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The best place to discuss this is the Article writing[^] forum. If any article has been closed inappropriately it's extremely simple to post a message their and ask for help, or to email us at submit@codeproject.com and see what's going on.
Lots of articles have links to working demos. It seems odd (and wrong) to have your article closed because of that.
I'm happy to get this sorted out for you if you wish.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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No ads. Nothing to sell. On any of my domains.
Example 1: -removed link-
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Lots of articles have links to working demos. It seems odd (and wrong) to have your article closed because of that.
Thank you. To clarify, the articles were updated to have demo links removed, not closed. Otherwise, we are in agreement.
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So what would you like to do now?
I, and it seems the majority of the community, would like to see your articles back. I've gone through your tips and can't see anything that violates our submission guidelines.
I'll be happy to restore your articles for you, though it's your call. I do, however, hope to see your articles live again.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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 Excellent, thank you. Can you restore the previously unedited versions?
My apologies if I am coming off as taking it personal, but after putting effort into publishing tips and experiments, I was unsure how they would be received by the community (positive/negative). I received positive feedback.
Some of the tips have been sitting around unedited for 6-8 months with bookmarks and high marks. Then, within the last day or two,  they were suddenly edited. If it is good enough for March and May, then why edit them in November?
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I have no concerns. I stated what transpired and asked the community if they have had a similar experience.
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The articles and content were fine. Positive feedback was received with a few bookmarks. I removed the articles because someone decided that a link to show a working demo of the code somehow creates some sort of self-promotion for a page that does not contain ads and doesn't actually sell anything.
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No it doesn't, but it also doesn't tell me very much about anything.
If it had a title that said; "Below is an example of the gallery sample from the article "image Gallery Sample XYZ" over at CodeProject" and then linked back to the article it would make for sense.
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The link is an example that the "working demo" link isn't some way of trying to promote a particular product. Within the CP articles, I had "working demo" links to show users how the code will look when it works.
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I gotta agree with Dave man. It was more like a code dump. I have one such article myself, and deleted the rest. I left one because because it's still something more than a quick Googling will pull up. Code dumps have their place, but not as an article.
Jeremy Falcon
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Nice articles..
Arduino was what I wanted to do my next articles on. 
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Well there is nothing stopping you doing your next articles on them....
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I don't see any problem with the links you've used (although links to copies of jquery libraries on your own server would ring alarm bells, with me), but you could maybe explain things a little better.
For example, in one of the articles, you refer to "My image page with over 1000 images". That too would ring an alarm, even though it is just a page with a set of sample images.
But that's the point: had you described them as "A sample page with a set of 1000 SFW images", no bells would have rung, and no itchy trigger fingers would have done the dirty.
One way of writing it makes people think "Oh! That's helpful!", while the other can make them think "What's he up to?" (And note that you would probably react the same way yourself, if reading articles by other people.)
I would also comment that people look for articles because they don't know how to do something, so it's usually helpful to give more description of what the smarter lines of code do and the particulars of what the variables are for, but that's more to do with augmenting article-writing skills than with the topic at hand -- although lack of that kind of detail is something that we see all too often in "articles" by people with ulterior motives, so it can also ring an alarm bell.
Don't be disheartened by what happened, but do analyse it by thinking "Why would alarm bells have rung, causing people to overreact?"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't mind alarm bells and feedback.. but the snooze button was hit for 6-8 months.
Some of the tips have been sitting around unedited for 6-8 months with bookmarks and high marks. Then, within the last day or two, they were suddenly edited. If it is good enough for March and May, then why edit them in November?
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That's one of the joys of a free and open Internet.
It's Chaos theory; nothing makes sense.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What designates it as a tip or trick? I don't see much of anything saying it is one. The couple of links I checked out are great tips, but they don't really qualify as a real article. Not that it's related to the link issue, but hey I figured I'd throw that out there because that what programmers do.
Jeremy Falcon
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They were listed as tips, not articles - sorry for the confusion, I updated the original post to clarify as "tips".
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There's one sad bachelor in China today: [^].
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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and one intelligent woman!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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I have to say that she did the right thing: if he thinks iPhones are romantic then I can imagine the rest of his life. Mind Bleach please!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Me to don't wanted to merry a total idiot!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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