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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 01:33, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

United States of America tops list of world’s most positive countries 2012

Hi. The article was assessed not-ready for publication. Please see the review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 00:16, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

The work you did on the article did make it read much better — I changed the headline, as you requested, as you have to have had your account for several days before you're allowed to move an article (which is how you change the headline) — but I still have concerns about newsworthiness. Explained at my new review comments, which please see.

You're doing quite well for a first-time contributor; Wikinews has a notoriously difficult initial learning curve, whose saving grace is that it's fairly short: once you've got the basics down, things get much easier (though hopefully none of us on Wikinews ever stop learning). Keep in mind, though, that a first-time contributor's first article often doesn't achieve publication; its value may be as a learning experience, that knowledge to be applied to writing further articles. --Pi zero (talk) 03:52, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Please understand, we really try to be helpful to new contributors. I've tried to explain a bunch of things in my latest review comments. But you've asked for advice on what it would take to make this newsworthy, and I'm not at all sure there is anything that would make it newsworthy. If an event is newsworthy, and the article merely fails to explain why it would be, so that it doesn't sound newsworthy in the article, that can be fixed; but if there really isn't a case there to be made, then there won't be any way to make it. Moreover, if there is a case there, it may be difficult to make, requiring an experienced Wikinewsie to see how to make it, and that would be neither me (I'm not seeing it) nor you (you're not experienced here). Anyway,

Please see the latest review comments.

It's now about 3am local time where I am; I'm glad to have been able to provide you with prompt feedback on the article, but I really have to turn in now. --Pi zero (talk) 06:54, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Hello, and Welcome!!

...you seem to be giving it the old college try here, that's for sure!! Hang in there! --Bddpaux (talk) 17:38, 19 November 2012 (UTC)