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Tempodivalse [talk] 02:04, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

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Please do not self-publish your own articles. Thank you. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 22:29, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

It wasn't self-published, I had someone review it and after the revisions were made, I published it. Do I need to have the person who made the suggestion, review it again and then publish it?

There is no {{peer review}} tag on the Talk page, so it wasn't reviewed. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 22:35, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

It is now tagged as review

U.S. and China in trade dispute

I've moved this back to {{develop}}, for reasons given in the template. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 09:30, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the feedback, will work on editing. --JaylanHaley (talk) 21:52, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikinews article naming conventions

Wikinews' naming conventions specify that 'upstyled' headlines should not be used. So "Important Article Headline" is wrong. What would be correct is "Important article headline". I think I've seen you make this mistake on most articles you've contributed. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 10:54, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Will try fix for future. Thanks for feedback. --JaylanHaley (talk) 21:07, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Page moved

I have moved your article on the Irish Lisbon Treaty referendum to Wikinews:Story preparation/Ireland goes to polls in Lisbon Treaty referendum, as it has not happened yet.

A redirect still exists from the old title. Could you also list your sources at the bottom of the article, preferably using the {{source}} template, or reproduce any original research notes on the talk page, including the {{Original reporting}} template in the article? Thanks! Dendodge _T\^C(en.wp) 16:29, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Changing article titles

Please, never cut and paste the text of an article into a freshly created page. This loses the edit history, and means earlier contributors are not correctly credited. I have fixed this on the Irish referendum story by deleting the new article, and rename the old you marked for speedy deletion. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 21:53, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

I have updated Wikinews:Criteria for speedy deletion to reflect what I did. If you are using the Beta (Vector) skin the rename option is in the drop-down list next to "View History". I'm pretty sure you have been a contributor long enough to get AutoConfirmed and allowed to rename pages. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 22:17, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, didn't mean to not give attribution; I didn't know I was allowed to change the name to articles others had created, thought I had to start all over.--JaylanHaley (talk) 22:29, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

No problem, and you'll never do it again because you don't want someone else to lose your contributions. ;-) --Brian McNeil / ^talk 23:26, 3 October 2009 (UTC)