted the Everson story. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 17:37, 1 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Phantom Fango Edit ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5595657; I'm confused about something. I haven't looked at any Fangoria issues for a long time, while doing Drake Douglas edits I noticed he had 1 review for a book by himself, I knew he probably wouldn't review his own book and found it was just an entry mistake and it was actually Stanley Wiater, who did the other reviews in that issue; I asked PV about it and they responded but didn't indicate they were going to fix it themselves, but now I see that it was changed to the correct reviewer but I don't see where that was done by anyone in the review record or issue record. Am I missing something? I assume I can just cancel my edit now, right? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:43, 1 March 2023 (EST)<br />
: Look at the last edit to the [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?841501 publication] containing the review. Yes, go ahead and cancel your submission. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 20:11, 1 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Anthony Izzo Titles ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5597760; I'm not sure what's going on here. I thought this novel was not on ISFDB because the title was not in the author's record but after entering a new record the ISBN is a duplicate of this, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?99881. Izzo mentions the title change here, https://www.anthonyizzo.com/post/author-anthony-izzo-s-latest-thriller-novel. So the existing record seems to have been entered from pre-release info on Amazon, maybe, before the title was changed. So what's to be done? Delete Unforgiven? It has a "P" cover image, wrong format, old ISBN-10 instead of ISBN-13 for a 2007 book, etc. (also see my note in Evil Harvest about confusion with ISBN-13, too). Or leave it and make the 2 titles alternates? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:06, 3 March 2023 (EST)<br />
:Evil Harvest edit was just approved; still awaiting reply on what should be done here. Anyone? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:29, 6 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Beehive Book Award ==<br />
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The [http://www.claubeehive.org/about-the-beehive-book-awards.html Beehive Book Award] given out by the Children's Literature Association of Utah in the following categories:<br />
*Children's Fiction (chapter books)<br />
*Picture Books<br />
*Informational Books<br />
*Poetry<br />
*Graphic Novels<br />
*Young Adult Fiction<br />
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The books nominated and awarded are not limited to those by Utahns, though. It's voted on by children in the state of Utah from a list of nominees submitted by volunteers. It covers more than just speculative fiction works, but there are quite a few speculative fiction authors whose works have been nominated and/or won over the years. See the lists [http://www.claubeehive.org/past-winners--nominees.html here]. I'll be happy to populate the award if it's added. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:54, 3 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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: I see all the usual suspects: Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Jane Yolen, Ursula Vernon, Brandon Mull, etc. Looks legitimate to me. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:31, 3 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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:: [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?102 Done.] Sorry, I forgot all about it. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 08:47, 18 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Roofworld Arrow Edition ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1282; In tribute to Christopher Fowler, who just died, I started to add as much info as I could to his books and almost immediately ran into trouble. I added an Archive.org link to the original Ballantine edition but there's also an Arrow edition; however, there's 2 records here with one being entered in the very early days of this site and PV by a long-gone person while the other is much more fleshed out but not PV. Which should be kept and given the link? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 17:21, 3 March 2023 (EST)<br />
:They look like they are probably duplicates of each other. Anyone else have any different thoughts? ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 18:51, 3 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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:: The "September 1989" pub was verified against the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/b177.htm#A2341 Locus Index], which says:<br />
::* Roofworld (Legend 0-09-962340-4, Sep ’89 [Aug ’89], £3.99, 396pp, pb) Reprint (Ballantine/Legend 1988) sf novel.<br />
:: It would appear that "September 1989" comes from Locus. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:45, 3 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== What The F ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=fer+ward&type=Name; Unusual situation here where one would assume the second name is wrong but that's actually her name; the first name only has 1 credit and searching Amazon Look Inside it does say Jennifer on contents page but typing Jenniffer gets 1 hit, so possibly it's spelled correctly at the head of the story in case anyone who has an Amazon account can verify and fix/variant. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:04, 4 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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: In [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?553261 ''Dreamless''], it's "Jenniffer Wardell" on the cover, on the copyright page and on the title page. The "Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data" section says that she was born in 1981. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 17:30, 4 March 2023 (EST)<br />
::A full view on Amazon inside the book in which her name was entered here as Jennifer is needed because her real name per online info is Jenniffer and while contents page of that book says Jennifer a search inside gets a hit for Jenniffer, so I don't want a false variant name created (there's already way too many of those here) if it really should just have an "f" added to it. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:53, 4 March 2023 (EST)<br />
:::Searching the Amazon Look Inside for {{P|577626|100 Worlds}} shows that the "Object Lesson" title page uses "Jennifer Wardell". The "About the Author" does list her as "Jenniffer", but we enter per the title page. I have created an alternate name and varianted the story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:10, 5 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Baen vs. Baen Books ==<br />
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We have separate publisher listings for Baen and Baen Books. The top of both these records has "Do NOT merge this with [other version], there are two completely different timeframes and three different logos". However,<br />
*{{Pubr|38|Baen}} has books from 1984 - 2023<br />
*{{Pubr|55837|Baen Books}} has books from 1985 - 1992, 1995 - 1996, 2004 - 2006, 2022 - 2023<br />
So we are not separating them out as per the note. I don't see the need to have separate versions as we already normalize minor changes in publisher names and that information can easily be handled in a note. However, if we are going to have separate versions, then the time ranges should be added to the notes and the relevant books updated appropriately. The editor who added the note is no longer active so cannot ask them about it. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:22, 5 March 2023 (EST)<br />
: I would draw a parallel to [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?37 Ace Books], with multiple addresses and ownership detailed in a separate ISFDB [https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Publisher:Ace wiki page]. I also see no reason beyond whether they care credited differently in the books (Baen vs. Baen Books) ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] ([[User talk:Holmesd|talk]]) 13:00, 5 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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:: A couple of thoughts. First, spot-checking some recently published Baen books, I see that they apparently use "Baen Books" and "Baen" interchangeable. For example, the copyright page of [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?929303 ''Dead Man Walking''], which was published on 2023-02-07, says:<br />
::* A Baen Book<br />
::* Baen Publishing Enterprises<br />
::* First Baen Printing<br />
::* Electronic version by Baen Books<br />
:: The copyright page of [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?931957 ''What Price Victory?''], which was published on the same day, says:<br />
::* A Baen Books Original<br />
::* Baen Publishing Enterprises<br />
::* Electronic version by Baen Books<br />
:: Note the use of "A Baen Book" in the first case and "A Baen Books Original" in the second case. The lack of the word "Original" in ''Dead Man Walking'' is due to the fact that it's a US reprint of a UK book, but otherwise "Baen" and "Baen Books" are used interchangeably.<br />
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:: Second, in an ideal world, we would capture two separate values: "publisher name as stated in the publication" and "canonical name of the publisher"; it would be similar to the way we treat variant titles and canonical names. Since we don't have this functionality implemented, I think it would be best to merge the two publisher records. Updating Notes would be nice, but, given the mixed use of the two names (as seen above), it may be more hassle that it's worth. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:43, 5 March 2023 (EST)<br />
:::What does it state on the title page, though? We generally go with that over what it states on the copyright page. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:31, 6 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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:::: Unfortunately, Amazon.com's Look Inside tends to use e-books' data for paper editions and e-books don't always have clearly defined title pages. I have many older Baen books in my paper collection, but nothing recent, so I can't check. For what it's worth, Look Inside shows that the two pubs linked above do not mentions the publisher in the "title page" sections. The sections immediately below them say "BAEN BOOKS by [author name]: [list of titles]", but that doesn't clarify things. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:13, 6 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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:::::All of the recent ones I have just have the Baen logo at the bottom of the title page, so I'd go with "Baen". ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:35, 16 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Post-submission pages for AddPub and ClonePub submissions tweaked ==<br />
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Post-submission pages for AddPub and ClonePub submissions have been adjusted to display more information about the title record that the new publication will be merged with. The "auto-merge" line now displays the same title information, including variant/translation data, that is displayed in the Contents sections of Publication pages. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:19, 5 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Dash or 00 ==<br />
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https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Rtrace#Dark_Carnival_Date; Re: this discussion, do any experts here know of a way to automatically change all LCCN entered on this site, pre-whatever the date was when they changed from using a dash to zeros, from zeros to dash? I just enter them as they are on their site but, even though it makes no real difference because links lead to the records whether they have dashes or zeros, it would be better, I suppose, to have them as they appear in the books. Now all this is assuming that all pre-change LCCN had dashes and all post-change LCCN have zeroes, which I'm sure isn't true, but anyway I thought I'd ask. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:33, 5 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Vuk ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=kostic&type=Name; Vuk Kostic and Vukkostic are the same, I assume, 1 says Serbian and the other English, in case anyone wants to decide which should be the parent and which the variant. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:51, 6 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Day Khrus(h)chev Panicked ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1618562; Did some edits a long time ago, came across it again today and added cover images and LCCN ID to both HC, Brits spelled name in title without a middle H, Yanks with a middle H. I fixed that for Cassell (title page seen on Cracabond Books, a site I don't think I've ever heard of before), Random House title page on Google confirms the middle H, Macfadden in Google Images confirms the middle H, if Digit title page can be seen then we'll know all and main title can be changed and American editions' title can be a variant (there's also a UK Ensign edition on AbeBooks without the middle H on the cover, so I think it's safe to say American H, British no H). --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:03, 6 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Stained-Glass World ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?232309; I added a bunch of Kenneth Bulmer edits yesterday, and this, the last one, was just adding an Archive.org link, but then I noticed the month doesn't match the one in the note. I asked RTrace since I saw his name at the top of the edit history but he was no help, and of the PV the first guy's dead, the next 3 are gone (probably), and the last guy is still around but doesn't seem interested much in this site these days, so maybe Glenn is the only one who may respond helpfully; why is the month, which does say July in the book, April on this site? Fix needed IMO. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:42, 7 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== AddPub/NewPub/ClonePub post-submission pages enhanced ==<br />
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Post-submission pages for AddPub/NewPub/ClonePub submissions have been enhanced.<br />
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AddPub/ClonePubs pages now display a yellow warning if the title type of the associated title record has been changed since the submission was created. The "Title Data" section of NewPub/AddPub pages has been standardized to use the same fields, field names and field order as EditTitles' post-submission pages. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 12:08, 7 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== "Disambiguated author" yellow warnings upgraded ==<br />
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Post-submission yellow warnings for disambiguated authors have been upgraded. They now use the same algorithm as "There are other authors with the same name" displayed at the top of Summary pages.<br />
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This means that "A" will no longer be erroneously reported as a disambiguated name based on the existence of "A (W) Hendry". It also means that "Stephen King (I)" or "G. S. (artist)" will generate yellow warnings informing the reviewing moderator that they are disambiguated names. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 13:00, 7 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Self-Moderation Request == <br />
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Hello,<br />
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with around 10.000 changes to ISFDB since 2013 and also lots of source-code contributions I did really a lot for ISFDB and very seldom my edits have been rejected. As nowadays it takes extremely long to moderate submissions I'd like to have Self-Approver state. Hopefully that also leads to me adding a lot of my own books which I skipped until now.<br />
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As is probably known I'm not 100% happy with the way ISFDB works but adhere to the given rules. Thus I'll not use any additional rights I get to do more than now, but restrict my Self-Approver privilege to situations which I think consensus exists (misjudgment in individual cases included :-). For changes which could be troublesome I'd leave these submissions for other moderators to review (I assume that's still possible?).<br />
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--[[User:Stoecker|Stoecker]] ([[User talk:Stoecker|talk]]) 07:33, 8 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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:Hi, Dirk! Alas, I do have some reservation about that privilege: while you did quite a lot of valuable source-code contributions, I have the feeling that many (if not all) of your publication additions to the database lack the quality we usually try to achieve, especially in sourcing the data (that is: giving the sources for the date of publication and the art credit; I personally think that also statements for the edition - first [language, tp, pb, hc, ...] would be welcome). <br />
:[https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?938811 Here] is a quite recent example (this one also has a seemingly wrong format, since the vast majority of publications by this publisher with the same format are defined as pb). Many of your added / verified publications have stub notes or none at all, like [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?430657 this one]. (Also, many verified pub.s have missing or erroneous publication series, like [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?807320 this] or [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?729179 this], the first example being again a stub record). <br />
:On the whole, most seem somewhat hastily added, and I'd like to see some more quality in added and especially PV'd publications. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] ([[User talk:Stonecreek|talk]]) 09:42, 11 March 2023 (EST)<br />
:: Yes. I usually only add the minimum amount, because it's simply to much hassle to get it correct with a turnaround of multiple days for a change. It takes weeks to enter a single book correctly, especially as there is no preview feature yet and I have to redo everything when I make an error. Thus I only add the information which is required and important, nothing else. I certainly don't add all the information which it seems you find is necessary in the notes, but I add all the relevant information and I don't add wrong information. In the examples you showed there is no error: The example books you choose are tp and not pb. The publication series for Bastei is still a somewhat strange thing and not really visible in the books. The older books I added thus wont have them right simply because this "right" changed over the years. For new entries I try to follow whatever seems currently used in ISFDB. P.S. As already said multiple times - ISFDB has a large amount of errors in non-verified and verified publications (also errors which have been introduced to my verified books which have been correct when I entered the information). When the threshold to participate is too high that also wont change. I tried to help fix the software for this but the attempt didn't work out. I see that a small part of my ideas have be implemented in the last years, but nothing game-changing. Maybe to give you a note what I actually talk about: I own ~2300 SF and F books, 825 of these I verified in ISDFB, 787 more exist in ISFDB often with missing information or missing the exact copy I have. 685 are missing totally. I simply did not add them yet and instead do my own database. BTW Some errors also come from different moderators of the time: One moderator forced me to do one thing, the next exactly the opposite. And I always complied even if it did not make sense. --[[User:Stoecker|Stoecker]] ([[User talk:Stoecker|talk]]) 10:28, 11 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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:: '''Comment''': I haven't done much work on the submission queue lately, so I'll abstain. To answer the question raised in the last sentence, if a self-approver leaves a submission in the queue, it can be reviewed and approved/rejected by a moderator. However, submissions by self-approvers are color-coded and moderators tend to leave them alone because the presumption is that the self-approver is taking a break and will be back later. Of course, a self-approver can create a submission, leave it in the queue and then ask about it on the Moderator Noticeboard. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 09:52, 11 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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::: Maybe there should be a flag "please review" to turn off the color code? I actually appreciate in other environments when you have the chance to let somebody else review your stuff even when you yourself could approve it. For the easy cases you approve directly wheres for others you seek per-review. It's a concept which I e.g. are very happy with in software update submissions for openSUSE Linux distribution. --[[User:Stoecker|Stoecker]] ([[User talk:Stoecker|talk]]) 10:33, 11 March 2023 (EST)<br />
:::: You have my vote, user Stonecreek, who was demoted for entering incorrect data has no right to criticize you.--[[User:Wolfram.winkler|Wolfram.winkler]] ([[User talk:Wolfram.winkler|talk]]) 15:48, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::::Wolfram: While you're free to share you opinion on whether Stoecker should receive this ability, please refrain from attacking other editors here. Thank you. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 16:46, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::::: It's just facts and you have no right to criticize it.--[[User:Wolfram.winkler|Wolfram.winkler]] ([[User talk:Wolfram.winkler|talk]]) 17:11, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Fixed Story Titles ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Rtrace#Great_Disciple; Maybe I'm not being clear or something, but I'm not getting the answer I'm looking for so maybe someone else can help me. I did a bunch of edits for Bruce Publishing books and this one required more work, using the copy on Google Books, because story titles, I assume taken from Locus, were wrong in 6 cases (and 1 was missing entirely), from missing articles to completely wrong. I fixed them but now that it's been approved the 6 parent stories still have the wrong titles. That can't be right, most of the author's obscure religious stories didn't appear in any genre works and the 2 that did had the right titles (although 1 of them, "The Hound of Cullen", isn't in this collection so now I'm suspicious because it has a 1951 date on ISFDB but appeared in F&SF in 1953, so I wonder if the missing story I entered, "The End of Coo-Cullen", is that story retitled) so there's no variant, so how can I get both author names to show the correct titles? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:29, 8 March 2023 (EST)<br />
:You would have received the answer you were looking for had you told the reviewer; "The titles were only published under an alternate name so there is no reason the canonical name titles should differ." To correct, simply edit the canonical name titles and make the same corrections. However, I question whether [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?106837 William Bernard Ready] should even be the canonical name. I don't see a single title published using that name. I would make [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?13494 W. B. Ready] the canonical name with [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?101925 William Ready] an alternate. This would obviate the need for the above edits. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 13:39, 8 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Which Henry Holt? ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5601242; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5601243; This is the 2nd time recently that this moderator has rejected edit(s) of mine while telling me to ask PV first when I clearly did that in both cases. This one, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5597731, was asked about here, https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Swfritter#A_Month_of_Mystery, but I just decided to cancel it because trying to fix the countless verified editions of books that are clearly book club editions but not identified as such by the PV is too much for me to handle so I've decided to not do those kinds of edits anymore, but as for the 2 edits at the top of this message there's no reason for them to be rejected because as I explained here, https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Rosab618#Henry_Holt, this publisher on ISFDB, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?60311, only has a few entries including those 1990's books entered recently by the same PV, while this publisher, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?86, has almost all their books including pretty much everything published between 1986 and 2023, as is clearly explained in the note at the top of the page where it says they reverted back to that name in 1986. The 2 PV books say Henry Holt and Company on the title page so if we're going by what they actually say it wouldn't match any publisher currently on ISFDB. Standardization, right? Isn't that what mods are always saying, don't enter multiple publisher names? I think those 2 should be un-rejected. If not, I'd hate to see how many of the hundreds of "Henry Holt" books currently on ISFDB would need to be changed to "Henry Holt and Company". --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:48, 8 March 2023 (EST)<br />
:You're mischaracterizing this a bit. In both cases, you submitted the edit before receiving a response from the primary verifier. Changing the name of the publisher is a major change to a publication record and should not be done without the prior assent of all active verifiers. Worse, [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5597731 this submission] would have replaced the record for the trade edition with one for a book club edition, effectively deleting the record for the trade edition from the database. I explained this in the rejection note, and again when you [[User talk:Rtrace#MoM|objected]] on my talk page and I am explaining it for a third time here. I also explained in all these places that you need to get a response from the verifiers before submitting the original edit. Now, whether a title page stating "Henry Holt and Company" should be reflected as [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?86 Henry Holt], [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?60311 Henry Holt & Co.] or a new publisher is an open question. However, it is still necessary to have a dialog with the verifiers before changing those records. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:58, 8 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== FOCUS ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubs_not_in_series.cgi?37441; I believe we have 4 separate publishers here: A German one, a British one (reprint of HC de la Mare book), an imprint based in Massachusetts who did Shakespeare, and a kid's book which maybe should have a different publisher, Tyndale, because it says "Focus on the Family" on the cover so Focus is more likely to be a series. In case anyone cares to differ them in some way. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:50, 10 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Amazon UK ==<br />
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In this case, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?312797, is it OK to replace the price and enter a link to this, https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22560761M/The_monsterologist, since there's no UK price and editor just entered the price from Amazon? This happens a lot. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:20, 10 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== For those interested in Lovecraft and Winnie the Pooh ==<br />
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I ran across [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hemelein/the-horror-at-pooh-corner this Kickstarter] which combines the two. The anthology won't be out for about a year, but it's something to look forward to (I backed it). ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:24, 10 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== R. Dickerson ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=dickers&type=Name; Russell has many interviews, Russ has 1 which has an alternate because of a language note or something. So 1 of those should be a variant of Russell. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:47, 11 March 2023 (EST)<br />
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== Karloff the Editor ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?35824; A copy of Avon was just uploaded on Archive.org so I added a link, also added C to the price for the other (Canadian) Avon, added the month to the regular title since Avon was first edition, added other countries' prices to Corgi from back cover seen on FantLab, but most significantly added introduction to Souvenir based on photo on FantLab. It's not in Avon so it seems they added it for British editions; however, the only evidence here is in that Portugal edition where it says Introdução. So when my edits are approved that probably should be made a variant of Introduction and if anyone owns the British paperbacks the introduction is probably in those, too, and should be imported. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:16, 12 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== De Grote Horror Omnibus ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?175406; Just uploaded is this, https://archive.org/search?query=grote-horror, which seems to be a German edition of the Signet omnibus, in case any German/German-fluent person wants to enter it. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:28, 12 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== C. Anderson ==<br />
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[https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?USE_1=author_canonical&O_1=contains&TERM_1=craig&C=AND&USE_2=author_canonical&O_2=contains&TERM_2=anderson&USE_3=author_canonical&O_3=exact&TERM_3=&USE_4=author_canonical&O_4=exact&TERM_4=&USE_5=author_canonical&O_5=exact&TERM_5=&USE_6=author_canonical&O_6=exact&TERM_6=&USE_7=author_canonical&O_7=exact&TERM_7=&USE_8=author_canonical&O_8=exact&TERM_8=&USE_9=author_canonical&O_9=exact&TERM_9=&USE_10=author_canonical&O_10=exact&TERM_10=&ORDERBY=author_canonical&ACTION=query&START=0&TYPE=Author]; I added OL ID to Science Fiction Films of the Seventies some time ago and today came across it again and added Archive.org link; I noticed cover artist might be the same as the author and there's another similar name, all linked above, in case anyone knows if they're all the same. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:26, 12 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Maureen F. McHugh's The Cost to Be Wise - novelette or novella? ==<br />
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[https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?59780 This] is categorized as a novelette, but it was nominated for 3 different awards in the novella category. If I look at the page counts in [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?347490 The Mammoth Book of Best Short SF Novels], it shows as 45 pages, which is the same as the following story - Greg Egan's Oceanic - which is categorized as a novella. (The rest of those "short novels" are all categorized as novellas, but they have longer page counts.) Google search results for 'mchugh "the cost to be wise"' followed by "novella" or "novelette" also indicate it is considered to be the former.<br />
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There are over a dozen verified pubs containing this story (which distill down to the 1996 Starlight anthology it appeared in, the 1997 Dozois Year's Best, a 2005 author collection, a Lightspeed mag special issue, and the aforementioned Dozois "short novel" anthology), so I'm wary of changing the type without some sort of discussion or second opinion. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 17:42, 12 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: I happen to have one of the anthologies as an ebook. After converting it to TXT and removing the other stories, the table of contents, etc, I see that the text contains 19,500 words if you count the title. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:45, 13 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:: Thanks. If there are no dissenting voices here, I propose to make the novelette->novella switch in a couple of days. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 15:11, 14 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
::: With a confirmed length, noone can object :) Add a note on the approximate length and change it. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 16:02, 14 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::: Just to close this off, the switch to novella has now been done. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 18:31, 17 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Derleth's Sleeping ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5606597; Almost missed this rare one uploaded on Archive.org because they're doing something weird where the upload date is different than the added date which is causing a lot of confusion; anyway, PV is a bit...testy judging by my last contact with them, so I'm dry-running this here before letting them know of my changes. Does anyone see anything wrong with my edit? Title as it is on title page, spurious subtitle moved to notes, FantLab ID because it shows cover that coverless copy doesn't, etc. Also, I checked the Four Square abridgement on Dalby's site and it says "AND", not "&", on title page, so variants needed? EDIT: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?33526; I see I added copy link and FantLab ID recently but now I've added LCCN ID, while noticing intro is dated with signed date instead of book date, something I've seen many times before, probably done by a specific editor who thought that's how it was supposed to be, so if it's not right one of the PV should fix the date. EDIT: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5606943; More title fixing; PB edition was recently uploaded so I made an edit adding link for that and title is "AND", not "&", on title page, so more variants needed? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:29, 13 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== EditPub yellow warnings upgraded ==<br />
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All yellow warnings displayed in New Cover Art, New Regular Titles, New Reviews and New Interviews tables within the "Content" section of EditPub post-submission pages have been upgraded. They now use the same enhanced functionality already available on other post-submission pages.<br />
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At this point the only tables still using the old functionality and table layout are the 4 "Modified Cover/Regular Titles/Reviews/Interviews" tables in EditPub. As always, if you come across anything unexpected or erroneous, please post your findings here. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:37, 13 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: There was a flaw in the last patch. The 4 "New" tables no longer display a yellow warning if the publication date hasn't been changed and the new title date is after the publication date. I am working on a fix. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:39, 13 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:: It should be fixed now. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:06, 13 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::: When you get a moment, please take a look at [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5607440 this submission]. Thanks, [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 08:07, 14 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:::: Thanks for reporting the problem. It happens when magazine pubs are cloned. Working on it... [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 11:53, 14 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::::: It should be fixed now. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 12:44, 14 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Hauck ==<br />
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https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Hauck; I came across this, https://archive.org/search?query=%22compagnie+des+fees%22, and since many of these foreign editions have page counts off by a page or two on ISFDB because of unnumbered final page(s) I checked this one; page count was correct but the note about names on back cover was not. Heading off to ask the editor who entered the book I see that he's totally done with this site judging by the big red message on his board. So does anyone else own a copy? I think I'll do an advanced search and see what other books they PV; since they're not going to answer any questions maybe I can improve things a bit myself, add some links, etc. I'm sure some people here know what went wrong, so if anyone would like to give any details I'd be curious to know what caused Hauck to leave. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:23, 14 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: [[User:Hauck]] left the project in June 2018 after [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Hauck/Archive16#Award_for_Paradiso this discussion]. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 20:00, 14 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
::Wow. The comparisons to Nazi Germany may have been a bit much. I asked because he responded to 3 messages from 2 editors last June to tell them not to bother because he's un-verifying his PV's. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:11, 14 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::"'''the note about names on back cover was not'''", perhaps should yo try a bit harder... ([https://isfdb.org/wiki/images/f/fe/Lcddf.jpg]). {{unsigned|Hauck}}<br />
::::I think you meant "you should", not "should yo". If you look at the back cover of the Archive.org copy you'll see no names, so it's likely tight framing on the right side that cut them off rather than it being some variant without the names. Also, I put brackets around your image link because the giant image was taking too much space. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:22, 15 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
::::: Hauck was the best moderator ever and ended his job based on what I believe due to false allegations.--[[User:Wolfram.winkler|Wolfram.winkler]] ([[User talk:Wolfram.winkler|talk]]) 17:00, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Skeleton Crew Editions ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?36904; There is the original hardcover at the top and at the bottom there's another by Putnam (should probably be G. P. Putnam's Sons like the original) which says it's from the Stephen King Library. The PV of that edition, AnimeBill, entered it in the very early days here and has been gone for many years, so no use asking them about this, https://archive.org/details/skeletoncrew0000unse. I thought it might be PV edition but now I'm thinking it may actually be a book club edition of the original since there's no number line. Is anyone here familiar with these editions who knows if there's some way to identify which edition the Archive.org copy is so it can be entered? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:21, 16 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Dawn of the Dead ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5609977; I recently added the original Sphere edition with no A. in author's name but looking further I see it wasn't there in the original, either. Also, the price was wrong, and the title date is 4 months earlier than the book date while Open Library says December. I thought I had trouble fixing all the later editions some time ago but this is ridiculous. So let's try to find out which, if any, editions use A. on the title page and what the real month of publication was so that can be fixed. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:34, 16 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== H(elmut) Wenske ==<br />
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FantLab has a page for this artist and they say he did cover art for Night Chills, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?23919, but besides a Flickr page nobody else credits him online and there's no credit in the book or signature on the cover that I can see. Another 1975 Avon book, Harvest of Fear, does have a Wenske cover which is a variant of an older cover for something else, so either FantLab confused the 2 books or the Night Chills cover is another variant of some older cover. Anyone recognize it? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:41, 16 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== New Infinities ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=new+inf&type=Publisher; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5611320; One of the few from this publisher with no PV, I changed publisher to what it says in the book, this was discussed long ago but I think now would be a good time to decide on standard names, there are some books published just by New Infinities with BSM on cover (Berkley), who were just the distributor, while later ones have the Ace symbol on the cover and they're also mentioned on the copyright page. So, assuming all books say New Infinities Productions on title page and not just New Infinities, I think older ones should be New Infinities Productions (like the 3 Swycaffer books already are) and later ones should be New Infinities Productions / Ace. What do you think? EDIT: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5611351; Some of their books didn't even have the publisher on the title page. Also, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sea-Death-G-Gygax/dp/044175676X, which has some ID number on the upper left; British edition or something else? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) '''11:08 and 11:28''', 17 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: ''This section divided in two, by reference to [https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=ISFDB%3ACommunity_Portal&type=revision&diff=658024&oldid=658022 Differences between revisions 11:28 and 11:33] (personally unfamiliar with these coverart archives). --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 14:08, 18 March 2023 (EDT)''<br />
=== SFE-hosted images at /nicholls/ ===<br />
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5611356; Is it possible to get "nicholls" images supported at SFE? Peter Nicholls passed away a few years ago. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) '''11:33''', 17 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: It's my understanding that the reason that SFE-hosted images are stored in different subdirectories like "nicholls" is that they were donated to SFE with different stipulations and caveats attached. Some of the stipulations may persist after the death of the person after whom the subdirectory was originally named. Last time I checked with the SF administrator, which was just a month or two ago, "nicholls"-hosted images were still off-limits. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 15:21, 18 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Link for uploading author picture ==<br />
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Publications have a handy link that allows uploading of a new cover image. Can we have one of those for people, too, and have it preload the fair use author image template? ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:33, 17 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: I can't think of a reason not to add one. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 08:41, 18 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::Can we make it an official feature request? ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 17:24, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::: Done -- {{FR|1563}}. Sorry, I forgot all about this conversation :-( [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 22:28, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
::::Thanks! There've been a lot of things going on, so no worries. I forgot about it, too, until I saw this section when scrolling through looking for something else. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 15:16, 6 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Contents Question ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5613311; Should those 2 collection titles in the contents be removed after approval? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:18, 18 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
: No, they belong. Pipes will be needed to ensure they remain in the proper positions. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 12:24, 18 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
::Oops. Sorry, pipes. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:41, 18 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Chapbook: Non-genre, juvenile, etc ==<br />
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Replying to my userspace inquiry last fortnight, Rtrace observed that the Non-Genre flag for CHAPBOOK title records has an important function governing layout. All chapbooks flagged "Non-Genre" are listed below the line at the bottom of an author's Summary Bibliography. Juvenile, Novelization, and Graphic Format probably have no such function.<br />
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There is a cleanup report "CHAPBOOK/SHORTFICTION Juvenile Flag Mismatches", maintained at length near zero; by inference I have flagged a few chapbooks Juvenile, and probably missed a few. This feels like a good time to ask about all four flags {Non-Genre, Juvenile, Novelization, Graphic Format}. Should all four be aligned for chapbook and its shortfiction content? And, anyway, does the guideline do what we think it should?<br />
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Advanced Title Search shows that we do not currently set chapbook length. We have more than 100 chapbooks, but less than 200, for each of Non-Genre, Novelization, Graphic. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 15:30, 18 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
: The numbers are not unexpected-- non-genre and graphic chapbooks will be here ONLY if they are from above threshold authors and even for them, we don't really go out of our way to find and add them. Same applies for noveliazations - most are either novels or not published on their own - most of the ones we have as chapbooks are the current "juvenile" ones of various movies.<br />
: I tend to align them completely when I am adding them - a new (and sometimes not so new) user of the system don't necessarily understand that they need to scroll down to the short stories section OR click on the short story in the search results so not setting these on the chapbook is counterproductive. So having both entries carry the flags makes it easier for a user to find what they are looking for. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 11:48, 20 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:: As I recall, we had this discussion on the Rules and Standards page a few years ago. The consensus seemed to be that our "chapbooks" are basically single-story collections, so the same rules should be applied. Since we would flag a collection as "juvenile", "novelization", etc as appropriate, we should do the same to chapbook titles. We also discussed creating additional cleanup reports to reconcile the flags between chapbook containers and their short fiction titles.<br />
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:: Re: "Advanced Title Search shows that we do not currently set chapbook length", that is because the ISFDB software won't let you specify a "length" value for anything other than SHORTFICTION titles. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:18, 20 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Grant Allen, Backslider ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=backslider&type=All+Titles; I just imported 15 stories into 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, one of those reprint Barnes & Noble anthologies, and while doing that noticed something else. The uncredited "Backslider" (issue's on Google Books) and the story by Grant Allen are the same story! So what's the procedure, which I'm never clear about: Make the uncredited a variant of Allen and make both the same date? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 21:13, 18 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Yes, variant the uncredited version to the Allen version and give the parent the date of first printing. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:49, 19 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Davies Reborn ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3342; I did a bunch of edits for books in F. Paul Wilson's Adversary Cycle, and while Reprisal and Nightworld used the same art for HC and PB Brit editions the first book's Brit HC used the same art as the American Jove PB which was published first according to ISFDB, but that doesn't make sense because Davies was a Brit illustrator (and nobody's credited in the Jove, anyway), so I suspect Brit HC was published first, in case anyone can figure this out. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:07, 20 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== An Account Above Burnside Park ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=burnside+park&type=All+Titles; Someone entered Farah as Farrah incorrectly, as a check of the TP on Amazon reveals it's Farah, but a search of the title on ISFDB also reveals that the author published the story originally under another name in a magazine she edits. So if anyone wants to decide what to do with all this. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:24, 20 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Bookscans HTTP, HTTPS ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5614823; I thought the recently uploaded Archive.org copy would just be the original of the fully-readable one uploaded some time ago but no, it's 2 distinct copies, so I added a link and while doing so noticed the cover image had the old "Fatcow" URL which Bookscans used to use, of which there are 8 still on ISFDB (7 when my edit is approved), and also the fact that the old URL is https while the new one is http but new cover shows just fine unlike, say, Galactic Central where all their http images are broken. What's the difference? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:12, 20 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: Unlike Galactic Central, Bookscans has a valid HTTPS certificate. This is why you can connect to https://bookscans.com/Database.htm, but if you try to connect to https://www.philsp.com/ your browser will display an error like "Secure Connection Failed".<br />
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: That said, once a Web site has a valid HTTPS certificate, it still needs to be configured to support HTTPS. Ideally, it will transparently redirect HTTP URLs to their matching HTTPS counterparts the way we do. Bookscans' HTTPS configuration appears to be incomplete, but I don't know what's going on behind the scenes. Sometimes a Web site's data is spread across multiple computers and/or multiple domains, which makes it harder to get everything to work transparently. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:06, 20 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== LAF ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?139537; The first one has a couple of active PV so I'm going to ask about this; I recently added cover artist in a pending edit to Without Warning by Fern Michaels, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?139537, with the same initials on the cover. So the King monkey art was also done by Lisa Falkenstern. EDIT: A copy of Fantasy Annual III was just uploaded and while adding a link in an edit I noticed she did the cover for that, too, but signed it L. Falkenstern. Also, #5 has no art credit so I wonder if she did that, too. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:25, 20 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Star SF Stories #3 ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?32089; 6 PV, 5 active, none noticed the cover is wrong and is actually from a later edition, any objection if I replace it with the right cover, 96, here, http://bookscans.com/Publishers/ballantine/ballantine02.htm? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:47, 20 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
: Talk to the 5 active PVs. If you submit a replacement, it will be held until you talk to them or it will be rejected with an advice to talk to them. If you want, point them to this topic but don't expect people to monitor CP about their verified books. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 13:49, 20 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
::You can talk to them individually if you want. I don't plan on fixing anything until at least 1 of them responds; if it was 2 I probably would do it on their boards but not for 5. Most don't respond to anything or have the same answer about going to hospital/coming out of hospital, I can't check because I'm about to move/just finished moving, or some variant of "how dare you imply that I did something wrong". So if 1 or more of them see it here, the board most people check, great, if not, who cares, the book's been here for years and years and nobody besides me noticed the very obvious fact that the cover isn't for this edition because it has a totally different price and ID, most are too busy working on ephemeral e-books and don't care about the old print books anymore (besides me and a few others) judging by how much info here is wrong that I've had to fix over the last 2+ years. Try responding to one of my many questions on these boards with something useful that I can use to fix or add info with instead of coming out of the woodwork once in a blue moon so you can complain about something trivial. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 15:07, 20 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
::: It would have taken you less time to post to the PVs pages and point them here than to write this. But everyone chooses how to spend their own time on the project. <br />
::: You asked about objections, I posted an objection, explaining clearly that such a change cannot be approved and a recommendation on how that objection can be overcome so a submission can be approved. It may not be useful to you because it does not agree with your thinking but it is how the project works. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 15:18, 20 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::: I'm not here often, but I try to respond to whatever's on my page. I did not notice the cover was off when verifying, but can upload a fresh scan of my edition now when it's been pointed out. --[[User:Spacecow|Spacecow]] ([[User talk:Spacecow|talk]]) 05:33, 22 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::: Done. Waiting for approval. --[[User:Spacecow|Spacecow]] ([[User talk:Spacecow|talk]]) 05:55, 22 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::::Approved. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 10:31, 22 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Song of the Earth ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5617672; It's Royo as cover artist in both, Luis is wrong, in case anyone wants to fix that. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 14:24, 23 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== McBride Cover Artists Of Thorne Smith ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?709359; [https://www.pbagalleries.com/images/lot/1139/113941_0.jpg]; SFE just upped cover of 1926 edition of Topper, I added artist C. V. Farrow, this is the other McBride Thorne Smith book, signature in the grass on right corner that looks like F. Rogers, can't nail it down anywhere, someone here may know who it is. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 15:17, 23 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Tomato Cain ==<br />
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I was just about to sign off for the night when I saw a new edition of Nigel Kneale's collection Tomato Cain on SFE, https://sf-encyclopedia.com/gallery.php?filter=link:kneale_nigel&slide=6, but OL only has this, https://openlibrary.org/books/OL38018073M/Tomato_Cain_and_Other_Stories_Hb, by Gratis Kneale (?!?) Was this ever published? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 22:08, 23 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Marcy/Dean ==<br />
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https://hellnotes.com/interview-with-dean-italiano-author-of-the-starving-queen/; I've been adding lots of author photos and other stuff from the old Cosmos Books site and this one is a bit tricky, because he used to be she, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?34089. Whatever the rules are for that here; I vaguely recall some discussion about this months ago. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:44, 24 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Self-Moderation Request - Welo==<br />
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Hello,<br />
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i'm asking for self-moderation privileges.<br />
Actually i wouldn't need it, i'm usually happy with the mods work and timing. <br />
But edits often need a follow up (cover, variants, merges etc.) and lately approvals take some time and that's hard to track for an editor.<br />
As my edits are mostly fairly basic, self-mod privileges would be very helpful.<br />
Werner [[User:Welo|Welo]] ([[User talk:Welo|talk]]) 11:05, 25 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Support work I've seen looks good[[User:Kraang|Kraang]] ([[User talk:Kraang|talk]]) 00:00, 2 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
::You have my vote--[[User:Wolfram.winkler|Wolfram.winkler]] ([[User talk:Wolfram.winkler|talk]]) 18:04, 4 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Peter Cartur/Roger Flint Young/Peter Grainger/Forrest J. Ackerman ==<br />
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I recently submitted this note to the entry on Peter Grainger:<br />
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"I don't know how properly to comment on this. Forrest J. Ackerman was "Peter Cartur's" (or Peter Grainger's) agent. That's why he gave permission. There is NO WAY that Ackerman could have written that story, and no reason to suppose he did. As for the copyright, at that time, the magazines that originally published the story often bought the copyright, and only paid the authors for reprints out of the goodness of their heart (or perhaps if the contract specified such a payment.) So Fantasy House (publishers of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction) held the copyright. Gordon van Gelder, now the owner/publisher of F&SF, states that the contract for the story "The Mist" was signed by Peter Granger (no "i".) I would wonder about the source for the spelling "Grainger", given that he apparently never published under his own name. Incidentally, in the Redd Boggs Science Fiction Newsletter for July 1950, Ackerman reports on some of the "up and coming" writers he is representing, mentioning Roger Flint Young separately from Peter Cartur. However, that doesn't mean much, as he also mentioned both Kris Neville and "Henderson Starke" as new writers in his fold, and there is no question that "Starke" was a pseudonym for Neville."<br />
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My objection was to the existing note on the author Peter Grainger, who is not credited with any stories under his own name, but with stories as by Peter Cartur, Roger Flint Young, and Max Dancey. This note reads:<br />
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"Pseudonym sources: Roger Robinson (his source: McGhan), Contento/Locus.<br />
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Note that ISFDB lists Peter Cartur as a pseudonym for Peter Grainger. However, the copyright/acknowledgments for Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales includes:<br />
Peter Cartur The Mist. Copyright 1952 by Fantasy House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Forrest J. Ackerman.<br />
Usually something like this would indicate that Peter Cartur is a pseudonym as copyrights need to be filed under the author's real name. It's not known if Forrest J. Ackerman bought the rights to this story or if Peter Cartur is one of Forrest J. Ackerman's pseudonyms."<br />
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My "edit" -- not really an edit but a comment on the note, though I probably should have suggested an edit -- objects to the (pardon me, but I must say, preposterous) suggestion that perhaps Forrest J. Ackerman wrote the "Peter Cartur" stories. The rational given -- that Ackerman gave "permission" to reprint the story, so therefore he must have been the real author, is ludicrous. The copyright was actually held by "Fantasy House" (which is to say, the publishers of F&SF) -- a common practice in that era. Ackerman was the agent. The Redd Boggs Science Fiction Newsletter citation I made supports this claim. Also this long list of Ackerman's clients, which includes Cartur, Young, and Dancey: https://archive.org/details/internationalsci00coli/page/190/mode/2up?q=%22roger+flint+young%22&view=theater<br />
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The statement that "copyrights need to be filed under the author's real name" may be true NOW (I don't know) but it was manifestly not true in 1952, when the copyright was held by "Fantasy House". <br />
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What I think should be done is to cut the note off after the credit to Roger Robinson's pseudonym list. The whole thing about Ackerman is meaningless -- he was the agent, so authorize to give permission for the reprint.<br />
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Also, the credit to "Grainger" is in question, though I don't know how to resolve it, as Gordon van Gelder, in correspondence, tells me the original contract for F&SF publication was signed by "Peter Granger". There is a British author, much later, named "Peter Grainger". Could he be the source of the confusion? - {{unsigned|Hortonwho13}}<br />
: Yes, the later author is possibly the source of the confusion - we use differentiation and they need to be done manually when needed - and some of them may be missed occasionally. Let me look through these pages later today and see what I can untangle. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 12:57, 2 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Dawn Burdett vs. D. M. Burdett ==<br />
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I think that [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?297694 Dawn Burdett] and [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?297701 D. M. Burdett] are the same person as mentioned on [https://www.blackharepress.com/d-m-burdett/ this site]. What does anyone think? [[User:MLB|MLB]] ([[User talk:MLB|talk]]) 00:18, 27 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Possibly, but the publisher page you linked doesn't mention anything about her doing art. Since all of them under "Dawn Burdett" are cover art, and because the author bio doesn't mention doing cover art (or any art), there's not enough evidence to suggest they are indeed the same person, at least to me. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:50, 27 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
::Fine, but it does mention D. M. Burdett's first name is Dawn. But, until further evidence turns up, I guess I'll leave the matter alone. [[User:MLB|MLB]] ([[User talk:MLB|talk]]) 00:51, 29 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== J. E. Thomas ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?15278; "Doom in the Room" actually by famed author Jeffrey (Edwin) Thomas, very early story so maybe he used that name at the start of his career, but that other story in the Valancourt anthology is likely by some old-time author. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:15, 27 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Post Mortem Print Vs. E ==<br />
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https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Community_Portal/Archive/Archive50#Post_Mortem; An old message of mine finally becomes relevant as this, https://archive.org/search?query=9780615452623&sort=-addeddate, was just uploaded. Editor has a middle initial, 1 story title is different, dates are obviously wrong, etc. Amazon links to reprint e-book are dead, so if anyone can find a preview copy of it we can compare it to the original print edition and fix a bunch of stuff. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:14, 28 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Bauman CaCE Cover ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?916930; FantLab shows Bauman did Dark Harvest cover, she signed it on lower right, copyright page of Tor credits her, too, she also signed it on lower right, but covers are totally different, art should probably be unmerged and made 2 distinct credits, she signed it differently between editions, Dark Harvest is name on left, date over copyright on right, Tor is name over date on left, copyright on right. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 22:35, 28 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Dillon LANBSM ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?527617; I just added a link to the PB and noticed those covers are different. Why are both under the same cover art record? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:04, 29 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Terratoo ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=terratoo&type=All+Titles; Hard to say what should be done with these, title pages would need to be seen to determine correct author names, if anyone can find out then maybe a merge or variant will be in order. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:43, 29 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Star Short Novels Covers ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?35073; I added an OL-only non-preview link to the '54 PB and fixed the month in all dates to 10 in a pending edit, but I think the HC credit for Powers is wrong; art on PB is in his usual trippy style, art on HC is just random lines. I think PV of HC or someone else just trusted the info they got, as mentioned in their note. I think Powers credit should be removed from HC. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 17:37, 29 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Post-submission pages for Edit Publication submissions updated ==<br />
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All "Modified Content" tables displayed on EditPub post-submission pages have been updated. Table cells which used to say "Current" now display a link to the Title ID about to be modified. Multiple yellow warnings are now displayed correctly and include the names of new/alternate name/disambiguated authors.<br />
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This pretty much completes the cleanup of post-submission pages. As always, if you come across errors or anything unexpected, please let me know. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:30, 30 March 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: The software has been tweaked to display a yellow warning if a non-existing series, publication series or publisher matches a disambiguated record of the same type. For example, this yellow warning will be displayed if a submission uses "The Rules" in the "Series" field because we already have [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?62626 The Rules (F. T. Lukens)] and [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?55408 The Rules (Aaron Oster)] on file. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 12:26, 2 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Several Problems ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5590099; I was going to cancel this since nobody came to an agreement about what the publisher should be but when I looked at it I realized the note makes no sense because it describes a 1977 date for this 1983 book, also edit history's 2014 entry is offset from the rest so there seems to be a problem there, too. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:36, 1 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Resurrected Holmes ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?33870; I made some edits, still pending, adding March to the title date, correcting the title to "The Resurrected Holmes" since whoever entered info here went by the cover title and not the title page plus I imported the "Giant Rat" story in the HC into the TP. The contents are on OL and there's an Archive.org copy of the TP; if anyone knows which of the contents are genre or were written by authors above-the-threshold they may want to flesh the records out, but be aware that 1 story, R. Lupoff's "The Adventure of the Boulevard Assassin", was reprinted in his collection Claremont Tales II as "The Adventures of the Boulevard Assassin" so a variant will be needed; unlike the few other non-genre stories in that collection nobody entered a note saying where it originally came from even though it says so on the copyright page. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 16:25, 1 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Introduction Title Question ==<br />
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An editor submitted [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5626362 this edit] changing the titles of the two introductions in {{P|602865|this publication}}. For each introduction, there is the word Introduction in a large font over an author credit (e.g. "by China Miéville") in a significantly smaller font. Each essay is also signed with the author's name at the end of the text. I had originally considered the byline to be a simple author credit and thus titled each essay simply "Introduction (The Left Hand of Darkness)". However, the signature at the end gives me pause. I think I still agree with my original title, but I see how it could be interpreted differently. Also if we include the byline as part of the title, should we still disambiguate. What do other folks think? --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 08:00, 2 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
: I consider the byline to be just an author credit as well. We already have the author in the author field, adding “by author” to the title feels like an overkill. If we decide to keep it in the title, it still needs disambiguation IMO - it is as generic as Introduction on the author’s page after all. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 12:37, 2 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
::If I may explain how I arrived at the proposed titles. Usually there is only one novel introduction and where that is the case, it is simply titled "Introduction" and may or may not be signed. Here, we have two introductions (the Miéville one being added for this Masterworks II edition). To make it clear to readers whose introduction each is, the publishers have extended the title to include the author's name (probably for the first time) and, for our purposes, have created a variant title. In the notes I have tried to make it clear that the title is as it appears above the work (as the titling rules require) and not just a whim on my part. That we also have the author in the author field I consider as just a system function. I added the disambiguation for the purposes of the author's page, as noted above. Hope that helps. Kev. --[[User:BanjoKev|BanjoKev]] ([[User talk:BanjoKev|talk]]) 15:16, 2 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
::: I still do not think we should add it as part of the title - we never add the author name to the title unless it is incorporated cleanly and a byline is not an incorporation for me. I understand how you came up with the titles but I just do not think that we should be doing that. Two introductions or an introduction and a foreword are essentially the same thing from our perspective - but you are proposing we handle one of these differently from the other because they happen to both be called introductions. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 13:55, 3 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
::::I agree with Annie. It's not part of the title. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 16:38, 3 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::::Thanks for those answers, but I'm left unclear as to what you mean by "unless it is incorporated cleanly and a byline is not an incorporation". I think I get the meaning but can you expand on that a little. Does it follow that if the author's name appears above the essay it should always be treated as a byline and therefore ignored? Thanks, Kev. --[[User:BanjoKev|BanjoKev]] ([[User talk:BanjoKev|talk]]) 22:23, 3 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::::: Unless it is part of the title organically, the author name does not get added to the title regardless of where it is on the page - below, above, in between the two lines of a title, led or not led by “by”. Otherwise as most title pages out there have the author name, one can take your argument to the extreme and make a case that we always add the author name to the title of stories, books, essays and so on because it is on the page after all; your case is not different from that really even if you are restricting it to a limited usecase in your mind - there is no reason to mad an exception here. So “Isaac Asimov Presents” keeps the name as part of the title because it cannot be separated. Or “Neil Gaiman Talks About Things”. Similarly to how we do not keep a series title inside of a title for example. We are not ignoring it - we just have a different place for it in our record so we use that. Just like we do with series names. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 00:26, 4 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::::::Thanks for taking the time to explain that clearly. As I couldn't find anything in the help pages, it's been nagging at me :) Kev. --[[User:BanjoKev|BanjoKev]] ([[User talk:BanjoKev|talk]]) 19:46, 4 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== F. Cantor ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26927; People here have been working on Silverberg's anthology Mirror of Infinity, cover artist Fred(erick) Cantor only has credits for that and The Exorcist, cover image of which has been used countless times on later editions, but he also has 1 interior credit for a cover of John Farris novel All Heads Turn... but there's no cover credit on any edition on ISFDB. So which cover did he do? Also, there's 1 credit here for Frederik Cantor for a reprint edition of Exorcist that he didn't do the cover for, it being just an image from the film, so that is something to look into, too. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:04, 2 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Conan ==<br />
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https://archive.org/details/conan00howa; https://archive.org/details/conan0000unse; One very old Archive.org upload, one fairly new, I'm not sure about the Ace edition because there's no updated date on the copyright page, whether it's the '77 or '79 (with illustrations) edition, neither is PV so if anyone wants to do something with them, also that British edition's notes are unclear, long-gone PV says reprinted 1977 but wrote reprint line from copyright page below that so I don't know if they had an edition that actually said 1977 because the Archive.org copy doesn't, I don't know the history of these endless Conan reprints at all but I know others here do so they may want to do something with this, too. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:38, 2 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Brian Williams ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?8790; I just made an edit adding link to copy of Vampirium, one of those Lone Wolf game books, and the cover artist, Brian Williams, was also the interior artist but that wasn't entered so I did it. Now the problem is he died in 2010 but there are multiple entries on ISFDB after that date; I believe this guy, https://fantlab.ru/autor13980, wrote those series novels while the deceased was the artist, but the problem with that is the last 3 interior art credits are for books written by the novelist, implying that he illustrated some of his own books. Then there's the question of which Williams wrote the 2 70's letters and the 5 short stories spanning early 80's to 2013. Who knows which one did those 3 computer magazine stories but "Tie Your Own Rope" was done for a White Wolf anthology, a well-known gaming company, so maybe the artist wrote a story now and then, but then the last story was written for a disturbing sex anthology that I remember writing about on these boards once before, and I can't picture either one of these Williams writing a story for that, especially since the artist died a few years before it was published, so that's possibly a third Williams. There's also the fact that while the first 4 cover credits are gaming-related as is Vampirium, 2 others are for gay-themed anthologies and the last is for an obscure American horror magazine. Note also another Brian Williams, a comic artist, is on ISFDB being interviewed (possibly the same guy as the above artist except the interview is dated more than 6 months after he died; different guy or long lag time before publication?) and there's another Williams who wrote a dragon fantasy novel in 2018 from a UK self-publisher so not likely to be by the above novelist whose books are from major publishers. So untangling is needed if anyone is interested. EDIT: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5627339; This one was missing both cover artist and interior artist so whenever the artist is separated into his own record I have a feeling there'll be a lot more books than the 2 I edited that are missing his credits here. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 21:29, 2 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Lost story, no title, no author, only rough memories of the plot ==<br />
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This is set WAY WAY WAY far in the future. The location of Earth has been lost in time. Horses and dogs are coequals with humans in society. A horse approaches a young and wealthy woman and offers her something amazing if she'll help him find and restore old Earth. To cut it short, he lets her have a horseback ride. She falls in love with it, and becomes INSANELY wealthy, sends out scout ships, finds Earth, terraforms it, and hands it over to the non-human members of society. The horse gives her another ride and they all live happily ever after.<br />
Sorry to not be more eloquent. I just finished a 12 hour shift at the ambulance company's dispatch center where I work.<br />
Thank you very very much.<br />
Sak1776 <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:Sak1776|Sak1776]] ([[User talk:Sak1776|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sak1776|contribs]]) .</small> 20:39, 2 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:If no one can answer your question here, we have a few other sites that can help listed at [[ISFDB:FAQ#I need help finding a book]]. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 3 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I checked around with a few people and they suggested it was "[https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?63400 Dreams Done Green]" by Alan Dean Foster. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 16:25, 3 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
::Yes this is definitely "Dream Done Dream" by Foster.[[User:Zybahn|Zybahn]] ([[User talk:Zybahn|talk]]) 23:14, 3 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Nordon ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=leisure+b&type=Publisher; Many of the books on ISFDB as by Leisure Books are actually by Leisure Books / Dorchester Publishing so when I come across them I fix them, but for some reason 5 books on ISFDB are under the Nordon name. The problem with that is all the early Leisure books before they hooked up with Dorchester in the mid-80's say published by Nordon on the copyright page (93 of them were found by doing a text search on Archive.org); the Dorchester name is used here to differ the later books from the earlier ones so there's no need to do that for the early books. Would there be any objection to me changing those 5 to just Leisure Books so they merge with all the hundreds of other books by that publisher here? Only 1 of the Nordon books is PV (by MLB). --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:30, 4 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Wasteworld ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?19205; 4th one's a chapbook but 1st one has same page count so shouldn't it be so, too? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:11, 4 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Expired Link ==<br />
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[https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?34362 This publication] has a note regarding the cover art followed by a link. The flickr page being directed to no longer exists--in such a case can I simply remove the note or is it customary to notify a PVer? I do not know which one had left the note. Thanks. [[User:Zybahn|Zybahn]] ([[User talk:Zybahn|talk]]) 22:18, 4 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:It's Mavmaramis's link - I've notified him. Kev. --[[User:BanjoKev|BanjoKev]] ([[User talk:BanjoKev|talk]]) 23:22, 4 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:: Before deleting a link, see if you can find if archived in the web archive. If not, then all we can do is to delete it. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 11:07, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::https://www.flickr.com/photos/markfullerdillon/52607643318; Is that what you're looking for? Also, if you replace old link can you also correct the 2 misspelled words in the note? I've done so for many of this editor's notes. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:11, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::: Thanks to all. I've made the corrections & submitted. [[User:Zybahn|Zybahn]] ([[User talk:Zybahn|talk]]) 21:55, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Throat Sprockets ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?8169; A copy of the rare American edition was just uploaded so I added a link and a bunch of other stuff, including correcting the month which was off by a couple of months, but the 2 even rarer British editions seem to have disappeared almost entirely, with no eBay copies I can see or any online scans of anything besides the cover. The one review I could find, https://criminolly.com/2021/10/27/throat-sprockets-review/, has a different page count than either edition and a month that neither have. So if anyone owns a copy or can actually do better than me and find online info it would help. Poor Mr. Lucas lost his wife recently so it would be nice to flesh out and correct his info here. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:02, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Leviathan Awakes (excerpt) (sic) by James S. A. Correy (sic) ==<br />
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I stumbled across [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2231009 this] by chance the other day, with both [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1272911 the title] and [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?155601 author name] incorrect. It's strikes me that 2 errors is perhaps more likely to be down to data entry here than mistakes by the publisher, but it's from [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?345034 a 2011 pub] transient verified by an editor who has not been active for several years. Any thoughts on whether the appropriate varianting and note-adding is the best course of action, or instead to correct the title and editor fields?<br />
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FWIW, some cursory Googling threw up [https://isulibrary.isunet.edu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=8781 a library entry] that indicates the correct title and author name was used. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 09:15, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25033756M/Degrees_of_freedom; One of those OL-only non-preview things; search inside says Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:16, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:: Thanks, I have now updated title and author name, and made a parent title for the real authors Franck and Abraham. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 18:26, 12 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== E. Borgese ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5623541; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=borgese&type=Name; Will my rejected edit be un-rejected if my fixing of her name in the original Brit edition is made a variant or variant is deleted or whatever it is that needs to be done? I'm confused. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:15, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:That won't fix the issue. The problem is that the add publication submission was made to add a publication to the title by Elizabeth (with a moderator note that you were adding it with the incorrect name). Your subsequent submission updated both the existing title and publication records to Elisabeth. I was not aware of your second submission until after I rejected the first, but it wouldn't have mattered. Changing the source record does not update any pending submissions (e.g. your rejected edit). Had you done these two submissions in the opposite order, and waiting until the name change was approved before submitting the add publication, you would have been fine. The other way you could have done it, was to submit your first edit as a new publication. Then, when both were approved, you could merge the title records. At this point you can submit a new Add Publication from the updated title record (Elisabeth). By the way, there is a second step that is still required for your change of the existing title record from Elizabeth to Elisabeth. Since you changed it to a variant name, you need to make the altered record into a variant of the canonical name. Hope this helps. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 13:56, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
::But her real first name is spelled with an S, so that should be the parent name. There's nothing on ISFDB that was published as by "Elizabeth Mann Borgese". --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 14:23, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::Well, we currently have 11 title records that have been published as by [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?13609 Elizabeth Mann Borgese]. We have no concept of "real name", we only reflect how things have been published. The canonical name is the name by which the author is best known in the field. You'll note that her legal name, as Elisabeth, is reflected in the legal name field. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:57, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
::::They weren't really published as by Elizabeth in her collection, whoever entered the original Brit edition here (Chris J? He's first in edit history) incorrectly wrote her name that way and thus she's credited that way. Her American edition also says Elisabeth so it's not like they changed the spelling due to some British/American differences, it's just wrong. So her name needs to be changed to Elisabeth for all those stories and then when everything says Elisabeth my edit adding the American edition can be un-rejected, re-added, whatever. I just saw a full wraparound cover online so that'll be something extra to upload that wasn't in my rejected edit. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 15:10, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::::There are two issues that you are talking about. First, you submitted an edit to add a new publication, but you submitted incorrectly. I don't think your edit could be unrejcted even if all instances of "Elizabeth Mann Borgese" were changed to "Elisabeth Mann Borgese" (i.e. the two authors are merged). Even that is impossible because there are publications where the author is credited as "Elizabeth Mann Borgese" (e.g. [https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v017n01_1959-07_PDF/page/n67/mode/2up here]). Regardless, there is nothing that can be done to change the author's name in your rejected edit that you submitted as Elizabeth. Even if "Elizabeth Mann Borgese" was deleted from the database, your edit would re-add the name as a new author were it approved. I've mentioned above the best way to proceed. I noticed that you did not include the content in your rejected edit. The content from the other record cannot currently be imported because the title records have the incorrect name. There are two ways to bring these records into shape.<br />
