[bksvol-discuss] Re: where are the new books?

  • From: "Paula and James Muysenberg" <outofsightlife@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:00:32 -0600

Nolan,

    A recent post from Marissa said that in light of the large number of
books awaiting validation, we can validate our own books, especially if we
have already edited them pretty thoroughly.

Paula

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nolan Crabb" <ncrabb@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 7:10 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: where are the new books?


> My screen reader solemnly spake the words of Scott Blanks written at 06:09
> AM 3/2/2005 as follows:
>  >I'm curious as to whether there are others on here who both scan and
>  >validate their own submissions, who experience a long wait time for
>  >approval?
>
>
>
> Folks, I thought we weren't supposed to validate our own stuff.  Trust me,
> if that edict, rule, suggestion, whatever it is, has gone by the wayside,
> I'm gonna start validating every one of my own books.
>
> I assumed we were supposed to have someone else look at our stuff as a
kind
> of quality control safeguard.  I wish someone somewhere with some
knowledge
> of what the admin folks really want would explain this.  I'd dearly love
to
> do my own validations.  I already go through a pretty rigorous
> pre-submission validation.  I'm sure it doesn't catch everything, but it
> comes relatively close, I believe.  Those of you who have validated my
> stuff may disagree.  <smile>  If so, that would be a good thing to
> know.  But I'd truly appreciate some kind of clarification on the whole
> self-validation thing.
>
> Nolan
>
>
>



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