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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 05:37, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Changing headlines

Hi. A technical note. The headline of an article on Wikinews is the name of the page; so changing the headline is what the wiki calls "moving" or "renaming" the page. A registered user account has to be (iirc) four days old before the wiki software grants it the right to move pages; until then, to rename your article you just have to ask someone to move it for you (typically on the collaboration page). When your account has existed for four days, the control for moving a page should get added in a dropdown menu on the right side of the control bar at the top of the page. (Btw, our usual house style calls for a headline to be a sentence rather than a noun phrase.) --Pi zero (talk) 14:46, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Btw, there should be a "submit" button provided by the {{develop}} tag and the {{tasks}} tag on an article; clicking on that button is the preferred way to submit an article for review. (If by any chance that button isn't working right on your browser platform, we'd really want to know that.) --Pi zero (talk) 14:55, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Bus explosion in Armenian capital kills two

I who have modified their news. I am also beginner. I hope we improve wikinews. ANGwiki (talk) 20:43, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Bus explosion in Armenian capital kills two

Um. We have a possible problem, here. With the various delays, it looks as if there's been a significant development in the story since the Wikinews article was written. If you read this in time, and want me to suspend my review while you update the article, no problem. If I continue with the review (which I'm doing, for now), I'm not sure yet (having only just noticed the problem) whether it's going to be possible for me, as an independent reviewer, to put the article into a publishable state. --Pi zero (talk) 14:38, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi Pi zero. I will update it now. Thanks for letting me know.

I've taken it out from {{under review}}. Note, there are a few other comments I left on the article's collaboration page. --Pi zero (talk) 14:48, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, @Pi zero. So, am I not allowed to add new information in? I just don't know how I'm going to update it without adding anything new?Tia UOW (talk) 14:52, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

You are allowed to add new information. I'm not allowed to, because in order to review an article I'm supposed to be independent of the writing of the article. --Pi zero (talk) 15:19, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! I have updated my article with more info. I ran it through a plagiarism checker and the only thing it's finding is the article that I wrote (it's on some sort of page for wikinews already - I don't know). I hope it's okay. I'm going to bed now because it's almost 2:30am, but let me know if you need me to make any changes and I'll do them in the morning. I really hope you can work with this. Again, thanks for all your helpTia UOW (talk) 16:23, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Published. Congrats! I did have difficulty with the review; please see my review comments and also detailed history of edits during review. --Pi zero (talk) 01:27, 28 April 2016 (UTC)