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There's another, different Wikipedia article on the same magazine, which I created awhile ago: Unknown magazine. I'm not sure but I think that was before it was possible to put parentheses in an article title. I guess the thing to do now is to combine the articles. Joel Schlosberg
Well, I combined them. It probably needs more work. I hope I kept the spirit of both articles, though of necessity some of the words had to go. Notinasnaid 09:41, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I just checked for copyright renewals; Street & Smith renewed copyright on several of their magazines but not this one, so the covers are all public domain. Mike Christie (talk – library) 22:09, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
I've cut this:
because the cited fanzine is not a reliable source. It's a pity, as I think the information is interesting and probably accurate; I'll readd it if I can find another source for the data. Mike Christie (talk – library) 13:45, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
A user changed the spelling of canceled to cancelled. This is an American mag so per WP:COFAQ#ENGLISH shouldn't it just have one "l"? ToeFungii (talk) 04:17, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Why are was there pictures of penises and naked Lady Gaga?!--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 13:56, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Who did it? Abdullah Al Manjur (talk) 16:03, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
ThePersecuted, re this diff: I agree that the colour can be removed from the table, but what was wrong with the rest of the layout? It was built that way to be as compressed as possible, so as not to waste page space. I'd like to put it back that way so I'd like to know what your reasoning was. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:42, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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1939 | 1/1 | 1/2 | 1/3 | 1/4 | 1/5 | 1/6 | 2/1 | 2/2 | 2/3 | 2/4 | ||
1940 | 2/5 | 2/6 | 3/1 | 3/2 | 3/3 | 3/4 | 3/5 | 3/6 | 4/1 | 4/2 | 4/3 | 4/4 |
1941 | 4/5 | 4/6 | 5/1 | 5/2 | 5/3 | 5/4 | ||||||
1942 | 5/5 | 5/6 | 6/1 | 6/2 | 6/3 | 6/4 | ||||||
1943 | 6/5 | 6/6 | 7/1 | 7/2 | 7/3 | |||||||
John W. Campbell was editor throughout.[1] |
Year | Win | Spring | Summer | Autumn | Winter | |||||||
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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
1939 | 2/1 | 2/2 | 2/3 | 2/4 | ||||||||
1940 | 2/5 | 2/6 | 3/1 | 3/2 | 3/3 | 3/4 | 3/5 | 3/6 | 4/1 | 4/2 | 4/3 | 4/4 |
1941 | 4/5 | 4/6 | ||||||||||
1942 | 5/5 | 6/1 | 6/3 | |||||||||
1943 | 6/4 | 6/5 | (nn) | |||||||||
1944 | (nn) | (nn) | (nn) | |||||||||
1945 | 3/4 | 3/5 | 3/6 | |||||||||
1946 | 3/7 | 3/8 | ||||||||||
1947 | 3/9 | 3/10 | 3/11 | |||||||||
1948 | 3/12 | 4/1 | 4/2 | |||||||||
1949 | 4/3 | 4/4 | 4/5 | |||||||||
Underlining indicates that an issue was dated with the season ("Spring 1945") rather than the month. John W. Campbell was editor throughout.[1] |
@Mike Christie and ThePersecuted: The main accessibility issue is the fixed point size for text. It should always be set as a relative value (use % or em). Different skins can have have different fonts and different base font sizes, so editors will have set their browser zoom to be comfortable at that size. Vector, for example, has a base font size of 14px, while Monobook has a base font size of 12.7px. So if you set a piece of text at 10px, it will look smaller (71%) when viewed in Vector skin than on Monobook, where it is 79% of the surrounding text. The line heights should really be left alone to change with font size for similar reasons.
I understand Mike's desire to keep things compact, but these are not huge tables. If width is an issue, then it's really best not to float the table inside text, but to let it have its own space. In this case, though, I don't think the table is wide enough to need that.
If I were to mark up the tables, I'd do it like this with captions and scopes. You'll note that in each case the footer text is no less than 90% of 95% (=85.5%), which is as small as it is allowed by MOS:FONTSIZE. Hope that helps. --RexxS (talk) 20:00, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, RexxS, thanks! Very helpful; I appreciate you putting in the time to do that. I'm going to slot in all three formats below, just to visually compare them. First is the original, then your version, then the version on the page right now:
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
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1939 | 1/1 | 1/2 | 1/3 | 1/4 | 1/5 | 1/6 | 2/1 | 2/2 | 2/3 | 2/4 | ||
1940 | 2/5 | 2/6 | 3/1 | 3/2 | 3/3 | 3/4 | 3/5 | 3/6 | 4/1 | 4/2 | 4/3 | 4/4 |
1941 | 4/5 | 4/6 | 5/1 | 5/2 | 5/3 | 5/4 | ||||||
1942 | 5/5 | 5/6 | 6/1 | 6/2 | 6/3 | 6/4 | ||||||
1943 | 6/5 | 6/6 | 7/1 | 7/2 | 7/3 | |||||||
Issues of Unknown, showing volume/issue number. John W. Campbell was editor throughout.[1] |
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
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1939 | 1/1 | 1/2 | 1/3 | 1/4 | 1/5 | 1/6 | 2/1 | 2/2 | 2/3 | 2/4 | ||
1940 | 2/5 | 2/6 | 3/1 | 3/2 | 3/3 | 3/4 | 3/5 | 3/6 | 4/1 | 4/2 | 4/3 | 4/4 |
1941 | 4/5 | 4/6 | 5/1 | 5/2 | 5/3 | 5/4 | ||||||
1942 | 5/5 | 5/6 | 6/1 | 6/2 | 6/3 | 6/4 | ||||||
1943 | 6/5 | 6/6 | 7/1 | 7/2 | 7/3 | |||||||
John W. Campbell was editor throughout.[1] |
Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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1939 | 1/1 | 1/2 | 1/3 | 1/4 | 1/5 | 1/6 | 2/1 | 2/2 | 2/3 | 2/4 | ||
1940 | 2/5 | 2/6 | 3/1 | 3/2 | 3/3 | 3/4 | 3/5 | 3/6 | 4/1 | 4/2 | 4/3 | 4/4 |
1941 | 4/5 | 4/6 | 5/1 | 5/2 | 5/3 | 5/4 | ||||||
1942 | 5/5 | 5/6 | 6/1 | 6/2 | 6/3 | 6/4 | ||||||
1943 | 6/5 | 6/6 | 7/1 | 7/2 | 7/3 | |||||||
John W. Campbell was editor throughout.[1] |
I understand the FONTSIZE requirement has to be met, but I'm disappointed that we can't make the table more compact. I agree it's not big enough to be absolutely necessary, but to my eye the two less-compact versions are distressingly low in information density. But if you tell me that the effect I'm hoping for can't be achieved while complying with accessibility requirements, I'll believe you. I don't have a strong preference between yours and ThePersecuted's versions, but if yours is better for accessibility reasons we can swap that one in -- is that the case? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:58, 7 May 2020 (UTC)