User talk:Madamecp

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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!--swfritter 14:53, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Cyber-Psychosis #10

An ambitious entry for a new editor. Before I approve your submission there are a few things to discuss.

  • According to the website data this is the November 2001-2002 issue. If such data is available we like to include it with the title data. Perhaps the title should be "Cyber-Psychos AOD, November 2001-2002, #10".
  • Since the magazine has a monthly date the year data can be entered as 2001-11-00.
  • isbn: If this anything other than an isbn it should be preceded by a "#" and should be a catalog number which specifically identifies this issue.
  • Images: Cover images should not be linked to websites unless we have permission.
  • I am not sure what value you entered as dates for the contents but they ended up being invalid entries; the show up 0000-00-00. When entering a new publication where the contents have the same date as the publication you do not actually have to enter the dates for the contents. They are duplicated from the publication date.
  • Story length. It looks like all the stories are probably less than 7500 words so they can probably all be further designated as short stories.
  • Book reviews are automatically linked to the title in the ISFDB for the book if there is an exact match for title and author of the book. Otherwise a manual link must be made. If the book does not exist in our system it can added. It is alright to use secondary sources to add a book as long as the source is documented. If a book, or any other media type, being reviewed does not meet the criteria for our system a review should not be added. The review can be documented in the notes or as an essay entry.

Let me know if this makes sense. Once I get some input I will approve the submission and clean it up a bit.--swfritter 15:18, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

CPAOD #10

Hello.

Well, I'm the editor/publisher. Hence the ambitiousness. (I can add CPAOD #9 as well, I just happened to have #10 sitting on my desk when I noticed it being absent here. There are also 3 CPAOD Books that I should add. I may be slow about adding the others.)

The details. The magazine issue physically came out in October, 2001. It was distributed by hand to a large number of people at the Death Equinox convention -- October 4-7, 2001 -- and then it shipped.

The cover said "2001-2002" because I didn't want people to think I would be publishing another before November 2002 (then I didn't publish another, anyway).

If cover info is best: it should probably be November 2001, because the 2002 part was only a duration and shouldn't have been on the cover (the editor/publisher was exhausted and collapsing and apologizes for any resultant confusion, heh... she's much better now, and getting ready to publish again). The website lists November, 2001: http://cyberpsychos.netonecom.net/cpaod10/ (So that would be the consistent date.)

If reality is best: October 2001.

I did not add all of the contents. I only added contents that were reasonably fiction related. There are contents from old magazine issues here that are not at all fiction related and I've been wondering if they should be removed. My thought is that movies, art, and non-fiction essays written by fiction community individuals might be close enough... but not music articles. I figured I would check on that before going crazy with an ax, though. There is some poetry in CPAOD #10 that I should still add.

Dates on contents: I entered 2001. So no need to enter anything. Most of the stories would have been under 7500 words. If I notice one being longer I will fix it (7500 was my normal max, though). I have my permission to link to my cover scan, but if there is a way to avoid a direct link I would prefer that (I didn't see an upload option). The # entered was an ISSN, the barcode on the cover for distributor and store use. Reviews... I probably have the majority of those books in my basement, but I would need to look for them.

(Jasmine Sailing)

Welcome from me too! There's an "Upload File" option to the left of this page if you look in the "toolbox" section, but when a publication has been accepted there's a better option "Upload Cover Scan" which will pre-populate some more stuff for you, e.g. look at Issue #1. BLongley 20:31, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I approved the submission and added a link from the wiki page. There are still some problems and I will detail them tomorrow; if there are any changes you want to make you can do so. I am going to spend the afternoon reading a 70 year old s-f pulp magazine with hopes that it does not crumble apart in my hands.--swfritter 22:06, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing out the file options, BLongley. I uploaded the CPAOD #10 cover. All of the others I have on-hand are LQ Gifs so I'm going to ask the typesetter to send new improved JPGs. Thanks, swfritter. In the Book Reviews I had a comma in Misha's Red Spider White Web so it wasn't connecting (the book is already in the database). The other one, What the Fuck: The Avant-Porn Anthology is also in the database (with a review by Paul D. Filippo in Asimov's). I'm not spotting how I have it entered differently. I have a story in that book: Without Pain, Without Death, 7,150 words. If I spot my copy of the book I can enter the stories in it. Editor Michael Hemmingson definitely has a page as an author here, I couldn't figure out how to enter him as editor rather than author for this review. I think I need to explore the wiki version of this site. Code I can do, input lines obviously baffle me. Good luck with the pulp, I stopped collecting them 15 or so years ago after watching too many crumble in OTHER peoples' hands. I still have a few nice ones, though. I'm a sucker for psychological writers, so my Weird Tales with Robert Bloch in it is going to the grave with me. Madamecp 23:27, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I changed the Entry Type for "Welcome to Weirdsville" to ESSAY from NONFICTION. NONFICTION applies to book length works. I also manually linked the reviews to the books reviewed. The process: Bring up the title record of the book in question. Copy the title record number from the end of the web address. Bring up the review record. Click on "Link Review to Title". Paste the title record number in the Parent# field and submit. Only the names of the editors of anthologies should be entered - no qualifiers. The main reason we don't want reviews of items that are not in the database is that an author record with no stories is created. It's fine to document reviews of other items as essays or, as I have been doing recently, in the notes field.--swfritter 15:26, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

CPAOD #1

Under Cyber-Psychos AOD Issue #1, Richard Wilber (story: Analog Kid Sees a Movie) is credited as an alias of Rick Wilber.

This, unfortunately, is not possible. The Richard Wilber in CPAOD #1 would've been born around the late 60s and was a new author living in Colorado Springs (at the time, I haven't heard of him since 1992). Madamecp 17:03, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

OK, Richard Wilber unlinked from Rick Wilber, variant title link removed, and biographical note left. BLongley 18:53, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Contagion and Other Stories

I added a cover image to your verified copy of this book. Chavey 02:42, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

What the Fuck: The Avant-Porn Anthology

I added a cover image, from Amazon, to your verified edition of this book. (Great title!). Chavey 13:42, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Black Ice Books

I corrected the publisher listings for Black Ice Books from "Fiction Collective Two/Black Ice Books" to "Black Ice Books / Fiction Collective Two", including two of your verified books, in accordance with ISFDB policy on Imprints and Publishers. Chavey 16:15, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

A Good Cuntboy is Hard to Find

A quick FYI to the effect that the name of the publisher of this book has been spelled out: it was originally entered as "CPAOD" and now it is "Cyber-Psychos AOD". Ahasuerus 16:14, 27 October 2017 (EDT)

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