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 Welcome, Abhinav619! Thank you for joining Wikinews; we'd love for you to stick around and get more involved. To help you get started we have an essay that will guide you through the process of writing your first full article. There are many other things you can do on the project, but its lifeblood is new, current, stories written neutrally.
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-- 19:40, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

The article has been published. Congrats!

You'll want to take a look at the history of edits, both for what Wikiwide did, and what I did during review. Oh, and there's also the review comments.

(It is very different from Wikipedia, isn't it. Yet they're both wikis. I think there's a lot of insight to be had into the nature of wikis from studying these pretty extremely different examples of how a wiki can work. :-) --Pi zero (talk) 06:24, 13 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Published. It took a good deal of editing during review (well, learning curve and all that). I've written up detailed review comments, which see; and see also the detailed edit history.

Have you taken a look at WN:Pillars of Wikinews writing? It might of interest; it tries to capture all the key elements of Wikinews writing compactly. --Pi zero (talk) 17:08, 14 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

India-China three day dialogue process begins

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Hi and welcome to Wikinews! Thanks for starting on your first article. You do not need to work on the article in your sandbox. Without sources it won't pass the Wikinews review process. Since your article did not have sources, I undid your edit placing the {{review}} tag on it. When writing an article, one of the most important parts is the intro paragraph, also called the lede. The lede tells the reader the basic facts, i.e., the who, what, where, when, why, and how. You can learn about writing a Wikinews article at Wikinews:Writing an article. Writing on Wikinews is not quite like writing on Wikipedia. You may find Wikinews:Style guide a useful page to look over. Again, welcome! —Mikemoral♪♫ 08:02, 17 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi Abhinav619, I've moved the story to Chinese President begins three day visit to India.--KTo288 (talk)
Moved again to Chinese President signs multiple trade deals with India, overtaken by announcements.--12:07, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Chess article

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Please see comments in my review. --Bddpaux (talk) 14:43, 19 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Points considered and changes have been made, now could you please help me with Cricket World Cup: Bangladesh defeated Afghanistan by 105 runs, there are ample number of games lined up and I want to report them. --Abhinav619 (talk) 16:38, 19 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Userpage

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Check my userpage. I have the same concerns as you. I was pissed off as a motherfucker. I'm feeling slightly mellow (talk) 11:11, 25 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hang in there!!

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There is a learning curve here. Hang in there! We value your efforts, but DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR SUBMISSIONS. It's journalism. My personal mantra here: 'Get it. Write it. Submit it. Move on.' Please don't run away. When in doubt, "downshift" to just plain old proofreading and copy editing of other peoples' work. --Bddpaux (talk) 21:28, 3 March 2015 (UTC)Reply