User talk:Thomas Bull

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Hello, Thomas Bull, 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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Borderlands Magazine

Your submissions adding the first three issues of this periodical have been accepted into the database. A few questions/concerns:

  • The editorials in each issue have been disambiguated with the title of the issue to keep them from being merged with identically titled records. A question; all three issues contained editorials by Stephen Dedman, although you've given Simon Oxwell as the editor of the issues. What is Dedman's role in the magazine?
  • In the note field, you have to add an HTML line break in order to create a new line. Enter "<br>" at the end of the line if you want to start a new one. A simple "enter" stroke on your keyboard isn't recognized in this field.
  • I'm assuming you have copies of these issues and can do a primary verification of the records (see the link in the Welcome section about how to verify data). If you don't have copies, you should record the source for your data in the record's note field.
  • The first and third issue were published by Borderlands Press, while the second was published by Borderlands Publications Incorporated. Is the publisher stated differently in the issues?
  • There was no price given for any of the issues. If there is no stated price enter "A$0" in the field. (I'm assuming this is an Australian publication.)

Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 15:46, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

* Simon Oxwell is listed as Managing Editor, Stephen Dedman as Fiction Editor, and Grant Watson as Art Editor. David Cake, Sandra Norman, and Sarah Xu are also listed as Editors. (For issue 3, David Cake was Non-Fiction Editor.) Anna Hepworth is credited with Production, and Jodie Hunter with Promotions/Publicity.
* Thank you for fixing the note field. (I have had another go at measuring the first three issues, and decided that size doesn't need to be noted for issue 2, since it is A5 size.)
* I have copies of issues 1 to 10 on hand. (There was also an issue 11.) However, I'm thinking of asking Anna Hepworth whether she'd like to check these records and do primary verification.
* Publisher is stated differently in issue 2. In some later issues the variants "Borderlands Publications, Inc" and "Borderlands Publications" occur.
* This is, indeed, an Australian publication with no price information on the covers. It was available via subscription. (I have now entered "A$0" in the price field.)
Thank you. Thomas Bull 04:49, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for the clarifications. When adding publisher credit to ISFDB records, we try to conform to one name when it's possible. So you can drop the "Inc." if most of the ISFDB records of this publisher's output doesn't included it. But keep "Borderlands Press" separate from "Borderlands Publications". They are sufficiently different to maintain a separate ISFDB identity. If you have physical copies of these, don't hesitate to do a verification of the record. As long as the record matches your copy, there's no reason not to. Thanks again. Mhhutchins 17:19, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, one more thing: I may have misled you by placing "A$0" in the price field. From the original description I thought it was a free publication. If it isn't then, the price field should be blanked if there is no stated price yet not a free publication. Add "A$0" only if it is a free Australian publication. I'll make the corrections to the records. Mhhutchins 18:19, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Dating reviews

The dates of reviews should be the date that the review is published, not the date of the book under review. Also, be sure to use a complete date in all ISFDB date fields using the following format: YYYY-MM-DD. If any of the fields are unknown or unstated enter zeros. So a date of May 2012 would be entered "2012-05-00". Thanks. Mhhutchins 18:23, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

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