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The purpose of this page is to co-ordinate the editing of magazines and to document issues that are primarily related to magazines. Any discussion of such issues should be directed to the talk page associated with this page.

Swfritter Current Projects

Pulps: Fantastic Adventures (1951-1953) concurrently with a few issues of pre-50's Super Science-Fiction.

Digests: Next up but on the back burner while I work on my relatively small pre-50's pulps collection - Bibliographic Tasks for Galaxy.--swfritter 22:46, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Ezines: Jim Baen's Universe, Aeon, & Something Wicked as they are released.--swfritter 17:48, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Davecat Current Projects

Analog/Astounding: I've been working backward through my Analogs, with occasional jumps around, & am now almost done. I'll be finishing the handful (6) I've got from 1952, 1953, & 1960. My plan is then to go back through it all, forward this time, checking (& verifying anything that isn't already listed as verified). -- Dave (davecat) 13:56, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Ahasuerus Current Projects

Working on Magazine:Coven 13, then back to finish Magazine:The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told. Ahasuerus 00:41, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

DESiegel Current Projects

I recently acquired several issues of Whispers magazine, and I have created Magazine:Whispers and am entering contents. i will mark each issue as verified after all contents, including reviews, are entered. i intend to treat the various mentions of recent or ongoing (as of the date of publication) projects in the fantasy/horror field in the "News" columns as reviews, which will lead to a good many review entries per issue. I have also entered or updated several pubs based on ads in these issues. -DES ^Talk 20:58, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

BTW, After I enter these, and read hem, i will quite probably not want to retain them. Anyone interested in purchasing or trading for the issues I have entered please let me know -- all are in quite good condition. -DES ^Talk 20:58, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

I also have a fairly long run of early issues of Asimov's, and i plan to get around to entering them eventually, but I have not been active on this recently. -DES ^Talk 20:58, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Rkihara Current Projects

I'm entering and verifying Amazing and Astounding up 1950, and F&SF up to the present. I'm jumping back and forth between them since working on any one magazine for a while becomes tedious.--Rkihara 14:49, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

F&SF is pretty much done up to the present, leaving fifties undone for now. Astounding on hold, while continuing on with Amazing Stories 1960's up. Doing secondary verification of Fantastic per request.--Rkihara 18:00, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Alvonruff Current Projects

I'm currently focused on making the import of forthcoming books more accurate (well as accurate as possible with data that's a prediction about the future), but when I wrap that up I'll go back to Analog 1966 and work my way forward from there. My box of Analogs from the 60s has been sitting unopened beside my desk for about 8 months now, so I don't know how soon I'll get to it. Alvonruff 10:36, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Hall3730 Current Projects

My collection is heavy in Analog 1971-2004 (over 2/3rds of the issues) with a smattering before and after that period. I will concentrate in that area to avoid the area Dave is working in. Most of my Astounding is post 1955 and I am reverifying them to add the individual illustration page numbers. I will leave the F&SF and Asimov's until later. Thx, rbh (Bob) 00:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Also actually starting on the Perry Rhodan magazines. Building a Perry Rhodan Page, organizing the data, etc. rbh (Bob) 02:45, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

First cut of Perry Rhodan Magazine page is in place, comments please! Thx rbh (Bob) 22:16, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I can't really comment on the magazines, but I noticed my entering 3 British reprint books has upset the page a little. Feel free to ask questions about those. BLongley 22:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Aside from the British edition problems, there was a second printing of some of the U.S. editions. Most magazines do not have multiple printings so our magazine page format doesn't have a way to handle that yet. When I get my current batch entered, I need to address that. rbh (Bob) 11:35, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Roglo Current Project

I edit mostly collections and anthologies, but I have Interzone #206 (Oct/2006) - present; Realms of Fantasy August 2001 - August 2004 + a few later; and most of F&SF 2000 - present. I plan to add Interzone #202 - #205 from online sources (Greg Egan's index) and missing RoF issues from Locus index; I'll add recent F&SF if nobody does it earlier (Apr - Jun 2008; I won't have July until late June). I'm interested in Subterranean Magazine and Black Gate. --Roglo 19:03, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

MHHutchins Current Projects

I've taken on Asimov's and Locus. On Asimov's I've almost completed the first three years (1977-1979), and on Locus I'm up to issue #217 (December 1978). So far, I'm missing issues #208 - 211 and #214. If anyone else has those, please feel free to update the stubs that I've created. Thanks. MHHutchins 20:01, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Bill Longley's Current Projects

