So, the editing wasn't the issue: Corion has identified the root cause; and, as Arunbear indicates, the editing occurred later.

I was aware that moving pages between sections had, in the past, caused problems with both approval and front-paging operations — given the node was by a first-time poster, using the wrong section was certainly a possibility — however, I didn't know how to check this. There was no indication in the thread that anyone had done this; I also checked "Nodes to Consider" to see if a "move to section ..." was perhaps in progress (it wasn't).

Anyway, thanks to your "edit history" link, I find I can just add ";displaytype=edithistory" to the query string to get this information. This will be useful, not just in similar situations to this one, but also when considering empty nodes: Edit (to restore content) or Reap (it's genuinely empty). With that in mind, is this functionality available from, say, some Nodelet, or do I need to manually edit the URL?

— Ken

In reply to Re^2: Unable to front-page a node by kcott
in thread Unable to front-page a node by kcott

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