User talk:Ymmv

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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! -DES Talk 16:26, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Startling Stories, November 1947
I have your edit to add page numbers to content items for on hold. Thank you for entering this information. Are you working from a physical copy of the magazine? If so, please consider doing a primary verification once the entry is approved. If not, what is your source for the page numbers, please? -DES Talk 16:30, 17 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I've got a full copy of the magazine available to me. Which makes this a primary verification.--Ymmv 16:42, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I have approved the edit. In such cases in future you can use the 'Note to moderator' field to include a comment such as "Working from a physical copy". This lets the moderator know your source and obviates any need to question it. The contents of the 'Note to moderator' go away once the moderator approves the edit -- they do NOT become part of the permanent publication record. Note that if you are entering data from a secondary source (anything other than the physical publication) it is very helpful if you indicate the source in the "Notes" field. This field does become part of the permanent publication record. It can be used to record anything for which we do not have a field in the database, such as the source of data, location of art credits in a pub, oddities about the pub, translator, cover designer, book editor, Library of Congress number (LCCN), other outside record identifiers (Worldcat, British Library, etc), and other possibly helpful information.
 * Welcome and I hope you like the place and stay around. -DES Talk 16:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Is there an easy way to resort the magazine index? Or add an item to the magazine index at a specific place in the list without starting all over again?Ymmv 17:01, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * If by the "Magazine Index" you mean the Issue Grid or the "View All Issues" list I think these are driven by the Date field on each publication. Can you be more specific about the change you want to make? If I can't help you, I will find someone who can. -DES Talk 17:11, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I was thinking of adding additional items to like the letters page and interior art, and also ordering the contents by page number like other Startling Stories issues but I don't see how it's done. Or is the contents list automatically reordered after an edit? --Ymmv 17:23, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh I see. In that case the display is automatically sorted by page number, as long as you enter the page numbers there is nothing you need to do to sort the entries.
 * A few FYIs: Letter columns are entered as ESSAY type items. Individual letters are generally only entered if the writer is someone well known in the SF field. Interior art that illustrates a specific story gets the same title as the story, and the "author" is the artist, or "uncredited" if there is no artist listed. If here is more than one piece of interior art for a given story, add numbers 1, 2, 3,... to the individual titles to keep them distinct. See Help:Screen:EditPub for more details -- lots more. Happy editing. -DES Talk 18:59, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Primary verifications
I see you have uploaded a number of book covers and edited the appropriate publication records -- thanks. I presume you have those books in hand, and so can primary verify them. Please remember that this is not automatic, you need to use the "Verify this pub" link from the publication display, then find the row for the kind of verification you are making (primary, in this case) and click on the middle option in that row to change the state to "Verified" for that verification type/source. See Help:Screen:Verify for more details. -DES Talk 19:39, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

How to determine which function to use to add a publication to the database
I'm holding a submission to add a record for a Dutch translation of Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, because the name of the publication doesn't match the title record under which you entered it. If the titles and/or author credits do not match EXACTLY, you should not use the "Add Publication to This Title" function, but instead use the "Add New Novel" function. A additional submission is required to variant the newly created pub's title record (De linkerhand van het duister) with the canonical title record (The Left Hand of Darkness), not the other Dutch translation's title record (Duisters Linkerhand).

As a rule of thumb, follow this path to determine which function to use in order to add a new publication to the database:

First, do a search for the title and author in the Title Search Form section of the Advanced Search page.


 * Is there a title record for the exact title and is it by the same author?
 * Yes: Is there a similar pub?
 * Yes: Use the "Clone" function.
 * No: Use the "Add Publication to This Title" function.
 * No: Use the appropriate "Add New..." function. (In this case, "Add New Novel")

I'll accept the submission, unmerge the publication from the title record, and then variant it to the canonical title record. Once it's in the database, you should do a primary verification of the record. I'm assuming you're entering the data from a copy in hand. If not, you should give the source for your data in the record's Note field. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 00:38, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

