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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 00:21, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

The plight continues

Hi there! Thanks for your article, The plight continues. Unfortunately, the article isn't ready to be published. I've left some notes on the talk page.

• The article headline is too vague. You can read more about how we write headlines at Wikinews:Naming conventions. At the moment, I don't know what the article is about without reading the article itself.
• We need Special:Categories on each article; ideally this would be things like Syria, Category:Politics and conflicts, et cetera. To add categories to a page, you add [[Category:Syria]] to the bottom of the article. You can also use "HotCat", which adds a easy interface for adding categories. You can enable it in your preferences. Generally, we try to add, at a minimum, a category for "where" (e.g. Syria), and "who" (maybe Category:World Health Organization?). We also add at least one top-level category from the list at Category:News_articles_by_section.
• You should use the {{w}} template. Doing so allows us to link to Wikipedia if a Wikinews page doesn't exist, and helps us to categorise pages at a later date. You should also be linking key words that have Wikipedia articles, such as Maaret al-Artiq.
• You can add topic templates by adding things like {{Syria}} to the top of an article.
• Don't forget to watch your casing; names should be proper case, for example.

Regards, Microchip08 (talk) 07:26, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Two more signals detected during search for flight MH370

Hi. I have reviewed Two more signals detected during search for flight MH370 and marked it not ready for review. Feedback has been left at Talk:Two more signals detected during search for flight MH370 on how to improve the article. If you have any additional questions, please ask on the talk page. I or another reviewer are more than happy to try to answer them. --LauraHale (talk) 15:48, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Abandoned article

Your article, Oscar Pistorius breaks down during testimony has not been edited for a significant period of time, and has therefore been deleted. As a courtesy, I have moved your article to User:KaylaUOW/Oscar Pistorius breaks down during testimony. Good luck with your next article. Microchip08 (talk) 09:44, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Commonwealth Bank introduces card-less ATMs has also not been edited for a while; please take a look at it. Thanks, Microchip08 (talk) 09:43, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Car stackers could solve Sydney's parking problem

An article you contributed to, Car stackers could solve Sydney's parking problem, has not yet been published, but has not been edited for a significant period of time. Please consider taking another look at it, and trying to fix the problems the reviewer raised. You can then submit it for re-review, and hopefully it will be published. If the article is not edited after two days, it will be deleted (or moved out of the main article space, as appropriate). Thanks, Microchip08 (talk) 08:25, 4 May 2014 (UTC)