User talk:Dtardon

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Grantville Gazette

I approved your submissions but have a couple of comments

• The price should be entered with the cents. for example, $6.00 rather than $6. Please see Template:PublicationFields:Price.
• We don't have image linking rights from grantvillegazette for the cover images you used. Please see Template:PublicationFields:ImageURL. The publications you added are Grantville Gazette XII and Grantville Gazette XIII. --Marc Kupper|talk 15:01, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

I started looking into these and got side-tracked. I was wondering if they should be set up as MAGAZINE instead of as ANTHOLOGY. The 1632 site describes it as "the 1632 universe's magazine". --MartyD 16:13, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, you're right: the "what's it all about" section of each one speaks about magazine as well. Another thing that just occured to me is that the number in the name should be in arabic numerals, as roman numerals are used by paper books published by Baen. This was of little importance in the past, because the paper books contained (nearly) the same content as the magazine issues, but this has changed since Grantville Gazette V. That one is a selection of stories from magazine issues 5-11 and the (supposed) following books will follow the trend. --Dtardon 17:02, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

I do not think the Grantville Gazette is usefully or properly regarded as a magazine. i have verified several of the publications, and intend to enter and verify others, all as anthologies. They are, as aeveral anthology sereis, near the line between anthology and magazine. But given that we indexed Destinies as an anthology sereis, I think we should do the same with Grantville Gazettte. Moreover, at least soem of these have multiple editions (pb and ebook). MAGAZINE records do not support multiple publications of a given title. -DES ^Talk 17:53, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I did not mean to stir the pot, nor was I advocating for magazine. It was just a question I had when looking into the original submissions. I hadn't gotten far enough to realize there was already a precedent to follow. David, I'll leave the submissions to you. Sorry about creating extra work. --MartyD 10:27, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Designating length for the stories in the Grantville Gazettes

I've accepted one of your submissions designating a length (short story,novelette, etc) to the stories, but I wonder if these came from a word count or any other indirect source. Thanks. Mhhutchins 18:09, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

The word counts came from http://1632.org/1632tech/timeframes.html and the length designation is based on http://www.sfwa.org/archive/awards/faq.htm#6. --Dtardon 14:56, 4 October 2010 (UTC)