editing+guidelines

Before you start editing or revising, review the following sections from the Purdue OWL page for proofreading
 * Beginning Proofreading
 * Proofreading for Errors
 * Proofreading Suggestions
 * Revising for Cohesion
 * Steps for Revising

We will be using the U.S. military's battlefield triage system for editing pages:

Triage in a non-combat situation is conducted much the same as in civilian medicine. A battlefield situation, however, requires medics and corpsmen to rank casualties for precedence in MEDEVAC or CASEVAC. The triage categories (with corresponding color codes), in precedence, are:
 * **Immediate**  (red): The casualty requires immediate medical attention and will not survive if not seen soon. Any compromise to the casualty's respiration, hemorrhage control, or shock control could be fatal.
 * **Delayed**  (yellow): The casualty requires medical attention within 6 hours. Injuries are potentially life-threatening, but can wait until the Immediate casualties are stabilized and evacuated.
 * **Minimal**  (green): "Walking wounded," the casualty requires medical attention when all higher priority patients have been evacuated, and may not require stabilization or monitoring.

For editing, these colors will have the following meaning:
 * red - needs significant revision at the sentence or paragraph level. The editor can make suggestions but the writer needs to revise the text
 * yellow - editor or writer can fix the text on the page.
 * green - must be fixed before submission but can wait until final line by line edit by writer.

Use these color codes as you edit to mark text //even if you do not make changes because you can't diagnose the problem or suggest a fix.// To color code a piece of text,
 * highlight text with your cursor
 * click on the **color and style** button (//T over globe//)
 * click on text color
 * click color cell you want to use
 * click on apply style

When you finish editing, use one of the three levels from above for an overall rating of the draft. To record that term as you save the edit, click on the down arrow next to the **Save** button and type that color term in the **Comment** window. Then send a __wiki email__ to the writer saying that you have finished your edit.

Every edit you make on a page is preserved in the editing history. To make it easy for me to see the edits you have done, you should:
 * Getting credit for your edit**
 * click on the **history** tab for the page you have edited
 * copy the URL for your most recent edit of that page
 * paste that URL into a discussion board post on __YOUR PERSONAL PAGE__
 * title that post **"assignment name" edit**