@freamon, I would highly recommend deleting this text topic, and resubmitting the article as a link topic instead, before @Deimos is forced to remove it himself. And I imagine the same also...
@freamon, I would highly recommend deleting this text topic, and resubmitting the article as a link topic instead, before @Deimos is forced to remove it himself.
And I imagine the same also applies to text topics too. Providing a select few excerpts from an article is one thing, but copying the entire article's content are another thing entirely. But even had you not done that, text topics are still not the preferred way for people to submit articles here, since links topics have a bunch of features intended to facilitate/enhance article submissions that text topics don't (like metadata scraping, source+author attribution, etc).
No prob. Hopefully this doesn't discourage you from posting. Normally any minor mistakes with titles, tagging, and whatnot, those of us with topic editing can fix for people, so they don't have to...
No prob. Hopefully this doesn't discourage you from posting. Normally any minor mistakes with titles, tagging, and whatnot, those of us with topic editing can fix for people, so they don't have to completely resubmit something. However, only Deimos can change text topics to link topics. :(
@freamon, I would highly recommend deleting this text topic, and resubmitting the article as a link topic instead, before @Deimos is forced to remove it himself.
And I imagine the same also applies to text topics too. Providing a select few excerpts from an article is one thing, but copying the entire article's content are another thing entirely. But even had you not done that, text topics are still not the preferred way for people to submit articles here, since links topics have a bunch of features intended to facilitate/enhance article submissions that text topics don't (like metadata scraping, source+author attribution, etc).
Okay, thanks. Will do.
No prob. Hopefully this doesn't discourage you from posting. Normally any minor mistakes with titles, tagging, and whatnot, those of us with topic editing can fix for people, so they don't have to completely resubmit something. However, only Deimos can change text topics to link topics. :(