User talk:PatConolly

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Hello, PatConolly, 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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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! Hauck 03:26, 5 February 2018 (EST)

Brother Coelestin

Hello, I had to tweak a lot your submission as you stumbled in one go on some of the most difficult parts of the ISFB. Based on my understanding of your notes:

  • I've created a record for the Czech (?) original short fiction (this meant creating a whole magazine).
  • Made the english title a variant of the original.
  • Salvaged all the data you gave (or so I hope).
  • Rejected your submission as the publication date for the english text record is the date of first appearance under this specific title/author/language combination so is likely to be, for the time being, the date of Serling's anthology publication.

The results are visible from here. I hope that I correctly translated into the db what you had in mind. Thanks for countributing. Hauck 03:40, 5 February 2018 (EST)

After your last round of submissions, I've tried to order all this. Have a look at the result to see if it's OK. The real questipn is in fact to know if the story was published in its original appearance (in Czech) as by "Jaroslav Vrchlický" or by another name. Hauck 06:26, 10 March 2018 (EST)

Lumir

Hello, I've salvaged what I could from your submissions. As Lumir is not a genre magazine, we do not individiually credit the editor, and there were quite a lot of diverse technical manipulations to arrive at this result. Hope it's what's you intended to achieve. Hauck 06:15, 11 March 2018 (EDT)

I've approved your latest update, changed syntax (you didn't use HTML) and alas, deleted number of pages as you indicate that the excerpt is on page 26 of a 16 pages magazine! Hauck 03:23, 12 March 2018 (EDT)
For some reason the "Edit" links were not showing when I previously looked at this page. I logged in again just now and see the links (but I'm an old person - maybe I just missed them). Anyway, there are magazines where the page numbering continues through issues until the next volume starts again. For example, Amazing Stories Quarterly, Fall 1928 is listed as having 144 pages, but the contents start with page 435. In the absence of a physical copy of the individual magazine, I'm inclined to go with the page numbers we see printed in the bound Volume. If you still wish to delete this page count, then you should also delete it from issue 3. PatConolly 23:48, 12 March 2018 (EDT)
You were probably not logged on the wiki-side (in fact you usually need to log twice, once for the site and once for the wiki). Apart for this, such information as given above should go either in the "Note" field of the publication or in the "Note to moderator" field. Even if I'm perfectly aware that "there are magazines where the page numbering continues through issues until the next volume starts again" (you'll find that our contributors are not that ignorant of bibliographic details), it would have been easier to indicate to the moderator that may accept your submissions that it was the case here. Hauck 04:19, 13 March 2018 (EDT)
Thank you. It would never have occurred to me that two separate logins were involved. I may not make many more contributions, not from lack of inclination, but simply because there is little information I might have that is not already present in ISFDB - except US magazine publication dates. PatConolly 11:21, 13 March 2018 (EDT)

Amazing Stories Quarterly, Winter 1928

Hello, I've rejected your submission as we somewhat regularize the date of the records for magazines (regardless of what can be found of the "real" publication date), see here. Note that I've changed the dates to simply "1928".Hauck 04:14, 13 March 2018 (EDT)

Amazing Stories

Hello, I've approved your submissions. Two points:

  • your HTML was badly formed, when using the <li> syntax there must be a framing pair of <ul></ul> (see how it's done in the versions that I modified). AFAIC, I tend to stick to the most basic possible HTML format (without any niceties).
  • when updating a record that is PVed (Primary Verified) by an active contributor, our etiquette requires that they be notified. In this case, a general warning along the lines of "hello, I intend to modify the notes for your verified Amazings" is perfectly acceptable. Hauck 03:38, 14 March 2018 (EDT)
Regarding HTML I see. I was following what I observed in other records where I had NOT noticed the framing /ul. I wasn't actually trying to build a "list". I just wanted the info about dates to be on a separate line from the info about artists, etc. I thought <li> meant new line. Maybe a simple carriage return is all I need, without HTML? PatConolly 15:13, 14 March 2018 (EDT)
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