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Homeopathy reapproval
Hi, Joe, could you take a look at the last comment section at Talk:Homeopathy/Draft and tell us what you think needs to be done. Ie, how many Editors do we need, and who can they be? As far as Constable approval, I've been working on the draft, so I'm out. Matt *hasn't* worked on the draft, but was, I believe, an Editor for the *Approved* version. I'm sure that there are other technical aspects also to be considered. Thanks! Hayford Peirce 16:45, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

refusal of an approved article to go away from "to approve" list
Hi Joe,

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial/draft persists in showing on the To Approve List that the Kops look at. I tried putting a null into it and saving, but that didn't change anything. Is there something in the metadata that is screwing up its disappearance? Hayford Peirce 22:34, 16 May 2009 (UTC)


 * You know, I tried to fix that. It's happened before and gave me trouble then too, but I can't remember what I did.  I'll look again, I guess. --(Approvals Manager 15:01, 17 May 2009 (UTC))


 * Got it! It was the difference between "Draft" and "draft" --Joe (Approvals Manager 17:04, 17 May 2009 (UTC))


 * Okie, I understand that the article itself is called "Draft", with a capital D, but just where did you make the fix, so I can do it myself if necessary? Thanks! Hayford Peirce 17:09, 17 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Article categories, including the toapprove category, are placed on the article talk page by the subpages template. THey don't update until the talk page is edited.  Usually, it only takes a minor edit to the talk page to get rid of the toapprove category after approval.  I tried that but it didn't work until I figured out that I had to edit ".../draft" with a lowercase 'd'. --Approvals Manager 02:22, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Okie, with that knowledge, I guess I'll just let you worry about this in the future, hehe.... Hayford Peirce 02:43, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Another issue -- please see the new Forum topic
Bibliographies in Approved articles apparently aren't protected!

See: http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,2675.0.html Hayford Peirce 23:06, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Good timing! I've been wanting to address that. I replied in the forum thread. --Joe (Approvals Manager 14:00, 17 May 2009 (UTC))

Null edits
You don't have to do this, you know, you can just click edit and then click save. It won't show anything in the history, but will update all relevant categories, lists of links, etc. It's called a null edit.

sorry if you know this, and I'm misunderstanding what you were doing.

Caesar Schinas 13:43, 25 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Recently, null edits have had the effect of deleting a lot of text. There was a discussion about this on someone's talk page, though I don't remember where.  It doesn't always happen, but it's annoying when it does, so I've gotten into the habit of simply adding a space somewhere.  Thanks for your note though, it's good to have someone around who understands the technical stuff. Joe (Approvals Manager) 14:15, 25 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Funny, I haven't seen that, but I'll be more careful in future.
 * Sorry if I seemed to be teaching my grandmother to suck eggs...
 * Caesar Schinas 15:13, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Drugs banned from the Olympics
Joe, I am considering nominating Drugs banned from the Olympics for approval. I did delete 2-3 redundant line spaces and I revised the Related Links subpage somewhat (copy edits and added a link or two). Am I still eligble to nominate the article? Milton Beychok 18:00, 27 May 2009 (UTC)


 * By the way, I have been an Engineering Editor ever since I joined. Its being a Chemistry Editor that was just granted. Milton Beychok 18:00, 27 May 2009 (UTC)


 * You should be fine on nominating Drugs banned from the Olympics. Those certainly don't look like anything more than editorial changes to me.  I knew that you were an Engineering editor before (Earth Science too, right?) but it seems like all of those articles are by you!  I figured there would be material in the Chemistry workgroup that maybe someone else wrote. :-) --Joe (Joe Quick) 18:07, 27 May 2009 (UTC)