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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 11:28, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

UoW?

Hi. Are you a University of Wollongong student? If so, please put a {{UoW student}} template on your user page, like this:

{{UoW student
|year=2013
|semester=Autumn
|course=
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--Pi zero (talk) 11:53, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Michelle Obama adds voice to gun control debate

Hi. I have reviewed Michelle Obama adds voice to gun control debate. Detailed comments as to why the article was not published can be found at Talk:Michelle Obama adds voice to gun control debate. Please address these and consider re-submitting it. --LauraHale (talk) 00:25, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi. I've re-reviewed the article. I'd like to offer some broad perspective on the review process, in addition to specific feedback on this review.

Narrowly focused specific feedback consists of review comments, and history of edits during review.

It's quite common for new Wikinews contributors to not get their first article published. Sometimes even several out of their first few articles. The key is to learn all you can from each not-ready; that learning is what gets you to the point where things 'click', and you can then fairly reliably write articles that will pass on their first review (though hopefully none of us ever stop learning).

In this case, you should be able to get a good deal out of the article, as I see you've gotten three reviews back on it. That's a good deal of labor reviewers have put into giving you feedback. Articles that go round and round the review process like this can be quite rich in feedback, though they often don't end in publication because they go stale and then only have another shot at publication if refreshed (and refreshing an article is hard to do as there's a lot that can go wrong). --Pi zero (talk) 21:17, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Gun background checks a no-go in US Senate

Published. Congrats! Review comments, detailed history of edits during review. --Pi zero (talk) 22:00, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks so much for all of your hard work to get the story publish-worthy- I really appreciate it!