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... that an American magazine Science Fiction Chronicle was described as "an alternative voice for the sf community" and "something of an East Coast institution"? Source: https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/science_fiction_chronicle
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nazareth Hall Preparatory Seminary, Template:Did you know nominations/Al-Moghraqa

Created by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 536 past nominations.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:24, 10 December 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Piotrus The article is long enough and enough with no copyright violations. Two QPQs have been completed while in backlog mode. The hook is directly cited and interesting. A big issue is that sf-encyclopedia, Fancyclopedia, and ISFDB are user-edited. SL93 (talk) 02:16, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @SL93: Thanks for taking a look. SFE aka The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is a very reliable outlet and not user generated (unless we consider Britannica etc. user generated). Now, you are right about the two others, but they are just used as an easy online backup ref for reliable refs (just check "[9]" and "[11]"); I don't think they are used for any facts that are not backed up by more reliable sources. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:09, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That works for me. Approved. SL93 (talk) 14:12, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AirshipJungleman29 and Theleekycauldron Can you promote this if everything checks out? I'm not sure who exactly to ping other than Airship because I haven't entirely been following who has all completed recent promotions. SL93 (talk) 13:28, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- No objection if Airship does it, but intrigue-wise, this hook isn't my favorite? I also probably wouldn't be able to do this promptly. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 23:10, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Piotrus I am fine with the hook, but apparently no one wants to promote this one. Do you have an idea for any ALTs? SL93 (talk) 00:56, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- @SL93 and Theleekycauldron: Here are some ALTs - maybe one of them will have more luck. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:19, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1: ... that Science Fiction Chronicle, an American science fiction magazine, was initially a section of the fanzine Algol?

ALT2: that Science Fiction Chronicle won the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine in 1993 and 1994?

ALT3: that Science Fiction Chronicle was edited by Andrew I. Porter for over two decades before he was controversially fired in 2002?

I am approving ALT2 and ALT3 as cited and the most interesting. SL93 (talk) 19:04, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a bit concerned about ALT3 w/r/t WP:DYKBLP? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 08:52, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Theleekycauldron Ok, but what about ALT2? The two oldest nominations on the approved page are hooks that I reviewed, and I am the main editor who has been promoting lately. SL93 (talk) 22:47, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

mm, i dunno, ALT2 isn't particularly unusual to me. Not only does one magazine win that award every year, and lots of magazines win lots of prose awards every year, but it's not even like this magazine is unusual for winning this award twice in a row: Locus has won it 22 times, including a streak of 7 consecutive wins right before SF Chronicle (heh) won its two. I'm sorry to be kind of filibustering this – maybe Launchballer would willing to promote it – but I don't really want to put my signature on it. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 01:05, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]