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Entry: Help Page Update: What do the Scouts do? - A45970897
Author: Alex Tufty Ashman [!] - U566116


This is a Help Page Update for <./>Scouts-What</.>/<./>A540262</.> - see A38093402 for more details.

Alex

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Alex I notice this says two picks, rather than three. This is a change I would agree with, but was it intentional?

A long, long time ago, it used to be just two picks h5, then it went up to three. And of course I'd put emphasis on the fact that you don't HAVE to recommend three, or two, or any

Yes, I'd certainly support that Matt

Need a title tag for your Calendar page link Alex, and the footnote about how to check if something isn't copied wholesale reads a little clumsily to me

CAn't offer any suggestions yet, but I just felt it was a bit clunky.

All done

>>but you'll always be welcome to join the Scouts' scheme in the future.<<

This is the last sentence, shouldn't it be worded 're-join' taking in the context of the sentence?

I had thought that - done

Rudest Elf has commented on this Entry in another thread, pointing out:

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If I may:

Anyone can submit entries to Peer Review, but it's the responsibility of the Scouts to monitor the forum. Any registered Researcher may comment on the entries in Peer Review.

GB

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...to the Sub-editors for *editing*.

(The Eds do the final polish: add Wiki links, a photo, change proper apostrophes to curly ones, change "it is" to "it's", change the title to fit the BBC Widget, etc)

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Yes, no doubt it was one of the "freelancers" F47997?thread=5855733

I complained about the reappearance of the curly apostrophes at EF, *after* I had edited them out, and I got a and apology by h2g2 Editors account in response. I can't find the thread though, nor do I remember the particular entry.

We ask that you recommend two entries from Peer Review = "three"

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Done

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Any more suggestions?

Not from me

Looks good to me

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I'm not sure about the www.h2g2.com link in the middle of that. I know that this address still works, but I thought we were discouraged from using it. It should be www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2 at the appropriate place.

What Happens after your Entry has been Recommended?.
-- remove the full stop from that.

This paragraph appears to be out of place:

"And that's the Scouts' role on h2g2: they control what goes into the Edited Guide and provide front-line feedback on Researchers' entries. It's a vital part of h2g2, and one that we hope is interesting and rewarding."

It's at the end of the second of the three major tasks that the Scouts do. It should be at the end of the third task - cleaning Peer Review.

"mainly to the Writing Workshop" -- there are two Writing Workshops: the Edited Guide Writing Workshop and the Alternative Writing Workshop. You should be more specific, or change this to "the writing workshops".

G