User talk:Pgowen

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Welcome!

Hello, Pgowen, 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:

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! --MartyD 10:10, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Preston Grassmann modification submission

Hi, and welcome. I have a question about your submission to change Preston Grassmann: It doesn't seem to change anything. I can't tell if the save was accidental or if something you typed in didn't survive the submission process (sometimes ill-formatted information gets thrown away silently). Let me know what you were trying to do, and I'll be happy to help. You can reply here by editing this section and indenting your response by putting a colon at the beginning of the line. Thanks. --MartyD 10:19, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

p.s. You can see your submission by using the My Pending Edits link on the main ISFDB page. --MartyD 10:21, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

I accepted the submission, but if you see this, you should revisit that record and try whatever changes you intended again. Thanks. --MartyD 11:09, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

The Urban Uncanny

For your propose submission of The Urban Uncanny as a non-fiction publication by Preston Grassmann, containing a review dated "Spring 2012" by Grassman of Lauren Beukes' The Urban Uncanny, are you meaning to record the review that appeared in Bull Spec #7, Spring 2012 (e.g., as I found listed here)? If so, this will need to be done differently. We can record the whole issue of the magazine (see #6, Autumn 2011, for example). Full-blown help for recording new publications is here, if you'd like to try your hand at it. If you'd rather not, I would be happy to enter that issue for you. Thanks, and thanks for contributing. --MartyD 11:09, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

I have entered the magazine issue and the review, and I have rejected your submission. Please take a look at this and make sure it is accurate. Thanks. --MartyD 12:45, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Caledonia Dreamin

Hello, I have put your submission on hold, because there are some unresolved questions: 1) The publisher should probably be 'Eibonvale Press', which is the one we have already in the database. 2) Publisher states a second editor, Chris Kelso. 3) Publisher states a different price (in GBP rather than in $), what is your source for the price? 4) Publisher states some more stories than just one (I may add them for you). 5) Do you have permission to enclose a link to the site of the cover image? (if not, we aren't allowed to display it). Thanks, Stonecreek 11:18, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

After no response for some time I added data and modified the entry to the stated source, the publisher, with the stated second editor, price and page count. Please use for future submissions the data you actually state in the notes (there will be differences otherwise). Thanks, Stonecreek 10:02, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review

I've put your submission to add a web-only story to the database on hold. As you may know, under Point 2 of our current Rules of Acquisition it currently does not qualify for inclusion and therefore will likely need to be rejected, however your 'Note to the Moderator' included some details as to why you believe AE should be eligible for inclusion in the ISFDB, and I have reproduced these notes in a new discussion on our Rules and Standards page. We will need your input as to AE's eligibility (also, are you a member of the editorial team?), so please present your views there (and you will need to sign your comments with four consecutive tildes (~) , which will automatically add your e-signature). For your information, we had a similar discussion last month about another webzine, Perihelion, which you may also wish to look at. Thanks. PeteYoung 06:46, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

It's been a week since I wrote the above, and with no reply here or to the Rules and Standards post I will need to reject the edit as, with a few exceptions, web-based content does not fall within our Rules of Acquisition. If you would like to present a case for web-based contents at AE to be included in the ISFDB, please raise the subject either in the above-linked post or in a new discussion at our Rules and Standards discussion page. Thanks for contributing. PeteYoung 02:31, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

According to the Rules of Acquisition on your ISFDB:Policy page, exceptions for web-based magazines published in html format can be made in the case of an SFWA qualification. AE: Canadian Science Fiction currently meets these requirements. Thank you for giving me a chance to reply. Pgowen 02:47, 18 June 2015 (UTC)Pgowen

Thanks for responding... Please go ahead and state the case on the Rules and Standards discussions page. PeteYoung 11:19, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Nature

Hello, I've rejected your submission for an issue of this magazine. IMHO it's better that you first have look at this grid of already existing issues and then use one of the more recent example as a template to enter your specific issue (see for example the format, how the publisher or the editor are entered), it will likely save you (and the moderators) a lot of work. Hauck 13:39, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Hal-Con 2016

Hello, I've rejected your submission. Again, please take some time to study how we record data instead of trying to enter nonsensical information. In this case, you're probably wanting to add the ESSAY on page 62 of this issue. If so use the "Edit This Pub" link to achieve your aims. Hauck 17:29, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Of course, I'm not "trying" to enter nonsensical information. I've entered data several times previously using the exact same method and was able to make many entries. I am not the author of these works, but an agent with several clients. You might be interested to know that there are several professional works by this author that are not in your database. - Paul
Sure, just for the fun of it note that "several times" means less then 10 edits and that the proposed submission here intended to create an issue of a magazine called Hal-Con 2016, whose author was to be "Locus Magazine", with an ISBN, a 2016-00-00 date, a price of "7.50" (what?) and a size of "digest". Owners of the real thing will appreciate the sensible (or not) part of the whole mess. To be more serious, the first edits are always the hardest and I gave you above the correct method to do what you intend to do. Feel free to use this advice or not. The fact that the ISFDB is not complete is quite well-known to all the contributors (it's BTW the reason why they contribute). Hauck 08:38, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
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