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Articles cannot be substantively altered more than 24 hours after publication. --Pi zero (talk) 01:05, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

North American Leaders' Summit 2016: leaders affirm strong relations

Published. Congrats. First articles tend to be a difficult process, with everything to be learned all at once. See my review comments and detailed history of edits during review. --Pi zero (talk) 20:16, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

Phew, thanks!

Sorry for all the trouble: I hope to write not only more but better articles for Wikinews.

Thanks again,

Keithman3 (talk) 20:45, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

FBI interviews Hillary Clinton over emails: Clinton's indictment 'unlikely'

Hi. Review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 02:42, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel dies aged 87

I am sorry I haven't gotten to this article yet. I'm doing some preliminary edits on it now, even though I'm pretty sure I'm too tired to manage a full review tonight. --Pi zero (talk) 02:34, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

That's fine. Take your time.

Keithman3 (talk) 11:57, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

I really wish I'd been able to get to it sooner. It can be really awkward trying to review an article that's on the last ticks of the freshness clock, because the option of sending it back for revision doesn't really exist: sending it back is likely to result in staleness, so one has to either find a way to make it work or admit that it won't. At any rate, note the review comments and edits during review. And thanks for writing it. --Pi zero (talk) 21:12, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

I really enjoyed this article. --Bddpaux (talk) 22:33, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

I really appreciate it! Thank you so much for reading it. Keithman3 (talk) 00:15, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Final panel added to China's FAST radio telescope

Published. See edits during review. --Pi zero (talk) 22:28, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Administrivia

Thanks for chipping in to help with overhead tasks. One note: a run-of-the-mill poor article doesn't qualify for speedy deletion. Most articles that are merely badly done sit around for four days, get tagged abandoned (as you did to one; appreciated), then at-least-two days later get cleared out. Speedy deletion needs a standout failure — advertising, vandalism, patent nonsense, obvious hoax, encyclopedic rather than news. The usual list of suspects is at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown. --Pi zero (talk) 23:55, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

No problem! Just trying to help Wikinews and reviewers like you who should be looking at articles actually worth looking at than articles by vandals. I'll read the WN:CD in order to properly assess articles in the future. Keithman3 (talk) 00:17, 10 July 2016 (UTC)