:::::# You could edit the existing collection and change the author credit for those stories that appear only in that collection. You would also need to remove any stories that are published elsewhere from the collection, then re-add them with the correct credit. There is a further step in that variants need to be made, but I'll discuss that below when covering the second overall issue.<br />
:::::# Alternatively, you could manually add all the stories, with the correct credit, when you re-add the George Braziller publication. You could then remove all the stories from the MacGibbon & Kee publication and import the ones with the correct author credit from the other pub. Again variants will need to be made to finish the process.<br />
:::::The second issue is what name needs to be canonical for this author. Absent evidence to the contrary, I would assume that all other publications are correctly credited. That leaves us with 6 titles in 13 publications credited to Elizabeth. There are 10 titles appearing in 3 publications as Elisabeth. I'm not counting translations which are all variants anyway. You could argue that the canonical name be changed to Elisabeth, but I'd recommend proposing that in a separate thread. Also, would you be volunteering to do this work (it's many edits)? You would need to move all the author data from the current canonical record to the new one; Break all of the parent child author name relationships; Make all new alternate names variants of the new canonical name; Merge any titles with the new canonical name where the former parent name appeared in no publications, deleting the parent title relationship; Change the author credit of any titles with the former canonical name that appear in no publications to the new canonical name. Break any remaining parent child story relationships; Make any remaining titles by alternate name variants of the new canonical name. If you don't want change the canonical name and can't find someone else to do it, or the community decides to keep it as Elizabeth, you'll need to finish the above edits by making the new Elisabeth titles into variants of Elizabeth. Again, I hope this helps. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 19:09, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
::::::Dude, as I've mentioned somewhere on the message boards before, I was hit in the head a few times when I was a kid, many years ago, so I'm a little slow, and my mind has been rapidly deteriorating recently due to personal and external issues, which shows in the occasional misstep I've made here lately which is highly unusual for me, so I don't have a clue what it is you're asking me to do; you and others here seem to forget that I've said more than once that I'm a total amateur with no background in anything literary who just started doing this a few years ago to pass the time (which makes the fact that I have one of the largest number of non-moderator edits in the history of this site even more remarkable). I'm just about done doing this, anyway, for many reasons, and am mostly doing simple stuff these days, so I have a suggestion; you mentioned recently that you're still in contact with this Chris J, so maybe you can ask him if he's the one who entered the name wrong and, if so, why. If it was him, maybe you can convince him, now that I have brought the American edition to everyone's attention, to do whatever it is you said above. I notice that the Archive.org copy was uploaded in September, 2015 and his first entry in the edit history was November, 2015, so the correct spelling of her name was available at the time. If nobody wants to do any of this, it won't bother me. I've done hundreds of edits since this one and can barely remember it, anyway. I'm sure, though, that the ones here who like to variant every name and title difference would want to see it entered; people who've searched for her on this site over the years may have come away disappointed because her name has been wrong for so many years. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:48, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::::::I'm not going to contact another editor on your behalf. Chris J's talk page is [[User talk:Chris J|here]]. However, there is no point in contacting Chris. None of the edits in the history added the content to the record. Even if we could determine who added the records incorrectly, what would be the point of contacting that person? They could have been working from a secondary source that was incorrect, but in the end, it doesn't matter. You've discovered an error in a record and you've fixed only part of that error. That's good, but the job isn't finished. The bare minimum to fix this record is:<br />
:::::::# Go to the {{T|1931892|title record}} where you changed the name and use the Make This Title a Variant tool to make it a variant of the canonical name. Use Option 2 and enter the canonical name, "Elizabeth Mann Borgese" and click Create New Parent Title.<br />
:::::::# Go to the {{P|547020|publication record}} and use the Edit This Pub tool to edit the record. For each story where the edit fields are not disabled, change the author's name to "Elisabeth Mann Borgese". For all other stories, add "delete" to the page number, use the add title button to add a new row and copy the title of each story to the new title field, enter "Elisabeth Mann Borgese" as the author for the new author field. You can enter this edit at the same time as the one above.<br />
:::::::# After the above edit is approved, go back to the {{P|547020|publication record}} and use the Remove Titles From This Pub tool. Mark each title with delete in the page number.<br />
:::::::# For each title that does not have a parent title (you can find them all at {{A|Elisabeth Mann Borgese}} after the above edits are approved). You need to go to each title and use the Make This Title a Variant tool to link the title to the appropriate parent. At this point, the parent titles should exist. Find each matching title at {{A|Elizabeth Mann Borgese}}. Take note of the Title Record # at the top right of the screen. In the make variant screen, use Option 1 and enter the title number to link the titles.<br />
:::::::Making variants when an alternate name is used is not something that is optional or done only when people like to. It's a data integrity issue that needs to be resolved. As it stands, this record will show up on several cleanup reports until it is fixed. Also, there is no problem in searching by an alternate name. If set up correctly, each alternate name has a link to the canonical name, as does all 4 of Ms. Mann Borgese's alternate names. By the way, when you being one of these multi-step edits, it is generally a good idea to let the moderator know that you intend the next steps by adding it to the moderator note. I've tried to give you complete instructions, but if you have any questions when attempting this, please reach out either here or on the [[ISFDB:Help desk|Help desk]]. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:31, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Number Line ==<br />
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https://archive.org/details/nailedbyheart0000clar_p5s1; What printing is this? It's 3rd, isn't it? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 14:49, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
: Yes, the 3rd - the lowest number on the list gives you the current printing (with a special note for some number lines that contain a year as well as a printing number). That specific configuration of numbers is a pretty common one. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 19:48, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
::OK. I asked because of this, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5625372, where either I goofed or there was some hiccup when I entered it, so I made a new edit with the right cover, but the 2002 edition on Archive.org matches the ISFDB note which says "third printing" yet the mod who rejected this said 4th printing, which I had a feeling was wrong. I'll now add a link in that record. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:53, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== The Heaven Maker ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1518099; I recently added the 2014 TP and a link to the Archive.org copy which was recently uploaded; why page count is different between all 3 editions is unknown, someone entered them for the HC and they seem accurate, final essay starting on p. 249 and page count being 254, while TP is 20 pages longer but doesn't seem to have any extra material, but more importantly is while importing HC contents into TP and adding page numbers I now notice that the foreword, which is actually titled Forward in the book, is by Janis McKay, who is actually Janis Mackay per signature, an author with several credits on ISFDB, while the intro is actually by Herbertson. So if anyone can get a hold of the original HC edition and verify it's the same then those can be corrected. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 15:30, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Magnus Fin ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?30867; Print editions are all same price, one says TP, one PB, and one "unknown", in case anyone knows which they should all really be. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 15:33, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
: They are all the standard B format in UK (a few mm under 20 cm) - which is a tp in our DB. I've fixed the 2 that were added in error. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 19:51, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Tenth Time (A)round ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?74425; I randomly came across that Venture issue on Archive.org, a Brit magazine that apparently reprinted F&SF with added illustrations, if I'm understanding it correctly, and I immediately noticed a problem; McIntosh's story, which ISFDB claims is only "Tenth Time Round" in Venture, is the same in F&SF, too; it's not "Tenth Time Around". There are some active PV so I'm not touching it but this seems like a fairly big change so I thought I'd mention it. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:36, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I updated the title in {{P|61294|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1959}} based on the [https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v016n05_1959-05_PDF/page/n3/mode/2up Internet Archive scan] and notified the active verifiers. I will also expand {{P|351769|Venture Science Fiction, October 1964}} based on its Internet Archive scan. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 19:34, 6 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
::https://archive.org/search?query=%22venture+british+ed%22&sort=-addeddate; I think these are all the issues available, in case anything else needs fixing. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:54, 8 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::Thank you. Searching for Venture Science Fiction only returned the one hit and Venture too many. I appreciate you finding a good search term. I will add the links to the magazines and make updates as needed. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 11:08, 8 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Pranks ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?17626; I've been trying to fix publisher Leisure as many of their old books here as by Leisure Books were wrongly entered here with Dorchester in the publisher; with this book I have a vague memory of working on it last year, trying to get all the cover images to match price/ID entered here, and after adding an Archive.org link to the 3rd one I noticed the 1st one, entered by ChrisJ in 2014, is the same as the 3rd one (which I entered last year) except he used the original edition's 1983 date instead of the reprint's 8/89 date which is on the copyright page, so I think the 1st one can be deleted. The 2nd one has a broken image and a Not Found message when it's clicked; I see that I made an edit some time ago for that, too, but obviously if the image was broken back then it would have been noticed. So does anyone have any ideas about that? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 21:58, 5 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Plus qu'humains ==<br />
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https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19267614W/Les_plus_qu%27humains?edition=key%3A/books/OL26778119M; Full cover, which none of the images on ISFDB show, with a date that's earlier than other editions with that cover, so French-fluent editor may want to add it, re-date the cover art, etc. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:45, 6 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Robert Wise ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?4333; Cover of J. Rovin's UFO Movie Quiz Book says intro by Wise (who was a famous director) so I added that here and put (director) after his name to differ him from the Wise on ISFDB who wrote Christian novels; interview is also by the other Wise, https://www.ebay.com/itm/371173025862, as the seller mentions in his description. Now that it's an interview about films should it be deleted or should (director) be added to that, too? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:52, 7 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:My edit was finally approved; how about that interview? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:48, 20 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Ad Astra's analysis of our data ==<br />
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In "James Gunn's Ad Astra" #12 (the current issue), René Walling writes an essay on "Report: Books, Creators and Series, 1800-2018", in which he does a statistical analysis of books published in the genre during the specified period. He analyzes 168,012 genre books, of which 162,140 come from isfdb, and another 5,872 come from "The Locus Index to Science Fiction" and the "SFBooklist". He focuses his attention on (1) Number of books and creators; (2) Number of books published by an author; and (3) Number of series published. And, of course, how these numbers vary over time. If you're interested, the article is online at https://www.adastrasf.com/report-books-creators-and-series-1800-2018/. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] ([[User talk:Chavey|talk]]) 12:47, 7 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
: Of course there are lots of question about the data he generated, e.g. Did he count translations as different books? Did he use our non-genre flag? Did he correctly process our "variants" of a title? etc. Nevertheless, it may still be slightly interesting to some. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] ([[User talk:Chavey|talk]]) 12:55, 7 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:: Curious. Comparing [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/stats.cgi?8 Percent of Titles in Series by Year] generated by our weekly reports and the "ISFDB" column in [https://www.adastrasf.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Issue-12-Table_6.png Table 6: Percent of books in a series per year, 1891-2018], I see that the numbers are somewhat different. It makes sense since we count "novels" and "short fiction" separately while René Walling apparently consolidated everything that he considered "books":<br />
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::* Novels, chapbooks, collections, anthologies and nonfiction books related to the genres of fantasy, horror and science fiction, i.e. found in one of the above mentioned lists, were all included.<br />
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:: Moreover, our chapbook records do not have "series" information, which will inevitably affect the stats. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 14:03, 7 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Doubleday and The Crime Club ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=crime+club&type=Publisher; I did an edit for the Gores/Pronzini Tricks and Treats anthology and made Doubleday into Crime Club / Doubleday, but ISFDB has a jumble of different ways that people added the publisher, with the Crime Club / Doubleday one also having Doubleday Crime Club as a pub. series with many more books than the publisher has, some of which are from the Doran era which has its own separate entry here, Crime Club / Doubleday Doran, while I think none of the ones as by Doubleday / Crime Club make sense because Doubleday was the publisher. So if anyone wants to take a look at this some merging/standardization would probably help. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:28, 8 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
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Joshua Gage's speculative fiction poem, "Penrose process . . ." has been long listed for the 2022 Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems by The Haiku Foundation. <br />
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I would like to have this award added to those supported by the ISFDB software, as the award does recognize poetry in the speculative fiction genre.<br />
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The Haiku Foundation, as part of its mission to expand possibilities for English-language haiku, created the Touchstone Awards Series in 2010 for individual haiku and senryu (The Touchstone Award for Individual Poems) and books (The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award). In 2022, the Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun was added to recognize individual haibun.<br />
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All awards seek to reward excellence and innovation each calendar year. Results are determined through a year-long nomination and selection process and are released the following year on April 17, International Haiku Poetry Day. Award recipients are selected by independent panels comprised of authorities in the field.<br />
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https://thehaikufoundation.org/touchstone-poem-awards/<br />
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https://thehaikufoundation.org/2022-touchstone-awards-for-individual-poems-long-list/<br />
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Thank you. <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:SillyWilly|SillyWilly]] ([[User talk:SillyWilly|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/SillyWilly|contribs]]) .</small><br />
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: Thanks for bringing this award to other editors' attention. It appears to be legitimate and I see no reason not to create an Award Type record for it. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 09:10, 10 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Utopia Awards ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
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Several ISFDB titles have been nominated (or won) the inaugural 2022 Utopia Awards. Considering their website, it appears to be legitimate.<br />
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https://www.android-press.com/2022-utopia-award-nominees<br />
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Would it be possible to add it to the database?<br />
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Thanks. <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:Alittlebook|Alittlebook]] ([[User talk:Alittlebook|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Alittlebook|contribs]]) .</small> 09:52, 10 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I suggest waiting to see if they are awarded a second time. I can't find much about them outside of that one site. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 15:00, 10 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Richard Hill ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=richard+hil&type=Name; This falls under the category of "never assume anything". So I randomly found a copy of Squane's Journal #4 (1997) on eBay, a special Ramsey Campbell issue, and took the time to enter the extensive essays included, 1 of which was by a Richard Hill. Something seemed familiar about that name and, being fairly common, I checked to make sure there weren't others with that name here. It turns out that there's a Richard Hill from the USA who wrote a few SF stories in the early 70's, but he had 1 story that was dated many years after he died in 1999. Turns out that story belonged to Richard Hill (I), who wrote a few recent stories in horror publications. However, under this (I) was a 1980 anthology, Hot Air, which I entered in 2021, although I have very little recollection of doing so and apparently just did it so I could enter the original appearance of Ramsey Campbell's story "Out of Copyright" in this obscure British publication. Thinking I was clever, I added a (II) to the editor of Hot Air and also added it to the poem's author since that was written for an early 90's anthology, Now We Are Sick, edited by 2 Brits and so was almost certainly by the same Hill. However, after these edits were approved, I clicked on the Horror Zine bio under Hill (I) and discovered that, I think, the Hill who's written a few recent horror stories is the SAME GUY as the Brit Hill, since it mentions him being from Liverpool and he's obviously an older guy judging by his photo; there's also another bio I found, http://www.thehorrorzine.com/Fiction/June2012/Hill/RichardHill.html, which describes him as a widely published poet, and I notice that in the first bio there's a poem reproduced from who knows where; the title of it, Slick Jack Brady, is completely unknown to Google. So it seems a guy who edited an ultra-obscure mainstream Liverpool travelogue that's only remembered today because Campbell had a story in it decided after 30 years to suddenly write short stories in mostly American magazines (although his last story on ISFDB was in a Brit anthology). So I think I should change the 3 entries as (II) to (I) unless anyone can tell me that the recent Hill is a totally different guy who just happens to also come from Liverpool. Anyone? Hey, I just noticed something; 2 of the Hills have 1941 entered as their birth date. I assume the USA Hill was verified but I have a feeling the Brit Hill's date may be a mistake, although it's certainly possible that they both just had the same birth date. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:20, 13 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Snow Fury ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?258899; [https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BOcAAOSwwIxjMHRN/s-l1600.jpg]; Shouldn't the date be March? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:17, 14 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Yes. The verifier (who is no longer active) added the pub note stating March so I updated the pub date to match. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:36, 15 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Fekete ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=feket&type=Name; First name probably the same guy as Joe with Jr., Joe without Jr. wrote a story in 1965, could be the same guy or his dad. I noticed this when adding story links to stories in Gateway Magazine; most now have links although a few were dead or couldn't be found. Most of them are terrible, but that's besides the point. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 14:31, 14 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Russell Miller ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21117; I added a link to an edition of Bare-Faced Messiah; the short story is by some lawyer, https://www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com/?p=1111, bio at bottom. I don't see anywhere online that mentions Miller stories in those other publications mentioned, 2 of which are genre and 2 of which sound like mainstream magazines. Differing needed. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:56, 14 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:The two authors have been separated. I also updated the story with the link you provided. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 15 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== FK Young ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?165423; The poem and first 2 stories are by some old pulp writer; the new guy is the subject of a recent post on Wormwoodiana. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:52, 17 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:They've been separated. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 15:17, 20 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Rare Ligotti Story ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5641814; Ligotti.net, according to an article I read, existed in several incarnations and the early ones are lost, but someone got parts of it from somewhere so, while trying to get a link for "Teeth" by Matt Cardin (his first story), the link to which just defaults to the modern Ligotti site and a "not found" page, I saw there were other stories listed, including a few from the man himself. 2 sounded familiar but "Ghost Stories for the Dead" didn't, and it turns out it's never been collected. It was reprinted in Crypt of Cthulhu in '89 but it turns out it's from '82. The index on philsp.com is wrong; E. M. Cioran is not a pseudonym of Ligotti but a real poet, and this article, https://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=527&page=2, mentions his admiration and that he used a quote to introduce "Ghost Stories", which is probably why the index is confused. I mention all this in case anyone ever enters the missing issues of Grimoire here, only 1 and 4 currently, because as usual online info is not to be trusted. EDIT: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5641848; The feoamante.com site, still online but dead, gave me a link to the old Ligotti site, when they were using a totally different URL, www.longshadows.com, so I've replaced the archived link since this one says 1999 while the previous one said 2019 (although the earliest links are May and October 1999 but when you click on them they refuse to go to those archived pages and instead go to November; spooky). Also, I found Cardin's story "Notes of a Mad Copyist"; it's also on the 2019 archived site but while the old site shows it just fine the new one is completely black and the text needs highlighting to read it; sadly, "Teeth" is missing on the old site, too, and Cardin revised many of his stories for his collections, so it would be good to read the original; if anyone can find it on some other old site I don't know about that would be great. I also discovered that Ligotti's story "Allen and Adelaide" is on ISFDB twice, the 1981 original and the 1989 Crypt of Cthulhu reprint, the difference being & vs. and, so I've made them variants. One I'm not sure about is "Three Scientists", https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2702155, which actually contains the first 3 titles here, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?360640, with their 1985 dates being because, according to online info, they originated in Songs of a Dead Dreamer, problem being the earliest edition on ISFDB is 1986 and no edition contains any of them. I also notice the first title was in a 1986 poetry best-of, so 1985 is likely correct, except it's actually from 1982, so this is a problem. How to variant the 3 titles to the original umbrella title is the question I have. Also, anyone who can further clean up Ligotti's info would be appreciated. Just now I found his poem "Envoi" on some obscure site and added a link. EDIT: I see that Cardin has several stories which are in his record twice, with one being spelled differently (Theater vs. Theater), so variants likely needed there. I also found a link to his recent huge collection To Rouse Leviathan, https://archive.bookfrom.net/build_in_search/?q=matt+cardin, on a site which probably shouldn't be linked to in his record so I'll just leave it here in case anyone just wants to read the stories. EDIT: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2749745; 3 titles mentioned in note are also individual stories on ISFDB. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:33, 21 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Balefires ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?215571; 2009 PB on Archive.org, I added a link in a pending edit, I think 2008 PB is redundant and can be deleted. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:04, 21 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Duplicate deleted. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 19:16, 21 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Saxton Stories ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?124321; The variant for "Woe..." is correct, I checked, but "Heads Africa...", as confirmed from PV of Orbit edition where it first appeared, has no comma after Africa but it does in Saxton's collection; also, is it correct that "Gordon's Women" is dated '76, French date, but "Pollyanna Enzyme" is dated '86, collection date, and not '80, German date? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:04, 24 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Razar ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5644587; Bewildering Stories, which only has recent issues indexed here, has many stories in old issues that are here and while adding some links I saw a story, "Groomed", by Chris Bartholomew that jogged my memory. It's in this weird anthology but the problem is 2 of his stories were jumbled together so it's here as "Ante Up Groomed"; I also noticed some of his other stories don't have exactly the same titles as here. So if anyone can access the full issue a lot of fixes can be done, along with page numbers, etc. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 16:31, 24 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Novelization for Unfilmed Screenplay? ==<br />
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I'm holding [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5638720 this submission]. The [[Template:TitleFields:Novelization|help template]] specifies that the novelization flag is for "novelization of a movie, TV show, game or other '''non-written work'''" (emphasis mine). I may be splitting hairs here, but it strikes me that this work is an adaptation of a screenplay (a written work which would be eligible itself were it published), rather than a novelization. Do we want to include this sort of thing in the novelization flag? --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:39, 25 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:If a film using the screenplay had been made, wouldn't this be a typical novelization? To my simple mind, the act of filming the screenplay has no bearing on the nature of novel. It seems to me novelization should be adaptation-as-a-novel of any work produced for delivery via a non-"reading" medium. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 11:14, 25 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Perhaps a rewording to something like "novelization '''of the screenplay or script''' of a movie, TV show, game, or other non-written work" (emphasis added to show the new wording). ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:00, 25 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:: Don't replace the word '''movie'''. See [https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?197778 Luana] for a reason. The fact the movie was not filmed (or distributed or shown) seems irrelevant. I'm more in agreement with MartyD's approach, but why limit it to non-"reading"? A play has a script delivered via a non-"reading" medium - acting - so should novels produced from them should be novelizations? Play scripts have been published, though rarely. But do we allow for novelizations from short stories? or poems (Beowolf?)? ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] ([[User talk:Holmesd|talk]]) 16:30, 25 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::I didn't replace the word "movie" in my suggested rewording, so I'm not sure what you mean. Also, I wouldn't call ''Luana'' a novelization since he just made up a story based on the poster and watching a movie in a language he didn't understand. That's not novelizing. That's making it up wholesale, with a little inspiration from visuals. It's a completely different story. <br />
:::As for play novelizations, I'd consider those covered under the "or other non-written work" part. Expanding a short story into a novel is not so much novelization as it is making up entirely new scenarios and plots based on the short content of the original story. Same with a poem. For me, a novelization is an adaptation of a similarly-lengthy (so not short stories or poems) visual medium such as television, movies, games, plays, and the like. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 17:11, 25 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::If it helps, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelization Wikipedia] defines it as "a derivative novel that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, stage play, comic book or video game." ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 17:15, 25 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::: FWIW I tagged [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2885785 the Pat Cadigan adaptation of the William Gibson attempt at Alien 3], which seems to be a similar scenario to the edit in question here, as a novelization, and that edit was approved by Annie back in 2021 when I didn't have self mod privs. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 17:18, 25 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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(unindent) One of the challenges here is that -- in most cases -- we don't know how much the "novelizer" relied on the written script/plot outline that the media work was based on. Chances are that the author watched/played the media work in question at least once, but it's also likely that the author was familiar the script/plot outline. It's entirely possible that some novels/stories which we list as "novelizations" and which say "Based on [media work]!" on the cover were primarily based on script/plot outlines as opposed to on actual media works. (I say this in part because that's how some novelizations read.)<br />
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Because of this uncertainty I would be inclined to use the "novelization" flag and then add a note explaining the gory details. Even if we don't use the flag, we'll want to add notes.<br />
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After reviewing the linked Help template I am also thinking that we could profitably clarify the text in other ways, but that's a separate issue. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 20:25, 25 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
: I think the clarification should consider what ISFDB wants to consider 'novelization' to be, as opposed to relying on external definitions. Interestingly we have a Note saying that [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?20417 Peter Pan] is a novelization of a play, but the Novelization flag is not set. ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] ([[User talk:Holmesd|talk]]) 08:22, 26 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:: The flag is relatively new -- we used to use the contents field with specifically designed strings before and these were not set as often as the flags are now. I often find such obvious omissions... :) <br />
:: I think that if something claims to be a novelization, we put the flag up and add a note with all the details we know - until more evidence is found that makes that incorrect (then we change the note and explain why it is not a novelization). [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 11:25, 26 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::: This may be more of a Rules and Standards topic, but here are my thoughts:<br />
::::* A novelization must follow the same plot as the "media work" being novelized. If a work of written fiction is set in a media universe but has an original plot, it is not a novelization. This rule excludes original novels and stories set in media universes like Star Wars, Star Trek, Warcraft, etc.<br />
::::* A single work of written fiction which follows the plots of multiple TV episodes can be entered as a novelization if the plot is close enough to the original plots. Borderline cases are left to the editor's discretion provided the specific are explained in Notes.<br />
::::* If a script, a screenplay, a libretto or a plot outline (e.g. for a game) which was used to produce a "media work" is subsequently published in written form without alteration, it is ''not'' considered a novelization.<br />
::::* An expansion or amalgamation of pre-existing works of written fiction into another work of written fiction (e.g. fix-ups) is ''not'' considered a novelization.<br />
:::: [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:32, 26 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Portuguese Jedi ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?852871; I think this should be a variant of an English-language novel, right? Also, it's Kahn who wrote Star Wars novels, not Khan, so that might be wrong (and James Khan has a recent story in his record, so there may actually be a Khan totally unrelated to the Star Wars guy). This, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1394010, seems to have been done correctly. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:36, 26 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Varianted. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 15:17, 26 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== The Fire Worm ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?5223; I just added a link in a pending edit to the Grafton edition; it mentions "Jingling Geordie's Hole" on copyright page, a 1986 Interzone story that (I think) is used for one of the chapters and seems to be mentioned elsewhere in the novel. No edition on ISFDB mentions this fact, so should it be noted somewhere or should the story be imported? Also, and I have a vague memory of asking this before, but the e-reads edition says 1988, which is wrong because that company wasn't founded until 1999. It's 1 of 6 with a too-early date on ISFDB, none PV, so fixing shouldn't be a problem if anyone knows what dates they really should have. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 15:40, 27 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:It might be 1998-12-01, which would work okay. That's around the dawn of ebooks. Also, [https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31329187634&searchurl=an%3Dwatson%2Bian%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dfire%2Bworm&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title8 this listing] on Abebooks states the novel is based on the "Jingling Geordie's Hole" short story, so that's what the mention was likely referring to. The short was apparently expanded into the novel. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 16:10, 27 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I've changed the year based on the assumption 1988 is just a typo. I added a note about it, too. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 16:13, 27 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
::https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3691729W/The_Fire_Worm?edition=key%3A/books/OL8007597M#editions-list; 2002 e-book and 9/2004 PB, so there's probably several releases for each book by the company. Also, I think the complete short story is in the novel, copyright page says the story "first appeared" in Interzone. This, https://archive.org/stream/interzone-26/Interzone26_djvu.txt, says "constructed around" the "originally self-contained" story, so someone more familiar than I with Watson's work would need to see if the story is in the novel complete, spread among the chapters, etc. Likely importing the story would be incorrect but certainly a note could be added mentioning the novel's based around the story. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:41, 27 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== New SFWA "Infinity Award" category ==<br />
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https://file770.com/sfwas-inaugural-infinity-award-honoree-is-octavia-e-butler/<br />
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Looks to be the same sort of thing as the [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/award_category.cgi?412+0 Grand Master Award]. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 18:37, 27 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Cool. She's a great author. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 22:22, 27 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:: The official press release is [https://www.sfwa.org/2023/04/27/the-inaugural-infinity-award-honoree-octavia-e-butler/ here]. As near as I can tell, the first Infinity award will be presented at the 2023 "Annual Nebula Awards® Ceremony", but it will be separate from the Nebula award. Unlike the Bradbury award and the Norton award, the Infinity award is not mentioned on the [http://nebulas.sfwa.org/about-the-nebulas/nebula-rules/ Nebula Rules page]. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 00:48, 28 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
::: FWIW the Grand Master Award isn't listed on that rules page either. Looking at [https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2021/ their page for last year's awards], Grand Master, Solstice and Service to SFWA are all in a "Other Awards" list on the right, separate from the main "Nebula Awards" list.<br />
::: In passing, I note a couple of potential other issues that might need resolving:<br />
::: * Some of the category naming is inconsistent: the YA, dramatic and service awards have a person's name before them, but we don't have '''Damon Knight''' Grand Master Award or '''Kate Wilhelm''' Solstice Award. Looks like these were renamed after their inception - [SFE says] 2002 for Damon Knight and 2016 for Kate Wilhelm. I know from the likes of [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?27 Campbell / Astounding] and [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?43 Tiptree / Otherwise] that the main award records try to capture name changes, I dunno if there are official rules and standards at the category level<br />
::: * [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?31 The Nebula note] says ''"Note that the "Andre Norton Award" and the "Ray Bradbury Award" are awarded at the same time, although they aren't strictly Nebulas"'', but this is contradicted by the SFWA rules page which references "The Andre Norton Nebula Award" and "The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award", and that on the 2021 results page, they are listed alongside the other Nebulas, rather than the "Other Awards" sidebar. I have a vague recollection that they might have become "proper" Nebulas - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_Award Wikipedia] says this happened in 2019.<br />
::: Anyone with more insight or opinion on these? [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 07:04, 28 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:::: I think we discussed the SFWA Grand Master Award at some point after its name was changed to "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award". If memory serves, we considered renaming it to "Grand Master Award / Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award", but it felt awkward. Now that we have more experience with changing award names, I think expanding the award name would be a good idea.<br />
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:::: As to whether the Norton and Bradbury awards are technically Nebula categories, I have reviewed [https://daviddlevine.com/2019/04/i-am-now-officially-a-nebula-award-winner/ the 2019 blog post] that the Wikipedia article links to and I am still not sure I understand how it works. It would be best to find an official announcement before we start changing things.<br />
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:::: In the meantime, I have created a new [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?103 Award Type record], a new [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/award_category.cgi?1065+0 Award Category record] and a new [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/award_details.cgi?78337 Award record] for {{A|Octavia E. Butler}}. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 22:10, 29 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Clint Smith ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5648349; SFE says it's not the same guy as the later horror writer; https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/smith_clint. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:02, 28 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I sent a message to the SFE editors asking about that since their bio says to not confuse the Clint Smith they list with the one who did the Gholjaw collection, but they list the Ghouljaw collection in that same bio. In the meantime, I've added a [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?362778 Clint Smith (I)] entry until we know more. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:08, 28 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:: The SFE entry has been fixed and I have added notes to the ISFDB record. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 22:12, 29 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Carl (J.) Hoffman ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5648405; Here's a weird one. This rare book was uploaded recently so I made the above edit, checked afterwards for Carl J. Hoffman, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2144766, I think it's a mistake and should be this, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?945236. Mistake by editor here or Italian editor in the Horror Story anthology? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:09, 28 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Third Alternative #6 ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61651; I fixed a poem title ("Latest Things") and there's a story that's dated March here, there's 2 mentions in the zine of March, I propose all contents and issue itself be dated March. Yes or no? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:59, 28 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:I think if you could find a scan of #5 and it had an "In March" section on the TOC page (as this one has "In July"), you could use March and cite that as the source of the date. Unfortunately, there's no source cited for the March date on "The Bee Keepers", so we can't tell if there was something ascribing a March date to this issue and how authoritative that source might be. Otherwise, the standard treatment for issues with timing specified by season is to use just the year, so we're stuck. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 08:42, 30 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Dom and Va ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5648943; ISBN trouble. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:19, 28 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
:That's what shows on the copyright page as well as the LOC entry, so that's what we go with. I added a couple additional notes based on the Archive.org copy that's linked there. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:56, 28 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Flexi-Disc?!? ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5649045; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5649045; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5649045; Related to my mention here somewhere a while ago that magazines uploaded years ago on Archive.org aren't always complete, I took a look at these since there were only a few issues published. The first 2 had a few things fixed/added, but the 3rd is most interesting. According to front cover, contents, and intro something called a "flexi-disc" with music from The Bridge, an old Skipp & Spector horror novel that apparently was made into a film or something, was included in this issue. Now I'm certainly no youngster but I don't have a clue what that is; was it some pre-Internet music format or something? Was it like a CD? Anyway, the uploader, Sketch the Cow, who added a metric ton of old genre zines years ago, likely removed the disc but it seems to have screwed up the pages because there are several missing. Most alarming is the supposed JK Potter art for the Ray Bradbury poem, a little bit of which is on the contents page but nowhere to be seen in the zine itself. So I think the starting page entered here may be off for at least the poem, possibly others, too. Any chance someone owns a mint copy who's willing to unseal it and respond here? Also, there's always the possibility I missed a few other mistakes in these issues; there's also movie reviews and such that someone may think are worth entering, etc. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 23:38, 28 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
: Hi, Username!<br />
: Flexi disc is phonograph record made of thin, literally flexible :) piece of vinyl. <br />
: Those discs used as a means to include sound (speech or music) with printed magazines or sometimes books before CDs.<br />
: For an example, look at the popular Soviet literary and musical magazine [https://back-in-ussr.com/2021/02/sovetskiy-muzykalnyy-zhurnal-krugozor.html "Krugozor"] (the article is in Russian, but it should be clear from the photos). --[[User:Zlogorek|Zlogorek]] ([[User talk:Zlogorek|talk]]) 04:50, 29 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks. I see that I've never left a message on your page in all the years you've been here, so welcome. This Bridge flexi-disc thing is bugging me because there's literally almost no mention of it online that I can find except on discogs.com and a random comment on Goodreads where a guy named "Tom" says "At least I have a flexi-disc of one song from the soundtrack". Highly unusual when every minute detail of almost everything is mentioned somewhere. Skipp and Spector were once 2 of the most popular horror authors around so you'd think this item would be hot stuff but no, nothing. The important thing, though, is finding a complete issue of Iniquities #3 so we can see exactly how the contents are. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:53, 29 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Nina A. ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?328172; These are both by Nina Allan. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:23, 30 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: I have fixed the Strange Horizon review, as that can be clearly seen to be correctly attributed on the SH webpage.<br />
: The story is a bit more of a pain, because it's in a PVed pub, and there are some other related issues. I'll message the editor in question. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 11:21, 2 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Jewish Fiction Award ==<br />
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The [https://jewishlibraries.org/jewish-fiction-award/ Jewish Fiction Award] has been given by the Association of Jewish Libraries to works with significant Jewish themes each year since 2018 (first year they were awarded). It looks like these are the types of awards:<br />
*Winner<br />
*Honor Book<br />
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This is a general fiction award for novels or collections of short fiction by a single author, with genre works winning or receiving honors on occasion. It doesn't appear to be a poll (I can't find details on exactly how the winner is decided each year), there's no fee to enter, works published only as ebooks are not eligible, reprints of previously-published work are not eligible, and the full guidelines are [https://jewishlibraries.org/fiction-award-submission-guidelines/ here]. Should we add it? ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:45, 30 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: The organization behind the award has been [https://jewishlibraries.org/history/ around for generations] and they have given awards to SF works like [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2993594 ''Atomic Anna'']. Looks eligible to me. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 13:03, 30 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:: Hearing no objection, I have created a new [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?104 award type], two award categories and two award records. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 10:36, 13 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::Thanks! Those are the only two I could determine are genre. None of the others seemed like genre works. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:03, 24 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Lovecraft Studies ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5650639; A dozen random issues of this magazine were uploaded on Archive.org in 2016 but today, while looking for something else, I stumbled on a single issue that was uploaded by a completely different person in 2021. Surprisingly, there was quite a bit that needed added/fixing; I tried my best, but I'm sure someone can improve on a few things after it's approved. Dirk B. entered it here in 2019 so he might want to look at it. Also, I made a follow-up edit merging "More Chain Lightning" by Lovecraft, keeping 1915 date and essay format. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:23, 30 April 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Mr. Murphy ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5651017; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5651022; There's a note by someone discussing Jim/James A. Moore's name in the anthology but it turns out Murphy's name was wrong here; however, in their novel he really was credited just as Kevin Murphy. There's also a story, "Awake", published in old British horror zine Peeping Tom, many 90's/early 2000's cover art credits (some for books by Moore and so very possibly by the same Murphy who wrote with him), an interview with a guy from the old MST3K show, and a (II) who wrote a letter to Analog in the late 70's. So when my edits are approved the Murphys need separating if anyone can figure out who's who. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:33, 1 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Tinmey ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=tinm&type=Name; Same person, probably. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:49, 2 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Peter Tate ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11147; Note in his first story says it's slightly different version of the second story. Should they be made variants? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:36, 2 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Looking for 90s e-zine Cosmic Visions ==<br />
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Good afternoon. I am trying to find any information about the late 90s ezine 'Cosmic Visions' that was put out by John Fultz for several years. I spoke to the editor myself, and he said he had no records or copies remaining. Specificaly, I am trying to find the September '97 edition which included a story by Stanley C. Sargent called "Synopticon of Fear". Does anyone have a lead re. any collectors or archivists out there that may be able to point me in the right direction? Thank you! --[[User:MagusManders|MagusManders]] ([[User talk:MagusManders|talk]]) 15:24, 2 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Was it published on a website? If so, do you know what the URL was? Was it published as an ebook? ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 15:46, 2 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::It was an ebook, distributed via PDF from cosmicvisions.com. The website went down in 1998, but there's some archived pages [https://web.archive.org/web/19970414113406/http://www.cosmicvisions.com/ here]. The editor told me that becase the copyrights were donated, each issue had an "expiration" date, but it wasn't clear to me if this meant he would stop distributing it, or if the files actually deleted themselves. And thanks for fixing my posting error. --[[User:MagusManders|MagusManders]] ([[User talk:MagusManders|talk]]) 15:59, 2 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::https://web.archive.org/web/19970416090028/http://www.cosmicvisions.com/html/cvse.pdf; Only PDF in the archived pages as far as I can tell. None of the contents are on ISFDB. Whoopee. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 16:34, 2 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::::https://web.archive.org/web/20111119172143/http://www.stanleycsargent.com/bibliography.html; Looks like he had 5 stories in Cosmic Visions and an interview with Bruce Campbell, star of the Evil Dead movies (evidence of that seemingly nowhere online at present). So I think a lot more than the story you mentioned above are elusive; the only evidence of it I see is your comments on Reddit. EDIT: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/note_search_results.cgi?OPERATOR=contains&NOTE_VALUE=cosmic+visions; famed author Brian A. Hopkins had a bunch of stories in the zine; non-famous author Sean Rodgers had at least one. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 17:30, 2 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Well, I'm working my way through the archived pages and trying to add what I can find. You can see the [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/seriesgrid.cgi?69784 issue grid here] for what I've entered so far. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:38, 3 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::It looks like a lot of big names were in this zine and it seemed to run for a long time. I keep finding random mentions in online bibliographies and such (even on LYSATOR, for God's sake), but I'd be happy if I could just find the Campbell interview. At least we now have that PDF linked here. Even the guy who ran the zine didn't seem to mention it; he probably forgot it was there. Websites in the nineties are like fossils now. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:52, 3 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::Based on what I can find, it appears the magazine folded shortly after the January 1998 issue. I can't find anything in the archives about any issues beyond that one. So, it appears to have lasted about 1.5 years. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:17, 3 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::It looks like Robert Silverberg, Thomas Ligotti, Lin Carter, and Brian Lumley all contributed based on the entry on [http://www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/SF_resource_guide/sfrgc4.htm this page]. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:31, 3 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I'm curious how you know "Synopticon of Fear" was in the September 1997 issue. I can't find that information anywhere, though I may not be searching for the right information. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 15:23, 3 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::Ah, it's on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20111119172143/http://www.stanleycsargent.com/bibliography.html bibliography page archive] linked by Username, above. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 15:27, 3 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I think I've gotten the [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?17678 Stanley C. Sargent] bibliography as far as I can with the current sources I've found. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 17:28, 5 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:: Wow, thank you Nihonjoe and Username! You jumped on this faster than I could have imagined and did more than I could have myself! I am going to try to reach Robert M. Price to see if he has anything in his archives he's able to share, and I'll reach out to you if there's anything to be found. --[[User:MagusManders|MagusManders]] ([[User talk:MagusManders|talk]]) 14:22, 8 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::You're welcome. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 17:01, 8 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Atwood's Dancing Girls ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5653645; Nobody ever entered original Seal PB so I did from recently uploaded scan but got ISBN trouble. Only site in Google Search with the ISBN without the dashes is Open Library which of course links to Archive.org, but there's also 1 lonely site that has the ISBN with the dashes, https://leavesandpages.com/2012/07/03/review-dancing-girls-by-margaret-atwood/. So somebody out there has a copy with the same ISBN. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 22:00, 3 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Changing the checksum digit did not result in a valid ISBN. In these cases, we move the ISBN to the catalog field and make a note that it has an invalid ISBN in the pub notes. I have taken care of that. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 6 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::Added another link to a copy and replaced cover. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:25, 6 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::[https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?USE_1=pub_title&O_1=exact&TERM_1=&C=AND&USE_2=pub_publisher&O_2=contains&TERM_2=seal&USE_3=author_canonical&O_3=contains&TERM_3=atwood&USE_4=pub_note&O_4=contains&TERM_4=isbn&USE_5=pub_title&O_5=exact&TERM_5=&USE_6=pub_title&O_6=exact&TERM_6=&USE_7=pub_title&O_7=exact&TERM_7=&USE_8=pub_title&O_8=exact&TERM_8=&USE_9=pub_title&O_9=exact&TERM_9=&USE_10=pub_title&O_10=exact&TERM_10=&ORDERBY=pub_title&ACTION=query&START=0&TYPE=Publication]; Bluesman moved ISBN to ID like you did for one of his PV and left some notes in both PV about ISBN; apparently spines need to be seen to get the real ISBN. I just added the month to the 3rd printing using eBay and the ISBN on spine doesn't match that on copyright page, so Seal books were a mess, it seems. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:16, 6 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Constable ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?532472; While adding a bunch of edits for Jonathan Aycliffe books I discovered a lot of the recent editions had wrong covers with somewhat different text. Constable & Robinson is the publisher for most on ISFDB but I also got a Corsair. Problem is most were actually published by the Constable imprint, with that publisher being on the title page and the copyright page mentioning it's an imprint of Constable & Robinson, but there's only a handful on ISFDB with imprint/publisher being entered correctly (I've fixed the few I've come across in my edits). However, Corsair is also an imprint of theirs and yet there are nearly 200 books on ISFDB by them but none as an imprint. That's a separate issue, but I'm only interested in this particular case where Constable is on the title page but copyright page now says it's an imprint of Little, Brown. There doesn't seem to be any combination of those on ISFDB so how should this imprint/publisher be entered? A text search on Archive.org revealed that the copyright text about Little, Brown for Aycliffe books only finds this one. There's several Little, Brown publishers on ISFDB, ISBN 1-4721 leads to several British ones. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:43, 4 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: From the 3 Constable anthologies I have print (*) pubs to hand for, it looks like something changed around 2014/5:<br />
: - [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?423965 Dozois' Best New SF 26] has "First published in the UK by Robinson, / an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd., 2013", and no mention of Little, Brown anywhere on the copyright page<br />
: - [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?573707 His Best New SF 29] by contrast has "First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Robinson"; there's no mention of Constable anywhere on the page, but down at the bottom it does have "Robinson / An imprint of Little, Brown Book Group". I note also that the address is the Hachette UK HQ at Carmelite House, whereas the previous 2013 book has Russell Square.<br />
: - [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?550958 The Mammoth Book of Kaiju] is also 2016 and has the same details as Best New SF 29.<br />
: (* I also have a bunch more of their anthologies in ebook that presumably have similar details, but as I'm led to believe that some people don't think there's any value in keeping records of them, I was disinclined to spend time digging them out and investigating further.)<br />
: Re. how these should be entered, I'll let someone more experienced speak to that, but my reading of [[Template:PublicationFields:Publisher]] is that whilst "Foo / Bar" may be preferable to "Foo" or "Bar", neither of the latter are intrinsically "incorrect"? [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 15:59, 4 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::OK, thanks. Except for the sarcasm. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 16:07, 4 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Machen Merges ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?55418; Person who entered contents, J.D. Cowan (has their own record on ISFDB) didn't merge anything in the 2nd and 3rd volumes and a few things in the first may not be merged, either, from what I can tell. They seem to have generated a lot of messages on their page about not entering things properly but never answered any of them so it's pointless to leave a message there; if anyone wants to merge all of that I'm letting you know. Machen's stories were published under a mess of slightly different title variations so it probably won't be easy. Also, looking at his ISFDB page I see that stories jump from 1937 to 3 1987 Italian titles, a 2019 Italian title, and a 2022 Portuguese title; the 2019 story, Un frammento di vita, capitolo IV, is possibly the same as the last poem on his page, Un frammento di Vita, so that's another issue. Is it a story or a poem? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:57, 4 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Duplicates merged. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 07:50, 6 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== FIRE ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5654147; Judging by edit history the title changed back and forth, with Stonecreek, I believe, entering the full title, but shouldn't all words be capitalized? ISFDB doesn't care how it's entered in the book, words should be capitalized, I seem to remember reading that somewhere? Also, Hand's ISFDB author image is the cover of this book; it would be nice if someone could find a good one to replace it with. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:51, 4 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Dutch Tilly ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?542210; I have a few suggestions. There's a copy, https://archive.org/details/tillyroman0000pere, which is 111 pages, not 112, unless that last unnumbered page is in some way a part of the novel, in which case a note should be added about last page being unnumbered. Also, the subtitle Roman is not needed because it just means novel and those kinds of things aren't included in titles per ISFDB rules. Most importantly, this is some later edition judging by copyright page and 13-digit ISBN. By the way, there must be other genre-related books from this publisher, right? Because this is the only one on ISFDB. EDIT: I discovered something interesting while adding a link to the English-language edition; it says "a novel" on the cover but "the novel" on the title page because apparently it was originally an audio drama in 1986. So I don't know how exactly English translates to Dutch but if it's "the novel" then possibly that was meant to delineate between this print edition and the original spoken word. In which case subtitle "The Novel" should be added to the English and "Roman" left as is in the Dutch. If anyone cares about something so minor. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 21:11, 4 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Bill Prosser ==<br />
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https://archive.org/details/horrorshorrorsho0000unse/page/181/mode/1up; A rare British edition of one of Helen Hoke's thousand or so anthologies was just uploaded on Archive.org, I added a link and fixed the ISBN (which was incorrectly the same as the American ISBN) somebody entered from WorldCat, I think (I have a feeling a lot of stuff is wrong in these books considering how many different editors here entered them over the years and the insane mess of multiple printings, interior art being re-used between USA and British but often totally different cover art, etc.). However, in this case what I want to know is if there's a way to extract an image from the back flap, because there's actually a clear photo of Bill Prosser, who did interior art and British covers which are pretty awesome (sometimes re-used for USA, sometimes not). Date is 1978 but he looks like a dirty hippie who just crawled out of a commune in Haight-Ashbury or whatever the British equivalent of that was so I'm assuming this was an old photo that probably is in other British Hoke editions if anyone could actually find the damn things. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 21:47, 4 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:If you could update [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/File:Bill_Prosser.JPG this] page with the appropriate template variables, it should serve. ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] ([[User talk:Holmesd|talk]]) 08:08, 5 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::I'm a moron. I have no idea what that means so if you could explain further. Also, should I click on the image link and add it to his record in an edit? I think probably yes. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:22, 5 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::And I'm a maroon. I didn't know where or how to connect it up and this was the best I could do as it was just graphics. ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] ([[User talk:Holmesd|talk]]) 22:15, 5 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::::I have [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File%3ABill_Prosser.JPG&type=revision&diff=661373&oldid=661301 filled in] the license template. Each template page has the instructions for completing the template. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 07:37, 6 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Masterless Swords ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5654953; Obscure NZ newspaper article has revealed the contents, the titles of which seem to be nowhere on the web. However, I'm assuming the first 2 should be marked non-genre after this is approved. The article doesn't explicitly state the 3rd story's title but it's implied; there's a copy on eBay which shows title page but not contents page, so if anyone here has a copy that could help with possibly identifying the cover artist, verifying the title, and determining story lengths (I'm guessing it's 3 novellas). EDIT: I thought of searching newspapers.com and got 1 hit in an English paper but sign-up is required so I searched Google, verbatim, and got nothing but searching non-verbatim got 1 hit, https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/issue/straitstimes19480422-1, which shows a little bit of a review on p. 9 which seems, from the text, like a different review than that above, so if anyone has a subscription or whatever then possibly this review may verify the 3rd story's title, which is the only genre one and the most important. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:18, 5 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:This author is not above the threshold IMO so their non-genre content would not be eligible. While the newspaper review implies the title is the same as the collection title ("third story explains the title"), but it is not explicit. We need a better source for the title. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:21, 6 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Jack Red Bear ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5655023; I think the right thing is making original a variant of the more common name, right? If so, shouldn't the date of Strete title be 1977-10-00, date of his collection it appeared in under that name? Also, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=nocka&type=All+Titles, where Strete supposedly wasn't even co-credited in the original and apparently it was by Strete under an alternate title and then the original title in his collection. I'm passing the baton on that one. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:56, 5 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I varianted both stories to being by Bear and Strete. Due to how ISFDB works, if they were varianted to just Strete, they would disappear from the Bear page & we'd be left with an empty author page. It seems quite possible Bear was an alternate name for Strete so I added that to the {{A|Jack Red Bear}} author page, but without a source, it will have to remain speculation. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:12, 6 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Selkie Questions ==<br />
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https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Willem_H.#Signet_Selkie; I tried discussing things with this guy but he's giving me his usual attitude so I'm going to ask further questions on this board. So I see from edit history that back in my early days here I entered the exact HC date using a clear photo of a review copy slip that's on FantLab. Recently I entered a later printing of the Signet PB but things were messy because the map date said March due to somebody messing with the date long ago, although he claims it was in 2010 but I don't see that anywhere, I think he meant 2009. He fixed the map date so now it should obviously be imported into the HC since that's where it comes from. So do others here see, as I do, that the map is also on p. [6] of the HC like it is in the PB? PV of HC doesn't respond except by e-mail which I'm definitely not sending. He PV it in 2007, prehistoric days in terms of this site, so maybe people weren't entering things like maps back then. Also, if anyone thinks the page count really needs [6] added to it like this guy did for his PB PV they can always add it to the HC and my PB entry, you have my permission, although there's still the case of the mysterious 1990 12th printing entered, possibly, by Bluesman who's long-gone and also where printings 2, 4-11, and possibly more are and whether they all included the map. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:29, 5 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:See [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?1351644 this submission] from April 2010, scroll down to Modified Regular Titles and you see the date change of the map to 1982-03-00. That was not messing with the date, but aligning it with the date of the hardcover edition, (1982-03-00 since [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?1241153 this october 2009 edit]. I pointed to the edit that changed the date to 1982-04-16 in May 2021. I also pointed to the helptext that explains why the pagenumber should be [6] for the first paperback printing. Is there anyone else who thinks this has anything to do with "attitude", or is this simply the same editor complaining whenever someone disagrees with anything he does? --[[User:Willem H.|Willem]] ([[User talk:Willem H.|talk]]) 15:13, 5 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::You also advised me that you skipped an edit I made for the HC of this book because I didn't leave a note on the PV's page even though it wasn't changing anything but just importing the map credit which either PV didn't think needed entering or maybe entering map info wasn't a thing here back in 2007, and whoever entered the map info in the PB forgot/didn't know or care to import it themselves (I see from edit history that the map was likely entered by Bluesman and APPROVED BY Mhhutchins, the same person who didn't enter it in the original HC that they PV, so why after approving it in the PB he didn't just import it himself to his own PV is a mystery that maybe you can ask him/her). Plus the fact that the PV has pretty much given up and doesn't respond to much of anything these days, requesting people send them an e-mail which I'm not going to do because the last thing I want is anyone on this site knowing my e-mail address. After our initial encounter a long time ago where you threw a fit because I told you I changed a few things in one of your PV and a few later unpleasant discussions we had you actually seemed to be responding professionally for a while to several of my messages without giving me much of a problem but I guess your meds ran out or something because you're back to your old self. You were the only active PV of the PB so I was trying to sort out the mess as I've done for thousands of other books but apparently your personal problems, whatever they are, are more important. Who cares, 50,000 edits done so far, losing 1 here or there doesn't bother me. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 16:10, 5 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::: Please note that "your meds ran out or something" is a personal attack. They are not allowed as per [[ISFDB:Policy#Blocking_Policy]]. A warning has been left on [[User:Username]]'s Talk page as per the Policy. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:56, 5 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== F&SF Sep/Oct 2022 ==<br />
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I noticed on [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?20325 the F&SF series page] that [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3103984 the Sep/Oct 2022 issue] isn't part of [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2971585 the 2022 record]. I only have a vague understanding/recollection of how magazines work, so I'll let someone more familiar with them work out if this should really be like that, and if not, how it should be fixed. (FWIW that standalone issue is PVed, but by an editor who hasn't been around since the start of the year.) [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 08:54, 6 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I merged the two title records together. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 09:09, 6 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:: Thanks. (I'm currently in the middle of adding the remaining 100-odd Locus Award finalists, and didn't want to get sidetracked spending a bunch of time looking into that tangentially related issue.) [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 10:05, 6 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== A pricing anomaly ==<br />
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If we ever get into codifying multiple prices, here's an oddity to keep in mind - a book with two prices that are date dependent. <br />
"£19.99 until 31 December 1998" / "£24.99 from 1 January 1999". ([https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?949447 The Silmarillion]) ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] ([[User talk:Holmesd|talk]]) 12:09, 6 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== RVT ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=ray+van+tilb&type=Name; Very likely the same person, problem is 2 of the publications are scarce zines and the Dragon issue, which I checked on annarchive.com, says Raymond Van Tilburg. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 14:17, 6 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:[https://efanzines.com/Argentus/Ag13.pdf This] explains (and lets us correct) the Tilberg [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?584053 here]. It's "Ray van Tilburg" on the cover and several mentions, but the artwork credit list below the TOC says "p.20 Ray van Tilberg". The artwork is credited on p. 20, however, with "Ray VanTilburg". The text associated with that begins "Ray Van Tilburg has a niche...". I am going to change it. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 15:55, 6 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::One follow-up on all of this: A little Googling reveals "VanTilburg" is correct, not "Van Tilburg". See the litany of [https://www.pinterest.com/aircool66/ Pinterest], [https://www.facebook.com/RayVanTilburgArt/ Facebook], [https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtofRayVanTilburg Etsy], and his [https://offworlddesigns.com/ OffWorld Designs Art] site. Per ISFDB standard, spacing is normalized when recording the credit, so I am going to remove the space from the canonical name and note that an extra space is sometimes included in credits. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 08:36, 7 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Brown's Brightest Day ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=the+brightest+day&type=Fiction+Titles; While adding links to stories that were on the old House of Pain horror site I added a link to Eric S. Brown story "The Brightest Day" but according to ISFDB it was published in a 2002 issue of Black Petals as Eric Brown, which means that is lumped in with the well-known Eric Brown who wrote a lot of SF. So if anyone knows how to get that issue of Black Petals and verify what his name is then either it can be variant or merge. I suspect there are other stories on Eric Brown's page here that belong to Eric S. Brown. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 21:07, 6 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Shumate Story ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Biomassbob#Time_To_Scare_Gramma; I suppose titles should be merged since they're the same but the lengths are totally different, so what do you suggest? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:27, 7 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Le James Bond ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260470; French edition, https://archive.org/details/jamesbondchassea0000otfi, if anyone wants to enter it. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:07, 7 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Leokum ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5657866; While doing this I saw an Arkady Leokum on Wikipedia with different birth/death dates but at the bottom of his credits is a book with Posnick (it's on Archive.org). Just thought that was weird. Maybe dad and son? Wiki mentions "pulp fiction" (doesn't list any, though) so maybe they're confusing Leonard with his dad, except that Wiki mentions a son but his name is Peter. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 14:13, 7 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Linton Christmas Story ==<br />
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http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/n04/n04934.htm#A181; 2 separate titles that don't match the title here, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2851147. EDIT: I made these 2 edits, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5658281, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5658282, but there's a problem with "The Veiled Portrait" because it was given the wrong name and the date doesn't match either of these, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1359048, so I think somebody with a copy of this book needs to correct info somebody entered here; it seems to be Toff, who judging by the few entries on their page also entered some other Valancourt anthologies, so a look at those may be needed, too. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:16, 7 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Asimov's Essays: The Hugo Winners ==<br />
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On Asimov's summary page we have the series [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?68833 Introductions for 'The Hugo Winners']. This excludes his other essays - afterwords, postscripts and appendices - and so I propose enabling their inclusion by renaming the existing series to "Asimov's Essays: The Hugo Winners". What do others think? Kev. --[[User:BanjoKev|BanjoKev]] ([[User talk:BanjoKev|talk]]) 21:48, 7 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
: The existing series has only Asimov's essays, and is missing the introduction by [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?135920 Charles Sheffield]. Not including it suggests the title is wrong, but including it keeps it from being Asimov as your proposed title suggests. Also, prefixing it with "Asimov's Essays:" suggests that there are, or should be, other collections of his essays. Given how many he has written and how often they are reused, it may be difficult to categorize them. I think the series adds little value and don't care if it's changed, but I do think that a hierarchy of titles (e.g. "The Hugo Winners", "Essays for 'The Hugo Winners'") should be considered. ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] ([[User talk:Holmesd|talk]]) 08:24, 8 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Author DJ Tyrer ==<br />
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I have been working on a number of publications involving DJ Tyrer, as an editor or a contributor. In the actual publications, he is always credited as DJ Tyrer not [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?153003 D. J. Tyrer]. Despite this, the ISFDB only showed separate initials. A quick check of the canonical record's [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/author_history.cgi?153003 edit history] shows three merges. I contacted DJ and he confirms his first name is David-John, one name. He only goes by DJ. Separate initials are wrong. I intend to merge the two author records and all the appropriate title records. David-John Tyrer and David John Tyrer (one title each) will remain alternate names unless I can verify an error. I will add a note to the new canonical record so there will be no question in the future. He was also kind enough to review his summary bibliography and only found 4 errors, which I will correct. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 19:59, 8 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5659503; There are at least a few other thehorrorzine.com Tyrer poetry pages currently online spanning several years where they printed several poems on each page, including "Afraid of the Dark" which has a 2021 date here but it's on a 2018 Horror Zine page. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 23:15, 8 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Sounds good to me. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 11:26, 9 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Gruft ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?495335; While doing edits for F. Paul Wilson books I saw this; that looks like a Les Edwards cover, doesn't it? If so, someone who can ID it can also variant it to the original. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:00, 9 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Lincoln Hunters Date ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?9373; I just added a link to the Rinehart 1st ed. and I think the dates are wrong because they're from the club ed. which usually comes later; anyone know original date? 3 PV of club ed., 2 long-gone and 1 with a very odd name has zip on their discussion page. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:16, 9 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Butterfly Revolution Questions ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?20540; Some more editions of Butler's books recently uploaded on Archive.org, I've been making some edits, I noticed someone (Don Erikson?) wrote a note about where they got cover artist from for the original American PB but didn't actually enter the artist. So if anyone has the book he got it from they may want to enter it. Also, the most recent American PB on ISFDB is a 20th printing but there's a 1984 19th printing uploaded with the same cover, so if anyone knows which edition was the first to use that cover they can fix the art date. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 14:16, 9 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Bloch's Second Coming ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1222802; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?97532; Might be the same thing. This, https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2017/04/ffb-eighth-stage-of-fandom-by-robert.html, describes it as articles about Jesus; this, https://cthulhuwho1.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/2256_inventory_4.pdf, says it was in an obscure periodical, Osgledaren, foreign I'm guessing. So some obscure things here, Taboo, Eighth Stage of Fandom, and that periodical are not anywhere I can see, so help if you can. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 16:03, 9 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Joan D. Vinge's Heaven Chronicles and Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought - same series? ==<br />
