Talk:Magazine Project

Page numbers for artwork

The reason that Help has two options for assigning the page number for artwork is the result of a compromise instituted by myself when no consensus could be reached. It seems that the current editors have or are starting to use the first page number where artwork occurs (and in some cases listing all artwork). I would prefer it if we had one standard. Using the page where the first piece of art occurs makes the most sense to me because editors also have the option to add all artwork. This will mean one less edit when somebody does so.--swfritter 23:01, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

I use the first page number of the story and a single record for artwork. In magazines such as Interzone or Realms of Fantasy the title page is often a 2-pages artwork with not much text, and sometimes fragments of art are reprinted on consecutive pages, so I treat them as an 'illustrated story' (I think there was even a feature request to display 'illustrated by' in content listings). Also, when editing from online sources, we often have only information 'illustrated by' without information on individual artworks. On the other hand, RoF's Gallery (which includes reprints of artworks) would be better with individual works listed (like 'Cover of: Title (year)', 'Page from:...'). Mind that I have only recent IZ, F&SF and a few RoF and sometimes I work on 'Writers of the Future' which have illustrated stories. --Roglo 07:39, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

I have been entereing issues of Whispers recently. These tend to contian a lot of art, much of it full-page. I mostly enter this on the page or pages where it actually occurs. An interestign detail, several issues contain a "folio" -- several successive pages of full-page art, not illustrating any story in the magazine, but usually connected with the work of the "featured" or "honored" author, and with an overall title. So far I havbe been making only one entry for each folio if the entire folio is by a singel artist, and separate entries plus an overall entry when different pages are by different artists.

Also, several full-page interior artwors are captioned as illustrations for named works which are NOT in the magazine, generally these are illos for a well-known or recent novel or story by the issue's "featured" author. I have been going into the art record and addign a note in some such cases. -DES ^Talk 21:04, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

OK. It looks like we have some good reasons for the current flexibility although it should be kept in mind that somebody in the future can legitimately add more artwork entries even if a pub has been verified.--swfritter 18:12, 13 May 2008 (UTC)