Publisher talk:Futura

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Bill - could you please clean some of this up so that it looks more like an encyclopedia entry and not your personal talk page? Marc Kupper (talk) 20:14, 16 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, I will do eventually (and I usually try and clean up a bit at the end of an editing session, but I've been interrupted several times recently and I know I've left some pages in a mess probably only I understand). But until somebody else DOES join in it effectively IS my own dumping ground. If somebody else has something to add they can feel free to move my brain-dumps to the talk page - or would you prefer I started there? The downside of that is that I won't necessarily FIND the thoughts I've left earlier, as I depend on the Publisher link showing that there is some content already: and the regularization activity already means that I'll probably have some thoughts lost in unlinked pages as a Publisher or Imprint I've commented on gets extinguished. Maybe the rediscovery of such if somebody DOES recreate the Publisher will be useful though... I can't be sure yet. BLongley 21:34, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Something we can do here on ISFDB that’s not practical on a site like Wikipedia is “original research” where we are documenting our research into a publisher or imprint. In that sense, I encourage what's being done on the publisher pages but I suspect just removing the ~ stamps and the references to “I’m”, “my”, etc. should be enough to make it appear this is an article about Futura though obviously the research is still under way. Thanks! Marc Kupper (talk) 20:14, 16 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I appreciate what you say, and it's fine as a longer term goal, but while a publisher IS a solo project for me it a) helps me find my thoughts and b) encourages people to join in. Like you just did. ;-) I promise I'll try and tidy up stuff to be mutually usable for any publisher with another person active, OK? Pleasant formatting of stuff and removal of personal opinions can wait until it's a bit more stable - but when all there is is MY current leanings and reasonings, not yet solidly formed and not necessarily even going to stay on the same page, I'm reluctant to spend time on such niceties. For instance, tomorrow I might have decided that the 11 links you've just added could be regularized to 8 or so - if you're just tidying up my work then I'd have to fix those AS WELL AS whatever else I added. BLongley 21:34, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Anyway, now that I've attracted some attention I think I'll go add some news about what I've done, where, and why, and maybe why it's not finished - and probably never will be till people agree on at least a few things to aim towards. :-/ BLongley 21:34, 16 April 2008 (UTC)