User talk:DugganSC

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Welcome!

Hello, DugganSC, and welcome to the ISFDB Wiki! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Note: Image uploading isn't entirely automated. You're uploading the files to the wiki which will then have to be linked to the database by editing the publication record.

Please be careful in editing publications that have been primary verified by other editors. See Help:How to verify data#Making changes to verified pubs. But if you have a copy of an unverified publication, verifying it can be quite helpful. See Help:How to verify data for detailed information.

I hope you enjoy editing here! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will insert your name and the date. If you need help, check out the community portal, or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Hauck 12:27, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Special Happenings

Hello, I've put your submission on hold as I wanted to make sure that all the texts listed are really Speculative Fiction (i.e. science fiction, fantasy, and horror). Before we go further (there are other issues with your submission), can you confirm this? Thanks. Hauck 12:29, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Honestly, only a fraction of them are speculative fiction, maybe 60-70%. The rest are nonfiction, poems, or slightly fictionalized reality. However, I think I marked those as such. DugganSC 02:31, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
OK, let's start. I've rejected your submission and built a new one from scratch. I've modified the following things : 1) the publication is in fact an ANTHOLOGY (COLLECTION is for single-author titles), 2) the publisher is standardized to "Holt, Rinehart and Winston", 3) I've left the price blank (if there's really no price on the book, it should be noted), 4) I've left the artist blank (this field is only for the COVER artist, not for interior art), 4) I've left one text (by Elizabeth Levy) as an example, 5) note that the category "NONFICTION" is reserved for book-length works, you should use "ESSAY" instead. Now the resultant title is here and the publication (the book proper) is here. You can now verify the pub (meaning that you have a permanent access to it) add all(and only) the spec-fic texts, essays and illustrations (and page numbers) by the "Edit This Pub" link at pub level. There will other stages after this but we'll see this later. Hope this helps. Hauck 09:29, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Amazon's titles and parentheses

Hi. When Amazon includes something in parentheses at the end of a title, in this case " (Children’s Illustrated Classics)", it is usually either the title series or a publisher series and NOT part of the actual title. In this case, it seems to be a publisher series, so I removed it from the title and added it there for Mostly Ghostly. --MartyD 02:07, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Ah. Thank you. Also, I realized that I submitted it as a Collection (one author) when it's really an Anthology (multiple authors), so I submitted that change. -DugganSC 18:13, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

New Voices in Science Fiction

Hello, I've rejected your submissions for a publication that looks a lot like this already completely entered one. What were you trying to do? Hauck 10:01, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Well, that's odd. I submitted the changes because, when I brought it up, it didn't show any stories in it, just the bare details of the title and editor, so I went in to edit the entry. I'm wondering if perhaps I saw this page when I searched for the Title and assumed that someone hadn't bothered to add the actual story entries, especially since I'd plugged in "Nine-Fingered Maria" into the Fiction Title search and come up with nothing. Obviously, I must have done something wrong. -DugganSC 21:35, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Unexpected : 11 Mysterious Stories

Hello, I've approved your submission but had to make some change to conform to our standards:

  • Changed ISBN-13 to ISBN-10 (ISBN-13 was mandatory only in 2007).
  • Set format to "tp" as per 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches dimensions given by amazon.
  • Regularized "Heidi E.Y. Stemple " to " Heidi E. Y. Stemple" (note space between initials), if not that would have created a "new" author.
  • Regularized capitalization.
  • Merged what could be (in this case only Coville's text).

The result is here. Thanks for contributing but please take some time to study the help pages. Hauck 17:34, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. I know I probably make a lot of missteps. I added a page count, as well as a note that Amazon has a different count than everyone else. So, when doing an anthology collection, the first entry is always the title of the anthology book? -DugganSC 18:02, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Yes after the creation of the record there's always a "new" (system-created not user-entered) entry in yellow in the first place. It's usually not to be modified (or else lots of bad things will happen). Hauck 18:06, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Galactic Adventures

I recently submitted an edit for Galactic Adventures. While trying to find other books with the story, I learned that it seems to already exist as Purnell's Book of Adventures in Space http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?578513. Same cover. Same stories. Different title and different text on the back. Now I feel a bit silly typing all of that in... -DugganSC 12:17, 8 August 2017 (EDT)

The more so that, if accepted, your submission would have needed next as many merges as there are items! I've imported the content (it's just one submission into the contentless publication) and rejected your submission. What's left to do is to enter the page numbers of the INTERIORART pieces. Hauck 13:15, 8 August 2017 (EDT)
Every story starts with at least one piece on the same page as the starting text, which is what I submitted. Or, if you're really interested, I could give you a list of page numbers. -DugganSC 14:44, 8 August 2017 (EDT)

One-Shot Beamish and His Wonderful Feminals

Hi! The story indexed in Gallery, May 1982 was credited to 'Jay Scheckley'. I did merge the title with the existing one by Jay Sheckley (so we do have now two publications of the title). If you have any hard evidence that the magazine has indeed a credit for the alternate version of Sheckley's name, please let us know of it, and we should install a variant instead. Thanks, Stonecreek 07:29, 8 October 2020 (EDT)

I'm afraid I don't have a copy of the magazine in question, so my only real source was the website I linked. Possible confirmation is that, according to Google Books, and the copy on archive.org, the credit for the story in Don't Open This Book is as follows:

"One - Shot Beamish and His Wonderful Feminals" copyright © 1981 by Jay Rothbell (Sheckley) ; first appeared in the May 1981 issue of "Gallery" Reprinted by permission of the author.

Interesting that they have a completely different year. I don't think my library will do the magazine, but I suppose it's worth a try. -DugganSC 09:23, 3 November 2020 (EST)
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