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Current: Active Discussions
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- Date formats including Day of the Month Whether and how date formats for magazine issue titles that include a day as well as a month and year should be standardized.
- Inclusion of Non-genre works reviewed by Genre Magazines Should these works be included? Should the ROA be changed?
- Gurps Infinite Worlds Should this and related works be IN or OUT?
On Hold: Open but Inactive Discussions
This section is for discussions that have been suspended without closure, but may (and probably will) be reopened later in an effort to achieve closure.
- Ebook inclusion standards What makes an ebook, as opposed to a webzine, IN?
- Serials in Chapterbooks Is this example a good model to follow?
- Spaces in Author names Is "DeWitt" vs. "De Witt" worth a variant, or should we normalize such names, or only some such names?
- Use canonical artist name for uploaded images? Should we use canonical names in wiki credits, or names "as stated"?
Action Pending: Completed discussions waiting for Help/Policy updates
- ISSNs suggested on verified magazine records? Do ISSNs belong in magazine issue db records?
- Editors and "scientific editors" When is an editor not an editor? What level of credit makes a co-editor in our records, and what level should be for notes only?
- Italics in a title? Should we use HTML in title fields?
Recent: Discussions closed but not yet Archived
- OCLC as a verification source Add OCLC to the list of secondary verification sources?
- Request to delete Graham Greene Should the works of Graham Greene be deleted?
- Initials normalization Should we standardize on Initial, Period, space, no matter what was in the pub?
Pending: Discussions Waiting for a Turn
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- Verification cycle Should notes on secondary sources be deleted on primary verification? Should they be added later?
- Magazine Editors Executive editors and other "editors": which should be co-editors in magazine issue db records?