User talk:Galacticjourney

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Hello, Galacticjourney, and welcome to the ISFDB Wiki! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Note: Image uploading isn't entirely automated. You're uploading the files to the wiki which will then have to be linked to the database by editing the publication record.

Please be careful in editing publications that have been primary verified by other editors. See Help:How to verify data#Making changes to verified pubs. But if you have a copy of an unverified publication, verifying it can be quite helpful. See Help:How to verify data for detailed information.

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! -- JLaTondre (talk) 14:09, 28 December 2018 (EST)

Galactic Journey

I holding your addition of Galactic Journey as a fanzine. Looking at the supplied link, this looks like a website blog. While ISFDB does catalog webzines, we don't catalog websites in of themselves. We limit our inclusion to online periodicals with distinct issues (see our policy for more details). Abyss & Apex or Beneath Ceaseless Skies would be examples of webzines. Am I missing something regarding the Galactic Journey website? Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 18:14, 28 December 2018 (EST)

Ah, you are correct. It is web only. Is there any way to accommodate web-only entities? Given that they are now eligible for awards (and the Journey has won the Serling and was a Hugo finalist), it seems there should be some way to give them credit in the isfdb. There are, after all, nearly a thousand articles now on the Journey, far more than was published in most fanzines. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Galacticjourney (talk • contribs) .

The issue is not that it is web (we're fine with that). The issue is whether it is an online periodical or simply a blog. We do give extra weight for awards so I will post this at ISFDB:Community Portal. Please feel free to comment there. Also, it's best to sign your posts as it makes following conversations easier. You can use the little signature looking button above the edit window which will insert --~~~~. The software will automatically convert that to the signature. -- JLaTondre (talk) 20:43, 28 December 2018 (EST)

Thank you much for that! :) I'll head there. I should hope we are more than "simply" a blog. There are twenty staff associated with the Journey, many of whom are published SFF authors; we produce an article every other day. --Galacticjourney 21:57, 28 December 2018 (EST)

Rhodomagnetic Digest

I approved your submission, but severely edited it, using an online copy found here.--Dirk P Broer 20:25, 29 December 2018 (EST)

Nicely done! What did you edit (so I know for the future)? I see interior artwork has been added. (BTW, that's my copy you linked. I found it at a local book store and scanned it. :) ) --Galacticjourney 08:59, 31 December 2018 (EST)

On the ISFDB database pages, you should see a "My Changed Primary Verifications" link on the left menu. It actually should be highlighted if you haven't clicked on it yet (the highlighting is to let you know there are new changes). If you click it, it will show edits to your verified pubs. You can click on the listed edit and see the changed fields. Unfortunately, our history function is incomplete (there are plans to expand it). It will only show the current data, but it will at least tell you what Dirk edit and what he changed it to. -- JLaTondre (talk) 09:27, 31 December 2018 (EST)

Thank you, and Happy New Year!

Editing a magazine/webzine

Hi, I rejected all your submissions, sorry. Please read our wiki before you make more submissions. Also, look -open them in 'edit mode'- at how other fanzines/magazines/webzines are entered, and try to emulate that. I know it is not as easy as it looks at first glance, but everybody is allowed to make mistakes in the beginning.--Dirk P Broer 18:54, 9 January 2019 (EST)

Thank you for your quick response! I'm confused. Since I'm cloning an entry already accepted in the database, can you tell me what was wrong with the other entries? Also, how do I link the Hugo nomination to the existing entry? Thanks again! :) --Galacticjourney 15:54, 10 January 2019 (EST)

Here's the problem -- there are more than a hundred articles in every "issue" (which is really just a convenient way to assemble all of the works of one year in a single entry). It would be prohibitively difficult, and not particularly useful, to list every article by every author. What do you recommend be done to assure the authors get credit for having contributed without having to break out every article? Thank you. --Galacticjourney 19:30, 10 January 2019 (EST)