User talk:JeremySzal

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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! --MartyD 10:43, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

RE: Author profile question and Robot and Raygun submission

Hi Jeremy, and welcome. I answered your question here.

I see I managed not to save my post to you about your Robot and Raygun submission, so apologies for that and here goes again. I accepted your submission and made a couple of small changes to it to get it conform to ISFDB standards:

  • For magazines, we credit the Editor as the publication's "author", not the contributors. So I changed this to Christopher Ford.
  • For magazines, we include the issue date (if there is one) in the title, so I added that. We're not terribly consistent about whether the issue number is included. We tend to do so if the issue number is prominently embedded in the title, and we tend not to if it's presented as secondary information, as seems to be the case here. So I took it out, but we can put it back if you have a strong opinion about it.
  • I changed the cover image URL to point to the one on Amazon. We can't link to sites that don't give us permission to do so.
  • We include the "$" (or other currency symbol) on the price.
  • I added the rest of the contents from what I found on Smashwords.

Please review. Magazines are one of the trickier things to enter. If you have a copy and can provide page numbers for all of the works, that would be great. Also, nothing I found was paginated, so I removed the page count (which was 712, which I suspect was in error). If you have a paginated copy and the correct page count, please restore it. Note that for magazines, we count the covers (outside and inside) as four additional pages.

If you have a physical copy, I encourage you to "verify" the entry. You can verify any ISFDB publication by going to that publication's page, reviewing the information, and clicking "Verify This Pub". Check off the first available Primary / Primary 2 / Primary 3 / etc. Primary (Transient) can be used if you temporarily have a physical copy.

Sorry there's so much information. Don't let it put you off. If you have more questions or need any help, just ask. Thanks, and thank you for contributing. --MartyD 11:18, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Fantasy Scroll

Submission adding this record was accepted, but the following changes were made so that it complied with ISFDB standards. (The standards are available in the Help pages linked in the Welcome section above.)

  • Title field was changed from "Fantasy Scroll Magazine" to "Fantasy Scroll Mag, December 2014". Title taken from the publisher's website. Also, issues are disambiguated in the title field, usually by the issue date.
  • Date field was changed from "2014" to "2014-12" to included the month of publication. The dates of all of the contents also had to be changed.
  • Pub format field was changed from "webzine" to "ebook". (Webzines are web-based publications which are not downloadable as files for e-readers.)
  • Cover art credit was added based on data from the publisher's website.
  • Publication series field was blanked. Periodicals are not entered into publication series. That field is reserved for book publications.
  • A source for the data was given in the Note field. (This is required for all records based on secondary data.)
  • The review for the film was deleted from the record and an essay for it was added. The REVIEW type is reserved for publications.

Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 03:01, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Grimdark

Some of the same concerns mentioned in the previous post are also in this publication. Additional problems:

  • Amazon's ID number doesn't go into the ISBN/Catalog # field, because it is neither. I've moved it to the Note field.
  • "T.R. Napper" was changed to "T. R. Napper". There should be spaces after each period in a name.
  • The nonfiction contents were changed from NONFICTION to ESSAY. The first type is used for book-length work, and the second type is used for shorter nonfiction work contained in a larger publication.
  • The content titles were changed to match those as seen in the "Look Inside" of the Amazon listing.

I also fixed a couple of typographical errors: Karemon Hurley and Adrian Collions. Mhhutchins 03:25, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Fantasy Scroll

I rejected your submission to change the title field of this issue from December to October. There is already a record for the October issue. Please explain here why there should be two issues dated for October 2015. Thanks. Mhhutchins|talk 06:32, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

I see now what happened. The August issue as entered October, and the October issue as December. I'll make the corrections. In doing so I will also have to correct the dates of all of the contents of each issue, Mhhutchins|talk 06:36, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Your submissions

Hello, I've approved your submissions and changed a few things to conform to our standards. I've added the Bierce text to Tales to Terrify. Hauck 08:27, 2 February 2018 (EST)

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