Talk:UK's Greater Manchester Police charge man with drug possession after trick-or-treating children allegedly given cocaine

Note to reviewer

For the BBC News Online article, mouse over the number next to the 'Share' button to see exactly how many times the page has been shared. Click on the 'Share' button to see how many times the page has been shared on social networking sites (mainly Facebook and Twitter). --Rayboy8 (my talk) (my contributions) 23:56, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

I removed it. I don't think the number of people who share a story on an online news site actually counts as meaningful news. —Tom Morris (talk) 23:59, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Review of revision 1680639 [Passed]

Revision 1680639 of this article has been reviewed by Pi zero (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 03:36, 2 November 2012 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: I hesitated over mutual independence of the two sources. It's quite clear the BBC took most of their information from the police report; some passages weren't changed at all. There are a few bits in the BCC account that don't appear in the police report, which could be simply because the police report has been altered since the version of it read for the BBC article, but in this case I'm going to conjecture the BBC did some cross-checking and picked up those extra bits. The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.

Revision 1680639 of this article has been reviewed by Pi zero (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 03:36, 2 November 2012 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: I hesitated over mutual independence of the two sources. It's quite clear the BBC took most of their information from the police report; some passages weren't changed at all. There are a few bits in the BCC account that don't appear in the police report, which could be simply because the police report has been altered since the version of it read for the BBC article, but in this case I'm going to conjecture the BBC did some cross-checking and picked up those extra bits. The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.

Had I but thought of it before publication, I'd have removed the words "with drug possession" from the headline, shortening it with no significant loss of information. Oh well; next time. --Pi zero (talk) 03:54, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

There was a significant problem with getting a second source as pretty much every media source was basing their version of the story on the Greater Manchester Police report. --Rayboy8 (my talk) (my contributions) 07:27, 2 November 2012 (UTC)