User talk:Amoeba of horror

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Hello, Amoeba of horror, and welcome to the ISFDB Wiki! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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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! Hauck 08:19, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Apex Magazine, September 2016

Hello, I've approved your submission but made some changes to conform to our standards: 1) deleted "online" in the "number of pages" field (just left it void), 2) changed format to "ebook", 3) added currency symbol ($), 4) transformed Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review into a disambiguated ESSAY record by Wise (a REVIEW concerns only one title). I've also uploaded a scan. The result is here. Hauck 08:45, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

As we use the cover date for magazines (see the help pages), I have set the dates of the publications and their contents to 2016-08-00 and 2016-09-00, respectively. There were earlier dates of publication given for some content titles. However, if this was their first publication, the dates should be also set to 2016-08-00 or 2016-09-00: we don't group the titles to their dates of writing but to the dates of their first publication. Thanks, Stonecreek 09:48, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
I also subsumed the two recent issues under the heading / series Apex Magazine - 2016, which corresponds to the way we handle magazines (see any of the prominent examples: MFSF, Asimov's, Interzone, etc.). Stonecreek 10:18, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
Ok, thank you both, I will follow these conventions from now on. There was one issue I was confused about with Apex Magazine--they have a feature called "from the vault" where they reprint a story that was published by Apex magazine itself several years before. This was the story that was marked with a 2012 publication date in this month of Apex. It's technically a reprint, although the webpage still shows the 2012 date(I only read online and do not own the corresponding ebooks, so I don't know what the format looks like there). Amoeba of horror 10:32, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for the hint, I merged the two 2012 titles into one. Stonecreek 10:38, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Lackington's, Winter 2015

I've also approved your submission for this issue. I've made some technical changes: 1) regularized "A.C. Wise" to "A. C. Wise", 2) added currency unit, 3) regularized INTERIORART titles (the title is simply the same as the story that it illustrates), 4) added cover scan, 5) put the issue in the title series and deleted synopsis (no place to put it). The result is here. Thanks for contributing. Hauck 08:58, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

JY Yang as parent author

Hello! Good that you asked: I've rejected your submission as it should be the other way around if you think that JY Yang should be the parent author. But before that you should make J. Y. Yang (another version of the author's name) into a pseudonym of JY Yang to avoid a circular pseudonym. Thanks, Stonecreek 11:06, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Ok, thanks, I did both!
Normally, I've straightened the whole lot. Please have a look to see if I've done things correctly. Hauck 19:03, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
Yes, this is great thank you! Amoeba of horror 19:18, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
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