For contributors and editors - the subbing and tagging thread

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Feb 5 2007 14:15
For contributors and editors - the subbing and tagging thread

New thread for subbing to let people know what changes were made to their articles and why, to help everyone get a feel for the content guidelines for the site.

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Feb 5 2007 14:18

belfast water story:

this was a bit of a mess...
- prices tag added
- extra line breaks on every line removed
- PRESS RELEASE and all-caps text removed
- intro re-written to explain what article was about

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Feb 5 2007 14:22

i also added pics to loads of stories. please try to do so for all stories - it only takes a second and really makes a big difference.

Just google image search a related pic not from BBC/CNN/AP/etc., save it to your PC and click Browse to find it then Upload to attach it.

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Feb 5 2007 15:02

WTY, cheers for the article, i've added in Poland and postal service tags and some links to previous libcom coverage (and decapitalised posties in the title, pedant that i am).

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Feb 5 2007 15:45

the english needs fixing too, i'll try if i have time but might not till tonight

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Feb 5 2007 16:00

i've heavily edited it to make the english legible and remove first-person etc

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Sep 10 2009 09:34

The ESOL Tower Hamlets article; tag was changed from 'education & learning' to 'schools' - even though it's actually a college - any particular reason? 'Education & learning' is one of the listed tags - is it now obsolete?

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Sep 10 2009 22:04

I changed it back.

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Sep 14 2009 17:16

I don't know who did that, it wasn't me.

Joseph, I edited your miners strike intro. The first text of the intro should always be "articles about x", then an explanation of what x is.

Also, the key articles section should just have one link to a good introductory text, then maybe one to a more detailed, book length text, then maybe a further reading guide.

So I deleted a couple of the ones you put in (for example, reading the article about the gay and lesbian support groups is not essential for a basic understanding of the miners strike etc)

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Sep 14 2009 19:47

Ok cool.

Steven. wrote:
So I deleted a couple of the ones you put in (for example, reading the article about the gay and lesbian support groups is not essential for a basic understanding of the miners strike etc)

put that down as subconscious fallout from blackvaginagate wink

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Oct 17 2009 23:22

I just put up the CW text by Julian you'd requested, in History. Then tried to put a link to it in the 'Paper Tiger' CW text and and that article has no 'Edit' to click on to do so?

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Oct 18 2009 07:29

It might be an input formats issue, will take a look.

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Oct 18 2009 11:47

Also, if you click on the 'Class War' tag on that article it takes you to a page with only that article - not to the page with all the other articles with that tag?

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Oct 18 2009 15:45

With that one you want to tag it from the 'Authors People and Grouips' vocabulary, not the 'Tags' vocabulary.

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Oct 18 2009 21:56

Done. Stupid me.