Approving your own waymark

[+Max and 99]

If you don't have enough officers, and feel the need to review your own waymark, please ask for help. . I've seen it before: an officer approves his own waymark, and there's an error. It's easy to miss your own mistakes. Just don't do it. Please.

 

Edit: especially when you posted it the same day you approved it. You didn't give any other officer a chance! 

Edited July 17, 2020 by Max and 99

[+Max and 99]

Really? You're going to keep doing it? Where are the other officers in this category?

[vulture1957]

isn't he leader of the category?

[+Max and 99]

Just a quick glance I see a few self-approved in the most recent dozen. 

[vulture1957]

can't be me, as I'm not a PM

 

[+elyob]

"There are no written guidelines that prohibit one from reviewing one's own waymarks, but it is generally regarded as poor policy, although I know some people who do it regularly. It is not so much a matter of ethics, in my view, but a matter of quality control. Why do authors hire proof readers? It is simply because we miss our own mistakes, and I don't want to miss my own mistakes in a waymark."

 

Above is a 2014 quote from silverquill.

[+Max and 99]

1 minute ago, elyob said:

"There are no written guidelines that prohibit one from reviewing one's own waymarks, but it is generally regarded as poor policy, although I know some people who do it regularly. It is not so much a matter of ethics, in my view, but a matter of quality control. Why do authors hire proof readers? It is simply because we miss our own mistakes, and I don't want to miss my own mistakes in a waymark."

 

Above is a 2014 quote from silverquill.

Understood. And I personally think it shouldn't be done. Especially when there are others who can review it instead of you.

[+elyob]

31 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:

Understood. And I personally think it shouldn't be done. Especially when there are others who can review it instead of you.

I agree 100% and there's not a thing we can do about it.  

 

Edited July 18, 2020 by elyob
I am too angry.

[+elyob]

Here we go again.

[vulture1957]

<snip>   makes up his own rules. That'll teach us to post his name!

 

[+QuarrellaDeVil]

[+Max and 99]

Stop it.

When you have several officers in a category to review waymarks, there's no reason to approve your own (note I didn't say review your own). 5 officers (two are the same person). Four of those officers have checked in THIS month, recently! Let THEM review your waymark.

[+Max and 99]

I've lost all respect.

[+iconions]

On 7/17/2020 at 7:38 PM, elyob said:

"There are no written guidelines that prohibit one from reviewing one's own waymarks, but it is generally regarded as poor policy, although I know some people who do it regularly. It is not so much a matter of ethics, in my view, but a matter of quality control. Why do authors hire proof readers? It is simply because we miss our own mistakes, and I don't want to miss my own mistakes in a waymark."

 

Above is a 2014 quote from silverquill.

I am REALLY pretty good at editing other people's work - the problem with my own - my brain reads on the screen what my brain told my fingers to type.  The problem - I am probably the world's worst typist and my fingers often have a mind of their own.  

Now, as far as other people approving their own waymarks, there are certain people who do it just as a giant "eff you" to the rest of the community.  Others - dunno, maybe because they can.  I don't and I won't.  I have always been more concerned with a quality waymark than getting the most waymarks.  I wonder though, if you are approving your own waymarks, are you afraid that someone is going to find a mistake?  Is that that what a reviewer is for?  Quality Control?  

</rant over>