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In NAB, we run into a lot of commercial articles that really need edited. after you have edited a bunch of them and the editors aren’t making any attempt to improve their submitted articles, you want to give up on them. A comformat template was created a while back so that after an editor has improved an article to standard, the booster can send them the template so that they know that the editor has been told about the formatting. My reasoning is that if you show them what is correct and they can’t be bothered to submit properly formatted articles, we shouldn’t bother keeping them. I am hoping we can add that back to the active templates again.

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It’s inactive? I believe it has a strong meaning behind it… unlike those 50,000 editor created chat, warning, and miscellaneous templates.

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Yeah. I went to use it and saw that it wasn’t ‘there’ any longer.

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Yeah, it was one of the ones that got downgraded because it wasn’t being used. I’d support bringing it back if we removed the border and had friendlier text, like: Hello! Thanks for contributing [[Title]]. I just spent some time editing it so that it meets wikiHow’s formatting standards and commercial guidelines. Can you look it over? Since we have pretty strict policies about links and commercial topics, it’s important that you follow our guidelines so that your articles don’t get deleted. Please look these over before submitting your next article, and let me know if you have any questions! * Write About Commercial Topics on wikiHow * External Link Policy * Publicize Yourself the Right Way on wikiHow

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I believe that the reason it hadn’t been used in a while was because we hadn’t had a bunch of articles submitted like that in a while. As you know, they are coming in hard and heavy now. Of course, I have no issues with it being edited. This is a wiki!