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Comments page use

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Hi. Just wanted to leave a note about this occasional complication in the use of comments pages. With a published article, you're quite right that chit-chat about the subject of the article would be better placed on the comments page rather than the talk page — but the comments page is created automatically when the article is published, and for various reasons we don't allow it to be created before then, so before publication whatever limited incidental remarks are made go on the talk page. --Pi zero (talk) 12:54, 5 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for telling. Regards. - Jayadevp13 (talk) 12:56, 5 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Cricket: Indian Premier League starts with win for Kolkata, Bangalore follows trend

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Hi. We say on Wikinews that our initial learning curve is steep but short. It's quite common for a new contributor's first article to not make it to publication before it loses freshness; I think someone here (now an experienced Wikinewsie) noted they'd lost three out of their first five articles. It gets much easier later, as you get past that initial learning curve. The hope when a first article misses publication is that it has had time to go around the review/revise process several times, so the author learns as much as possible from it. --Pi zero (talk) 05:47, 9 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

So this article isn't going to be published. Can I ask for just I favour? Can I just move this article to my own name space so that instead of getting deleted it is stored there. I can also learn a lot from this article. I hope it wouldn't be a problem. - Jayadevp13 (talk) 11:16, 9 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
I can do that for you, sure. If it were OR that didn't make it, we'd usually userspace it, and although we don't usually userspace synthesis, we can certainly accommodate reasonable requests like this. --Pi zero (talk) 12:20, 9 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
Thank you. Thanks a lot. - Jayadevp13 (talk) 14:10, 9 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
User:Jayadevp13/Cricket: Indian Premier League starts with win for Kolkata, Bangalore follows trend. --Pi zero (talk) 14:22, 9 April 2013 (UTC)Reply