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Hi guys,
Recently I became a GOLD Author, and I received the privilege to "Approve/Disapprove a pending Article". I have searched all FAQs, but I was not able to find a guide how to do it.
Can you please provide me some guidelines how can I approve and disapprove pending articles?
Further, is this possible process for the minor changes done in my articles?
Thank you in advance for the answers!
Anton
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A list of items that need approval can be found on the homepage[^].
Anton Angelov wrote: Further, is this possible process for the minor changes done in my articles?
I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but if you're asking whether minor changes also go through moderation: yes, all changes you make go through moderation, unless you are a Platinum Author. Platinum Authors can publish articles without requiring moderation.
The quick brown ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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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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This answer was so good I linked it in the article FAQ for the moderation entry. Thank you for such a great answer!
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Thank you for the detailed answer. I haven't noticed this section on the main page until now. I was a little bit confused because I was not able to find this is the FAQ. 
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I have been thinking to document my experiences regarding PADSS in an article form. Is it worth it, if yes, then which section to follow? Ideally it belong to security but unfortunately security section is not present.
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Though i have tried to fix image issue several times, but still images are missing in my article. Can some body fix or give some advice how to fix it
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Your article has been updated.
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Thanks alot
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You're welcome. Glad to help.
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@Sean-Ewingtonn
I have already sent an Email to the user. I am not reporting it as abuse, but you might have a look and maybe do something.
Blogs automatically feeded, coming on german:
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AFAIK english still is the official language for publications, isn't it?
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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Hi!
(writing in english, so anybody can follow the discussion  )
Thanks for pointing out that any other language than english is not quite appropriate!
I just started blogging and wanted to get a feeling for it. So I decided to stick to my mothers tongue before moving forward to writing in English.
The automatic feed-aggregation is disabled now and I deleted the imported two posts already.
In fact, I stumbled upon this feature while looking for a possibility to enter the feed-url to my profile, so please take my apologies when those posts caused you som "trouble" ;)
Have a nice day!
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Read here: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/BlogFeed.aspx[^]
There is an option to feed only specific blogs and not all...So you can keep blogging in German and only when ready to move to the great public turn to English and start signing the individual post you want to publish here...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Thanks, i´ll keep this in mind!
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I am wondering if there is a way there could be a tool created that translates the consumed blog from whatever language it was written, to English?
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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All the known - to me - software translators, are too poor for the quality we should have at CP...
Even with German-English you can get truly ridiculous results, not to talk about languages much more different from English...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That is true. Not sure how accurate something like google translate really is. A tool would still need someone to review the translate.
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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earloc wrote: please take my apologies when those posts caused you som "trouble"
No problem at all.
I supposed that. That's why I emailed you private and posted it here. This is the place to receive such help
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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No, not normal. The author is currently making changes to those articles. Once the changes have been made the articles will be restored.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Thanks for the follow up.
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I did it a few times in past - and I mean, stating, that the list of the articles for the contest is sometimes so poor...
In past I did not posted links not to embrace the author (after all those articles are not that bad, but not up for the finalists list...), but this month I have to post one, and not because of the author, but to show how the procedure of choosing the articles is wrong...
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Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The procedure to choose the articles is as follows:
We sorted articles by rating and we then pick all mobile articles, web articles, C# articles etc etc. With each choice we ensure we don't repeat articles that have been included in previous contests, and we also ensure that an author can only appear once in a contest listing.
So this means that when we're down to the "Everything else" category we're sometimes left with very few articles to choose from.
We could certainly make an executive decision and simply ditch articles we personally feel aren't up to snuff, but we much prefer the community to have their say. If an article appears in the contest listing and it's not very good, then don't vote for it. Vote for an article that is good.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I feel about it like a sport event - if a one-handed man gets into to final-four of the archer's competition it says a lot about the rest too...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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