Isles
Welcome edit
Isles, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.
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Hi!
I've moved this article to your user space because it appears to be an editorial. Wikinews does not accept editorials in the main namespace according to our policy, but you are welcome to develop them in the user space. - Amgine | talk en.WN 18:10, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
You said: edit
"I am not sure how a direct discussion of U.S. military policy is an editorial opioun piece, but I am not a reporter. I feel these issues should be dicussed somehow, somewhere. We are talking about nuclear weapons after all. I can find almost no one to talk about these policies in the media so I tried wikinews, Alas, I was a failure. My morning was wasted."
- There's many place where to speak about U.S. military policy, you could create a weblog, go to Indymedia, go to GreenPeace… As Amgine said we do not accept editorial and self point of view (and it's a difficult way to follow as ALL journalists are writing Editorial, but as it's un-neutral…
- If you can follow "our" rules you are very welcome to contribute on WIkinews ! Jacques Divol 07:39, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Re: edit
hi Isles, and welcome to wikinews. i've moved ur message from my user page my talk page, which is the right place for it. the recommended way to get to know wikinews is to take a quick look at the links in the (first) welcome message above, which tell u how wikinews works.
i took a quick look at the nuclear doctrine stuff and i see that u once tried to publish it but it was removed as a editorial.
wikinews articles must report a news event, so to write about changes to the nuclear doctrine in wikinews, u'll have to wait until such an event occurs (eg., pentagon releases the doctrine, or a newspaper reveals something in it). note that our sister project wikipedia does not have this restriction and information about the changes to the doctrine can be added there at any time. wikinews will also rely on wikipedia for background material for our stories, so something u publish there has a chance of appearing here in the future!
one final bit of advice. neither wikipedia nor wikinews is a place for advocacy, "a soapbox". so while u can report on events here and write encyclopedia articles on wikipedia, u can't "make a case", no matter how important or "right" u think it is.
so welcome once again, i look foward to seeing more contributions from u. Doldrums 17:10, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
[moved from user page]
This story needs a bit more work to be a news story. Please don't give up on it now; help us make edits! Karen 21:38, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
If you think it's "well sourced and verifiable" enough to publish, just add {{publish}} somewhere in the story. The editorial cleaning flag was removed and other contributors have made edits, so there may not be any more objections. Karen 22:12, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Oh, never mind - seems someone published it. Congratulations! Karen 22:23, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
I was very pleased to see you reworking your story and other users making edits. It's a shame when someone writes a story and then never checks back to see the comments recommending changes or more work on it. I was happy to see yours as a featured story. It was one of few stories published that day, which just happened to be Earth Day in North America.
Karen 20:20, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
P.S. I use http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ for spell-checking. Sorry to heckle you about spelling. I suppose it's become my job around here.