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Diego Grez ^{return fire} 19:35, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Re:Sheffield_tram_evacuated_after_fire_fears

Your article here, Sheffield_tram_evacuated_after_fire_fears has been removed from publication or visibility on the site. This is because the article has no sources, is unreferenced, and has not been passed for publication by our peer review process. You are not authorised to simply write something and publish it without it being checked for errors or omissions by other editors or reviewers. The article has been moved to the development section, where you will be able to correct the issues I have listed above, and for future reference, please use the "Write an article" link in the toolbar on the left so that you follow the correct procedure for preparing an article for publication. BarkingFish (talk) 04:05, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Just a point of clarification. The article wasn't actually published. Because we allow anyone to write, you have to give full details of any Original reporting that you do on the talk page of the article. This is just to verify that the original reporting actually did happen. Once you are done with the article (And have added neccesary sources/explained where you got the OR content from), add {{review}} to the page to put it in the review queue to be reviewed. Cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:36, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Your articles

Hey there! Thanks for writing some articles for us! There's a problem though: due to Wikinews's settings, only users with the reviewer permission can 'publish' articles — so all articles must be tagged {{review}} before the general public read it. To make sure your articles are reviewed in a timely fashion, please use the "create an article" box, found on the Main Page, or at the top of this one (click the tab marked "write an article"). — μ 12:10, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

I've reviewed a couple of your articles, which are great starts but they need some additional editing and information. I'd suggest you do a quick skim of our original reporting guidelines, if you haven't already, so I don't end up telling you what you already know. Can't wait to see this ready for publishing! - Amgine | ^t 16:22, 2 March 2011 (UTC)