User talk:Stjoshi45

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Hello, Stjoshi45, 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:

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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!.--Dirk P Broer 04:24, 28 January 2019 (EST)

Editor

Hi, Please, do *NOT* add 'editor' to names. Let the software do that, if needed. And I take it that Robert YH. Waug was a typo for Robert H. Waugh here.--Dirk P Broer 19:30, 28 January 2019 (EST)

Page numbers

Hi, Please enter page numbers as they are presented in e.g. the TOC (Table of Content) of a book or magazine: just one number. When in doubt, consult our wiki (here the page numbers section).--Dirk P Broer 19:38, 28 January 2019 (EST)

Stephen Walker

Hello, and a heartily welcome! I have changed the name mentioned above to Stephen Walker (II): the author seems to be different from the other two we have (one of them an artist), and his is the way we split the summary pages for same-named authors (see the heading here for another example). If this step was erroneous, please feel free to change the name for the essay as appropriate (or ask here, on my talk page, or at the help desk for guidance, if you need). Thanks, Stonecreek 06:08, 29 January 2019 (EST)

Reviews

Hi, I see you entering reviews and nameing them "Review of....". There is no need for that, when you enter a review the software will take care of it. In fact I deleted all 'Review of....' parts of the reviews you entered because otherwise it would look like 'Review: Review of....'. You might want to review my edits, as I had to change things to make them like previously entered issues. I made the Lovecraft Studies part of the existing series 'Lovecraft Studies' and still have to try and link the reviews to titles in the database.--Dirk P Broer 06:31, 31 January 2019 (EST)

Uncollected Prose & Poetry III

Hi, not only do we have a Uncollected Prose and Poetry 3 in the -freshly made- publication series Uncollected Prose and Poetry, there to be found is also Uncollected Prose & Poetry III. And that probably came from this. What do you know about a trade-paperback version of collected Prose and Poetry 3?--Dirk P Broer 04:42, 2 February 2019 (EST)

Lovecraft Studies: A Matter of Size

Hi, can you give me any information as about to the publication size of Lovecraft studies? You yourself enter them as 'ph' (pamphlet), which however is a print book format (see our wiki). On that same wiki page the magazine sizes are also mentioned. Someone entered older Lovecraft studies as being published at A5 format, but viewed by the dimensions of the cover art I find that hard to believe, having published booklets on that format myself. Could you please shine your light in this darkness?--Dirk P Broer 07:54, 5 February 2019 (EST)

A5 (european standard measure) width 14.8cm × height 21cm. The covers of the Lovecraft Studies suggest a far more square format, IMHO.--Dirk P Broer 20:07, 6 February 2019 (EST)


Print magazines:

  • digest - includes both standard digest size, at about 4.5" x 7" (11.4 cm x 17.8 cm), and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 5.125" x 8.25" (13.0 cm x 21.0 cm).
  • pb - paperback-formatted magazines, i.e. periodical publications which otherwise would qualify as paperbacks (see "pb" in the Print books section), e.g. the 1964-1967 issues of New Worlds
  • pulp - the common pulp size: 6.5" × 9.5" (16.5 cm x 24.1 cm). For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" × 11.75 (20.3 cm x 29.8 cm)"
  • bedsheet - 8.5" × 11.25" (21.6 cm x 28.6 cm), e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding
  • tabloid - 11" × 16" (27.9 cm x 40.6 cm), usually newsprint, e.g. British Science Fiction Monthly
  • A4 - 21 cm × 29.7 cm or 8.3" × 11.7", used by some UK and European magazines
  • A5 - 14.8 cm × 21 cm or 5.8" × 8.3", used by some UK and European magazines
  • quarto - 8.5" × 11" (21.6 cm x 27.9 cm), usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
  • octavo - 5.5" × 8.5" (14.0 cm x 21.6 cm), usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
  • tp - trade paperback magazines, usually perfect-bound, i.e. periodical publications (often POD) which otherwise would qualify as trade paperbacks (see "tp" in the Print books section)

Note: If a magazine is between the sizes of these categories, use the one with the closest description, and add a note in the record. Small variations do not need to be noted.

Answering to topics on user talk

Hi, you can answer to questions posted here by clicking 'edit' at the right of the topic.

By placing a colon your answer will be indented
Two colons make it indent more, etc.
--Dirk P Broer 06:08, 10 February 2019 (EST)

Dirk-- I've been trying to communicate with you regarding the unorthodox size of LOVECRAFT STUDIES and STUDIES IN WEIRD FICTION (and, in fact, virtually all Necronomicon Press publications). Essentially, what the publisher did was to take 8.5" x 14" pages and fold them in half, to make a publication of 7" (length) x 8.5" (height), stapled at the side. I don't know how these dimensions correspond to the various categories you have established. All issues of LOVECRAFT STUDIES (except #44, which was 5" x 8") and STUDIES IN WEIRD FICTION were of this size.--S. T. Joshi

7" x 8.5" is indeed the rather square size I observed for the online copies on the internet archive, while A5 is (portait-wise) much higher than it is wide (I have a A5 publication lying here in front of me). Two A5's turned landscape fit exactly on a portrait positioned A4. Two A4's will fit on one A3, etc. For the time being I think 'pulp' would be an approximation of the real size, until we come up with a better solution.--Dirk P Broer 05:16, 17 February 2019 (EST)

Favourite Haunts: A Journey thro' H. P. Lovecraft's Providence

In Lovecraft Studies, #24 Spring 1991, I converted the review of "Favourite Haunts: A Journey thro' H. P. Lovecraft's Providence" to an essay as this is for a video documentary which would not be eligible for inclusion in the database. Review entries should only be for genre books. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 10:03, 5 May 2019 (EDT)

A Maker of Mythologies

Hello,

I regularized the name of A. E. in A Maker of Mythologies in your verified "Studies in Weird Fiction, #22 Winter 1998". This also reunited the essay with its reprint. The name was "AE (George William Russell)". If the name is indeed printed exactly like that, please let me know and we will variant instead but from what I can find, it is just AE as usual. Thanks! Annie 00:20, 7 October 2019 (EDT)

Update: Confirmation received by mail (well, from you but I am just documenting it here :) ) that the essay is credited to AE and an editorial note preceding the article identified "AE" as the Irish writer George William Russell (1867-1935). Records updated with that information. Annie 00:26, 8 October 2019 (EDT)

Whitechapel Cover art

I'm going to delete the cover art record for your verified publication. For cover art, the standard is to list it only when the artist is identified. I'll also note that had we been able to add a record, our standard name for an unidentified person is "uncredited" as opposed to "unidentified". Thanks. --Ron ~ RtraceTalk 09:39, 25 June 2020 (EDT)

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