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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 01:22, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Anonymous muscle in on Canadian teen rape case‎

Congrats. :) Anonymous muscle in on Canadian teen rape case‎ has been published. I encourage you to carefully look at the article history and the review page to see the process that went on to get it published ready. This should assist in any future articles you submit getting published faster. --LauraHale (talk) 00:28, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Norwegian Prime Minister plays cab driver for an afternoon

Hi. I have reviewed Norwegian Prime Minister plays cab driver for an afternoon and left feedback at Talk:Norwegian Prime Minister plays cab driver for an afternoon. Please review these comments and try to address them as best you can before resubmitting. --LauraHale (talk) 07:31, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Looking at articles from a reviewer perspective...

Reviewing an article for Wikinews about Paralympic swimmer

Reviewing an article for Wikinews about Norwegian politician

Reviewing an article for Wikinews about Paralympic swimmer

Reviewing an article for Wikinews about Genetically Modified

Reviewing an article for Wikinews about Glasgow para-sport

Reviewing an article for Wikinews about athletics

When I was doing reviews this morning, I screencast a number of them with the hope student contributors and other Wikinews reporters could see what reviewers are looking at and better understand some of what we are looking at. Hopefully you may find these helpful for understanding what we look for, bearing in mind that every reviewer does look at things slightly differently and no two reviews are the same.--LauraHale (talk) 12:17, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

UoW student?

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

{{UoW student
|year=2013
|semester=Spring
}}

and you can fill in the missing field too, of course. :-)  --Pi zero (talk) 01:03, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Australian Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott announces new ministry

Misleading headline?

Your submission, in the title, mentions a "new ministry"; yet, the article text merely details ministerial appointments. The difference is rather important, and the title should be accurate. --92.236.29.48 (talk) 08:58, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Australian Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott announces new ministerial appointments

Before I review Australian Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott announces new ministerial appointments, can you look at published stories and credit the image in the same way? Can you properly format the sources according to the style guide? Can you add a topic specific category and all relevant geographic categories? (If you are not going to add Oceania, can you explain the editorial decision on the talk page as to why you thought the article did not fit there?) Thanks. --LauraHale (talk) 09:54, 16 September 2013 (UTC)