Remarkable that the notice boxes on this page say both
This author has 5 open submissions and 8 accepted submissions.
and
This author has not previously published anything on the Chess Variant Pages.
Is there really a distinction between an "accepted submission" and being published?
I think the second alert is based on the Contributor checkbox for the user, which used to be set when a user's first submission was approved (or manually by an editor), but I think Fergus turned that off and has mostly deprecated the use of it; we just need to turn off this message in favor of the first one.
I think the second alert is based on the Contributor checkbox for the user, which used to be set when a user's first submission was approved (or manually by an editor), but I think Fergus turned that off and has mostly deprecated the use of it; we just need to turn off this message in favor of the first one.