The triangle is a note the UNI team has attached to that specific entry, and it stays silent until you press it. Select it and the note or notes appear as warning messages on screen. Nothing else on the card tells you what it says, and no email is sent when one is added, so the icon is the only signal you get.
Why it is on your entry and not on the others
The icon is drawn only on an entry that carries at least one message. An entry with no messages has no triangle, which is why one card in your list can show it while the rest do not.
Messages are attached during review, from a short fixed set. In practice you will see one of these.
- Entry not submitted. The entry is still empty. No project, journal or publication is connected to it.
- Incomplete entry. Work is attached but something the brief asks for is missing.
- Duplicate Entry. The same work is attached to more than one entry in that competition, or you registered twice for the same place.
- Non-compliant with Brief. What was submitted does not answer the brief as written.
- Disputed project/Copyright claim and Disputed Project/Copyright strike. Somebody has raised an ownership or copyright question about the work.
What to do about each one
A message is a description of the entry's state, not a penalty, and most of them are fixable while the submission window is open.
- For Entry not submitted and Incomplete entry, open the entry and attach or finish the work. How to submit a competition entry covers the mechanics.
- For Duplicate Entry, decide which entry you want to keep and withdraw the work from the other. Removing a duplicate entry walks through it.
- For Non-compliant with Brief, re-read the brief pages and revise before the deadline. Note that a competition's brief is often more than one page. See Competition briefs are split across several pages.
- For either Disputed message, reply to the UNI team rather than editing quietly. Contacting competition organizers and the UNI team has the route.
A message is separate from the entry's review status
The chip on the card that reads received, approved, rejected or perfect is the review status, and it is the thing that decides whether your entry is listed publicly and whether it reaches the jury. The triangle explains a concern. It does not itself set the status, and clearing the underlying problem does not change the status on its own.
If a message describes something you have already fixed, say so through the support route above. Messages are removed by the team, not by you.