I have some modification requests from March which haven't been processed, but all my modification requests from this week have been approved. Some areas have more active referees than others.
Seing as you only joined on april 6th, your requests cannot be older than 4 weeks. Please remember that us referees are just volunteers.
And if you would care to look around in the forums, you'd notice that numista is more alive than ever with hundreds permanently adding and correcting the different catalogues.
Be patient!
Just call me Bram
No new swaps for the moment, still too many half-ongoing swaps to clean up!
If some changes are made by you, it takes a day, sometimes minutes to accept them.
If changes are made by me (full time numismatist and author of many books), I can wait…
They make changes in a catagory that has lots of referees or ones that are most active they can be accepted in minutes,
If you make changes in a catagory that has fewer referees or ones that not very active they can take more time.
Numista doesn't know (or care) or take into consideration when accepting changes if a user is a “full time numismatist and author of many books”. So, depending on the activity of the referees and other factors that have nothing to do with you as a user, it is not a problem with Numista itself, it is a problem with your own patience.
… me (full time numismatist and author of many books) …
… have read the requirements and expectations. I do not meet it.
Please enlighten us why you would not meet the requirements. You make it sound like you have a lot to offer to Numista to improve the catalogue and you also made it look like you want to help make improvements, otherwise you would not have started this post.
Are the requirements too strict? Or would you not have the time available that you expect present (master) referees to have?
Just call me Bram
No new swaps for the moment, still too many half-ongoing swaps to clean up!
What books have you authored? Are they currently available?
Last one is available at some Hungarian dealers.
Kuscsik Péter: Magyarország fogolytáborainak pénzei 1914–1919 Kuscsik Péter: Magyarország állami és helyi papírpénzei 1811–1892 Kuscsik Péter – Vozár Attila: Magyarország papírpénzei 1900 – 2024
In translation:
Péter Kuscsik: Money from the POW Camps of Hungary 1914–1919 Péter Kuscsik: State and Local Paper Money of Hungary 1811–1892 Péter Kuscsik – Attila Vozár: Paper Money of Hungary 1900 – 2024
… me (full time numismatist and author of many books) …
… have read the requirements and expectations. I do not meet it.
Please enlighten us why you would not meet the requirements. You make it sound like you have a lot to offer to Numista to improve the catalogue and you also made it look like you want to help make improvements, otherwise you would not have started this post.
Are the requirements too strict? Or would you not have the time available that you expect present (master) referees to have?
Short answer is: I am interested only in improving the quality of the catalog part, not in building or moderating community.
I have corrected some clear mistakes… nothing happens.
The “Past sales” parts are full of unrelated items…nobody deletes them.
It just takes a long time for some to get to the referees, and most of the time, it is hard to fault the referees, they too are people with lives outside this site. I had a request for an addition I had initially logged in early January verified and published just yesterday, and there are still requests that I have logged since February that are yet to be confirmed. The coin replica I added in January likely didn't get published earlier as it is of an issuer for which there is no exonumia referee, and thus it took time with edits, requests for modifications, etc and nobody checking back. This isn't really the fault of the referees, who are dwarfed by the number of requests that are put in. There have been, for example, 800 page additions in the past week alone. 800. So just give them sometime, especially as there are fewer referees for banknotes and the sort. Sometimes referees can just slack off or ignore you, but that is the exception. Cheers!
I think that your contributions would enhance numista, and that as a numismatic professional you would be qualified to referee an area of banknotes for which you have expertise.
You already contribute to the banknote hobby by having on your website many images and records of banknotes you have previously sold, providing a record of sales, along with images of good quality - I have used some in the expansion of the Polish notgeld section.
Almost everyone here is a volunteer. Some Referees can be slow to process requests. Sometimes we get hundreds of requests on a single day. All must be checked carefully prior to processing, which can be slow if proper references are not included where appropriate.
