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

I've applied to be a scout. I must be a sucker for punishment or something!

You seem to be around in PR quite a lot anyway, so it shouldn't be too much extra!

I'm trying to get back into the whole PR thing! Not found any I'd want to pick yet though...

Good Luck in whatever you decide to do!

If my wait is typical you may have some time to think about scouting before you are offered a badge - roughly six weeks, but I guess it varies depending on scout turnover.

How's the sub-editing going?

Pimms

Fine I think, just about to send off the last one of my second batch and ask for my third... look out for them on the front page!

What do you do when you sub edit?

Check the GuideML first off. When that's all sorted I run it through my spell checker to get the spelling sorted. Then read it through carefully to check the grammar, and see if there are any questions I need to ask the author about it. Then I look to see if there are any links I can add. That's about it I think

you mean so if i spelt this ahd instead of had would you re-do it!

Yup! Oh, and check that it is understandable, and that all the comments in peer review have been addressed.

Although hopefully obvious stuff like that gets picked up in Peer Review... it's more stuff like people putting 'definately' when they mean 'definitely', and so on.

Oops! I should be more specific - I meant obvious stuff like putting 'ahd' instead of 'had' usually gets noticed in PR...