User talk:Lostphd

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Spaceways, September 1940

Pretty good for a first effort :) but a few things needed adjustment:

  • As all the other issues in the series are quatro, I made this one the same :)
  • For magazines, we date based on the month unless a specific date is printed. As this is dated simply September, all dates should be 1940-09-00
  • The link in the notes is now indeed a link
  • Harry Warner Jr. should be recorded as Harry Warner, Jr. (you got it right as the editor but not as the introduction writer :)
  • We use ":" for subtitles, not bracketed references :) So updated the Introduction.
  • A few capitalization issues. Our rules are here
  • Two initials in a name area always separated by a space (so F. E. Hardart and not F.E. Hardart for example) unless we have a reason to believe that the author has a reason not to have a space in the name (not initial for example)
  • Reviews need to be added one by one if you want them in the review section (preferred) or as a single essay (less-preferred but if you do not feel like typing). I split them into separate ones :)
  • When you have more than one item on the same page, instead of just 24, you can use 24|24.1 and so on to order them. The number before the pipe is what will show up on the screen; the one after it will be used for sorting :)
  • Ads are never indexed - if you want you can add a note about them but they do not get their own entry so I kicked it out. :)

The result is here. 2 of the reviews still need connecting which I will look into later today unless you want to try :) Let me know if you have any questions and/or concerns. Annie 11:25, 4 December 2019 (EST)

O.K. I must confess I find this a little overwhelming. There is one more issue of "Spaceways" for 1940 that I think should be entered (October, 1940) but I don't know if I have the confidence. Lostphd 08:28, 6 December 2019 (EST)

Magazines are the most complex type of publications we have and you did extremely well with that one - most of the above were minor and/or formatting issues. Why don’t you try with the other one? I can fix anything that is a little off after that :) Annie 10:24, 6 December 2019 (EST)

Spaceways, October 1940

Entered this in - made one dumb mistake "Bib Tucker" instead of "Bob Tucker" - didn't see it before I submitted it. Also a bit unsure about Walter vs. Warner Sullivan - page is hard to read. Lostphd 08:58, 9 December 2019 (EST)

We go by title page anyway - so the TOC is always a good start but we want the data as it is on the stories/essays pages so if they disagree with the TOC, we use the title page and note what is different :)
Tucker is fixed. So is Wollheim (he lost an "l" in the copying). I will also look again at all the names once I am on a bigger screen - 2 sets of eyes are always better than one :) . I also connected the two reviews that did not connect automatically.
The result is here. Feel free to do another pass and see if something else may need fixing. Great job and thanks again for adding these! Annie 11:12, 9 December 2019 (EST)

Thanks. I made one more change - to Sullivan, to the more logical choice. I'm a bit stumped by "Emrys Evans" not showing up anywhere else in the database, there was a famous Welsh scholar of that name who was active in fantasy writing, who wrote a few letters at the time (unless someone was using his name). But this is a work in progress Lostphd 08:57, 10 December 2019 (EST)

O.K. I nailed down this "Emrys Evans". Emrys Howell Evans (1914-2002), WWII serviceman and later post office employee in Mountain Home, Idaho. Not the same as the Welsh scholar. Not sure whether the I.D. is decisive enough to update his biographical entry, but I am reasonably confident. Lostphd 10:48, 10 December 2019 (EST)

Some editors submit only letters from people already in the DB - so we may have the issues where he has letters but just not his letters. Or we may be missing the issues. It is a work in progress... unless someone makes it their personal goal to have a certain run added, it may take awhile for all issues to get it and checked.
Submit the change for the author if you had not, with the sources you have in the moderator note so someone can look at them (second set of eyes and all that) Annie 11:34, 10 December 2019 (EST)
One minor point of attention: You consequently enter J. Michael Rosenblum as J. Michael Roseblum.--Dirk P Broer 18:52, 10 December 2019 (EST)
Much thanks for that. I will keep an eye on this in the future. It's a combination of my bad eyes and the age and print quality of the original sources.Lostphd 07:48, 11 December 2019 (EST)
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