... mostly try to AVOID magazines. However, I keep crossing over and I have, for instance, uploaded covers for the UK Galaxy Magazine numbers 1 and 3. I've also created a lot of stubs for the Lionel Fanthorpe Badger magazines "Supernatural Stories", which get complicated when half of them become "Supernatural Specials" with only a novel in. Previous editors have left the collections as magazines but recorded the single-novel magazines as books with no reference to the overall title. ("Compact SF" has similar troubles.) I'm willing to move some magazines to books, or vice versa, if people have a definite opinion. And I should get some opinions before I enter stubs for "Vargo Statten Magazine" or suchlike: but the British Data is coming! (Eventually.) BLongley 23:24, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Dragoondeligth on Perry Rhodan

Harry, look on the "discussion" page for your questions. We try to keep this page fairly clean so we can see what each of us who dabble in magazines is working on and minimizing bumping in to each other so I moved all your discussion to the discussion page. I labeled an area as a workspace for us to collaborate. Thx, rbh (Bob) 02:34, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

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 :::: Aside from the British edition problems, there was a second printing of some of the U.S. editions.  Most magazines do not have multiple printings so our magazine page format doesn't have a way to handle that yet.  When I get my current batch entered, I need to address that.  [[User:Hall3730|rbh (Bob)]] 11:35, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
-:::::Newbies do not get the privilege of creating a section for themselves here. I can write to you in this manner. I do not get the plus symbol next to the edit bar. This is high holy territory. LOL. Thanks, Harry. --[[User:Dragoondelight|Dragoondelight]] 19:29, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
-::::: Sorry just messed up 94-89. I need to create a title record saying Perry Rhodan #94: Action: Division 3 to add it to the Perry Rhodan series. Somehow how to do it escapes me. No more Perry till I resolve this. Thanks, Harry. --[[User:Dragoondelight|Dragoondelight]] 19:52, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
-::::: I think I found my error. When I changed the publications to magazine and entered the data, that put them in an error state but also made them a publication of the novel title. They themselves have no title in the db. ''The Starless Realm'' is a title but no longer in Perry Rhodan Series. I changed it to read ''Perry Rhodan #87: The Starless Realm'' and magazine. It is not cloneable because the db can not determine the title parent of this publication. If I change it back to novel will that create a new publication title or not. ''The Mystery of the Anti'' is worse. It is not in the search base, but it is a novel under the authors name K. H. Scheer and that connects to a title of that name with a publication that I entered as a magazine as ''Perry Rhodan #88: The Mystery of the Anti'' which also is not in the search database as a title. ''Horn:Green'' under title brings up the novel and the Perry Rhodan editor title. The editor title can not be used as a search term. PR 82 also is not searchable and neither is the novel title ''Atlan in Danger''. ''PR102:Spoor of the Antis'' is searchable as an editor title. Spoor of the antis search gives three hits. PR111/112 also works to search both from the novel title and the editor title. ''PR#14: Venus in Danger'' is searchable to an editor title, but ''Venus in Danger'' is not even though it is a novel. I hope this is not confusing, but it is for me. --[[User:Dragoondelight|Dragoondelight]] 23:03, 19 July 2008 (UTC)Thanks, Harry.
-::::::A few points:
-::::::*The Wiki software doesn't display the "plus sign" on project pages by default, but you can always edit the last section of the page, add a section header and then add your own information further down. I have also added special "magic" code to the top of this page so the "plus sign" should appear for everybody from this point on.
-::::::*Once I added an EDITOR record for Ackerman and LoBrutto to ''Perry Rhodan #87: The Starless Realm'', everything went back to normal.
-::::::*The reason that Search couldn't find ''The Mystery of the Anti'' is that the last word was misspelled "A'''r'''ti". The publication was also missing an EDITOR record, but everything looks OK now.
-::::::*[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?PRRRHDNHRN1976 ''Perry Rhodan #96: Horn:Green''] looks OK, but the Serials by Stanton A. Coblentz and Kris/Lil Neville are a bit off. According to [[Help:Screen:NewPub]]:
-::::::**Serial installments of a work are always given the date of the magazine in which they appear even if the work has been published previously in book or serial form. [i.e. the date for ''The Sunken World'' should be 1976-06-00 and not 1928-00-00.] Include "(Part 1 of 3)" etc in the title of the work. [i.e. the titles should read ''The Sunken World (Part 1 of 12)'' and so on.]
