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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 08:49, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Develop tags and your article

@Feudal.ca: make sure not to remove the {{develop}} tags from your articles as they notify other editors to help you improve your articles. Otherwise, The Fentanyl Crisis in Canada could do with a name rejig, but apart from that looks really good for a first article! Seemplez 10:13, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Duly noted, and thanks! Any suggestion for a different name, or is it a little too long or what do you feel it is lacking? Feudal.ca (talk) 11:05, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

And i got File:Bag-of-fentanyl-found-in-kamloops-bc-playground-by-infant.jpg has been a message that the picture i uploaded was nominated for deletion... Where exactly can i post it? This is a picture which was provided by the police in a press release for media use, and was reused by other news sites. Feudal.ca (talk) 11:08, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Feudal.ca. I am the one who nominated it for deletion. I could not verify the police released the photo under free license. (If you are new to Wikinews, or Wikimedia, let me know, I will explain it in a different way. If you know what free license means, let me know -- so I explain you only the parts which are relevant about license). If the police has released this as a media release, you can use it under "Fair Use". That means, you have to upload it locally. That is Special:Upload. But since your account is new, you might not be upload it immediately -- I can upload it locally for you. A press release media is generally used as Fair Use, and that can't be uploaded on Commons. It can be used locally.
•–• 11:13, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

I am fairly new to this but i think i got it, and the photo would be more appropriate to be used under Fair Use, can you kindly upload it? And about the title it was suggested to think it, how can i change it to "Fentanyl Crisis Worsens Amid Pandemic"?

Yes, about renaming, since your account is very new, you need to wait for a few days to be able to rename the page. Right now, you can request renaming the page here: Talk:The Fentanyl Crisis in Canada. I can also move the page for you. But please give me some time to thing about the title. How about "11-month old kid finds _ drugs in playground, British Columbian Police reports"?
•–• 11:27, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

11-month old baby finds illegal drugs in playground in British Columbia, Canadian police report

Published. Congrats! --Pi zero (talk) 00:27, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations on your first published article, Feudal.ca!

		The Order of the Modest Pencil For getting their first article published!
		Great work! Keep it up!--•–• 00:34, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

•–• 00:34, 9 July 2020 (UTC)