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Per [https://www.tor.com/2023/05/10/five-authors-who-wrote-sequels-to-someone-elses-work/ a James Davis Nicoll piece published today on tor.com], ''"Finally, there is the curious matter of Joan D. Vinge’s 1978 [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1423 Outcasts of Heaven Belt], which shares a setting with Vernor Vinge’s [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?11587 Zones of Thought] stories... Vinge explained the genesis of her novel and the connection to the Zones in a 2008 letter to her readers. Until I read that letter, I had no idea there was a connection"'' and there's a link to [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224912/http:/www.sff.net/people/jdvinge/letter_20081103.htm an archive.org copy of that letter] (which I've only skimmed over).<br />
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There are a fair number of PVs of both the Joan and Vernor Vinge novels, any thoughts on whether those series could/should be merged, one made a subseries of the other, just have linking series notes, etc? I don't have any personal opinion or insight on this, as the only one of them I've read was A Fire Upon the Deep, which I have to confess I DNFed a third of the way through... [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 10:53, 10 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: The linked article says:<br />
:* ...the "Heaven Belt" stories are linked to the "Zones of Thought" series created and written by my former husband (and still friend), Vernor Vinge.<br />
: I would turn the two series into sub-series of a super-series. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 14:12, 10 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:: Thanks - I've created [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?69884 an unimaginatively named superseries] with some brief extracts from that letter, and a link to it. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 18:13, 13 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== We Are All Legends ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5661090; My note is in addition to notes that other editors wrote for the other 2 editions on ISFDB. I assume ISFDB rules state that this should be a collection as opposed to a novel even though it's called a novel on the copyright page. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:40, 10 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Trek: The Lost Years ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5661789; James Van Hise is on title page regardless of what cover and Archive.org note writer says, so what's the procedure? Shouldn't it say James Van Hise (in error) and variant to Edward Gross? Assuming, of course, that Van Hise didn't actually write it. EDIT: Cover artist has an extensive record without their middle initial; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?133578. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:40, 10 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== RWH ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?175902; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?58684; Someone added link to one of Hedge's poems years ago so I just added link to the other poem even though 1990s Nightscapes issues are somehow still online and not hard to find; however, I think this is a pseudonym for Ron Goulart because that essay (not short fiction as ISFDB calls it) from F&SF is clearly a fake bio. EDIT: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5662212; I found another poem by "Hedge" hiding in that HPL issue. This page, http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nightscapes/NS04/hplindex.htm, lists all the letters and other stuff that The FictionMags Index didn't list in case anyone thinks those need entering. The date is fishy, too, because it was published in October judging by the production dates but it's called "April-October". --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:36, 11 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Sargent Review ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?395035; Title is wrong, it's Lost Cities, note makes no sense with the dates vs. book date, non-genre series book with many other Lost Cities volumes, only here because of review, delete? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:04, 11 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Book deleted. Review turned into an essay. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 14:06, 13 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::I just fixed a short story in Sargent's record, turning it into an essay; I think it was this one so mistake was made when entering, I guess. I also added a few more story and poem links and think that I've done pretty much all there is to be done with him for now, at least until someone uploads one of his hard-to-find books, which will probably open a can of worms because I see at least one problem with 2 of his stories probably being the same but one having a subtitle in his collection. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:40, 16 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Hitler Art ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5649674; Someone familiar with the foreign editions, tell us which cover Hoffmann really did. SFE, as so often before, has wrong info, but it was obviously wrong anyway because it's a tinted photo of Adolf H. who didn't come to power until long after Hoffmann died. I tried to explain that in my note but it didn't help. So when someone identifies which cover is his this can be un-rejected. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 16:53, 11 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I see JLaTondre just updated the book with notes and mentioned the Hoffmann credit that's on the flap; however, this can't possibly be the Hoffmann on ISFDB because he died decades before Hitler came to power and so clearly isn't the artist here, especially since it's just a photo, anyway. So either book has wrong info or there's someone else with the same name who's responsible. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:07, 14 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::(edit conflict) SFE was correct. It is credited on the back flap of the book. The photograph is by Heinrich Hoffmann (1885–1957), Adolf Hitler's official photographer. I have disambiguated this Hoffmann from the other one. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 09:11, 14 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Investigations of Avram Davidson ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5663113; Fixed this up but there's another record, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?35403, which has an award nomination, so I think the award should probably be moved to the record I just edited and the other record deleted. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:01, 12 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Fixed. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 14:02, 13 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== John Stewart ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?27454; I just had author image approved and noticed that short story is likely not by the artist because he died several years earlier. There's also an alternate name for the story which was also an alternate name for a few interior pieces by the artist. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 14:32, 12 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
: The publisher's website and the title verso of the publication containing the story agree the authors name is Jeff Stewart, not John Stewart. I'm hoping it's this [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?131106 Jeff Stewart]. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 14:52, 12 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== C. Armitage Harper ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5663571; Death date very different, mother's name slightly different, verification needed. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:14, 12 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== External ID template additional wording needed ==<br />
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In the Template:PublicationFields:ExternalIDs [https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template:PublicationFields:ExternalIDs here], for the Audible-ASIN entry, could something like "If the Audible ASIN is an ISBN-10, convert the ISBN-10 value to ISBN-13 and place the ISBN-13 value in the ISBN field." be added after the sentence that reads "Also note that, unlike regular Amazon ASINs, we record Audible ASINs even when they match the ISBN-10."? Thanks! [[User:Philfreund|Phil]] ([[User talk:Philfreund|talk]]) 08:30, 13 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I think I must have put this in the wrong discussion group so I just copied this to Rules & Standards. [[User:Philfreund|Phil]] ([[User talk:Philfreund|talk]]) 06:54, 22 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Harry O ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?273603; I randomly came across a non-fiction book by R. Matheson, Mediums Rare, that was never entered here but after doing so it said Harry O. Morris was a disambiguated name because of that 1 wrongly-entered cover credit; do I have permission to merge with this, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1282130, since PV with wacky name never responds to any messages sent to them on their page? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:42, 13 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I merged them. That was an obvious error (entering the cover illustrator & interior designer and labeling them with their roles). --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 13:47, 13 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Crispino Cover ==<br />
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https://fantlab.ru/art9850; Says he's Italian but credits on ISFDB are for German books, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?244341; cover on FantLab is the same as this, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?603133. Also, the note on FantLab about the artist (RIGHT-CLICK AND CLICK TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH), if I understand it correctly, says he's wrongly credited as D. Crispino in that book. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:33, 13 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Martin H. ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=martin+hof&type=Name; I think the 2 German artists are the same person. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:04, 13 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:There is an English artist, a German artist, and a German essayist. If you question the credit on any of these, they all have active verifiers whom you can ask to double check. Otherwise, you would need a source that shows any of these are the same person in order to create an alternate name. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 13:56, 13 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== John Craig ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?19264; None of those are by the guy who died before any of them were written/drawn, and likely none have anything to do with each other, although it's slightly possible the guy who wrote the stories wrote the essays, too. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:08, 13 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Tipped-In ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?815229; Book is 1920, preface is 1930, this page, http://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-revels-of-orsera-query.html, says it was tipped into leftover copies of the 1920 edition, link someone provided here to Harvard copy doesn't seem to have the preface, this copy does, https://archive.org/details/b29826123, what do you suggest? Add Archive.org link and mention preface in notes? Clone edition? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:06, 13 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I would make a second pub, 1930, for the one on Archive.org, with that dated pre-TOC preface in the contents as the differentiator (note it also has a "By the same author" list not seen in the other copy, and the "v" number on the first TOC page no longer aligns with the physical page count). The linked Harvard copy has the library's date stamp "Dec 6 1920", which pretty much guarantees it is an edition published before that date and can't possibly have a 1930 preface. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 07:51, 14 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== DW and the Genesis of the Daleks ==<br />
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https://archive.org/search?query=dicks+daleks+pinnacle; According to edit history I added Archive.org link to Day last year although I have absolutely no recollection of doing so. However, the recently-uploaded Genesis is problematic; it says second printing, May 1982 with a $1.95 price but the only ISFDB edition with that price says 1-1981 and the 1982 edition is $2.50. So someone who knows the complex history of these Who books can add the link if they can decide which edition it belongs to. I assume it should be the 1981 because that has the right ISBN in which case the date would need changing, but then the 1982 would need a new date because it's a third printing. There's no note in 1983 that it's a fourth printing, either (and no price), although there is for the fifth and sixth printings. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:08, 14 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== French Dark Channel ==<br />
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https://archive.org/search?query=garton+alliance; I've been doing a lot of Ray Garton edits and came across this in case anyone wants to enter a French edition. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:14, 15 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Ronald Fraser Art ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5666000; Unusual last name of artist, he's on ISFDB, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?373087, Desert title page photo online says E. while signature can't be found on Flower Phantoms cover but few online mentions use Eric; I also added a link to Fraser's Landscape With Figures and the artist there is also on ISFDB twice, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=lucchesi&type=Name, with 1 cover clearly signed E. and the other Edmund. So I mention these things in case after approval someone decides which names are parents and wants to variant the other ones. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:59, 15 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Saga Press Dates ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?576157; I just did an edit adding Archive.org link to this; I don't often deal with such recent books so I'm not familiar with Saga but is it normal for their print books to have one date, in this case 0816, on the flap and another date, in this case November 2016, on the copyright page? One of the bios at the back says a book from one of the authors "will appear in August 2016". --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 23:45, 15 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== E. Gornall ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=gornall&type=Name; While adding some M. John Harrison edits I was going to add a link to Ice Monkey but it was already there via RTrace last year, but I noticed artist Eddie Gornall is also on ISFDB as Eddi; PV of that book, Jlassen (Jeremy Lassen?) is gone and never responded to any messages, copy on eBay shows everything except back flap where I assume cover credit is, and Archive.org copy of Ice Monkey is coverless. I can't get a handle online about what his real name was so if anyone knows they can variant one to the other, assuming they're really spelled differently. Being older fantasy books I assume some people on here have their own copies they can check. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 00:15, 16 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Zombie Apocalypse ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?36612; I made a bunch of edits to a few of the anthologies; I'll just mention that they don't really say "Mammoth Book of" on US title pages, just on the cover, so there's really no variant titles. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:29, 16 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Jagendorf ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5666413; "Demon and the Rabbi" was the only title I couldn't fix, appearing in one of Helen Hoke's anthologies (one of several by him in her books) as M. A., in his collection as Moritz A., and ISFDB saying it first appeared in 1968 somewhere under some unknown name; anthology says it comes from his collection Ghostly Folktales (not on ISFDB) but gives no date. So take a look at that after approval if you wish. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:36, 16 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Hoke Horrors ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5654666; I've made another edit simply adding the Archive.org link, but someone more versed than I in technical stuff can help explain what should be done with this. SBN is for Brits, ISBN is for Americans, why SBN gets no hits I have no idea but that's clearly the number on the copyright page. Why did Helen Hoke have to edit so MANY books and why did the American publishers change so much but not change other stuff and confuse everybody? A good assignment for someone with a lot of patience would be to go through her entire ISFDB list and double-check everything; they re-used British covers for American editions sometimes but other times they were completely different, both editions of each anthology would need to be seen side-by-side to verify if the Bill Prosser illustrations are the same between editions, British spelling of certain words in story titles that may or may not have been used for American titles, multiple printings of certain books of which very few have been entered here, etc. Someone keeps uploading ex-library copies on Archive.org but the titles of some of her books are so similar it's hard to keep track of them or remember if I added links or not. On a side note I discovered that at least a few of her books were part of a pub. series called Terrific Triples but that's only mentioned on their copyright pages; I have a couple of pending edits adding the series but hell if I can remember which ones they were; many more out there, it seems, some for her many non-genre books not on ISFDB. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:46, 17 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Brief server downtime at noon ==<br />
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The server will be down for maintenance between 12pm (noon) and 12:05pm server time (Eastern Daylight Time). [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 11:10, 17 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: The server is back up. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 12:01, 17 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::If that was related to the many messages by Alvonruff lately, what is the hoped-for outcome of his behind-the-scenes work? Will it improve anything on our, the editors, end? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:12, 17 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::: The downtime was unrelated to the project that Al is currently working on. It was simply to free up some disk space.<br />
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::: Al's work will update what's happening behind the scenes and -- eventually -- improve our multilingual support. For example, it will let our searches recognize that the Cyrillic letters "А" and "а" are the same for search purposes.<br />
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::: More generally, we need to update the underlying software that we are using. At this point it's so old that it's no longer supported by the vendor. It can cause a variety of security and compatibility issues. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 12:41, 17 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Quanta ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?54005; Chris J entered all issues on ISFDB but there are several missing; this page, https://web.archive.org/web/19990224223357/http://www.etext.org/Zines/Quanta/issues.html, seems to have all of them, in case Chris is still around and wants to finish them or someone else is interested. I noticed this because the serial by Vassilakos is missing several parts on ISFDB (it also says 17 parts but archived page ends at 16 so that's odd). --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:16, 17 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:He's still around because he just made a ton of edits adding/fixing stuff. Thanks. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:25, 18 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::All done.--[[User:Chris J|Chris J]] ([[User talk:Chris J|talk]]) 17:08, 18 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Pertwee's Whodunnit? ==<br />
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https://archive.org/details/whodunnit0000radn; I came across this randomly, seems to be a murder mystery anthology but some of those titles (especially "A Curse on the Pharaoh's Rod", hee hee) sound like they could be genre. Anyway, a Who is on the cover so that may push it over the line. Older Brits here may have read this in their youth and remember details. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:24, 18 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Merge Titles -- more error checking added ==<br />
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"Merge Titles" has been enhanced to perform additional checks before creating submissions. You can no longer create Merge Title submissions which would result in "circular" variants, i.e. variants whose parent record ID is itself. If you come across any issues, please let me know. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:37, 18 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Non-Genre Stories ==<br />
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After recently printing contents not available elsewhere (which is most of them) from the 1935 British anthology My Grimmest Nightmare at a local library I've finally started reading them and discovered that several are non-genre so I've been marking those and giving brief synopses. This is a common issue here with collections/anthologies both old and new; I think it would be helpful if editors who come across non-genre stories mark them and write a synopsis so people will know which are genre and which aren't. I also want to mention that this anthology is nuts. I read the rare A. Blackwood story long before the others and it was pretty creepy, as expected, but besides the several ghost stories there are a philosophical discussion of the afterlife with what seems to be an atheistic ending (probably raised a few eyebrows back then), a slice-of-life about a sad old guy in a top hat who gets hit by a bus, an account of 2 hikers lost in the mountains that seems like it strayed in from National Geographic, a shopkeeper who apparently gets punished because he didn't donate enough money to charity, and my favorite, a jungle tale of an explorer who encounters spiders, were-hyenas, and a giant half-spider/half-were-hyena which ends with what I think was meant to be a nasty joke about his bride-to-be's looks (no #MeToo in 1935). Least favorite so far? Probably the one about the guy who likes SOS messages on the radio and decides to visit some old guy looking for his long-lost son; the old guy's Irish maid is drawn so broadly I'm surprised she wasn't chewing on a potato when she answered the door. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:49, 18 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Reginald-3 ==<br />
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I got a sudden urge to know what is entailed when someone makes a Reginald-3 verification, I think it's called. I know RTrace does a ton of them and I see a few others doing it occasionally, but where do you go to check that and what exactly is it? Maybe I'll try some. Are secondary verifications considered something important here or do people just do them because they want to? Does anyone find them useful? Are there any rare ones people have been looking for? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 23:08, 18 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:When you're viewing a publication page, click on "Reginald-3" in the Secondary Verifications section and it will take you to [[Reference:Reginald3|this page]]. It's a big case-bound book that has tons of author, titles, awards, and such in it. It's a very useful thing to have , but only for works published between 1975-1991. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 00:09, 19 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?4975; Did it for Seth Pfefferle's 2 books since I entered 1 of them early last year. Is this something people have been doing since 2006 when public editing started here or is it recent? Because it seems weird that those books had never been verified before someone like me did them. Are there, like, tens of thousands of books still not verified or have most of them been done already? What's the criteria for not verifying something in that book? Is it known to have lots of mistakes? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 00:32, 19 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::It's generally considered reliable, but unless you have access to the book (Reginald-3) itself, you shouldn't be verifying anything with it. It's got around 1500 pages (if I'm remembering correctly), and it's always possible it's missed some books that were published in that period. However, for the books it does have, it's considered very accurate. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:26, 19 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::::It's easy to verify with it because I'm using the Archive.org copy that I added a link to 6 months ago. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:46, 19 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::::Awesome! Have fun adding the verifications. I don't think those even require a moderator to approve them. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:52, 19 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::::::Honestly, as soon as I added those 2 verifications I lost all interest. Half the "fun" of editing here, for me, is waiting for a mod to look at my edits and then decide whether to approve them (50,000 and counting, in the top half-dozen all-time for a non-mod/non-self-approver and the only one who still edits regularly except for "Fixer" which is a robot and doesn't really count), especially when they claim something was wrong when it actually wasn't and then think they can argue with me. If I'm lucky sometimes they even apologize when they find out they made a mistake. Doing Reginald seems entirely pointless if there's no approval needed. I only mention my adding the link so that others here who actually want to verify those ID know that the book is readily available. It seems to me that one of the computer geniuses who are on this site should have figured out a way by now to trawl the book and automatically add ID to all books that don't have them yet, but maybe it's not easy/possible to do. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 15:23, 19 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Adventures Of The Adventurers' Club ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5669128; https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9339400; I think the edition on ISFDB should really be paperback because of the cover and price; Stanford copy linked above is clearly hardcover and notice that it doesn't mention drawing on title page like Archive.org copy does. So what do you think? Change to PB and maybe clone a HC edition with Stanford link? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:44, 19 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Phenix ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5669692; Story seems never to have been reprinted in English but it was in a French gaming magazine for some reason, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?39139, https://www.amazon.com/Phenix-n45-magic-jeux-role/dp/2871535426, in case anyone wants to enter it. I'm guessing there's more translated stories in the other missing issues. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:19, 20 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== French Potter ==<br />
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https://www.google.com/search?q=potter+scalehunter+ebay; I just added an Archive.org link to Scalehunter in a pending edit and I don't see that art so I don't know if it's in a limited edition or what but I noticed it's also here, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?727762; French cover art should be a variant, I think. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:46, 20 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== L. Ron Hubbard's Colon ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?8224; I've been adding links to copies of this series including several that are only Open Library non-preview and I noticed that editors over the years entered the title randomly with it being almost evenly divided between commas after Future or not. So a standard should really be decided on and titles fixed so they all match, although I think going by ISFDB rules they should all have a colon after Future, right? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:28, 20 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Boom! Comics - Firefly/ Serenity ==<br />
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Is there anywhere a list of the stories Boom! Comics have produced for the Firefly/ Serenity series?<br />
The usual artist is Greg Pak. <br />
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The company's website is a mess and they don't seem to announce anything. {{Unsigned2|14:35, May 20, 2023|Femmefan1946}}<br />
:They're likely all listed over on [https://firefly.fandom.com/wiki/Firefly_(comic_series) the Firefly Database]. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 15:27, 20 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Canonical name Amir Zand ==<br />
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There is an canonical author [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?284398 Amir Zand (San)] but only one title is credited to him. 10 titles are credited to his alternate name Amir Zand. Wouldn't it be useful to change the canonical name? --[[User:Zapp|Zapp]] ([[User talk:Zapp|talk]]) 16:11, 20 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
: Go ahead and make the switch. Please add his [https://amirzand.art/ website] to the new canonical name. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 17:24, 24 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:: Done. --[[User:Zapp|Zapp]] ([[User talk:Zapp|talk]]) 08:16, 25 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::: Thanks! Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] ([[User talk:Stonecreek|talk]]) 08:55, 25 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:::: Next time, please do not use "'Make This Title a Variant' (breaking the relationship) and 'Delete This Tile (previous canonical) for titles only published under the previous alternate name. Use advanced search and then merge the two titles, paying attention to the radio buttons. Not only is this one edit instead of two, but will save the information from the previous canonical title record. Delete should always be your last option! [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 09:08, 25 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantasist Anthology ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5670646; This book, even though it has a PV, had a lot of stuff missing/entered wrong, so after approval please take another look to make sure I caught everything or didn't make a few mistakes myself. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:21, 21 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Since Don is no longer present, I will accept the edit and make some other updates based on the Internet Archive scan. But first, I'm going to point out the existing bad page number to Ahasuerus as it seems like the clean-up report should have caught that, but it is not listed. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 12:28, 21 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Rebecca M. ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisheryear.cgi?40797+2012; I added image to Sparks; cover artist is obviously the same person for both books but spelled differently, Amazon previews don't reveal anything helpful, so if anyone knows a way to see how she's credited that can be fixed. Also, while looking for the publisher I saw there's another Earthbound, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?354536, which may or may not be the same, but there's a problem in that the book is called 3rd in a series but the first 2 on ISFDB were published years later by a different author. So that might be a mistake. EDIT: 1 of Mr. Lobe's books available and entered here by me, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5670781. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:57, 21 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Darker Places ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?66822; I'm sure there aren't many Matheson collections that don't have numbered contents here so I thought I'd found something special when I saw FantLab's page, https://fantlab.ru/edition117836, until I saw the note (RIGHT-CLICK to translate) which is kind of unclear. So if anyone has a copy maybe they can say what the numbers should be and enter them (unless someone understands what the FantLab writer was trying to say). --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 21:18, 21 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Earthsea numbering ==<br />
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Gollancz are putting out a new hc of the [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?39404 Tales from Earthsea] collection this week, and I noticed that a few places such as [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Earthsea-Fifth-Book/dp/1399602411 Amazon UK] and [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Earthsea-Fifth-Book/dp/1399602411 Gollancz] are listing it as "The Fifth Book of Earthsea". However, [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?4220 the series page here] has this collection unnumbered, with [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?21392 The Other Wind] as #5. In turn, Amazon UK and Waterstones have The Other Wind listed as book 6 of the series.<br />
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Now, I appreciate that the often crappy data that appears on retailer sites doesn't necessarily count for much when determining what gets recorded in ISFDB. However, I do see that the Gateway ebooks of these titles - not currently recorded here, although I'll try to rectify that shortly - do have "The Fifth/Sixth Book of Earthsea" as subtitles on their title pages, which perhaps lends more weight to that numbering scheme? <br />
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I've double checked my Orion UK tps of these, and neither has any such subtitle. I also have the UK ebook of the collected Vess illustrated edition, and whilst I haven't spotted anything that explicitly says either book is numbered 5 or 6, there's an afterword that states (my emphases): "Here at last, for the first time, is Earthsea, in English, '''all together in the right order'''. .... The six books of Earthsea ... and in England one publisher calls it a quartet, and '''another reversed the order of the fifth and sixth books as if it didn't matter.'''" This also makes me think that 5=Tales/6=Other Wind might be the more correct/author-approved numbering.<br />
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(FWIW, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthsea the Wikipedia page] doesn't number them; it does state "the fifth and last novel of the series, The Other Wind", but obviously that's qualified by "novel" rather than "book".) [[Template:TitleFields:SeriesNum]] doesn't indicate anything about collections being treated differently to novels when it comes to series numbering.<br />
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Despite owning duplicate copies of these, I've never actually read any of them, so I don't have a dog in this fight, but wondering if there might be consensus for a change? [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 07:58, 22 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: I've read the first four novels so far only, so I can't comment on the contents of ''Tales from Earthsea'' and ''The Other Wind''. But I own the {{P|678370|German edition of the collected Vess illustrated edition}}, which contains an introduction by Le Guin, written by her in 2016 and which should be {{T|2437124|this one}} in the English edition. In this introduction, she's mentions the "six Earthsea volumes" and explains, how ''Tales from Earthsea'' and ''The Other Wind'' came into life. She stresses that ''Tales from Earthsea'', "the fifth book" (!) has been treated as marginal, but, according to her, is essential for the series. As a result I'd say you are correct: 5=Tales/6=Other Wind. That's also the order the works are printed in the illustrated edition. Jens [[User:Hitspacebar|Hitspacebar]] ([[User talk:Hitspacebar|talk]]) 15:04, 23 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:: Thanks - if I don't hear any objections, I'll do the 5/6 renumbering in a couple of days. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 13:14, 27 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== BM ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5671406; https://www.amazon.com/Beastmaster-Myth-Richard-Knaak/dp/1439144176; I can just make out "51600" in archived copy's back cover barcode through the sticker but that Amazon page linked above has a much higher price but the same ISBN and look inside has the same number line, so if anyone knows if there were later printings or something let us know. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 16:31, 22 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Ayan(n)a Mathis ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=na+mathis&type=Name; I added a link to the Times supernatural issue and it is Ayana, but I can't get a clear idea of how Ayanna is credited or which is her real name because she's called both all over the web, plus a Christian website I came across congratulated her on getting married and changing her name from Ayanna Thomas. So does anyone know more about her? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:28, 23 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: I have absolutely zero knowledge of this author or their works, but the impression I get from Google results (and the photos next to the various results) is that there are 2 different people, with the single-n one being an author who's the most likely candidate to be the one of interest here, based on [https://www.ayanamathis.com/ author website] and [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/155206/ayana-mathis/ publisher site]. The double-n one seems to be some sort of influencer/self help guru?<br />
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: The two titles associated with the double-n author name are from the same fairly recent PVed pub by Gzuckier, so I'll post on his page to look at this item. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 19:05, 23 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::I'm looking at the Times archive online, and it looks like I misentered the recent review, and it should be Ayana. I'll change it. Thanks for the alert. [[User:Gzuckier|gzuckier]] ([[User talk:Gzuckier|talk]]) 23:18, 24 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Ace Books / Ace Fantasy Books ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?18305; All 3 Ace editions are on Archive.org so I added links but while they all say "Ace Fantasy Books" on title page only 1 edition says that here. There's over a hundred here as by that name so I just thought it was odd; I wonder how many other books here as by "Ace Books" are actually by the longer name and whether it would matter to anyone to fix those; did they officially change their name to the shorter version at some point after 1986? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:43, 23 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Pyramids ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?697334; I was fixing a few Zebra Books from 1986 and on that should have had Kensington as part of the publisher; I got most of them except a few romance junk novels that were reprinted like a thousand times so I didn't even bother with those because I'm not even sure if they belong here. However, I was disturbed to discover afterwards that many of the old 70s-early 80s Zebra Books have Kensington as part of the publisher (?) I suspect I know who entered many of them so I will now start fixing those but the first one I looked at wasn't entered by that person but rather by Artisan, who I don't believe is around anymore. Not sure why it was accepted because the author is not above threshold in the slightest and this book is seventies paranormal "non-fiction" nonsense. So it should probably be deleted, but if not at least the regular date should be changed to March because editor mentioned that in their note but didn't actually make it so. EDIT: After further investigation I think, unlike Leisure Books and their later separate history with Dorchester, Zebra Books used Kensington even in their older books. So I think I've finished cleaning up (except for Death Screen, can't find info on that one) but this book still doesn't belong here, I believe. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 17:45, 23 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Italian Valancourt Edition ==<br />
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https://archive.org/search?query=blackburn+beastly-business&sort=-addeddate; Italian price on back cover and notice on last page about being printed in Italy in 2022; does this require a separate record here or can I just add the link to the current edition? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:50, 23 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== The Witch Book ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5672915; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5672916; If anyone owns a copy or knows where one can be seen online most of the page numbers need entering and author/title verification is needed for most of the stories; also, I replaced the cover because new cover has the price sticker or whatever it is on the top corner but it's not a great image so if anyone can replace it with a better one with that sticker after my edits are approved that would be great. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 23:13, 23 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Macbeth ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?582305; Macbeth link leads to B. Coville version published many years after J. Blackburn review. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 23:53, 23 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I've asked a verifier of a pub containing the review if they would check. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 09:08, 27 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::I've re-pointed the review to the correct title. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 09:59, 27 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Alex Ebel ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?25577; Short story isn't by the artist who died years before it was published but this person, https://sites.google.com/view/alexsebel. The archived story link seems missing, however, so it's possible story header says "Alex S. Ebel" since that's the name in his site's URL. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 14:02, 24 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Author separated from artist. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:56, 27 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Bruce Campbell Biography ==<br />
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I'm holding [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5662375 this submission] to add what looks like a biography of the actor Bruce Campbell. I see that we have an earlier {{T|103703|biography}} already in the database, but it appears that it was added by virtue of being nominated for Stoker and IHG awards. My sense is that the new book would not be in our scope, but I wanted to put the question out to the community first. Thoughts? --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:57, 24 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
: Out of scope I think. A biography of an author is arguably eligible (as it will talk about some of the books after all). This one seems to be one additional step removed from that. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 15:01, 24 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:: Back in 2020 we [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions/Archive/Archive18#Eligibility_of_NONFICTION_about_non-written_SF clarified the "Rules of Acquisition"] as follows:<br />
::* ''Included'': Published non-fiction works ''about'' speculative fiction which can be plausibly linked to ''published'' (as defined above) speculative fiction. This rule allows the inclusion of secondary bibliographies, i.e. bibliographies of bibliographies, which are two steps removed from published speculative fiction. It also allows the inclusion of non-fiction works about shared cross-media universes like "Doctor Who" and "Star Wars", but only as long as there is a plausible connection to the universe's ''published'' component. Thus a book about "Star Trek physics" can be included (because it applies to all types of media including novels) while a book about Star Trek movie outtakes and bloopers should be excluded.<br />
:: Since Bruce Campbell is an actor with no published speculative fiction credits, I think his biographies should be out unless they trigger some other condition. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:18, 24 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::Groovy. I will cancel my edit. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:33, 24 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Graveyard Reader ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?45152; I just added a link in an edit to the anthology of the same title and judging by ID it was published April or May, but story is October which is when it next appeared. So I think it should either have month changed to 00 to match the anthology or anthology month should be changed to 04 or 05 if anyone can pinpoint date and then story month changed to that. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 15:53, 24 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Fugue XXIX ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?869505; Same editor entered both TP, I think, but one could probably be deleted because it has same ISBN as HC and was likely a mistake that didn't get erased, although it has cover artist and correct (?) page count unlike TP with unique ISBN. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 21:28, 24 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Deleted. Locus1 lists the format as "hc", but with the "tp" ISBN. This was the source of the original record. I added notes to the other pubs to clarify the discrepancy. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:48, 27 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Onyeama ==<br />
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https://vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/8116/dillibe-onyeama; https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=dillibe+onyeama; 3 novels pictured on Vault seem genre, other titles on OL possible, no copies of any book by him on Archive.org except one with the N word which likely isn't genre, so an author that somehow was never added here, anyone own any copies? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:09, 25 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== S. B. Divya != Divya Srinivasan ==<br />
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I don't believe [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?205470 the author/editor S. B. Divya aka Divya Breed] is the same person as [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?262086 the artist Divya Srinivasan]. Their photos - [https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/87011-q-a-with-divya-srinivasan.html PW interview] for the artist - don't look like the same person to me, and their respective sites (sbdivya.com and pupae.com) don't make any reference to the works of the other person. I can't see the edit history to know who to chase regarding why they were made as alternate names, maybe a moderator can take a look? [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 19:56, 25 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
: You want to talk with [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Dirk_P_Broer Dirk]. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 20:14, 25 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
: PS: No moderator notes on this edit or on any of his other edits on both authors around the same time. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 20:18, 25 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:: Thanks, have left a note on his page pointing here. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 08:33, 26 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I agree, they are not the same person. One was born in India (the science fiction author) and the other was born and raised in the United States (the artist, per the PW article). Based on that, I've separated them. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:29, 26 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:: According to Wikipedia they ARE the same person: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._B._Divya#:~:text=S.%20B.%20Divya%20is%20the%20pen,%2C%20through%20April%208%2C%202022. "S. B. Divya is the pen name of Divya Srinivasan Breed"].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] ([[User talk:Dirk P Broer|talk]]) 17:02, 26 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::: But Divya Srinivasan and Divya Srinivasan Breed can possibly be different people? Do we have a connection that establishes them as the same one? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 17:09, 26 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::::https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5675343; I made an edit with 3rd printing of Runtime, saw somewhere that obliquely mentioned eff-words.com, current site defaults to sbdivya.com so I added archived site which started nearly 10 years ago, it may offer old/new info removed from current site because there's nothing in archived bio about "My gender doesn’t conform to social standards" so other things may have been added/dropped over the years. There's a picture of her at the back of Runtime, also, with a short bio. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:20, 26 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
::::: I noticed the different places of birth and appended to the notes in both records.--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] ([[User talk:Dirk P Broer|talk]]) 18:36, 26 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Doctor Who 'nonfiction' vs Nonfiction on 'Doctor Who' ==<br />
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Anyone know there are two separate series? [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?16381 The former] has well over a hundred entries (including a few subseries), [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?54805 the latter] just three titles.<br />
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The quotes around 'nonfiction' implied - to me at least - that it might be "in-universe" non-fiction like technical manuals, but it seems to me that it has just been used for anything that isn't conventional narrative fiction.<br />
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Any objections to moving everything from the smaller series into the bigger one, and removing the quotes around 'nonfiction'? [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 17:19, 26 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
: Looking at the history of the titles in the series, the smaller one (Nonfiction on 'Doctor Who') had been created and used by a single editor (Stonecreek) mostly moving the books from pre-existing other series (some of them later deleted, some of them still existing). You may want to ping him and see what he may have been thinking but considering that the edits are from years ago and he never bothered to do more (or to write ANY notes explaining what he was doing and what is to be used for what), that looks like something that should not have happened, especially without discussing with the community first. I think it is safe to move the 3 books back where they belong and delete the extra-series but ping him anyway in case he actually had a plan and a good explanation. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 17:38, 26 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:: Thanks for digging. I see from the edit histories of those three titles that there's also been "Doctor Who Reference Books" and "Doctor Who Non Fiction" in the past, so I'll wait for further feedback before making yet more changes. (Will also see if I can wrangle anything out of wiki search w.r.t. any prior discussion.) [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 18:49, 26 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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==Some new Japanese awards==<br />
There are a few new Japanese awards I think out to be included here, so I'll group them under one heading to make it easier than a bunch of different sections. This will also allow us to learn the names of some of the Japanese fanzines out there, and therefore be able to find information on them and add them to the database here.<br />
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===Nippon SF Fandom Award===<br />
This award (日本SFファンドム賞) was given out from 1965-1969, then replaced by the Seiun Award. We have the latter in the database, but not the former. I'll be happy to enter the information for it. There aren't too many to list, as shown [https://www.sf-fan.gr.jp/etc/fandom_award.html here] (same website/group where they host the Seiun Awards). It was given by the same group that gives out the Seiun Award, and there is only one level (no categories), so it's an uncomplicated award to enter.<br />
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: Sounds pretty straightforward. If there are no objections, I will add these on Monday. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 13:24, 27 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:: [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?105 Done]. Please feel free to edit the record and add a category. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 08:38, 1 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::Thanks! I'll work on them. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:34, 2 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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===SF Fanzine Awards===<br />
This award (SFファンジン大賞) was given out between 1982 and 2003 to speculative fiction fanzines in Japan. The winners were decided by a committee that changed annually. Japanese site [https://www.sf-fan.onn.jp/184/185/ here]. It had several categories:<br />
*Fanzine Grand Prize (ファンジン大賞)<br />
*Creative (創作部門)<br />
*Critique (評論部門)<br />
*Translation/Presentation (翻訳・紹介部門)<br />
*Art (アート部門)<br />
*Layout (レイアウト部門)<br />
*Editorial Work (エディトリアルワーク部門)<br />
*Research (研究部門)<br />
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: Looks like Layout was merged with Art in '84 and '85 before being dropped entirely? Dunno if that merits a separate category being created for those 2 years... [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 08:51, 27 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:: A new award type [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?106 has been created]. Please feel free to create award categories. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 08:41, 1 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::Thanks! I'll work on them. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:34, 2 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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===Takumi Shibano Award===<br />
This award (柴野拓美賞) was given at the same time as the SF Fanzine Award, but was judged solely by [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?23499 Takumi Shibano]. It was a single award given out each year (though a few times people shared the award in a single year). [https://www.sf-fan.onn.jp/184/185/ Same site] as above. It's considered a separate award from the SF Fanzine Awards rather than a category under that award.<br />
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I'll be happy to add these. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:57, 26 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?107 Done]. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 08:46, 1 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks! I'll work on them. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:34, 2 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Banner Art ==<br />
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The last banner art that I uploaded was in 2009. The first banner art was put together in 2007 on a glass CRT with VGA resolution (640x480 pixels), and the last one was done on my first LCD display with DVI resolution (1920x1200 pixels). The banners are 90x900 pixels, which was about 40% wider than the VGA screen, and about 50% of the DVI screen, which seemed like a pretty substantial size at the time. My current display is 5120x2880, so a banner is now about 3/4 inch tall, and pretty difficult to see any detail. So a few things:<br />
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1. I've been upscaling the banners using an AI tool. I'm running them on isfdb2.org at 180x1800, which seems to be a pretty good match for my current browser width. They are pretty good, but not perfect (especially some of the smaller lettering) but my 2009-era computer doesn't turn on any more, so the original photoshop files may be lost.<br />
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2. In 2020 Ahasuerus put a notice on the [[Banner Art Credits]] page to post new images here. I have been working with Generative AI at work, so I thought I would apply some of that to generating a new banner art candidate. It's artwork from a 1950s-era magazine that never existed on our timeline - let's call it "Interplanetary Stories". All the images were created by DALL-E, with prompts to push it towards an early 1950s artwork style. Obviously, it is copyright free. (The version of the banner displayed below is smaller than 90x900, in order to meet the 200kB size limit of the wiki. See the 180x1800 size version here: [https://www.isfdb2.org/IsfdbBanner13.jpg])<br />
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[[File:IsfdbBanner13.jpg]]<br />
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3. If anyone has requests for a banner honoring a specific magazine (from our timeline), post it here or on my talk page. Otherwise, I may pull over a few more alternate timeline magazines. [[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] ([[User talk:Alvonruff|talk]]) 20:32, 27 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: The new banner looks pretty good except for the second woman from the right whose face looks off. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 07:44, 28 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:: What about the "leaf woman"? Her forearms are totally merged together. I'm sure that's explained in the cover story. How about this new blaster woman?<br />
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[[User:Alvonruff|Alvonruff]] ([[User talk:Alvonruff|talk]]) 22:18, 31 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::: The face is much better! The way she holds the blaster looks a bit odd, but then I have never held a functional blaster, so what do I know? [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 08:49, 1 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Alan Brennert Questions ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?274235; https://archive.org/details/weirdromancetwoo0000menk; PV doesn't respond to much these days, so does anyone know why ISBN is different? Did Samuel French release different editions? Also, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58584, where someone added a link but according to a note on the Archive.org page Brennert's story "The Second Soul" was removed at his request and seems it was never reprinted in print, so maybe someone knows some shadowy ancient archived SF site or something where they reprinted it. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:46, 27 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== German Pfister ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=pfister&type=Name; Last 2 authors are likely the same. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 21:07, 28 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Charnas Stories ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?273; A couple of questions about her stories. "Oak and Ash" was published in a 1992 issue of Pulphouse Magazine which nobody's going to have, I'm sure, but it was reprinted in a shady sex anthology in 2001, Sextopia. I can't get any info about that, so maybe someone will admit to having it. Also, "Land of Lost Content" is in 1998's Streets of Blood, one of a million Martin H. Greenberg anthologies, as original but online info suggests it's Chapter 2 of her 1980 novel The Vampire Tapestry. No copies of the anthology, either (there's a 15-photo copy on eBay but the seller seemed more interested in showing the covers from every angle instead of taking a clear photo of the acknowledgments page), so if anyone owns a copy maybe it mentions this so a note can be added here about it. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:41, 29 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== A Wrinkle in Time Cover Art ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1079586; It's unlikely that the 1976 date is correct because the artist's next credit is 1990. I think there's some confusion with this, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?581503, which has similar art. EDIT: This page, https://www.tor.com/2023/05/25/can-you-solve-the-classic-wrinkle-in-time-cover-mystery/, doesn't mention John Berkey who did other 1976 Dell covers, but this page, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nmFZMfSDiAMJ:https://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/179261051240/john-berkey&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1&vwsrc=0, says he did it. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:56, 30 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Self-nomination for self-approver - Philfreund ==<br />
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I would like to nominate myself to be a self-approver. If that's granted, I'll be certain to continue to ask for help if I'm uncertain as to the best approach to take. Granting me this will likely shorten the submission queue significantly since I'm entering a lot of ClonePub submissions on a daily basis, mainly for audiobooks and audio/MP3 CDs. Thanks for your consideration. [[User:Philfreund|Phil]] ([[User talk:Philfreund|talk]]) 13:56, 30 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
: Support. Had not seen too many hiccups with Phil's submissions in the last months and he had shown a willingness to seek and listen to advice (and remember it for future submissions). [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 16:53, 30 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
: Support, [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 19:03, 30 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
: Support[[User:Kraang|Kraang]] ([[User talk:Kraang|talk]]) 00:11, 1 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
: Support. No complaints! --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 08:27, 1 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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=== Outcome ===<br />
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Self-approver flag has been set on the account. Congratulations! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 10:01, 5 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Thanks everyone! [[User:Philfreund|Phil]] ([[User talk:Philfreund|talk]]) 12:32, 5 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== K. Sano ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=iko+sano&type=Name; Kazumiko only has 1 credit; may be the same as Kazuhiko. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:49, 30 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
:It's definitely an unusual name (Kazumiko). However, that credit was a decade prior to anything by Kazuhiko, and as [https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hiller_b_b SFE] and [https://gamebooks.org/Item/2764/Show others] also list the credit as "Kazumiko", I think we should stick with things as they currently are. It's possible it's a typo, but it could also be a rare name. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:05, 31 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Bad Poetry ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11176; https://ibecomethebeast.com/autumn-2023/; The poem by John Grey, "Man/Beast", was published in an old 1998 issue of Jack Fisher's Flesh & Blood as "Man-Beast". The other Grey poems may qualify vaguely as genre so if anyone thinks it's worth entering this magazine for that I'm just mentioning it. Also, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21876, where I believe the essay is correct but the poems should be with John Grey since John Gray is an alternate name for him. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 07:58, 31 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Portuguese titles capitalisation / rationalisation ==<br />
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For anyone with an interest in Portuguese titling, please take a look at [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Portuguese_titles_capitalisation_.2F_rationalisation this discussion]. Kev. --[[User:BanjoKev|BanjoKev]] ([[User talk:BanjoKev|talk]]) 16:00, 31 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Sexpunks BC ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?29722; I and another editor have been doing a few edits for early 90s Spine-Tingling Press cassettes (at least 2, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Matthew Costello, are MIA) and there are some annoying details but this one I think someone can answer. A note, likely written by me some time ago since it's in my particular style, mentions that Mark Molnar did the back cover for a book that almost certainly never would have been published if the author didn't run the company, Sexpunks & Savage Sagas. Is it possible the artist is this man, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?263913? From the back of a book of "erotic" stories by an obscure publisher to doing a cover for an edition of Dune, one of the most famous SF books of all time, from an expensive specialty publisher? Can it be true? Also see this thread, https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Username#Monsters:_Three_Tales, in case anyone has anything helpful to say about those issues. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:52, 31 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Ace Earth Abides ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5679463; Any of the many active PV think this should be by Ace Star since it does say that on cover and copyright page? ISFDB has 31 "Ace Star" books and 4 "Ace Star / Ace Books" books. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 21:02, 31 May 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Barrington J. Bayley ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5679804; I added a new link; story text is different than old link on Weird Fiction Review. Were Bayley's stories revised for his collection? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:43, 1 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== German Ghost Book ==<br />
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[https://archive.org/search?query=cynthia+asquith&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22&and%5B%5D=language%3A%22German%22]; Link to the German edition of 1950s anthology The Second Ghost Book from 1971, I think, in case anyone wants to enter it. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 14:20, 1 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Grand Canyon Artists ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1347049; I have 2 edits, adding cover image (from SFE) to Brit edition and price to American edition (also fixed author's name because it's the same in both editions and there really was never a variant); however, there are signatures on both covers. Brit, lower right, looks like 2 initials followed by Lupton, while American, lower right, has KW. Artists for other books by the publishers on ISFDB don't match up to either so if anyone can find out more reply here. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:38, 2 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Costello's Vacation ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1309571; MLB PV a transient copy of HC which has author's name wrong, Google Books copy says there's no J., TP uploaded in 2021 is raggedy and has no title or copyright page but also has no J. on cover, supposedly CD edition has no J., so as usual there's not really a variant name and they're all by Matthew Costello, no J., in case anyone can see TP title page which would clinch it and then HC and TP can be changed to no J. and variant deleted. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:08, 2 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== German Horseman ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?42064; https://archive.org/search?query=horseman+hubble%27s&sort=-addeddate; I entered Archive.org link, fixed page count, and added cover artist in a pending edit to the American edition of Hubbles' Treasure Hunt and while doing so saw that book linked above which is a 1971 (?) translation of Hubble's Bubble, in case anyone wants to enter that. The publisher, Union Verlag Stuttgart, seems to have no books on ISFDB, but I'm guessing there are probably some that should be; 31 hits on Archive.org including another kid's book, Golden-Eye, that looks promising and a title with Hexen in it which I think means "witch" so that's a possibility, too. Ignore the Hans Holzer psychic photography "non-fiction" book which is in English but likely was published in German first by that publisher. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:50, 5 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== ISFDB recording Gateway as imprint ==<br />
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I suspect Gateway as imprint (or even publisher?) is coming to us from Amazon into Fixer, but Gateway is only a marketing website set up by Gollancz. This is noted on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Gollancz_Ltd this page] under the sub-heading "SF Gateway website", and with more detail here [https://www.gollancz.co.uk/category/sf-gateway/ Gollancz] and here [https://www.sfgateway.com/ sfgateway]. If it's agreed, could we have a Fixer tweak so that pubs/ebooks coming onto the DB start out as imprint/publisher Gollancz / Orion? See [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubseries.cgi?9 this example] of the disparity. Thanks, Kev. --[[User:BanjoKev|BanjoKev]] ([[User talk:BanjoKev|talk]]) 21:04, 5 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: Ever since Amazon killed off API access to Amazon UK data - circa 2019? - I imagine I've added more Gateway pubs than Fixer has, so changing the Fixer config might not help that much. My recollection of things is:<br />
: * "Proper" Gollancz releases are listed on Amazon, Blackwell's, etc, as being published by Gollancz. (Waterstones are annoying, as they just bundle everything as the parent Orion group - grr)<br />
: * SF Masterworks are listed as being published by Gateway, but actually have Gollancz on the title and copyright pages. e.g. see Roadmarks [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?930344 tp] and [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?943450 ebook]. I know when I first started actively submitting pubs, I did a few of these as "Gateway", but when I saw that PVers were subsequently changing them to Gollancz, I've got a mental note to change the submission accordingly.<br />
: * I *think* there might be an exception to the former if there was previously a Gateway ebook that has been "promoted" to be a Masterwork, but retains the same ISBN. I think those might just get a new cover image slapped onto the ebook, but the title page still has Gateway branding. I think I might have a Silverberg that falls into this category, will try to dig it out in a bit. '''EDIT''': Some inconsistent findings: My purchased-in-2021 ebook of Silverberg's The Book of Skulls has an SF Masterworks cover, but the title page has Gateway. Other than the cover, I suspect this ebook is identical to [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?447130 the 2011 "yellow cover" Gateway pub] recorded here. OTOH, my ebook of Clarke's Imperial Earth still has Gateway branding on the cover, even if I download a fresh copy on a different device. The metadata in the title does claim it's [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?943090 an SF Masterworks edition], but there's nothing to support that. Both of these ebooks have Gollancz on the copyright page FWIW.<br />
: * "Proper" Gateway releases have "Gateway" on the title page, even though they may well have Gollancz on the copyright page. An example of this is [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?827485 my PVed Warm Worlds and Otherwise ebook]; although it's not explicitly stated in the note, I have just opened the ebook, and the title page has the "Gateway" logo with www.sfgateway.com below. My understanding of the rules is that the title page trumps the copyright page, so these should be recorded as "Gateway / Orion" (or some variant thereof) rather than "Gollancz / Orion" (or some variant thereof).<br />
: The impression I get is that there's no meaningful separation of Gollancz and Gateway in terms of staff, office, etc, but there are a few peripheral things I've noticed that make me inclined towards keeping the entities separate here:<br />
: * The Gollancz site no longer lists SF Masterworks, or at least the majority of them e.g. [https://www.gollancz.co.uk/contributor/roger-zelazny/ the Zelazny page] doesn't have the aforementioned Roadmarks - or any of his other Masterworks pubs - but they are on [https://www.sfgateway.com/contributor/roger-zelazny/ the Gateway site]. This wasn't the case a few years ago; there seemed to be an active decision to separate Masterworks from the Gollancz site. (Even though they have Gollancz on the books themselves..) <br />
: * Similarly, Masterworks pubs used to be listed in the Orion trade catalogues, but nowadays they just get (at best) a brief mention of the line in the Gollancz section, with no details about what pubs might be coming out that period.<br />
: [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 06:33, 6 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Picazo Format ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5672945; All the 25+ Marte XXI series books are TP so I changed the final one to the same, mod says a site he checked disagrees, I doubt they changed format for one book so Linguist, who seems to be in edit history for most of these books, or someone can possibly say what it really is and hopefully my edit can be un-rejected, although the fact that page count is much higher for the last book and cover artist is different than all others points to a slight possibility that maybe they got fancy when they knew the series was coming to an end and jacked up the size. I also note that only a few have prices and 2 are missing cover artists in case anyone can fill in that missing info. I was pretty surprised to see that none are PV, unusual for old SF series on this site. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:08, 6 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
: Did you look at the cited sources? All three agree the size is 18cm x 11cm. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 11:07, 6 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
::As you say, but since none are PV I wonder if they really changed format for the last in the series or whether some or all of the earlier ones should be TP, too. In this case I wonder if those sources confused this particular edition with its earlier '62 Fleuve Noir PB; there's a note in the previous book's record about confusion between Picazo and Fleuve Noir. Also, another Picazo series here has 4 Asimov books with 1 having an unknown format, so maybe someone knows that, too. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:37, 6 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Todd Ritter = Alan Finn = Riley Sager ==<br />
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Currently author [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?191380 Todd Ritter] has the alternate name [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?209069 Alan Finn], with one shortfiction for the former and a novel for the latter.<br />
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riley_Sager Wikipedia] informs me that [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?313188 Riley Sager] is another pseudonym. That author currently has 2 novels in the database - both of which have title notes explaining that their eligibility here isn't 100% certain - and the aforelinked Wikipedia page indicates the Sager alias is the most profilic and current one.<br />
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Any preferences to which one should be the primary? I'm slightly inclined towards Sager, but happy to go with any consensus. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 17:41, 6 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
: How many of the Sager novels are genre? It won't matter that he uses that for most of his thrillers if they are not genre. I am leaning towards Ritter quite honestly (when the numbers are about the same, I'd go with the legal name or the currently used name) - unless we have enough Sager novels to balance it that way a lot more. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 17:47, 6 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:: No idea - he wasn't on my radar at all, until I skimmed through the forthcoming list and saw there was one out today. I've glanced through the blurbs on his site, and of the 7 novels, if we take away the two already in the database, only one looks like it might possibly be relevant here, and TBH it feels like it's more gothic than supernatural. I looked at a couple of them on GR, and saw no mention of speculative elements, so I think it's just the two we already have.<br />
:: I don't mind keeping Ritter as the primary, as I guess that'll be slightly less work (no need to redo the Finn author alternate)? [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 18:12, 6 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
::: The gothic ones always get me - it is very hard to sort out which one belongs if you do not read it. We can always reverse the direction if need be. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 18:21, 6 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::: I have 2 pending edits adding Archive.org links to the print editions of his novel and also fixed their page counts; also have an edit for the author adding Wikipedia link and his Amazon photo. There is almost no mention of his short story online; I hope someone can find that somewhere someday and add a link. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:41, 7 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
::::: I've just done the author and title varianting; there's a rilersagerbooks.com link that I guess should be moved from the RS author record to TR, but I'll wait for those other edits to be accepted, just to avoid any risk of async approvals losing anything. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 16:16, 7 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Broken Fantascienza Author Image ==<br />
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https://www.fantascienza.com/catalogo/autori/NILF17713/james-lovegrove/; I made a couple of edits for James Lovegrove books and then decided to replace his B&W image with 1 of 2 nice color images on FantLab; I like to add unique images and since Open Library has none and Fantastic Fiction uses the same image as Amazon that leaves Fantascienza, but unusually the image is broken. Anyone know how to find out what it is/was so I don't use the same image from FantLab, assuming there is a match with one of them? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:57, 7 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Neely ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1096598; https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5685960; As can be seen in my edit I changed the publisher name; I think the 1906 edition may be a date error (there's no edit history) and can probably be deleted. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:37, 7 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Clarkesworld ==<br />
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We had a conversation about this one a few times and it never went anywhere so let's try again. We have two separate series for the magazine:<br />
* [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?35233 Clarkesworld (print issues)] - the print versions<br />
* [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?26273 Clarkesworld Magazine] - the ebooks and the webzines<br />
In addition, the 2022 issues are entered with different editors in both: just Clarke in the [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3087880 ebooks] and Kate Baker, Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace on the [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3014672 print issues]. The magazines are essentially the same and even if they had some extra content, that had not stopped us using a single series elsewhere. I propose to merge the two series and to clear up the editors. Based on the masthead, I favor the 3 editors vs just Clarke but it can be interpreted either way. Any objections to the merge and any thoughts on the list of editors? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 12:52, 7 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: Agree 100% with merging the two series. My choice is to credit the Editor-in-Chief, but I have no objection to crediting all three. Some of the publication records could also use some cleanup. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 14:03, 7 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::I've no concerns with combining the series. I too feel that we should go with a single editor. I had previously thought our policy was to go with the Editor-in-Chief when multiple types of editors are listed, but the last time I researched that I couldn't find it documented. I'd go with the Editor-in-Chief. I will note that neither Miller/Contento nor Locus1 list an edition. FictionMags doesn't for the early issues, and lists Sean Wallace for the most recent ones. He is also listed on Galactic Central. For the single issue for which I have a hard copy, Kate Baker is credited as Non-Fiction Editor/Podcast Director which seems a little attenuated to me. I'd like to avoid getting into a situation like the semiprozine Hugo nominations for [https://file770.com/2022-hugo-award-finalists/ Strange Horizons]. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:02, 7 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Yellow Peril ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?287140; I added Archive.org link to PB and saw LCCN says 383 for HC which is much higher than what's on ISFDB; does anyone own a copy who can correct page count if necessary? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:25, 7 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Times Mirror ==<br />
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After coming across countless NEL books that say "Times Mirror" on title page I realized it wasn't a co-publisher or imprint but just distributor or parent company or something similar and shouldn't actually be entered here as part of the publisher name; I removed the ones I had changed to New English Library / Times Mirror a while back (thank goodness there were only 4) but this one, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5447529, was not done by me. I suspect I must have seen this and followed along blindly. The note is not by me, I just added Archive.org link, but notes in a couple of the other records are written similarly so I probably just cut-and-pasted this original note. So if anyone (I think 1 PV, Spacecow, is still sort of active) wants to make publisher of this one just New English Library that's up to them. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 00:02, 8 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Rest In Agony ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?828278; I replaced Younger's Pharaoh book cover and uploaded new cover for this book from Bookscans; ID doesn't match what's on the cover. I don't know who's responsible for that, MLB who uploaded the old cover, RTrace who secondary verified stuff, Rosa, anybody else that worked on this, so someone may want to decide what to do about that. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:16, 8 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Magic Ring ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1135737; The Valancourt TP was just upped on Archive.org, I made an edit, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5687545, but there's problems. Someone named ElectricStarboard was the last one to edit the HC and seems to have altered the title. Judging by their page and the fact that almost every message is about how they fixed or merged or did other stuff incorrectly I'm guessing that the HC should also have the subtitle; if it does, and assuming the Sturgis intro is just the TP intro ported over verbatim, then TP intro I entered and HC intro can be merged. I'm pretty sure, being a deluxe edition, the HC would also have the short story "Field of Terror" that as of now is only in the TP. Whenever there's a "data from Amazon" note that usually means page count is wrong and I fixed it for the TP but even though HC also says the same in the note judging from online info that page count may be correct, although almost certainly Roman numerals would need to be added to it for all the essays and other stuff at the beginning. Does anyone own the HC? That would be very helpful. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:45, 8 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5687723; ISFDB has a 1989 edition which is barebones, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?37485, and the Knopf edition I edited says original was by Michael Joseph in 1989 so I assume that's what it should be here. Surprisingly, only 2 editions are on Archive.org, Knopf and a 14th (?) printing of 1990 Penguin with a cover from some completely different book by another author for some reason. I assume the preface I entered comes from the 1989 edition so if anyone has it and enters it the preface can be re-dated and merged. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:16, 9 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Archives of Haven ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?20178; Notes in other 2 books in the series about getting Corgi Joe Petagno cover credits from R. Holdstock's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, no credit for this book, there's a copy of the encyclopedia on Archive.org with no mention, it seems, of this book but a few online sites identify it as by Petagno. All 4 PV are gone so does anyone know if it's him or not? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:42, 9 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Wrong Titles On Archive.org ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5688508; A cautionary tale here. Elizabeth Engstrom's 1992 20-story collection Nightmare Flower was upped last month so I added a link and fixed/added various things. On a whim I decided to enter her name in the search page but in text contents instead of metadata. Not really expecting to find anything I hadn't already entered I was stunned to see her first book, When Darkness Loves Us, a 1985 two-story collection. Since Valancourt put out their reprint edition a few years ago I've tried many times to find somewhere online that showed any of the several earlier editions and could never find any site that showed a contents page so I could enter the numbers, which was very annoying. It turns out the reason why it couldn't be found on Archive.org specifically is because whoever upped it way back in 2011 got it mixed up with a completely different title from another author and publisher. They're not even close. This is far from the first time a book had the wrong title on that site but for some reason I had never thought to search contents for this one. So to anyone looking for anything on that site I suggest searching for titles/ISBN/whatever in contents because you may find a lot of stuff you didn't think was there if you just searched for them the regular way. I'm very happy about this but a few things remain that need doing; the Tor edition has the same page count as the HC and I assume page numbers are the same, so if anyone owns a copy they can verify that and enter them. The Apex edition has a completely different page count which may or may not be right; maybe someone has a copy of that, too. Finally, the first story says it's a novelette but page count is almost 70, way over the 50-page limit for that length, yet in the Hartwell anthology that it was reprinted in the count varies from 30 pages in the HC to around 60 in the PB while in the Valancourt PB (which I edited last year using a library copy) it's 65. So I have a feeling it should be a novella, too, like the second story in the collection. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:43, 9 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: Your submission is approved. My rough count was approx. 19,000 words. I would approve the change. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 20:05, 9 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
