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For details of all our volunteer schemes, check out the volunteers page.

Shortly after the launch of h2g2, we realised that we'd need help with processing all the Edited Entries, so a number of friendly and helpful h2g2 Researchers were approached to join the Sub-editors' scheme.

Essentially once an entry has been through h2g2's Peer Review System, the Sub-editors edit it according to a set of guidelines (see below). These wonderful people are completely voluntary, and they look at and edit entries in their free time, so please be nice to them if you see them. You can either leave messages of praise or thanks below, or on individual Sub-editors' Personal Spaces, which can be found below:

Alex Ashman
The Apprentice
Atlantic_Cable
Bagpuss
Gnomon
Icy North
King Bomba
Leo
Malabarista
Matt (the Hoopy)
mikeo_s the gregarious
Psycorp603

We've got quite a few pages that explain more about the Sub-editors - take your pick from the following, or use the links at the top of the page.

• If you want to know why it's great to be a Sub-editor, check out our page on Why be a Sub-editor?

• To find out what the Sub-editors contribute to h2g2, read our page on What do the Sub-editors do?

• The Sub-editors are all bound by the Sub-editors' Code of Conduct.

• If you'd like to join the wonderful and glorious ranks of the Sub-editors, please Volunteer to be a Sub-editor.

• If you think that a Sub-editor could help you with an entry, check out Subs Specialist Topics.

How to Ask Us to Fix Editing Errors

Subs really don't get their rocks off by changing somebody else's prose - it's something they've been asked to do to maintain the style of the Edited Guide. If you have a gripe with the way that something has been edited, or you suspect that an entry has been plagiarised, please leave a message in the Editorial Feedback Forum. We are happy to listen to everyone, but it helps if you state the name of the entry, and its entry number, and let us know what the problem is.

The morning after an entry has gone up on the Front Page, the in-house editors go through the threads to see what the community has had to say about the entries overnight. It's a little like a gardener tending a garden - it's exciting to see how wonderfully well everything's going, but occasionally one or two things need to be tweaked.

If you'd like to contest any spelling, grammar, or facts, please leave us a message in the Editorial Feedback Forum. In the case of typos or incorrect facts, tell us which paragraph it's in, how the sentence currently reads, and how the sentence should read. Then it's a quick case of cutting and pasting the correct words in.