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Dozdim145651
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Theres my details, but I dont know wether it will come up as shady101, because shady101 was my original name...

Thanks!!

To be honest, given that incident when you submitted something to Peer Review that wasn't your own work, I wouldn't rate your chances too highly. Your best bet is to be very polite, very helpful, and very useful around PeerReview and hope people are prepared to forgive and forget.

Well, ok then.....

But the thing is, why cant I just whoosh through the entrys with a clip board and say hmm too short, hmm too boring, like all the other scouts?

Also correction, I seem to believe scouts cannot recommend their own entries!!!

Well, as you know, I'm just one Scout and I don't speak for all of us, but hopefully this will be useful advice for you... as far as I know, they're not recruiting new Scouts at the moment, but , all is not lost...

The best thing you can do in the meantime is to try and get up to speed on what the Scouts do, the most important of which is contributing to PeerReview - by helping to comment on other people's entries and get them up to the standard required for the Edited Guide. That way, when the next recruitment drive happens, people will have already seen you around Peer Review and know who you are and that you'd be a useful person to have on the team... compared to someone who just wants a nice shiny badge and the chance to pick two entries every month.

To contribute to PR to maximum effect, it's a good idea to learn the Writing-Guidelines inside out so you know what's required - and more importantly, the kind of thing that will rule an entry out, like being written in the first person. Another good idea is to read all the new entries that come up on the front page to get an idea of the length of entry and quality of writing that the Scouts are looking for when they select an Edited Guide entry - you can find the complete list of entries published over the last month on the Month page.

But probably one of the best things you can do in terms of learning how PR works is - as you're doing - to try and get an article into the EG via Peer Review, and that way you'll be learning at first hand how the process works and what's required.

Best of luck!



Cheers,
Number Six

But also people arent looking at my entry anymore so I dont know if it will get in.
Anyways so if I go around puting my opinion on everything then I get a rep, even if my opinions on an entry arent what they want to hear so they moan about me? Because what if I dont think an entry is very good and I say that? What do I say when an entry is terrible then?

Well, if an entry's terrible you don't actually say so - if there's a good idea there, you try and be a bit more helpful and constructive... if the spelling's not up to scratch you suggest a spell-checker, if you think the entry's too short you ask whether there's any more they can tell us, or suggest areas where it could be expanded, or if it just isn't quite written in the right kind of way you can suggest examples of things that are in the Edited Guide that the author could read to get a better idea of what's required.

But a lot of entries that get submitted to PeerReview simply aren't quite the right sort of thing, and then you just have to try and explain why, and ask people nicely to either change it into the right kind of thing to meet the Writing-Guidelines, or else take their entry out of Peer Review. A lot of the work of being a Scout - or at least a good and conscientious one - is going through PeerReview and trying to deal with such entries as pleasantly and effectively as possible.

Well, I reckon I could do that....
But do you have to look through a specific ammount of entrys, because I dont really come on that much any more, because of social plans and stuff taking up my time too.