User talk:Lawiedc
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The Zone #4, Summer 1996
Hello, and Welcome back! I have approved your submission, but I have a question as to what you wanted to update in the title 'Maternity Leave' by Dominic Mcdonagh? - you didn't submit any changes as far as I could see?
Also, I suspect that you have the publication in your possession. If you do, consider primary verifying the publication record, as that indicates that you are confirming the publication data is accurate, and has been verified against an actual copy. Thanks! MagicUnk 13:47, 9 September 2020 (EDT)
Thanks - it was just the typo that the surname is "McD" not "Mcd".
- It is one of the quirks of the ISFDB that the software reverts to the capitalization as originally entered in the author name record. So if you want to change capitalization of an author's name, you'll have to edit the author's record, not the contents of the publication record. I've corrected the name for you. See here Dominic McDonagh. MagicUnk 09:49, 11 September 2020 (EDT)
OK - noted. Thanks.
Magazines and series
When adding magazines, we do not use the "Series Num" field - the number goes into the title only :) Other from that, the entry was well done. I set the title for the EDITOR as well (it is always a second step). One question - where is the 1997-12-00 date coming from?
One more small note on formatting - when adding a magazine, we name them in a bit of a specific way - with the main name of the magazine followed by a comma and then all the issue identifiers. Welcome back! Annie 06:10, 13 September 2020 (EDT)
- Thank you - I used the Winter 1997-98 as being Dec-Feb and so used the FAQ info that 1997-12-00 would be the correct approach. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lawiedc (talk • contribs) .
- If it is known that Winter is December- February for this magazine, then it is the correct date indeed. If not, 1997-00-00 would be the correct date. Annie 08:15, 13 September 2020 (EDT)
- Thanks - my recollection from the time it was being published was that the intent was the "common" UK seasonality. Lawiedc 12:40, 15 September 2020 (EDT)
Reviews of non-eligible titles
Hello,
When a magazine contains a review for a title which is not eligible for addition to the DB (such as comics and non-SF works), we add these as essays. So a few of the ones here will need to be converted.
In order to convert them, you have to add an essay with a name "Review of XXX by YYY" and then remove the review that is there now. Let me know if you have any questions and/or if you need assistance. Annie 04:25, 21 September 2020 (EDT)
- Thanks - now that I know how to link reviews to titles, I can match the ones that exist and adjust the ones that don't. Lawiedc 11:36, 23 September 2020 (ED
- Actually, now I am more confused. For example, some of the BFI titles are in isfdb, some aren't. Should those which are missing be added? Can I do that, from just the minimal info available in the review (title, author, publisher, price)? Lawiedc 12:17, 23 September 2020 (EDT)
- Depends. It is possible that not all of them are eligible. The rule with non-fiction (see The Rules) is that it is eligible only if it can be plausibly linked to a written fiction title. So a book about "how a movie is made" will usually be out but a book about "the topics of a movie" is eligible. The exact working is:
- Published non-fiction works about speculative fiction which can be plausibly linked to published (as defined above) speculative fiction. This rule allows the inclusion of secondary bibliographies, i.e. bibliographies of bibliographies, which are two steps removed from published speculative fiction. It also allows the inclusion of non-fiction works about shared cross-media universes like "Doctor Who" and "Star Wars", but only as long as there is a plausible connection to the universe's published component. Thus a book about "Star Trek physics" can be included (because it applies to all types of media including novels) while a book about Star Trek movie outtakes and bloopers should be excluded.
- If they are eligible then yes, they can be added. But if they not, then the reviews will need to be added as essays. Also we have quite a lot of ineligible titles still in the DB (as the rules had changed) so we are doing some cleanup at the moment. Annie 12:26, 23 September 2020 (EDT)
- I think I follow - and will apply the logic as best I can to the reviews in The Zone. Thanks Lawiedc 10:16, 26 September 2020 (EDT)
- Depends. It is possible that not all of them are eligible. The rule with non-fiction (see The Rules) is that it is eligible only if it can be plausibly linked to a written fiction title. So a book about "how a movie is made" will usually be out but a book about "the topics of a movie" is eligible. The exact working is:
Review
Since this review is about a not eligible book I changed it into an essay. --Zapp 14:30, 24 September 2020 (EDT)
- Thanks - I have had a pile of those, as I learn my way, so have fixed the rest now, I think. Lawiedc 11:10, 29 September 2020 (EDT)
Cosmic Day Trip
There is a shortfiction with this title in Your pv pub, but the same title by the same author is enlisted as a poem here. What do You think about the type? --Zapp 18:40, 25 September 2020 (EDT)
- You are right - I had a closer look and it is verse :-), so I have changed it Lawiedc 10:15, 26 September 2020 (EDT)
The Subjugate review
About this change. I will also check with the PV but would you know how it was credited on the page with the review? It was miscredited there as well, we handle the credits here a bit differently (we leave is as credited and then variant to the real name). Thanks! Annie 06:24, 28 September 2020 (EDT)
- Hi - it was credited to Duncan Lunan in the magazine itself. Mr Lunan does also review for Interzone, so it is a genuine mistake. If ISFDB would rather leave the record as is stated in the published magazine, I'm not going to fuss. Lawiedc 11:10, 29 September 2020 (EDT)
The Chosen
The Chosen is a fantasy book and, as such, is an eligible title for this database. I have done the following:
- Rejected the submission removing the review
- Removed the essay version of the review
- Changed the author on the review to Ricardo Pinto - due to how the ISFDB software works, we correct names of authors in reviews to the form used in the database. Normally, we would add a pub note about the difference, but in this case, since the data is from FictionMags, it is just as likely it is an error on their part as it is an error in the pub.
- Linked the review to the novel
Hopefully that was clear, but if you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 16:53, 30 September 2020 (EDT)
Understood Lawiedc 05:02, 7 October 2020 (EDT)