The publication record is now in the database under the correct title record. Mhhutchins 00:41, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Kathe Koja's The Cipher
I saw that you had uploaded the cover image for this record, and wanted to ask if you could check your copy to see which printing you have. My copy has an incomplete number line ending with "2", but I'm thinking the first printing may have been a printing of advance reading copies. Thanks for checking. Mhhutchins 05:20, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I also have a 2nd printing it seems. --Ymmv 18:18, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Dates on the ISFB
I accepted the submission updating the author date of, but had to go back to correct the birth date. Like all dates on the ISFDB, it should have been entered using this format: YYYY-MM-DD. The system was unable to recognize the entry "8 April 1930", so it zeroed out the date. I corrected it to 1930-04-08, which it displays as "8 April 1930". Thanks. Mhhutchins 15:44, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Cover images for nongenre magazines
I am deleting the cover files that you've uploaded for nongenre magazines in which the cover wasn't speculative fiction-related. See the rules for nongenre magazines here. Also when you get the opportunity, here is the link to a list of the help pages for the most common ISFDB editing tasks. Unfortunately, because the uploading of files is not moderated, I didn't see these uploads in time to stop you from doing them. Thanks for contributing. Mhhutchins 20:24, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Attribution of "The Eclipse Special"
Hi. Your submission making The Eclipse Special a variant with the non-PhD name has a note to the moderator saying "Correct attribution". Does that mean you are trying to correct the attribution to be PhD-less, or does that mean the PhD attribution is correct? Thanks. --MartyD 10:34, 3 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I had a similar question about this variant of Sonnet to Science that had the same "correct attribution" note, although someone beat me to it and accepted the submission. Does the attribution you see in the magazine have the M.D.?  Thanks.  --MartyD 10:38, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Both the cover and the contents page of AS 1930-12 have "William Lenkin, Ph.D. as the author of "The Eclipse Special".

"Sonnet to Science" is problematic. It says "Miles J. Breuer, M.D." on the contents page, but the byline for the poem has "Miles J. Breuer".

There's also only one poem by Breuer in that issue. It does not contain "Sonnet to Our Magazine".--Ymmv 17:06, 3 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Great. That means everything you did was right.  In Breuer's case, we go by the title page for the work, not by the Table of Contents.  Where there's a discrepancy, it can be worth recording in the notes (I will take what you said above and add it).  I will also remove "Sonnet to Our Magazine".  When you're view a publication -- e.g., from this page -- you can use the "Remove Titles from This Pub" editing tool to remove things that shouldn't be there.  This removal is moderated, so you can't do any harm.  But I'll do the removal to save you some time.  Thanks.  --MartyD 10:15, 5 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I noticed there's a Sonnet to Our Magazine by Edward Parsons in the December, 1929 issue. Looks like it was probably a bit of confusion with that.  I added your note and removed the remarks about "Sonnet to Our Magazine".  --MartyD 10:26, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Amazing Stories Verifications
You have verified and. A prior editor had added the contents based on reference sources (Bleiler/Gernsback & Miller/Contento) and included notes stating such. As the verification is to show that the information matches the publication, these notes are no longer needed. I have removed the notes stating the source is an external reference. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 15:54, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

I added the Canadian price to your verified
I added the Canadian price to your verified .Don Erikson 18:51, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Amazing Stories April 1933
Re, your verified pub. I have added the page numbers for all letters and added two additional letters published by Forrest J. Ackerman in this issue, corrected the page numbers of all of the illustrations, which were one page off, made small changes to the notes, added "Discussions," and checked off the Primary2 verification.

The number of errors and omissions lead me to believe that you did not verify against a primary source. If you used a secondary or tertiary source to check the data then you should have checked the appropriate verification such as Tuck, and so on. Taking the Primary/Primary2, etc. verification means that you have checked or rechecked the data entry against a copy in hand.--Rkihara 17:26, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

The Black Wheel
User Horzel identified the artist for The Black Wheel. I added the credit and a note. --Willem H. 14:41, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Amazing Stories May & June 1926
Re: your verified pubs, I corrected some errors in artist attribution. Not sure if these crept in from Miller/Contento or resulted from your verification or what. --Boxen 19:44, 2 October 2013 (UTC)