::Done. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 22:08, 9 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::I added WorldCat ID to the Apex edition and noticed note says "data from Amazon" which is a signal that info, especially page count, is probably wrong; WorldCat says 201 pages, not 218, so I made an edit changing it since that's probably correct or closer to it, anyway. I also noticed it says "updated foreword" on their page but I don't know what that means because Theodore Sturgeon was dead for nearly 25 years when this edition came out (I see he died in May of 1985 so the foreword was likely one of the last things he wrote before he died; sad). Supposedly this edition is in 2 public libraries down south in North Carolina and Kentucky which makes sense because Apex is based in Kentucky, but there's also a copy in a university in Taiwan (?!?). --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 16:10, 13 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Change series name: Chubby Lewis Barnavelt ==<br />
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I'm not sure how the series name [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?1404 Chubby Lewis Barnavelt] was created but I think it's offensive as-is. I suggest it should be changed to simply "Lewis Barnavelt". Are there any objections? [[User:Philfreund|Phil]] ([[User talk:Philfreund|talk]]) 08:01, 10 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I updated it. Regardless of the offensive part, searching for "Chubby Lewis Barnavelt" produces only 11 hits[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Chubby+Lewis+Barnavelt%22]. Strickland's books have "John Bellairs's Lewis Barnavelt in TITLE" on cover and title page. It seems more reasonable people would be looking to find this as "Lewis Barnavelt" than "Chubby Lewis Barnavelt". --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:49, 10 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:: The series was called "Chubby Lewis" in the 1997 [https://sf-encyclopedia.com/fe/bellairs_john Encyclopedia of Fantasy]. I can't find the word "Chubby" in the e-text that I have. I'll need to check my paper library to see if I have an early edition. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 10:30, 10 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::https://bellairsia.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-is-chubby-lewis.html. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:48, 10 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:::: Checking the 1993 reprint of the first book, I see that other children call the protagonist "Fatty" on a couple of occasions, but there are no references to "Chubby" that I can find. I found a reference to "her chubby friend Lewis" in ''The Ghost in the Mirror'' (volume 4, 1993, completed by Brad Strickland), but that's it.<br />
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:::: I guess we can add a note explaining that the protagonist is called "Chubby Lewis" in the ''Encyclopedia of Fantasy'', the ''Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy'' and in Don D'Ammassa's ''Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction'', but we can find no occurrences of this nickname in the editions that we have access to. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 11:35, 10 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
::::: Back cover of this book says "Chubby Lewis": https://archive.org/search?query=%22barnavelt%22+%22chubby+lewis%22&sin=TXT. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:43, 10 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:::::: Thanks. I have updated the Notes field with the information that we currently have. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 14:08, 10 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Williamson Effect Intro ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5689255; One of those OL-only copies with no preview; while correcting page count I noticed intros in HC and TP are entered differently. There's also a similarly titled essay in a 2008 David Brin collection, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=love+with+change&type=All+Titles, but it has a 2006 date with no note about where it came from. So the '96 intros can be merged if someone decides which one is more properly titled; whether the later essay is the same one is hard to say because there's no copy of that collection. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 18:36, 10 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Jelly Ink ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=jelly+ink&type=Publisher; I just made an edit adding a link to the 4th printing of Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link; publisher is Jelly Ink / Small Beer Press even though Jelly Ink is only mentioned on copyright page, but a chapbook by Link, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?28159, is as by Jelly Ink Press with a note about being an imprint. Both of those things can't be right so which publisher name should be the parent? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:50, 11 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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: Later printings of "Stranger Things Happen" (with unknown dates of publication) are verified, so we shouldn't change them. [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] ([[User talk:Stonecreek|talk]]) 12:14, 11 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
::PV Andrewk and Teddybear are no longer active. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:34, 11 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Math Book ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?249351; I see in history that I added cover and price nearly 2 years ago but this book really doesn't belong here, being non-genre and with no review, so should probably be deleted. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 17:51, 11 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Agreed. I've removed it. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:48, 12 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Golden Enemy ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?20192; A discussion of a book by Alexander Key on the boards here prompted me to add a few minor things to 2 of his books I'd edited long ago but I also noticed The Golden Enemy, which I never edited, has a copy on Archive.org, https://archive.org/search?query=golden-enemy, which is 166 pages, not 176 like ISFDB and many other sites say, while there's an Open Road reprint that says 156 pages. This copy, https://picclick.com/The-Golden-Enemy-by-Alexander-Key-194249590087.html, looks like it has the same copyright page so I don't think the archived copy is book club or anything, and there are no Westminster book club editions on ISFDB. So if anyone can solve this mystery, respond here. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 19:18, 11 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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I have collected Alexander Key books for years, and I find that with Westminster Press it can be very hard to determine what printing you have. They did not bother marking First Editions or reprints until sometime in the later 1970's, from what I have seen. I recently posted a copy of "The Forgotten Door" that I belive is a First Edition, mainly because of the ads on the dust jacket. I think some titles had very few printings, if not just one. While a few titles were quite popular and were probably reprinted numerous times. I know "The Forgotten Door" was reprinted, because I own a few differnt editions, including later printings with number strings on the copyright page for a 13th printing, and a 14th printing. I believe "The Golden Enemy" was also popular and reprinted several times. This could be part of the page numbering issue, but it could also just be a cataloging mistake. The Library of Congress records a copy with 176 pages. I have seen cases where the mistake of one library is copied by cataloging departments in several libraries. Basically if someone in The Library of Congress made a mistake, it may have been replicated may times. I have an early copy of this title, but it is packed away right now, so I can't check it. I have seen books where the page numbering was changed to include an "About the Author" page, or an afterword, but 10 pages does seem to be a bit much. [[User:Bernarrd|Bernarrd]] ([[User talk:Bernarrd|talk]]) 16:49, 18 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Heads up on making edits to several hundred pubs, some of which may have verifications ==<br />
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Per [[User_talk:Ahasuerus#Weird_broken_Amazon_image_URLs]] , there are ~600 author and pub record that have Amazon image URLs that are now broken. Most of these URLs can be fixed programmatically, and I've got a simple script to submit the edits via the API.<br />
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Some of these pubs may well have verifications, apologies for any notification spam you might get for them, but I don't think there's any need to create talk page items for everyone whose edits may be affected.<br />
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Although the process is simple, the clicking through approvals for several hundred edits (especially on the selfmoderator pages?) will be tedious, so I'll probably be doing this over the next few days. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 07:52, 12 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Kevin Clarke: two different people? ==<br />
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[https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?3708 Kevin Clarke] has a late '80s Doctor Who novelization, and 3 bits of fanart from the early 80s, on his page. I strongly suspect these are 2 different people:<br />
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* [https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/clarke_kevin The SFE page] only mentions his Doctor Who work<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Clarke_(writer) Wikipedia] only mentions involvement in music, TV and academia, although I suspect a few bits of fanart wouldn't get much of a mention.<br />
* [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Kevin_Clarke TARDIS wiki] (not currently linked from here) doesn't have much, but only mentions TV work<br />
* Googling for '"kevin clarke" bsfa' indicates he may have been active in UK fandom earlier and later than the work on record here e.g. [https://news.ansible.uk/a04.html November 1979 Ansible], [https://efanzines.com/Prolapse/Prolapse04.pdf a 2006 fanzine] (PDF, pages 20 and 26); possibly [https://fanac.org/conpubs/Novacon/Novacon%2040/N40_PR1_colour.pdf a 2010 Novacon progress report].<br />
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At the very least I feel this merits an author note, but would there be any objection to separating these out into two different author records? [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] ([[User talk:ErsatzCulture|talk]]) 10:03, 13 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Adding a note is a sure thing for sure (Sure? Sure!). I do have some reservations about dividing the entries / authors: things like those do happen (a fan being active in two areas): there are some who do both, and others who begin in one field (say drawing) and do find their fulfilment in another one (say writing, or vice versa). That the candidate(s) both was/were active in the 1980s and seem(s) to stem from the British Isles, leaves the distinct possibility that it is the same person, I'd think. <br />
: And none of the given sources would mention fan artwork, I'd think (because they aren't aware of it). Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] ([[User talk:Stonecreek|talk]]) 14:43, 13 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Stories from the Twilight Zone ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?33354; I have an edit adding LCCN ID to this TP edition but noticed there was a 1989 PB on Archive.org which somehow was never entered here so I made an edit for that, too, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5691762, but there's a cover art question; 1986 says Roger Bergendorf did the "cover photo" but 1989 says Stan Watts did the "cover art" which has a 1986 copyright date. It looks like art to me so if anyone is familiar with Watts' style maybe they can identify him as the artist and his name can be entered, possibly with a note in TP record about wrong cover credit. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 01:52, 14 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:You'll have to discuss with the primary verifier, who's active as editor. [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] ([[User talk:Stonecreek|talk]]) 05:08, 14 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
::TP PV is transient so they wouldn't have their copy anymore and they probably have no idea about the art question because they didn't even enter Bergendorf as cover artist (maybe they thought photos don't count as art, even though by looking at it closely it appears to be artwork and not a photo). There's no PV to ask about the PB because that edition wasn't on ISFDB until I added it (approval pending). Maybe someone is familiar with Watts' art and can identify it as his or there's a clear copy with a signature somewhere on the cover. It wouldn't make sense to have 2 separate art credits here for what's obviously the same art so one artist should be decided on and entered. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:07, 14 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Eclipse Pages/Dates ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5692038; Most of Beford's books are either on Archive.org or in 2 cases OL-only no-preview editions; the last one I edited has a couple of issues. Note says it should be 309 pages per ISFDB but it should really be 311, right? also, these Edge books sometimes have that Canada/USA date thing on copyright page; how to tell what's a USA edition if they just put both dates? Couldn't this book just as easily have a 2006 date? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:20, 14 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Daw Duplicate ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?669885; Should the non-PV record be deleted? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 21:09, 15 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
: It has a different ISBN and based on the ISBN and the fact that it is a later one, I'd say it is a reprint and probably a 2000 one (See the rest of the ISBNs starting with the same numbers [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?USE_1=pub_publisher&O_1=exact&TERM_1=DAW+Books&C=AND&USE_2=pub_isbn&O_2=starts_with&TERM_2=08867788&USE_3=pub_title&O_3=exact&TERM_3=&USE_4=pub_title&O_4=exact&TERM_4=&USE_5=pub_title&O_5=exact&TERM_5=&USE_6=pub_title&O_6=exact&TERM_6=&USE_7=pub_title&O_7=exact&TERM_7=&USE_8=pub_title&O_8=exact&TERM_8=&USE_9=pub_title&O_9=exact&TERM_9=&USE_10=pub_title&O_10=exact&TERM_10=&ORDERBY=pub_title&ACTION=query&START=0&TYPE=Publication here]). Looking up that second ISBN online (0886778832), I see some records so seems like a valid one indeed. I will do some more digging and eventually re-date to 0000-00-00 for now if I cannot confirm the 2000 and if it still looks like a reprint. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 22:07, 15 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== French Replay ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?528161; https://archive.org/search?query=grimwood+seuil; As I was adding edits to some editions of K. Grimwood's Replay I found that French one. Edit history shows only Hauck who according to his page here wants nothing to do with this site and says it's no use to "left" messages, so any other French-fluent editors who want to enter that (price is different on the back so I assume it's some other printing) can do so if they wish. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:25, 16 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== New cleanup report: pre-1967 pubs with an ISBN ==<br />
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A new cleanup report has been deployed. It looks for pre-1967 publications with an ISBN. The data will become available tomorrow morning. I expect the report to find 49 suspect records. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 14:15, 16 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 17:27, 16 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Desert of Death's Domain ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5694536; I think all 3 PV are gone so someone who's into these Rhodan books may want to look at this one because I see some possible problems with series being part of title and title in contents being shortened and also having one with a # and one without. Maybe this is correct and the way others in the series were entered but I doubt it. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:03, 16 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Yellow warnings for ISBNs enhanced ==<br />
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In NewPub/AddPub/EditPub/ClonePub submissions, post-submissions yellow warnings for ISBNs have been enhanced as follows:<br />
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* Multiple yellow warnings are now fully supported. In the past, only some combinations of yellow warnings were displayed.<br />
* The threshold year for pubs with ISBNs has been changed from 1970 to 1967. The language of the warning has been clarified to indicate that ISBNs are not allowed for pre-1967 publications.<br />
* If you edit a publication with an ISBN value and change the publication date value to a year prior to 1967, the same yellow warning is displayed in the publication date row.<br />
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[[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 10:56, 17 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== R. Dunkley Story Title ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1374862; Open Library lists contents and they say "Zane", not "Zazine"; little photo evidence of this book online, so maybe someone here has a copy and can verify what it is and fix if needed. On the plus side, while looking into this I found that Dunkley has a website and Nick Bantock did the cover art for The Twilight Book, so I made edits adding both. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:33, 18 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Black Is A Man ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?815472; A copy of this rare novel was upped last November so I added a link along with LCCN. There's an awesome sticker on the cover from J.M. Fields with a 57-cent price; that store went out of business in 1978 according to Wikipedia so this copy's at least 45 years old. I didn't see any artist credit inside the book but it may be hiding somewhere in that creepy artwork in case anyone can find it. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 17:26, 18 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I couldn't see any signature on the front or back cover, or on the flaps. I added a note to that effect. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:52, 20 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== King's The Plant ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?92669; http://jerryshouseofeverything.blogspot.com/2017/08/forgotten-book-plant.html; I'd like to know the best way to enter that PDF mentioned at the bottom which is a dead link but is still online at club-stephenking.fr. Is it a novel? A chapbook? It was published electronically in 2000 (note the Stoker nomination here) but it has page numbers. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 10:06, 20 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:Looks like each part should be a SERIAL, with its publication a CHAPBOOK. Although it's unfinished, in composite they would be a novel, so you'd variant all six to a parent NOVEL record and note that it is unfinished. [https://stephenking.com/works/other-project/plant-zenith-rising.html stephenking.com] has info and PDFs for groups of three. I see the site you linked has a PDF for all 6. I would use the page numbers to compute "pages" for the installments and note the actual number range in each one. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 13:50, 20 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Biomass Bob (Robert E. Lumpkin passing 6/20/2023) ==<br />
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Hello ISFDB Community,<br />
My father asked me to share his passing with you all. He died yesterday 6/20/2023 of pneumonia. My brother and I were with him and he died peacefully. The illness came on very suddenly, but once it took hold, it proved impossible to beat. He valued this site and all the contributors so much.<br />
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My brother and I will be selling his spectacular collection of science fiction/fantasy books/media in the next couple of months. We don't share his love of the material and we want it to go to a good home. If anyone can direct us to an appropriate dealer or place to talk about selling his collection, it would be greatly appreciated. We will check back here periodically.<br />
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I apologize if I have placed this notice in the wrong place. Best, Nancy Sowers<br />
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: Hello Nancy, <br />
: No, that's the perfect place for it. I am so sorry for your loss. Bob was a part of the site and of our community and we will sorely miss him. I hope you find some solace in the fact that he won't be forgotten. Try to find some time for yourself in these hard times and we will all miss Bob :( [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 16:36, 21 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:: I am very sorry to hear about Bob's passing :-( He was always very dedicated and a pleasure to work with.<br />
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:: I am afraid I can't help with finding a dealer, but some of our contributors may be in a better position to point you in the right direction. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 17:12, 21 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:I'm so sorry to hear that. Our condolences to you and your family. Bob will be missed. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 19:16, 21 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::Bob was always a pleasure to work with. Sorry to hear he's gone, I'll miss him. As for the collection, you might try Centipede press (mail to jerad@centipedepress.com). Sometimes they sell special collections for family of former customers. I think Bob was one of their better customers, recently he helped them with a [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Biomassbob#Strange_Plasma_issue_8 rare Lafferty story] and his collection is certainly special. --[[User:Willem H.|Willem]] ([[User talk:Willem H.|talk]]) 08:28, 22 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:::My condolences as well. Your father was one of my favorite ISFDB collaborators to work with. I will miss him greatly. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] ([[User talk:MartyD|talk]]) 10:55, 22 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:::He will definitely be missed here. He contributed quite a bit over the years. My condolences to you and to your family. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:35, 22 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::I am so sorry for your loss, Nancy. Bob was great to work with, I valued his input on many projects and he will be missed here. May his memory be a blessing. Rest in Peace, Bob. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] ([[User talk:PeteYoung|talk]]) 03:43, 23 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:::I'm so sorry to hear about Bob. I had lunch with your Bob and your brother at the Windy City Pulp collector's convention in 2019. It was one of most enjoyable encounters I have had in the last several years and I'd hoped to meet with him again.<br />
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:::If you can wait until ~April 2024 to sell his collection, the upcoming Windy City Pulp convention will give you the opportunity to contact 50-100 dealers, and you might be able to arrange for an estate auction.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 12:27, 30 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Golem Questions ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5698892; This is the original edition, I think. Then there is this, https://archive.org/search?query=meyrink+golem+wolff&sort=-addeddate, where the 2 Golem editions are by Kurt Wolff but are different on title/copyright pages. Any of the many German editors here may want to approve my edit and then add details to it which escaped me, being non-fluent in the language, and also enter those other 2 which are likely later editions. On a semi-related note I asked 2 PV recently about Bester's Golem 100 but one of them is now deceased so if anyone knows the answer, possibly the other PV, thanks. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:21, 22 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Madrone Tree ==<br />
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https://archive.org/search?query=the-madrone-tree; There was a recent message here about an A.C. Clarke cover being originally from Dark Dominion by David Duncan; I see his "reviewed in The Arkham Sampler", almost genre, novel The Madrone Tree was recently upped but there's no cover and copyright page is pretty bare so I suspect it's some kind of book club edition, in case anyone can figure out from a gutter code or something what exactly it is and wants to enter it here. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 08:59, 23 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Derek Hegsted ==<br />
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I was adding a few edits to editions of L. Ron Hubbard's Fear when I noticed the note for the 1991 HC said they're not sure where the internal art credit came from, so I found a 1994 article on www.deseret.com which mentioned Hegsted and said he did art for 3 books including Serpent Catch and Murisaki. The first is by Dave Wolverton and credits Derek Hegstead so I did all the needed variants and such but the second is unknown; searching for that title on WorldCat found 1 musical score for the harp and nothing else, so if anyone knows what it is (novel?) that would be great. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:01, 23 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Complete Cthulhu ==<br />
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For Lovecraft fans, https://archive.org/search?query=complete-cthulhu&sort=-addeddate; not sure which edition it is, leather bound or collectible ("collectible" didn't show up in a text search and "leather" only shows up in some of the stories) and it's a 3rd printing, I think, but ISFDB has a 9th (!) printing. So I mention it in case anyone wants to enter. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:41, 24 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Baen Books vs. Baen Fantasy ==<br />
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See this discussion, https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Dirk_P_Broer#Warriorwards, in case any of the many PV agree and want to make Baen Fantasy a publisher series and make Baen Books the publisher. This is similar, I think, to how most people entered the countless Tor publications as just that but a handful decided to enter Tor Horror, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?73896, as if that's a separate publisher or something. EDIT: There's also a related issue where a handful entered Avon Horror as a series, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubseries.cgi?9753, when it isn't. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:47, 24 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== 2 Vikings ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubs_not_in_series.cgi?67171; First book is by cheap UK 50's PB publisher while others are UK editions of major American publisher Viking so something should be added to PB publisher to differ. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 14:25, 24 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== WSFA Small Press Award ==<br />
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Is the [https://wsfasmallpressaward.org/ WSFA Small Press Award] in the database? I was checking a few authors who were already nominated for it but couldn't find it in neither their pages or in the Awards Directory. [[User:Alittlebook|Alittlebook]] ([[User talk:Alittlebook|talk]]) 18:55, 16 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:It doesn't look like it's been added yet, looking at the [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/award_directory.cgi list of awards]. I think it's likely eligible. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:26, 19 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::Thanks! Where is the best place to propose a new addition to the Awards directory? [[User:Alittlebook|Alittlebook]] ([[User talk:Alittlebook|talk]]) 00:58, 24 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:::Ahaseurus usually adds the award itself, and then any moderator can add categories to it (if needed) and any editor can add awards to various titles and moderators will then approve them. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 16:23, 26 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:::: Sorry I missed the question when it was posted on the Help Desk. I agree that the award looks eligible. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 17:19, 26 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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::::: If there are no objections, I will create this award type tomorrow. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 23:41, 29 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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:::::: The Award Type [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/awardtype.cgi?108 has been created]. Thanks for bringing it to everyone's attention. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 09:18, 30 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Manfred W. ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=manfred+wil&type=Name; Usual PV for these languages, Stonecreek, JLochhas, Rudam, Willem, so if any of them know whether these 2 guys are the same or whether one or the other is misspelled and needs to be made a variant or if they're not the same guy at all, have a look. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 17:54, 26 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== James Barry ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?141183; I made some edits for Mutants recently and noticed clicking on James Barry leads to another person's record; some variant is needed. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 13:16, 27 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I disambiguated the two James Barry's. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 01:50, 29 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Two review books ==<br />
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I have two anthologies that are nothing, or almost nothing, but reviews on slick paper. One is [https://www.amazon.com/Paperback-Fantastic-Horror-Justin-Marriott/dp/B0B92HCLRL/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1ZY6MCRPL0TRU&keywords=Paperback+Fantastic+Horror&qid=1687909120&s=books&sprefix=paperback+fantastic+horror%2Cstripbooks%2C104&sr=1-2 Paperback Fantasic #3] and [https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Pulp-Horror-One/dp/1793987548/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19Z86H7GZ1TFN&keywords=the+Collected+Pulp+Horror&qid=1687909847&s=books&sprefix=the+collected+pulp+horror%2Cstripbooks%2C128&sr=1-1 The Collected Pulp Horror]. Both are profusely illustrated with book covers, some in color. Do I list the cover reproductions/reprints along with the reviews and articles? Is there a rule about this? I have no life, so either way is fine, and I got the time to list everything. [[User:MLB|MLB]] ([[User talk:MLB|talk]]) 20:03, 27 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
: If the reproductions are of genre novels and books - YES - as interior art that then gets varianted into the covers when possible! If they are not - as long as the reviews are of eligible books, the whole book is eligible so... yes. There is actually a chance that you may discover previously unknown artists for some of our books - in which case you can add a coverart record crediting the books you are holding and then use that as a parent for the reproduction. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 20:48, 27 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Angry Candy Art ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?123061; I was adding 2 links to Houghton Mifflin and 1 to Mariner (+ page numbers) when I noticed the odd page numbering for the art in Plume; very early 2007 PV here so maybe that was the thing back then but now it doesn't need page numbers, does it? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:00, 28 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Hughart Omnibus ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?136566; Finding a photo of Barry Hughart on FantLab spurred me to add archived links to editions of all 3 of his novels but his omnibus is nowhere to be found. The original publisher apparently published nothing else and the Subterranean edition was re-released with corrections. Someone here must have a copy of one of these books; if they do, I'm sure some info can be fixed/added. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 12:00, 28 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Cleanup Report: Potential Duplicate E-book Publications ==<br />
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I just noticed that all of the titles by Glynn Stewart that have a Patreon edition ebook publication are showing up on the Potential Duplicate E-book Publications Cleanup Report. For example: "A Question of Faith". Right now there's only about 35 of them but is there any way to tweak the report criteria so they aren't on it? They are very definitely not duplicates. [[User:Philfreund|Phil]] ([[User talk:Philfreund|talk]]) 15:58, 28 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
: Thus the word "Potential" - these reports have a hidden functionality in them :) Moderators can ignore the ones which are valid and do not need to be flagged. For non-moderators, if you provide a list of the valid ones in a Moderator Board post, a moderator will look them over and click on the ignore for you. This is valid of a lot of our reports - they don't always mean that there is an issue - or that what they are flagging is the issue - they are just a "go check this again" warning based on automatic checks. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 16:10, 28 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Itsy Bitsy Spider ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1013230; This is a very confused title. I just made 3 PENDING edits removing title from Shivers III, importing title from Read Your Fears into Shivers III, and re-dating that title to date of Shivers III. Now the problem is that the parent title is wrong because this story was co-authored with his daughter (and the 1994 date is also wrong) but his collection Aftershock does list the title in table of contents as Itsy Bitsy Spider and doesn't mention a co-author. Archive.org copy of Aftershock is messed up and doesn't allow any searches so I think the correct thing to do would be to add co-author to parent title and then re-title it and date it to match the kid's anthology it first appeared in and for someone who has access to Aftershock to verify what's on the story's title page and fix if needed. Anyone have it? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 01:20, 29 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
:I reversed the variant and parent so that the original title with both authors is now the parent. Looking at the Amazon Look Inside for ''Aftershock & Others'', Meggan C. Wilson is listed in the acknowledgements for "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and searching her name within the Look Inside shows a hit on page 151 (page story starts on) even though the page is not shown. As such, I added her to that story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:02, 29 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Lucifer and the Child ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5705474; Judging by the wartime note on copyright page and 1944 dates of writing on last page I think book date should be changed to 1945 like WorldCat says. What say you? --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 09:49, 29 June 2023 (EDT)<br />
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== Spanish Genesis ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?88476; https://www.amazon.com/-/es/dp/8432037427; I was entering several edits for Harbinson books and came across this. Someone more familiar with Spanish publications may know what the "2d" on the cover means, whether this is a reprint of the original Planeta or if there was an earlier edition from someone else, and I'm sure the seller's description in Spanish has some info that could be useful. In case anyone wants to enter anything. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 20:29, 29 June 2023 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Rkihara&diff=651564User talk:Rkihara2022-12-21T21:03:46Z<p>Rkihara: /* Willis Couvillier/W. C. Roberts */</p>
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:::Great, thanks. I will split them up. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 16:58, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Who Goes There? ==<br />
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I'm going to make a number of changes to your verified copy of the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57402 August 1938 issue] of ''Astounding''. First off, I'm going to add a link to a scan of the issue from the Internet Archive. I'm also going to change the title of Who Goes There? to include the quotation marks as it appears on the storie's title page (also in the table of contents). Lastly, the story note in the recent reprint of the novella in the Fall 2018 issue of ''Black Infinity'' identifies the artist as H. W. Wesso, so I'll add him as the artist for those illustrations and note the source. Please let me know if you have any problems with these changes. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:10, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:No problem.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:51, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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Ron, thanks for taking the trouble to nominate me for moderator. I'll try to make it look like you have good sense. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 15:07, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:You're welcome. It was long overdue.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:36, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== ''Analog'' July 1975, 'Reference Library' essay credit ==<br />
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I've not made any change to the record yet for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57126 Analog, July 1975] as it's not a straightforward problem requiring a simple fix, and you appear to be the only available Verifier who is around these days. Dave Langford has been in touch with me regarding his forthcoming Algis Budrys essay collection, pointing out that our [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?827144 'Reference Library' record for that issue] is in error credited to Lester del Rey when it was in fact a guest editorial by Budrys. This is in fact the same essay that is also currently in the database as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1621085 Foundation and Asimov] by Budrys from 1996. Before I can proceed on connecting the latter essay as a variant of the former, I need to double check with you how the original was actually credited (del Rey or Budrys), and ask how you would like to proceed with regard to the name – we could credit the essay to Budrys and in the Note for that pub point out that it was given the usual byline of Lester del Rey. Could you please take a look at the pub and let me know what you think would be your preferred course of action as Verifier? Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 17:08, 12 February 2020 (EST)<br />
: OK, Dave Langford has retrieved a copy of that issue from his vaults and confirms it is credited to Budrys. I'll make the change, please let me know if you have any problem with this and we can look at it further. Cheers. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 04:50, 13 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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::No problem, go ahead.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:00, 15 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Second set of eyes on Japanese ==<br />
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Hi Ron, <br />
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Would you mind looking at [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?41420 this series] for me? We have the author as 谷甲州 but looking at Amazon, it seems like the author for all the novels is actually 山田正紀. [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%9F%E7%A5%9E%E5%85%B5%E5%9B%A3 Wiki Japan] seems to also be agreeing that we have the wrong author. I will be more than happy to change them but as you have more Japanese than I do, I would appreciate a quick second look to see if I am missing something. Thanks in advance! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:46, 6 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:Yes, it should be 山田正紀. I'm not sure where 谷甲州 was associated with it, but there is no connection as far as I can tell. They should all be changed to 山田正紀. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:43, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:: I will fix them. Thanks a lot for checking! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:44, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956 ==<br />
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Dave Langford is reporting that the review of "Stories" by "И. Ефремов" on pp. 147-150 of your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57551 ''Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956''] is by Algis Budrys as opposed to P. Schuyler Miller. The [https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v57n04_1956-06_EXciter-LennyS/page/n145/mode/2up Internet Archive] agrees. (Other primary verifiers have been notified.) [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 06:54, 8 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Planet Stories, Summer 1946 ==<br />
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I added some letters to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60036 Planet Stories, Summer 1946]. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 00:40, 2 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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:No problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 02:13, 4 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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== F&SF July 1980 query ==<br />
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Hi. I was reviewing something else in this July 1980 F&SF issue via scanned version on archive.org. (I don't have the paper copy). I found that the page numbers for "Siriusly Speaking" and "Found" appeared to be off by 1 page. The archive.org scanned copy has "Siriously Speaking" on p 134 and "Found" on p 144. I assume that you have a paper copy and can check this; I assume that the scanned copy matches, but would like to be sure. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:21, 2 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know. They start on pages 134 and 144 as you stated. Go ahead and make the corrections.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 14:04, 3 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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Hi. As you know (I'm sure you have moderated some of my edits), I've been working on several aspects of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction entries.<br />
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I just looked at this issue of F&SF: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2006 Publication Record # 115661 <br />
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The Notes for the issue on ISFDB include the information 'Cover illustrates "White Goddess."'<br />
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Now, I would check the cover art title attribution, but I do not have a paper copy, and there does not appear to be a scanned/digital copy at archive.org.<br />
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I did not find any title in the TOC for "White Goddess".<br />
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I am assuming that one of the primary verifiers for this issue has a paper copy and can check this.<br />
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If you don't have access to a paper copy, I'll go on to the others. I started with you because I know you are active on ISFDB.<br />
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Thanks<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]]<br />
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::The cover art is not necessarily linked to a story. The name of the piece is identified at the bottom of the index as "White Goddess" by Max Bertolini.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:50, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
Thanks. Yes, I do see that. At the same time, in this era for F&SF, it was not that common, so I wanted to confirm this was not an error. I've just looked at the SFSITE.com entry for this issue, and it does list the title as being noted on the Contents/copyright page, with no story attached. So, we're done. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 20:27, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Jaida Jones ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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Where is [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3005253 this] birthday coming from? None of the sources we had listed seems to have it, your update does not have a moderator note? I am holding an update to the same date waiting for a source by the submitter... can you please update the notes with the source (or point me to where it is in the 3 sites we list). Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:10, 23 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:Looking back through my spreadsheet of author edits, I retrieved the data from the Wikipedia. It's been five years since I made the edit, so the birthdate may have been removed. I'm pretty much inactive at this point, so I have no problem if anyone wants to change it. I've found that many authors are willing to give or verify their birthdate if there is a question.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:00, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: I misread my dates last night - because of the edit I was holding, I thought it was a recent change. Sorry for bugging you :( Тhe change I hold is changing the year from 1980 to 1986. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 08:28, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1986 ==<br />
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The cover art of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61109 this], the ascribed to G. P. Lendino, a one hit wonder, is claimed by James Gurney in a "Works by" list in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1149930 Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist]. The style is very similar, so I'll make GP Lendino a pseudonym of James Gurney. [[User:Horzel|Horzel]] 09:03, 27 August 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:Okay, no problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:37, 29 August 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Catalyst for Power! ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=birchl&type=Name; Birchly PV by you, should probably be Birchley and merged with same title under that name. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:39, 12 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Account compromised? ==<br />
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Ron,<br />
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It looks like your ISFDB account may have been compromised since it's been used to blank Al's User page. I have reverted the bad edits and disabled the moderator flag on your account until we can get it back to you. Please send an email message to my email address, which is listed at the top of my User page. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:58, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
: It is very easy to rollback something in the new format of wiki by mistake when working on a small touchscreen for example (I got caught in it the first day [https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Rudam#Das_grosse_Warten here] (look at the history of the page to see what happened) and did not even realize that happened until I looked at the Watchlist). I had been a lot more careful when working from small screens (and touch screens) since. So it is possible that this is what happened here as well - although it may as well be a compromised account. We may want to look into adding a "Are you sure?" or something like that? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 19:09, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:: That's a good point. [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/488048/ Show confirmation prompt on rollback links] is a MediaWiki patch which apparently added support for this feature. Let me check if $wgEnableRollbackConfirmationPrompt is mentioned in our settings file. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:34, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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::: Done. I'll post a note on the Community Portal. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:43, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:::: I have reset your password programmatically and sent the new, temporary, password to you via email. Please let me know if it works. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 05:34, 20 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Japanese book words ==<br />
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I decided to make a [[User:Nihonjoe/Japanese book word glossary|Japanese book word glossary]] for quick reference when I need it, and I figured you might be interested in it, too, since you do some Japanese stuff. Feel free to update it. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:26, 16 November 2022 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks for the thought. I've pretty much backed off from editing, although I'm constantly checking things here. I probably have nothing to contribute, as I haven't used Japanese for decades and I've forgotten most of it.—[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 01:42, 17 November 2022 (EST)<br />
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== She and Her Cat ==<br />
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Ron, I've added the UK edition for [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1979732 She and Her Cat] and have a few questions, although I see you're not involving yourself with Japanese titles any more. I have a couple of questions about the title, so could you drop by at Nihonjoe's page [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Nihonjoe#She_and_Her_Cat here] and add any comments you may have? Many thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] ([[User talk:PeteYoung|talk]]) 13:13, 29 November 2022 (EST)<br />
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== Willis Couvillier/W. C. Roberts ==<br />
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Hi Ron,<br />
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I am not sure if you recall the details, but it looks like way back [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/author_history.cgi?147501 in March 2017] you approved a submission which turned {{A|W. C. Roberts}} into an alternate name of {{A|Willis Couvillier}}. Our policy, as stated in [[Template:AuthorFields:CanonicalName]], says:<br />
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* For authors who publish under multiple names, the canonical name is the most recognized name for that author within the genre.<br />
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and "W. C. Roberts" is how this author is credited in the vast majority of cases. A [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions/Archive/Archive15#Author.27s_wishes_vs_ISFDB_practices Rules and Standards discussion of this author's records] followed. Since there was no easy way to see Author History at the time, the participants may not have realized that you were one of the moderators who had worked on the record and didn't invite you, so you may have missed it. Do you recall anything else that may help sort this out? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 15:00, 16 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:That's too long ago for me to remember, especially since I've stopped editing for the most part. [[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 14:58, 20 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:: No problem, thanks for responding! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:31, 20 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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: By the way has my moderator flag been removed? I can't seem to access the moderator functions.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 14:58, 20 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:: Yes, your moderator flag was unset [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Rkihara#Account_compromised.3F back in September] due to unusual activity on your account, which made me worried that the account may have been compromised. I believe I contacted you about this issue via email. A bit later it turned out that the "unusual activity" was due to the way the new Wiki interface worked and your "rollback" changes had been an accidental mis-click. I restored the moderator flag on your account a few minutes ago. Sorry about the hassle!<br />
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:: That said, if you don't have the time for moderator work these days -- which is perfectly understandable, especially given the fact that none of us is getting younger (who knew?!) -- please let me know and I can change it to the recently implemented "self-approver" flag. It would let you approve your own submissions but not submissions created by other editors. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 16:31, 20 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't plan to work as moderator again, especially since rules and standards have changed so much since I was last moderating. So putting me down as a "self-approver" is fine by me. I still can't change my password, so I'm using the default that you set.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 16:03, 21 December 2022 (EST)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Rkihara&diff=651518User talk:Rkihara2022-12-20T19:59:02Z<p>Rkihara: /* Willis Couvillier/W. C. Roberts */</p>
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You do not need to notify me if you add missing content (departments, covers, interior illustrations), correct typos, or link entries (series, reviews). I would be interested in knowing about major changes to entered data (credits, titles). <span style="color:red">I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.</span>-- Rkihara (Ron Kihara)<br />
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:::Great, thanks. I will split them up. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 16:58, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Who Goes There? ==<br />
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I'm going to make a number of changes to your verified copy of the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57402 August 1938 issue] of ''Astounding''. First off, I'm going to add a link to a scan of the issue from the Internet Archive. I'm also going to change the title of Who Goes There? to include the quotation marks as it appears on the storie's title page (also in the table of contents). Lastly, the story note in the recent reprint of the novella in the Fall 2018 issue of ''Black Infinity'' identifies the artist as H. W. Wesso, so I'll add him as the artist for those illustrations and note the source. Please let me know if you have any problems with these changes. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:10, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:No problem.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:51, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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Ron, thanks for taking the trouble to nominate me for moderator. I'll try to make it look like you have good sense. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 15:07, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:You're welcome. It was long overdue.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:36, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== ''Analog'' July 1975, 'Reference Library' essay credit ==<br />
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I've not made any change to the record yet for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57126 Analog, July 1975] as it's not a straightforward problem requiring a simple fix, and you appear to be the only available Verifier who is around these days. Dave Langford has been in touch with me regarding his forthcoming Algis Budrys essay collection, pointing out that our [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?827144 'Reference Library' record for that issue] is in error credited to Lester del Rey when it was in fact a guest editorial by Budrys. This is in fact the same essay that is also currently in the database as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1621085 Foundation and Asimov] by Budrys from 1996. Before I can proceed on connecting the latter essay as a variant of the former, I need to double check with you how the original was actually credited (del Rey or Budrys), and ask how you would like to proceed with regard to the name – we could credit the essay to Budrys and in the Note for that pub point out that it was given the usual byline of Lester del Rey. Could you please take a look at the pub and let me know what you think would be your preferred course of action as Verifier? Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 17:08, 12 February 2020 (EST)<br />
: OK, Dave Langford has retrieved a copy of that issue from his vaults and confirms it is credited to Budrys. I'll make the change, please let me know if you have any problem with this and we can look at it further. Cheers. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 04:50, 13 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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::No problem, go ahead.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:00, 15 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Second set of eyes on Japanese ==<br />
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Hi Ron, <br />
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Would you mind looking at [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?41420 this series] for me? We have the author as 谷甲州 but looking at Amazon, it seems like the author for all the novels is actually 山田正紀. [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%9F%E7%A5%9E%E5%85%B5%E5%9B%A3 Wiki Japan] seems to also be agreeing that we have the wrong author. I will be more than happy to change them but as you have more Japanese than I do, I would appreciate a quick second look to see if I am missing something. Thanks in advance! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:46, 6 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:Yes, it should be 山田正紀. I'm not sure where 谷甲州 was associated with it, but there is no connection as far as I can tell. They should all be changed to 山田正紀. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:43, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:: I will fix them. Thanks a lot for checking! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:44, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956 ==<br />
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Dave Langford is reporting that the review of "Stories" by "И. Ефремов" on pp. 147-150 of your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57551 ''Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956''] is by Algis Budrys as opposed to P. Schuyler Miller. The [https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v57n04_1956-06_EXciter-LennyS/page/n145/mode/2up Internet Archive] agrees. (Other primary verifiers have been notified.) [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 06:54, 8 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Planet Stories, Summer 1946 ==<br />
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I added some letters to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60036 Planet Stories, Summer 1946]. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 00:40, 2 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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:No problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 02:13, 4 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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== F&SF July 1980 query ==<br />
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Hi. I was reviewing something else in this July 1980 F&SF issue via scanned version on archive.org. (I don't have the paper copy). I found that the page numbers for "Siriusly Speaking" and "Found" appeared to be off by 1 page. The archive.org scanned copy has "Siriously Speaking" on p 134 and "Found" on p 144. I assume that you have a paper copy and can check this; I assume that the scanned copy matches, but would like to be sure. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:21, 2 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know. They start on pages 134 and 144 as you stated. Go ahead and make the corrections.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 14:04, 3 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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Hi. As you know (I'm sure you have moderated some of my edits), I've been working on several aspects of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction entries.<br />
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I just looked at this issue of F&SF: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2006 Publication Record # 115661 <br />
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The Notes for the issue on ISFDB include the information 'Cover illustrates "White Goddess."'<br />
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Now, I would check the cover art title attribution, but I do not have a paper copy, and there does not appear to be a scanned/digital copy at archive.org.<br />
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I did not find any title in the TOC for "White Goddess".<br />
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I am assuming that one of the primary verifiers for this issue has a paper copy and can check this.<br />
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If you don't have access to a paper copy, I'll go on to the others. I started with you because I know you are active on ISFDB.<br />
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Thanks<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]]<br />
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::The cover art is not necessarily linked to a story. The name of the piece is identified at the bottom of the index as "White Goddess" by Max Bertolini.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:50, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
Thanks. Yes, I do see that. At the same time, in this era for F&SF, it was not that common, so I wanted to confirm this was not an error. I've just looked at the SFSITE.com entry for this issue, and it does list the title as being noted on the Contents/copyright page, with no story attached. So, we're done. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 20:27, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Jaida Jones ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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Where is [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3005253 this] birthday coming from? None of the sources we had listed seems to have it, your update does not have a moderator note? I am holding an update to the same date waiting for a source by the submitter... can you please update the notes with the source (or point me to where it is in the 3 sites we list). Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:10, 23 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:Looking back through my spreadsheet of author edits, I retrieved the data from the Wikipedia. It's been five years since I made the edit, so the birthdate may have been removed. I'm pretty much inactive at this point, so I have no problem if anyone wants to change it. I've found that many authors are willing to give or verify their birthdate if there is a question.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:00, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: I misread my dates last night - because of the edit I was holding, I thought it was a recent change. Sorry for bugging you :( Тhe change I hold is changing the year from 1980 to 1986. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 08:28, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1986 ==<br />
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The cover art of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61109 this], the ascribed to G. P. Lendino, a one hit wonder, is claimed by James Gurney in a "Works by" list in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1149930 Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist]. The style is very similar, so I'll make GP Lendino a pseudonym of James Gurney. [[User:Horzel|Horzel]] 09:03, 27 August 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:Okay, no problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:37, 29 August 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Catalyst for Power! ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=birchl&type=Name; Birchly PV by you, should probably be Birchley and merged with same title under that name. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:39, 12 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Account compromised? ==<br />
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Ron,<br />
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It looks like your ISFDB account may have been compromised since it's been used to blank Al's User page. I have reverted the bad edits and disabled the moderator flag on your account until we can get it back to you. Please send an email message to my email address, which is listed at the top of my User page. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:58, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
: It is very easy to rollback something in the new format of wiki by mistake when working on a small touchscreen for example (I got caught in it the first day [https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Rudam#Das_grosse_Warten here] (look at the history of the page to see what happened) and did not even realize that happened until I looked at the Watchlist). I had been a lot more careful when working from small screens (and touch screens) since. So it is possible that this is what happened here as well - although it may as well be a compromised account. We may want to look into adding a "Are you sure?" or something like that? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 19:09, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:: That's a good point. [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/488048/ Show confirmation prompt on rollback links] is a MediaWiki patch which apparently added support for this feature. Let me check if $wgEnableRollbackConfirmationPrompt is mentioned in our settings file. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:34, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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::: Done. I'll post a note on the Community Portal. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:43, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:::: I have reset your password programmatically and sent the new, temporary, password to you via email. Please let me know if it works. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 05:34, 20 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Japanese book words ==<br />
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I decided to make a [[User:Nihonjoe/Japanese book word glossary|Japanese book word glossary]] for quick reference when I need it, and I figured you might be interested in it, too, since you do some Japanese stuff. Feel free to update it. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:26, 16 November 2022 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks for the thought. I've pretty much backed off from editing, although I'm constantly checking things here. I probably have nothing to contribute, as I haven't used Japanese for decades and I've forgotten most of it.—[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 01:42, 17 November 2022 (EST)<br />
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== She and Her Cat ==<br />
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Ron, I've added the UK edition for [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1979732 She and Her Cat] and have a few questions, although I see you're not involving yourself with Japanese titles any more. I have a couple of questions about the title, so could you drop by at Nihonjoe's page [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Nihonjoe#She_and_Her_Cat here] and add any comments you may have? Many thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] ([[User talk:PeteYoung|talk]]) 13:13, 29 November 2022 (EST)<br />
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== Willis Couvillier/W. C. Roberts ==<br />
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Hi Ron,<br />
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I am not sure if you recall the details, but it looks like way back [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/author_history.cgi?147501 in March 2017] you approved a submission which turned {{A|W. C. Roberts}} into an alternate name of {{A|Willis Couvillier}}. Our policy, as stated in [[Template:AuthorFields:CanonicalName]], says:<br />
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* For authors who publish under multiple names, the canonical name is the most recognized name for that author within the genre.<br />
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and "W. C. Roberts" is how this author is credited in the vast majority of cases. A [https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions/Archive/Archive15#Author.27s_wishes_vs_ISFDB_practices Rules and Standards discussion of this author's records] followed. Since there was no easy way to see Author History at the time, the participants may not have realized that you were one of the moderators who had worked on the record and didn't invite you, so you may have missed it. Do you recall anything else that may help sort this out? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 15:00, 16 December 2022 (EST)<br />
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:That's too long ago for me to remember, especially since I've stopped editing for the most part. By the way has my moderator flag been removed? I can't seem to access the moderator functions.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 14:58, 20 December 2022 (EST)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Rkihara&diff=649359User talk:Rkihara2022-11-17T06:42:43Z<p>Rkihara: /* Japanese book words */</p>
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:::Great, thanks. I will split them up. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 16:58, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Who Goes There? ==<br />
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I'm going to make a number of changes to your verified copy of the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57402 August 1938 issue] of ''Astounding''. First off, I'm going to add a link to a scan of the issue from the Internet Archive. I'm also going to change the title of Who Goes There? to include the quotation marks as it appears on the storie's title page (also in the table of contents). Lastly, the story note in the recent reprint of the novella in the Fall 2018 issue of ''Black Infinity'' identifies the artist as H. W. Wesso, so I'll add him as the artist for those illustrations and note the source. Please let me know if you have any problems with these changes. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:10, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:No problem.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:51, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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Ron, thanks for taking the trouble to nominate me for moderator. I'll try to make it look like you have good sense. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 15:07, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:You're welcome. It was long overdue.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:36, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== ''Analog'' July 1975, 'Reference Library' essay credit ==<br />
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I've not made any change to the record yet for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57126 Analog, July 1975] as it's not a straightforward problem requiring a simple fix, and you appear to be the only available Verifier who is around these days. Dave Langford has been in touch with me regarding his forthcoming Algis Budrys essay collection, pointing out that our [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?827144 'Reference Library' record for that issue] is in error credited to Lester del Rey when it was in fact a guest editorial by Budrys. This is in fact the same essay that is also currently in the database as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1621085 Foundation and Asimov] by Budrys from 1996. Before I can proceed on connecting the latter essay as a variant of the former, I need to double check with you how the original was actually credited (del Rey or Budrys), and ask how you would like to proceed with regard to the name – we could credit the essay to Budrys and in the Note for that pub point out that it was given the usual byline of Lester del Rey. Could you please take a look at the pub and let me know what you think would be your preferred course of action as Verifier? Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 17:08, 12 February 2020 (EST)<br />
: OK, Dave Langford has retrieved a copy of that issue from his vaults and confirms it is credited to Budrys. I'll make the change, please let me know if you have any problem with this and we can look at it further. Cheers. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 04:50, 13 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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::No problem, go ahead.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:00, 15 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Second set of eyes on Japanese ==<br />
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Hi Ron, <br />
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Would you mind looking at [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?41420 this series] for me? We have the author as 谷甲州 but looking at Amazon, it seems like the author for all the novels is actually 山田正紀. [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%9F%E7%A5%9E%E5%85%B5%E5%9B%A3 Wiki Japan] seems to also be agreeing that we have the wrong author. I will be more than happy to change them but as you have more Japanese than I do, I would appreciate a quick second look to see if I am missing something. Thanks in advance! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:46, 6 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:Yes, it should be 山田正紀. I'm not sure where 谷甲州 was associated with it, but there is no connection as far as I can tell. They should all be changed to 山田正紀. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:43, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:: I will fix them. Thanks a lot for checking! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:44, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956 ==<br />
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Dave Langford is reporting that the review of "Stories" by "И. Ефремов" on pp. 147-150 of your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57551 ''Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956''] is by Algis Budrys as opposed to P. Schuyler Miller. The [https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v57n04_1956-06_EXciter-LennyS/page/n145/mode/2up Internet Archive] agrees. (Other primary verifiers have been notified.) [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 06:54, 8 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Planet Stories, Summer 1946 ==<br />
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I added some letters to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60036 Planet Stories, Summer 1946]. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 00:40, 2 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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:No problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 02:13, 4 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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== F&SF July 1980 query ==<br />
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Hi. I was reviewing something else in this July 1980 F&SF issue via scanned version on archive.org. (I don't have the paper copy). I found that the page numbers for "Siriusly Speaking" and "Found" appeared to be off by 1 page. The archive.org scanned copy has "Siriously Speaking" on p 134 and "Found" on p 144. I assume that you have a paper copy and can check this; I assume that the scanned copy matches, but would like to be sure. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:21, 2 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know. They start on pages 134 and 144 as you stated. Go ahead and make the corrections.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 14:04, 3 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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Hi. As you know (I'm sure you have moderated some of my edits), I've been working on several aspects of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction entries.<br />
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I just looked at this issue of F&SF: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2006 Publication Record # 115661 <br />
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The Notes for the issue on ISFDB include the information 'Cover illustrates "White Goddess."'<br />
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Now, I would check the cover art title attribution, but I do not have a paper copy, and there does not appear to be a scanned/digital copy at archive.org.<br />
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I did not find any title in the TOC for "White Goddess".<br />
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I am assuming that one of the primary verifiers for this issue has a paper copy and can check this.<br />
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If you don't have access to a paper copy, I'll go on to the others. I started with you because I know you are active on ISFDB.<br />
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Thanks<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]]<br />
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::The cover art is not necessarily linked to a story. The name of the piece is identified at the bottom of the index as "White Goddess" by Max Bertolini.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:50, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
Thanks. Yes, I do see that. At the same time, in this era for F&SF, it was not that common, so I wanted to confirm this was not an error. I've just looked at the SFSITE.com entry for this issue, and it does list the title as being noted on the Contents/copyright page, with no story attached. So, we're done. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 20:27, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Jaida Jones ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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Where is [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3005253 this] birthday coming from? None of the sources we had listed seems to have it, your update does not have a moderator note? I am holding an update to the same date waiting for a source by the submitter... can you please update the notes with the source (or point me to where it is in the 3 sites we list). Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:10, 23 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:Looking back through my spreadsheet of author edits, I retrieved the data from the Wikipedia. It's been five years since I made the edit, so the birthdate may have been removed. I'm pretty much inactive at this point, so I have no problem if anyone wants to change it. I've found that many authors are willing to give or verify their birthdate if there is a question.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:00, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: I misread my dates last night - because of the edit I was holding, I thought it was a recent change. Sorry for bugging you :( Тhe change I hold is changing the year from 1980 to 1986. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 08:28, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1986 ==<br />
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The cover art of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61109 this], the ascribed to G. P. Lendino, a one hit wonder, is claimed by James Gurney in a "Works by" list in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1149930 Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist]. The style is very similar, so I'll make GP Lendino a pseudonym of James Gurney. [[User:Horzel|Horzel]] 09:03, 27 August 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:Okay, no problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:37, 29 August 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Catalyst for Power! ==<br />
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https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=birchl&type=Name; Birchly PV by you, should probably be Birchley and merged with same title under that name. --[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]]) 11:39, 12 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Account compromised? ==<br />
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Ron,<br />
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It looks like your ISFDB account may have been compromised since it's been used to blank Al's User page. I have reverted the bad edits and disabled the moderator flag on your account until we can get it back to you. Please send an email message to my email address, which is listed at the top of my User page. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 18:58, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
: It is very easy to rollback something in the new format of wiki by mistake when working on a small touchscreen for example (I got caught in it the first day [https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Rudam#Das_grosse_Warten here] (look at the history of the page to see what happened) and did not even realize that happened until I looked at the Watchlist). I had been a lot more careful when working from small screens (and touch screens) since. So it is possible that this is what happened here as well - although it may as well be a compromised account. We may want to look into adding a "Are you sure?" or something like that? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] ([[User talk:Anniemod|talk]]) 19:09, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:: That's a good point. [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/488048/ Show confirmation prompt on rollback links] is a MediaWiki patch which apparently added support for this feature. Let me check if $wgEnableRollbackConfirmationPrompt is mentioned in our settings file. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:34, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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::: Done. I'll post a note on the Community Portal. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 19:43, 15 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:::: I have reset your password programmatically and sent the new, temporary, password to you via email. Please let me know if it works. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] ([[User talk:Ahasuerus|talk]]) 05:34, 20 September 2022 (EDT)<br />
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== Japanese book words ==<br />
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I decided to make a [[User:Nihonjoe/Japanese book word glossary|Japanese book word glossary]] for quick reference when I need it, and I figured you might be interested in it, too, since you do some Japanese stuff. Feel free to update it. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:26, 16 November 2022 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks for the thought. I've pretty much backed off from editing, although I'm constantly checking things here. I probably have nothing to contribute, as I haven't used Japanese for decades and I've forgotten most of it.—[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] ([[User talk:Rkihara|talk]]) 01:42, 17 November 2022 (EST)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Alvonruff&diff=644493User:Alvonruff2022-09-15T22:33:20Z<p>Rkihara: Reverted edits by Alvonruff (talk) to last revision by Marc Kupper</p>
