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11#Guidelines for Corpus Maintainers
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6## Deleting sentences added by mistake
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7## Making Corrections
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10### Making corrections suggested by other members.
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12 * If the contributor has not made a correction or responded to a comment suggesting a correction, then after 2 weeks, you may make the suggested correction.
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14 * It's a good idea not to make the correction if you don't know the language yourself and cannot verify that the correction actually needs to be made.
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18### Correcting sentences by members with accounts that have been set to "inactive"
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20 * If you are a native speaker of the language of the sentence that needs a change, you may just go ahead and make the change. If not, then you should leave a comment.
21 * Some members who have "misbehaved" have had their accounts set to "inactive" by the admin.
22 * Other members have asked to have their accounts deleted and have been set to "inactive."
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25## Deleting
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27### Please be very careful.
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29 * Once something is deleted, it can't easily be undeleted.
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836 * If the contributor of the sentence requests that it be deleted, then delete it right way.
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14## Deleting sentences added as spam
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1644 * If it's obvious spam, just delete it right away.
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20## Deleting sentences that aren't compatible with our CC-By license.
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2351 * Leave a comment first to allow the contributor or other members to respond.
2452 * If a member isn't responding and continues to add copyrighted material, delete it as soon as you see it being contributed.
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2654 * series of sentences pairs copied from other websites.
2755 * Even if the items look like commonly-used, everyday expressions, translated pairs, especially all from the same website, can be considered copyrighted.
2856 * We occasionally have members who aren't aware of this.
2957 * The first thing to do is to leave a comment telling the member this.
3058 * ? Write to team@tatoeba.org and suggest that certain sentences be set to "red."
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36 * If the contributor has not made a correction or responded to a comment suggesting a correction, then after 2 weeks, you may make the suggested correction.
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38 * It's a good idea not to make the correction if you don't know the language yourself and cannot verify that the correction actually needs to be made.
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42## Correcting sentences by members with accounts that have been set to "inactive"
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44 * If you are a native speaker of the language of the sentence that needs a change, you may just go ahead and make the change. If not, then you should leave a comment.
45 * Some members who have "misbehaved" have had their accounts set to "inactive" by the admin.
46 * Other members have asked to have their accounts deleted and have been set to "inactive."
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5262 * If it is obviously a wrong tag, and you're absolutely sure it's wrong, you may delete it.
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5464 * It's a good idea to leave a comment first in cases where you think some members may object to the tag's deletion, and then give members 2 weeks to comment before you delete the tag
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Version at: 13/01/2015, 17:44

#Guidelines for Corpus Maintainers

** NOTE:  This is a page in progress and doesn't yet have all the guidelines. **


## Deleting sentences added by mistake

 * If the contributor of the sentence requests that it be deleted, then delete it right way.

 * If another member requests the deletion and gives a good reason for the deletion, wait 2 weeks to give the contributor to respond, and also to give other members a chance to leave comments.



## Deleting sentences added as spam

 * If it's obvious spam, just delete it right away.



## Deleting sentences that aren't compatible with our CC-By license.

 * copyrighted sentences
   * Leave a comment first to allow the contributor or other members to respond.
   * If a member isn't responding and continues to add copyrighted material, delete it as soon as you see it being contributed.
 
 * series of sentences pairs copied from other websites.
   * Even if the items look like commonly-used, everyday expressions, translated pairs, especially all from the same website, can be considered copyrighted.
   * We occasionally have members who aren't aware of this.
   * The first thing to do is to leave a comment telling the member this.
   * ?   Write to team@tatoeba.org and suggest that certain sentences be set to "red."



## Making corrections suggested by other members.

 * If the contributor has not made a correction or responded to a comment suggesting a correction, then after 2 weeks, you may make the suggested correction.
 
 * It's a good idea not to make the correction if you don't know the language yourself and cannot verify that the correction actually needs to be made.



## Correcting sentences by members with accounts that have been set to "inactive"

 * If you are a native speaker of the language of the sentence that needs a change, you may just go ahead and make the change.  If not, then you should leave a comment.
   * Some members who have "misbehaved" have had their accounts set to "inactive" by the admin.
   * Other members have asked to have their accounts deleted and have been set to "inactive."



## Deleting bad tags

 * If it is obviously a wrong tag, and you're absolutely sure it's wrong, you may delete it.

 * It's a good idea to leave a comment first in cases where you think some members may object to the tag's deletion, and then give members 2 weeks to comment before you delete the tag


version at: 13/01/2015, 17:48

#Guidelines for Corpus Maintainers

** NOTE:  This is a page in progress and doesn't yet have all the guidelines. **



## Making Corrections


### Making corrections suggested by other members.

 * If the contributor has not made a correction or responded to a comment suggesting a correction, then after 2 weeks, you may make the suggested correction.
 
 * It's a good idea not to make the correction if you don't know the language yourself and cannot verify that the correction actually needs to be made.



### Correcting sentences by members with accounts that have been set to "inactive"

 * If you are a native speaker of the language of the sentence that needs a change, you may just go ahead and make the change.  If not, then you should leave a comment.
   * Some members who have "misbehaved" have had their accounts set to "inactive" by the admin.
   * Other members have asked to have their accounts deleted and have been set to "inactive."


## Deleting

### Please be very careful.

 * Once something is deleted, it can't easily be undeleted.




### Deleting sentences added by mistake

 * If the contributor of the sentence requests that it be deleted, then delete it right way.

 * If another member requests the deletion and gives a good reason for the deletion, wait 2 weeks to give the contributor to respond, and also to give other members a chance to leave comments.



### Deleting sentences added as spam

 * If it's obvious spam, just delete it right away.



### Deleting sentences that aren't compatible with our CC-By license.

 * copyrighted sentences
   * Leave a comment first to allow the contributor or other members to respond.
   * If a member isn't responding and continues to add copyrighted material, delete it as soon as you see it being contributed.
 
 * series of sentences pairs copied from other websites.
   * Even if the items look like commonly-used, everyday expressions, translated pairs, especially all from the same website, can be considered copyrighted.
   * We occasionally have members who aren't aware of this.
   * The first thing to do is to leave a comment telling the member this.
   * ?   Write to team@tatoeba.org and suggest that certain sentences be set to "red."

### Deleting bad tags

 * If it is obviously a wrong tag, and you're absolutely sure it's wrong, you may delete it.

 * It's a good idea to leave a comment first in cases where you think some members may object to the tag's deletion, and then give members 2 weeks to comment before you delete the tag


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