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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 20:36, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Contributing

Hi. Please see Wikinews:Pillars of writing, which is a compact overview of what we do here, then Wikinews:Writing an article, a tutorial on writing a first article. --Pi zero (talk) 22:16, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

I see you're writing and submitting a whole lot of articles all at once. This is a mistake newcomers sometimes make. Until you've gotten feedback from a reviewer, you don't know what might be wrong with a first article you've written, and if you then write a whole bunch more articles they may all have the same problem. Also, a review takes a good deal of labor by an expert review, and if you flood our review queue with articles, if they were all actually good enough to publish they might become a problem for our review capacity. --Pi zero (talk) 02:40, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

You're creating a bunch of categories; please ask first before creating categories. It's not something to do casually. Also, two categories you've created are things we already have categories for, with different names that you've chosen. --Pi zero (talk) 00:48, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Miguel Díaz-Canel succeeds Raúl Castro as President of Cuba

There are some problems I have listed on talk page. Can you please address those issues?
•–• 03:02, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

looks like One injured in Florida High School shooting has same issues.
•–• 03:10, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Waffle House shooting suspect captured after four killed in Tennessee, US

Hi, I made some edits to this article which I wanted to point out to you for future reference. One is to use {{w}} for Wikipedia links. It has the added benefit of pointing to local links, if we have one. Secondly, please spell out small numbers such as four. See WN:SG for more on this. Lastly, keep an international audience in mind, and identify where in the world the article takes place in the title. Cheers, --SVTCobra 23:55, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

maintenance?

we've got those date-related tasks set up so we can handle them semi-automatically, month by month, a month ahead. And there are some technical improvements we've been hoping to get to one of these times, so it might be just as well not to go too very far into the future. --Pi zero (talk) 19:45, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

News suggestion: dust storms in India

See w:2018 Indian dust storm, Wikipedia only has a very short article on it. It is surely newsworthy, though. De Wikischim (talk) 19:19, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

I see you've started an article in the meanwhile but I'm afraid it's too short. Additionally, according to the criteria used on this project, the news has become "stale" (in my opinion, it is absolutely not stale given the impact of this news event. But that does not really count here, to my great regret). De Wikischim (talk) 16:05, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Page blanking

Hi, if you want one of your articles deleted, whether a redirect or otherwise, please use {{speedy}}. Otherwise, they can get lost in the shuffle. Cheers, --SVTCobra 20:02, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Dutch scientists discover how to build synthetic embryos

Hi. The apparent outcome on this article is really frustrating to me (I know I'm not supposed to feel personally responsible, I'm not the only reviewer and like everyone here I'm a volunteer, but I still wish I'd had a more productive reviewing day yesterday). It really seems to me your Wikinews writing is coming along. Hopefully this article has had a high learning value; the more you learn to quickly produce articles that will pass on first review, and the more you get a reputation for doing so, the higher the chances of prompt review. Please see my review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 15:44, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Dust Storm

This article is rapidly growing stale...........any plans to finish/submit?? --Bddpaux (talk) 20:25, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

I do not plan on finishing it. I wrote the article planning to expand it, but I never got around to fully writing it, it is definitely stale at this point. Éntrances (talk) 20:27, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Award

		The Order of the Modest Pencil For completing 5 edits.
		You're very overdue for this!! --Bddpaux (talk) 20:32, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

File:Donald Trump tweet, May+9, 2018.png

This file needs a license tag and fair-use rationale per Wikinews:Fair use policy. --SVTCobra 21:29, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Luna Park, Schenectady.png

Two things.

• Our fair use policy only applies to images not under copyright by a competing news org. There's no way to tell that without information about the copyright; and I saw no such information.
• Our fair use policy only applies to images being used for a news purpose. Afaict the image wasn't being used at all.

--Pi zero (talk) 22:43, 16 July 2018 (UTC)