After reading your last post I feel much better.  When you removed the Pages Wanted tag from  my page editing routine I failed to replace it with anything.  I only realised last week that it was looking for an author's name.  Once done I could save and all would be well.  The trouble is I thought I had posted several pages during this hiatus.  

Is it possible to change the colour of something important like AUTHORS NAME REQUIRED so that thickies mike me might notice it?

Sorry, but the message prompting for an author name is part of what's referred to as the Core Code or Skin, which is overwritten whenever there is an upgrade to the code, so such changes are lost if if I make them and there's and upgrade afterwards. I'd have to remember to go and redo it, and that ain't gonna happen

I do agree it's not the most noticeable thing on the Edit page, but then again, you can't save or leave a page edit without entering an author name, so the fact that the page refuses to save is a pretty good clue that something's missing, and once you know an author name is required, it's not going to suddenly not be needed.