Dorey Sébastien

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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 17:28, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

OR

Hi. I notice you've started an article, which appears to be intended as original reporting. OR is usually the most challenging form of reportage we do here; it requires lots of documentation, and it's best to have experience writing for en.wn first (both so you know the ropes and so we know you). Photo essays can be easier, though they do require some documentation (see for example WorldPride London 2012: In pictures). You should also take a look at WN:PILLARS. --Pi zero (talk) 10:58, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi again. Unfortunately, I don't think the article passes the car-crash test. (I could wish I'd anticipated this possible difficulty when writing the review comments for my first review, but alas I didn't.) Review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 03:55, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

File:ListOfFoodToBuyIPU2014 05 25 12.29.28.png

Thanks for uploading an image to Wikinews. However, I notice that the image in question, File:ListOfFoodToBuyIPU2014 05 25 12.29.28.png, is licensed under a non-commercial license. If this is your own work, please use a freer license. I recommend using {{cc-by-sa-3.0}}. A good writeup of why non-commercial licenses are discouraged on Wikimedia projects can be found at c:Commons:Licensing/Justifications. Microchip08 (talk) 11:36, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

First attempt

Hi and welcome to English Wikinews!! I read your first contribution here.....a cute effort. I'm not certain, but I dont think you meant that to be a serious news article, although there's no crime in just messing around to get a hang of things here! Have you considered setting up a Sandbox to do just that? Here....I'll create one for you! User :Dorey Sébastien/sandbox Just go there and you can experiment all you want with our tools! Let me know if I can help with articles! --Bddpaux (talk) 16:58, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Your first award here!

		The Order of the Modest Pencil For completing 5 edits.
		Great work! Keep it up!--Bddpaux (talk) 17:00, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Your picnic article

You might want to consider moving it over to your sandbox (see above)......just cut and paste everything over there.....it will allow you time to play around with your wording. Also, please consider: this is an international news site......it takes a very resilient and generally humble person to slog through the learning curve here. You can do it! Was there anything particularly newsworthy about the picnic/walk/day/event? As I like to say: "Would a school teacher in Manila want to read this? What about a truck driver from Dallas, Texas?" if you can't imagine those people wanting to read it, it might not be newsworthy.....but work it up and submit it. Also, know when it's time to walk away from an article....you're not married to it! It's not your child! It's just an article.....sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Let me know if I can help you. --Bddpaux (talk) 18:59, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

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