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I approved the added contents into [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?762587 this one]. A few notes for the future:
 
I approved the added contents into [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?762587 this one]. A few notes for the future:
 
* When the page numbers are known, we add them. When they are not, use |1, |2 and so on as page numbers to order the stories so that they show up in the order they are in the book.  
 
* When the page numbers are known, we add them. When they are not, use |1, |2 and so on as page numbers to order the stories so that they show up in the order they are in the book.  
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: (Thanks. I'll keep this in mind. When I added this page, I used the other Koja story collection, Extremeties, as a template, or model for how this one should look. The Extremities entry does not have page numbers or other numbering. Using that entry as my example, I repeated the mistakes made there apparently.) {{unsigned|DanQuigley}}
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:: No worries :) I looked an look Inside and added these :) And if you cannot see the pages, the pipes help the order. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:38, 10 May 2020 (EDT)
 
* For reprint anthologies, instead of typing/copying the names (and dates) of stories, you can use import. If you go to the publication and look on the left menu, you will see the option. When you do not, each of the stories you typed in need to be merged to its earlier record. That also cuts down on typos. I had merged all the stories (and fixed the typos that prevented some of them). One story had to be treated as a new story - see below. :)
 
* For reprint anthologies, instead of typing/copying the names (and dates) of stories, you can use import. If you go to the publication and look on the left menu, you will see the option. When you do not, each of the stories you typed in need to be merged to its earlier record. That also cuts down on typos. I had merged all the stories (and fixed the typos that prevented some of them). One story had to be treated as a new story - see below. :)
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: (I'll try to follow these instructions in order to do this next time. Thanks for pointing that out.) {{unsigned|DanQuigley}}
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:: Any times [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:38, 10 May 2020 (EDT)
 
* For stories that had been published before but under a different title (such as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1006139 Far & Wee/ Far and Wee] or different author name form, the reprint gets its date from its first publication under that title/name - not from the original.
 
* For stories that had been published before but under a different title (such as [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1006139 Far & Wee/ Far and Wee] or different author name form, the reprint gets its date from its first publication under that title/name - not from the original.
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:. (Since in English '&' and 'and' are both symbols for precisely the same word, I don't consider one to be a variant of the other any more than '2' is a variant of 'two' or 'II'. '&' and 'and' are identical. In fact, calling them variants, it seems to me, can only cause confusion and inaccuracy, making it look like there are two versions when there are in reality but one. {{unsigned|DanQuigley}}
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:: In this DB, differences like that are considered important enough to record them as they are - so we record them separately. How they are viewed in English is irrelevant. We have our own policies here. :) Variant in this DB means "same material but with different author form or title (down to punctuation) or language or exact text (for translations". So yes, they are the same story but if we have "A, B and C", "A, B, and C" and "A, B & C", we will have 3 records here - 2 of them variants to whatever was the first one. I understand that this is not how you would prefer them but this is how the community had decided to treat them here so this is what we do. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:38, 10 May 2020 (EDT)
 
Thanks for adding these! Let me know if you have any questions/concerns. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 23:16, 9 May 2020 (EDT)
 
Thanks for adding these! Let me know if you have any questions/concerns. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 23:16, 9 May 2020 (EDT)
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: You can answer here, on your page. Please do not move to a different page - we try to keep the conversations together. Look at the top of this message, press "Edit and you can respond this way. Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:38, 10 May 2020 (EDT)

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The Thrill Book, May 15, 1919

Your edit to The Thrill Book, May 15, 1919 has been approved. However, a couple of issues needed to be cleaned up. The NONFICTION type should only be used for books. When there is a nonfiction in another type of publication, it is entered as the ESSAY type. However, in this case, both of these essays seem like non-genre content so I have removed them vs. corrected them. In many mixed genre magazines, we only list the genre content. Are the remaining stories all genre?

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Winthrop's Adventure

Hello,

If we change the name of the story as you proposed, it will change it inside of every publication that carries it - and the verified books definitely do not have the longer name. So we have two choices:

  • Create an empty parent -- if we plan to add a book that contains the original name, that is a good idea.
  • Do what I did and just add a note.

If you are going to be adding a book, let me know and I can create the parent. Thanks for the understanding. Annie 22:39, 14 October 2019 (EDT)

Appletons' Journal, April 1881

If I approve this change, it will put the Bellamy story in a 1881 issue - which is not what you wanted to do I assume. If you let me know the name of the story, I can add it for you (or I can give you a step by step on how to add a magazine issue yourself. Let me know. Annie 22:20, 16 October 2019 (EDT)

Posted a response on my page - you can answer here or there :) Annie 18:31, 17 October 2019 (EDT)
Approved and I did a few small changes:
  • Added the title series to connect the magazine (this could have been done on the fist submission as well)
  • Marked is as non-genre (the magazine, not the story)
  • Got the Editor record name updated (this is always a second step post approval)
  • Connected the story to its later iteration. Even if it is the first publication, its other name is used almost exclusively since so the variant goes in the opposite direction to what is usually the case.
The result is here. Let me know if you have any questions :) Annie 10:25, 22 October 2019 (EDT)

Contents

Hello,

I approved the added contents into this one. A few notes for the future:

  • When the page numbers are known, we add them. When they are not, use |1, |2 and so on as page numbers to order the stories so that they show up in the order they are in the book.
(Thanks. I'll keep this in mind. When I added this page, I used the other Koja story collection, Extremeties, as a template, or model for how this one should look. The Extremities entry does not have page numbers or other numbering. Using that entry as my example, I repeated the mistakes made there apparently.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DanQuigley (talk • contribs) .
No worries :) I looked an look Inside and added these :) And if you cannot see the pages, the pipes help the order. Annie 02:38, 10 May 2020 (EDT)
  • For reprint anthologies, instead of typing/copying the names (and dates) of stories, you can use import. If you go to the publication and look on the left menu, you will see the option. When you do not, each of the stories you typed in need to be merged to its earlier record. That also cuts down on typos. I had merged all the stories (and fixed the typos that prevented some of them). One story had to be treated as a new story - see below. :)
(I'll try to follow these instructions in order to do this next time. Thanks for pointing that out.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DanQuigley (talk • contribs) .
Any times Annie 02:38, 10 May 2020 (EDT)
  • For stories that had been published before but under a different title (such as Far & Wee/ Far and Wee or different author name form, the reprint gets its date from its first publication under that title/name - not from the original.
. (Since in English '&' and 'and' are both symbols for precisely the same word, I don't consider one to be a variant of the other any more than '2' is a variant of 'two' or 'II'. '&' and 'and' are identical. In fact, calling them variants, it seems to me, can only cause confusion and inaccuracy, making it look like there are two versions when there are in reality but one. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DanQuigley (talk • contribs) .
In this DB, differences like that are considered important enough to record them as they are - so we record them separately. How they are viewed in English is irrelevant. We have our own policies here. :) Variant in this DB means "same material but with different author form or title (down to punctuation) or language or exact text (for translations". So yes, they are the same story but if we have "A, B and C", "A, B, and C" and "A, B & C", we will have 3 records here - 2 of them variants to whatever was the first one. I understand that this is not how you would prefer them but this is how the community had decided to treat them here so this is what we do. Annie 02:38, 10 May 2020 (EDT)

Thanks for adding these! Let me know if you have any questions/concerns. Annie 23:16, 9 May 2020 (EDT)

You can answer here, on your page. Please do not move to a different page - we try to keep the conversations together. Look at the top of this message, press "Edit and you can respond this way. Thanks! Annie 02:38, 10 May 2020 (EDT)
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