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Eye to the Telescope, Issue 35: Hard Science-Fiction Tropes
Hello Carscrumper,
Magazines are a bit trickier to add so a few changes here:
- We keep yearly records so any notes in the title level should apply to all issues of the year
- Unless the issue is specifically dated, we go with month/year or just year. This one is dated January 2020 so I reset to the 2020-01 format. If you have an evidence somewhere that it was the 15th, I can restore
- Titles should be exactly as printed (with the usual cleanup for capitalization and so on). Italics are not marked with _, you can add a note saying that they were in italics if you want to.
- Essays with generic names need to be disambiguated: so Editor's Introduction (Eye to the Telescope, Issue 35: Hard Science-Fiction Tropes) for example :)
- For Magazines, the issue titles need to be formatted in a special name. The main reason is the grid. The usual form for this magazine is: "Title, Issue X: Special title".
The result is here. Thanks for adding it! Annie 22:35, 27 February 2020 (EST)
- Same notes for the other 2 issues I just approved. Plus one more note: we do not use the series number for the issue number of magazines. Instead leave it empty (the series is used to build the grid), the number should be in the title. Let me know if you have any questions. Annie 22:48, 27 February 2020 (EST)