Reviewing your own nomination is fine and is not sufficient. Somebody else has to read it for the process to mean anything.
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A promotion I argued against, and why I lost
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Filing a mild objection to the consensus on promotion. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit.
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The most useful review comment names a sentence and says what is wrong with it. General approval and general concern are both hard to act on.
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t.ibarra, post #22: I read post #20 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite. Careful with the language on promotion. "Not detected" and "not present" are different findings and the first is a statement about the method. Go to post
The most useful review comment names a sentence and says what is wrong with it. General approval and general concern are both hard to act on.
Everything in post #101 holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have.
Check the links. Promotion frequently breaks a cross-reference because the source topic now points at the document rather than the reverse.
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f.espinoza, post #6: Where the review finds the content is right but the framing overstates it, that is the most valuable catch available at this stage. Go to post
The most useful review comment names a sentence and says what is wrong with it. General approval and general concern are both hard to act on.
Adding it in case it saves somebody the afternoon it cost me.
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