ISFDB talk:Serial Cleanup

Process description, please

It would be nice if this page explained exactly what an editor had to do to Fix a particular title. -DES ^Talk 14:55, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Good point, let me give it a shot... Ahasuerus 15:12, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

An explanation has been added -- hope it makes sense! Ahasuerus 15:29, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Thought I'd try to fix some of these, but sorry, the explanation didn't help me. Perhaps a few pointers for the denser among us. I was able to do some of the more obvious errors in the malformed titles list. MHHutchins 07:14, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Malformed serial titles

Have these titles appeared on this list simply because the "p" in "(Part x of y)" or the "c" and "n" in "(Complete Novel)" isn't capitalized? Will capitalizing be enough to remove the "error" in those cases? Same thing with the use of brackets instead of parentheses? Also, I recall creating the record for In Polar Seas (and its pseudonymous variant) just as a placeholder for the title (it appeared on a list of important lost race novels). Without creating 19 pub records (!) for a serial in a non-genre magazine, what is the best way to handle situations like this? Thanks. MHHutchins 04:50, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Serials in Grantville Gazette

Many of the malformed serial titles are from the Grantville Gazettes, of which I readily admit I know nothing about. It's strange that they're typed as serials as none of them have parts. If they are just a continuing series (which is not a serial) shouldn't they just be typed as shortfiction and placed into a subseries of "1632"? Look at the mess it's caused this author's page. This may have been discussed before when the Gazettes were being entered, and I may have skipped the discussion because it involved ebooks which are outside my area of knowledge. (And I'm not going to debate the difference between a serial and a series. We all should know that by now.) MHHutchins 06:57, 28 August 2009 (UTC)