User talk:Crashmaster

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Worlds of the Universe

Your submission adding this publication to the database was accepted. I made a few changes based on ISFDB standards, and other changes are pending based on your responses to my inquiries here.

• The editor was changed to "uncredited" because three different sources (SFE3, Miller/Contento, Galactic Central) state that was no credited editor. Does you copy give explicit editor credit?

• The author of "Lilliput Minor" is given as Thomas W. Wade by Miller/Contento. Can you confirm that the title page credit is for Wade? The ISFDB standard is to use the title page credit, even if it differs from the content page credit.

• Miller/Contento gives the page count as 104. The ISFDB standard is to count all pages of a magazine, including the covers. Can you confirm the page count as given is correct? (It would usually be a multiple of 4 if all pages are counted.)

• The location ("London") was removed from the publisher field.

• The price of "1'5" was changed to the ISFDB standard for pre-decimalization British curreny: "1/5".

• The issue number was given in the title field to differentiate it with other issues, a moot point since this was the only issue.

• The publication series data was removed. Magazines go into editor series, and I've done that for the issue.

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I await your response to my questions. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 23:19, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

The editor was not credited in the magazine, as you point out. I have the name in my notes as I found it listed on another web site a while back. i can attempt to find it again, if you wish.

The author of "Lilliput Minor" is given as Manning Stern on the title page.

The page count including covers is indeed 104.

The price is 1/6 I must have fat fingered it.

I'll learn my way around in time.

I uploaded WotuIndex.jpg that shows the authors as credited in the magazine

Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Crashmaster (talk • contribs) .

Thanks for the fast response. I'll make the correction to the credit for "Lilliput Minor" and change the page count. For a first time effort, you did very well. Thank you for choosing to contribute to the ISFDB as an editor. Adding and updating publication records in the ISFDB is not a simple process. We don't expect all editors to get it right the first time, and we know it may take some time to learn the ins and outs, and all of the tricks. Please be patient with us as we guide you through this process. We will try our best to also be patient, but being human, it may appear that a moderator can be nitpicking, or even overbearing at times. Please be assured that it isn't personal, and we're only trying our best to achieve the quality of data that our users have come to expect. Together we can build a better database. The best piece of advice I can offer is to take some time to read this help page. It has instructions on how to enter each field of a publication record. If you need further assistance, don't hesitate to inquire at the help desk. Again, thank you for becoming a vital part of the ISFDB. Mhhutchins 23:50, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

The cover image file was incorrectly uploaded. You should use the link on the publication record labeled "Upload new cover scan". This is semi-automated procedure will add all the necessary data to the file (licenses, links, etc.). I'll have to delete the one you uploaded because it lacks those features. If you need assistance to upload it again from the publication record link, just ask. Or I can do it for you. After the file is uploaded, the publication record has to be updated to add the link to the uploaded cover image file. Thanks. Mhhutchins 23:54, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

BTW, the scan you uploaded of the contents page was OK for verification purposes, but as I said above, we don't use the contents page to record the contents of a publication. We use the data that appears on the title page, that is the page on which the content appears. With that in mind, can you confirm again that the story on page 42 is credited to "Manning Stern"? Mhhutchins 23:57, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

To respond to this message click on the [edit] link to the right of the topic. Do not use the link to edit the entire page. Thanks. Mhhutchins 23:59, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Thomas W. Wade is in fact credited on page 42.

Some day I'll get the hang of it. Really not too hard so far. Now to find out how (after reading the help page) to update New Worlds Magazine Vol 1 No. 1 with an alternate cover (a reuse of the cover art for Vol 1 No. 2 and a reprice to 1/6).

It's my understanding that it wasn't a new printing, just unsold copies with a new cover. I would suggest just adding a note (in the Note field) of the publication record. Do you have a copy of the issue, or a scan of the cover? If so, I'll instruct you how to upload it without replacing the cover image currently linked to the record.

BTW, when responding to a previous comment within the same topic, add a single colon (:), without spacing or tabbing, to the number of the previous comment. Look at the raw data of this discussion to see how it looks. This entry has four colons, so you'll start your response with five colons. Adding the colon automatically indents it, to make it easier to follow the discussion. Thanks. Mhhutchins 01:17, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

My understanding is pretty much the same, the unsold copies were bound in a rework of the second issues cover after the second was issued and the priced reduced to help unload them. The interior pages are identical, down to the last signature (pages 49 - 64) that are of a much higher quality paper, so that there is considerably less browning of both versions. This supports the idea that they were unsold copies. I have a copy and can scan it. Thanks for the instructions, getting the hang of it as I go along.