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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 02:56, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Category:2017 ICC Champions Trophy

Hi. On English Wikinews, before creating a Category, please see if there are at least three articles which can be cat'sed under that category.
acagastya 06:12, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

By the way, for your article, 2017 ICC Champions Trophy:England v Bangladesh, the headlines should be more like a news article that an encyclopedic entry. If I am correct, the match hasn't started yet. So, you can rename the page according to the result: "Team A thrashes Team B in Champions Trophy", "Team A narrowly wins Champions Trophy encounter against Team B" or you can think of some other interesting headlines. By the way, every article MUST have two independent sources. That means, ESPN Crickinfo isn't sufficient. Other source, let it be BBC Sport, The Guardian The Independent or any of your choice except any of the Crickinfo or ESPN will be okay.
acagastya 06:50, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Death toll exceed 200 after heavy rain and mudslides in Sri Lanka

The article is published. There were some issues. But as a newbie, it wasn't bad. There is a scope of improvement: did you see the edit history and the comments?--acagastya 13:15, 8 July 2017 (UTC) @acagastyaYes I sawAbishe (talk) 16:43, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

recent articles

Hi. You've created a couple of pages lately, I notice; but they didn't have status tags when created, have very long first paragraphs (not following our inverted pyramid house style), aren't written in factual style (that's a bad habit that mainstream sports articles often suffer from, admittedly, but, well, don't imitate them), don't use our house style for dates. I suggest brushing up on WN:PILLARS and WN:SG. --Pi zero (talk) 11:42, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Goodness!

....you at least deserve this!!

		The Order of the Modest Pencil For completing 5 edits.
		Keep it up! --Bddpaux (talk) 21:00, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Cricket article

A couple of quick items:
1. Please see comments on the Talk page of your Cricket article.
2. Not the end of the world, really: but your user page is kind of strange. WN is not to be (generally) used as a personal web space for random sermonizing about various things. Now, my page/sandboxes are FAR FROM flawless, but I do try to focus my User page on what happens here. --Bddpaux (talk) 19:35, 19 June 2021 (UTC)