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Comments Professor Scroll came out of the woodwork on 2007.08.04 - 03:05AM to say: I would like to thank J for betaing my news article. : ) A second or even a third pair of eyes are always helpful to find those pesky errors. Treck came out of the woodwork on 2007.08.07 - 10:36AM to say: Is it the Archivists that are keeping the great stories from showing up in the recent updates list? (like FakeASmile's Taking Control) Professor Scroll came out of the woodwork on 2007.08.07 - 05:04PM to say: Treck To answer your question. No, it is not the archivists. There are only 2 stories in the validation queue at this time and neither of them are Taking Control. The archivists don't keep 'great stories' from showing up, they are there to help authors maintain the quality expected of stories on SIYE. I would like to add that authors of the caliber of fake a smile are Validated Authors, which means that their work does not go through the queue, when they update, it goes directly to the recently added list. fake a smile came out of the woodwork on 2007.08.07 - 06:12PM to say: My absence from the Recently Updated list is due to an error that occurred while submitting the chapter. I alerted the technical staff and have confidence that they will get the matter sorted out. Old guy came out of the woodwork on 2007.08.09 - 09:10PM to say: Can Canon birthdays be added to the required list? It seems to me that too many writers are ignorant of just when the main characters' birthdays are, even though this has been official for some time. JadeSeraph came out of the woodwork on 2007.08.12 - 08:12AM to say: I've actually found that the archivists are pretty good about getting stories off the queue - I don't think I've had a chapter on it for more than 36 hours since I started posting on SIYE. But then again, I don't recall ever having a chapter changed by an archivist, so maybe having a clean story to begin with helps. RSP came out of the woodwork on 2007.08.12 - 03:41PM to say: Old guy: Would you consider AUs exempt from this rule? (Some of us change birthdays intentionally....) If so, probably a decent idea, but do be kind on the older stories that were written, or plotted, before we ever found out Ginny's birthday. enchantedsleeper came out of the woodwork on 2007.09.02 - 02:55PM to say: How do people know about birthdays anyway? Is it through interviews with JKR? Because I've never read or heard one of those, I don't know where they're published or aired, so I've got no way of knowing about birthdays or any other details like that except when they're mentioned in fanfics. If you do add birthdays to the required list, can you make some sort of calendar that says what they are? Also, is that quote from an story in this archive? It's cool =D Jim McGuffin came out of the woodwork on 2007.09.02 - 08:01PM to say: Actually, at jkrowling.com there is a calendar on which each birthday appears on its particular date. There's no birthday there today, but here are the birthdays that have appeared: July 30 = Neville Longbottom July 31= Harry Potter August 11 = Ginny Weasley August 22 = Percy Weasley September 19 = Hermione Granger October 4 = Minerva McGonagall October 17 = Filius Flitwick October 30 = Molly Weasley November 29 = Bill Weasley December 6 = Hagrid December 12 = Charlie Weasley January 9 = Severus Snape February 6 = Arthur Weasley March 1 = Ron Weasley March 10 = Remus Lupin April 1 = Fred and George Weasley May 15 = Pomona Sprout June 5 = Draco Malfoy June 28 = Dobby enchantedsleeper came out of the woodwork on 2007.09.03 - 12:36PM to say: Cool, thanks for that!! I never even knew there was a website with the address jkrowling.com xD | |||||||||||
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Spenser Hemmingway came out of the woodwork on 2007.08.03 - 10:13PM to say:
Valerie… that is why I e-mail you as often as I do. Andrew and I have been discussing a similar posting to this. We at SIYE want nothing more than to see a good story posted. We really like to work with new writers as well; we were there once ourselves, and I for one loved the help I received. The word there is help. We all really do have to concentrate on readable stories, but there are a lot of us out there that want to help you to reach that point. Work hard, but work well and remember that we are all a big family here. Eric B.