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

Most excelent indeed! Take a humble bow!

A little problem....

>>If you have a piece of content referred... ....then please use the complaints button (or 'yikes' button) to send a polite message to the Moderators.<<

There is no 'yikes' button on entries that has been removed, so its a tad tricky to give it a whack and send a polite note to anyone!

How about either,
1) Put a yikes button on such postings.
2) to change the text of the message to say that it has been removed for foreign language content and give the e-mail address for the researcher to make any comment.

Hi,

If content is failed the Researcher is sent an email and asked to respond to that if they don't agree with the moderation decision.

You can yikes it if a URL has been edited from a posting, but it's still left visible, which is what we were talking about above.

Hope this helps to clarify things!

Excuse my ignorance but what has been going on?

Peta

What's the problem lass, now everybody seems happy again?

Sorry Peta, Marks message had dropped out of the page.
We will miss him

diolch (thanks)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru

English only policy...

so true....plus all the language revision pages......

still, we got what we wanted so lets and and sit back to watch the

Fantastich!

Great decision.

We don't get any tennis here at all. I saw from the scoreboard that there's only one German player left in. As if that was a reason not to show any Wimbledon on German television.

Apparently there's some football going on somewhere, and it seems that Germany are playing tomorrow. At least you would think so, judging by the 24 hour football programmes we're getting.

Congratulations, although I personally have never posted in a non-English language, I dont like to see anyones rights eroded more than neccessary.This decision will I'm sure be welcomed by many.

Brill. Common sense rules. Thanks.

Brill. Common sense rules. Thanks.

Brill. Common sense rules. Thanks.

Lovely!

How overworked are the mods?

I mean, if they found a link to a page in a language other than English, would they be able to pick a few words or headers from it, do a Google search, and if the page comes up in the results, click on the "Translate this page" link which almost always comes up on Google?

It might not be foolproof, but it might save some time.

> "If content is failed the Researcher is sent an email and asked to respond to that if they don't agree with the moderation decision."

> "You can yikes it if a URL has been edited from a posting, but it's still left visible, which is what we were talking about above."

I'm sure you said elsewhere, but I can't remember (or find) the answer. What is the correct procedure for Researchers to follow when content is left permanently referred, as in the case of foreign language postings?

-Martin

There is no procedure for 'permanently referred' Postings and entries. The only thing a Researcher can do is be patient until we have been able to translate it, and it passes or fails. Then it can be treated as any other Posting.

You can find out more here:

<./>Moderation-Guidelines#5</.>

Ok, so when Mark said:

> "If you have a piece of content referred [...] because of non-English content, and you would like to take issue with that decision [...] then please use the complaints button [...] to send a polite message to the Moderators. We'll take a look and get back to you as quickly as we can.""

What did he mean?
-Martin