User talk:Wobber
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Marvel Science Stories (UK)
Hello, I've approved your submission (no problem with the lenghty notes, the more data, the best it is). I've just regularized published to "Thorpe and Porter" and put the title in its publication series allowing the grid here to appear. Hauck 16:30, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I've also just edited Lester del Ray to read del Rey (my typo). Wobber 17:57, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
The Girl Who Practised Aklat
Hello can you verify if the title of this text is "Practiced" or "Practised" in this pub, for the time being I've changed it to "Practiced" (you entered "Practised"). BTW, it will be more efficient to import the content of the US magazine (via "Import content") instead of entering everything "by hand", it will allow us to skip the varianting and merging phase. Thanks. Hauck 17:05, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
The UK edition has the British spelling "Practised". The author's name is also given on the title page of the story as De Rosso, but I see the entry for the US version is DeRosso. A quick Google search shows his books on Amazon under the name DeRosso and his screenplays on IMDB as De Rosso. What is the ISFDB convention on such names? Should the two variations be listed as pseudonyms or is the spacing ignored? Thanks for pointing out the "import content" tool, I didn't notice it in the toolbar - it would have saved me (and you) a lot of time! Wobber 05:33, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
- I've made the adequate modifications (or so I suppose), can you check? You should perfectly have done this yourself (the requisite actions are not "moderators-only") but it's effectively faster this way. Hauck 13:34, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks, everything looks OK. I will read around the help pages and try to do what I can myself for the next addition to the database. Thanks again for your help. Wobber 17:17, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Planet Stories, Summer 1942
Hello, I've put your submission on hold. First a question : Do you have a physical copy of the issue? If not, I'm going to ask the PV1 about it as what's on the physical object trumps everything so if the artwork is credited to "Alexander Deydenfrost" a variant will have to be created. Note that if there's no credit (e.g. artist found by its signature), the artist should be entered under its canonical form (here "Leydenfrost"). Hauck 13:13, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
- OK, that's fine. Unfortunately, I don't have a physical copy of Planet Stories. I just came across this entry whilst researching the artist in my copy of Super Science Stories (in SSS, the artist is not credited - the illustration is just signed A. Leydenfrost). As I mentioned in the moderator notes, I have tried to contact the original primary verifier via their talk page, but the edit would not save for some unknown reason. Perhaps you will have better luck. Wobber 14:23, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
- I've asked the PV1, without reply from him and based on your data, I'm probably going to change author to "Leydenfrost". Thanks for having found this. Hauck 15:01, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
McAuley's introduction
Hello I've approved your submission for the Xeelee omnibus but changed the date of the introduction to the publication date (in fact we don't use the "signature" date, although this could mentioned in the notes "Written on XXXX"). Hauck 12:39, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
- OK, thanks. I will add the introduction date to the publication notes. Also, do you think I should change the Introduction title to "Introduction (Xeelee: An Omnibus)"? A lot of ISFDB references to introductions and afterwords seem to be in this format in order to differentiate introductions/afterwords in different publications by the same author. Wobber 14:50, 4 July 2015 (UTC)