Editor Welcome
Welcome, editors! Thank you for joining the team and making this web site a valuable resource for our readers. Please read the following notes before using the editor features.
Editor Notes
There's a mailing list for editors now, so if not already subscribed, please send an email with body subscribe editors your@email.addr to editors-request@undeadly.org.
You can add stories to the submission queue just like any reader. All submissions show up on this page. Here, you can edit stories, preview and save changes. If you see a submission that is clearly inadequate, feel free to delete it to keep the queue small.
Before you publish a story, make sure you fill out all the relevant fields:
- Supply a meaningful Subject.
- Put your login name into Contributed by; this ensures that you can edit your own stories after they are published.
- If the story was written by someone else, start the Front text with "His-or-her-name writes: …", putting the quoted text in <i>talic or using a <blockquote>.
- Email is currently not shown, so you may leave it empty.
- Web page should point to your own page, this will become the link under your login name in Contributed by.
- Make up some witty Department
- Choose an appropriate Topic. Submitters can't pick one yet, so this always needs checking.
- If the entire story fits in a dozen lines or so, put everything into Front text, otherwise break the large part into More text
- Preview and double-check for invalid HTML and unbalanced tags
Once you're perfectly satisfied with the story, you can publish it. There's no second confirmation page or undo function - once it's out, it's out. Don't rush things, have a coffee and proof-read the story again.
You can still make changes to the story once it has been published. to fix things if they went wrong, or add follow-up comments as a story develops. (Editing a published article will alter the Contributed by.) Usually, additional comments should go into the More text section, so the front page doesn't change too much or grow too large.
Once you're done editing, it's a good idea to use Logout so that you don't accidentally click on privileged functions.
If you need help with anything, don't hesitate to send us an email. Thank you for your contributions, they are what will make this journal fly.