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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 20:09, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

The briefs...

...tossed around a bit, per my comment here. --Gryllida 22:33, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

There were problems encountered during review of the rearranged article; see review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 00:13, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

...and you also published it. Thanks!

I would like to insert a link to the article history here, through which you, Jibays, may want to go through to see how the article changed before getting published. (Some sources have two small letters, 'AP', at the top or the bottom, and they're the real author — AP — which I had apparently missed when gluing the two briefs together, at first.) --Gryllida 22:27, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Another political purge potentially underway in North Korea

My current concerns. I'm now hesitating to not-ready the article, because reviewers too dislike large number of review-revise-resubmit cycles (and, one of my concerns last time was a misreading on my part, which just makes everything messier and more frustrating for everyone); but realize, this hesitation could itself signify a problem for the article. If a reviewer expects to have to study the article closely and try to figure out permissible ways to fix problems with it, the reviewer will less often be able to invest in such a review, and the article will probably have to wait longer for review. --Pi zero (talk) 00:04, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Well, following my aforementioned concerns, and copyright concerns later raised on the article collaboration page by another reviewer, I took a closer look at the article, found that other copyright concerns were readily identifiable and at least one source was behind a paywall, and not-ready'd; my review comments, as well as my earlier concerns and those of the other reviewer, are on the article collaboration page.

The hope is, of course, that making mistakes and having them flagged out will lead to future articles that avoid those problems. --Pi zero (talk) 02:04, 7 March 2014 (UTC)