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I can't really take the credit...
World Service Memoryshare team Started conversation Jan 16, 2001
... for editing Blubottle's marvellous entry 'The Paul McCartney Death Clues' - it was really Sam and Ashley, I just untangled it from where it was stuck in the system!
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Bluebottle Posted Jan 16, 2001
Hope you don't mind me asking, but how, exactly, was it stuck in the system...?
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Fragilis - h2g2 Cured My Tabular Obsession Posted Jan 18, 2001
Thanks for the honesty, Anna.
But I'm curious too. How can an entry stay on the What's Coming Up page so long? Do the Sub-Editors choose which entries to edit? Or was there some confusion about assigning the entry to someone to edit?
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World Service Memoryshare team Posted Jan 18, 2001
Hi Blubottle and Fragilis!
The What's Coming Up page is manually updated by me. We allocate entries to the subs automatically - in theory they go out more or less in the order they were recommended by the scouts. For some reason, though, possibly because it had been submitted under the old queue system, Paul McCartney Death Clues, just wasn't being sent out - to anyone. I kept trying to flag it for inclusion in our internal queue (which is why it took so long) but that didn't work, so being frustrated by technology, I rolled up my sleeves and unjammed it from the system.
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Fragilis - h2g2 Cured My Tabular Obsession Posted Jan 18, 2001
That explains it rather well. It's a good thing that you're not afraid to use a little elbow grease.
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Bluebottle Posted Jan 22, 2001
I'm still trying to work out how the PR system works after an article has passed the first step.
One of my articles - HMS Warrior (A405064) - has been "recommended" for quite some time - it and my hovercraft article were recommended on the same day in October, yet I've not seen it mentioned on the ComingUp page.
So, is this normal? Is this nothing to worry about?
Knowing the answers to questions like this would also help me feel more confident when, as an ACE or Guru, I am asked to help new researchers with their questions.
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