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You do not need to notify me if you add missing content (departments, covers, interior illustrations), correct typos, or link entries (series, reviews). I would be interested in knowing about major changes to entered data (credits, titles). <span style="color:red">I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.</span>-- Rkihara (Ron Kihara)<br />
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
<br />
You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
<br />
You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
<br />
I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:::Great, thanks. I will split them up. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 16:58, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Who Goes There? ==<br />
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I'm going to make a number of changes to your verified copy of the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57402 August 1938 issue] of ''Astounding''. First off, I'm going to add a link to a scan of the issue from the Internet Archive. I'm also going to change the title of Who Goes There? to include the quotation marks as it appears on the storie's title page (also in the table of contents). Lastly, the story note in the recent reprint of the novella in the Fall 2018 issue of ''Black Infinity'' identifies the artist as H. W. Wesso, so I'll add him as the artist for those illustrations and note the source. Please let me know if you have any problems with these changes. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:10, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:No problem.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:51, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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Ron, thanks for taking the trouble to nominate me for moderator. I'll try to make it look like you have good sense. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 15:07, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:You're welcome. It was long overdue.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:36, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== ''Analog'' July 1975, 'Reference Library' essay credit ==<br />
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I've not made any change to the record yet for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57126 Analog, July 1975] as it's not a straightforward problem requiring a simple fix, and you appear to be the only available Verifier who is around these days. Dave Langford has been in touch with me regarding his forthcoming Algis Budrys essay collection, pointing out that our [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?827144 'Reference Library' record for that issue] is in error credited to Lester del Rey when it was in fact a guest editorial by Budrys. This is in fact the same essay that is also currently in the database as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1621085 Foundation and Asimov] by Budrys from 1996. Before I can proceed on connecting the latter essay as a variant of the former, I need to double check with you how the original was actually credited (del Rey or Budrys), and ask how you would like to proceed with regard to the name – we could credit the essay to Budrys and in the Note for that pub point out that it was given the usual byline of Lester del Rey. Could you please take a look at the pub and let me know what you think would be your preferred course of action as Verifier? Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 17:08, 12 February 2020 (EST)<br />
: OK, Dave Langford has retrieved a copy of that issue from his vaults and confirms it is credited to Budrys. I'll make the change, please let me know if you have any problem with this and we can look at it further. Cheers. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 04:50, 13 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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::No problem, go ahead.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:00, 15 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Second set of eyes on Japanese ==<br />
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Hi Ron, <br />
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Would you mind looking at [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?41420 this series] for me? We have the author as 谷甲州 but looking at Amazon, it seems like the author for all the novels is actually 山田正紀. [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%9F%E7%A5%9E%E5%85%B5%E5%9B%A3 Wiki Japan] seems to also be agreeing that we have the wrong author. I will be more than happy to change them but as you have more Japanese than I do, I would appreciate a quick second look to see if I am missing something. Thanks in advance! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:46, 6 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:Yes, it should be 山田正紀. I'm not sure where 谷甲州 was associated with it, but there is no connection as far as I can tell. They should all be changed to 山田正紀. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:43, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:: I will fix them. Thanks a lot for checking! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:44, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956 ==<br />
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Dave Langford is reporting that the review of "Stories" by "И. Ефремов" on pp. 147-150 of your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57551 ''Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956''] is by Algis Budrys as opposed to P. Schuyler Miller. The [https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v57n04_1956-06_EXciter-LennyS/page/n145/mode/2up Internet Archive] agrees. (Other primary verifiers have been notified.) [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 06:54, 8 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Planet Stories, Summer 1946 ==<br />
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I added some letters to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60036 Planet Stories, Summer 1946]. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 00:40, 2 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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:No problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 02:13, 4 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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== F&SF July 1980 query ==<br />
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Hi. I was reviewing something else in this July 1980 F&SF issue via scanned version on archive.org. (I don't have the paper copy). I found that the page numbers for "Siriusly Speaking" and "Found" appeared to be off by 1 page. The archive.org scanned copy has "Siriously Speaking" on p 134 and "Found" on p 144. I assume that you have a paper copy and can check this; I assume that the scanned copy matches, but would like to be sure. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:21, 2 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know. They start on pages 134 and 144 as you stated. Go ahead and make the corrections.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 14:04, 3 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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Hi. As you know (I'm sure you have moderated some of my edits), I've been working on several aspects of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction entries.<br />
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I just looked at this issue of F&SF: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2006 Publication Record # 115661 <br />
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The Notes for the issue on ISFDB include the information 'Cover illustrates "White Goddess."'<br />
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Now, I would check the cover art title attribution, but I do not have a paper copy, and there does not appear to be a scanned/digital copy at archive.org.<br />
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I did not find any title in the TOC for "White Goddess".<br />
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I am assuming that one of the primary verifiers for this issue has a paper copy and can check this.<br />
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If you don't have access to a paper copy, I'll go on to the others. I started with you because I know you are active on ISFDB.<br />
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Thanks<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]]<br />
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::The cover art is not necessarily linked to a story. The name of the piece is identified at the bottom of the index as "White Goddess" by Max Bertolini.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:50, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
Thanks. Yes, I do see that. At the same time, in this era for F&SF, it was not that common, so I wanted to confirm this was not an error. I've just looked at the SFSITE.com entry for this issue, and it does list the title as being noted on the Contents/copyright page, with no story attached. So, we're done. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 20:27, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Jaida Jones ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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Where is [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3005253 this] birthday coming from? None of the sources we had listed seems to have it, your update does not have a moderator note? I am holding an update to the same date waiting for a source by the submitter... can you please update the notes with the source (or point me to where it is in the 3 sites we list). Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:10, 23 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:Looking back through my spreadsheet of author edits, I retrieved the data from the Wikipedia. It's been five years since I made the edit, so the birthdate may have been removed. I'm pretty much inactive at this point, so I have no problem if anyone wants to change it. I've found that many authors are willing to give or verify their birthdate if there is a question.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:00, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: I misread my dates last night - because of the edit I was holding, I thought it was a recent change. Sorry for bugging you :( Тhe change I hold is changing the year from 1980 to 1986. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 08:28, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1986 ==<br />
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The cover art of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61109 this], the ascribed to G. P. Lendino, a one hit wonder, is claimed by James Gurney in a "Works by" list in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1149930 Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist]. The style is very similar, so I'll make GP Lendino a pseudonym of James Gurney. [[User:Horzel|Horzel]] 09:03, 27 August 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:Okay, no problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:37, 29 August 2022 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Rkihara&diff=641332User talk:Rkihara2022-08-30T03:37:11Z<p>Rkihara: /* The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1986 */</p>
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You do not need to notify me if you add missing content (departments, covers, interior illustrations), correct typos, or link entries (series, reviews). I would be interested in knowing about major changes to entered data (credits, titles). <span style="color:red">I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.</span>-- Rkihara (Ron Kihara)<br />
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:::Great, thanks. I will split them up. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 16:58, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Who Goes There? ==<br />
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I'm going to make a number of changes to your verified copy of the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57402 August 1938 issue] of ''Astounding''. First off, I'm going to add a link to a scan of the issue from the Internet Archive. I'm also going to change the title of Who Goes There? to include the quotation marks as it appears on the storie's title page (also in the table of contents). Lastly, the story note in the recent reprint of the novella in the Fall 2018 issue of ''Black Infinity'' identifies the artist as H. W. Wesso, so I'll add him as the artist for those illustrations and note the source. Please let me know if you have any problems with these changes. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:10, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:No problem.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:51, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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Ron, thanks for taking the trouble to nominate me for moderator. I'll try to make it look like you have good sense. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 15:07, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:You're welcome. It was long overdue.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:36, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== ''Analog'' July 1975, 'Reference Library' essay credit ==<br />
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I've not made any change to the record yet for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57126 Analog, July 1975] as it's not a straightforward problem requiring a simple fix, and you appear to be the only available Verifier who is around these days. Dave Langford has been in touch with me regarding his forthcoming Algis Budrys essay collection, pointing out that our [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?827144 'Reference Library' record for that issue] is in error credited to Lester del Rey when it was in fact a guest editorial by Budrys. This is in fact the same essay that is also currently in the database as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1621085 Foundation and Asimov] by Budrys from 1996. Before I can proceed on connecting the latter essay as a variant of the former, I need to double check with you how the original was actually credited (del Rey or Budrys), and ask how you would like to proceed with regard to the name – we could credit the essay to Budrys and in the Note for that pub point out that it was given the usual byline of Lester del Rey. Could you please take a look at the pub and let me know what you think would be your preferred course of action as Verifier? Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 17:08, 12 February 2020 (EST)<br />
: OK, Dave Langford has retrieved a copy of that issue from his vaults and confirms it is credited to Budrys. I'll make the change, please let me know if you have any problem with this and we can look at it further. Cheers. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 04:50, 13 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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::No problem, go ahead.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:00, 15 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Second set of eyes on Japanese ==<br />
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Hi Ron, <br />
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Would you mind looking at [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?41420 this series] for me? We have the author as 谷甲州 but looking at Amazon, it seems like the author for all the novels is actually 山田正紀. [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%9F%E7%A5%9E%E5%85%B5%E5%9B%A3 Wiki Japan] seems to also be agreeing that we have the wrong author. I will be more than happy to change them but as you have more Japanese than I do, I would appreciate a quick second look to see if I am missing something. Thanks in advance! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:46, 6 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:Yes, it should be 山田正紀. I'm not sure where 谷甲州 was associated with it, but there is no connection as far as I can tell. They should all be changed to 山田正紀. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:43, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:: I will fix them. Thanks a lot for checking! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:44, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956 ==<br />
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Dave Langford is reporting that the review of "Stories" by "И. Ефремов" on pp. 147-150 of your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57551 ''Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956''] is by Algis Budrys as opposed to P. Schuyler Miller. The [https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v57n04_1956-06_EXciter-LennyS/page/n145/mode/2up Internet Archive] agrees. (Other primary verifiers have been notified.) [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 06:54, 8 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Planet Stories, Summer 1946 ==<br />
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I added some letters to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60036 Planet Stories, Summer 1946]. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 00:40, 2 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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:No problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 02:13, 4 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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== F&SF July 1980 query ==<br />
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Hi. I was reviewing something else in this July 1980 F&SF issue via scanned version on archive.org. (I don't have the paper copy). I found that the page numbers for "Siriusly Speaking" and "Found" appeared to be off by 1 page. The archive.org scanned copy has "Siriously Speaking" on p 134 and "Found" on p 144. I assume that you have a paper copy and can check this; I assume that the scanned copy matches, but would like to be sure. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:21, 2 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know. They start on pages 134 and 144 as you stated. Go ahead and make the corrections.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 14:04, 3 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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Hi. As you know (I'm sure you have moderated some of my edits), I've been working on several aspects of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction entries.<br />
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I just looked at this issue of F&SF: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2006 Publication Record # 115661 <br />
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The Notes for the issue on ISFDB include the information 'Cover illustrates "White Goddess."'<br />
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Now, I would check the cover art title attribution, but I do not have a paper copy, and there does not appear to be a scanned/digital copy at archive.org.<br />
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I did not find any title in the TOC for "White Goddess".<br />
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I am assuming that one of the primary verifiers for this issue has a paper copy and can check this.<br />
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If you don't have access to a paper copy, I'll go on to the others. I started with you because I know you are active on ISFDB.<br />
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Thanks<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]]<br />
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::The cover art is not necessarily linked to a story. The name of the piece is identified at the bottom of the index as "White Goddess" by Max Bertolini.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:50, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
Thanks. Yes, I do see that. At the same time, in this era for F&SF, it was not that common, so I wanted to confirm this was not an error. I've just looked at the SFSITE.com entry for this issue, and it does list the title as being noted on the Contents/copyright page, with no story attached. So, we're done. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 20:27, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Jaida Jones ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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Where is [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3005253 this] birthday coming from? None of the sources we had listed seems to have it, your update does not have a moderator note? I am holding an update to the same date waiting for a source by the submitter... can you please update the notes with the source (or point me to where it is in the 3 sites we list). Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:10, 23 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:Looking back through my spreadsheet of author edits, I retrieved the data from the Wikipedia. It's been five years since I made the edit, so the birthdate may have been removed. I'm pretty much inactive at this point, so I have no problem if anyone wants to change it. I've found that many authors are willing to give or verify their birthdate if there is a question.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:00, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: I misread my dates last night - because of the edit I was holding, I thought it was a recent change. Sorry for bugging you :( Тhe change I hold is changing the year from 1980 to 1986. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 08:28, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1986 ==<br />
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The cover art of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61109 this], the ascribed to G. P. Lendino, a one hit wonder, is claimed by James Gurney in a "Works by" list in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1149930 Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist]. The style is very similar, so I'll make GP Lendino a pseudonym of James Gurney. [[User:Horzel|Horzel]] 09:03, 27 August 2022 (EDT)<br />
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:Okay, no problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:37, 29 August 2022 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Anniemod&diff=619680User talk:Anniemod2021-12-08T08:13:22Z<p>Rkihara: /* Adding F&SF - A Question */</p>
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== The Unraveling redux ==<br />
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I've just submitted an edit to move the pub date of the ebook back to May, per the data that Amazon UK and B&N are showing. However, for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?793959 the hc], Amazon (both UK and .com) are showing it as also rescheduled to May, but not available to pre-order, whereas B&N are [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-unraveling-benjamin-rosenbaum/1132109114?ean=9781645660019] still showing it as being published next week. [https://www.erewhonbooks.com/books/the-unraveling-benjamin-rosenbaum The publisher's site] still claims it came out on Tuesday, which seems unlikely. (I don't see anything on social media related to any 2021 pub dates.)<br />
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Don't suppose you care to have a look at this and make a guess as to when (if?) it might get published? [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 05:32, 8 January 2021 (EST)<br />
: This Book will be the death of me. It is officially scheduled for May now - let’s see if that will be the last delay. All sorted. I will check it again in a few days just in case if by any miracle they did publish. But I doubt it and it is not visible anywhere. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 05:47, 8 January 2021 (EST)<br />
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== UK pubs of Chana Porter's The Seep ==<br />
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Just looking to add these, and I was initially a bit puzzled by your - [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?4833900 I think?] - note about this being <40k words, when the UK pub is reported as 272 pages, and Kobo has it as 46k words, which would seem to be novel territory.<br />
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However, on closer inspection - fortunately [https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-seep-1 Kobo has a preview available of the UK edition] - it seems the UK pub includes an extra short story, which presumably is 6k+ words long. This leaves me with two possibilities:<br />
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* Add the UK pubs to the existing CHAPBOOK, and add this extra story as extra content<br />
* Create them as pubs of a new COLLECTION<br />
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The latter seems more correct - although I've not been able to find anything on the Wiki about the exact criteria for categorizing these - but is less obvious to a user who stumbles across either the UK or US CHAPBOOK or COLLECTION pages, and doesn't realize the others exist. This could be mitigated by adding title notes to each, linking to the other title record with a brief explanatory note about the additional/missing story.<br />
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Any thoughts before I wade into this mess? [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 10:39, 10 January 2021 (EST)<br />
: Look at the length of the audible - it needs to be a lot closer to 4 hours to be a novel :) Usually the 40k works end up at around 4.5 hours but anything over a bit under 4 is suspicious. At 3 hours and 5 minutes, that cannot be long enough for a novel - unless it is a very weird one. Thus the note - this appears to be too short. If it is proven to be otherwise, we can always convert again but from all I had seen, unless the audible length is incorrect, it is most likely a novella. <br />
: It can be done either way - chapbooks can have a single story added as long as it is not added to the cover and is in essence an add-on. I’d probably leave it as a chapbook and a note in the chapbook record that the UK edition added an additional story. But up to you. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 04:59, 11 January 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Heads up: new(ish) "Hodder Studio" imprint ==<br />
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Apologies for continuing to clog up your talk page, but this might be of relevance when you're processing the Fixer submissions....<br />
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I just submitted [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?4882542 this edit], which has already been accepted by Rtrace, so I'm guessing you wouldn't be otherwise aware of it? The pub note change and mod note cover the key details, but I see there's at least [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Stars-Searing-thought-provoking-addictive/dp/1529349192/ one other title] coming from them in the next couple of months that appears to be ISFDB-eligible; (currently) it is showing as from "Hodder Studio", but whether it'll have the same confusion on the title & copyright page re. publisher, who knows?<br />
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[https://www.thebookseller.com/news/hodder-studio-imprint-launches-moor-publisher-1208918 This Bookseller story] vaguely mentions a few titles that sound like they're probably ISFDB-eligible; I'll see if I can dig out more details, and submit where relevant. The imprint isn't currently known to the database, and I dunno if Fixer would need to be configured to pick up any of their pubs? My browser extension that uses Ahasuerus' Fixer dumps indicates that Fixer has some awareness of at least [https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/susie-donkin/zeus-is-a-dick/9781529348958/ this ISBN]. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 10:48, 14 January 2021 (EST)<br />
: No worries at all :) Thanks for the note! Fixer is an equal opportunity grabber - if it is tagged with our topics, it will grab it regardless of the publisher. Sorting is different but this is close enough to an existing not to be sent directly to Q3. So we should be fine. UK titles just come slower due to how we need to grab them (no API). I may need to adjust the name manually but we will cross that bridge when we see it. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 11:21, 14 January 2021 (EST)<br />
:: Thanks. Part of me asking the question earlier today about scriptbooks on the Rules page, is that Hodder Studio have put out such a scriptbook that is unambiguously from that imprint, so I'll submit that in the next day or so, and then add some notes, links etc to the new publisher entry. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 12:13, 14 January 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Spec Ops Z series ==<br />
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Sorry, me again...<br />
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Do you have any idea/recollection of why [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?61865 this series] exists - it seems to have been created based on a Fixer submission you accepted?<br />
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Based on [https://twitter.com/gavingsmith/status/1351212539523248131 this author tweet], it doesn't seem like there are any more actively commissioned or being worked on. Is it maybe because it has "(Special Purposes)" in parenthesis - at least on Amazon UK - as you might expect to see if it were in a series? Although in this case, it's a weak indicator that it's a reissue [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?4886865 cf this]. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 17:29, 18 January 2021 (EST)<br />
: Fixer does not create series, I do... He just serves weird titles. :) <br />
: In this case, it was because Amazon.com served the title as "Spec Ops Z (1)" which 99.99% of the cases means that it is a first in a series so I just added it without thinking. When this is up for review in a month or two or when an ebook/audio book shows up for it, I would have realized it is indeed not a series and killed it. Which I just did :) No clue how I missed that it is a reissue -- let's chalk it to not enough coffee - I tend to check for this kind of stuff on new books and usually catch it when adding it on the initial run but sometimes I miss them. Thanks for finding it! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:38, 18 January 2021 (EST)<br />
:: And yes, there is a history of that typo - if the TITLE itself was not edited, it inherited from the PUBLICATION so the history is [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pub_history.cgi?619259 here]. I finished the fix you started - don't forget that the two titles are now separate so if you change the title record you need to change the pub record as well (and the cover one plus any interior arts and essays containing the title if created). We do miss some history but in such cases, don't forget to check the pub level history - the title one will only show what was changed on the TITLE itself, not as part of a PUB edit. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:48, 18 January 2021 (EST)<br />
::: Re. the reissue, the only place I have seen this mentioned is the author tweet linked in the edit note. (Goodreads had it as a new book, until I just merged it with the old one there a second ago.) [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 17:54, 18 January 2021 (EST)<br />
:::: Amazon.com probably updated their listing some time between when I worked on it and now to read "A handsome new re-issue of a high-octane military-SF, as Russian Spetsnaz commandos are turned into zombies in ‘80s New York.". There is (almost) no way it was there when I added the book even if I was fully asleep - weirder things had happened but I know I am watching for these so... And if GR did not know either... Oh well - all sorted. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:59, 18 January 2021 (EST)<br />
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Hi.<br />
<br />
I hope life is treating you well.<br />
<br />
I am keeping plenty busy adding url links for scanned magazine copies. After Astounding, and Analog through 1979 (Luminist.org has them thru 1979), and Galaxy (mostly up to 1979, and then a few from 1994 and 95), I'm currently working on Worlds of If. At least some people that I know in the SF world are pretty happy about this.<br />
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Next up will the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Luminist.org has them from the start through 1979. I am not sure why, but Luminist.org does not have any SF magazines after 1979. The Internet Archive has them through about 2005.<br />
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I was comfortable adding the 1994-95 Galaxy issues, as the publisher of those issues (the Institute for the Development of the Harmonious Human Being, Inc) is clearly not publishing any such magazine anymore, and has not done so for over 25 years.<br />
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I am more concerned about when to stop adding links to scanned F&SF issues, given that it's an active, currently published magazine.<br />
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I am wondering if there has been discussion about this kind of issue before. If so, what was the result?<br />
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If it has not been discussed, I would still appreciate your advice.<br />
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Thanks and best wishes,<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 19:11, 19 January 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Adding F&SF - A Question ==<br />
<br />
Hi.<br />
<br />
I hope life is treating you well.<br />
<br />
I am keeping plenty busy adding url links for scanned magazine copies. After Astounding, and Analog through 1979 (Luminist.org has them thru 1979), and Galaxy (mostly up to 1979, and then a few from 1994 and 95), I'm currently working on Worlds of If. At least some people that I know in the SF world are pretty happy about this.<br />
<br />
Next up will the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Luminist.org has them from the start through 1979. I am not sure why, but Luminist.org does not have any SF magazines after 1979. The Internet Archive has them through about 2005.<br />
<br />
I was comfortable adding the 1994-95 Galaxy issues, as the publisher of those issues (the Institute for the Development of the Harmonious Human Being, Inc) is clearly not publishing any such magazine anymore, and has not done so for over 25 years.<br />
<br />
I am more concerned about when to stop adding links to scanned F&SF issues, given that it's an active, currently published magazine.<br />
<br />
I am wondering if there has been discussion about this kind of issue before. If so, what was the result?<br />
<br />
If it has not been discussed, I would still appreciate your advice.<br />
<br />
Thanks and best wishes,<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 19:12, 19 January 2021 (EST)<br />
:Annie: See [[ISFDB:Moderator_noticeboard#Are_these_out_of_copyright.3F|here]]. I don't know if we should be linking to sites with the full magazines scanned unless we are sure they are out of copyright. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:17, 19 January 2021 (EST)<br />
:: Yeah - I saw that one and had been thinking on that. The old magazines are/were fine but these are a way too new and definitely under copyright - at least in the States. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 23:22, 19 January 2021 (EST)<br />
: Dave, let’s halt for a bit here until we figure out what we want to do on new magazines [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 23:22, 19 January 2021 (EST)<br />
::Got it. I will halt all such activity until I get direction on what is old and ok and what is not. Thanks. <br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 16:44, 20 January 2021 (EST)<br />
:::Hi Annie. Just checking in on this question. Has there been guidance on this whole issue? I did take a quick check, and Unknown http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?15021 and the rest of Venture Science Fiction http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?23785 could both use links to scans. Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 00:22, 8 December 2021 (EST)<br />
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I would suggest contacting Gordon Van Gelder, owner and editor of F&SF, for permission to use the images.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:13, 8 December 2021 (EST)<br />
<br />
== Pi Editions ==<br />
<br />
Hi Annie, I saw that you beat me to it by adding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?807505 Sultana's Dream] via Fixer. It's probably worth letting you know that [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?73384 Pi Editions] is my own small press, started in October under lockdown for something to do. I have a few publications now, mostly ebooks of public domain works and also a collection of my own non-fiction/essays over the last 20 years. If you have any queries about Pi Editions pubs, just holler. Cheers. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 07:33, 22 January 2021 (EST)<br />
: Ha. Congrats. Yeah - Fixer is bound to find things. Will do! :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 14:57, 22 January 2021 (EST)<br />
:Cool! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 15:50, 22 January 2021 (EST)<br />
<br />
== Feb 2020 UK pubs (or not as the case may be) ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
This is likely something you already know about, but I'm just starting to go through the UK pubs I have scraped data for, which were scheduled for early Feb publication (when I scraped them), and it seems that the majority have been rescheduled for April or May. I assume this is due to the current UK lockdown and all UK bookshops (the main chains at least) being closed, and not even doing call/click-and-collect service. The impression I get, from the small sample set I've looked at so far, is that more pubs have been pushed back than in the lockdown period last Spring.<br />
<br />
Some of these pubs were already in the DB - e.g. the Gollancz New Horizons collection that's been bounced around any number of times - so I've submitted edits for them, but it looks like there are more that Fixer hadn't yet submitted. I know you check the info Fixer submits, but just a heads up to avoid wasting your time.<br />
<br />
I'll see about resurrecting the list I had on my personal Wiki pages of delayed pubs, if only for my own benefit. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 11:25, 24 January 2021 (EST)<br />
: Welcome to my life since April. :) Last year the pushing was worse on this side of the pond - there were a few weeks when I was adding on the day of publication - it was that bad and then we did not add more than a week or so ahead of time through the summer. That way books got rescheduled before being added. Thanks for the heads up :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 12:29, 24 January 2021 (EST)<br />
<br />
== Question? ==<br />
<br />
How I undo a rejection of a entry that I clicked wrong? <br><br />
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?4896676<br />
--[[User:Paulotecario|Paulotecario]] 17:40, 27 January 2021 (EST)<br />
: It looks like you figured it out but generally: go to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/myrecent.cgi?0+N My Pending Edits] and you can see what you have pending and reject the ones you made a mistake in :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 18:31, 27 January 2021 (EST)<br />
: Ah, unreject. Only a moderator can unreject so post on the [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Moderator_noticeboard Moderator board] and someone will do it for you. I just did that on this one :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 18:33, 27 January 2021 (EST)<br />
:: Thank you!! --[[User:Paulotecario|Paulotecario]] 13:58, 28 January 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 - Several questions ==<br />
<br />
Hi Annie. I hope life is treating you well.<br />
<br />
I have a tp copy of the 2020 "The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy" (Diana Gabaldon, Ed; John Joseph Adams, Series Editor) from the library. Looks like a great anthology. (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020, Publication Record # 798555)<br />
<br />
I noticed that there are no TOC details on the tp (or any of the other versions) of this on ISFDB.<br />
<br />
I'm thinking I might as well edit the publication entry to add the TOC contents, but I have several questions before I do that.<br />
<br />
1. Given that this is a reprint anthology, all of the contents were printed elsewhere first. I checked, and most of them have ISFDB entries already for the source appearances. So, I assume that I need to be really careful to use the same author and title for those TOC entries, to ensure it connects with the story publication record. Is there anything else I need to do on this to ensure it connects with the correct database entry for the story?<br />
: You can import them. :) Look at the left menu on the publication. There is an Import menu. You will use Option 2 and just add the IDs of the titles that are inside. :) No need to do all of them - you can do them in batches if you prefer. For the ones that have a title we do not have yet, you add as usual. <br />
<br />
2. For some of these entries, ISFDB does not have the story or source as a publication. I don't have those original publications either. I can at the very least check online (Amazon, publisher, etc) to ensure it's a real publication, correctly identified, etc. <br />
<br />
Given that I do not have those original publications myself, is it preferred to just add the source to the Notes for the story entry? I would be reluctant to do a full entry for the source, given that I don't have that in my possession.<br />
: Nah, if you want to, add the missing publications. Just do not verify them. :) And add a note on sources for the record. We want them in the DB. But it is up to you. Any and all help is welcome. <br />
<br />
::Two More questions on adding a publication.<br />
:: A. One of them is a 2019 New Yorker. There is not yet a "New Yorker - 2019" title. Is that generated automatically when I add the specific issue, or do I have to do something else? ::[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 12:32, 4 February 2021 (EST)<br />
::: You add the magazine and do not worry about the yearly record. When the first record for 2019 is created, a second submission will rename it to the yearly format. That's valid for any magazine - joining the yearly record or renaming it is always a second step :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 12:47, 4 February 2021 (EST)<br />
<br />
:: B. The other two appear to be webzines. i) One of them is "Nightmare Magazine". There are a number of 2019 issues already in the DB, but not the November issue for the story concerned. This appears to be an ongoing webzine. I assume it is OK to add this the November issue and TOC from the webzine. ii) The other was first printed at Slate.com, in their "Future Tense" feature from January 26, 2019. The story "Thoughts and Prayers" is in ISFDB, but it does not list this first publication. The copyright info for the book lists the Slate/Future Tense appearance. There appear to be other Slate/Future Tense fiction and non-fiction entries that have genre pertinence. https://slate.com/tag/future-tense-fiction ::[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 12:32, 4 February 2021 (EST)<br />
::: Nightmare is also an ebook - so you can either add it as a webzine or as an ebook (we need both technically so feel free to add either or both). And yes - you can add the contents from the webzine if you are sure it is the same (Lightspeed for example has additional contents in the ebook).<br />
::: Look at our [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition rules of Acquisition] for what web contents we actually allow in - just being relevant to the genre is not enough. For webzines we need them to have "issues" basically. Here is the exact text:<br />
:::* Speculative fiction webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues (note: online periodicals without distinct issues are not considered webzines)<br />
:::* Special speculative fiction issues of non-genre webzines<br />
:::* One time speculative fiction anthologies published on the Web<br />
:::* Online publications available exclusively as a Web page, but only if:<br />
::::* published by a market which makes the author eligible for SFWA membership , OR<br />
::::* shortlisted for a major award <br />
::: Slate is eligible only for its fiction with a bit of a wink: see [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/seriesgrid.cgi?53643 here] - we treat each story as a single "issue" and under the "Special speculative fiction issues of non-genre webzines" sub-clause basically :) It is a bit of a stretch but as they published some of the bigger authors, it kinda makes sense so we count it as this. So you can add the story and any other FICTION that way but not the non-fiction (again - don't worry about the yearly records, just add the individual issues using the same title format as in the ones we already have).<br />
::: Hope that all this makes sense. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 12:47, 4 February 2021 (EST)<br />
::::Thanks. That all makes sense. I do appreciate your help - I do try to use the various Help features, but some coaching is sure a plus. Please feel free to tell me to just go back to the general forums if you get tired of my questions. I'm glad I asked about the webzines and ezines - that is pretty darn nuanced.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 13:03, 4 February 2021 (EST)<br />
::::: Ezines are always eligible (if there is an ebook, it is in no matter what - same way as if it was printed), webzines - only sometimes :) We used to disallow webzines completely except for that last point (awards and membership) but opened for the "issues" ones a few years ago. <br />
::::: If you do not mind waiting for me to get back to you (which may happen slowly sometimes), it is ok to ask here. The only reason to post on the general boards is so more people can see it but depending on the time, it may still be me answering anyway :) And if I am gone for long enough, another editor will jump in and answer on my page as well :) <br />
::::: And no worries - the DB is big and complicated and there are nuances inside of nuances. Always happy to help with an explanation. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:14, 4 February 2021 (EST)<br />
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::Your guidance would be welcome. Thanks again and best wishes.<br />
::[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 12:32, 4 February 2021 (EST)<br />
<br />
3. I'm planning on editing the record for the tp copy, as that is what I have in front of me. It appears that the TOC for the ebook version is identical (aside from the lack of page numbers); I need to confirm this. What is your advice on how to best deal with the ebook? <br />
: Fill in the Tp. Then we can import from there into the ebook directly (Option 1 on that Import menu is for this usecase) and clean up the page numbers by adding | to all of them thus keeping the order. <br />
<br />
4. I am not planning on doing anything for the audio CD editions. Let me know if you have a different suggestion.<br />
: No worries. After we have one of them filled in, importing into these will be trivial. I can do that easily. :)<br />
<br />
Best wishes,<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 18:17, 2 February 2021 (EST)<br />
: Answers inline. Don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 01:40, 3 February 2021 (EST)<br />
<br />
== Harlan Ellison's Watching ==<br />
<br />
Hello Annie. You recently approved changes I made to this publication.<br />
I uploaded a scan of the dustwrapper for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?164881 this] edition not realising (a) it had the same image as the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?672991 limited] edition and (b) my copy was a 2nd printing. I made notes regarding the detail differences between the two editions - text colour on the spine etc - so the image is actually the dustwrapper of the limited edition not the trade edition [trade edition having white text on spine not orange, and my trade edition's dustwraper is badly scuffed - mind you it only cost me £20 so there's that - bought as a reading copy]. I do have a photo of my slipcased edition (out of it's slipcase with dustwrapper opened out) but I suspect if I tried to upload that it would over-write the existing one. Is that something easily rectified ? --[[User:Mavmaramis|Mavmaramis]] 02:34, 6 February 2021 (EST)<br />
: It is the old problem with the tags - the cover was added in one of the publications and then when the second one was created/updated, instead of adding a new image, the path to the existing one was used. I untangled it - you may need to reload the page to see the change. If an image is not the one you want (I was not sure what to leave in the Trade so left yours basically - so you may need to replace it?), you can now upload a new cover in one and it won't carry into the other. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 04:10, 6 February 2021 (EST)<br />
::Thank you Annie. I've uploaded the photo of the unboxed slipcase edition to that record and scanned the dustwrapper of my trade edition for that record - you will note the difference in text colour on the spines. --[[User:Mavmaramis|Mavmaramis]] 04:33, 6 February 2021 (EST)<br />
::: Approved the last edit and now we should be all set in all 3 :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 04:46, 6 February 2021 (EST)<br />
<br />
== Standardized name format ==<br />
<br />
Based on the Edit History, you were the last to modify [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2401135 this] publication. My question is: should the name be standardized to include the comma? The reason I ask is that I've been following up on the Community Portal entry [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Community_Portal#Cthulhu.27s_Creatures Cthulhu's Creatures] and one ToC entry uses the non-standard name format (no comma). I propose to include the comma. ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] 10:11, 10 February 2021 (EST)<br />
: Is there a comma on the title page of the story? If yes - then - yes. We do not have a format that requires adding commas where they are not there... or am I missing something here?<br />
: Looking at it - I added a translator and fixed the parent only on the story and added notes on the Moreno Pavanello story in the publication so I do not have an opinion one way or another on the title :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 10:20, 10 February 2021 (EST)<br />
:: Oh, you meant the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/author_history.cgi?276581 author name], didn't you? I need coffee... :)<br />
:: Yes we should I believe unless there is a very good explanation on why not but Dirk made the alternative name so you may want to ask him why... I did not even notice when I was doing the translations... [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 10:31, 10 February 2021 (EST)<br />
::: There's no access to title page, so I'll add the comma and explain in the notes. I'll also ping Dirk just for fun. Everyone keeps on about the 'coffee' stuff, I may have to try it some time. ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] 11:10, 10 February 2021 (EST)<br />
:::: Nah, if it is the author name, the title page does not matter. We have a rule on authors name like this one. In the mornings, I am known to say that there is too much blood in my caffeine system... [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 11:11, 10 February 2021 (EST)<br />
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== A Question of Direction ==<br />
<br />
Hi Annie.<br />
<br />
At the moment, I have finished doing all of the edits and other ISFDB improvements that I had planned to do.<br />
<br />
I know that there might be edits needed on magazines to add links to scans, but I am waiting for policy direction on that per our prior discussion. As I stated previously, I will not be doing anything on this until I get guidance.<br />
<br />
I am wondering if you have advice on what kinds of ISFDB editing/improvement would be most useful with my interests and skill and knowledge levels.<br />
<br />
The two things I can see myself working on are:<br />
<br />
1. Filling in missing magazines on some of the recent webzine/ebook publications, especially those that appear to be fairly major and viable in some ways and that have major authors with major and perhaps award winning works. I would be working from either publisher websites or Amazon kindle preview info.<br />
<br />
2. Cleanup Reports - I took a brief look at this, and there sure appear to be a lot of opportunities for dealing with issues that may need to be dealt with.<br />
<br />
I am not in any hurry, and I sure have plenty of other things to do in my life that will keep me busy. At the same time, I do like to be useful and there do appear to be opportunities, and I would appreciate any guidance you could offer.<br />
<br />
Best wishes,<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 15:09, 12 February 2021 (EST)<br />
: Up to you - do what interests you: we can use the help with both of these things. We used to have an editor that worked a lot with short fiction but she is not active anymore so a lot of our magazines are falling behind. :)<br />
: If you go for the cleanup reports, make sure you know what you are supposed to be doing there - some of them are a bit... interesting. I am always around to answer questions as well. <br />
: And you can do both things in parallel as well - both tasks can be annoying so switching between them may be worth it. And then we have the reports that contain empty magazines and collection/anthology records - which also can use a contents being added from them. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:46, 12 February 2021 (EST)<br />
::I appreciate your thoughts. It does look like some of the magazines/webzines/ebook magazines are pretty current, while some have some holes. At the same time, it might be fun to try to deal with some of the Cleanup Report issues. If I do that, I will generally take a cautious approach, especially when doing something new, and try to ask for help if I just don't get what to do or how to do it. Also, if :: I try something new, I'll typically try a single edit, and then wait for moderation to see if I nailed things or not, etc.<br />
Thanks.<br />
::[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 19:49, 12 February 2021 (EST)<br />
<br />
::: Whatever you do, try to have fun :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 01:03, 13 February 2021 (EST)<br />
<br />
::::No worries. I would not be doing this if I did not think it was fun in some way, although my idea of fun may be different from what others may think or feel. Perhaps I am looking for a combination of fun and rewarding.<br />
::::[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 12:09, 13 February 2021 (EST)<br />
::::: My point was - if it starts feeling like a chore, move to something else for a bit. Data quality declines when people get tired of doing the same thing over and over but feel that they must - and people get burned out and leave. Which is not something I want to happen here - thus me saying to make sure you still have fun no matter what you do. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 12:36, 13 February 2021 (EST)<br />
<br />
== Weird Business Editing ==<br />
<br />
Hi.<br />
<br />
ISFDB has an entry for Anthology "Weird Business", edited by Joe R. Lansdale & Richard Klaw. It is an anthology of graphic stories.<br />
<br />
I found in the Cleanup Reports that it had no contents. I happen to own this, so I am planning on entering the contents. There are issues that I want to be sure I am on track for before starting.<br />
<br />
1. All of the stories are graphic stories, with writer, adapter (for some), artist, and perhaps others on each story. I assume we just keep adding them until we get them all for each title entry.<br />
<br />
2. A number of the stories are already in ISFDB as short fiction entries, with either identical or almost identical titles, that are prose only. As this is a comic script vs. a work of prose, I believe they are not the same text, even though they are probably the same story.<br />
<br />
Based upon what I have seen in the Help files and Forum discussions, it appears that I should treat them as new stories but add to the Notes to explain that there is a prose version also. I saw one suggestion to add to the titles to ensure they are clearly different, such as "Gorilla Gunslinger (graphic story)" or some such. I lean towards adding the Notes, probably to both versions of the story, rather than changing the title.<br />
<br />
3. Some of the titles are similar but not identical. Given the conclusion in 2) above, I assume that there is no need to "Variant" the new titles, as they are different.<br />
<br />
4. Story introductions - Most of the stories have an introduction, some multiple pages long. I assume I should add them.<br />
<br />
Thanks for the input.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 18:38, 13 February 2021 (EST)<br />
: If it is graphic content only, it is probably not eligible at all and the whole anthology may need to be deleted. We have a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Graphic_novels discussion] going over in R&S if we want to allow graphic adaptations - so hold off of adding contents here for a bit until it is decided what the rules will be. If they get added then yes - notes will need to distinguish them. And adaptations don’t get varianted - only translations and differences in author and title credits. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 18:53, 13 February 2021 (EST)<br />
::I'll hold off until I hear. For what it's worth, this appears to be horror, and it appears to be a mix of adaptions of existing material and new works that are graphic novel style stories. Lots of authors that are genre, like Robert Bloch, Neal Barrett Jr, Charles de Lint, Michael Moorcock, etc. Thanks.<br />
::[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 20:57, 13 February 2021 (EST)<br />
:::i took a quick look. There are 600-700 titles with the [graphic format]. Mostly English, things like "Watchmen" and "The Dark Knight Returns".<br />
:::[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 22:47, 13 February 2021 (EST)<br />
:::: There are exceptions under which these are allowed - authors above threshold (so all their fiction is eligible) or single stories in otherwise text publications and magazines (especially magazines) - that’s why we have the flag. If you read the Rules of acquisition, comics are specifically excluded from the definition of speculative fiction - so the ones that make it make it through the exceptions allowing non speculative fiction. And there are also a few that need deleting. Plus the flag is newish so there are more that are not marked. Old DBs with changing rules can have some entertaining properties :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:57, 14 February 2021 (EST)<br />
:::::Thanks. I need to re-read the discussion on above threshold and what it means. Regardless, I will move on to something else and not do anything on "Weird Business" until I get guidance.<br />
:::::[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:55, 14 February 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Upcoming UK tp(s?) of Star Wars: Shadow Fall ==<br />
<br />
So this one is confusing me...<br />
<br />
The database has [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?817027 978-1-78746-484-1] which came via Fixer and was approved by you a few weeks ago, but there are a couple of weird things:<br />
<br />
1. There's no cover image. Looking in the edit history, it looks like it was maybe submitted [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?4880724 with a placeholder image], which seems a bit odd for something being published in less than 2 months from submission, and which already had a cover from prior hc/ebook pubs (so it's not like they were waiting on an artist or something).<br />
<br />
2. It looks like the placeholder image was maybe removed in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?4881160 a second edit], but now I'm confused by the red error about the title ID not existing - is this maybe some artifact of merging/varianting titles?<br />
<br />
I stumbled across this one because I have an alternative ISBN for a tp published by Del Rey/Cornerstone the same day: 9781529101447. If you go to [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1118937/star-wars--shadow-fall/9781529101447.html the Penguin product page] and click on "View more editions", you can see they (now) have two 2021 tp pubs, with the one currently in our database lacking a cover. [https://www.waterstones.com/book/star-wars-shadow-fall/alexander-freed/9781787464841 Waterstones] has that ISBN as publication abandoned, and neither Blackwells nor uk.bookshop.org recognize that ISBN. (I'm not sure about Amazon, as they reworked their UI a couple of weeks ago, that makes it harder - IMHO - to see the different pubs for a format.)<br />
<br />
My guess is that Waterstones is probably correct, and that the existing pub should be 0000-00-00 pub-dated, and the other one submitted. I'll do that - although it might not be for a day or so, as I want to make sure I have up-to-date data from as many sources as possible - but I thought I'd run this one by you first in case (a) you'd seen anything like this before and/or (b) had any thoughts? [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 16:44, 14 February 2021 (EST)<br />
: The no cover is not surprising for Arrow - it is a bit of a pattern for them 2 months out for some reason. And the red thing is indeed because of a merge - and the cover removal is normal when it is a placeholder. :) Let’s leave the one there as is for a few days - it may be an international edition - once the date passes, we will see if it crops up somewhere (the Australian and Canadian sites for example) or needs date change. Add the other one by all means. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:26, 14 February 2021 (EST)<br />
<br />
== Alternate Name/whatever challenge ==<br />
<br />
Hi Annie. I am working to enter the contents of Uncanny Magazine 37. I have found an author of one story who appears to have had a name change. "The Span of his Wrist" is noted everywhere by "Lee Mandelo", on the Uncanny site, on the author's own website, etc.<br />
<br />
"Lee Mandelo" is a new name for ISFDB - there is no current author record for the name. There is an entry for "Brit Mandelo", for the 2016 story in Uncanny Magazine, "The Sincerity Game", and for other works through 2017.<br />
<br />
Upon looking at the author's website, https://leemandelo.com/fiction, "The Sincerity Game" is listed as by Lee Mandelo.<br />
<br />
There is an interview of Lee Mandelo at Uncanny Magazine. See https://uncannymagazine.com/article/interview-lee-mandelo/, also in Issue 37. In this interview, it notes there is a 2nd story for Lee Mandelo in Uncanny. I assume this must be "The Sincerity Game".<br />
<br />
Clearly the same person. The information I see suggests this may be a trans name change, but I am not 100% sure on this. My first assumption is that this is a case where a new alternate name is appropriate.<br />
<br />
This person has been nominated for a number of awards, including the Hugo, Nebular and Lambda.<br />
<br />
I know this can be a very sensitive issue, and I'd like to do the right thing.<br />
<br />
Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 00:34, 21 February 2021 (EST)<br />
: We record the names as they are used in the publication - so yes, we will create an alternate name here. Now, our rules for what names is the canonical are based on what name the author is known under in the SF community. Usually even after a name change, the old name is prevalent for awhile - although we had had some discussions fir cases like that. So record the name as printed in the magazine. Once the magazine is approved, submit the alternate name and the variant (or I can if you prefer). [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:13, 21 February 2021 (EST)<br />
::Thanks. I'll take care of that, and try to take care of the alternate name and the variant. If I run into trouble, I'll check in.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 17:28, 24 February 2021 (EST)<br />
:::Hi Annie. I just attempted to take care of the variant for one of the alternate name titles, and I'm hoping it works. I do have several questions about this whole area of canonical names and alternate names. 1) Submitting titles by alternate names, it seems like some of the time the whole "by canonical name (as by alternate name)" issue is taken care of automatically. Am I just fantasizing, or is this the unseen effort by a moderator, or what? 2) I am somewhat surprised that we need to variant a title's author to establish the connection in the canonical author bibliography. I am assuming there is a very good database reason this could not be taken care of when the alternate/canonical connection is made?<br />
:::Best wishes.<br />
:::[[User:Dave888|Dave888]]<br />
:::: If you are just adding a book to an existing title, the variant is already there. Otherwise - either a moderator was helping behind the scenes or someone fixed it based on the overnight cleanup report. :)<br />
:::: As for why - think about house pseudonyms - they are not very popular now but used to be. Even now, there is [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?7269 Erin Hunter] for example. There is no way for the system to know which of the many authors who use that name wrote a specific book - so the DB had to allow for this scenario. And even on 1/1 pseudonyms/alternative names, there is no telling if this "John Doe" you just added a book from is actually the pseudonym for the canonical we know about or a brand new John Doe who needs his own record (see Erin Hunter again) or if it is not a new author who is now using a house/joined pseudonym that needs a new canonical attached and not just being sent to the one we already know about. So we create all variants manually as opposed to allowing the system to guess and then hope that someone will fix it when the system makes a mistake. It is a lot easier to monitor the ones that are NOT created than to need to check every single one made in a day to make sure that the system did not create something it should have not. Hope this makes sense. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:08, 28 February 2021 (E<br />
::::: Annie, thanks for the explanation on both issues. On the first issue, I'll continue to monitor this and do the variant thing to connect stories when needed. Especially on the 2nd issue, that is the kind of thing I was expecting. At the same time, I am surprised that you can't variant/whatever all of the titles of an alternate name by connecting to the canonical name using the record number for the canonical name. I'm sure there is some database reason for this.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 18:40, 28 February 2021 (EST)<br />
:::::: It had been discussed. Part of the challenge is that even in this case, you do not always want to create new parents - sometimes the canonical author already has the title and you just need for variant into it. That happens a lot when an author changes their name or when one adds translations. So it comes down to priorities - what is worth developing and if the effort is better used elsewhere. It can be done eventually but it will lead to a lot of titles that then need to be merged once it is used. Plus especially with translations, the parent will need a new title and language and a year even if it needs to be crated anew. And then there are the serials which get varianted into complete works and the split novels. Varianting like the one you just encountered is just a single usecase in what that feature is used for. And that complexity makes it very hard (and somewhat dangerous) to attempt automation - people click on things they don’t always understand so having an easy button can end up with a lot of cleanup. Not that I won’t love having one for such cases but... :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:45, 28 February 2021 (EST)<br />
:::::::One more varianting/summary bibliography question. Upon looking at Brit Mandelo, there are two entries for the title I just varianted for Lee Mandelo, one for "The Span of his Wrist" and one for "The Span of his Wrist (only as by Lee Mandelo)" These are the same thing, and I'm pretty sure there should not be two entries. I suspect you told me I needed to do something more here, but can't remember or find what that was. Do I need to merge those two entries? Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:56, 1 March 2021 (EST)<br />
:::::::: Yep. You could have used Option 1 on the varianting but as you created a new title, now they need to be merged. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 11:58, 1 March 2021 (EST)<br />
::::::::: Done. Thanks for the guidance.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 23:50, 1 March 2021 (EST)<br />
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One more trans "deadnaming" question. I just saw the recent controversy and outcome on "deadnaming" transgender people at Wookiepedia, as reported at File770. http://file770.com/tag/wookieepedia/ Is this question coming back to ISFDB, or is this still settled at the moment? Just curious. Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 13:26, 31 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
: If you want to change how we record canonical names, please open a CS discussion. The current rules had not changed in ages - we use as canonical the name of the author as they are known in the field (which usually means the name under which they have the most titles). [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:38, 31 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::Actually, I don't want to change how we record canonical names. I was just curious if there was any obvious discussion about this point, especially among the moderators. I think our current practice is practical, but at the same time I can see it becoming potentially controversial in the future. The main reason I asked was that the recent "Wookipedia" example was in another user-edited online site, and the category seemed not unlike ISFDB in some ways. Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 13:42, 31 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: We don't have a secret place for discussions :) If there is a discussion, it will be in CS or R&S or in Moderator's forum - all of them are publicly visible. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:43, 31 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::That is what I thought, but I was lazy and figured you would know. Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 13:48, 31 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::: Nothing since last time we talked (that I had seen anyway) :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:05, 31 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Sense of Wonder edit question ==<br />
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Hi. I am attempting to add titles to the Leigh Grossman anthology "Sense of Wonder", ebook version. I am starting with the new titles that are not already in ISFDB. Upon attempting to submit a batch of them, I'm getting an error message "only MAGAZINE and FANZINE publications can contain Editor titles". I am sure this is something simple and obvious, but I do not understand what I am doing wrong. Thanks. [[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 19:48, 6 March 2021 (EST)<br />
: Check very carefully all the Essays you are trying to add - introductions and so on . One of them is marked as an editor by mistake - non fiction pieces inside books are called essays (except for interviews and genre reviews which have their own types and sections) but it is very easy to mess the two types. The Type Editor is reserved for magazine/fanzine title records and is not used for editorial essays. In short - unless you are editing a magazine/fanzine, do not use the Editor type and inside of these two, it is used for the main title (for novels both the pub and the title type is novel; for these two the pub is magazine/fanzine; the title is editor. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 20:40, 6 March 2021 (EST)<br />
::You nailed it. I had missed my mistake on one of the entries. Thanks![[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:18, 7 March 2021 (EST)<br />
::: Anytime! Common issue. :) Before the check was added, we had to go back and clean these when they got missed and approved as editors - between mistakes (2 e-s on the list - my finger slips occasionally as well) and people thinking that EDITOR should be used for editorial essays, we had a lot of cleanup almost daily. So the check was added :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 14:59, 7 March 2021 (EST)<br />
One More "Sense of Wonder" question, which is more general. This is a pretty huge work, with 375 title entries overall. I am doing the new titles in batches, just to break it up a little bit. I'll be doing the import for the existing titles (and there are more than a few) separately. I assume that I should not submit an additional batch of new titles until the last batch has been approved. Do I also need to do the import sequentially and not in parallel with the new titles? Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:39, 9 March 2021 (EST)<br />
: Technically having a few of those at the same time will not be a problem UNLESS they clash or a title get merged somewhere. Considering that these require a lot of work though and not just clicks, redoing them when something goes wrong is a pain so I would submit one batch at a time and then proceed with the next post approval. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 11:46, 9 March 2021 (EST)<br />
::Thanks. I suspected as much. So, it sounds like I could do some submittals in parallel, but there is substantially more risk if there are challenges. With that, I'll continue with doing them one by one.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 12:31, 9 March 2021 (EST)<br />
:::One more question on titles. In addition to the fiction titles, there are author bios and other essays galore in this volume. It's clear for the author bio entries, that I can't just put "James H. Schmitz", but that I need to put "James H. Schmitz (Sense of Wonder)" to differentiate from the other "James H. Schmitz" entries. There are also many, many other essays on more general subjects of interest, like "Time Travel" for instance. Upon checking, I see that there are multiple existing essays with that title, and so my entry is "Time Travel (Sense of Wonder)". There are a number of essays that are so far unique in name that I have not added "(Sense of Wonder)" to yet. I am wondering if I should be adding "(Sense of Wonder)" to all of these other essays, just for consistency, or only those where there are duplicates. Your thoughts would be helpful. Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 12:46, 10 March 2021 (EST)<br />
:::: It does not matter if we have tons of the same named essays in the DB, the real test is if the same author has an essay with the same name. For the standard titles, we won't even check that - Introduction and so on are so common so we always add to it. I would not add the name of the book to an essay called "Time Travel" quite honestly - unless the author already has an essay under that title. Although IF most essays have the book name, I may decide to. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:26, 10 March 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Audio book contents ==<br />
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Hi. Occasionally I notice that there is an audio book version for a title I am editing that is not yet in ISFDB. I am mostly not able to find any specific TOC for the audio book. Do we just assume that it has the same contents, or what? I have also seen one or two where the audio content was slightly different; for instance, on at least once "Best of the Year" anthology, the audio version omitted some of the supplemental essays (Honorable Mentions, say) and included only the stories. One obvious option would be to add an audio book version of the title and say nothing about the contents. Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 14:40, 8 March 2021 (EST)<br />
: If you know the contents and feel like adding them, you add them. If you do not ( or you are not sure) either leave it empty or add the ones you are sure about (the stories for example) and add the <nowiki>{{incomplete}}</nowiki> template like I did [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?823206 here] for example. If you are importing from another pub (or cloning), before submitting put "del" or "delete" as the page number on the ones you want to be ejected as they are not there in this version. Then either a moderator will see these when they approve and kick them out or if they do not, you submit a removeTitle post approval :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 14:48, 8 March 2021 (EST)<br />
::Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 15:15, 8 March 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Katastrophia ==<br />
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Good morning from France. I suppose that other moderators are waiting for you to tackle [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?4931290 this waiting submission]. I've located what seems to my russian-ignoring eyes the original publication [https://fantasy-worlds.org/lib/id5156/ here]. As I' don't want to create some horrors to a native reader, I'd prefer that you take charge of the varianting (and creating of authors and all the rest). Note that I've miscopied the ISBN in my submission (I'll change it later). I also have doubts about the cover artists (the french publication implies that they are two of them), can you confirm this information from original sources? Thanks [[User:AlainLeBris|AlainLeBris]] 02:24, 10 March 2021 (EST)<br />
: Good morning (well, almost evening there but morning here :) ) <br />
: Is that essay really an essay or is it an interview? The Russian novel has an interview in every edition I am seeing (the title is "When we run out of oil"). <br />
: No credit for the artist anywhere on the Russian sites that I can find but I will do some more checks in a bit. <br />
: You can fix the ISBN now and unless we need to convert that essay, I think we are all good here :) Let me know if you have any questions/concerns. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 10:43, 10 March 2021 (EST)<br />
::Thanks. The essay is IMHO really an essay and not an interview, it's a kind of letter from the author to the readers, it starts with "Chers amis" (Dear friends). [[User:AlainLeBris|AlainLeBris]] 11:47, 10 March 2021 (EST)-<br />
::: So it is not the Russian interview from the originals :) All set then. Let me know if I can assist with anything else :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 11:55, 10 March 2021 (EST)<br />
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== A curious Orbit UK ISBN ==<br />
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A review of an upcoming Megan E. O'Keefe novella came up in my Twitter feed earlier today, and I hadn't seen it mentioned anywhere before now, so I thought I might be able to claim all the glory for adding it. Unfortunately, you and Fixer [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?821640 beat me to it], way back at the start of Feb :-( However, there's something a bit odd about the UK version, that I'd like to pick your brains on...<br />
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Searching for the author on the Hachette and Little Brown UK sites, I found this pub with the ISBN [https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/megan-e-okeefe/the-first-omega/9780356517148/ 9780356517148]. However, neither Amazon UK nor Kobo (GB) know that ISBN if you search for it. Kobo (GB) lists the US ISBN, but Amazon UK has a different ASIN (B08TBMYYQP) from the US one. FWIW, doing a general Google search for that ISBN finds no matches, as if they don't crawl Hachette's sites?<br />
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I'm inclined to add this as a separate UK pub, but with a note that (currently) the ISBN isn't recognized outside of Hachette's sites. However, I know there have been Orbit UK<->US weirdnesses before, so I thought I'd ask if this sort of thing rings any bells, or if you have any better ideas on how to handle this? Pub date isn't until March 30th, so it may just be easiest to wait a couple of weeks in case things change?<br />
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BTW, the entry here for the US pub doesn't have a cover image, I'm guessing because Amazon US didn't have one at the time? [https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ESWW0GJbL.jpg Amazon UK has one though], if Amazon US is still lagging: [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 11:27, 11 March 2021 (EST)<br />
: Me and Fixer are very good at what we are doing on US publications - especially major authors and publishers. :). Yup, no cover when I added it - I added it now. :)<br />
: The reason we carry ASINs on ebooks is exactly because the ISBNs are inconsistently applied and linked (and the direct links are based on ASIN). If a paper book is there, they will often add the ISBN of the ebook as an alternative so the search gets it but not always. An ebook only since they stopped using the ISBNs at all? 50/50 chance... <br />
: A 356 ISBN is UK's Orbit so yes, there is a second ebook out there so I would add it based on the Hachette site and with the UK ASIN. This is not unusual, I won't even add a note on the ISBN being unrecognized at this point but up to you. We can check post-publication to see what happened but I would add it now if I were you (or if Fixer gets the ASIN in a few weeks/months). [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 11:53, 11 March 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Hothouse ==<br />
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Hello Annie. Re [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?407984 this] publication. I've corrected the error and merged the cover art title to match the other Sphere editions with the same artwork however I am puzzled as to why it said "Sphere Science Ficiton Classics" was a new series when that series already exists and that specific edition seems to be in a series all on it's own. --[[User:Mavmaramis|Mavmaramis]] 05:12, 12 March 2021 (EST)<br />
: You could have responded on your page - I am monitoring. :) Thanks for taking care of that. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 08:18, 12 March 2021 (EST)<br />
::Yes I realise that but it was more in relation to the issue with the series that seened to be very odd to me. Another inconsistancy that occassionally makes me wonder if I am going mad. It isn't an issue that I am fully aware or competant of knowing how to correct. --[[User:Mavmaramis|Mavmaramis]] 09:58, 12 March 2021 (EST)<br />
::: Ah, sorry missed this. It is because you spelled "Ficiton" and not "Fiction" and I also missed it last night :) Fixed now. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 10:20, 12 March 2021 (EST)<br />
::::I'm going to blame my deteriorating eyestight/bad typing for that. Thanks. --[[User:Mavmaramis|Mavmaramis]] 13:04, 12 March 2021 (EST)<br />
::::: I did not see it either so... :) Happens. I should stop doing things that late. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:21, 12 March 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Another alternate/canonical name question ==<br />
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Hi. I just realized that one of the "Sense of Wonder" authors, Wendy Gay Pearson, has existing entries for both "Wendy Gay Pearson" and "Wendy Pearson" in ISFDB. Looking at the two different bio/publication entries at Western University, Canada, this is clearly the same person. There are a similar number of entries for each name, 8 from 2008-13, and 11 from 2001-06. It's not at all jumping out to me which should be the canonical name, but they need to be connected. I would appreciate your guidance. Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 17:58, 13 March 2021 (EST)<br />
: In such cases, when the numbers are so close, I usually go with the longer form of the name as canonical unless a SF encyclopaedia or something like that has it differently. :) 11:18, 15 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks. There is no entry for Wendy Gay Pearson (or Wendy Pearson) is the SF Encylopedia, although I found the name cited in two other entries. I also found "Wendy Pearson" cited in one entry. I'll go with Wendy Gay Pearson as the canonical name.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 12:31, 16 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== IV or VI ==<br />
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SFJuggler fixed Jason Lives. My pending list still has your name attached. It's not necessary anymore. I was right. --[[User:Username|Username]] 11:40, 14 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Being right this time does not change the fact that we have a process when the book is primary verified: check with the active PV(s); when they are not available and/or active we change with a note in the Notes explaining what was changed post verification and why. That ensures that we do not lose data and we mark the source of the data properly (in a PVd book, unless otherwise stated, the source is the actual book the PV holds).<br />
: You can cancel your own submission or I can reject it for you. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 11:17, 15 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::Title was changed but series # wasn't (it still said 4) so I fixed that. --[[User:Username|Username]] 13:42, 15 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: Which was always going to be a separate change anyway :) I did not handle the other update. Approved that last one and we should be all set with this one. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:44, 15 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Format for SFWA Bulletin Issues ==<br />
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Annie, issues in the data base for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?28836 The SWFA Bulletin] beginning in 1987 are given as quarto format. But they are slightly smaller, 7.5" x 10.5". I have most issues between 1983 and 1990, and they are all the same format, but I haven't entered them yet. Do you think I should use the quarto format? If not, what? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 23:14, 15 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
: The rule with the magazine formats is "closest format you can find" or to quote the help page: "Note: If a magazine is between the sizes of these categories, use the one with the closest description, and add a note in the record. Small variations do not need to be noted.". <br />
: Quarto (8.5" × 11") is the closest (the next closest is the classical pulp at 6.5" × 9.5" but it is 1 inch away on both sides as opposed to the 1 and 0.5 on quarto. So I would use quarto but always add a note: "Size: 7.5" x 10.5, entered as quarto as the closest available format, saddle-stapled" (or words to that effect - if it is saddle-stapled indeed). Especially if it is saddle-stapled, I'd stay with quarto. Hope this makes some sense :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 23:22, 15 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::I think that makes sense, and I'll give the size in the notes for these mags. Earlier issues did have true quarto dimensions (or octavo in some cases); I was just concerned that there should be some differentiation between the newer issues and the older ones. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 11:15, 16 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: The in-between formats are very annoying indeed :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 12:30, 16 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== By canonical name (as by alternate name) question ==<br />
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Hi Annie. I'm sorry to be slow here, but I am struggling with something that I know you have advised me on. For the "Sense of Wonder", I have quite a few titles that are currently entered "as by Leigh Ronald Grossman" that need to be revised to "by Leigh Grossman (as by Leigh Ronald Grossman)" to ensure the entries show up for both names. You have advised me that I need to use the "Make this title a Variant" process for this, and have further suggested that it would be better if I used Option 1 to do this. I am struggling with this; Option 1 is asking for Parent # - I rather assume this would be the parent number for the title itself. What am I missing? Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 14:57, 16 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
