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...changed the rubric of peer review when I set? I feel it could be a little clearer as to strictness of timings and some other etceterae. If anyone says no I'll shut up and revert to the previous version.

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Hi KT; the existing intro has evolved over the past few years and it works fine. If you feel as
a newbie that your text may attract more people and / or you found it confusing then feel free to post the new text! People have a habit of changing the timings from time to time anyway.

Thank you Paul, good advice to a newbie.

It's just that in a previous life [when I accidentally found myself] in academia enormous effort went into ensuring clarity in rubrics such as this.

I thought there were some creaky gaps here, some ambiguities or omissions of clarity, using my old boring brainal cortex.

I'll stick with this Paul if I may, the winner next week can always change it back!

It's for fun and friendship, not a legal document and, as Paul says, the intro has evolved over several years.

However, I go in for these competitions so rarely these days that what I think doesn't matter

It's worked up to now KT so, as the saying goes,
'if it ain’t broke, don’t ˈfix it'.....and as Rosalind says, it is only for fun.

OK, sorry everyone - M