Article Writing

And another that got approved although...

4-Feb-16 5:47

Thanks Sean

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Nelek25-Jan-16 4:05

25-Jan-16 4:05

Problems with format, probably wrong type and several hints from us trying to explain the author the way to do it.

Making your BDD Tests into Living Documentation using Pickles - CodeProject[^]

Can you please do something? Is there a bulk of people blindly clicking the "aprove"?

M.D.V.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter25-Jan-16 5:48

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

25-Jan-16 5:48

This trend of the last weeks makes me pissed-off...

I think those approve such things do not understand CP... These article are here to teach and to attract other possibly with quality...Such articles show CP in the wrong light and instead of bringing more quality it will bring more members who interpret those reputation points wrongly and think that all these queues for preview content are there for their personal gain and forget the community...

(It is of course not for you Nelek, but maybe some of those approved this content will catch the message)

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Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

Nelek25-Jan-16 6:17

25-Jan-16 6:17

About restricting the who can approve, there have been already some opinions in the B&S forum. I would go for give no reputation for approves at all. That would reduce a lot the number of clicks.

I have told my opinion on this several times. I think it would be a good idea if the list of "approvers" would be visible at least for a certain group of people (methors, protectors or whatever). So we could somehow help CP-Staff to identify socket puppets, followers, minions and friends. That way would be possible to find patterns and see if another kind of action would be needed.

M.D.V.

super4-Feb-16 1:39

super

4-Feb-16 1:39

Chris mentioned me that persons who had approved any article is visible on the bottom left. Since you are the protector , you should be able to see it.. Check and see.

cheers,

Super

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Nelek4-Feb-16 5:45

4-Feb-16 5:45

Or I am blind, or there is no such information.

M.D.V.

Images showing compressed and blurred in article.

super4-Feb-16 6:36

super

4-Feb-16 6:36

I don't see it too, but I assumed that it should be visible to protectors.

cheers,

Super

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kaviteshsingh24-Jan-16 13:25

kaviteshsingh

24-Jan-16 13:25

Hi all,

I recently wrote the an article (OutlookJiraAddIn: Yet Another Jira Outlook Plugin.[^]).

The article has few snapshots posted in it. When I am editing the document, the page shows the images properly. However, when I open it via the above link, when not signed it, it shows images resized to an extent where they look blurred.

It seems to me I am missing some tag or property in the article which compresses the image like this. Any pointers to make it render properly would be appreciated.

Re: Images showing compressed and blurred in article.

Chris Maunder24-Jan-16 13:32

Chris Maunder

24-Jan-16 13:32

You're images are way, WAY too big. Shrink them down to under 700px and re-upload them.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Formatted code in article as Razor: Doesn't render properly

raddevus19-Jan-16 10:01

raddevus

19-Jan-16 10:01

I'm working on an article right now (hasn't been published yet) and I've formatted an extremely small Razor code sample and it renders improperly --- adds extra brackets and highlights it yellow.

You can see it at the bottom of my article here:
ASP.NET MVC : Build Your Custom Blog Engine (CMS) - CodeProject[^]
Can someone provide a suggestion about what I should do?
Maybe just format at HTML or something?
Thanks,

Re: Formatted code in article as Razor: Doesn't render properly

Sean Ewington19-Jan-16 10:41

Sean Ewington

19-Jan-16 10:41

Our article editor code blocks only accept < and > and so on. If you email me the code I'd be happy to format it for you. I went in there to rescue it, but don't see the code there.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Re: Formatted code in article as Razor: Doesn't render properly

raddevus19-Jan-16 10:54

raddevus

19-Jan-16 10:54

It's no big deal, since this portion is just a couple of lines.
I just formatted it with the [v]ariable formatting.
Thanks for your timely response and help.

Re: Formatted code in article as Razor: Doesn't render properly

raddevus19-Jan-16 11:08

raddevus

19-Jan-16 11:08

I was writing my article and I just added an image and I did a preview to make sure it looked good and...

lo and behold!

