User talk:Morebooks

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Technology and Culture

Hello,

We have a somewhat special rules for adding non-genre magazines so a few changes were needed:

• We do not record the name of the editors - they can be added as notes but we use "Editors of magazine_name" as the editors.
• Marked is as non-genre.
• The OCLC record is for the complete magazine, not just for the issue so we add this as a note only.

The result is here. Let me know if you have any questions and thanks for adding it. Annie 19:07, 11 October 2020 (EDT)

Thank you for your help! How would I add this essay by Ursula K. Le Guin that contains short reviews of multiple SF books? Should it be a standalone essay, or would it be a review added to the various books' pages? Is the academic journal Science Fiction Studies considered non-genre? Morebooks 08:44, 16 October 2020 (EDT)

It will be genre and we have a few issues. The way to add this to add the magazine and inside of it add the essay as one entry and then add the reviews inside of the magazine. These will connect behind the scenes and they will show up on the "reviewed" list inside of the reviewed titles. See for an example. Annie 13:19, 16 October 2020 (EDT)

The Black Scholar, March/April 1986

A few changes in this one

• Titles normalized for case
• Moved the links and comments from the title record (which will a record be for the whole year) to the publication record.
• Fixed the date of the interview
• For non-genre magazines, we do not record the name of the editor unless it is a genre author.

Let me know if you have any questions and thanks for adding it. Annie 16:21, 21 October 2020 (EDT)

Waiting Rooms

Hello,

Approved your submission but a few changes had to be made:

• We have a space for external IDs so moved the OCLC one there
• There should always be a note on sources.
• The story synopsis belong to the story, not to the collection. In such cases, wait for the approval before adding it to the story.
• As you are not adding the complete contents, I added the template to indicate that.
• As the only source is OCLC and it lists the story under the shorter name, this is what we use. If you have a better source, add to the publication note and adjust the title.

The result is here. Let me know if you have any questions. And let me know if you want assistance with connecting the story and the review of it :) Annie 16:44, 25 October 2020 (EDT)

Electric Literature No. 5

So is this an anthology or a magazine? If it is a magazine, then we don't record the number inside of the series; if it is an anthology, then the authors need to be either the actual editors or uncredited if they are not credited (the Editors of is only for magazines and fanzines). I am happy to follow your lead -- it can be either technically (the line is sometimes very very thin). Annie 12:53, 27 October 2020 (EDT)

Electric Literature describes itself as a quarterly journal on its About page, so I think that's the easiest description for it. The journal issues appear to be released in book form, so it's a little confusing; I don't know what format would work best for ISFDB. Morebooks

Magazine it is. See the result :) Annie 17:35, 30 October 2020 (EDT)

Priests of Progress

You added the author of this in the big omnibus you had been working on as G. Colmore [pseud, of Gertrude Renton Weaver]. Is that how it is credited in the book or were you trying to recreate what ISFDB shows for pseudonyms? If the latter, then it is not how it works and I will be happy to explain how it works and fix that (and then you will know how to deal with it next time). If it is credited like that, is it a comma and not a dot after pseud? And we will need a note on the title level explaining that indeed, it is how it is credited (and then the relationship will need to be fixed as well. Thanks! :) Annie 14:16, 12 March 2021 (EST)

Never mind - you apparently already fixed that. Approved and thanks! :) Annie 18:27, 12 March 2021 (EST)

The "omnibus" that I'm working on is actually a collection of microfiche slides; I don't know how G. Colmore is credited in the actual microfiche copy of the book, but "G. Colmore [pseud, of Gertrude Renton Weaver]" IS how it's credited in the print (paper) guide to the microfiche that I'm now working from. Here's a screenshot of that page from the bibliography: link. I changed the name to match the G. Colmore credit on ISFDB, but now I'm not sure that was correct to do. I'm also not sure how much I should be using the print microfiche guide as a credit source, because it contains multiple apparent errors/typos: for example, repeatedly spelling Anonymous as "Anonynmous." What should I do? Morebooks 23:37, 12 March 2021 (EST)

Just add a note in the publication record explaining where the credits are coming from and that obvious comments on the names are skipped (give that one as an example) and note the ones you are fixing - like the misspelling of Anonymous.. I would not add the stuff in the square brackets - it seems like something a guide will do. Secondary sources have varying quality. As long as we document what we do, we are good. If someone gets their hands on the Microfiches one day, they can fix whatever differs. Annie 06:15, 13 March 2021 (EST)

Young Readers Science Fiction Stories

Regarding this submission: Publication web page links are for links specific to that edition. Project Gutenberg ebooks are their own editions and we have that one in the database here. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 14:10, 19 June 2021 (EDT)

I Refuse to Be a Supporting Character

Thanks for submitting I Refuse to Be a Supporting Character: Volume 1! I have approved the submission and made the following changes:

• Changed the title from "I Refuse To Be a Supporting Character (Light Novel) Vol. 1 " to "I Refuse to Be a Supporting Character: Volume 1" to match what's stated on the title page of the book.
• Changed the capitalization of "To" to "to" as per Template:PublicationFields:Title, which says:
  • all later words are capitalized except for "a", "an", "and", "at", "by", "for", "from", "in", "of", "on", "or", "the", "to", and "with"

Since we don't seem to know the spelling of the author's name or of the original Chinese title, I am going to ask on the Community Portal to see if any of our editors may be able to figure it out based on what's displayed on the publisher's Web page. Ahasuerus 17:13, 21 June 2021 (EDT)

Thanks. The original Chinese title is 穿成女主闺蜜怎么办 by author pen name 姜离远; copied from NovelUpdates. NovelUpdates contains translated & original titles & author names for many Asian novels, but it may be a questionable source to link from ISFDB because NovelUpdates usually links directly to (usually unauthorized) fan translations. Morebooks 18:28, 21 June 2021 (EDT)

Updated, thanks! Ahasuerus 23:42, 21 June 2021 (EDT)