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I've written an FAQ on plagiarism to help authors understand what is plagiarism, as well as help members identify it. It is here: CodeProject Plagiarism FAQ[^]
If you find an article that is plagiarized you can either submit a report on the article itself, marking it as "Plagiarized," or you can report it in the Spam and Abuse Watch[^] forum with your evidence and a link to the members account, or you can email me directly sean@codeproject.com if you suspect plagiarism or have further plagiarism questions or concerns.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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This forum is for any and all questions for Code Project Article Writing:
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As a basic overview CodeProject articles have a certain layout to follow, so that users can learn the most from them. Each article attempts to answer the following questions: What problem does this solution solve? How does this help someone else? How does the code actually work? What is going on inside the code snippets?
Here is a submission from a first time author who did a terrific job, just to give you a basic overview of what a beginner article might look like:
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If it has to do with posting articles on Code Project, ask away. CodeProject staff and members are here to help.
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Sean Ewington
The Code Project
modified 8-Apr-21 17:10pm.
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The latest public revision of my project article is 6. However, there are revision 7 and 8 in composing state. I want to delete revisions 7 and 8, and only have revision 6 as the last/latest one. How do I delete just the 2 revisions that are in the composing state?
What I have tried:
If I select the "trash can" link, I get a prompt with:
"Are you sure you want to delete this Project?"
No... I don't want to delete this project. I only want to delete the last 2 revisions that are in composing state.
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I don't believe you can delete revisions, unfortunately.
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Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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This was submitted as a Project:
How to implement a Custom Authorization Filter in C# .NET Core[^]
I noticed that several experienced reviewers have flagged it as "Wrong type". What am I missing? There are many Articles that should be Tip/Tricks, but I thought pretty much anything could be a Project if it discussed a repository, unless the documentation was poor enough to simply reject it.
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Project type submissions are actually supposed to be the same full-fledged articles; a thorough explanation of their code, how it works, why they made it, etc.
Unfortunately, most of these Proejct submissions are just people sharing their GitHub projects, which is totally understandable. If it were me, that's what I would expect. What usually happens is this gets into the realm of tool sharing, which is not what CodeProject articles (or CodeProject) is about. So sadly, I delete most of these submissions, while offering to the author, "hey, we'd love to have this if you were able to make these additions."
If I had to guess, these reviewers are flagging this article as "Wrong type" because they want it to be a tip. My experience is that reviewers feel like anything that's short, or simply "not good enough to be an article" should just be a tip. Like a dumping ground of sorts. "This is good, but not article good, so, it can stay, just over there." But what tips are supposed to be is essentially extremely condensed articles. You still have to explain your code, what you're doing, why you did it, but it's a short solution to a simple problem that doesn't require / ask for in-depth explanation. Here's a recent, perfect example:
Access your Microsoft JSON DOM the easy way with the dynamic keyword[^]
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Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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... me, I'm still searching for one. I don't like using the article writing tool from scratch because I write slowly and revise a lot. I am quite happy with writing my drafts using Markdown in VSCode but when it comes to importing them in CP tool, there is no easy way to do it. The "Markdown All in One" extension in VSCode has some kind of "export to HTML" function but it doesn't play nice with CP styles specially for code formatting.
Is there a way to import directly markdown in CP? Do you have other insights how to make writing/editing easier?
Mircea
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I asked about using Markdown in articles a few months ago. It looks like it's going to be a work in progress. Right now, this capability doesn't exist.
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Yes, I have that one but writing in HTML is painful or I haven't found a good HTML editor.
Mircea
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I liked Editpad a lot when working with HTML some years ago.
I stopped using it in 2017 though, so I do not know how the current versions will be.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I'm always happy to post the article for you, as an option.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Thank you Sean, I know you guys are super-nice. What I was looking for were suggestions for an workflow that allows me to keep the content in a more user-friendly format than HTML. In the meantime, I'll keep muddling along 
Mircea
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: Is there a way to import directly markdown in CP?
I know thisa is a bit old, however, for those interested in using Markdown, I use Markdown Monster: The Markdown Editor for Windows[^] to write my article, then use the copy option that can copy as html, paste into CP source page, then clean it up.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Thank you! I will check it out.
Mircea
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Interesting...
Do you have to clean up many things?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Do you have to clean up many things?
Been a little while since my last article. Mainly the code block markup is different.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Graeme_Grant wrote: Mainly the code block markup is different.
Well... that sounds like something pretty manageable
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I've written some fairly long articles entirely within the tool, occasionally switching to its HTML mode (mostly for tables). I just do a lot of saves and previews. It teaches them a lesson by busying out their server! 
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Greg Utas wrote: I've written some fairly long articles entirely within the tool,
It proves you are much more patient than me
Mircea
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I wrote mine in Notepad with the HTML Tags per hand.
Then used the preview and modified the Notepad version before select all+copy+paste+preview again.
Have been a while though... I am not sure if I would now have the same patience 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Saw this Motivational Numerology[^] article on the home page. Seems iffy and spammy to say the least, perhaps someone could verify? Not sure where to post this, as the user is a long time member and article writer.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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How To Use Polly In C#: Easily Handle Faults And Retries[^]
format broken, a bunch of bad links, asking for suscription, affiliation links, several this appeared first on in addition to the CP's blog feed entry...
@Sean-Ewington or @Chris-Maunder would you mind to speak with him some serious words?
Is the second time I post it here because his content is not bad and I think he can do better in this topic, but it is getting annoying with his pushing passive earning sources and site driving efforts.
Next time I will report him in the S&A, sorry.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I sent him an email. If you see a blog entry like this next week I will delete the feed and consider this matter closed.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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