The razor code was formatted properly now!!!! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Obviously there are elves at work here. Laugh | :laugh:

what do you do when you suspect that a comment on your article is spam?

veen_rp18-Jan-16 7:34

veen_rp

18-Jan-16 7:34

I've got a comment on ony of my Tip/Tricks which just says 'thanks for sharing' followed by a lot of links to, I think, advertisements? I didn't click em. The author of the comment is called Member 10891848.
Tnx

Re: what do you do when you suspect that a comment on your article is spam?

Sean Ewington18-Jan-16 7:54

Sean Ewington

18-Jan-16 7:54

Looks like that account got de-activated. I have deleted the comment. Thanks for letting us know!

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Re: what do you do when you suspect that a comment on your article is spam?

Richard Deeming18-Jan-16 10:47

Richard Deeming

18-Jan-16 10:47

There are a load more spam messages[^] from the same user that need kicking, if you feel like bringing out the ~~snozzcumber sandwiches~~ BFG. Smile | :)

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Editing the Published Article

Arun Chandrasekhara Pillai17-Jan-16 22:26

Arun Chandrasekhara Pillai

17-Jan-16 22:26

Hi,

I can't edit my article after the approval. [^]Is it possible to edit the article after the publish

Please help....

Thanks and Regards,
Arun C

Re: Editing the Published Article

Jochen Arndt17-Jan-16 22:38

Screen shot images are not visible

17-Jan-16 22:38

When on your own article, there should be some options on the top right that allow you to edit your article. The edit option is a pen symbol and the linked text 'Update your article'. If these links are not present it as an error.

But you can try to edit your article using this link (not clickable here because it should only work for your):
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/SubmissionWizard.aspx?aid=1072370

Arun Chandrasekhara Pillai17-Jan-16 21:52

Arun Chandrasekhara Pillai

17-Jan-16 21:52

Hi,

My first article was Generic JqGrid Implimentaion in MVC[^] approved. But there is some error to display the images. Screenshot are not loaded. Why? Please help?

Thank and Regards,
Arun C

Re: Screen shot images are not visible

Richard Deeming18-Jan-16 1:25

Richard Deeming

18-Jan-16 1:25

The images look fine to me. But you should consider changing it to a "Tip/trick". Articles tend to have more in-depth discussion, whereas this is just a series of screen-shots and code blocks.

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- Homer

Are you sure

Thanks787217-Jan-16 19:19

Thanks7872

17-Jan-16 19:19

This[^] should be published as an Article? I doubt it even as Tip/Trick because all there is about calling api. It has nothing to do with Sprint.

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Another article with unclear image copyrights

Jochen Arndt13-Jan-16 1:06

Article with unclear image copyrights

13-Jan-16 1:06

[EDIT]
To be ignored because article has been reported as plagiarised:
Plagiarised would be article [It got through] [and back in the queue again] - CodeProject[^]
[/EDIT]
Article: Big Data Analysis (part-1: ETL)[^]

My comment post during approval:

Quote:
You should add copyright notes and provide attribution where necessary to the used images to indicate that you are allowed to use them. This does not apply to the images created by you but even those should have an indication.

I found at least the "Velocity, Variety, Volume" image which seems to be from The Three Vs Of Big Data As Applied To Conferences[^]. There is no copyright notice so you have to ask the author of the image for permission.

I'm sorry, but this can't be accepted while the image copyrights are unclear and required attributions are missing.

modified 13-Jan-16 7:47am.

Jochen Arndt13-Jan-16 0:42

13-Jan-16 0:42

Another article got accepted while it shouldn't: C++ in the modern world[^]

Should be a blog because it is a copy of a blog and has external images.

Contains images with unclear copyrights and missing attributions.
My comment post during approval:

Quote:
Because this is a copy of your blog you should change the type to blog.

But more important you should provide attribution to the used images to indicate that you are allowed to use them. This does not apply to the images created by you but even those should have an indication.

I found at least the "Teach yourself c++ in 21 days" image which seems to be from Abstruse Goose | How to Teach Yourself Programming[^]. It is published under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC 3.0 US)[^] license requiring an attribution which is missing.

I'm sorry, but this can't be accepted while the image copyrights are unclear and required attributions are missing.

[EDIT]
I have reposted the above when the article went to moderation again after updating and the author replied. So he is hopefully adding the required information.
[/EDIT]

modified 13-Jan-16 12:00pm.

Spam tip got accepted

Jochen Arndt12-Jan-16 3:01