Dr. V. Ramachandra Reddy
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Hi. This article has some fundamental difficulties. I've written up a set of review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 16:56, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Analysis edit
Hello. Thank you for contributing but please note we do not publish analysis of events. All three of your current proposed articles contain significant amounts of analysis. You will need to copyedit the text thoroughly to remove the analysis and leave just the reporting. -Green Giant (talk) 13:10, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
Block edit
The piece you submitted about Tablighi Jamaat was (as one would reasonably guess from its headline) hate-filled, hate-mongering fiction. --Pi zero (talk) 14:38, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
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This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikinews due to submitting false information (with a side order of hate-mongering).
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Blocking my account amounts to curtailing my freedom of expression. edit
Unblock request edit
{{unblock|Please type your reason here.}}Dr. V. Ramachandra Reddy (talk) 16:53, 5 April 2020 (UTC) Dear sir,
The article that I have written accurately reflects the situation the arouse in the aftermath of the Tablighi Jamaat's coronavirus superspreader event. I even cited the resources from which I sourced my information. If my article is factually incorrect (the reviewer branded my content as false) all the sources that I mentioned should also be false. Does your platform brand all of them (most of them are reputed national news portals) as fake news peddlers? The Tablighi Jamat event and the way the virus was spread across India is a hot topic and many political observers are critical of their recklessness and callousness.
And the reviewer also branded my write-up as hate-filled. Does your platform tag anything factual as hate-filled? I saw a news item featured prominently on your site about Gomutra. Do you think India is all about Gomutra and nothing else? Don't you feel that by publishing such crap you are promoting Gomutra jibes against Hindus, which are mostly used by terrorists? If you can publish a news item about Gomutra very prominently on your site, why can't you give space to a news item which is factual? How can the reviewer brand my write-up as fictitious and hate-filled? I feel that you must not allow the radical left to hijack your platform and muzzle the FoE of the people. Please don't allow your platform to be reduced into a joke. You feel that publishing Gomutra jibes by giving prominence to the foolish activities of a fringe group as love-filled, but writing something about a religious group that tried to sabotage the efforts of the Indian government to combat coronavirus as hate-filled? This is highly unjust. Therefore, I feel that the reviewer's comments branding my article as hate-filled and fictitious are irresponsible and autocratic. Those comments are intended to muzzle the freedom of expression of the people. They are also intended to conceal the truth from the public. Regards, Ramachandra Reddy It is not about right or left, Mr Reddy. Looking at that article, the problems are: it is Stale, violates one of the pillars: the neutral point of view, has several style-related issues, is more of an analysis than a news piece. You want to write an article that gets published, try to cut the opinions and analysis and report objective facts. And also something that reads like a news piece, not a magazine content or op-ed piece.
As far as your Freedom of Expression is concerned, Wikinews is a publisher, whose servers are located in the US. Meaning, the site has the responsibility of the content that is published. If it were a platform and not a publisher (like Twitter and Facebook), you could cite FoE. Feel free to read the Telecommunications Act of the US to clarify your stance.
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Acagastya has reviewed Dr. V. Ramachandra Reddy's request to be unblocked, and the result was declined.
The reason given by Acagastya was: Freedom of Expression applies for platforms, not publishers. Wikinews is a publisher. As far as the content of the articles go, it is covered in opinions and not the objective fact. Something that is now stale, it could have been newsworthy, had it been reported promptly, and without the bias in the article. Analysis and opinions are not allowed in the main space.
Further debate can proceed here, however, the administrator's decision may be final, and the result of administrative consensus.