: You use Option 1 when the title already exists on the canonical list. For example "This book" is reprinted under Name after being first out under CanonicalName. Then you have a record on both pages - so you connect them when you add the book under Name (if you use option 2, you will create a new title on Canonical list -- and we will need to merge with the existing one. <br />
: But if there is no existing record on the canonical name page, you can only use Option 2. Hope this makes it clearer? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:07, 16 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::I'm still struggling a bit. Let me give you a concrete example, and please tell me if I have it. One of these titles within "Sense of Wonder" is "Karel Čapek (Sense of Wonder)", which is an author bio for karel Capek and is title record #2841855. It is showing up as "by Leigh Ronald Grossman", when I need it to show up in "Sense of Wonder" as "by Leigh Grossman (As by Leigh Ronald Grossman)" for it to show up appropriately both under Leigh Ronald Grossman and Leigh Grossman.<br />
::Option 1 requires the parent record number, which I assume is #2841855. Do I have it, or am I still confused? Please accept my apologies - I usually think I am fairly quick to get things, but this one has been problematic for me for some reason. Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 18:41, 16 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: Dave, stop apologizing :)<br />
::: This one is confusing because the initial entry for this essay is wrong. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2841855 Karel Čapek (Sense of Wonder)]. It is already under Leigh Grossman - the only one from these essays credited under that name and not the longer one. To become what you want, you need the following:<br />
:::* Change the author on this one to Leigh Ronald Grossman. This is the entry in the book - it needs to be as printed in the book - in this case taking the author form from the book itself. <br />
:::* Now create a parent for it with Option 2 swapping the name Leigh Ronald Grossman with Leigh Grossman. You cannot use Option 1 UNLESS you already have an existing title under each of the names.<br />
::: However - before you go and do that, look at the number of titles. Leigh Ronald Grossman has a LOT more titles than Leigh Grossman so switching the canonical name around actually makes sense. It does not make sense to make 150 variants when we can reverse the pseudonym and then only need to make 13 (and break the ones that are done). Do you want me to reverse the pseudonym, cleanup the created variants and then let you do the needed variants in the other direction (or I can do them as well)? <br />
::: Does this help make it clearer? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 18:54, 16 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::yes, this is clearer. I do agree that a better canonical name for him is "Leigh Ronald Grossman" anyway, and I sure like the idea of only dealing with 13 vs 150. I was wondering about that, and I might have asked you about that up front if I'd been smarter. If you can stand it, I would like to try to reverse the pseudonym and then try to go from there on my own. I can see myself getting partway through this and then asking for help. On the other hand, if you are tired of my neediness on this kind of thing, feel free to do what you want to do and let me know what is left. I'm good either way.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 19:06, 16 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::: All yours :) I am here if you need to bounce something by me :) Let's start with the easy part - breaking the current pseudonym and creating it in the other direction. Then you deal with the titles that were not varianted already. When you get to the ones that need full reversal, I have a handy trick to share that cleans them in a single edit per title. Step by step. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:13, 16 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::::Several more "Sense of Wonder"-related alternate author name questions. I have 2 author names that are associated with this book that have other entries under alternate names, Wendy Gay Pearson (Wendy Pearson) and Leigh Ronald Grossman (Leigh Grossman). I believe I need to use "Make Variant" to ensure the alternate name entries show up in the canonical name bibliography, with the "as by alternate name". 1) You have mentioned that I should use Option 1 for the "Make Variant". Option 1 requires the parent title record number. I assume this is for pertinent fiction title record number? 2) Do I need to do this individually for each of the alternate name titles? I assume so. 3) Is there anything else about this that I need to know? My apologies again - I feel like this is another area where I have really been slow to get it. Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 17:00, 18 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::::: 1. You use option 1 only if the title you need as a parent already exists on the canonical author page. Think of Stephen King's Richard Bachman novels - for example Thinner. If someone publishes it in a new book with the title "Thinner Again" (new title never used before) and author Richard Bachman, if you use Option 2 on the varianting, you will create a new record for "Thinner" by Stephen King and we will need to merge it into the existing book later. Instead you find the actual novel ID [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?513 513] and use Option 1 with ID 513. Same if the new publication is "Отслабване" by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?70 Стивън Кинг] (another pseudonym - this would be a translation). Does this make it easier to understand? Option 2 is applicable for reprints and translations usually; new/original works will always use Option 1 because the canonical author has no record for this title yet. When I mentioned to use it, you were varianting reprints :) If you are not sure, forget about Option 1 for now. go with Option 2, we can work on that later<br />
::::::: 2. Every title, one by one. :)<br />
::::::: 3. Nah, you are good. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:42, 18 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Second Opinion ==<br />
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Would you mind looking at [[User_talk:Mavmaramis#The_Broken_Sword|this conversation]]? Hauck and Bluesman were pretty diligent about their submissions (though human like the rest of us). I'm assuming that there actually were two separate covers with different external prices. We could enter two separate records (in which case I will reject the submission, clone the existing, and use the data Mavmaramis submitted so they don't need to repeat their work) or leave as a single record and add the disparity to the notes. Thoughts? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:52, 18 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
: That is extremely weird - see also the usage of Eire vs Rep of Ireland in the two sets of prices and look at the mess that Sphere and Sphere Books are in these years - see the ISBNs on books using Eire in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?USE_1=pub_year&O_1=exact&TERM_1=1978&C=AND&USE_2=pub_note&O_2=contains&TERM_2=Eire&USE_3=pub_title&O_3=exact&TERM_3=&USE_4=pub_title&O_4=exact&TERM_4=&USE_5=pub_title&O_5=exact&TERM_5=&USE_6=pub_title&O_6=exact&TERM_6=&ORDERBY=pub_title&ACTION=query&START=0&TYPE=Publication 1978] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?USE_1=pub_year&O_1=exact&TERM_1=1977&C=AND&USE_2=pub_note&O_2=contains&TERM_2=Eire&USE_3=pub_title&O_3=exact&TERM_3=&USE_4=pub_title&O_4=exact&TERM_4=&USE_5=pub_title&O_5=exact&TERM_5=&USE_6=pub_title&O_6=exact&TERM_6=&ORDERBY=pub_title&ACTION=query&START=0&TYPE=Publication 1977]. So I wonder if whatever the reason for splitting of the two publishers is what causes this discrepancy - and then our split is as always messed up...<br />
: And the whole set of prices do not make sense as a whole. The non-pound ones are close to a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?194685 November book] but that late in the year the pound one should be 0.85 and not 0.65. The prices we have now with the 0.65, are consistent with the books form earlier in the year [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?279737 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?222345 over in Sphere]. Something is off. <br />
: Looking at the image - there is something on top of where the UK price is. Can we ask Mavmaramis to confirm that is is 0.65 and not 0.85 (or if you can see that back cover better than I can maybe you can spot it?). Because IF that turns out to be 0.85, all of the prices will be consistent with other books from late in the year - and then we most likely do have two separate printings (or maybe 1 printing, 2 separate covers - one printed later to allow the increase of the prices for unsold and unbound books?)? If THAT is the case, then all this will make sense. Including the Eire/Rep. of Ireland usage and the double set of prices for a second printing. <br />
: I do not know enough about Sphere and Sphere Books in the 1970s to know how possible that may be... but that is the only way I can see this happening... [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:39, 18 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: So in short - two covers with different prices (possibly including the UK one?) is the only thing that does make sense - sorry for the long note - wanted to put on paper how I got to that. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:42, 18 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: Well, this did not help - the UK price is obliterated :( . Considering the Eire vs Rep of Ireland and the rest of the stuff, I think the cleanest way would be to clone, put the new prices in a different publication, add notes to both explaining the discrepancy despite both being Second Printing and ask Mavmaramis to move his PV (and sort out all the covers). I really cannot see both Herve and Bill missing all the prices (not totally impossible but very very unlikely). Not sure what else we can do. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 04:49, 19 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== The Curse of Jonathan Matthew ==<br />
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I don't understand rejection of my edit for this book; cover on ISFDB is a totally wrong one for a non-fiction book about summer jobs. I provided correct cover and cover artist from this copy: [https://archive.org/services/img/curseofjonathanm0000gree]. --[[User:Username|Username]] 07:58, 22 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Apparently I forgot to unreject before going to bed - the double mix of OCLC and Amazon is amusing and tripped me for a second and then apparently I forgot to fix it. Let me see if I can puzzle out where the artist is credited in the book - as you keep ignoring any request to provide proper sourcing :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 09:47, 22 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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I already entered the name of the artist in my edit for this book, so type that name into the archive.org link's search box. --[[User:Username|Username]] 09:55, 22 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: So... using the ID from the image you posted here, find the book first, then do the search inside to find the list with the artist name, then grab the proper link [https://archive.org/details/curseofjonathanm0000gree/page/n5/mode/2up?q=Sharif+Tarabay here]. Of course, why not - it would have been too easy to just post the link directly. :) Approved and note fixed. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 10:30, 22 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Sense of Wonder - missing subtitle ==<br />
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Hi Annie. One last question on "Sense of Wonder". When I came on the scene, the title I found in the title record was "Sense of Wonder". The title in the publication records was also "Sense of Wonder" for both tp and ebook. Upon looking a bit further, I found that the actual title is "Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction". I can see two choices: 1) leave it as is, but note the subtitle in the Notes, or 1) edit all 3 entries (title and both publication records) to include the subtitle. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks.<br />
:[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:23, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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: Talk to the other PV and you two make a decision together? :) If the subtitle is on the title page, we record it usually. I would add it in this case. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 12:44, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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::Thanks for the input. I have queried the other PV, and I'll see what I hear. If the decision is to do it, is there anything more complex to this than editing both the publication record and the two title records for the title?[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 14:32, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: No cover and no interior art so nope, that is all :) If you had covers or interior art, you would have needed to change their titles as well. But that is it. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 14:43, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::: When posting on people's pages, please post into their Talk pages, not their User pages. I moved the one you left over for Sjmathis; to the correct page. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:09, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::::Sorry about that. I missed that, and should have figured it out, but will not do that again. Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 16:21, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::::: No worries - almost everyone does that at least once ;) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:23, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Non-Genre Editors ==<br />
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Hi Annie -<br />
I believe you are incorrect about the requirement that in order to list actual editors of non-genre publications (in addition to the "Editors of..." Editor), that they be genre editors/known authors. [[Help:Entering non-genre periodicals|the help page]] has no such requirement. I had rejected edits of [[User:Taweiss|Taweiss]] attempting to remove such editors with a note that it is not required to do so and a link to the help page. Today I noticed that the edits had been re-issued and approved and I subsequently discovered the discussion where Taweiss was advised to delete them. I've [[User talk:Taweiss#One more wrinkle|asked them]] if they can add the editors back in. If you are aware of some other standard excluding such editors, let me know, but it would odd since the specific instructions say that adding the known editor, while optional, is allowed. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 18:18, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
: We interpret the word "optionally" differently. I do not think that we should be adding (and encourage the adding) of the editors that are not from the field - that defeats the whole point of using "Editors of". I will be happy to take this over to R&S and hash it out -- so we can clarify when we include them and if the agreement is that we want to add non-genre editors, I will personally fix these. Yes - I know they are allowed but the practice had always been not to - at least in any magazine I had seen that uses the Editors of - even when they are very well known. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 18:23, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::We can start an R&S discussion if you'd like. I can give [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?123565 this example], but I'm probably the one who added Smith to all those records. To me, the plain meaning of "optional" is that entering isn't required, but if the editor wants to do it, they may. I certainly wouldn't delete any data that another editor had added at their option. Perhaps we should have left ''The Dragon'' as a genre magazine. Both Locus1 and Miller/Contento list it. They even have shell records for issues without any fiction. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 18:48, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: Genre magazines have their complete contents eligible for addition - that is the difference between genre and non-genre publications... So Dragon is definitely not a genre publication under our own definition. Which makes it non-genre by definition. So it should be treated so - we do not have a "semi-genre but still leaving most of the contents ineligible" type. Which is how Dragon had been treated. I will start an R&S discussion on the "Editors of" situation. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:06, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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Reading the linked Help page, it would appear that Ron is right. The text says:<br />
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* If the actual name of the editor(s) of a non-genre periodical is known, their names may be listed as co-editors along with "Editors of PERIODICAL NAME"; and<br />
* If the actual editor is known with reasonable certainty, you may optionally enter the name(s) of the editor(s) as co-editors, but leave "Editors of PERIODICAL NAME" as one of the editors in any case.<br />
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There doesn't appear to be a requirement for editor names to be known SF personalities. I haven't done much with non-genre magazines lately, so I am not up to date on the intricacies of current usage.<br />
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If memory serves, back when this Help text was debated, there were three separate concerns. The first one was the difficulty of identifying the editors of obscure non-genre periodicals. The second one was the desire to make all issues of the same magazine appear on the same Summary page. The third one was the desire to avoid creating Summary pages for editors with no genre connections.<br />
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The current version of the Help page doesn't address the third concern, but I don't remember whether it was a conscious choice. We could try to find the original discussion and any follow-up discussions that may have been held.<br />
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Also, the two Help sentences that I quoted above may need to be consolidated. They are duplicative at best and provide different guidance re: "reasonable certainty" at worst. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 19:18, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
: I started a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Non-genre_magazines_and_editor_names R&S discussion]. For most magazines we had followed the "add the "Editors of" and leave it alone" policy. Why do we even bother with "Editors of" instead of using our usual "unknown" as we do for books if known editors can be added - while old magazines had had issues, editors in the last few decades are almost universally known (and never recorded here except in a few special cases)? Showing up on the same page is even more valid concern for Genre magazines and yet we do not use anything to achieve that... - and we have the series pages to show them together now. I am not arguing that the help page is open to allow it but when something does not make sense, I think we need to find out why we are doing it to start with... I have no trouble changing how I enter non-genre magazines (and will even redo the Dragon ones that started all that) if that is what we agree on. But let's figure out what we want to do and why first. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:28, 24 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Locus 690 Question ==<br />
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Hi Annie. I see that Locus #690 had a "Approved Publication Update Submission" by you in it's history after my original NewPub submission. Is there something I need to do differently in the future, or is this an inevitable Moderator process, or what? My apologies if this is something you have already coached me on. I did not mention it to you, but I am a long-time Locus subscriber and reader. I don't keep them forever, but usually for a few years, so I certainly have at least the last 4-5 years. Seeing that there are holes in Locus issues and Locus contents, I'm planning on getting Locus up to date. Thanks and best wishes.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 13:05, 31 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Nope, nothing major. <br />
: There was an extra comma in the title - between the number and the month - see how the rest [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2316258 here] look. Most magazines will have the comma but Locus is handled a bit differently for some reason so we follow the lead. :) The other changes were capitalization ("The" instead of "the" in both interviews) - and while I was there, I brought it into the yearly record - that is always done as a second step. It was a good submission :) Just a few cosmetic issues. :) <br />
: Have fun. I have Locus on my long list of things to get to... so if you want to update them, have fun! :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:17, 31 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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::Thanks. I try to pay attention to all of that stuff, and usually take screen captures of the edits on a similar issue to compare to, but I appreciate the help. I will have fun.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 13:21, 31 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: There was a later merge - my edit actually has a moderator note: "capita;ization and making it look like the rest :)" but it is hidden if it goes into the red table for missing ID. Which is why I did not leave you a note. Let me check if we can get that to show up on the top so it is clearer. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:08, 31 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Adam Blade / Glaki, Spear of the Depths possible US/UK confusion? ==<br />
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Thought I'd try to make some progress on these, but didn't get very far before encountering something weird :-(<br />
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This [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2786629 late 2020 title] has 2 pubs, both purportedly US ones from "Orchard Books / Scholastic". However I was confused that my tools matched them to UK pubs, except for the Kindle ebook, which turns out to have a different ASIN on Amazon UK. (Hachette UK links for the [https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/adam-blade/beast-quest-glaki-spear-of-the-depths/9781408361887/ tp] and [https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/adam-blade/beast-quest-glaki-spear-of-the-depths/9781408361894/ book].)<br />
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Any chance you could have a look at the Amazon US previews for this, to see if they are genuinely US pubs, or if they're gr[ae]y imports? The Amazon UK preview doesn't show the copyright page, but does show a title page with a couple of .co.uk URLs. I'm loathe to change these existing records to have UK publisher, price etc, given that they're relatively recent. Thanks :-) [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 09:02, 1 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Apparently today is the day to finish sorting out all the misplaced books in the Orchards that I had been chipping at slowly. :) These are the Hachette books. Fixed now but give me a few hours to shift the rest of the misplaced ones and to add the double ASINs on the ebooks. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 09:58, 1 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: No worries - any excuse to put off looking at the Adam Blades for another week :-) [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 13:08, 1 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: All Orchards were sorted out. There are 2 more books left under a third publisher which is the same as the US one - I need to talk to a verifier there and figure out what we want to do. The UK ones are all sorted; most of the ebook ones even got their double ASINs (UK/US distribution of the same ebook by Hachette's imprints).[[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:40, 1 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Apollo & Apollo / Head of Zeus ==<br />
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These should probably be merged? [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?64793 Apollo], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?74001 Apollo / HoZ]. They only have 2 titles and 3 pubs between them, all via Fixer, so it doesn't seem like something anyone else will know/care about.<br />
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(Spotted whilst trying to work out whether [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55854384-cold-boy-s-wood this] should be submitted or not - the lack of any reviews makes it difficult to tell whether the references to ghosts are literal or figurative...) [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]]<br />
: I thought I got these two sorted when I found the latest book there. Merged. As for the book - if you add it, add a note "It is unclear if the ghosts in this story are speculative or used as a metaphor.". I would skip this one if I need to make the decision - feels like non-speculative ghosts to me. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 10:29, 1 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: Yeah, I did consider doing that - and will add a note along those lines if/when I do submit that title - but for now I think I'll wait until I see some reviews that might hopefully clarify the subject matter. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 13:08, 1 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== The (perhaps aptly named?) "Tempus Fury" ==<br />
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Me again, hopefully the last time I'll be bugging you today...<br />
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I suspect [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?823085 this pub] is probably not coming out on the date currently recorded. Impressively, I have 4 different pub dates scraped from 4 different sources, at different times:<br />
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* [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Shards-Tempus-Fury-3/dp/178565456X Amazon UK] on 2020-12-24 : said it would be published on 2021-04-06<br />
* [https://titanbooks.com/9108-time-shards-tempus-fury/ Titan Books] (yes, them again) on 2020-10-29 : said it would be published on 2021-01-05<br />
* [https://www.waterstones.com/book/time-shards-tempus-fury/dana-fredsti/david-fitzgerald/9781785654565 Waterstones] on 2021-04-01 (today) : says it will be published on 2021-06-08<br />
* [https://uk.bookshop.org/books/time-shards-tempus-fury/9781785654565 uk.bookshop.org] on 2020-12-24 : said it would be published on '''2025'''-12-01.<br />
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Right now, the first 3 are all reporting the June 8th date, but uk.bookshop.org now thinks it's April 6th... if it wasn't for that last one, I'd submit an edit to make it use 2021-06-08, but it strikes me that consulting you for a second opinion might be advisable? FWIW, I have just checked [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/time-shards-tempus-fury-dana-fredsti/1135255817?ean=9781785654565 B&N] who also show June 8th.<br />
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An ideal candidate for the { { WatchDate } } template? [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 17:40, 1 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Had I mentioned how much I love Titan lately? I changed the date, added the publisher link and added the template. This is what we got it for... [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 18:28, 1 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Rejected edits/forced ==<br />
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I had two edits that show as rejected with a comment of “Forced” for title merges, but the merge was completed Is there something I did wrong? [[User:Taweiss|TAWeiss]] 10:18, 5 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Forced means that the edit is not viable - a title does not exist anymore. In this case, someone did the merges before you - so when your edits were up for review, they were invalid. When that happens, all a moderator can do is to force reject. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 11:08, 5 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
::Got it. Thanks! [[User:Taweiss|TAWeiss]] 16:39, 5 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Xanth questions ==<br />
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Annie, please take a look at this when you have a few minutes[[User Talk:Scifibones #Xanth Volumes 16 through 21| Xanth questions]]. John [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 11:32, 11 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Resurrection, Inc. ==<br />
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Annie, please look at submission 4962707. Help me make it look as professional as possible. Will be sending the link to the publisher [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 17:21, 12 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
: [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?832321 Here it is]. Did some changes. I need you to supply information - see where I added the two formats that did get published? Add the third one in there as well with a note at the end (never published). Feel free to edit anything else again while adding this. I am around to approve when you submit. And I am thinking a bit what else we can move around in the meantime. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:58, 12 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Also - is it just a single introduction by all 3 Janet Berliner and Bentley Little and David B. Silva or are there separate introductions? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:59, 12 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
: I like your editing, I didn't know you could nest unnumbered lists. Three brief, but, separate introductions. I will submit an edit for that and the never published edition. [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 18:24, 12 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: There is only one title for the Introduction. However, each author's comments are separate and signed. No page break. I'll leave it as one while you think. [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 18:34, 12 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: The full Introduction title reads "Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Edition". I should not have shortened it. sorry. Do we want a statement first hardcover edition? That everything I can think of. [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 18:44, 12 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: I'd split them especially because the copyright page splits them and because they each wrote their part, right? OK, I did a few more changes. Maybe add a note explaining that three introductions share a title but are separate segments? I can be convinced to collapse them into 1 again IF they are indeed a single article? A few more things:<br />
:::* I do not see a source for the November in the date or for 1999 really (we do not date based on copyright)? We need a source for this dating. 1999 I can see on the publisher site and that we can add. But November?<br />
:::* Add a page number on which the novel starts so it can go under the essays. And fix the essays pages if they happen to start on next pages (page breaks are not required). [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:06, 12 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::: I originally had the date attributed to Amazon. I took it out because I left a msg for Dave to confirm it for me. Hasn't got back to me yet. I'm sure he will tomorrow. I would rather attribute it to him than Amazon. I notice you removed the capitalization of sterling edition on the title page quote. Inside quotes, I try to put exactly what is in the book. Same comment for slip case. It is properly two words. Inside the quotes I misspelled it as it is on the copyright page. On my note I had spelled it correctly. Were you just trying to make them match? I'll hold off submitting till after you respond. [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 19:19, 12 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::: Well, it will need to temporarily be Amazon.com until better source is found. As it is now, it will need to be 1999-00-00 if Amazon is not used. So either change the dates or add Amazon.com back.<br />
::::: Not me on Sterling - I had not touched that line. I combined the different copyright lines; the very first line had been like that since the beginning. Go ahead and fix whatever needs fixing :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:32, 12 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::::: I guess it was me. I just looked up slipcase, It is one word, I must be getting senile. This should do it unless/until the publisher confirms the publication date. It was a lot of your time, but, it will reflect well on the ISFDB. [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 19:54, 12 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::::: No worries. If I am around, I am happy to assist. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:56, 12 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Stanisław Lem: Dzienniki Gwiazdowe (1982 edition) ==<br />
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Hello, Annie. I wanted to let you know that I now have the 1982 library edition of Dzienniki Gwiazdowe. I have scanned the first nine pages (which contains both of the fictional introductions), and I have also scanned the table of contents (which appears at the end of the book). I have posted the scan at http://www.portmain.com/lem-1982.pdf and I hope that this will help you determine whether the second introduction http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2828794 "Wstęp" is the same as the identically titled "Wstęp" at http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2829256 . Also, I noticed that the first introduction (listed at http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?835816 ) "Przedmowa" in the 1982 edition is signed with a different form of Lem's fictional pseudonym. It uses the name "Astral Sternu Tarantoga" rather than "Professor A. S. Tarantoga" (as listed in the ITTDB). I don't know whether any earlier publications of this introduction used the alternate form of the name.<br />
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I hope this is some help. I will keep the book on my shelf until August (when it is due back at the library) in case you'd like to see anything else.<br />
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All good things, Michael --[[User:Main|Main]] 16:27, 13 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Thanks! Let me finish something and will update these and ask any other questions I may have. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:48, 13 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== SeriesUpdate ==<br />
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Just for the fun of it, can you point me to where the information about "As the main language of the DB is English (notes, summaries and so on), the current practice is that non-English series, the English name can be added after / once the series is translated into English." is located (I didn't find it). You know that Old Europeans like me are quite touchy about issues of cultural imperialism. In this case that's exactly what's in the balance. We do not title this book [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?5199 Le livre de Swa / The Book of Shai] nor is the series' name translated. [[User:AlainLeBris|AlainLeBris]] 03:05, 14 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
: That specific practice predates me even joining the site (and annoys me to no end when I work on Eastern and Central European books). Let me dig through the old discussions tomorrow and see what I can unearth - I think I remember where the discussions are. The main reason was the same that enforces the summary and notes language (namely - we are an English language DB which deals with international publications) but things had changed quite a bit in the last years so maybe that may need to be poked a bit. <br />
: By the way - even if the rename was good, I would have rejected it (or at least came over to your page to explain that we do not throw away information) and asked you to leave the English name in the notes - see [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?36755 here] for an example. One day we may get a proper support for languages so each language shows the correct series name but for now, it’s what it is but we still should not lose information. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 03:35, 14 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Ravenmor ==<br />
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I found something that says it's an imprint, [https://archive.org/stream/Scream_Queens_Illustrated_010_1995_Huesos-DREGS], which has an article by John Russo that says: "As I write this, I'm getting ready to make a movie called HELL'S CREATION, to be distributed by Arrow Entertainment. The novel tie-in is going to be published for Halloween release by Commonwealth Publications under their Ravenmor imprint." If you don't agree then I think adding "A Ravenmor Book" to notes would be OK. I see on Russo's wiki that Hell's Creation is listed as by "Ravenmor", plus there's a book called The Sanity Ward also by that publisher which is not on ISFDB. There's no mention of Commonwealth on his page at all. --[[User:Username|Username]] 21:49, 14 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Then it needs to be the other way around : the format is Imprint / Publisher so Ravenmor / Commonwealth Publications. As Commonwealth is not mentioned, you can even just go with Ravenmor (and then add the note on what you found about them in the Publisher notes). Either way works. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:53, 14 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== A small favor ==<br />
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Next time you have a minute, would you mind looking at [[User talk:MagicUnk|this exchange]] with MagicUnk? Not worried about the specific publication, only if my method and conclusions were right or wrong. I ask because I respect your opinion and you know I am trying to be an asset. You can answer on my talk page is you prefer. Thank you, John [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 11:57, 16 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
: I will post on his page :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 12:00, 16 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== The Clan of the Cave Bear ==<br />
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I want to PV the first edition of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?37192 The Clan of the Cave Bear]. While the 1980-09-00 date would indicate this is it, the pub note confuses the issue. The banner on top of Chavey's talk page says he is unavailable till summer. I left a note on his regular talk page hoping he might see it. It has been a week. Thoughts? John [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 17:26, 19 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
: The note just explains where the date comes from... Does the book contain a month/year somewhere inside of it? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:39, 19 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: No, I was planning on citing the copyright notice. I have a number of edits, just didn't want to make them unles this is supposed to be the first edition. If it isn't I can clone and create a first edition pub record. [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 18:05, 19 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: Does your edition says anything about printing at all? It seems like there is more than one September printing - thus the question. If yours has a stated printing, that would be different from this one. If yours does not, I'd say to consider this the first September printing, add a "Assumed first printing. No printing statement anywhere in the book" and leave it at that. <br />
::: For the dating, leave the existing note (as it comes from a book after all) AND add also the copyright one as well as a confirmation ("Confirmed as per....").[[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 18:16, 19 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:::: My Edition is marked "First Edition" It has a complete number line, all the detail you would expect. Now I think we are on the same page [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 18:24, 19 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::: Some of the old data looks like this. I *think* that this is meant to be the first printing BUT I'd clone anyway - none of the other editors mentioned the number line or the implication of it (aka that this is the first September printing). Chances are that it is but... we know we have at least 4 September/October printings... and Chavey tends to be good at his notes. We will deal with a duplicate later if need be. I'd still copy the notes from this one into the new one. Hope this makes some sense. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 18:31, 19 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:::::: I will put is note in, but, I think it will look odd. Hopefully you will be the reviewer so you can fix it on the fly if you change your mind. [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 18:52, 19 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::::: A second set of eyes never hurts. :) I will also think on it a bit more... old records can be... incomplete. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:37, 19 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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::::::: It's submission 4969238 . I did not create a title for the endpaper map, I used a note instead. Editors of later volumes created some and variated others, looks like a mess. I will be verifying all volumes in the series. The endpapers in each volume have subtle differences, will require some variating. If you prefer content titles, I could probably sort it out.<br />
::::::::P.S. The edits for the first Xanth books are in my submission queue, when they are approved I will take care of those and come back to the Earth Children series. Thanks John [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 19:55, 19 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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::::::::Annie, Biomassbob aproved the edit as submitted. I don't like the last pub note. What do you think? [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?835016 | The Clan of the Cave Bear] [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 18:25, 20 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::::::: We need some form of it I think - so it explains why we have two separate September books on the list and collaborates the date. How about "Month of publication confirmed in the May 1982 edition which notes 4 printings of this book in Sept. & Oct. of 1980"? Or if you rally dislike it, drop it, the other one has it I guess.I'd leave it though. But your book, your decision. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 18:34, 20 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::::::::: Am I confirming the truth of this note with my PV? If so, that's a problem. I have no idea if it is true or not. How about a link in a pub note to the other pub? Or, merge the two, transfer the PV's and it would be Chavey verifying that note. [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 19:00, 20 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::::::::: How about: "According to the note in (insert link), there are 4 printings in Sept. & Oct. of 1980. This record is for the first of them." [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:05, 20 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::::::::::: Works for me. Ill write it up and submit it. [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 19:43, 20 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Ben Bova Voyagers II and III ==<br />
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Title record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?9 Voyagers II: The Alien Within] and the individual publication records have series and title. Same for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?8 Voyagers III: Star Brothers]. Should I take care of the title and publication records for all the pubs, while I am doing mine? John [[User:Scifibones|Scifibones]] 18:10, 21 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== The Alien Stars & Watkins Publishing vs Angry Robot ==<br />
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This one seems messy...<br />
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The ebook is available for publication right now in the UK, so I've submitted [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?4971563 this]. However, it looks like it could be a screw-up - you might want to check what Amazon US has to say? [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-alien-stars-tim-pratt/1138427162?ean=9780857669292 B&N] say the Nook version isn't out till the 27th.<br />
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Somewhat unrelated, are you sure about the publisher on [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2844036 these pubs?] I can see that's what Fixer submitted them as, but if you look closely, the Angry Robot logo is in the top right of the cover images. The Amazon preview of the ebook also has Angry Robot on the title page, so I've also changed that in the aforelinked edit. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 06:45, 22 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
: All US versions do not come out until the 27th so I added a note. <br />
: "Angry Robot, an Imprint of Watkins Media Ltd" which when loaded into Amazon was loaded as Watkins Publishing :) Will add it on my list of "look carefully when Amazon thinks it is the publisher". I'll check the old Watkins books as well in case others were loaded this way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 12:16, 22 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Removing a Rejection ==<br />
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Annie, I've never had to do this before. Someone has asked me to unreject an item that contained a lot of information, and he would like me to unreject it. I have no big objection, but don't know how. Please instruct me. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:40, 25 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
:O.K., figured it out. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 12:00, 25 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: All set? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:12, 25 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Cleaning up after PVs ==<br />
A few weeks ago, you showed me how to best update pubs that I was then going to PV so that the initial entry data was not lost. I've been using that method ever since and am happy with the results. However, looking back at changes and PVs that I did before changing my method shows me that I did a real poor job on a lot of pubs that I then PVed. In more than a few cases, it looks like I changed or lost the initial entry data but it looks like I can reconstruct it from the edit history. I want to go back and fix those pubs (maybe around 200 where I'm the only PV). If I could, I'd remove my PV for each one, make the corrected changes, and then PV again. Since I can't do that, how would you recommend that I make the necessary corrections? [[User:Philfreund|Phil]] 09:26, 30 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
: You can remove your PV if you want -- same place you do the PV, you can remove it. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:37, 30 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
::Perfect! I didn't see that option. So much to learn! :) [[User:Philfreund|Phil]] 22:17, 30 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: The radio boxes there change based on what you had done before - None, Transient and Permanent are the three possible states of your own verification. When you hold one, you see the other 2 options only. So you won’t see the None until you PV and go back to the page. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 22:31, 30 April 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Linden Lewis vs Linden A. Lewis - the unwanted sequel ==<br />
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Just submitted [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?4976656 an edit] to fix the UK tp, similar to the fun on the hc/ebook documented at [[User_talk:Anniemod/Archive-2019-2020#Linden_Lewis_vs_Linden_A._Lewis]].<br />
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(If it's any consolation, this one had been showing up as needing to be added in my tools for a few weeks, and I'd already looked at it once in the database, and assumed it was some weirdness/bug in my tools, forgetting that prior issue over authors.)<br />
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There's a sequel scheduled for August, so hopefully we can avoid a repeat... [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 07:46, 2 May 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== You're invited in ==<br />
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Hi Annie. If you are around, I would love to have you jump into [[User talk:Biomassbob #You have confused me|You have confused me ]] [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 13:21, 6 May 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Sorry, managed to get myself admitted to a hospital... and just resurfacing after a recovery period... :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 14:10, 21 May 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: No apologies necessary, I'm glad you're okay. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 15:04, 21 May 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== John Brunner "China" series ==<br />
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Hi Annie.<br />
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John Brunner had a number of very late career speculative fiction stories set in China. He married a Chinese immigrant in 1991 (LiYi Tan), which may have influenced this writing in the years before his death in August 1995. I had read "Good with Rice" in Leigh Grossman's "Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction", and thought it good enough to track down the others.<br />
<br />
At least 4 of these stories are wholly or partially in a version of the current (early-mid 1990's) China.<br />
1. "Good With Rice", Asimov's March 1994, definitely science fiction.<br />
2. "The Plot of His Ancestors", Asimov's March 1995. Probably genre-adjacent, but a good story.<br />
3. "Amends", Asimov's March 1996. Set in ancient China and then modern China. Possible fantasy elements, perhaps not.<br />
4. "Blood and Judgement", Asimov's April 1997. Definitely science fiction.<br />
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These two stories are not set in modern (1990's) China at all.<br />
5. "All Under Heaven", Asimov's December 1995, set in ancient China, with an alien from elsewhere.<br />
6. "The Emperor Who Had Never Seen A Dragon", Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (Datlow/Windling, 1995). Definitely not 1990's China, and perhaps a fantasy.<br />
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There are all in ISFDB. From what I gather from Asimov's, these were all purchased for publication before he died.<br />
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I think it would be appropriate to set up a "Series" and apply it to at least some of these.<br />
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I checked. There is no "China" Series in ISFDB. I could see either "China" or "Brunner's China" or "Brunner's China Fiction" or something like that.<br />
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I would appreciate your advice.<br />
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Best wishes.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 18:40, 28 May 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Publisher Imprints revisited ==<br />
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Hi Annie, if you have a minute, could we revisit using imprints. Take a look at [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Scifibones#Lord_of_the_Isles_Series this] exchange with [[User:Biomassbob |Bob]]. Ron accepted the submissions, you can see that Bob changed them back. This is frustrating. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 08:06, 3 June 2021 (EDT) P.S. I'm not asking because I want to argue with Bob, want to know how to handle going forward. 09:00, 3 June 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Sigh... There are editors who are lumpers and some who are splitters. Let me look into this. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 11:54, 4 June 2021 (EDT)<br />
::There is no rush [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 14:47, 4 June 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Chasm City: ebook or pb? ==<br />
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Stumbled across an old submission of yours, whilst doing some research around [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?4997940 a mistake I made]: is [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?517493 this US pub of Chasm City] a pb (per the format field and the note about "later printing") or an ebook (per the reference to ebooks, and search results for that ISBN)? <br />
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I expect you to remember the details of an edit you submitted ~4 years ago perfectly, of course! ;-)<br />
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(The reason I spotted this one, was that I did a local SQL query to see how many tp/pb/hc pubs had both an ISBN and an ASIN, in the hope that maybe that would indicate ebook pubs with incorrect format values. As it happens, there are just over 3000 of these records, most of which look to be selfpubbed stuff, for which I guess ISBN+ASIN is valid - but Chasm City stood out as one that I knew was a trad-pubbed title.) [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 11:39, 4 June 2021 (EDT)<br />
: If you look at the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3478405 edit], I'd say that it was part of the moving the ASINs to their new field cleanup. Whoever added it initially messed up the format... and I did not notice. Fixed now. <br />
: On the ISBN/ASIN stuff - any book with ISBN starting with 979 WILL have ASIN if properly entered so you may want to get these off your query. In addition, a small set of 978 ones also have one because Amazon can be stupid sometimes. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 11:53, 4 June 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: Thanks. Filtering out the 979-* ISBNs gets the number of results down to just under 300. I checked three of them - on one, the ASIN links for both UK and US were broken; on another, the ASIN link came back with a third-party seller page (not sure if there's a policy for these?); for the third, the pub note explicitly called out the ASIN != ISBN-10 weirdness. Probably won't bother looking into this further in the short term... [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 12:36, 4 June 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: The invalid ones may have been valid once :) The third party seller one - UNLESS we sourced something from that page specifically, I would remove it. There are a lot of older books which just do not have proper records in Amazon but there is a third party record which has a lot of images and/or information. We want these... The last one? Chances are that it is my handiwork :) I tend to point it out when I remember to so people do not delete the ASIN (as the ISBN link won't work). [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 12:40, 4 June 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== New cover ==<br />
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Hi Annie, I have found a much better cover version for Egil's Book by C. J. Mills. It looks like it was removed from sale as there is a hole punched in the upper right, but the view is a straight on shot and much much clearer. Should I try to replace this cover and if so, how should I go about it. [[User:Aardvark7|aardvark7]] 02:56, 24 June 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Thanks ==<br />
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Hi Annie, thanks you for your support yesterday. Question, How does someone receive self moderating rights?[[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 07:35, 8 July 2021 (EDT)<br />
: When someone is right, they are right :)<br />
: By being elected a moderator first I suspect - the self-moderation is a very new thing (it got implemented a few months ago due to a moderator not keeping his word not to touch submissions he had not created) so we do not have a precedent where self-moderation is allowed first. :) While I like what I had seen from you lately, I am not sure you are ready to self-moderate yet (2112 edits are way too low and I had not seen you in different areas of the server) - but I will keep an eye on your submissions in the next few months (and probably come over and bug you when I see something that can me improved). Most actions are reversible but there are a few areas where a moderator can do a lot of damage (usually unintentional) so we tend to wait out people to gain enough practice before giving them permissions. If you disagree, feel free to nominate yourself over in CS or the Moderator forum but... :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 09:55, 8 July 2021 (EDT)<br />
::I think I have made a solid contribution where I have been working. Do you have any ideas for a project on another area of the server? No rush, just wanted to get you thinking about it. Thanks, [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 15:41, 20 August 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Double Cover ==<br />
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The pub [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?11770 Earth Is Heaven] from Arrow has the cover credited twice. How can this be corrected? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 21:12, 17 July 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Two steps: Remove title from Pub - select one of them to be pulled out (this will remove one of them from the book - as we will be merging, it does not matter which one you pull out) and then merge the two records. Let me know if you want me to do it. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 04:26, 18 July 2021 (EDT)<br />
::Annie, I found a one-step method. Go to edit the pub, then remove titles from the pub and flag one of the cover art citations. Voila! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 11:38, 18 July 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: Same thing I explained :) EditPub will not remove it - you still need Remove from Pub. If you remove the one everyone else uses, you still need to merge. If you pull the empty one, you need to delete it. Still 2 steps. I just always merge so I do not need to worry which one I remove :) . [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 18:48, 18 July 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Toxicon and Arachne ==<br />
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Thanks Annie, I saw you put the equals sign in for me. Even though the page I originally entered pointed to the correct content, I think this is better. I will go back and put in the pipes. I use them 99% of the time, I didn't this time since Joyelle McSweeney had only one entry prior to this publication. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 19:06, 23 July 2021 (EDT)<br />
: No worries. I saw that you want to change the URL but did not know which one you want to use - so I just fixed the incorrect html - the rest you can deal with :) As for the pipes - technically they should not move around in this book because they don't have earlier entries to be merged into. But you never know when something weird happens and we can always change the default order (we tried once to change it to alphabetical - it was a disaster) so... pipes are always a good idea when you know the order. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:12, 23 July 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: I ended up submitting 3 more edits for this title, lol. One for the link, one to add piping, and an edit to the title record. After they are posted, I'll clone the ebook. This book looks like something special, I think I'm going to buy it. Thanks Again! [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 19:27, 23 July 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963) ==<br />
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When you have a chance, could you please review [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Stonecreek#Rediscovery:_Science_Fiction_by_Women_.281958-1963.29 this discussion] which relates to some records which you modified in 2019? (Isn't Edit History great? :-) TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 13:49, 17 August 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Posted :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:00, 17 August 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== ? Serra ==<br />
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http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?4706271; all other credits on ISFDB for this artist are by Daniele; is it the book's mistake or was it entered wrong? --[[User:Username|Username]] 15:13, 24 August 2021 (EDT)<br />
: [https://www.pspublishing.co.uk/the-heart-is-a-mirror-for-sinners--other-stories-hardcover-by-angela-slatter-4987-p.asp Publisher site] says Danielle. Amazon does not have look inside, the author line says Daniele on .com and Danielle on .co.uk but these can be wrong (they are human entered for these secondary ones and who knows which one was "fixed"). Without finding a copy of the book somewhere to verify if it is a source typo or book typo, we go with what the source says. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:46, 24 August 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:: https://www.pspublishing.co.uk/the-heart-is-a-mirror-for-sinners--other-stories-hardcover-by-angela-slatter-4987-p.asp; clicking photo next to "Stock Status" shows full cover with the words "Cover by Daniele Serra" on the back; hard to see because the words are over a white part of the cover, but after I zoomed it up it's definitely one L. --[[User:Username|Username]] 18:17, 24 August 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: Name and note updated. Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 14:20, 25 August 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Lavie Tidhar's Osama 2021 pub(s) - collection rather than novel? ==<br />
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(Finally got off my backside and got my dev PC working again - I've yet to delve into the UK backlog...)<br />
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I saw [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?849735 this pub] on the front page, which was submitted by Fixer and updated by you. [https://headofzeus.com/books/9781800245105 The publisher's page] (and also the Amazon UK listing, at least as of today) says "Tenth Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction and three extra stories." which should - assuming I can still remember all the ISFDB rules after 2 months away :-) - should make this a collection, right? Thought I'd best check before making any changes, especially as retailer exclusives with bonus material ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?770998 example]) that I've submitted in the past have stayed as novels.<br />
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[https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/osama-16 The Kobo listing] actually has the preview already available, so it looks like the additional stories (all reprints, although I haven't checked if they're already in the DB) can be added/imported as well. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 14:18, 26 August 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Well, it depends on how many stories. 1 or 2 leaves it to the editor to decide if they want to keep it a novel or a collection; adding more will always make it a collection. 3 new stories - I would make it a collection, yes. I fixed the types - if you ever find which stories are there, please add them. Either I missed the note or it was not there when I added it. Thanks for finding it. And welcome back :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 14:47, 26 August 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Re: Clarification about The Ghost of a Hand Unmerge Request ==<br />
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Re: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5070705<br />
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Hi Annie, and thanks. The story The Ghost of a Hand appearing in Horrific Fables (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?853649)<br />
currently links to the wrong place. It should link to the 1863 version here:<br />
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?839805<br />
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In short, the entry on this page:<br />
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?853649<br />
should end up as such:<br />
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69 • The Ghost of a Hand • (1863) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]<br />
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with the story linking here:<br />
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?839805<br />
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I was trying to unlink it so I could then relink it because I don't know how to change it in one step. If you could help me out, I will be grateful. Most of the stuff here is pretty straightforward, but aspects of linking the reprinted stories are a bit confusing for me. Thanks again.<br />
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[[User:Thuff2000|Thuff2000]] 00:16, 2 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== New Weird (in Romanian) ==<br />
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Hi, Annie. About this [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5073222 submission], I don't find another ISBN for this book. Please delete ISBN 9781892391551 from submission. Thanks. --[[User:Terraflorin|Florin]] 03:04, 2 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Approved and ISBN deleted :) [[User:MagicUnk|MagicUnk]] 16:05, 6 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Masks: The Complete Trilogy ==<br />
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Annie, If you are still around, would you mind approving [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5078064 this submission]. Then I can fix the rest of it. Lot tougher going backward. Thanks [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 21:30, 8 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Done but a few notes: I’d keep Masks in the title. While we don’t for books, omnibuses are kinda special and The Complete Trilogy is not a real title but a subtitle usually. And if you keep that as an omnibus, you need to import the Collection titles also not just the poems themselves. Hope that makes sense. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:36, 8 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: I know, I planned to. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 21:40, 8 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: I tend to over-explain sometimes - more often than not saves me from writing 20 messages. :) Have fun and thanks for working on the poetry. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:49, 8 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::: I understand. Lol. All that should be left on Masks is a final check after all the submissions are processed, then I'll clone the ebooks. Poetry has me hooked, I'll always be working on it. I have a long list of to do's, but, let me know what other parts of the server I should also look at. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 23:14, 8 September 2021 (EDT) P.S. Might want to answer this last part on my page, no need to fill up yours.<br />
::::: Whatever interests you. :) Magazines can always use help. Filling in missing contents for collections and anthologies - especially in the next few months, having as many of the stories in magazines and collections and so on and as many issues of magazines before next awards season hits makes the dB more relevant and more likely to attract new users. We always play catchup because there is a lot of work in there. We even used to have a tracker one year and I was thinking of reviving it for 2022 to see if we can get a bit more organized. Translations and books in other languages if you have a language you can work in. Adding missing authors or editions. Adding missing books from authors. Everyone tends to find their niches and expand from there. As long as it does not feel like a chore. It is a big DB. My own todo list is probably longer than War and Peace at this point - and there is never time to get to all of it. Take a look at the cleanup reports if you are bored (and if you are not sure what needs to be done in any of then, ask and I will assist). Or pick something that you really care about and work on it. Scared yet? :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 23:52, 8 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Problem Title. ==<br />
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Annie, We have a problem with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1337268 this title.] I suspected it when I created Issue 12 of Eye to the Telescope. I'm sure you know that ghazal is a type of poetry. Apparently, Joshua Gage is publishing many of his untitled ghazal with the title "Ghazal". I compared the work in issue 12 with the one in issue 8, not the same . Some of the pubs in that title are PV'ed. What is the best way to handle? Unmerge and disambiguate with numbers? [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 16:05, 10 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Unmerge and add NOTES explaining the differences. No change in names usually. That's not uncommon with poetry. Just make sure there are enough notes so people know what is what. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:16, 10 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: Different topic. I could never have found [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2911767 the Russian] title or name. How did you do it? [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 16:38, 10 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: I read Russian - technically speak it as well - except that I had forgotten more than I wish I had so these days it is passive only (read and listen) and extremely embarrassing when I try to speak/write. I will see if I can scare away the Polish one as well later - I don't read Polish much but I usually can find my way around Polish sites. If you need any help with any Eastern and Central European titles (the Slavic languages plus Hungarian), ping me - I may be able to help. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:42, 10 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::: And if you are asking about this specific one - the author name was easy (standard enough to have very little number of possible spellings in Russian and Wikipedia confirmed it easily. And the poem’s title is distinctive enough to assist searches once you have the author name. The second one by him is trickier but I am still looking for it’s original title. So it somewhat lucky on the title itself - especially because my usual sources for Russian titles did not have it. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 22:31, 10 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::: There's also the rule to disambiguate identical titles by appending the publication's title in parentheses. It has the big advantage that 'accidental' merges are impossible. Valid approach for this 'ghazal' if you ask me :) [[User:MagicUnk|MagicUnk]] 07:59, 11 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::::: It is kinda valid but I do not like it much for fiction and poetry (and it technically not meant for them - these things get reprinted and confusion reigns supreme - if anything for poetry, we will be better off with the first line being added to the notes than anything else. And even if you change the title, editors will try to combine them sooner or later if notes are not added. The notes are mandatory even if you disambiguate the title in this case - it is not like Introductions and so on :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 08:04, 11 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Need a little help ==<br />
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Annie, any chance you can help with original publication dates for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2918819 Die Liebe] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2918817 Sphinx]? [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 19:20, 20 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Well, they will pop up from somewhere - will do some searches to see if I can find where they may have been published in German :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 20:01, 20 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: I found Sphinx, just need help with Die Liebe. Thanks, [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 20:03, 20 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: [https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Die_Liebe Die Liebe] and [https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Sphinx_(Lasker-Sch%C3%BCler) Sphinx]. Both in "Die gesammelten Gedichte" in 1917 so most likely printed earlier so using the first line to search finds us [https://www.kj-skrodzki.de/Dokumente/Text_083.htm Der siebente Tag] 1905 for both. I will look to see if we can trace them earlier but I think this is the earliest. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 20:10, 20 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::: Approved your edit and then moved it down to 1905 and updated the other one and pinged one of the German natives to see if they can find earlier publications. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 20:18, 20 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Close Encounters ==<br />
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The note for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1775354 this] states "The shortfiction content should be based either on the novelization or on the screenplay. In the first case this title should be varianted to a parent title as by Spielberg" So if that is the case how should one go about varianting it as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?7360 this edition] is included under the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?7360 title] despite it being obvioulsy a FOTONOVEL. --[[User:Mavmaramis|Mavmaramis]] 05:14, 24 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
: You we’re varianting the chapbook [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5093673 in your submission]. If anything is going to be varianted, it will be the story, not the container. <br />
: As for the story itself, we do not variant abridgements - thus the attempted explanation in the note. If it is the complete novel, then a type change is needed. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 10:16, 24 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
: So If a fotonovel is the complete text, it is recorded as a novel and then varianted and/or merged. There is no situation under which a novel is recorded as a novella and still varianted under the novel. In the case above, it was treated as if it is the complete novel. If it is not, it needs to be split out. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 10:18, 24 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Shroud ==<br />
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http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/seriesgrid.cgi?33647; digital issues don't have more than 1 issue per year on ISFDB so there's no need for a yearly record; the trade editions are subtitled "The Journal of Dark Fiction and Art" while the digital editions are subtitled "The Quarterly Journal of Speculative Writing", like the one I fixed which other editor mistakenly lumped under the print Shroud issues, as should have been obvious since it has a $2.99 price and an ebook format. Not that the magazine itself was any better, since some of their print issues were subtitled "The Quarterly Journal of Dark Fiction and Art", so they couldn't even decide what their own name was. Or I could be wrong; don't really care much anymore. --[[User:Username|Username]] 13:44, 24 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Jenny Campbell ==<br />
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If there were a photo of her by herself with no text, I would have added it. There's thousands of pictures online of Ramsey Campbell, but his wife's are very rare; I found one on an ISFDB-friendly site so I added that. It's better to have a group picture with text than no picture at all. I'm starting to think you're rejecting my perfectly acceptable edits out of personal spite; I hope that's not the case. After the hundreds of records I've fixed with wrong info that you either added yourself or accepted from other editors, you should be less critical of other's minor mistakes (not that this one was actually a mistake). If you can find a clear picture of Jenny by herself with no text, add it; otherwise add the one I provided. --[[User:Username|Username]] 17:42, 27 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Sorry but no. We do not add random pictures which take less than half the image and include other people because we cannot find a better one. Add a note in the account with a link to it if you want but this is not a good picture to have as an author image on the page IMO.<br />
: Nothing personal - I would have rejected that from any editor and had it been approved, I would have questioned it as being a valid image. You are doing wonderful research and your edit quality had improved tremendously over the last weeks and months but some of your edits still require more follow-up work than they should at this point (editing publication title but not the title record title, not clearing variants when changing something, not clarifying which ID you are adding a note about). Those things will smooth out with time I hope but you cannot get offended every time when someone tells you that something is not a good idea. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:51, 27 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Nonfiction and/or non-genre ==<br />
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Before I go loading all the non-fiction Asimov, I'd like to get clear on the non-genre thing. A book on chemistry is nonfiction/non-genre, a book on Jupiter is nonfiction/non-genre, a book on the impact of science fiction is nonfiction/genre. <br />
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If so, then quite of few of the existing books (e.g. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?316558 this]) are wrong and I may end up having to clean up a number of these. Are edits flagging such pubs worthy of notifying PV's? Could a moderator note suffice? <br />
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I also noticed a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50743 series] that might be a publisher series or title series - it's a set of books for early readers. So clearly publisher, but might also be title as they are written to go together. The publisher site is [https://garethstevens.com/products here], if you search on Asimov you should be able to see a number of them. <br />
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../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] 23:52, 28 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
: The edit will be on the title level, not on the pub one so notifiers won’t see them. Because of that I’d compile a list of all the active PVs who are caught into this and let them know that the non-genre books of Asimov are getting their flags as such :) Or even just post on Community Support or on the Moderator board. <br />
: The flags are relatively new (all things considered) and I think at one point they were only for contents items (or so my brain tells me). But yes - a lot of our non genre nonfiction stuff is not marked as such - the older the record, the more likely it is not. And yes - I suspect that there things that need cleanup - no one had been really interested in non genre non fiction by him I suspect. Feel free to reorganize if there are mistakes or something else makes sense - just make sure PVs know what is going on in such cases (active PVs who want to be notified anyway) ;) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:07, 29 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: I'll take it that my characterization of genre/non-genre is close enough. And the series? From [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Help:How_to_work_with_series Help] Title series: "These series are linked by common characters, story lines or settings. Every publication of a given title will have the same series information." Pub Series: " a set of similarly packaged books designated by the publisher (or publishers), often related only in theme or marketing." These books were written for the series, (same length, vocabulary level, targeting young readers, style) but no links matching the definition. So while superficially it seems a Pub Series, I feel it's a Title series and I'm looking for a justification. ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] 08:28, 29 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: I was answering from the phone last night and apparently missed the fact that that was a question. Yep for the non-genre - if it is about speculative fiction or about books about speculative fiction, it is genre. Otherwise it is not :) Let me look at the series. One thing to consider - IF these get translated, will they survive as a series? If not, then they are pub series; if yes - then title series is better. For some series it is murky so there is a value judgment in there. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:57, 29 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
(unindent) Hi, it's me again. I tend to be a completist but wanted to make sure it wasn't too much in this case. One non-genre collection (NONFICTION - not COLLECTION) includes details prior publications. As an example, a piece (NONFICTION not ESSAY) that was previously published in TV Guide Magazine. As I include each piece, the earlier date for non-magazines and collection's date for magazines. These earlier non-genre publications will be created, but only the genre and threshold contents would be entered. So more TV Guide Magazines will show up in ISFDB. ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] 13:25, 2 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: If it is in a magazine, it is an essay and not non fiction even if it was later/earlier published as a book on its own. And its magazine appearance is not eligible to be added if it is non-genre essay in a non genre magazine even from over the treshold author (only book publications are). [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:06, 2 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== The Stepford Wives ==<br />
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I happened to notice that Lem of [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk%3ALem&diff=613202&oldid=613097#The_Stepford_Wives this conversation] put his note to Markwood on his user page, not his talk page. You're damn near omniscient on this site, but even this might have escaped your notice. (P.S. I'm 'watching' Markwood based on a query I made once and wondered what the '''N''' next to a message meant.) ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] 11:09, 29 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
: It happens... That's why I posted [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Community_Portal#Link_to_the_PV_page_on_the_PV.27d_publication this]. All cleaned up (I am just getting into the site for the day ;) ) Thanks for letting me know though :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:38, 29 September 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== No longer valid (?) ASIN - what to do ==<br />
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(This should maybe go to a more general discussion page on the Wiki, but I don't know that anyone other than you and Ahasuerus/Fixer particularly cares about ASINs...)<br />
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[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?831863 This ebook pub] was submitted by Fixer ~6 months ago with the ASIN B08L871SKV. That ASIN doesn't seem to exist any longer - if I click on the UK or US links, I get Page Not Found errors. Googling for the ASIN lists a couple of Facebook pages relating to this book, which at least provides some confirmation that it was valid at some point in time. Could you check to see if you can get it to work for you?<br />
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The ASIN it has now (on Amazon UK at least) is [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-Mile-action-packed-adventure-Edinburgh-ebook/dp/B094BGH38N B094BGH38N]. This works for me if I use it on Amazon.com, but that may well be just Amazon US serving me the details of a UK pub because it knows I'm visiting from a UK IP.<br />
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Assuming the ASIN has been replaced, I'm not sure whether to add the new one, keeping the old, or to replace it - and adding an appropriate explanatory note. Removing a "dead" ASIN (and thus the Amazon links) might be better from a user point-of-view, but I wonder if it might cause Fixer confusion or inconsistency? [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 18:22, 2 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Add the new one or treat is as a new book - whatever applies (date, cover or something inside may point to it being a different book; if all is the same, just add the new Asin with a note and a date. But do not remove it from the ASIN field or it will come back from Fixer eventually. It happens occasionally. I’ll check when I am on my proper machine to see what US thinks of that one. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:10, 2 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: The old Asin may not be valid on Amazon but other bibliographies had used it as much as we had (Goodreads as well) so removing it is the worst thing you can do - forget Fixer, you are making the book less traceable across internet. Which is counterproductive. :). If the AsIn was ever used, it stays on the book. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:13, 2 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:: Amazon used to keep superseded ASINs around, presumably for discoverability reasons. However, their presence was confusing some Amazon customers who couldn't understand why a ''bookstore'' would show editions which were not for sale. Worse, some customers would see "This book is not longer available" note and decide that the book was out of print even though the Amazon page had a link to other editions. Eventually Amazon stopped displaying obsolete ASINs. As Annie pointed out, we, like Goodreads, want to keep superseded ASINs in our database.<br />
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:: Re: Fixer, when an ASIN/ISBN is submitted to the main ISFDB server, Fixer marks it as "submitted" in his internal database on the development server -- see the description of "Queue 8" on [[User:Fixer#Fixer_Dumps_and_Lists|this Wiki page]]. If an ASIN/ISBN is rejected or deleted on the main server, it won't affect Fixer's internal status, so the ASIN/ISBN won't be resubmitted. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 20:29, 2 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: Unless it was not a Fixer one (I’d swap if a pre-publication one diese for the book is out so is never used) or I returned it back by a mistake. :) Things happen. No reason to make everyone’s work harder. :)[[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 20:34, 2 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:::: Thanks both - I've submitted [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5106302 an edit] to add the second ASIN. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 12:21, 3 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== The Anarchist ==<br />
