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Villiers de Vos
Booking my seat.

bughunter
You can add a new topic on your own, by adding a kit for it. Only empty topics are auto-deleted.

Alex K
Sure, dear Frank, but I can't add a topic if there is NO kit available - but there are, instead, a number of interesting gallery articles for scratch-built models of said subject... like in this case:

scalemodels.ru/artic..ovskijj-bich-22.html

bughunter
Then I would add a gallery article and edit it afterwards. There is also a topic field.

Alex K
Unless I'm terribly mistaken (and apologies if I do), you can NOT add a NEW topic by using the topic field on the edit form of gallery articles... (as is the case with new kits). The same also used to apply for new entry books, again if I'm not mistaken...
See, for instance, always in the case above: scalemates.com/articles/article.php?id=437176&m=edit
The topic field in the "edit gallery article" form in fact only allows you to select from a pre-existing list of topics - if you simply write the name of the new topic, the topic still "doesn't exist" - unlike what happens when you enter a kit for a new topic...

bughunter
I must admit that I have not tried this. Thanks for the explanation! May be the behavior of the topic fields should be identical.
Otherwise, if the topic is added and the article is not assigned "quickly" (within the timer) it would be auto-deleted too?

Alex K
Edit: Yes. And also the reverse: It has already happened, for instance with this gallery, which had been added in the past: maquette72.free.fr/a.._db70/index_gm89.php
But since no "Dyle et Bacalan DB-70" topic was created soon enough... ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyle_et_Bacalan_DB-70 ) the added gallery simply vanished, after a certain time...
That's why when a gallery article. for such an esoteric topic with no kit available, is added, one has to ask for those mates with the power to add topics... to do so.
Or else (as I think I have asked Tim before), one should be able to add new topics when adding the relevant gallery articles and books...

Eddie Mann
It would be better to merge :
SCM Topic: Short S.23 into
SCM Topic: Short Empire as there was also a Short Empire S.30

Alex K
Good catch! 👍 In this case both S.23 and S.30 should be merged into Short Empire, right? (wiki seems to agree...)

Eddie Mann
Yes,
SCM Topic: Short S.30 into
SCM Topic: Short Empire