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Indian banks propose to use gold deposits as CRR/SLR

Hi. I've reviewed this article; it's actually a pretty good first submission to Wikinews, but I did encounter some things that need to be addressed; see my review comments. Hopefully we can get it into shape to publish while the story is still fresh. --Pi zero (talk) 19:36, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Published. Congrats on your first Wikinews publication! See the detailed history of edits during review; I try to deliberately break up my edits during review into small pieces so it's possible to look through edit-by-edit and see what I'm doing. --Pi zero (talk) 18:01, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Indian regulator SEBI to inspect bogus firms

Please see my review. You write well! Please hang in there.....you seem to be learning our style here very quickly. Please dont run away mad! Again: Hang in there!!! Back up, take a deep breath and submit again! --Bddpaux (talk) 18:37, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

This is long overdue

		The Order of the Modest Pencil For completing 5 edits.
		Great work! Keep it up!--Bddpaux (talk) 02:00, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

1 article published! (Heck, we all started right where you are!!)

This award is presented to new reporters who have started 10 or fewer news articles.

--Bddpaux (talk) 02:04, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Indian space agency launches five foreign satellites

Published. Pretty solidly written article. Detailed history of edit during review. --Pi zero (talk) 00:52, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

India Railway Minister presents 2014-15 budget

Published. Interesting. Review comments, history of edits during review. --Pi zero (talk) 15:53, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

India Finance Minister presents 2014-15 budget

Hi. This article needs a new focus, if it's to work at this point. Review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 16:23, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

I can't find any new angle. Can I move it to one of my userspace pages and drop it?. --Kenfyre (talk) 17:25, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

We can do that for you. (We don't leave redirects from mainspace to userspaced unpublished articles like this, so an admin has to be involved, to make there's no redirect left behind.)

With synthesis articles we usually don't save them (except sometimes with students, where it matters to have the article around as evidence for their class grade); but, sure, you're a regular contributor and since you ask, I'll take care of it for you later this afternoon (and if I forget, you can remind me). --Pi zero (talk) 18:35, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Okay, Done. Now at User:Kenfyre/India Finance Minister presents 2014-15 budget. :-)  --Pi zero (talk) 14:13, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. Much appreciated. Kenfyre (talk) 17:38, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Reserve Bank of India publishes draft rules for niche banks

Was this an accident, not submitting it for review when it was written? Although I don't think that happens too often, I know it has sometimes happened, and we should do all we can to keep it from happening. Do you think it would help to put some sort of prominent reminder/warning into the text of template {{develop}}? Any ideas what might be helpful there? Currently it looks like this:

This article is being developed. You can contribute or discuss its development. If it is ready to be checked, you can action=do&label=submit it for review&verb:button-local-field-verb&form:button-local-field-form&subject:button-local-field-subject&‍cols=&rows=&editxcols=&rows=&Template:Assistant:Submit/formxTemplate:Assistant:Submit/formcols=&rows=&User talk:KenfyrexUser talk:KenfyreSubmit for review. This is not a way to ask others to expand or finish the article! You should review discussion about this article, and verify original reporting notes are adequate. Click to add OR notes.

This article is being developed. You can contribute or discuss its development. If it is ready to be checked, you can action=do&label=submit it for review&verb:button-local-field-verb&form:button-local-field-form&subject:button-local-field-subject&‍cols=&rows=&editxcols=&rows=&Template:Assistant:Submit/formxTemplate:Assistant:Submit/formcols=&rows=&User talk:KenfyrexUser talk:KenfyreSubmit for review. This is not a way to ask others to expand or finish the article! You should review discussion about this article, and verify original reporting notes are adequate. Click to add OR notes.

--Pi zero (talk) 14:08, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

It was an accident, if fact, my internet went down as I had completed it and was looking for updates. Kenfyre (talk) 17:40, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Ouch. It's been a while, but I've had technical problems that cut me off from Wikinews for days at a time. (The US infrastructure is still quite stable, I guess, by global standards, but it's not as solid as it was when I was younger.) --Pi zero (talk) 18:02, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Tell me about. In India, unless you live in one of the metros, you will get very bad service. Even if I am willing to pay more, I can't higher than 1 Mbps in my city. Many people tether their phones (which is legal but expensive) when internet goes down for weeks in some towns. --Kenfyre (talk) 10:31, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Reserve Bank of India announces plan to list systemically important banks

In retrospect, this would have been a stronger article if the lede had given a sense of the intended consequences of identifying a bank as systemically important. (That is: the systemically important ones have to keep more cash on hand, rather than, say, being assured the government will bail them out if they get in trouble.) It's mentioned later in the article, but seems to be a point that can be misunderstood, so would have been good to mention earlier. --Pi zero (talk) 14:28, 28 July 2014 (UTC)