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Sergey Laptik20-Aug-15 23:12
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Anton Angelov17-Aug-15 21:35
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Jochen Arndt17-Aug-15 23:21
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Moderating articles is quite simple:

On the CP start page on the right is the section "n items need approval". Hover over it and select an article. It will be opened for moderation. Read it and check if it can be approved or not (hover over the check mark to select the report type). If you have suggestions or questions, you can write a comment using the forum on the bottom. Comments will not be shown with the final version (when using the upper forum for updated articles).

I was just about to do that with your pending article. It was a Blog and is now in the Article moderation. So I reported it as "Wrong type".

When an article is updated, it must be approved again even when there are only minor changings.

This is how I check articles:

  • Check if it is obviously spam, abusive, or off topic
  • Check for plagiarism by feeding some sentences to a search machine
  • Check for copyright issues (images, photos)
  • Check if it is in a special section (contest, third party tools, book recommendation) which may have less restrictive approving rules
  • Check for external images and downloads (should be hosted at CP if not blog)
  • Check if the type matches (e.g. too short for an article)
  • Check the formatting
  • Skip articles where I don't know much about the topic
  • Check the content (poor quality, misleading, incomplete)

Upon one of the first two points I report also the user and post a message to the Spam and Abuse Watch forum if there is none so far.

When not approving an article, I will add a short comment at the report popup.

If necessary I will post a comment to the article forum.
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