User talk:Escapee

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Steve -> Steven Paulsen changes

Hi. Welcome, and thank you for the contributions! I am reviewing your proposed changes of Steve Paulsen to Steven Paulsen, and I have a question about the credit on A History of Australian Horror. Do you have Bonescribes: Year's Best Australian Horror: 1995 that's the source of the credit? Locus and WorldCat/OCLC (two of our secondary sources of bibliographic material) and MirrorDanse all use the name "Steve". So without direct evidence from the book, we would stick with the name from these sources -- especially since they're all consistent. (You can reply here by clicking "edit" at the right at the top of this section. Use leading colons (":") to indent, one colon per level, and sign your response with four tildes (~~~~, which can also be generated by clicking on the second button from the right at the top of the editor window). --MartyD 10:48, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

For cases like this, where different works by an author are credited using different variations of the author's name, we use the "pseudonym" mechanism and also "variant" titles. So what we would do here, unless the essay is really credited to "Steven", is make "Steve Paulsen" a pseudonym of "Steven Paulsen" (go to Steve Paulsen and pick "Make/Remove a Pseudonym" from the menu at the left). Then for each title listed in the Steve Paulsen bibliography, we would make that title a variant of a new parent title of the same name by Steven Paulsen (for example, go to A History of Australian Horror, pick "Make This Title a Variant Title or Pseudonymous Work", and near the bottom change "Steve Paulsen" to "Steven Paulsen"). When all of this is done, Steven Paulsen's bibliography will show that some of his works appeared credited to Steve Paulsen, and the entry for "A History of Australian Horror" (and perhaps others) will have an extra annotation: "[as by ... Steve Paulsen]".

See Help:Screen:MakePseudonym and Help:Screen:MakeVariant for more details.

I realize this is complicated. If you'd like to try it on your own, please do -- the other moderators and I will be happy to help. If you'd rather I did it, I am happy to do that, too. Just let me know. Thanks. --MartyD 10:48, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Same question about Pulse: A Touch of Darkness. Chris Masters' site credits it to Steve (the cover on Issue #3 also uses "Steve"), as does Locus. --MartyD 11:03, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
And Whoose Turn is it Next? and Pulse from Bloodsongs #7. Chris Masters' site credits them to Steve, as does Locus. --MartyD 11:07, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi again. I ended up setting up the pseudonym and variant titles for the four titles above, as I described and rejecting your proposed changes (two of the changes of Steve to Steven that secondary sources corroborated I did accept). See Steven Paulsen and see what you think. If any of these were actually published as "Steven", we can undo those variants and change the name -- just let me know. Thanks. --MartyD 02:00, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
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