User talk:Rycke

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Welcome!

Hello, Rycke, 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:

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! MHHutchins 18:24, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Barbaric Yawp

Does this issue have a number, or a monthly or seasonal date? Thanks. MHHutchins 18:26, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Same thing with this issue: Is there a date or number? Are these magazines considered speculative fiction, and if not, approximately what percentage of the content is spec-fic? MHHutchins 18:29, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Author credit for "Walker"

When providing author credit for a published work, you should only state the name as it exactly appears in the publication. If you credit this piece as by "Rycke Foreman (as Richard M. Foreman)" that's exactly how it will appear in the database. I'm assuming that the piece was published as by "Richard M. Foreman". If you want "Rycke Foreman" to be the canonical author credit, we can make "Richard M. Foreman" a pseudonym, and then create a variant of the story's title record so that it will appear as by "Rycke Foreman". Just let me know which is author is canonical and which is pseudonym. Thanks. MHHutchins 18:33, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Crossroads cover artist credit

You give six artist cover credit for this magazine. If all six contributed to the cover, that's fine. If any of them were interior artists that should go into the contents section of the pub, not in the cover artist field. Thanks. MHHutchins 18:35, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Author data update

I rejected your submission updating the author data for Rycke Foreman, because there were a couple of formatting errors. In the Legal Name field, it should be formatted as "Lastname, firstname middlename". In the Birth Date field, it should be "YYYY-MM-DD". I've taken the information that you provided to update the record. If you have some spare time please use the links in the welcome section above to reach the help pages to learn how to update the database. Thanks. MHHutchins

Parlour Papers

The record for this magazine needs to have either a date or a number. This is placed in the title field. For example: "Parlour Papers, February 1994" or "Parlour Papers, Number 4" or "Parlour Papers, No. 9". This individualizes the record in the case where there are multiple issues of the magazine in the database. And again the author credit for Real King Fiction is wrong. If it was published as by "Rick Foreman", we can make that a pseudonym, and then create a variant so that it shows up on the Rycke Foreman summary page. Thanks. MHHutchins 18:47, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Dead of Night Newsletter

This needs a date or number in the title. Also the "Film Reviews" should be typed as ESSAY when entering contents. Any nonfiction piece would be typed as ESSAY if it is one of the contents of a larger work. The NONFICTION type is used only for a single publication which is either completely or the major portion of which is nonfiction. I'll change that content for you. MHHutchins 18:51, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Again, you've given three artists cover credit. Was the cover a collaboration among the three of them? I also noticed that you're zeroing out the dates for the pieces that you contributed. Zeros means that the date of first publication is unknown. If these are the first publications then leave the date field of the content entries blank and the system will date them the same as the magazine in which they appear. MHHutchins 18:54, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
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