User talk:Philsp

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Brian Davis

Hi, I have an enquiry which you just might know, if you are the Philsp I think you might be: Would you be likely to know whether the Brian Davis of this publication is the same Brian G. Davis (1925-1988) of Reginald1 and Reginald3 (as is also already been implied by this)?. --Dirk P Broer 19:17, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

No idea if I'm the philsp you think I am, but it's quite likely (I'm Phil Stephensen-Payne of www.philsp.com). The Brian Davis of THE OLD MASTERS is certainly the same as the one who edited the Corgi version of THE BEST OF MURRAY LEINSTER, but I'm afraid I don't know what your references to "Reginald1 and Reginald3" relate to, or where the dates came from, but it could be true.
Welcome aboard! What took you so long? ;-) BLongley 22:51, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I've had one or two other projects that have been occupying me quite a bit (not least the Crime Fiction Index which has consumed most of my spare time for the past seven years). Also, to be frank, I started indexing SF mags/books long before isfdb existed and provided the UK data for LOCUS for ten years so that my natural tendency is to continue to concentrate on that database - life is just too short to try to keep two databases up to date whenever I acquire a new book/magazine. However, I do have a new project in mind for next year or the year after which might incline me more towards ISFDB "Philsp 16:36, 2 May 2011 (UTC)"
"Reginald1 and Reginald3" are a couple of References that we consider quite dependable - See Help:How_to_verify_data#Verification_sources. BLongley 22:51, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
"quite dependable" is probably a reasonable term for Reginald's books - there's certainly a lot of excellent stuff but they are riddled with errors (rumour has it many were introduced deliberately to try to detect people copying the data but, having dealt with Reginald before I suspect many are simply poor scholarship on his part). However, the real question should have been, I guess, which books by "Brian G. Davis" were being asked about as the original query was a bit meaningless without that. Digging out my copies of the Reginald books I see he simply refers to THE OLD MASTERS (as mentioned above) and adds a leading initial and dates which I can't confirm and probably wouldn't trust too far "Philsp 16:36, 2 May 2011 (UTC)"

"The Buzzards" by Edgar Lucas White

I'm holding a submission that wants the change the note on this record to "First published in the magazine The Bellman, July 25, 1908, according to the Fictionmags Index.". There is no listing for this story on the Fictionmags website, nor is there a listing for the magazine title. Will this be included in a forthcoming update of the website? Thanks. Mhhutchins 14:45, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

I'm afraid I'm not quite sure if this is the right way to respond to your query (the user interface is far from intuitive) but Dennis Lien is indexing the fiction contents of THE BELLMAN on the Fictionmags discussion group and has just confirmed the initial appearance of this story. It will appear in the next "release" of the user-visible part of the Fictionmags Index.
Just as I suspected. Thanks for the response. I'll accept the submission. Mhhutchins 03:00, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
It's the right way - although we normally indent replies, and sign them ("~~~~" will generate a sig with date/time on). If you think the Wiki side is confusing, wait till you get to try the weirder parts of the main database.... :-/ Still, we have programmers willing to take feedback and try to improve things on that front. Please do moan about how un-intuitive things are for newcomers - after four years I'm a bit blind to the perceived problems. BLongley 22:57, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
I'm quite happy with a Wiki as a data resource, but find it hopeless as a medium for dialogue. One of the last projects I was involved in in my "real life" before I retired tried to use a Wiki for a prolonged discussion on the contents of a new reference book and it was an absolute nightmare. For a start, it seems that I have to remember to go to isfdb.org to check manually if I have any new messages, which is incredibly user-hostile, not to mention the whole idea of editing a file as a means of communication. "Philsp 16:20, 2 May 2011 (UTC)"

Your author entries

I suppose now you're here we have to ask you which you prefer: Phil Stephensen-Payne or Philip Stephensen-Payne? I spent ages entering your "Paperback Parlour"s and think I'd prefer to get a 'bot to do the remaining "make variant"s. BLongley 23:06, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi! I approved of your submission to remove the exact day of your birthday. However, there's no way to ensure that somebody won't change it back, as long as it is available somewhere in the worldwide web. Stonecreek 13:20, 24 June 2018 (EDT)
Thanks. AFAIK the only other place online with the exact date is the online SF Encyclopedia and I've asked them to remove it as well. I'll try to keep an eye on the date to see if anyone changes it back.

The Fourth Circle

The submission adding this publication to the database was accepted, but the translator credit was removed from the author field and placed into the note field. That is the current standard for crediting translators. Eventually we hope to have a dedicated field for this role. Also, if you have a copy of the book please do a primary verification of the record. If not, please note the source of your data in the record's note field. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 15:30, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

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