User talk:Mythicdelirium

BLongley 01:35, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Mythic Delirium 1
Thanks for submitting what I hope is the first of many issues! I've made a few adjustments to conform to ISFDB standards, you can see the results. Basically I added the issue number so that it will appear separately from any other issues like (a stub record I created to record the Rhysling Award Winner). You seem to have got all the titles and author names in nicely standard format already, which is frankly quite unusual, well done! BLongley 01:55, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Minor questions - are you in a position to grant us permission to lift the cover image from mythicdelirium.com ? If not, we'd rather have a local copy uploaded, or a link to an approved site, than end up accused of "bandwidth theft". And for The Reluctant Heretic (from "Inquisition Sonnets"), is "from Inquisition Sonnets" actually part of the title, or is it a comment on where else it has been published? If the latter, we'd want to record "Inquisition Sonnets" as a separate collection or anthology with that as one of the contents. (We do try to be very complete.) Thanks for contributing! BLongley 01:55, 21 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I am indeed in a position to grant that permission. Permission granted! Mythicdelirium 00:06, 28 September 2011 (UTC)


 * OK, I'll try and remember where I am supposed to record that permission so that every other Mod knows to allow such. Thanks! BLongley 00:59, 28 September 2011 (UTC)


 * And "from Inquisition Sonnets" is part of the title. I didn't see this stuff till after I uploaded Issue 2 information, will adjust accordingly. Mythicdelirium 00:06, 28 September 2011 (UTC)


 * We can't spot new editors just from account creation, we have to wait for actual submissions and then we'll jump on them with (hopefully helpful) welcomes and pointers to the help pages, and then offer advice. You're unusually good for a beginner, did you actually read our help before you started? BLongley 00:59, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

I did! Mythicdelirium 04:22, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Mythic Delirium 2-4
Thanks for these! As before, pretty good submissions and I only made minor changes: a "." after the "P" in and a space after "J." for and after the "K." for. The software can cope with slight differences in case but isn't so good with punctuation. :-/ BLongley 01:20, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

I adjusted "$5" to "$5.00" to conform with our standard - I'm not sure why we have that standard, but I'm English and understand as much of the reasoning as there is behind our entries for "Pounds, Shillings and Pence" for older British publications. BLongley 01:20, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

As to "I added four too many content fields and couldn't figure out how to remove them. Sorry about that!" - don't worry, we wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't mentioned it, the software removed the excess for us anyway. I think there is a problem if you leave an entirely blank entry and still have some more after that - the software stops at the end of the list or at the first blank entry, so it's best not to leave a gap. BLongley 01:20, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Anyway, I look forward to the rest of your submissions, you're a pleasure to work with so far. BLongley 01:20, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Well, thank you! (I submitted one more before I saw these.) Mythicdelirium 04:23, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Typical...
... You wait two weeks for another issue to come along, give up waiting and make your own way, then it arrives! :-/ I've been entering stubs for all the missing issues today - see here so please work on adjusting those rather than submitting totally new editions - and let ME know where I went wrong. I'll try and tidy up the issues we crossed on. Thanks for coming back to it! BLongley 21:36, 16 October 2011 (UTC)


 * "illustration" is a bit too vague - please use the name of the story it illustrates, or if it's not illustrating any particular story, give it the name of the caption, or if it doesn't even have that, add the name of the publication it's in as a suffix. BLongley 21:51, 16 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the page numbers and illustrations for Issue 22. As above, please consider a better name than "illustration". And regular columns like "Myths & Delusions" should have the name of the publication it's in as a suffix - it would save space here to merge them all, but somebody might want to add details about what each particularly essay was about, so we try and disambiguate them. BLongley 23:31, 16 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Also, Tim Millins looks suspiciously like a typo for, can you double-check please? BLongley 21:51, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the notes! Will fix to conform. (And, yes, that's a typo.) --Mythicdelirium 04:30, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Frontispiece titling
(entitlement?) Hi, and welcome. It's not at all clear in the help, but for that Mullins artwork in, if it's titled "frontispiece", what you have done is fine. If it's an untitled frontispiece, we would use the name of the publication instead (i.e., "Mythic Delirum, Free Sampler Issue, 2004"), and you can optionally add " (frontispiece)" to that. If you think about it from the artist's "bibliography" point of view, multiple frontispieces "frontispiece" would be indistinguishable from one another. Thanks, and thank you for contributing. --MartyD 11:19, 17 October 2011 (UTC)


 * In this case, it's actually an illustration reprinted from a previous issue. How should that be handled? --Mythicdelirium 03:08, 19 October 2011 (UTC)


 * In a bit of a coincidence, we've recently been discussing artwork handling, although that is more focused on cover art then reused elsewhere. If the illustration is not titled/captioned, then what we'd do is give each the title appropriate for its use (e.g., where it illustrated a story, we'd use "Story Title", and where it's the frontispiece we'd use "Mythic Delerium, Free Sampler Issue, 2004 (frontispiece)").  Then we would make the reprint a "variant" of the original, which would cause both to show up as related in Mullins' bibliographic summary.  I'm happy to set this up if you tell me which is the other printing.  --MartyD 10:56, 19 October 2011 (UTC)


 * If you would like to try it yourself.... If you go to the frontispiece, at the left you will see "Edit Title Data" (where you could change the title itself, its date, etc.), and you will also see "Make this Title a Variant Title or Pseudonymous Work". That latter lets you do the linking.  To link to an existing title, you need to know its ID, which is the number you see at the end of the URL when you are viewing it.  E.g., for the frontispiece, the URL will appear as  http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1339805 , so the ID for the frontispiece title is 1339805.  You would need to do this with the other printing, then come back to the frontispiece and make it the variant, using that other printing's ID as the "parent ID".  Feel free to try it -- you can't hurt anything -- and ask if you get stuck.  You're also under no obligation; I'm happy to take care of it if you'd rather.  Thanks.  --MartyD 10:56, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Multiple illustrations for the same work
Hi again. One more thing.... If you have multiple pieces of art illustrating the same story, we add "[2]", "[3]", etc. on the subsequent ones. (Sorry, I don't know why we don't add "[1]" to the first one). I did this for the pieces in so you can see what it looks like. --MartyD 11:36, 17 October 2011 (UTC)