Articles under 'review'

outspan · Post by **outspan** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:31 am

Hi all,

I recently joined CC and uploaded a couple articles, they were accepted in a few hours. A couple days ago I tried to upload 5 more, but they've been under review ever since. I was wondering, how long does it usually take for an article to get reviewed? I'm just a little worried because my first too took very little time to get reviewed, and looking at the latest articles I see other pieces got reviewed and approved, but mine haven't yet.

Cheers,
Dario

Ed · Post by Ed » Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:29 am

I will review the articles you currently have the queue, but there has been a hold on these because your other (rejected) articles contain traces of content that was not completely original. Please be sure that you do not lift content from other sources.

Thanks,
Ed

outspan · Post by **outspan** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:02 pm

[quote="Ed"]I will review the articles you currently have the queue, but there has been a hold on these because your other (rejected) articles contain traces of content that was not completely original. Please be sure that you do not lift content from other sources.

Thanks,
Ed[/quote]

Yes, sorry about that. The point is, I wrote that content for another website, and in the original article I credited the original sources (by citing the source links, which I'm very used to). But links are not allowed here, so I made the rookie mistake of just removing them without thinking too much about it. I understand it would just look like I had copied those... sorry for the misunderstanding, I'll only submit original material from now on.

thanks,
Dario

Ed · Post by Ed » Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:06 pm

Thanks, but I want to make sure that you know that, even when you cite or credit sources, taking the information word-for-word is not the correct way to do it. You may paraphrase small portions, or use quotations to separate the quoted text from your own content, but you may not just copy/paste sentences or paragraphs.

This almost got you into trouble at our site - it could get you into trouble elsewhere.

Ed

outspan · Post by **outspan** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:53 pm

Thanks again for understanding my problem. I can't really say I'm an experienced author, started writing articles in English just a couple weeks ago, so any advice of this kind is more than welcome