Jolly Janner
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DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 02:34, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Please don't add links to Wikinews articles on Wikipedia until they have been published. Quite frankly, it makes Wikinews look bad. Otherwise, keep up the good work. --SVTCobra 02:06, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
What do you think of it now? I've tried to improve it a bit. I'm gonna go to bed now, but I am hopeful that it will be on the Main Page today (Sunday) and possibly there will be a seperate article tomorrow on the results. Jolly Ω Janner 02:53, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
- It needs more sources that are news. and more emphasis on news; the majority of any news article should be developments from the past 2-3 days, with each of those developments backed up by a source, and every article (with the occasional exception of articles that are completely original research) should have at least two sources. Also make use of the {{source}} template for sources for articles. --Killing Vector (talk) 10:20, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Someone meant to direct you to the content guide with WN:CONTENT. This is a mistake about the shortcut which is WN:CG, but CONTENT is kinda appropriate too so I've created it. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:02, 7 June 2009 (UTC)