Rejection puzzles

[uksnowy]

****This submission is marked as an EDIT, but there is no approved submission in your account with the same title that it could be an EDIT of. If this submission is a new submission, please remove the EDIT from the title and hit SUBMIT. If this is an EDIT of an existing submission, please resubmit and put a link to the existing submission in the AUTHOR'S NOTES field.****

The above has just featured in my story list as a second rejection to my story "Age is No Problem."

The story was rejected some time ago on the ground of under age, and has been in my list for months. The main male character was under 16 and now he is 18 in the edited version. I am going through this editing process with other stuff when necessary, so am baffled by the above.

Also how can I delete the version of this an other rejections

 

[NotWise]

****This submission is marked as an EDIT, but there is no approved submission in your account with the same title that it could be an EDIT of. If this submission is a new submission, please remove the EDIT from the title and hit SUBMIT. If this is an EDIT of an existing submission, please resubmit and put a link to the existing submission in the AUTHOR'S NOTES field.****

The above has just featured in my story list as a second rejection to my story "Age is No Problem."

The story was rejected some time ago on the ground of under age, and has been in my list for months. The main male character was under 16 and now he is 18 in the edited version. I am going through this editing process with other stuff when necessary, so am baffled by the above.

Also how can I delete the version of this an other rejections

You use EDIT for stories that have already been accepted. If a story has been rejected then it isn't in your account yet--even if you still see it on your submissions page. Your revised story is a new story as far as the site is concerned.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

You use EDIT for stories that have already been accepted. If a story has been rejected then it isn't in your account yet--even if you still see it on your submissions page. Your revised story is a new story as far as the site is concerned.

And will overwrite the rejected entry. Even if it's rejected again.

 

[RejectReality]

Yep, it's clicking the "rejected" link and editing the story from there in order to edit a rejected story.

For editing an approved story, you use the convention of adding "edit" or something of that nature to the same title as the original.

I suggest adding the unique URL of the original submission to the "Notes" section of the submission when editing an approved story. ( The part that represents your title at the end of the URL ) to help prevent human error.

 

[uksnowy]

Thanks, from my point of view as a very old non techie git with enough problems getting around this site, I will try, but there seems to be so many ways and no initial guidance.

 

[Handley_Page]

Thanks, from my point of view as a very old non techie git with enough problems getting around this site, I will try, but there seems to be so many ways and no initial guidance.

I sympathise. There's a chronic lack of "Instructions" about how to drive this thing.
but when the thing is being worked on all the time, one must expect it, I guess.

 

[uksnowy]

Yes thanks