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We are still missing a lot of author approvals. Author contactors may want
to sort the Nominations table by Author and see if there's someone they need
to contact (even if they've contacted them before--because some have some
stories approved and others not. Best to ask for blanket approval). We've
got 361 stories in the database (2 are duplicates) and only 287 on the web
site.

Those duplicates? Casey Toh's Arda Unmarred is still in there twice, once
for the whole story and once for the first chapter. Someone needs to check
on that. Those Who Remain by Marnie is still stuck in two categories.

One Dark Night by Enros is a Romance, but I don't see any Romance Partners.
As is Underestimated by Enismirdal. Can someone update them, please? There
might be more. These are just the two I happened to see.

I had mistakenly added Ithilwen's stories to the web site. I think I got her
mixed up with Ithilien. No, wait, I remember getting an e-mail from her.Yes,
I've found it. But I haven't found Ithilien. She's marked as approved in the
Author Approval database. Can someone produce evidence? Forward it to me.

Please note, because it would take far too much editing, stories should be
listed with their articles in place. In other words, it's "The Hamster", not
"Hamster, The". That's the way stories went in at first, so that's they way
they should go in now. Otherwise, we'd have to go and edit every story that
started with A, An, or The. So, if you are a categorizer and about to put
in a story, you should check to see if it's already in the database. With
the article first. I've deleted several duplicates because of this.

--Ainaechoiriel

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://www.stormpages.com/gabrielle/lotr Land of Myth and Memory
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com



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--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Ainaechoiriel" <mefaadmin@e...> .
Those Who Remain by Marnie is still stuck in two categories.


I nominated it for the LOTR category. Can I just withdraw it and
save more messing around with it?

Larian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larian [mailto:larian_elensar@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 11:57 PM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] Re: Another round of database cleaning
>
> --- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Ainaechoiriel" <mefaadmin@e...> .
> Those Who Remain by Marnie is still stuck in two categories.
>
>
> I nominated it for the LOTR category. Can I just withdraw it
> and save more messing around with it?

Well, I think Marnie is the best person to decide. Can someone contact her?
We still need permission for some of her stories, too.

--Ainaechoiriel

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://www.stormpages.com/gabrielle/lotr Land of Myth and Memory
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com

Well, I think Marnie is the best person to decide. Can someone
contact her?

> We still need permission for some of her stories, too.
>
> --Ainaechoiriel

I'll write her :)

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Ainaechoiriel" <mefaadmin@e...>
wrote:

>
> We are still missing a lot of author approvals. Author contactors

may want

> to sort the Nominations table by Author and see if there's someone

they need

> to contact (even if they've contacted them before--because some

have some

> stories approved and others not. Best to ask for blanket

approval). We've

> got 361 stories in the database (2 are duplicates) and only 287 on

the web

> site.
>

Just a quick question concerning author approvals. How many times do
you want us to attempt to contact authors? I don't know if any of
the other contactors have had this problem, but I've got a couple of
authors I've contacted twice and have received no answer. How do you
want to handle this? Also, as to Marnie, I thought I read in a post
some time ago that someone had her blanket approval.

Stella

> One Dark Night by Enros is a Romance, but I don't see any Romance
> Partners.
> As is Underestimated by Enismirdal. Can someone update them,
> please? There
> might be more. These are just the two I happened to see.

> --Ainaechoiriel

Sorry, yeah, that would probably be my fault. I have partners for
most of the romance stories now, I just haven't updated the ones that
were databased (is that even a word? :P) before the compulsary
listing of pairings. I know there's a couple more, aside from those
two, that have the same case - at least on the website anyway. I will
get around to it ASAP!

Can we edit the records in the database, or do they have to be
deleted and redone? <fingers crossed that it's the former!>

As for the ones that don't have pairing listed, I'll make up a list
of these. If you nominated them (or if you're the author), just let
me get an idea of the pairings.

And just going completely OT - I GOT MY COPY OF ROTK TODAY!!! Okay,
so my younger brother bought it, but still! It's very exciting. I
love how Kmart and Big W always sell DVDs a day or two before the
offficial release date :D

- Pervinca

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kate [mailto:bra_chan90@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 6:58 AM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] Re: Another round of database cleaning
>
> > One Dark Night by Enros is a Romance, but I don't see any Romance
> > Partners.
> > As is Underestimated by Enismirdal. Can someone update
> them, please?
> > There might be more. These are just the two I happened to see.
>
> > --Ainaechoiriel
>
> Sorry, yeah, that would probably be my fault. I have partners
> for most of the romance stories now, I just haven't updated
> the ones that were databased (is that even a word? :P) before
> the compulsary listing of pairings. I know there's a couple
> more, aside from those two, that have the same case - at
> least on the website anyway. I will get around to it ASAP!
>
> Can we edit the records in the database, or do they have to
> be deleted and redone? <fingers crossed that it's the former!>

There should be an Edit link to the far right of the listing. If not, let
me know.

> As for the ones that don't have pairing listed, I'll make up
> a list of these. If you nominated them (or if you're the
> author), just let me get an idea of the pairings.

Yep, those that nominated them probably read them and would know the
pairings. Authors would, too, of course. I've had to go back and ask a
copule of mine.

> And just going completely OT - I GOT MY COPY OF ROTK TODAY!!!
> Okay, so my younger brother bought it, but still! It's very
> exciting. I love how Kmart and Big W always sell DVDs a day
> or two before the offficial release date :D

Dang. I always preorder, ecause it's a better price. But it does mean I
have to wait a few days.

--Ainaechoiriel

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://www.stormpages.com/gabrielle/lotr Land of Myth and Memory
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stella [mailto:lasselanta02@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 6:02 AM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] Re: Another round of database cleaning
>
> --- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Ainaechoiriel" <mefaadmin@e...>
> wrote:
>
> Just a quick question concerning author approvals. How many
> times do you want us to attempt to contact authors? I don't
> know if any of the other contactors have had this problem,
> but I've got a couple of authors I've contacted twice and
> have received no answer. How do you want to handle this?
> Also, as to Marnie, I thought I read in a post some time ago
> that someone had her blanket approval.

A good question. I think three is a good, roundish number. But I think we
also need a cut-off date. What about the last day of Check Ballot Season?
That's June 30th.

I won't put unofficial nominations on the check ballots, which means stories
will be added on as authors approve right up to the last day and the final
check ballot.

--Ainaechoiriel

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://www.stormpages.com/gabrielle/lotr Land of Myth and Memory
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com