-::::::*A search on ''Atlan in Danger'' finds the EDITOR record for [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?PRRRHDNTLN1975 PR82]. As far as I can tell, this issue is entered as a bunch of stories, so there is no separate ''Atlan in Danger'' NOVEL record.
-::::::*''Spoor of the Antis'' looks OK, but I wonder if Coblentz' "Treasure of Red Ash Desert" has a leading "The", which is how it appeared in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?87806 ''Weird Tales, March 1942'']. If the title is really different, then we'll want to link them via the Variant Title mechanism.
-::::::*''Venus in Danger'' is now searchable, I assume it has been fixed since the original post.
-::::::[[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 01:33, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
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 == Dragoondeligth  on Perry Rhodan ==
+Harry, look on the "discussion" page for your questions.  We try to keep this page fairly clean so we can see what each of us who dabble in magazines is working on and minimizing bumping in to each other so I moved all your discussion to the discussion page.  I labeled an area as a workspace for us to collaborate.  Thx, [[User:Hall3730|rbh (Bob)]] 02:34, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
-Need to update proper dates and (commentary)---Bob's decision for look.
-Treasure of the Red Ash Desert is as PR magazine used it.
-PR 82 needs short stories deleted and novel added----Bob
-PR 101 same as 82-------Bob
-These need Editor title & Series entry
-Secret Mission: Moluk -------No. 84
-Enemy in the Dark    -------No. 85
-Blazing Sun         ---------No. 86
-needs editor title, editor title then series edits
-Pucky's Greatest Hour -----No. 81
-Ernst Ellert Returns needs title on novel corrected---submitted No.83
-No. 87 correct thanks
-The Mystery of the Anti missing David Gerrold entry & serial dates correct
------submitted No. 88.
-Powers Price-needs title corrections (both) serial dates changed----No89.
-submitted.
-Needs novel PR series removed and mag editor title series added.
-Unleashed Powers-Needs editor title added, editor title needs PR series &
-novel needs series data removed---PR90
-Friend to Mankind--Needs novel title cleaned up & serials date changed-submitted
-Needs authors changed to editors and may need editor title.--PR91
-The Target Star--needs novel title corrected & serials date corrected-submitted
-needs authors changed to editor and may need editor title & series changes. ---PR92
-Vagabond of Space--needs novel title corrected & serials date corrected-submitted
-needs editor title & series corrected from novel to editor title--PR93
-Action: Division 3--needs editor title & series changes from novel to editor title-PR94.
-The Plasma Monster-needs serials changed and editorial added--submittied
-Needs editor title & series corrected form novel to editor title.
-Just noticed #symbol missing from mag title.--PR95
-Phantom Fleet Put # on PR97 anc corrected serial date==submitted PR97.
-Note Perry Rhodan: In the Center of the Galaxy is the unnumbered actual finish of the
-Ace printing. It technically would be between 118 Ace and 119 Master Publications.
-Observation using the previous data and changing it to magazine created a problem
-very hard for a new 'editor' to address.
-Would it be easier to enter new publication and then merge?
-Of course I do not know how to merge.
-I was of the opinion that editorial would have a title and editor.
-The ones I entered I did not include the box blurb 'Stardust editorial'.
-I also ignored the short commentary used to introduce it. Especially when it was
-entitled as a copyrighted piece.
-I ignored things that were promotions and such as advertisements.
-The Perryscopes I have done have no signature or signed responses. I saw a
-'blurb box' with SJA and an address to send letters to. I did not consider
-that a signature.
-I worked from back to front, this sometimes did not make it obvious that a serial
-format was being used. I also am not sure that they were enumerated properly. My
-proposal is to get the data in and then physically count the pt 1 of how many and
-use that to correct each entry.
-I ignored prologues and forwards as they were not signed, except for maybe one with
-Khrest (a character). I could not tell if they were extensions of the German
-script or not.
-I can not understand the 'Scientifilm' entries for the most part.
-Should the German title of the novel be noted at a later date to relate it to
-the German editions. If so I have a list, but while it is sequential the Ace
-printings were not.
-So far the British (Orbit) editions should be at least 1-39. I sent for one to
-make a physical comparison for differences.
-May I enter #30, 36-40, 61-70 as they would be new magazine and would be easier to get
-into the series.
-Thanks to everyone, especially Ahasuerus for the forebearance. Sorry for the
-headaches, just writing this gave me one. Thanks, Harry. --[[User:Dragoondelight|Dragoondelight]] 23:19, 21 July 2008 (UTC)