h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: How to remove an Entry from Peer Review - A849189
Author: Z - on sibutamine 4/52 lbs lost 16 - U185843

This entry is good and quite useful and is very much so needed for people such as myself.

It needs a bit of improvement,and has alot of spelling mistakes but could get into the guide if worked on!

Hello Dozdim.

You can already discover how to do this in A686621 and then clicking on "How do I remove an entry from a Review Forum?".

And you can find A686621 by using search, with "review" as the sought word.

I still think its good though,and is there one in the guide?

A686621 IS in the guide, under Everything/All About h2g2/Help Pages.

The one thing this does that the official one doesn't is to account for how the 'remove' button changes to an 'x' in the Brunel skin. Maybe we should suggest an improvement to the official one, although I'm not sure who to ask.

Hmm. I don't know if Z wants this in the EG.

Certainly, it's useful, but as a help page. Entries on h2g2 site mechanics generally aren't put into the Edited Guide I can only think of one precedent - an entry on h2g2 footnotes that made it into the EG.

I think this should be removed from PR anyway. (with the advice given in the entry!)

Hello everyone, and especially Jodan.

Ummmm...?

Isn't the edited guide the things you can find under the headings Life, The Universe, and Everything?

Such as Everything/All About h2g2/Help Pages, or have I missed something?

Not really. The edited guide is very much different from the help pages. For instance, researchers really don't write help pages.

There are all sorts of unedited things in the categorization system too. Like clubs and societies.

(for instance The Universe / The World of h2g2 has tons of clubs and unedited things that aren't edited guide entries.)

The Help Page for Peer Review DID go through Peer Review, and it was a real slog, but it came out gorgeous and is much much easier to understand and is more thorough than the original page. I don't think the author got credited, which is a pity considering how much work she went through and how much else she has contributed.

I can see how this entry tells more about just what is going on for someone who is new to H2G2 and the DNA engine, so it does deserve consideration by somebody. Why not help our (only two now!) italics out if we can, before submitting the final thing to them through some Feedback forum?

Typically, though, FAQs are short, and it may be intentionally that way.



In case it's not:

To the extent that this is an attempt to explain this in more detail, how about separating the instructions out for each skin (and explaining what a skin is is probably not necessary, because the person reading it is probably still using the default skin, if they don't know)

Right, well I wrote this some time ago, because I was doing a PR sweep at the time, and I found my self typing this sort of stuff again and again. However once I've started linking to the appropriate help page, then I've not found the need for this.

As I stand at the moment then I'm happy to remove this from PR, if you want me too, but if you would rather leave it in hear, and thus get the current help page updated then I'm happy to do this as well.

So what do y'all think?

I should emphasis that this really is a work in progress, hence the spelling mistakes! Because I hadn't finished it, and was undecided what to do with it.