User talk:Concatenate6isf

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Publication series vs. Fiction series, pagination, cover art credit
I accepted your submission updating this pub but had to make some changes to conform with ISFDB standards:
 * 1) I removed the data you placed in the Publication series and number fields. Those fields are used for a series created by the publisher that usually contains multiple titles by various authors (e.g. SF Rediscovery and Gollancz SF Masterworks).  "The Reader's Bloch" would be considered a fiction series which is entered at the title level.  I've created a new series and placed this title into it.
 * 2) When entering pages it's unnecessary to add leading zeros in order to create a three-digit number. The system automatically sorts contents by page number.  I dropped the zeros.
 * 3) Only give the name of the cover artist in the Artist1 field. It is not necessary to add "(cover)" to the end of the name, as it is understood that this field is for the cover artist.  Adding the extension would create a new artist by the name of "Gahan Wilson (cover)" and the credit will not show up on the summary page for "Gahan Wilson".

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The Fear Planet... by Bloch
I've placed the submission to update this pub on hold. I'm concerned that your changes create a record which is drastically different than the book as it was previously entered. It may have been entered from info on the Locus database. Do you know if there may be different editions from Subterranean? Other than the contents and pagination, does the remaining data (date, ISBN, page count, price, etc.) match our current record? (We'll have to remove the leading zeroes in the pagination and the data you placed in the publication series field, as I've explained above.) Thanks. Mhhutchins 19:31, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The data submitted was from the physical book (my copy is number 491 of 750). I knew I would have to justify the submission, unfortunately there was no place I could see on the edit form to enter any comments/change rationale for the approving official to consider/review.
 * AFAIK Subterranean only does one print run of each title; there are no different editions, or reprintings; they are heavily into the whole "limited edition" thing IMHO.
 * All of the cataloging data is correct as entered, only the contents are wrong.
 * I agree the existing ISFDB data probably comes from the Locus 2005 web data, but it must have been some sort of pre-publication/advance data that Locus collected, because the data on Subterranean's own web site is also wrong. http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SP&Product_Code=bloch4 also lists "The Tempter" and "A Lesson for the Teacher," which are not in the book as published.
 * [The same situation also exists for Skeleton in the Closet. http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SP&Product_Code=bloch5 also lists story titles that are not in the published book, but at least on this page Subterranean listed the contents as tentative.]
 * I don't what else I can add, other than I can provide pictures of the title, copyright, contents pages, etc, if that will help. Regards. Concatenate6isf 08:16, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't what else I can add, other than I can provide pictures of the title, copyright, contents pages, etc, if that will help. Regards. Concatenate6isf 08:16, 30 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree that the Locus information may have been based on pre-publication data, and knowing Subterranean's habit of announcing books that differ from the finished product (and sometimes never publishing at all), I can see where the confusion began. I'll accept the record, delete the records of the wrong contents, and make the changes in the pagination (dropping the leading zeros).  Thanks. Mhhutchins 15:58, 1 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I also see that a couple of stories are credited to "Tarleton Fisk" which may have been incorrectly entered based on the pseudonym credited for the original publication of the stories. Are the stories credited to "Fisk" on their title pages?  If not, we'll need to remove those content records and add new records for the title as by Bloch.  Mhhutchins 16:03, 1 July 2010 (UTC)