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Re: Wiki Series: The Anarchist. It seems the page was created by a new editor who thought the wiki page preceded the ISFDB entries. I checked the site and as far as I can tell there are no issues (although the archive is grouped by month), so it would fall under "Online publication available exclusively as a Web page", although for higher paid membership it says it will email the quarterly and/or annual e-book edition. There is also a plea for funds so they can pay at the SFWA rate, suggesting they not be a market that makes authors eligible for SFWA membership. Because the request showed up in the Series: pages and not the Community Portal or Help, it's been overlooked. The editor went quiet soon after. You were the only moderator to comment on his page. Do we delete the wiki page or add the magazine? Point me to a comparable one and I'll add a couple of stories to get it started. ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] 13:05, 3 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Series:The_Arcanist The Arcanist]. Let me look into it tomorrow and see if it is eligible under the current rules and we will take it from there. The wiki page will probably need to be deleted - but we will see. <br />
: I’ve missed the updates - I try to monitor all updates to wiki at least weekly but that one I missed. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:38, 3 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: So... this is one of those borderline cases. They are just posting stories (which makes them ineligible). But as there seems to be 1/2 weeks cadence, if we consider this an issue, it will be eligible. It will be added similarly to how we do [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?32856 tor.com]. Basically - a new Magazine for each "issue" and the story added into that. Clear as mud, I know. Let me know if you have any questions. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 14:27, 4 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Tor US hc delays? ==<br />
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FYI, one of my Twitter contacts mentioned [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5107090 this], so I thought it might be worth checking other imminent Tor US hcs, and the first one I looked at is [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5107187] similarly afflicted, so maybe this is a more widespread problem?<br />
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I dunno if you/Fixer have any easy ways of checking/updating these, especially for all the various Tor/Macmillan imprints? Afraid I've still got enough of a UK backlog from my summer hiatus that I'm not planning on checking any more of these US pubs, unless I maybe stumble across them whilst doing their UK equivalents :-( [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 13:56, 4 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: It is called "Annie checks them one by one". That's why I would do a month sweeps usually to see if everything came out. It is not widespread - a few books are caught into this (and that's partially why I am slower in adding November just now - all US publishers are somewhat caught into this but not as bad as it could have been from what I am seeing (paper/printer/distribution issues - so they are pulling releases back basically)). Welcome to the latest episode in the COVID/post-COVID related delays. If you see any that are delayed, fix them. If not, we will catch them at some point. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 14:13, 4 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud ==<br />
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Do you agree that this work qualifies for inclusion? I plan on using the 1957 multilingual work by Louise Varese. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 14:13, 7 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminations_(poetry_collection) this one]? I do not see anything overtly speculative on first glance but poetry is tricky that way. Let me look a bit deeper later today. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 14:49, 7 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: Yes, that is the collection. Isn't he the first of the Surrealists? I agree it's hazy, that's why I wanted another opinion. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 15:02, 7 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: We have a few of the poems and a Spanish collection which has a single entry. Which usually tells me that we are looking at a non-genre poet with single poems that qualify... or that we had not added the works yet. Thus me needing to look a bit more. He is a great influence on the Surrealists for sure but is he one of them may be a bit debatable. So hold onto the book for a bit while I am looking around. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:11, 7 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::: No rush, plenty more to add! [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 15:24, 7 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::: Find out anything more? [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 19:38, 11 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::::: I still think he is out except for the few poems that are obviously genre :( But if you want post on CS as well and see what someone else thinks - he is borderline... [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:39, 11 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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==Edits to Virginia Cross==<br />
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No problem; I understand why the change got rejected. I'm still sorting out how this works - I'll look into getting the image in the DB here.<br />
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I believe the credit on [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?748942 Martha Brown] is partially incorrect - Cory published "Martha Brown, M.P.: A Girl of Tomorrow" under the name [https://openpublishing.psu.edu/utopia/content/martha-brown-mp-girl-morrow ''Victoria'' Cross]. I don't believe that's the same as ''Virginia'' Cross who published "[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?697641 Adversity]" in 1955. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Sophie_Cory Annnie Sophie Cory], aka Vivian Cory, aka Victoria Cross, died in 1952. I can't find any evidence she published under the name Virginia, nor that this was a posthumous release. - [[User:Elf Herself|Elf Herself]] 20:11, 10 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Artwork on the interior of a dust jacket ==<br />
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Will you comment [[User talk:Nihonjoe#Oathbringer|here]], please. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:08, 11 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== 2020 UK pub of Abbie Longstaff's A Sticky Situation ==<br />
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Stumbled across [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?757839 this pub] by chance, and thought I might be able to fill in the missing price. However, I get the distinct impression that it never came out and/or was dodgy data in Amazon that Fixer picked up:<br />
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* [https://www.hachette.co.uk/?s=9781510202016 Hachette UK denies any knowledge of this pub] - although I don't think they acknowledge the existence of export editions, which might be an explanation?<br />
* The only current listing on [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trapdoor-Mysteries-Sticky-Situation/dp/1510202013 Amazon UK] is from a third party seller, and is maybe just the earlier UK pub that has the same cover image, mislabelled with the wrong ISBN?<br />
* Googling for the ISBN shows it [https://www.bookdepository.com/Trapdoor-Mysteries-Sticky-Situation-Abie-Longstaff/9781510202016 unavailable at BookDepository], and all other links are second hand copies - no Waterstones/Blackwells/bookshop.org/etc.<br />
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Are there any other useful places to check? Thx [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 10:40, 15 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: International editions and reprints can be... elusive. However. <br />
: [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54f238e7e4b0a83375017edf/t/5e54375ab2b9400c6511e144/1582577516481/HUK+Kids+Spring+2020.pdf This Catalog, page 63] for Spring/Summer 2020 of Hachette UK shows it, with $ price on it (so the catalog was for the Canadian market most likely - the ISBN is a Hachette UK one and this is the UK catalog but there is a "Hachette UK Canada" in there thus my guess of that being for the Canadian market; or the catalog is prepared for the Canadian market anyway).<br />
:[https://www.ebay.com/itm/383974163563 ebay] reports at least 3 copies under that ISBN and [https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9781510202016 Abebooks] also has copies. The UK versions also have some dealers with copies I suspect. While these may be vaporware and these records may be wrong, when there are actually that many copies for sale somewhere, I tend to believe that this ISBN made it out. Who knows. Considering that this came out in the week when USA literally closed last year (and most of the world did it around the same time), chances are that the distribution got a bit... challenging. So did it come out? 50/50 chance really but the copies that seem to exist for sale make me lean towards yes. All of them are also in UK which will be consistent with a failing distribution maybe? Still can be a vaporware but... Welcome to tracing weird books. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 14:18, 15 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: Thanks for taking the time to look into that. I've got details for a bunch of (what appear to be) export editions of a number of titles, but I've been loathe to submit, because most are only single sourced, and that source is usually Blackwells, who seem to be the most prone to having dubious data (e.g. incorrect/outdated pagination, mangled author names) after Amazon.<br />
:: I've also recently started making more of an effort to track YA & juvenile pubs like this one, but am already wondering if I've walked into a minefield - Penguin UK lists a load of Brian Jacques Redwall tp reissues that apparently came out last month, but I've yet to find any corroboration they came out, other than Blackwells listing them, with a "not in stock" status. To further complicate things, some of those tps did have corresponding ebooks that did appear to come out on the same date. Sigh.... [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 17:48, 15 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: The more you do of these, the easier it is to spot which ones are suspect. That one? I did not find that catalog until you asked for it but between what google was showing and the Amazon.com and Amazon UK and Amazon CA and Amazon AU records back then, it was a 90% chance that it will come out. So in it went. Sometimes mistakes are made. Future books will always be a gamble so I play the odds - with time you kinda know which publishers are likely to flake and how a bad one looks like. And this is pre-pandemic - back then I was running 60-80 days ahead of publishing often and we will have 1 or 2 that do not come out or get delayed in an entered batch of 200 or so. I doubt I am ever going to do that again and I know a lot more about a lot of publishers now. I do ~60 now on some publishers and authors with proven record but most of what I add is in the 30-45 range if not sooner. We do the best we can. Spot checks clear some, regular checks when I can run them clear others. But there will always be books that just do not exist - unless we stop allowing future books, that will always be the case. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 18:00, 15 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Stag Boy ==<br />
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http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?571632; Your name is the only one in Edit History, so I'm letting you know that after I added prices to the Lions edition I noticed the Harcourt edition also had the Lions cover (a worse one with writing on the cover); the one Harcourt photo on Amazon, https://www.amazon.com/Stag-boy-William-Rayner/dp/0152784004, looks like a HC, not a TP, but it's a bad sideways cover. Also, all editions share the same cover art, so that Heslop credit should be added to other editions and dated to the original Collins edition. --[[User:Username|Username]] 13:41, 15 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: As you can see with from my note there (that's why I insist on writing moderator notes mentioning what had been changed), it was part of the external ID move out (when we added the extra fields for them, we had a cleanup project to clear them out from the Notes fields and move them into the new fields). Other from that I know nothing about this book. :) We do not have history before a certain point so the older the record is, the less likely is that whoever added it can be identified. Thanks for the note though! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:50, 15 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Cleanup report ==<br />
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The following magazines can be removed from the multilingual publication cleanup report. (5) issues Bewildering Stories, Eye to the Telescope, Liquid Imaginations, and Space and Time. Just a nudge as suggested. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 08:03, 21 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Done! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:31, 21 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Storming ==<br />
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http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?739333; I added cover to TP of this book and got "ISBN already on file" because there's an e-book as nonfiction, unlike the 2 print editions which are anthologies. I found the TP cover and added it, but not sure if it's fiction or not, so letting you know in case you want to change type of ebook edition or merge or whatever. --[[User:Username|Username]] 13:29, 21 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: All sorted out. Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:35, 21 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Translations ==<br />
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I hope it's ok to ask you directly, instead of announcing my ignorance to the whole moderator noticeboard.<br><br />
I'm always using cloning when adding non-existing editions to the db, I hope that is the right way to go.<br><br />
I haven't added a translation yet, but was tempting to do it for City, Simak. I've read through the help<br><br />
pages, telling me I should add a translation as a new publication first, and then make them into a variant,<br><br />
but how do I do with a collection? I guess, the shortfiction-works needs to exist before adding them,<br><br />
which they don't - so I guess that is where I need to start? How do I add translations to shortfiction titles?<br><br />
Do I add them as variants directly to the parent shortfiction? --[[User:Spacecow|Spacecow]] 05:11, 22 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Nope. Don't add a variant to a title as a first step - that leaves an empty variant and we are very good at deleting them if you do not use them fast enough. Instead add the book, then variant everything. Clone is only useful if you have an existing edition in the correct language, author, title and translator (if that applies) :) <br />
: To add a new collection, use [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/edit/newpub.cgi?Collection Add New Collection] from the left menu. The names of the stories will go into the "Regular Titles" section. Don't forget to change the language of the whole collection at the top to whatever language you are adding so the stories get created with the same language - or they will need to be changed one by one after they are approved. <br />
: Once the collection is created on approval, the stories will also be created. Then you add a translator to each of them (if you know who that is) and variant them to their originals. And we are all done.<br />
: Let me know if something is still unclear and I will try to explain whatever it is. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 05:18, 22 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: PS: And yes - it is ok to ask me directly :) Not that my page is not as visible as CS - as long as you are ok with me responding when I can :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 05:35, 22 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: Ah, ok. That is simpler than I thought. But let's assume that one of the shortstories I am to add already exists, how would I go about linking to the right one? --[[User:Spacecow|Spacecow]] 06:18, 22 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: Exists in the correct language and with the correct translator, title and author name form? Skip it when adding the collection and then use Import to add it once the collection is approved. :) Anything you type will create a new record. Now - if this happens and we discover it later, we can merge the two records as well. <br />
::: If it is a different version of the same story (different language, different title, different form of the author or a different translator), then you add a new story and it stays on its own and get varianted to the original. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 06:27, 22 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::: Ok. Ill try. After the shortfiction stories are created and hopefully accepted, will I go and individually request them to be variants and link them to a parent? --[[User:Spacecow|Spacecow]] 07:56, 22 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::: Yep. One by one. No shortcuts I am afraid. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 07:58, 22 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::::: Done. Here it is: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?864944 What did I forget? Thanks Kraang for the help. --[[User:Spacecow|Spacecow]] 00:56, 24 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::::: Great work :) Translations can be... challenging and long-winded. One thing: when you did the variants, did you see the yellow warnings telling you that you have a length mismatch on some of these? :) That needs fixing - the length of a variant must match the length of a parent. So as for example [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?96033 this] is a novelette, all its children need to be set as novelettes when they are connected. :) They will come up on a report if you miss them but as you asked what you forgot and it is good to fix them while editing (I tend to do that when adding the translator usually - unless I forget). :)<br />
::::::: I will add a few external IDs in a bit - just so we have them connected. They are not mandatory and PV beats data from them any day - but they allow for secondary verifications :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 01:04, 24 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::::::: I did see the warnings, but I thought they would perhaps inherit the value of the parent, but you are saying I/we need to set them manually. Good to know, thanks. --[[User:Spacecow|Spacecow]] 01:12, 24 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::::::: They need to be done manually - yes. You will never see a yellow warning if something will fix itself. Think of the yellow warnings as an early warning system. Sometimes it is just a warning (you sure you are in one of the exceptions we allow this for?); more often than not is is a "there is something off here, look again". Technically all of them have corresponding reports so someone will fix them one day but still. :)<br />
::::::::: We will automatically set the lengths (and the juvenile, non-genre and so on flags) if you are creating a new title (new parent for a variant to bring it to the canonical author page for example) but when you are connecting two existing titles, it is up to the editor to determine which of the two has the wrong value. Once a title is created, very little happens automatically - too much of a risk of propagating a mistake that way so editors need to reconcile when something disagrees. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 01:26, 24 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::::::: If I remember correctly, there was a place to set that value already when you where adding the shortstories in the Regular Title section for the Collection. --[[User:Spacecow|Spacecow]] 01:16, 24 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::::::: Yes - if you have the original opened so you can look at the lengths while adding the collection, you can set them there. But as you need to edit every title anyway to add a translator, I tend to get lazy and do it at that point: Look up the story and submit two edits: One TitleEdit with the length, translator, any other notes for the translation I want to add and whatever checkboxes need setting (those can only be done at that point) and one for the MakeVariant. If you already have the lengths set from the collection creation, then all you need is the translator and checkboxes if any (And fixing any length you set by mistake). Whatever works for you - as long as at the end all is set, it does not make a difference really. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 01:26, 24 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::: Please explain this part to me again. I was going to add a new translation for Stapledon's <i>Last and First Men</i> and noticed some sections in existing editions were missing. I would like to add these pre-existing essays to: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?258850" (after pinging Mavmaramis)<br />
:::: 7 • General Editor's Foreword (Last and First Men) • (1963) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]<br />
:::: 11 • Preface (Last and First Men) • (1930) • essay by Olaf Stapledon<br />
:::: I went to this title: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?258850, pressed "Import Content" and tried both options for title:288819 and was hoping to be able to pick only those two sections/essays to import, but it seems i have to import everything or nothing? obviously im doing something wrong again. --[[User:Spacecow|Spacecow]] 18:46, 24 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::: Import has two options:<br />
:::::* Option 1, the top of the Screen - Import All from a publication. You use the publication ID here. Contents which is already in the book will be skipped (as long as it uses the same title ID). <br />
:::::* Option 2, bottom of the Screen - import specific title records. You just use the Title IDs and not the book ID. <br />
::::: So you just want to import the 2 essays, just use option 2 and import using their IDs and not option 1 which indeed is an all or nothing. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 18:56, 24 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
(unindent) So I assume you want to import them from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?19952 here]? You can do it two ways:<br />
: Option 1 (the top option) with ID 19952 (the publication) and making sure that you UNCHECK "Include COVERART title(s)?" so the Craddock cover does not come with you. This will work here because the novel is already in and you can filter out the two art types. If you want to import only one of the essays, you have to go to option 2.<br />
: Option 2 with IDs 689473 and 689469 (one per line) - which are the IDs of the two titles: [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?689473 General Editor's Foreword (Last and First Men)] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?689469 Preface (Last and First Men)]. <br />
Does this help? If not, where did I lose you in the explanation. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:42, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: Thanks for following up. I have an edit in now - I went with option 2. It was a little confusing at first. It looked like I was overwriting the existing Regular Title as well, but then I realized I was only informed of the Regular Titles that were about to be added. --[[User:Spacecow|Spacecow]] 03:33, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: Yep - the screen is trying to show you what you are doing so it can be a bit confusing. You get used to it once you do a few of them. Incidentally, behind the scenes, both do the same - import a bunch of Title IDs - in one case the system gets them from the pub on its own, in the other you list them. :) So a moderator cannot tell which option you used. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 03:37, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::: Now, I'm about to add this title: 1003917, to two Swedish translations. The first translation doesn't have this section signed, so I'm thinking of using the title that points to Stapleton directly: 1667014. The other one, however, has translated the author from "One of the Last Men" into Swedish, i.e.: "En av De Sista Människorna". What do you want me to do here? Can I still use title: 1003917? Or should we create a variant to the author? And I guess, a variant to the section as well? Thanks for answering all my questions btw. Really appreciate it. --[[User:Spacecow|Spacecow]] 03:49, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::: You cannot use [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1003917 1003917] in a Swedish book directly unless the text is literally printed in English. If you are asking where you should variant later - we do not support variant of variant so you will always variant to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1667014 canonical title]. If you are asking how to record: The first one will be either uncredited or with the author from the title page (so Stapleton) if it is obvious it is him (any uncredited pieces that do not seem to be by someone else are by definition by the author of the book... a note to that effect is added in the publication usually if there is a reason to do so). The second case - yes, you use the name the Swedish publisher gave to the author of that piece, then we pseudonym it to Stapleton the way [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?197591 this one is]. So as usual - add the books, THEN sort out what connects where and if needed connect a pseudonym. So there will be two Swedish translations of that essay from the sound of it. Similar to how we have 3 Russian ones [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?41597 here] - the last two are the same translation, same title but the author is credited differently so we have two translations in the list.:)<br />
:::::: And you are always welcome :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 03:58, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::::: Alright! I'll go crazy then! ;) --[[User:Spacecow|Spacecow]] 04:04, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Russian transliteration help ==<br />
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Would you mind helping with the transliteration in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5128897 this pending submission]? Thanks [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 23:11, 23 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Done. I am surprised they printed that :) I also marked the article as non-genre - while it may read as genre, it was not intended as anything but truth. Plus it is not about speculative fiction (the only nonfiction eligible as genre is the one related to speculative fiction or to non-fiction about speculative fiction) - which is how we determine genre. It is IN as part of a genre periodical but we (probably should) put the non-genre flag on it. I also moved the link to the links section and added the Russian title of the newspaper and created the pseudonym and filled in the author page while I was at it. And let me think on the genre flag - it sounds correct but we do not have a practice of doing it for things added because they are in our magazines so... I'll go reading some help pages and thinking... :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 23:35, 23 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: Thanks for the help. This is really quite an article. Finding and reading it made entering all the Bewildering Stories issues worth it. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 11:32, 24 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: Should [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?309527 Natan Dubovitsky] now become an alternate name for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?334499 Владислав Сурков]? [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 11:47, 24 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: Not based on “believed to be”. We only connect based on proven identities - no one is really sure even on the Russian internet. The note you have is the best we can do until the pseudonym is proven. . [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:20, 24 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Carla Jablonski ==<br />
<br />
I tried to answer your questions [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:MLB&action=edit&section=195 here]. I hope I did a good enough job at explaining myself. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 17:03, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Yep, perfectly. As soon as I connect all I will be back to your page explaining what I did and why so you know for next time. That was a gnarly one. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 20:01, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Attribution question ==<br />
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[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5131765 Here] is a proposed submission to add information to an existing title. I know we don't like to delete anything, but, the links really don't point to anything useful. <br />
evilgirlfriendmedia is a broken link. There is a website at a different address with no content. I would like to remove that link. The digital fiction link goes to their main page, not especially useful. Assuming the original attribution statement is true, I'm guessing that the first appearance under the new name was in 2016. The author only lists original publication dates on her website so there is no mention of the "Touring Test" title. What changes do you recommend? [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 20:02, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: We do not keep dead links - no point in that - but we do not remove one until we at least try to find it - web archive is your best friend. <br />
: So the first link should be replaced with [https://web.archive.org/web/20170724234147/http://www.evilgirlfriendmedia.com/1448/news/touring-test-holly-schofield/ its archive] as it has the story there. And here is the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160813013527/http://digitalfictionpub.com/quickfic/touring-test-by-holly-schofield/ second one archived]. I swapped them. We also have that rare case where a later name becomes the canonical and that has implication on dating of the canonical. Let me approve your edit, swap the links and then try to find information on "AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review, July 2013" full contents or add it with the single story - NOW it is actually eligible to be added to the DB since the webzines changes were done. Let me know if something does not make sense. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 20:25, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: Although if the author uses the original title, we probably should as well - so these links will need moving. Hm. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 20:31, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: I should have known to look in the archive, must have got a little hazy spending the afternoon entering all the missing issues and reviewing the existing ones. Are you suggesting something other than varianting "Touring Test" to "Off-Campus Housing"?[[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 20:40, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::: No - I was mostly typing before thinking - it is the same story and reversing the canonicals is really for special cases - not for every time someone changes a title :) And [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2937906 here it is] - links moved, note rewritten to show reality and moved to the parent. Partial issue of AE added (will work on that some more later - the reorganization of their site when they came back live is a pain). Feel free to change/update if something looks off :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 20:48, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::::: You beat me to it, here is [https://web.archive.org/web/20130814042220/https://aescifi.ca/ Issue 10]. I was just about to create it. Just wanted to clarify your previous answer before I did. lol [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 20:54, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::::: You can fill it in and fix it - sorry :) I just wanted to move the links where they belong before we lose them and forget all about it - not just the ones you had but the 10 or so tabs I had opened here while digging. If it was indeed in 12, that won't be the July issue so the title and date may need adjustment so now fixed (posted in July but part of Issue 12 so takes its date from it (which is Fall so probably 10 but who knows - will see if I can find definitive months on that one). Have fun! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:06, 25 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Eoin Colfer's The Fowl Twins|Get What They Deserve ==<br />
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Was just about to add the UK pubs for this, but wasn't sure whether to add as a pub to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2934630 the existing title record], add a variant title, and/or alter the existing title record to match the UK data I'm seeing.<br />
<br />
This is the third of a trilogy, for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2776189 the middle one], "The Fowl Twins" has been omitted from the title, but you/Fixer had kept that prefix for the latest book. For the UK pub(s) of this new book, the only one of my sources that retains the prefix is Blackwells; Amazon, Kobo, Waterstones and bookshop.org all omit it. The title page does keep it, but IIRC there are plenty of cases where we have stripped the series name from the title field?<br />
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Not a big deal, but my pedantic instincts tell me it might be nice to sort out consistency - or explicitly agree to be inconsistent - before I add more pubs and make this more effort to unpick if it's determined I went the wrong way. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 08:47, 29 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: You leave it to Fixer and the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5122505 title] will be "The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve (A Fowl Twins Novel, Book 3) (Artemis Fowl)" :) <br />
: That's one of those cases where I hate that English is an almost non-inflected language. Had it been a single protagonist or had that been in a language where verbs change, it would be clear if the title is meant to keep "The Fowl Twins" as part of the title in the second one: both "Deny All Charges" and "The Fowl Twins Deny All Charges" could work as titles. For this one "Get What They Deserve" on its own just sounds wrong (this "they" over there sounds ok only of you leave The Fowl Twins as part of the title). So I left it while mulling on it - one wonders if where it was stripped, it was not automation that did it. The rule is to strip it if it is there as a series name but leave it if it is an integral part of the title itself. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?42763 this series] for example. "Isadora Moon Goes to School" is a title. "Goes to School" is half of a title - it is obvious that the name is supposed to be a part of the title. With these twins here, the language does not help you figure that one out. <br />
: So still not sure what to do with this one. Maybe I am overthinking it but that's why I left it that way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 12:37, 29 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: No worries. I'll submit the UK pub of the new novel shortly using the existing title, and will leave the arguably anomalous second book untouched. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 15:48, 29 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
::: :) Yeah - for a change I was not asleep on the helm when these happened. ;) Some are easy to figure out. Some are like that. I have half a mind putting back the Twins in the second as well and be done with it - I will look at some title pages later and see what I can figure out - including the UK pages for the third one - because the US one is not out for 4 more weeks. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:59, 29 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Gorey ==<br />
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If I read your poorly spelled note right, you rejected the edit for Come Back, Dr. Caligari because Gorey is only the designer, but anyone with the slightest familiarity with his work would instantly recognize the cover as his. Many books have a design credit for books where the designer also did the cover art. Also, it's mentioned here, http://www.goreybooks.com/covers.html#.YXxUpVXMLDc, and here, http://www.lib.luc.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/show/gorey/doubleday-anchor/anchor-books-3, where all of those covers are clearly Gorey's work but, as mentioned, none of them are signed. Entering another credit for Gorey is a big deal, but if you don't want it entered that's your problem. --[[User:Username|Username]] 16:14, 29 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Your publication note reads:<br />
:* ""Cover Design by Edward Gorey" on back cover of Archive.org copy (which has a higher price ($1.25) on the cover; what year this edition is from is unknown)." ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5135781 the submission].<br />
: If you think he is also the artist, that needs to be added to the notes together with a justification for it - pointing to the same image elsewhere, pointing to a common practice or something else. Had I approved your submission, the coverart record and the publication record would have contradicted each other - design credit does not lead to a coverart credit. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:24, 29 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:: I don't think he's the cover artist, he is the cover artist. I'm not re-entering all that info again; if you want it, take it, who really cares, I stopped caring months ago. --[[User:Username|Username]] 16:40, 29 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:::It would be helpful for you to remember, Username, that everyone here is a volunteer (which you've mentioned several times when someone has asked you to do this or that). Annie can always unreject the edit so you can make the minor correction suggested (including notes about why the artist is Gorey), but you would need to agree to make that correction first. Getting upset because some information was left out of the initial submission is not helpful. Posting backhanded (or outright rude) comments is not helpful, either. <br />
:::It's very frustrating to work with you because you take every (at least it seems that way) suggestion, correction, or other comment directed at you as an attack on you personally. You demand respect because of all the time you spend adding and cleaning up information here (which is true: you have spent a lot of time doing many things to improve ISFDB, and '''we definitely appreciate it'''). However, many other people have also spent a huge amount of time here adding and cleaning up information. Annie and Ahaseurus are some of the biggest contributors to the site, yet you consistently treat them like dirt. Please do whatever you need to do to adjust your attitude when working on ISFDB. We love the many, many contributions you've made, but you really need to learn to work ''with'' people rather than acting like you are the only reason anything is on the site. <br />
:::''All of us'' are working to improve the site, not just you. We ''all'' make mistakes, including you. If you can work to be a little less acidic when dealing with others, and can the attitude, we would all appreciate it. Again, '''you have made many, many very useful contributions to the site''' (the one that pops to mind first is the huge number of covers you've found, which is awesome). You are a very helpful contributor to the site, and have improved many things about it. It would make things run much more smoothly, though, if you could work with us rather than against us. Thanks. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:17, 29 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:::: Leaving aside the fact that the reason I took on this defensive persona is because of the many hostile responses I got from moderators and other editors since my earliest editing days last December when I was just starting out and didn't know what I was doing, which puts the lie to your theory that I'm difficult to work with because of my attitude when in fact the attitude came about because of the difficulty of working with others here, not to mention the fact that in perusing the boards I've come across many threads dating back to long before I started editing here where many of the same people I have had negative dealings with had problems with other editors, including some editors cursing them out and/or deciding not to edit anymore, which clearly shows that the problem is not really me, the simple fact is the only reason I've continued doing this for quite a while now is to pass the time. Most of the mods, judging from their profiles, are European, so they may not be aware of this, but America, where I live, is rapidly going down the drain; our radical left government has made us the laughingstock of the world and things are getting worse by the day; people are starving, China is testing nuclear weapons, and the Jihadists are just waiting for the opportunity to recreate 9/11. So you arrogantly giving me a lecture about proper decorum like you're talking to a child is incredibly annoying; if you knew the stress I and my fellow Americans are constantly under these days you'd change your tune. --[[User:Username|Username]] 20:01, 29 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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::::: As I pointed out [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Username#Fantlab back in April], we are a strictly bibliographic site. We do not let our individual political, national, ethnic, ideological and other non-bibliographic preferences affect what we do here. Moderators and editors are expected to treat other contributors equally regardless of their place of residence, background and preferences. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 21:31, 29 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:::: So, as I see it, the way to solve this problem is not to respond to anyone here anymore about anything; starting from right now, any of my edits that get rejected will be ignored and I'll just move on to the next one. This is all assuming I will still be editing here much longer, since as I mentioned a few times recently I was ready to take a long break until a hurricane and Americans being warned not to travel because of terrorism foiled my plan; I was actually thinking earlier today that this Sunday, Halloween, would be a perfectly appropriate day to finally leave for awhile, so if my edits don't appear anymore then I succeeded. --[[User:Username|Username]] 20:01, 29 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:::::Well, I'm sorry to see you go if that's what you do. You really have contributed a huge amount to the site. And I'm sorry you took my comments as "talking to a child" as I was only trying to be polite. It's hard to convey meaning through only written words since you can't take cues from body language. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:25, 29 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== The Cossack Review ==<br />
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I uploaded [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:THCSSCKRVW2016.jpg this image] hoping it would help identify the format for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?864748 The Cossack Review]. Any thoughts? [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 21:02, 31 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
: "tp" - it is glued paperback, the size cannot be determined because there is no scale so we cannot figure out what of the standard formats would be the closest - that's why we have "tp" for magazines as well and not just for books. If an exact size is ever discovered, we can adjust - but tp is better than unknown in such cases. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:10, 31 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
:: Thanks [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 21:14, 31 October 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Two different "Invasion" novels ==<br />
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A quick note about {{A|Jay Allan}}'s [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?862479 Invasion], which you worked on last month. It turns out that it's the start of a new series and not another edition of the identically titled volume 9 in this prolific author's "Blood on the Stars" series. I have separated the two title records and added the other versions of the new books. (Clearly, there is a shortage of SF titles out there, so authors are forced to recycle.) [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 20:56, 4 November 2021 (EDT)<br />
: Thanks. Would have become obvious when volume 2 showed up and I went looking for volume 1. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:16, 5 November 2021 (EDT)<br />
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== Cover variations ==<br />
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http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?335408<br />
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What do I do with the cover for "Harry Potter och Hemligheternas kammare".<br><br />
It is the same artist, but the font is different, thus rendering two<br><br />
different covers. Should one be a variant of the other tho? or how do you<br><br />
usually solve this? --[[User:Spacecow|Spacecow]] 09:37, 11 November 2021 (EST)<br />
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== The Voyage of the Princess Ark ==<br />
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Annie, Thought I would work on a couple areas of the cleanup report. A couple days ago I submitted edits for the serialized novel "The Voyage of the Princess Ark". There are two edits for each installment. One that corrects the title to comply with standards. It also includes a link to the publication in which it occurs. (In fact it will open directly on the installment). The second edit links the serial title to the parent. Lastly, there is an edit stripping the month from the parent title. A couple days ago a moderator processed the first couple edits and stopped. The remaining 70 are just sitting there. Will you process these?<br />
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I'm assuming that you are a bureaucrat level moderator. I'm requesting the ability to moderate my own submissions. Thanks in advance for any action on the first request and your consideration on the second. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 11:16, 11 November 2021 (EST)<br />
: I am not. And even if I was, that is a permission that is only granted after a community vote. It is a holiday week in the States - that usually adds a bit of a delay to everything. I’ll see what I can do for the submissions when I am in front of a computer - answering Talk from a phone is fine; working the queue is a bit too much. :). [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:07, 11 November 2021 (EST)<br />
:: PS: Looking at the board and seeing all of yours sitting there - you won't like that but I will say it - one of the reasons yours are still on the board while a lot of stuff after that had been handled is probably the hissy fit you threw at a moderator who was just trying to help you. Twice. Had you said anything like that to me, I would have responded with "That's a weird way to say thanks" the first time. The second time would have made me probably ignore any of your submissions for a very long time - we are all volunteers and having someone jump at your throat because you tried to help is unwarranted and a headache I do not need in my life. <br />
:: Just part of the reasons maybe - we also have moderators who stay away from magazine submissions. Plus these needed a PV to be notified which is yet another reason for them to stay longer - they require some time to let you know and then react when you do what you should have done before submitting (see your page). As it is - some people may also be a bit wary of working on your submissions due to your reactions. If you need a moderator to know something, you put it in the moderator notes - you do not expect us to read your mind or know you are coming back. You did some research? Great - so did the moderator who handled your submission - we don't just rubber stamp things. Your records are not yours - anyone can work on them and improve them and you cannot corner a project and tell anyone else not to work on it - the same way you can improve any record you have data for. If you plan to add a different copy post approval or have a different edit, say so in the moderator notes - some moderators will leave you to it, some may decide to assist and do it for you (so you do not need to wait). Otherwise, anyone else can add it. Or change whatever needs changing. <br />
:: I will go clear your old submissions now - but I hope that makes you think a bit on how things are seen from outside. They most likely stopped because they realized you failed to discuss with a PV and did not have time (or the inclination - see the above) to discuss that with you. <br />
:: I like your work, I like how you interact with some other editors but this possessiveness and "that's my project, you are loosing my time by working on it" needs to stop before I personally contemplate a nomination for self-approving (I won't say no if it is proposed now, I will be neutral though). The fact that you were attempting to change PVd books with no notification does not make me feel any better about it either - if anything, it makes me want to vote no if it gets to that - noone will be able to stop you if you are self-approving. We work as a team :) . [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:05, 11 November 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Juvenile Chapbooks ==<br />
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In your [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Chris_J#Juvenile_chapbooks comment] to Chris_J, you mentioned that a "step was forgotten". I can find no mention of this 'step' in the Help. Am I missing something or is the Help? ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] 08:22, 17 November 2021 (EST)<br />
: Depends on which help page you are talking about. The checkboxes you set on the container during creation (juvenile, novelization, non-genre, graphic) apply only to the chapbook title and do not get assigned to the contents - so you need to do that manually if required. And with chapbooks, these flags need to match. Juvenile chapbooks are the usual place where people tend to forget these - and there were quite a number of them from the last days - so I sent the reminder :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 14:17, 17 November 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Kris Longknife series order ==<br />
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Do you have any insight into why the series [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?12751] has gaps in its numbering scheme? I'm about to PV my copies in the series, and noticed that you did some of the series # edits. Thanks. --[[User:GlennMcG|GlennMcG]] 17:01, 19 November 2021 (EST)<br />
:I renumbered them according to the author's official site. I think the numbering before was from the Amazon series page. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:03, 19 November 2021 (EST)<br />
:: But you did not finish the renumbering, leaving the last ones much higher than they should be based on the new numbering :) I think I got them all in order now but some of the later ones need swapping, feel free to. Adding a link to the place from where the order is coming is always recommended or someone WILL renumber them again. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 20:09, 19 November 2021 (EST)<br />
:::I added a link to every title I edited. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:19, 19 November 2021 (EST)<br />
:::: But not on the overall series - by the time someone gets to the books you edited, they could have reordered half the series :) I added it up there to make clear where the order comes from. We are all set now I think. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 20:21, 19 November 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Menna van Praag - The Night of Demons and Saints - delayed to 2022? ==<br />
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Just noticed [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2851109 this one] whilst working on the missing UK pubs of the first in the series - [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-night-of-demons-and-saints-menna-van-praag/1137367291?ean=9780062932501 B&N] doesn't know about a hardback, but seems to think all the other pubs are due in 2022 (which seems to be the case for the UK pubs for this title). [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08D9JWDRC Amazon.com] likewise thinks it's 2022 and has no hc listing, but I don't trust them not to show me distorted info when I'm visiting from a UK IP. The author's Twitter and website are infrequently updated, but make no mention of this title whatsoever; [https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-night-of-demons-and-saints-menna-van-praag?variant=39325414588450 publisher site] is also saying 2022/no hc.<br />
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I'll fix these apparently delayed (or cancelled?) US pubs as best I can in a couple of days if I don't hear back, but thought it best to ping you in case you can dig out any other info. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 13:52, 20 November 2021 (EST)<br />
: Oh - that one. One of its editions was one of the first to get watchDate because the whole bundle looked ok (so I added them) but something felt off. I've cleaned them up, leaving the old hc ISBN with a note just in case someone decides to use Amazon (and Goodreads...) to re-add it. The audio ISBNs went back to Fixer so we do not loose them. Let's see when they show up next year :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:16, 21 November 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Variant mystery ==<br />
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I was hoping you might be able to explain why I cant make [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2949798 this Spanish title] a variant of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?583361 this title]. The db states that the Spanish title is already a variant of another title, but I can't find an entry in the db that shows it. There is a French translation but no Spanish one. Thanks[[User:Taweiss|TAWeiss]] 19:57, 23 November 2021 (EST)<br />
: It is telling you that the English one is a variant, not the Spanish one and we do not support variant of variant so you need to use the parent title. The English title is a variant of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2543934 this one]. When you look at the English title see how it says that it is a variant? Click on the title there and you get the one I just linked. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 20:34, 23 November 2021 (EST)<br />
::Got it. Thanks! [[User:Taweiss|TAWeiss]] 20:43, 23 November 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Cloning and a now incorrect title ==<br />
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Hi.<br />
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I cloned Rich Horton's "The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017" trade paperback for the ebook version, see link at http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?870348 for the new ebook version.<br />
<br />
I did notice that there was one feature of the cloned version TOC that is now incorrect. In the tp, there was a title " About the Authors" near the end. Upon checking the Kindle preview, this is now called "Author Biographies" in the ebook. Same place, same content, different title.<br />
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My first thought is that I could just delete this title from the ebook version, and then enter a new title. I suspect there might be a more elegant way of doing this.<br />
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Your insights and guidance are always helpful. Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 00:05, 25 November 2021 (EST)<br />
: It can be done in 2 ways, none of them very elegant:<br />
:* Remove title, PubEdit to add the new one and then variant the two. <br />
:* Open the Essay and use Unmerge to unmerge the publication with the wrong title. Then edit the new title to change the name and variant again. <br />
: Same number of steps (remove and PubEdit can be submitted in parallel; in the second case rename and variant can be submitted in parallel. Make sure you add moderator notes explaining what you are doing either way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:35, 25 November 2021 (EST)<br />
::I think I'll take the first choice - that seems to align a bit better with my inclinations. Thanks.[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 17:11, 25 November 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov non-fiction ==<br />
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I've been doing cross-checking to various sources and wanted to run some results by you before submitting for moderation, so I can enter and support them without giving moderators grief. The Italian translation of his A Short History of Biology seems well supported in OCLC, 11 entries covering 9 different dates. Google Books and Goodreads support some of these, the publisher supports 1, but sales sites are unreliable in that they all say the original 1969 date, even though they have 3 different covers (seller's image). They entries might be in either (or neither) of 2 different publisher series and pages are pretty reliable viii+159, 159 and 160. The only non OCLC formats go with images (one paper, one cloth), the OCLC is pretty consistent at 21 cm. One OCLC has no libraries (supported by Google though) and the others range from 1 to 6. I tried checking individual libraries to confirm, but my Italian is non-existent and the OCLC links to the libraries seem to go to central indexes with multiple overlapping copies. <br />
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So - do I enter a separate publication of the Italian translation for each OCLC supported years of issue? If I can't link images to specific years (although series helps with one many-to-many links), do I put the images in - even though they do support there being multiple printings? ../[[User:Holmesd|Doug H]] 17:10, 25 November 2021 (EST)<br />
: Sorry for the delay - I was trying to stay (mostly) off screens for a few days<br />
: As long as you document them. One thing to be careful with non-US OCLC records - sometimes they get the year of the record as the year of the book thus creating a record for a non-existing book. So I rarely rely on just OCLC for these unless their is a note for a later printing or something along these lines. I would probably add only the versions I am absolutely sure about but either way works. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 12:16, 29 November 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Cyrillic transliteration question ==<br />
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I wanted to doublecheck a transliteration before I submit the edit. Is 'Odinochyestvo polookrovki' the correct transliteration for this title, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2952847 Одиночество полукровки]? Thanks for your help. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 10:06, 1 December 2021 (EST)<br />
: Not really. :) “Odinochestvo polukrovki” would be better. While Odinochyestvo is closer to a transcription than a transliteration (still acceptable as one of the transliterations but I’d have the clear way as well), using oo instead of u for the second word is just weird (almost looks like an English speaker trying to do a transcription into English?). Also - transliterations differ per language on a few letters. None of them in this title though. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 10:36, 1 December 2021 (EST)<br />
:: I wanted to try instead of just asking. Submitted as you recommend Thanks. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 11:04, 1 December 2021 (EST)<br />
::: No worries. Transliterations are easier if you can read the script usually - they are just 1/1 replacement of letters. Which is hard if you cannot recognize half the letters (not sure how much you read Cyrillic scripts actually) :) I don't tend to check the ones that already have them (unless I am there for something else and spot a problem); the ones without transliterations show up on a report so I work through them when I remember. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 12:35, 1 December 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Publisher query on a possible export edition of Elizabeth Lim's Unravel the Dusk ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
I've got [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5163425 an edit in the queue] with a mod note that it might be worth you double checking it. It's for a 2020 pub that Fixer apparently picked up from Amazon UK (although I thought at that time the Amazon UK API/feed had broken), with a publisher value of "Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc", which you'd subsequently edited to "Bantam Books (UK)". As this has since had [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?870877 a UK edition from Hodder & Stoughton], my guess is that the earlier pub was an export edition, thus "Bantam Books (UK)" wouldn't be the right publisher? Also, per the mod note, Blackwell's and Waterstones list different PRH US imprints for that pub, so it's a bit of a mystery to me what the correct value would be, short of getting a copy of this pub in front of me.<br />
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No worries if you don't have time/inclination to look at this edit; I'm still slowing plugging away at the missing UK pubs for this title and its prequel... Thanks [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 11:38, 1 December 2021 (EST)<br />
: I've approved it. The Random House imprints can be a pain on their international editions - some of them go for a match, some go for Random House only and some do other weird things. No idea why I sent that one to the UK Bantam - something made me decide that's the correct one I guess (and it is possible that Bantam did the distribution before the UK edition came out thus confusing contemporary records even more by being named the publisher on the UK side.<br />
: The Amazon UK API is kinda working plus there is a scrapper and we do some magic on the backend but as you can see the data can be a bit... weird so we DO get some UK data - just less of it and usually later than the US side. Part of the problem with this one is that 978-0-593 appears to have been a valid prefix on both sides of the ocean for Random House imprints for awhile (Bantam Press in the UK carries it and various Random House imprints stateside) which is annoying - in a lot of cases the ISBN of major publisher's book is enough to tell you where to look. I will add it to the list of things to untangle - we are bound to have a few more assigned weirdly with this prefix through the years plus there may be a split on a lower position to help us. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 12:30, 1 December 2021 (EST)<br />
:: Thanks - the Bantam UK value seemed specific enough that it seemed you'd deliberately entered it, so I was wary of blinding overwriting your edit :-)<br />
:: BTW, I've only got a handful of Dec 2021 UK pubs to enter, so most of what I'll be submitting for the next week or two will be older pubs that had been missed, so no hurry on moderating those in the queue ... [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 17:14, 1 December 2021 (EST)<br />
::: The way Fixer dates come sometimes, I can get a July 2021 UK book with January 2022 date from Amazon US. So I still clear yours before I work on Fixer. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:16, 2 December 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Pending edits ==<br />
<br />
I've had a few changes queued for a couple of days. I'm assuming that they are problematic for some reason. Should I cancel and re-think my changes? Thanks, Tom [[User:Taweiss|TAWeiss]] 17:41, 1 December 2021 (EST)<br />
: Nah. More likely just need some more time to look at so someone skipped them. We talk to people when things look weird. Will look at them in the morning. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:14, 2 December 2021 (EST)<br />
:: Some of these will require also changes in the pubs and we do not change the title UNLESS it is printed that way. I put them on hold for a bit - will do some digging and see what we need to do to untangle this set of anthologies :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:59, 2 December 2021 (EST)<br />
:::They are all available on archive and google. I checked the title pages of the pubs that I changed. [[User:Taweiss|TAWeiss]] 10:02, 4 December 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Replica/Minerva ==<br />
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http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?64464; http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?3776; Cover image for Minerva's Doyle found and added from Open Library, saw note about Replica, found 1 Replica Doyle cover image also on Open Library which looks the same style as the Minerva, ISBN of Minerva's Doyle similar to several Replica ISBN's, might belong with them since note says Replica was originally entered as publisher here. --[[User:Username|Username]] 21:43, 1 December 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Sanderson & Patterson's Skyward Flight trilogy: novels rather than novellas? ==<br />
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Just submitted [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5165394 the UK pub of the final one of these], and thought it worth double checking the word counts on Kobo now that 2 of them are out. Turns out they have data on all 3 UK volumes - [https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/sunreach 49k], [https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/redawn 62k] and [https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/evershore 63k] words respectively, so all well into novel territory. It seems they have the same counts for the first 2 US pubs: [https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sunreach-skyward-flight-novella-1 49k] and [https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/redawn-skyward-flight-novella-2 62k].<br />
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Do you have any other sources that might argue against switching [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?64410 all 3 of these] to be novels? Kobo has the UK audios as being 5.4, 7 and 5 hours long - but (a) I don't know if those values are accurate/high enough to be novels, and (b) it seems curious the third audio is allegedly shorter than the others, despite having the longest word count?<br />
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NB: the publisher blurb for both UK and US pubs explicitly claims these are novellas, so at the very least it seems some sort of series and/or title notes might be in order - sigh.... [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 16:42, 3 December 2021 (EST)<br />
: See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2945658 my note]. I add based on pre-release information. If it calls itself a novella and I cannot find a good enough source to say something else, I add it based one on what I am told. As for the pre-release audio lengths - these can shift somewhat for a few publishers (which is why I use them only on notes for pre-release for these). For the first two - no notes from me because you added the first and you added the first version of the second... :) I was planning to check the whole series once the third is out (so the lengths stabilize online) but go ahead and switch them now if you want - with notes about the fact that they claim to be novellas. Not the first time that happens (in either direction)... [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:51, 3 December 2021 (EST)<br />
:: Thanks - will start on them over the weekend. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 17:57, 3 December 2021 (EST)<br />
::: Holler if you need help :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 18:08, 3 December 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Enemies of the System ==<br />
<br />
Thanks for the help! I am running out of time, though I've got it -- almost. I am waiting for an answer [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Spacecow#Enemies_of_the_System:_A_Tale_of_Homo_Uniformis_.3F here] to decide what the exact title and author's name it is.<br />
There's also the possibility of a change in one of these fields (author name or exact title), depending on the response [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Scifibones#Enemies_of_the_System here]. Thanks for the offer, Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 13:44, 5 December 2021 (EST)<br />
: Anytime. When left in mid-change these produce a lot of chatter on the cleanup reports (especially the ones i try to catch as soon as new titles show up there) so I tend to try to make sure they are all done before their generation. If no responses come I’ll convert all remaining novels to chapbooks as they are now name- and author-wise and we can change them when we get answers. :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:50, 5 December 2021 (EST)<br />
:: I converted the last remaining novel pending further changes when the PV shows up and copied the translator to the Portuguese chapbook (easily forgotten step during these conversions - these keep popping up on the reports :)) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 22:30, 5 December 2021 (EST)<br />
::: Thanks, Annie! Just waiting for the last straw, the respond by Spacecow to the remaining question. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 01:38, 6 December 2021 (EST)<br />
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== rejected variant ==<br />
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Annie, please take another look at [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5166729 this submission] which you rejected with the comment 'The other way around - the earliest publication becomes a parent.' The complete book and the 'partials' were all published at the same time. The cover for volume one is the same artwork as the complete book. It seems correct that the complete book should be the parent. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 19:42, 6 December 2021 (EST)<br />
: 2015-09-05 vs 2015-09-15 - there are 10 days difference. As these two are both covers, we literally go with the "first becomes a parent" rule regardless of naming - no "best known names" considerations as we have for text records. Or do you have a wrong date somewhere? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:47, 6 December 2021 (EST)<br />
:: I had the wrong date on the complete book, ugh. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5167832 This submission] corrects the dates. Good catch. Thank you [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 20:00, 6 December 2021 (EST)<br />
::: And with that I can unreject and approve :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 20:15, 6 December 2021 (EST)<br />
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== Spine Whine ==<br />
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http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?307726; Similarly to Arno's reprints, Twayne's info is often only on the spine; the cover is completely blank, https://www.amazon.com/McEwan-English-Authors-Jack-Slay/dp/0805745785, but title, author, publisher and ID # are all on the spine. Now we have another problem; the last photo on Amazon shows an actual cover, but only the mini-version; only other instance of that actual cover when I searched for the ISBN is here, https://www.sapnaonline.com/verify/books/english-authors-series-ian-mcewan-jack-slay-0805745785-9780805745788, which is not an ISFDB-friendly site. So do you want to keep the spine which has all necessary info, replace it with the tiny Amazon image, or upload that unknown site's photo to our Wiki? --[[User:Username|Username]] 23:31, 6 December 2021 (EST)<br />
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== A messy Tor US pub from September ==<br />
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I've just submitted [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5168664 this], looks like there's [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-atlas-six-olivie-blake/1139432349?ean=9781250854551 a similar Tor US pub from September].<br />
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My guess is that the Tor US & UK ebooks were a rush job that didn't appear until after you/Fixer had processed September's books - the FAQ I linked in the title note indicates a fairly weird history. I dunno if Fixer can do anything retroactively for the Tor US ebook and/or dig out anything on the original self-pub version beyond what [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58459267-the-atlas-six Goodreads] can provide?<br />
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I'll try to make some sense of this one tomorrow if you don't get time/inclination before then. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 19:10, 7 December 2021 (EST)<br />
: The paperback of the self-published one is also on [https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Six-Olivie-Blake/dp/167991099X Amazon.com] so we can add it and I am sure that the ebook is in the ASIN stores of Fixer so I will get it from there. I will add them tomorrow. The only Tor US version already out is the [https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250854551/theatlassix ebook one]; the [https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250854513/theatlassix Hardcover] comes out in March. Which explains why it was missed - the ebook was just not there - Tor is one of the publishers that are always IN so probably delayed announcement and adding to Amazon. I will deal with these in the morning or later tonight if I can back to the DB. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:36, 7 December 2021 (EST)<br />
:: Approved, added the self-published tp and the Tor US ebook. Will add the other ebook later. Pulled your cover though - it had "Cover to be revealed" across the middle which basically is NOT a cover but a placeholder. See if you can find a proper cover for the UK edition? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:58, 7 December 2021 (EST)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Rkihara&diff=600185User talk:Rkihara2021-03-24T08:00:25Z<p>Rkihara: /* Jaida Jones */</p>
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You do not need to notify me if you add missing content (departments, covers, interior illustrations), correct typos, or link entries (series, reviews). I would be interested in knowing about major changes to entered data (credits, titles). <span style="color:red">I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.</span>-- Rkihara (Ron Kihara)<br />
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:::Great, thanks. I will split them up. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 16:58, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Who Goes There? ==<br />
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I'm going to make a number of changes to your verified copy of the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57402 August 1938 issue] of ''Astounding''. First off, I'm going to add a link to a scan of the issue from the Internet Archive. I'm also going to change the title of Who Goes There? to include the quotation marks as it appears on the storie's title page (also in the table of contents). Lastly, the story note in the recent reprint of the novella in the Fall 2018 issue of ''Black Infinity'' identifies the artist as H. W. Wesso, so I'll add him as the artist for those illustrations and note the source. Please let me know if you have any problems with these changes. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:10, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:No problem.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:51, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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Ron, thanks for taking the trouble to nominate me for moderator. I'll try to make it look like you have good sense. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 15:07, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:You're welcome. It was long overdue.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:36, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== ''Analog'' July 1975, 'Reference Library' essay credit ==<br />
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I've not made any change to the record yet for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57126 Analog, July 1975] as it's not a straightforward problem requiring a simple fix, and you appear to be the only available Verifier who is around these days. Dave Langford has been in touch with me regarding his forthcoming Algis Budrys essay collection, pointing out that our [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?827144 'Reference Library' record for that issue] is in error credited to Lester del Rey when it was in fact a guest editorial by Budrys. This is in fact the same essay that is also currently in the database as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1621085 Foundation and Asimov] by Budrys from 1996. Before I can proceed on connecting the latter essay as a variant of the former, I need to double check with you how the original was actually credited (del Rey or Budrys), and ask how you would like to proceed with regard to the name – we could credit the essay to Budrys and in the Note for that pub point out that it was given the usual byline of Lester del Rey. Could you please take a look at the pub and let me know what you think would be your preferred course of action as Verifier? Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 17:08, 12 February 2020 (EST)<br />
: OK, Dave Langford has retrieved a copy of that issue from his vaults and confirms it is credited to Budrys. I'll make the change, please let me know if you have any problem with this and we can look at it further. Cheers. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 04:50, 13 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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::No problem, go ahead.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:00, 15 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Second set of eyes on Japanese ==<br />
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Hi Ron, <br />
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Would you mind looking at [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?41420 this series] for me? We have the author as 谷甲州 but looking at Amazon, it seems like the author for all the novels is actually 山田正紀. [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%9F%E7%A5%9E%E5%85%B5%E5%9B%A3 Wiki Japan] seems to also be agreeing that we have the wrong author. I will be more than happy to change them but as you have more Japanese than I do, I would appreciate a quick second look to see if I am missing something. Thanks in advance! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:46, 6 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:Yes, it should be 山田正紀. I'm not sure where 谷甲州 was associated with it, but there is no connection as far as I can tell. They should all be changed to 山田正紀. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:43, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:: I will fix them. Thanks a lot for checking! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:44, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956 ==<br />
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Dave Langford is reporting that the review of "Stories" by "И. Ефремов" on pp. 147-150 of your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57551 ''Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956''] is by Algis Budrys as opposed to P. Schuyler Miller. The [https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v57n04_1956-06_EXciter-LennyS/page/n145/mode/2up Internet Archive] agrees. (Other primary verifiers have been notified.) [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 06:54, 8 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Planet Stories, Summer 1946 ==<br />
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I added some letters to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60036 Planet Stories, Summer 1946]. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 00:40, 2 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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:No problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 02:13, 4 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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== F&SF July 1980 query ==<br />
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Hi. I was reviewing something else in this July 1980 F&SF issue via scanned version on archive.org. (I don't have the paper copy). I found that the page numbers for "Siriusly Speaking" and "Found" appeared to be off by 1 page. The archive.org scanned copy has "Siriously Speaking" on p 134 and "Found" on p 144. I assume that you have a paper copy and can check this; I assume that the scanned copy matches, but would like to be sure. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:21, 2 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know. They start on pages 134 and 144 as you stated. Go ahead and make the corrections.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 14:04, 3 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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Hi. As you know (I'm sure you have moderated some of my edits), I've been working on several aspects of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction entries.<br />
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I just looked at this issue of F&SF: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2006 Publication Record # 115661 <br />
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The Notes for the issue on ISFDB include the information 'Cover illustrates "White Goddess."'<br />
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Now, I would check the cover art title attribution, but I do not have a paper copy, and there does not appear to be a scanned/digital copy at archive.org.<br />
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I did not find any title in the TOC for "White Goddess".<br />
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I am assuming that one of the primary verifiers for this issue has a paper copy and can check this.<br />
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If you don't have access to a paper copy, I'll go on to the others. I started with you because I know you are active on ISFDB.<br />
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Thanks<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]]<br />
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::The cover art is not necessarily linked to a story. The name of the piece is identified at the bottom of the index as "White Goddess" by Max Bertolini.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:50, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
Thanks. Yes, I do see that. At the same time, in this era for F&SF, it was not that common, so I wanted to confirm this was not an error. I've just looked at the SFSITE.com entry for this issue, and it does list the title as being noted on the Contents/copyright page, with no story attached. So, we're done. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 20:27, 10 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Jaida Jones ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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Where is [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3005253 this] birthday coming from? None of the sources we had listed seems to have it, your update does not have a moderator note? I am holding an update to the same date waiting for a source by the submitter... can you please update the notes with the source (or point me to where it is in the 3 sites we list). Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 21:10, 23 March 2021 (EDT)<br />
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:Looking back through my spreadsheet of author edits, I retrieved the data from the Wikipedia. It's been five years since I made the edit, so the birthdate may have been removed. I'm pretty much inactive at this point, so I have no problem if anyone wants to change it. I've found that many authors are willing to give or verify their birthdate if there is a question.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:00, 24 March 2021 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Rkihara&diff=593835User talk:Rkihara2020-12-11T00:50:07Z<p>Rkihara: /* F&SF July 1980 query */</p>
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You do not need to notify me if you add missing content (departments, covers, interior illustrations), correct typos, or link entries (series, reviews). I would be interested in knowing about major changes to entered data (credits, titles). <span style="color:red">I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.</span>-- Rkihara (Ron Kihara)<br />
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:::Great, thanks. I will split them up. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 16:58, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Who Goes There? ==<br />
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I'm going to make a number of changes to your verified copy of the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57402 August 1938 issue] of ''Astounding''. First off, I'm going to add a link to a scan of the issue from the Internet Archive. I'm also going to change the title of Who Goes There? to include the quotation marks as it appears on the storie's title page (also in the table of contents). Lastly, the story note in the recent reprint of the novella in the Fall 2018 issue of ''Black Infinity'' identifies the artist as H. W. Wesso, so I'll add him as the artist for those illustrations and note the source. Please let me know if you have any problems with these changes. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:10, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:No problem.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:51, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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Ron, thanks for taking the trouble to nominate me for moderator. I'll try to make it look like you have good sense. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 15:07, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:You're welcome. It was long overdue.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:36, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== ''Analog'' July 1975, 'Reference Library' essay credit ==<br />
