User talk:Eidolon74

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I hope you enjoy editing here! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will insert your name and the date. If you need help, check out the community portal, or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Stonecreek 16:03, 1 May 2018 (EDT)

The Year's Best Body Horror 2017

I accepted The Year's Best Body Horror 2017, but made a couple of changes:

• I set the format based on Amazon's dimensions
• I set the price based on the rear cover image at Amazon

Since you have the publication, please double check, but our preference is that all available information be filled in. One question, you give entered the title as "The Year's Best Body Horror 2017". Is this what is on the title page? The cover shows "Year's Best Body Horror 2017 Anthology" which is consisent as to what is shown inside the Kindle example. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 17:34, 1 May 2018 (EDT)

As there has not been a response, I have updated the title to match the title page per Amazon Look Inside. If you copy is different on the title page. Please let me know. -- JLaTondre (talk) 12:21, 6 May 2018 (EDT)

On entering Names

Hi, Can you perhaps take greater care with entering data, especially names? While we, humans, have no problem with an, ann, anne or anna for the same person, a database sees all of them as quite seperate entities. Hence Anne Radcliffe is another person as compared to Ann Radcliffe. And Charles Robert Maturin is another than Robert Charles Maturin.--Dirk P Broer 19:19, 3 September 2018 (EDT)

Magazine dates

Hello! Magazines do have some specialities, for example in stating the date of publication: we do give only a distinct month (or even only a year) of publication. So, Weirdbook #39 should have the date of 2018-07-00, assuming that amazon's data is correct. Is there any notation as for the date of publication inside the magazine, such as 'Juli, 2018' or 'Summer 2018'? Stonecreek 08:52, 4 September 2018 (EDT)

Thanks for your quick response. Shall I (or do you want to) change the date to May? (Also, please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (Stonecreek 09:45, 4 September 2018 (EDT)) ). Stonecreek 09:45, 4 September 2018 (EDT)

Some changes to The Spooky Isles Book of Horror

Hi-- I have been looking at the record you did for The Spooky Isles Book of Horror Volume 1 and would like to suggest some changes...

1. The preview of the ebook title page shows the title as "The Spooky Isles Book of Horror, Vol. 1"--is it that way in the print edition too?
2. A typo: You have "Letters from a Toxis Heart" instead of "Toxic"
3. A capitalization correction: "Than" should be capitalized in "Stranger Than Before/Background on Stranger Than Before"
4. Story lengths--I think they are all short stories, right? Please add the lengths
5. Please add the price (£7.99?) and the cover image from amazon

Thanks for fixing these things! --Vasha (cazadora de tildes) 18:05, 18 October 2018 (EDT)

The Troll Garden

Hello, Two questions about this one.

• Are you sure that all the stories are genre?
• Why the stories are not credited to the same form of the author name as the collection.

Thanks! Annie 21:36, 2 August 2019 (EDT)

The Horned Woman

A question about this submission. The version of the story "The Horned Woman" whose first publication date your submission would change from 1955 to 1877 is by Augusta Baker (1911-1998). The Google Books story of the same title that you linked in "Note to Moderator" is by Lady Wilde (1821-1896). Would you happen to know if the text is identical? TIA! Ahasuerus 22:11, 14 August 2019 (EDT)

[consolidating the discussion on one Talk page]

Yes, thanks. In regards to the "Horned Woman" first published in the anthology "The Talking Tree: Fairy Tales from 15 Lands" by Augustus Baker (https://archive.org/details/talkingtreefairy00bake/page/6) is it the same story taken from "Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland" by Lady Wilde (https://archive.org/details/cu31924074445762/page/n13) Cheers —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Eidolon74 (talk • contribs) .

Thanks for looking into this! I have updated the Note field to explain this story's publication history as we currently understand it.

Now that we have confirmed that the text is the same, we will need to determine how the author was credited in each publication -- see the Note update linked above. I'll ask the verifier of Witches! Witches! Witches! to double check that the story is attributed to Augusta Baker in his copy. For now I will keep "1955" as the value of this title record's "Date" field because we use the date of the first appearance of each title/author combination. To quote Help:Screen:NewPub:

• When entering a variant title record, enter the earliest known date when this variant record was published. This includes variant title records created for new titles, new alternate names, new translations and/or significant textual revisions.

Would you happen to be able to see page 48 of "The Talking Tree: Fairy Tales from 15 Lands" on the Archive.org Web site? I can only see the table of contents, so I can't tell how the author is credited. Thanks again! Ahasuerus 19:08, 20 August 2019 (EDT)

Yes, Ahasuerus they are the same stories word for word. The "Horned Woman" in The Talking Tree is taken directly from the 1877 The Dublin University Magazine July pg 78. by Lady Wilde. Thanks

The Ludgate

I approved a bunch of your submissions for this magazine, but had to correct each of them in two respects. First, the magazine title alone is not sufficient. Either the date of the issue or the number of the issue must be included in the title; the date is preferred, although sometimes editors include both the date and number. And "The Editors" of the magazine is not used. I substituted "uncredited", although "unknown" would also be commonly used. Finally, I put all the issues under a series titled "The Ludgate". This makes it easier for interested parties to find specific issues. I really should have rejected these submissions, but didn't want to make you reenter all these data. Bob 17:43, 21 August 2019 (EDT)

By the way, you should enter the source of these pubs in the notes for each. I would guess that the source is some anthology or collection of the stories you give as content. Bob 17:38, 24 August 2019 (EDT)