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Senate kills birth control amendment

Hi. Found not ready on review. I wrote extensive review comments (in five bullets, iirc), hoping to be as helpful as possible. See review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 00:00, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Former California teacher arrested on sexual abuse allegations

Jshellmann, Can you call up the Modesto police and get a mugshor for article, "Former teacher arrested for sexual abuse allegations".

Please take a look at the corrections I have made in the history tab, which includes paragraphs, source templates, date templates, categories, and Wikipedia links.

It still needs to be edited by an official reviewer. Crtew (talk) 15:02, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Call the Stanislaus County Sheriffs Department. In California law, mugshots are public and you can upload it via Wikimedia Commons. I would use the California template.Crtew (talk) 15:10, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Please see Pi's comments on the collaboration page of this article! If you can address these in a timely manner, I could see this being published. You're very close.Crtew (talk) 17:21, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

• I've added a quick remark on this article, being pressed for time. It's reproduced below, and the second point is (currently) the more-important one. The first may provide as couple of shorter-to-read Wikipedia entries that are useful:

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--Brian McNeil / ^talk 12:55, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

To make a comment in HTML you write <.!.-.-. Your message and close it .-.-.>. (NO PERIODS). Anything between the tags is not displayed and you don't see it unless you open the code.Crtew (talk) 14:56, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Not-ready review

See review comments, and, more generally, detailed history of edits during review. --Pi zero (talk) 05:17, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Wallace

The survival paragraph had to be checked, and I just found it was a copy vio. Please go through this whole article before you submit and check for any copy vio. No more than a three word stretch is permissable. That was a whole sentence! Arrgh. Don't do that. Revisit. Be careful. And when you're ready, resubmit.Crtew (talk) 18:24, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Great efforts!!

You're putting forth some great efforts on your submissions!! Keep at it!! There's a bit of a learning curve here, but you'll catch on! Stay with it. Bddpaux (talk) 20:53, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

I agree with Bddpaux! Watch for the bail hearing on Tuesday for the California teacher. Put whatever is the news there at the top. Then write the article from there using what you have already. That story will be fresh!Crtew (talk) 02:01, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Be sure to look for any other new developments in the case before you resubmit! Crtew (talk) 13:44, 10 April 2012 (UTC)