I submitted an article and it got deleted.

[PrafullaVedante]

Yesterday i published an article. It went into the pending status. But today i can see it is got deleted. How to know why it was deleted ?

Prafulla Vedante

[Thomas Daniels]

Do you have a link to the article?

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[PrafullaVedante]

This is the link [^]

Prafulla Vedante

[Thomas Daniels]

I can't see anything about deletion; all it says is "This is an auto-saved draft copy of the new unpublished article created by the submission wizard.", which means that it's a draft and you should be able to edit it and submit it for review.

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[PrafullaVedante]

Now you cant see it because it is deleted now. Yesterday I published it and i did see "Pending" status before the article name on the link i just provided. It went for the approval. Its deleted, i received a notification for the deletion too. I just want to know why it was deleted, was there any problem with the article content ?

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[Thomas Daniels]

I don't know what happened; I can't see a "Deleted" status anywhere. We'll have to wait for a Staff member who can look into this.

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[PrafullaVedante]

Ok. Thanks. When can I expect the reply. Will modify the article if needed.

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[Thomas Daniels]

I can't say that for sure. But based on previous threads in this forum, it looks like you can expect a reply in a day (except in weekends).

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[Lost User]

What did the notification actually say?

[PrafullaVedante]

I dont recall it fully as on clicking it went away. But it was saying something about the article deletion.

Prafulla Vedante

[Lost User]

Sorry, but that does not help. Most times when an article gets deleted it will be for a good reason: - the article is very poor quality - it is incomplete or not clear - it is marked as spam, because it contains many links to unknown sites - it is plagiarised I cannot find any comments to guess what might be the reason in this case.

[PrafullaVedante]

There should be some way for the writer to know why his article was rejected. I am asking for that reason so that i can correct it. I spent almost 5 hours in composing the article to see its being deleted. And now I dont even know what was wrong with it. It is definitely demoralizing.

Prafulla Vedante

[Lost User]

Well since you did not keep the information in the message telling you it was deleted there is not much that we can say. When the site administrators get to work they will probably be able to help.

[Chris Maunder]

I've edited and reinstated your article.

cheers Chris Maunder