diff --git a/frontend/src/App.jsx b/frontend/src/App.jsx
index 67079ee..1a3e44e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/App.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/App.jsx
@@ -235,12 +235,6 @@ function AppRoutes() {
             {/* Cross-references in article prose address a topic by slug, which
                 outlives a numeric id and is what an educator actually writes. */}
             <Route path="/articles/s/:slug" element={<ArticlePage />} />
-            {/* The same page at Editorial's own address. An article reached
-                from the queue is being worked on, not read, and the trail out
-                of it should go back to the queue — which it cannot do if the
-                two are the same URL. */}
-            <Route path="/editorial/articles/:id" element={<ArticlePage />} />
-            <Route path="/editorial/articles/s/:slug" element={<ArticlePage />} />
             <Route path="/flashcards/:deckId/study" element={<FlashcardStudyPage />} />
             {/* One front door. The dashboard's contents are sections of
                 Settings now; the old address still works for anyone who
@@ -265,6 +259,15 @@ function AppRoutes() {
             <Route path="/trash" element={<TrashPage />} />
             <Route path="/categories" element={<CategoriesPage />} />
             <Route path="/editorial" element={<EditorialPage />} />
+            {/* The same page as Reading, at Editorial's own address: an
+                article reached from the queue is being worked on, not read,
+                and the trail out of it goes back to the queue. Behind the
+                same door as the queue itself — it started out in the
+                authenticated block, where any signed-in learner could open
+                the editorial view of an article and find a crumb to a page
+                they are not allowed on. */}
+            <Route path="/editorial/articles/:id" element={<ArticlePage />} />
+            <Route path="/editorial/articles/s/:slug" element={<ArticlePage />} />
             <Route path="/access" element={<AccessPage />} />
             <Route path="/questions/new" element={<QuestionEditPage mode="create" />} />
             <Route path="/questions/:id" element={<QuestionEditPage />} />
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/ArticlesPage.jsx b/frontend/src/pages/ArticlesPage.jsx
index 7032934..201c081 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/ArticlesPage.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/ArticlesPage.jsx
@@ -314,10 +314,13 @@ export function ArticlePage() {
   // taken to the editorial one rather than ignored: the ask is legitimate, the
   // address is the wrong one.
   useEffect(() => {
-    if (!inEditorial && searchParams.get('edit') === '1' && id) {
-      navigate(`/editorial/articles/${id}?edit=1`, { replace: true })
-    }
-  }, [inEditorial, searchParams, id, navigate])
+    if (inEditorial || searchParams.get('edit') !== '1' || !id) return
+    // Only for somebody who may go there. For anybody else the parameter is
+    // just dropped: sending a learner to a door they cannot open is worse
+    // than ignoring a query string they did not type.
+    if (user?.is_moderator) navigate(`/editorial/articles/${id}?edit=1`, { replace: true })
+    else navigate(`/articles/${id}`, { replace: true })
+  }, [inEditorial, searchParams, id, navigate, user?.is_moderator])
 
   // Reading claims the window; editing hands it back. Width only — the
   // navbar's own section strip is left alone, because every link on it is
@@ -477,7 +480,11 @@ export function ArticlePage() {
   // is how somebody ended up in edit mode on Bronchiolitis in the middle of a
   // session. The same page at /editorial/articles/:id has all of it.
   const editorActions = !inEditorial ? (
-    canEdit ? (
+    // Moderators and admins, and nobody else. `canEdit` also covers whoever
+    // wrote the article, which is not the same thing: Editorial is behind the
+    // moderator door, so offering that door to an author who is a plain user
+    // is offering them a Forbidden page.
+    user?.is_moderator ? (
       <Link to={`/editorial/articles/${article.id}`} className="btn btn-secondary btn-sm">
         Open in Editorial
       </Link>
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/ArticlesPage.test.jsx b/frontend/src/pages/ArticlesPage.test.jsx
index 936354f..302e019 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/ArticlesPage.test.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/ArticlesPage.test.jsx
@@ -307,8 +307,9 @@ describe('topic reading', () => {
     expect(screen.queryByRole('button', { name: 'Edit' })).toBeNull()
     expect(screen.queryByRole('button', { name: /Unpublish|Publish/ })).toBeNull()
     expect(screen.queryByRole('button', { name: /Generate cards/ })).toBeNull()
-    // And a learner is not offered the other mode either — the door belongs to
-    // whoever may edit.
+    // And a learner is not offered the other mode either. Editorial is behind
+    // the moderator door, so the way through belongs to whoever may go there —
+    // not to whoever happens to have written the article.
     expect(screen.queryByRole('link', { name: 'Open in Editorial' })).toBeNull()
   })