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Sub-Ed and Scout...
Kirikugi - Muse of Lavalamps Started conversation Sep 5, 2001
If I become both a Sub-Editor and a Scout, would that let me pick an entry (as a Scout) and then edit it straight away?
-K
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Kirikugi - Muse of Lavalamps Posted Sep 5, 2001
Well. It was straight to the point I suppose. Like being so blunt, do you. Never mind then.
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Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here Posted Sep 5, 2001
As an h2g2 Researcher, you can select (cut and paste) an article, sub edit it and display it on your h2g2 space, a place where anybody using the h2g2 search engine can find it.
Don't forget to credit the original author.
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Jimi X Posted Sep 5, 2001
LOL.
Sorry about being so blunt - the 
must have made me do it. And I'm not quite sure what Looney is talking about. 
Seriously, in answer to your question. Scouts are not allowed to pick their own entries and Subeditors are never given their own entries to edit.
The Scout prohibition is hard-wired into the Scouts' tools. The bit about Subs not editing their own entries is a matter of convention and if you get one by accident you're supposed to send it back.
Hope that helps. 
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Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here Posted Sep 5, 2001
I was pointing out a viable way to scout and sub stuff while bypassing official channels. Everything posted on h2g2 is available through the search engine, not just Edited Guide entries.
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Jimi X Posted Sep 6, 2001
*woosh*
Sorry Cookie, that one went clear over my head. 
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Kirikugi - Muse of Lavalamps Posted Sep 7, 2001
So I would do them seperately... Scout an entry for editing but select another one to edit myself? That's okay.
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I'm not really here Posted Sep 7, 2001
afaik the subs are sent entries by the italics, they don't choose them. Although they can go to the uni and chose a project to help with.
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