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I've not made any change to the record yet for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57126 Analog, July 1975] as it's not a straightforward problem requiring a simple fix, and you appear to be the only available Verifier who is around these days. Dave Langford has been in touch with me regarding his forthcoming Algis Budrys essay collection, pointing out that our [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?827144 'Reference Library' record for that issue] is in error credited to Lester del Rey when it was in fact a guest editorial by Budrys. This is in fact the same essay that is also currently in the database as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1621085 Foundation and Asimov] by Budrys from 1996. Before I can proceed on connecting the latter essay as a variant of the former, I need to double check with you how the original was actually credited (del Rey or Budrys), and ask how you would like to proceed with regard to the name – we could credit the essay to Budrys and in the Note for that pub point out that it was given the usual byline of Lester del Rey. Could you please take a look at the pub and let me know what you think would be your preferred course of action as Verifier? Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 17:08, 12 February 2020 (EST)<br />
: OK, Dave Langford has retrieved a copy of that issue from his vaults and confirms it is credited to Budrys. I'll make the change, please let me know if you have any problem with this and we can look at it further. Cheers. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 04:50, 13 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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::No problem, go ahead.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:00, 15 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Second set of eyes on Japanese ==<br />
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Hi Ron, <br />
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Would you mind looking at [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?41420 this series] for me? We have the author as 谷甲州 but looking at Amazon, it seems like the author for all the novels is actually 山田正紀. [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%9F%E7%A5%9E%E5%85%B5%E5%9B%A3 Wiki Japan] seems to also be agreeing that we have the wrong author. I will be more than happy to change them but as you have more Japanese than I do, I would appreciate a quick second look to see if I am missing something. Thanks in advance! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:46, 6 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:Yes, it should be 山田正紀. I'm not sure where 谷甲州 was associated with it, but there is no connection as far as I can tell. They should all be changed to 山田正紀. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:43, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:: I will fix them. Thanks a lot for checking! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:44, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956 ==<br />
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Dave Langford is reporting that the review of "Stories" by "И. Ефремов" on pp. 147-150 of your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57551 ''Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956''] is by Algis Budrys as opposed to P. Schuyler Miller. The [https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v57n04_1956-06_EXciter-LennyS/page/n145/mode/2up Internet Archive] agrees. (Other primary verifiers have been notified.) [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 06:54, 8 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Planet Stories, Summer 1946 ==<br />
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I added some letters to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60036 Planet Stories, Summer 1946]. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 00:40, 2 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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:No problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 02:13, 4 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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== F&SF July 1980 query ==<br />
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Hi. I was reviewing something else in this July 1980 F&SF issue via scanned version on archive.org. (I don't have the paper copy). I found that the page numbers for "Siriusly Speaking" and "Found" appeared to be off by 1 page. The archive.org scanned copy has "Siriously Speaking" on p 134 and "Found" on p 144. I assume that you have a paper copy and can check this; I assume that the scanned copy matches, but would like to be sure. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:21, 2 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know. They start on pages 134 and 144 as you stated. Go ahead and make the corrections.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 14:04, 3 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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Hi. As you know (I'm sure you have moderated some of my edits), I've been working on several aspects of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction entries.<br />
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I just looked at this issue of F&SF: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2006 Publication Record # 115661 <br />
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The Notes for the issue on ISFDB include the information 'Cover illustrates "White Goddess."'<br />
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Now, I would check the cover art title attribution, but I do not have a paper copy, and there does not appear to be a scanned/digital copy at archive.org.<br />
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I did not find any title in the TOC for "White Goddess".<br />
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I am assuming that one of the primary verifiers for this issue has a paper copy and can check this.<br />
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If you don't have access to a paper copy, I'll go on to the others. I started with you because I know you are active on ISFDB.<br />
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Thanks<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]]<br />
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::The cover art is not necessarily linked to a story. The name of the piece is identified at the bottom of the index as "White Goddess" by Max Bertolini.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:50, 10 December 2020 (EST)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Rkihara&diff=593531User talk:Rkihara2020-12-03T19:04:43Z<p>Rkihara: /* F&SF July 1980 query */</p>
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You do not need to notify me if you add missing content (departments, covers, interior illustrations), correct typos, or link entries (series, reviews). I would be interested in knowing about major changes to entered data (credits, titles). <span style="color:red">I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.</span>-- Rkihara (Ron Kihara)<br />
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:::Great, thanks. I will split them up. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 16:58, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Who Goes There? ==<br />
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I'm going to make a number of changes to your verified copy of the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57402 August 1938 issue] of ''Astounding''. First off, I'm going to add a link to a scan of the issue from the Internet Archive. I'm also going to change the title of Who Goes There? to include the quotation marks as it appears on the storie's title page (also in the table of contents). Lastly, the story note in the recent reprint of the novella in the Fall 2018 issue of ''Black Infinity'' identifies the artist as H. W. Wesso, so I'll add him as the artist for those illustrations and note the source. Please let me know if you have any problems with these changes. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:10, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:No problem.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:51, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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Ron, thanks for taking the trouble to nominate me for moderator. I'll try to make it look like you have good sense. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 15:07, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:You're welcome. It was long overdue.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:36, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== ''Analog'' July 1975, 'Reference Library' essay credit ==<br />
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I've not made any change to the record yet for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57126 Analog, July 1975] as it's not a straightforward problem requiring a simple fix, and you appear to be the only available Verifier who is around these days. Dave Langford has been in touch with me regarding his forthcoming Algis Budrys essay collection, pointing out that our [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?827144 'Reference Library' record for that issue] is in error credited to Lester del Rey when it was in fact a guest editorial by Budrys. This is in fact the same essay that is also currently in the database as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1621085 Foundation and Asimov] by Budrys from 1996. Before I can proceed on connecting the latter essay as a variant of the former, I need to double check with you how the original was actually credited (del Rey or Budrys), and ask how you would like to proceed with regard to the name – we could credit the essay to Budrys and in the Note for that pub point out that it was given the usual byline of Lester del Rey. Could you please take a look at the pub and let me know what you think would be your preferred course of action as Verifier? Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 17:08, 12 February 2020 (EST)<br />
: OK, Dave Langford has retrieved a copy of that issue from his vaults and confirms it is credited to Budrys. I'll make the change, please let me know if you have any problem with this and we can look at it further. Cheers. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 04:50, 13 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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::No problem, go ahead.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:00, 15 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Second set of eyes on Japanese ==<br />
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Hi Ron, <br />
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Would you mind looking at [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?41420 this series] for me? We have the author as 谷甲州 but looking at Amazon, it seems like the author for all the novels is actually 山田正紀. [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%9F%E7%A5%9E%E5%85%B5%E5%9B%A3 Wiki Japan] seems to also be agreeing that we have the wrong author. I will be more than happy to change them but as you have more Japanese than I do, I would appreciate a quick second look to see if I am missing something. Thanks in advance! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:46, 6 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:Yes, it should be 山田正紀. I'm not sure where 谷甲州 was associated with it, but there is no connection as far as I can tell. They should all be changed to 山田正紀. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:43, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:: I will fix them. Thanks a lot for checking! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:44, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956 ==<br />
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Dave Langford is reporting that the review of "Stories" by "И. Ефремов" on pp. 147-150 of your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57551 ''Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956''] is by Algis Budrys as opposed to P. Schuyler Miller. The [https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v57n04_1956-06_EXciter-LennyS/page/n145/mode/2up Internet Archive] agrees. (Other primary verifiers have been notified.) [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 06:54, 8 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Planet Stories, Summer 1946 ==<br />
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I added some letters to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60036 Planet Stories, Summer 1946]. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 00:40, 2 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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:No problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 02:13, 4 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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== F&SF July 1980 query ==<br />
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Hi. I was reviewing something else in this July 1980 F&SF issue via scanned version on archive.org. (I don't have the paper copy). I found that the page numbers for "Siriusly Speaking" and "Found" appeared to be off by 1 page. The archive.org scanned copy has "Siriously Speaking" on p 134 and "Found" on p 144. I assume that you have a paper copy and can check this; I assume that the scanned copy matches, but would like to be sure. Thanks.<br />
[[User:Dave888|Dave888]] 11:21, 2 December 2020 (EST)<br />
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::Thanks for letting me know. They start on pages 134 and 144 as you stated. Go ahead and make the corrections.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 14:04, 3 December 2020 (EST)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Rkihara&diff=592119User talk:Rkihara2020-11-04T07:13:32Z<p>Rkihara: /* Planet Stories, Summer 1946 */</p>
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You do not need to notify me if you add missing content (departments, covers, interior illustrations), correct typos, or link entries (series, reviews). I would be interested in knowing about major changes to entered data (credits, titles). <span style="color:red">I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.</span>-- Rkihara (Ron Kihara)<br />
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:::Great, thanks. I will split them up. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 16:58, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Who Goes There? ==<br />
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I'm going to make a number of changes to your verified copy of the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57402 August 1938 issue] of ''Astounding''. First off, I'm going to add a link to a scan of the issue from the Internet Archive. I'm also going to change the title of Who Goes There? to include the quotation marks as it appears on the storie's title page (also in the table of contents). Lastly, the story note in the recent reprint of the novella in the Fall 2018 issue of ''Black Infinity'' identifies the artist as H. W. Wesso, so I'll add him as the artist for those illustrations and note the source. Please let me know if you have any problems with these changes. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:10, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:No problem.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:51, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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Ron, thanks for taking the trouble to nominate me for moderator. I'll try to make it look like you have good sense. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 15:07, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:You're welcome. It was long overdue.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:36, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== ''Analog'' July 1975, 'Reference Library' essay credit ==<br />
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I've not made any change to the record yet for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57126 Analog, July 1975] as it's not a straightforward problem requiring a simple fix, and you appear to be the only available Verifier who is around these days. Dave Langford has been in touch with me regarding his forthcoming Algis Budrys essay collection, pointing out that our [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?827144 'Reference Library' record for that issue] is in error credited to Lester del Rey when it was in fact a guest editorial by Budrys. This is in fact the same essay that is also currently in the database as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1621085 Foundation and Asimov] by Budrys from 1996. Before I can proceed on connecting the latter essay as a variant of the former, I need to double check with you how the original was actually credited (del Rey or Budrys), and ask how you would like to proceed with regard to the name – we could credit the essay to Budrys and in the Note for that pub point out that it was given the usual byline of Lester del Rey. Could you please take a look at the pub and let me know what you think would be your preferred course of action as Verifier? Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 17:08, 12 February 2020 (EST)<br />
: OK, Dave Langford has retrieved a copy of that issue from his vaults and confirms it is credited to Budrys. I'll make the change, please let me know if you have any problem with this and we can look at it further. Cheers. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 04:50, 13 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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::No problem, go ahead.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:00, 15 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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== Second set of eyes on Japanese ==<br />
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Hi Ron, <br />
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Would you mind looking at [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?41420 this series] for me? We have the author as 谷甲州 but looking at Amazon, it seems like the author for all the novels is actually 山田正紀. [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%9F%E7%A5%9E%E5%85%B5%E5%9B%A3 Wiki Japan] seems to also be agreeing that we have the wrong author. I will be more than happy to change them but as you have more Japanese than I do, I would appreciate a quick second look to see if I am missing something. Thanks in advance! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 00:46, 6 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:Yes, it should be 山田正紀. I'm not sure where 谷甲州 was associated with it, but there is no connection as far as I can tell. They should all be changed to 山田正紀. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:43, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
:: I will fix them. Thanks a lot for checking! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:44, 7 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956 ==<br />
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Dave Langford is reporting that the review of "Stories" by "И. Ефремов" on pp. 147-150 of your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57551 ''Astounding Science Fiction, June 1956''] is by Algis Budrys as opposed to P. Schuyler Miller. The [https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v57n04_1956-06_EXciter-LennyS/page/n145/mode/2up Internet Archive] agrees. (Other primary verifiers have been notified.) [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 06:54, 8 May 2020 (EDT)<br />
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== Planet Stories, Summer 1946 ==<br />
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I added some letters to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60036 Planet Stories, Summer 1946]. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 00:40, 2 November 2020 (EST)<br />
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:No problem.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 02:13, 4 November 2020 (EST)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Rules_and_standards_discussions&diff=583706Rules and standards discussions2020-06-23T20:13:02Z<p>Rkihara: /* Note on kana transliterations (Japanese) */</p>
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:::Great, thanks. I will split them up. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 16:58, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Who Goes There? ==<br />
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I'm going to make a number of changes to your verified copy of the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57402 August 1938 issue] of ''Astounding''. First off, I'm going to add a link to a scan of the issue from the Internet Archive. I'm also going to change the title of Who Goes There? to include the quotation marks as it appears on the storie's title page (also in the table of contents). Lastly, the story note in the recent reprint of the novella in the Fall 2018 issue of ''Black Infinity'' identifies the artist as H. W. Wesso, so I'll add him as the artist for those illustrations and note the source. Please let me know if you have any problems with these changes. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:10, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:No problem.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:51, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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Ron, thanks for taking the trouble to nominate me for moderator. I'll try to make it look like you have good sense. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 15:07, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:You're welcome. It was long overdue.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:36, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== ''Analog'' July 1975, 'Reference Library' essay credit ==<br />
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I've not made any change to the record yet for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57126 Analog, July 1975] as it's not a straightforward problem requiring a simple fix, and you appear to be the only available Verifier who is around these days. Dave Langford has been in touch with me regarding his forthcoming Algis Budrys essay collection, pointing out that our [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?827144 'Reference Library' record for that issue] is in error credited to Lester del Rey when it was in fact a guest editorial by Budrys. This is in fact the same essay that is also currently in the database as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1621085 Foundation and Asimov] by Budrys from 1996. Before I can proceed on connecting the latter essay as a variant of the former, I need to double check with you how the original was actually credited (del Rey or Budrys), and ask how you would like to proceed with regard to the name – we could credit the essay to Budrys and in the Note for that pub point out that it was given the usual byline of Lester del Rey. Could you please take a look at the pub and let me know what you think would be your preferred course of action as Verifier? Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 17:08, 12 February 2020 (EST)<br />
: OK, Dave Langford has retrieved a copy of that issue from his vaults and confirms it is credited to Budrys. I'll make the change, please let me know if you have any problem with this and we can look at it further. Cheers. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 04:50, 13 February 2020 (EST)<br />
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::No problem, go ahead.[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:00, 15 February 2020 (EST)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=ISFDB:Community_Portal&diff=573860ISFDB:Community Portal2020-02-03T20:21:28Z<p>Rkihara: /* Hello? Is this a forum? Seeking help from an author */</p>
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You do not need to notify me if you add missing content (departments, covers, interior illustrations), correct typos, or link entries (series, reviews). I would be interested in knowing about major changes to entered data (credits, titles). <span style="color:red">I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.</span>-- Rkihara (Ron Kihara)<br />
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:::Great, thanks. I will split them up. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 16:58, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Who Goes There? ==<br />
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I'm going to make a number of changes to your verified copy of the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57402 August 1938 issue] of ''Astounding''. First off, I'm going to add a link to a scan of the issue from the Internet Archive. I'm also going to change the title of Who Goes There? to include the quotation marks as it appears on the storie's title page (also in the table of contents). Lastly, the story note in the recent reprint of the novella in the Fall 2018 issue of ''Black Infinity'' identifies the artist as H. W. Wesso, so I'll add him as the artist for those illustrations and note the source. Please let me know if you have any problems with these changes. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:10, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:No problem.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:51, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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Ron, thanks for taking the trouble to nominate me for moderator. I'll try to make it look like you have good sense. [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 15:07, 27 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:You're welcome. It was long overdue.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:36, 27 April 2019 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Rkihara&diff=547443User talk:Rkihara2019-04-25T03:51:10Z<p>Rkihara: /* Who Goes There? */</p>
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You do not need to notify me if you add missing content (departments, covers, interior illustrations), correct typos, or link entries (series, reviews). I would be interested in knowing about major changes to entered data (credits, titles). <span style="color:red">I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.</span>-- Rkihara (Ron Kihara)<br />
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:::Great, thanks. I will split them up. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 16:58, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Who Goes There? ==<br />
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I'm going to make a number of changes to your verified copy of the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57402 August 1938 issue] of ''Astounding''. First off, I'm going to add a link to a scan of the issue from the Internet Archive. I'm also going to change the title of Who Goes There? to include the quotation marks as it appears on the storie's title page (also in the table of contents). Lastly, the story note in the recent reprint of the novella in the Fall 2018 issue of ''Black Infinity'' identifies the artist as H. W. Wesso, so I'll add him as the artist for those illustrations and note the source. Please let me know if you have any problems with these changes. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:10, 24 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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:No problem.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:51, 24 April 2019 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=ISFDB:Community_Portal&diff=547197ISFDB:Community Portal2019-04-20T14:41:07Z<p>Rkihara: /* Nominating Biomassbob as Moderator */ new section</p>
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
<br />
You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
<br />
I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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::The main character is also named "Warren." --[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Rkihara&diff=547131User talk:Rkihara2019-04-19T19:11:40Z<p>Rkihara: /* Binder's "Mystery World" in Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941 */</p>
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Your experience--magazine dates? ==<br />
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Hi, do you have anything to add to [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions this] R&S discussion, prompted by my noticing that the current data entry rules don't say what date to assign a magazine if it has no cover date? What have you been doing? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha (cazadora de tildes)]] 22:27, 30 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF ==<br />
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Could I get you to check the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61458 Winter-Spring 1950 issue] of ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. We have a single story titled "Gavagan's Bar" on page 95. Miller/Contento lists two stories with "Elephas Frumenti" starting on page 95 and "The Gift of God" on page 100. Is this perhaps a grouping of stories that we've reflected rather than two individual ones? I'm also leaving this note on the other active verifiers [[User talk:Biomassbob #Gavagan's Bar Stories in F&SF|page]]. Thanks for checking. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 07:32, 22 March 2019 (EDT)<br />
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== Binder's "Mystery World" in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941'' ==<br />
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Hi. I've got a submission on hold that is working with a title "Mystery World" by Eando Binder. There is an appearance of that title in your verified {{P|61665|Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1941}}. The title record for that is also contained in {{P|711635|The First Space Patrol Megapack}}, but the credits in that cite its first appearance as the February, 1949 ''Captain Marvel Adventures #90''. A scan in [https://books.google.com/books?id=tKyQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] shows it begins:<br />
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:''As his small one-man rocketship thrummed through space, Lieutenant Jon Jarl of the Space Police...''<br />
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It is pretty short, going from p. 134 to p. 139. In your magazine, the next story starts 10 pages later, so it's hard to judge relative lengths. Could you, and would you, check the magazine and see what you think? Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 13:13, 19 April 2019 (EDT)<br />
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::It's a completely different story. The version in Thrilling Wonder Stories starts<br />
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:::"The Orion Club on Asteroid 444 was just letting out after one of its floor shows."<br />
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks, much appreciated! [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 17:48, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::I forgot to describe the second illustration, it shows a creature like a Pleisiosaur rising out of the water, threatening a woman in a boat.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 22 September 2018 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Rkihara&diff=529829User talk:Rkihara2018-09-21T17:14:53Z<p>Rkihara: /* Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories */</p>
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Updating SERIAL Help ==<br />
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I am leaving this message on the Talk pages of active editors who (AFAIK) are currently active in the magazine/fanzine area. Based on recent feedback from a new editor, I have attempted to streamline our Help templates which govern the use of the SERIAL title type. I have posted a [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#SERIAL_in_Help_templates proposal] which shuffles the relevant snippets between 3 different Help templates and clarifies a few things. When you get a chance, could you please review the proposed language to make sure that it's accurate and comprehensive? TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 15:23, 24 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Savage Pellucidar Artwork in Amazing Stories ==<br />
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You verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56607 Amazing Stories, November 1963]. This magazine has the ERB story "Savage Pellucidar", illustrated by Larry Ivie. I'm entering a copy of the collection [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?683609 Savage Pellucidar] that contains three pieces of INTERIORART attributed to Larry Ivie, all dated 1963. However, you show only two pieces of his artwork in the magazine. The first one is clearly on the title page of the story, so was easy to tie to the collection illustration. But I would like to tie the other two illustrations to the originals if possible. Did you miss an illustration in the magazine? Which of the illustrations in the collection matches the illustration(s) in the magazine? [[User:Biomassbob|Bob]] 10:06, 21 September 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:The third illustration for Savage Pellucidar is on the back cover of the magazine. It shows a man in a tree watching two cat-like animals fighting. Amazing Stories did that a lot in the sixties. I noticed a possible typo in your description on p. 291 of the collection, "... The snake-like "jays" gaped wide."--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:14, 21 September 2018 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=ISFDB:Help_desk&diff=527326ISFDB:Help desk2018-08-24T03:28:09Z<p>Rkihara: /* Advanced Search Problem */</p>
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You do not need to notify me if you add missing content (departments, covers, interior illustrations), correct typos, or link entries (series, reviews). I would be interested in knowing about major changes to entered data (credits, titles). <span style="color:red">I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.</span>-- Rkihara (Ron Kihara)<br />
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, March 1990 ==<br />
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I’ve been doing some clean-up of the '''''Amazing Stories''''' listings and I’m curious, in the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56527 March 1990 issue] is '''''The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements''''' a short story or an essay? I suspect it is an essay, but won’t change it unless you say so.<br />
:I know, I know, will nobody rid you of these pesky lowly editors with no life. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 18:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::Thank you! You're right, it's an autobiographical essay by W. T. Quick. Entry corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:05, 7 August 2018 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Rkihara&diff=525698User talk:Rkihara2018-08-07T05:03:57Z<p>Rkihara: /* Magazine of FSF, January 1955 */</p>
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You do not need to notify me if you add missing content (departments, covers, interior illustrations), correct typos, or link entries (series, reviews). I would be interested in knowing about major changes to entered data (credits, titles). <span style="color:red">I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.</span>-- Rkihara (Ron Kihara)<br />
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree, but when I tried that with another author, and the essays/short stories involving the back covers of '''''Amazing Stories/Fantastic Adventures''''' I was roundly criticized for doing it. I am just a lowly editor, so I just do as I'm told. I'm now standardizing the artwork as it all seems to entered in a half-dozen ways. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 15:48, 28 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::That works. Send me the info via email. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:41, 24 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Fantastic, July 1957 cover ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I approved an update of the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58301 this one] based on your notes and made a variant (so record as printed in the record, variant to the real author). Feel free to reverse and/or change that if you prefer it any other way. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:48, 29 June 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Planned Project Scope Expansion ==<br />
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(I am leaving this note on the Talk pages of some of the more active editors to make sure that we are not missing anything. If you have been following [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this Rules and Standards discussion] and agree with the proposal, please ignore this note.)<br />
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As per [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Rules_and_standards_discussions#Inclusion_of_webzines_and_one-time_anthologies this discussion], [[ISFDB:Policy#Rules_of_Acquisition]] is about to be expanded to include:<br />
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* Speculative ''fiction'' webzines, which are defined as online periodicals with distinct issues<br />
* Special speculative ''fiction'' issues of non-genre webzines<br />
* One time speculative ''fiction'' anthologies published on the Web<br />
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If you believe that this scope expansion may cause unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences, please share your thoughts on the Rules and Standards page. TIA! [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 11:25, 4 July 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Magazine of FSF, January 1955 ==<br />
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Hi. You are one of three who verified the magazine issue, P{{p|61120}}, and the one who is an active moderator, so I write to you altho you are also latest of three, only this winter.<br />
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What troubles me is the second Review in the contents list as page 94, <br />
* 94 • Review: The Children's Hour by Marjorie Barrows • review by The Editor<br />
For the Marjorie Barrows-edited ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954) T{{t|36403}} we state<br />
* Review by The Editor (1955) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955<br />
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Perhaps "The Children's Hour" is a heading/title of the review as published, but ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' is its subject, and the latter is what we should enter, what the database Publication view should report for FSF 1955-01. Right?<br />
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(Incidentally discovered in All Titles search for "the children's hour".)<br />
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Thank you for stints as moderator. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:29, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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: The Children's Hour may be the publication series of ''Science Fiction and Reader's Guide'' (1954), or handled as Publication Series in the database. And made clear by adding ''Favorite Fairy Tales'' (1953) to the database. See [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/701433.Marjorie_Barrows Marjorie Barrows at Goodreads] and, as publication not series, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/296872 The Children's Hour at WorldCat]. --[[User:Pwendt|Pwendt]]|[[User talk:Pwendt|talk]] 20:55, 6 August 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::In the F&SF review it's identified as volume 16, of The Children's Hour. Looking online, it is a unified set like an encyclopedia, each volume is titled The Childrens Hour on the spine, vol. no. above, and title below. It probably should be entered as "The Children's Hour, Vol. 16: Science Fiction and Reader's Guide." By the way, the date of verification is irrelevant, verification means that you have a physical copy, have checked the entry against it and are willing to respond to queries. If it bothers you, SWfritter and I entered most of the detailed data for the major mags over a decade ago, taking either the primary or transient verification, since those were the only choices then. I've recently flipped most of my transient verifications to permanent, which re-dated them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:03, 7 August 2018 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=ISFDB:Community_Portal&diff=523299ISFDB:Community Portal2018-07-13T16:44:44Z<p>Rkihara: /* Display of VTs on parent title pages */</p>
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== Three stories by Mildred Clingerman ==<br />
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Is there a chance you could scan these three short stories and send them to me? I have a couple anthologies in which I want to consider including them, but these are the only stories of hers that aren't included in ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2303550 The Clingerman Files]''. <br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61225 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1975]: 109 • Annabelle, I Love You • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61267 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975]: 80 • The Time Before • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
:[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61384 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1962]: 39 • Measure My Love • short story by Mildred Clingerman<br />
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I appreciate any help. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 20:16, 23 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I have a spare copy of the 1962 magazine, which I can send you for postage. Let me think about the 1975 issues, since scanning them might break their backs. Sometimes I read them by clamping stiff strips over the spine with bulldog clips. I may be able to scan those using the same technique without damaging them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:47, 24 May 2018 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Rkihara&diff=517367User talk:Rkihara2018-05-23T01:39:11Z<p>Rkihara: /* If — */</p>
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== ''If —'' ==<br />
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I’ve been putting some order to some old pulp listings. For example I put some uniformity to the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?50181 If—] series, including changing some of your listed short stories into essays. However, I have some questions, are the two entries [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1058714 Another Ice Age Grips the Earth!] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1100689 A Second Deluge Flooded Earth!] part of Jack Binder’s '''''If —''''' illustrated feature? If so, I’ll also add these two listing to the series, and give him an illustration credit. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:34, 21 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Yes, they're both part of the "If–" series. I think they're more like short-short stories told in the third person than essays.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 21:39, 22 May 2018 (EDT)</div>Rkiharahttps://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Rules_and_standards_discussions&diff=517060Rules and standards discussions2018-05-20T19:58:46Z<p>Rkihara: /* Author or Authors */</p>
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You do not need to notify me if you add missing content (departments, covers, interior illustrations), correct typos, or link entries (series, reviews). I would be interested in knowing about major changes to entered data (credits, titles). <span style="color:red">I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.</span>-- Rkihara (Ron Kihara)<br />
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== Blind Paw/Pew ==<br />
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Hi, could you double-check the spelling of "Blind Paw" in your copy of "Dreamtigers"? In most editions it is "Pew". Also, "Martin Fiero" (usually "Fierro"), "To Leopoldo Legones" (usually "Lugones"), and "Androgué" (might be "Adrogué"). Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 12:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! You are right on all counts. Corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 15:57, 18 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1998 ==<br />
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Hello, I've changed the authorship of <i>The Questing Mind</i> from Michael Swanwick to Kristine Kathryn Rusch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60919 this issue]. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 15:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== A. McWilliams / Alden McWilliams ==<br />
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Hi Ron. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?124731 Alden McWiliams] (Al McWilliams) is the same person as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?84589 A. McWiliams], as seen [http://www.pulpartists.com/McWilliams.html here] and other websites. I've pseudonymed A. McWilliams to Alden but that leaves a string of titles that normally would need to be varianted. So my question is: You have verified titles attributed to A. McWilliams on this list. If that was by actual credit, they should be varianted to Alden but if it was by a signature only, the name should be changed to Alden McWilliams, as I see it by our rules. Here are the ones you've verified, could you check them and make any changes? Sorry to burden you with this but I thought it was the right thing to do to. I'm sending this out to RTrace, Krang and MLB, who have different issues with the same situation.<br><br />
Black Priestess of Varda (2) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
::I've checked the reprint of these in ''Pulp Vault'' and they are credited by signature alone. Feel free to change the title if MLB agrees. I'll leave this same note on his page. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 14:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
Me, Myself and I in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60051 Planet Stories, Winter 1947]<br><br />
In His Image in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60052 Planet Stories, Winter 1948]<br><br />
The Little Monsters Come (2) in ditto.<br><br />
SOS Aphrodite in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60039 Planet Stories, Summer 1949]<br><br />
Stalemate in Space (3) in ditto.<br><br />
Let the Ants Try (UNCREDITED NOW BUT REPRINT SHOWS A. MCWILLIAMS ART) in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60053 Planet Stories, Winter 1949]<br><br />
The Dead-Star Rover in ditto.<br><br />
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes in ditto.<br><br />
The Enormous Word in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60040 Planet Stories, Summer 1950]<br><br />
Patch in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59994 Planet Stories, Fall 1950]<br><br />
Strange Exodus in ditto.<br><br />
The Last Two Alive in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?60013 Planet Stories, November 1950]<br><br />
Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Larry Sternig and William Campbell Gault ==<br />
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I'm looking into a new editor's revelation that Larry Sternig was a real person and collaborated with Gault on some things. In your verified {{P|60049|Planet Stories, Winter 1945}} is a short story {{T|76975|Venusian Invader}}, credited to Sternig, and we have that as a variant of that same title but credited solely to Gault. Is there any other information in the magazine that might indicate whether Gault had any hand in it? I am pursuing the other pubs/verifiers. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Another one is {{T|76988|Breath of Beelzebub}} in {{P|60050|Planet Stories, Winter 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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And one more: {{T|76979|Total Recall}} in {{P|59990|Planet Stories, Fall 1946}}. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 11:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:No info in Planet Stories, but a lot of stuff on the web. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42465702 Find a Grave]: Born Aug 12, 1908 died Aug. 30, 1999, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Writer turned literary agent, [http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=376 Sternig & Byrne Literary agency]. The ISFDB lists an obit in Locus, July 99. Gault is listed as co-author for several detective stories.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks. I am going to break the pseudonym relationship. It seems to be an outright mistake. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 01:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== ''Dreamtigers'' again ==<br />
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I have gotten hold of a copy of the 1964 U. Texas edition, and found that some of the titles are different from what you put when you entered your edition. Would you be kind enough to check the following and see if they're really what the Dutton ed. has (if so, I'll create separate variants). <ul><li>Martin Fierro, or Martín Fierro?<li>On the Beginning of the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, or On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar?<li>Appendix: Some Facts About the Life of Jorge Luís Borges, or Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luís Borges?</ul> Thanks... --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 04:45, 15 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Thanks! Corrected all. In the Case of Martín Fierro, the diacritic was difficult to see on my computer. It would help to point out its suspected lack or presence in these cases.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:27, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::I certainly agree that those accented i's are a pain in the neck. Some books use a typeface where they are easy to see, others less so; they are nearly invisible in the font that my computer uses to display the ISFDB. I wonder if it would be doable for the DB to use a non-default font that's more readable. <br />
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:::By the way, you could have just edited the title records for those stories instead of creating new records, then both publications would have been automatically updated. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 17:34, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::I only corrected the one I verified, though it probably would have been okay. Changing all versions could cause more problems.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:43, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::The other pub was the one I verified, which I.'ve updated now. Thanks again for looking into this. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha77]] 19:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Oct ==<br />
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Here are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* magican - {{T|902692|The Moment of the Magican}} in {{P|56928|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1985}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|91449|Unforseen}} (story) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* unforseen - {{T|1275978|Unforseen}} (art) in {{P|58111|Fantastic Adventures, January 1949}}<br />
* upcomming - {{T|830877|A Calendar of Upcomming Events (Analog, November 1979)}} in {{P|57194|Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1979}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 17:49, 30 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Corrected all.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 23:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== [A]The Graveyard Heart ==<br />
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Hi. Sorry for the form letter. I'm doing a shotgun to several moderators/primary verifiers. See [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/tv_update.cgi?3226578 this submission]. I believe the edit is correct and the existing title is a typo, but with so many verifiers and publications, I'm looking for a few primary confirmations. Thanks. --[[User:MartyD|MartyD]] 02:28, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The entry for Fantastic, March 1964, is a typo. The edit appears to correct. I have the transient verification, which I used in lieu of Primary 2 before it existed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 04:14, 14 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories, cover artists ==<br />
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<strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Paul" to "Frank R. Paul", based on the citations in [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t28.htm#A545 Miller &amp; Contento] (etc.) to your pv'd issues of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56578 Nov. 1926], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56265 Dec. 1926], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56216 April 1966]. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 03:17, 26 November 2016 (UTC)</strike><br />
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I see now that "Paul" had already been aliased to "Frank R. Paul", so I changed those credits back. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: <strike>I expanded the name of the cover artist from "Barber" to "Tom Barber", based on [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1015 Miller & Contento] (etc.) for Amazing Stories for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56519 March, 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56611 Nov. 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]]</strike><br />
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: In keeping with the approach for "Paul", I reverted these changes and created a pseudonym from "Barber" to "Tom Barber". [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 06:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Could you re-check the cover artist for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56520 March 1977]? It's currently listed as "Bierley", but Miller &amp; Contento [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/sfi/t53.htm#A1019 claim] that it's Steve Hickman. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:26, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::It's credited to Bierley in the TOC, but there is what may be a stylized signature in the lower left corner that may read "S(?)". It's clearly visible in the scanned images for both links that you provided.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Those two images are both the same, so the "S" has the same visibility. Here's a brightness/contrast enhanced version of that "S":<br />
::::: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/44/S.Hickman_Stylized_S.jpg<br />
:::: Comparing this to the "S" rune we have [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Stephen_Hickman.jpg on file] seems fairly conclusive. I've set "Bierley" up as a pseudonym to Hickman, and added a publication note about this. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 22:04, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Amazing Stories issue links ==<br />
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Many years ago, you verified a whole bunch of issues of "Amazing Stories" that included the old fashioned linking note of the form:<BR><br />
<code><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56370">Jan. 1950</a>←Feb. 1950→<a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56502">Mar. 1950</a><br/></code><BR><br />
(From the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56331 Feb. 1950] issue.) As discussed elsewhere, those links aren't really necessary anymore, because of the extensive use of the magazine grids to look at sequences of issue numbers. And, IMHO, they clutter up the publication notes. Would you mind if I removed those links from this magazine? [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 05:23, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:There were three or four of us doing this, though I put in the majority. We stopped entering the "Navbars" after a year or so. Why don't you repost this on the community portal, I won't oppose it if no one else objects. We must have entered 500-1000 of these across quite a few magazines, not just Amazing. I think they work better and are more convenient to use than the grid to scan through sequential issues.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: I entered a few hundred of them myself, for Perry Rhodan, but I've lost my fondness for them. I'll search through Community Portal archives and see if I can find a discussion, and if not, I'll start one. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 21:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== The Expert Dreamers ==<br />
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I added pub month with explanatory pub note to your PV'd http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39355. [[User:Markwood|Markwood]] 23:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Willy Ley's 'They Were Dead' ==<br />
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Hi Ron. In your two verified titles [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57486 here] and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57540 here], the title "They Were Dead" by Willy Ley are showing up as duplicates for Ley. Are they the same? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 01:38, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:The second is a short followup to the first essay having the exact same title. I'll disambiguate the second. Maybe by adding (followup to essay having same title, Ast. 06/1944)?--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 01:56, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Christine Renard ==<br />
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You approved a number of Christine Renard variants by NrjPure faster than I could put them on hold. The parents and variants exactly match (title, author, and language). That should not be the case for variants (except in limited cases). I've asked NrjPure for clarification. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 22:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Sorry, asleep at the wheel.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937 ==<br />
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I have listed the facsimile reprint of the pulp [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61661 Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1937] that you created. However, when I listed the [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?598348 facsimile] I also added some letters from the letter section. If you want you can import them into your listing. Thanks for doing all the hard work first. [[User:MLB|MLB]] 21:58, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks, that saves me a bit of time. I'm in the process of entering letters into pubs that I didn't enter the first time around, since now I can better determine who should entered and who not.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986 ==<br />
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Hi Ron. The interior art titles on pp 86 and 108 for "Haiku for an Asteroid Scout" on your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57031 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986] are showing up as dupes on Jankus bibliography page. Shouldn't they be disambiguated? Thanks, Doug / [[User:Vornoff|Vornoff]] 04:59, 22 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:55, 26 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Astounding Stories, August 1936 ==<br />
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Hello, there's may be something fishy about the letters in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57400 this issue] (a duplicate update?). [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 12:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Not sure what happened. I approve my submissions as I edit, but sometimes they reappear in the queue, where I may have approved them.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 16:41, 30 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Possible Typos 30-Dec ==<br />
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The following are possible typos in your verified pubs:<br />
* achievments - {{T|914697|The Literary Career of Gregory Benford: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56393|Amazing Stories, January 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|914926|The Literary Career of W. T. Quick: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56527|Amazing Stories, March 1990}}<br />
* achievments - {{T|915047|The Literary Career of Paul Di Filippo: Current Directions ... and Past Achievments}} in {{P|56705|Amazing Stories, September 1990}}<br />
* archtype - {{T|83352|The Archtype}} in {{P|60878|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1999}}<br />
* calender - {{T|104009|The Woman Walking Behind Einstein (Einstein Calender 1987)}} in {{P|59236|Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1989}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|830692|Cartoon: "We ... the members ... of ... the jury ... find ...the defendent ... not guilty."}} in {{P|61223|The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1973}}<br />
* defendent - {{T|881594|Cartoon: "Case dismissed. Defendent issued a warning!"}} in {{P|60904|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999}}<br />
* dimention & regreats - {{T|1744746|Letter (Startling Stories, May 1950): Dimention Regreats}} (given the double misspelling I assume this is per pub, but just in case...)<br />
* embarassing - {{T|862875|Cartoon: "It's embarassing, I can't seem to remember anything ... short-term or long-term!"}} in {{P|61069|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1991}}<br />
* govenment - {{T|882959|Cartoon: "The govenment will find a viable, non-tax based revenue stream ..."}} in {{P|60864|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001}}<br />
* irresistable - {{T|922722|Irresistable Mist}} in {{P|57508|Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1940}}<br />
* millenial - {{T|909113|Millenial}} in {{P|56721|Amazing Stories, September 1986}}<br />
* millenium - {{T|88436|The Nth Millenium}} in {{P|56683|Amazing Stories, September 1950}}<br />
* Nuremburg - {{T|104761|17 Questions the Judges of Nuremburg Forgot to Ask}} in {{P|57269|Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997}}<br />
* phenomenom - {{T|1612366|English-Language SF as a Socio-Cultural Phenomenom}} in {{P|211705|Science Fiction Studies, Second Series: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977}}<br />
* spritual - {{T|881725|The Age of Spritual Machines}} in {{P|60928|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999}}<br />
* visting - {{T|858047|Films: Visting Wrongs}} in {{P|61445|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1983}}<br />
Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 02:40, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Heck of a list! You must have a proofreader's eye! Corrected all typos and misspellings. Entries for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, entered per pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Bibliographic notes left for FSF 06/73, Amazing 09/86, and 09/50, Startling Stories, 05/50, noting spelling as found in pub.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:57, 31 December 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== Capitalization ==<br />
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I have corrected the capitalization of words such as "an", "from", "with", "the" in titles of some of Ian Watson's works. This affects your verified publication org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59082 Interzone, #75 September 1993]. In future, do you want to be notified of such capitalization regularizations? --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 08:30, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:You've notified the wrong person. I have never verified an issue of Interzone. The issue in question was verified by Hauck. I don't need to be notified if your're making small corrections; typos, capitalization, and missing data.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:07, 10 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Norman L. Dean ==<br />
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Heads up that there's still a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3299641 pending submission] from you for {{a|Norman L. Dean}} though it appears that submission will not change any data fields. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 20:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks. I've been getting multiple submissions since I started editing across multiple browser windows. Not sure what's going on.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 22:28, 20 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Brad Shaw ==<br />
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The cartoon on page 6 of {{P|56200|Amazing Stories, April 1943}} is credited to Brad Shaw. Typically, it's shown as {{A|Bradshaw}} (including in {{P|58066|Fantastic Adventures, April 1943}} which you have also verified if you wish to compare). Would you mind double checking the space? Thanks, --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 15:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Thanks! Yes, it's Bradshaw. Bradshaw was signed in cursive, and there was a small break in the script between Brad and shaw, but shaw was in lower case. Fixed.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 19:20, 21 January 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Letter (Analog, May 1974) ==<br />
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Hello, There's perhaps something fishy with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2136516 this letter], you may have mistyped the author or mislinked it (or it may be another Michael Lindsay). Can you have a look? Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 08:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:Contento shows this letter is by A. D. Harvey writing as Michael Lindsay.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 17:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
::My worries are more situated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?START=0&TYPE=Title&exact=232146&ORDERBY=title_title here] where you can see that only one item is varianted to Harvey. As there is no pseudonymistic link between Lindsay and Harvey the letter shows on one of our cleanup report but more worringly it may be improbable the Harvey wrote two Horror stories in 2015. Either all texts by Lindsay are by Heard, in this case you should create the pseudonymistic link and variant the two short stories, or there are two different Lindsays and in this case you should disambiguate the two "Michael Lindsay" involved and still set up the pseudonymistic link to the Harvey pseudonym. Thanks. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 17:42, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:::Harvey is still alive and he's still young enough to have written the two horror stories, although I'm not sure that he's the author. I'll make the pseudonymous connection and variant the two stories. Disambiguating them may cause more confusion later.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 18:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Scourge of the Blood Cult ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
You approved my submission on this publication: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?260995. But I think I've made a mistake, and I wanted to know how to fix it. The Epic publication lists the author only as George Smith, so I recorded the author's name this way. But it turns out that is an existing artist name. The author link on the publication record now takes me to this artist's Summary Bibliography, rather than to that of George H. Smith.<br />
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In addition, George H. Smith's Summary Bibliography, while it lists *Scourge of the Blood Cult*, does not have "only as by George Smith" which I believe it should.<br />
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How do I remove the connection to the artist George Smith and instead record this as a pseudonym of George H. Smith? I can't find a sidebar link that looks like it will do what I want. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 13:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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Edit: I think I figured out the process, no action required. Thanks, [[User:Ldb001|Ldb001]] 18:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001 ==<br />
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{{p|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}}<br />
* added piped paged numbers to the things on page 28 to get them to sort in the correct order.<br />
* Add the word ''just'' to for the interior artwork ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I had!"'' to ''Cartoon: "Wow! What an awful dream I just had!"''<br />
* Added a book review on page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but the author has a number of works. I did not add the publication though if you think that's needed it's DC Comics, 2000, $24.95. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563896923/ This one still needs work as the review is not showing on {{a|George Pratt}}'s bibliography but I see he has an interior-art titled {{t|1700735|Batman: Harvest Breed}} (2001) that's likely related to his work done in 2000.<br />
* Added another book review from page 30. It's a non-genre graphic novel but messier as the review was mainly about the artwork and does not mention the author until the top of the right hand column on page 31. As we have the publication reviewed, {{p|233969|The House on the Borderland}}, in ISFDB I added the review plus a pub-note. The review did not link up as expected and so needs work. I added a link to the pub in the pub-notes.<br />
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Changes that come to mind but not done:<br />
* While it's not captioned the cartoon on page 32 could be called "Student Driver" as that phrase is prominent within the drawing. For example, the cartoon on page 114 is not captioned but is named on the text within the cartoon.<br />
* The page 121 cartoon is also not captioned but within it there's "The Wait'N'Wait'N'Wait Restaurant"<br />
* There's a note at the bottom of page 39 titled ''April Fools?'' Apparently a computer error resulted in some copies of the April issue being printed without periods and miscellaneous quotation marks. You can return the damaged issue for replacement.<br />
--[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 07:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:For the unlniked review my understanding was that we change REVIEWs of non eligible titles into ESSAYs, IMHO Pratt is not "above the threshold" (see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User:Hauck#Above_the_Threshold my take on this nebulous concept]) so the review must go and be changed into an essay. [[User:Hauck|Hauck]] 07:49, 20 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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:: [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] posted a note on my talk page. I'm moving her comment here to keep the thread together:<br />
:: Shouldn't the review for the non-genre graphic novel in the {{P|60922|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001}} issue be converted to an essay so it is not dangling unconnected. I do not think that adding the graphic novel is really what we want to do... And I think that the other review on page 30 (for the Graphic novel based on a book we do have) should also be an essay. The notes in the publication record are great, it is the content that looks weird. What do you think? [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 16:47, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::--- end included note. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 17:12, 21 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
::: Thank you Hauck / Annie. I've converted the unlinked page 30 review to an essay and updated the pub-notes. --[[User:Marc Kupper|Marc Kupper]]|[[User talk:Marc Kupper|talk]] 05:25, 22 June 2017 (EDT)<br />
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== J. R. Pierce ==<br />
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Hi, I made a change in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2117823 Letter (Analog, November 1961)] by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12550 J. R. Pierce]. <br />
It is not done by [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424 John J. Pierce] but by his father, [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?460 John R. Pierce].--[[User:Dirk P Broer|Dirk P Broer]] 04:16, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:You're correct. I checked the issue and it was signed by J. R. Pierce, my mistake. Removed pseudonym.--18:17, 10 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories, February 1960" (and 1976-79) ==<br />
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You are the PV for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56339 this issue] of <i>Amazing Science Fiction Stories</i>, which was the title that "Amazing Stories" went by from May, 1958 to Sept., 1960. However, this issue is listed as if the title were still "Amazing Stories", and it is the only issue during this run that is listed with that more generic title. It seems that it would be appropriate to change this issue to the "official" title. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 09:17, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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Most of the issues from [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137319 1976], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137320 1977], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?137321 1978], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56348 Feb. 1979] are also incorrectly listed as <i>Amazing Stories</i> when both their covers and [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Contento-Miller] insists that they were <i>Amazing Science Fiction</i>. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:33, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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(I gave up after 1979, because we don't seem to agree with Miller-Contento on any of the titles. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:41, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Amazing (Science Fiction) Stories". Jan. 1970 to July 1970 ==<br />
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These issues, on the other hand, are listed by us under the title "Amazing Science Fiction", even though [http://www.locusmag.com/index/chklst/mg0038.htm Miller-Contento] and their covers list them as still being "Amazing Stories". (They say that the title was not changed to "American Science Fiction Stories" until the Sept. 1970 issue.) Unless their title pages list them under the older title, it seems that these titles should be corrected. And if the title page ''does'' list them under that older title, then it seems that a note should be added regarding the discrepancy in regards to the cover title. This applies to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56119 January], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56134 March], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56141 May], and [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56126 July] [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 10:20, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Please feel free to make any corrections you feel are necessary.--12:10, 15 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Robert D. Swisher ==<br />
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Hi, <br />
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You have a [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/mod/av_update.cgi?3620451 submission] still open that had been on the board for 3+ days. I suspect you just forgot about it so can you please click on the link and accept/reject it? Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 13:20, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, Done.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:28, 20 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== "Facts of the Future", Amazing Stories 1950-51 ==<br />
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You have several, if not all, of the Amazing Stories issues that feature the recurring [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?10054 "Facts of the Future"]. Many of these are listed as being essays. But as far as I can tell, [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t/t387.htm Contento] lists all of these as "vignettes", i.e. short short (fiction) stories. Can you check on what their proper status should be? If you disagree with Contento with respect to fact vs. fiction, it would probably be helpful to add notes about that. Thanks, [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 01:34, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks! They should be short (short) story. I'll change them over after I've finished my current project.--12:36, 22 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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::I'm starting to clean up "Facts/Fables of the Future." The listings were under "essay" to identify them as a magazine department, the vignettes were not listed in most cases, since I didn't consider them important enough to list. If the vignettes were previous entered by someone else, I left the entries alone, unless they were in error. I've changed my mind about their importance and will enter the vignettes as "short-short" stories within their respective departments.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:57, 28 November 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960 ==<br />
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In [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?57366 this issue] I have changed the review of the nongenre nonfiction ''On the Track of Unknown Animals'' to ESSAY. --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 10:12, 8 December 2017 (EST)<br />
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== Article in Analog, January 1974 ==<br />
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Would you be able to scan [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?115737 this article] and send it to me? I'm doing some research that involves it. Thanks! ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 02:20, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:I have a spare copy. If you pay the postage, ~$2.50, I'll send it to you.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:42, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::Sure, I can do that. Send me an email about it and we'll get it done. :) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:24, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::I don't have your email. You can email me at "deleted". This is an open forum, so I will delete my address once you acknowledge.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 13:33, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::::That's what the "Email this user" links are for in the toolbox on the left. I've sent an email. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 14:00, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::::Thanks for your help with this and the ''Time'' article. I'll be mentioning you in the acknowledgements if this gets published. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:04, 11 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2003 ==<br />
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I'm holding [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?3681006 an edit], that impacts your verified pub. Would you please double check it? --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:34, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
:I've gone ahead and accepted it based on the link (provided in the moderator notes) to the author's website which does describe it as a story. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 08:39, 13 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Asimov's, February 1989 ==<br />
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The record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?59163 the February 1989 issue] which you verified lists a story by Lisa Mason titled "The Onionmancer." However, her reprint collection and most secondary sources call it "The Oniomancer." Could you look again at the magazine issue, and if there really is an N in there, make a note about that? Thanks! --[[User:Vasha77|Vasha]] 21:49, 19 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Thanks, it's The Oniomancer, title corrected.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:44, 20 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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::I almost want to read a story titled "The Onionmancer" now. Sounds tasty. (^o^) ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:14, 22 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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:::Same here, it brings up all sorts of strange images.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:02, 23 January 2018 (EST)<br />
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== Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) ==<br />
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Hello, Ron! From the German edition it seems that this title is only a novella. It's in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56681 here]. Do you have the time to take a check on it? Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 12:33, 24 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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:Never mind! The other Ron (Rtrace) did an estimate, and it turned out as a NOVEl. Christian [[User:Stonecreek|Stonecreek]] 00:08, 25 February 2018 (EST)<br />
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== February 1943 Astounding and Your Notifications Page ==<br />
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I followed the link at the top of your page to notify you of changes to {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} where I left the following note:<br />
:I'm changing the credit for the story on page 70 of {{P|57459|Astounding Science-Fiction, February 1943}} from "Henry A. Norton" to "Henry Norton". I'll also replace the hyphen for the Will Stewart serial with am em-dash. Both of these are to match what appears on the title pages. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 10:49, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
It appears that that link creates a new page in the main wiki space with the title "Editing I have created a separate archive to the right of the contents listing for changes to verified pubs to lower the clutter. Please log change notifications there.". I'm sure that isn't what you intended and I actually didn't notice it myself until [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] brought the new page to my attention. In any case, you'll probably want to adjust the link in your header note. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 15:37, 18 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:Thanks, I think I've fixed it. Mostly everyone posts here anyway and since my activity level is low these days,clutter is not a problem anymore.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:27, 19 March 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== A Susan Wood essay ==<br />
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Hi Ron, there is a Susan Wood [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2003418 essay] that appeared in her 'Propellor Beanie' series in ''Algol'' (a report of her trip to Aussiecon in 1975), which I am 99% certain is the same as the essay that appeared in your verified [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?56133 Amazing Stories, June 1976], under the 'Clubhouse' essay series (p. 124). It begins "Why Are You Here?" and ends "To have dinner with my friends." Can you please check? If so, not sure how we would resolve the issue of the essay appearing under two different essay series. Thanks. [[User:PeteYoung|PeteYoung]] 05:10, 6 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:It matches up. There are a few extra sentences at the end plugging the next Australian Worldcon.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 03:15, 7 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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== The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen ==<br />
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We currently have Hugo Gernsback's ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?900905 The Scientific Adventures of Baron Münchausen]'' as a novel with the original magazine appearances as serials. I'm thinking that this is probably not the best way of reflecting these titles. I think the original appearances should be as short stories in a series. Most of the secondary sources reflect it this way notably Miller/Conento and FictionMags which list them as separate stories for both their original appearances in ''Electrical Experimenter'' and their reprints in ''Amazing''. Clute/Nicholls and Tuck describe them as a series of adventures rather than a novel. Bleiler's Early Years calls them stories, whereas his Gernsback years refers to them as "episodes". The only place that I've found that refers to it as a serial novel is the [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2006/b19.htm#A647 Locus1 listing], for the 2006 publication which I presume does not split the stories out. Locus also mentions that the novel is edited and abridged, which one could argue makes it more of a fix-up than a novel. What I'd like to do is convert the serials in both ''EE'' and ''Amazing'' to stories under their original titles. I'll place them in a sub-series along with the 2006 novel and remove the variant relationship. I'll also double check with the verifier of the novel, in case that may more properly be a collection, but given the Locus description, I don't think so. Ordinarily, I'd wait for your response for this sort of change, but your notice on the moderator board mentions that you're here sporadically. I'm going to go ahead and start converting these. I can always change them back if we decide that's how they should be reflected. Thanks and let me know what you think when you next check in here. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 16:45, 13 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:I'd repost this on the the Community Portal or Rules and Standards, and get a consensus-as this affects hundreds of titles. I'm not very active right now, but I try to check my watchlist daily.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 11:13, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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::I could do that, but I don't think it affects that many titles. There are the original 13 stories/serials that appeared in EE, none of which are verified, and the 6 reprints in Amazing which have only been verified by you or you and me. There is one reprint of the 12th story under a different title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?98800 here]), which is not currently linked and also which includes an incorrectly merged title ([http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?608297 this pub]) which probably should be the whole novel/collection. That leaves the only the novel for which I've reached out to the sole verifier. As this primarily is a change to the original magazine appearances, I thought this a matter for those verifiers and thus I'm chiefly interested in your views on how these titles should be reflected. If you insist, though, I will happily put the question to the community portal. I don't really think there is a standards issue here, this is more of a specific case to these stories/serials. I've completed most of the edits, but I'll hold off on the rest of them until we reach a consensus. Thanks. --Ron ~ [[User:Rtrace|Rtrace]]<sup>[[User talk:Rtrace|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 14 May 2018 (EDT)<br />
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:::After re-reading your posts, I understand what you're doing now. Sure go ahead.--[[User:Rkihara|Rkihara]] 12:39, 15 May 2018 (EDT)</div>Rkihara