Mattwj2002
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Mattwj2002, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Sorry I missed you on IRC. I'm not up to a review tonight (certainly not if there's anything about the review requiring particularly careful thought); I left a comment on the article talk page. In addition to a (potentially, pretty simple) rearrangement of the order in which things are said, the headline should also be shorter, using downstyle capitalization (like a sentence, rather than like a title), and should be more objective ("causes much pain and suffering" is subjective). I cannot, of course, speak atm to the copyright and verification criteria. --Pi zero (talk) 03:30, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
- I studied the article a bit more, and tried to write as helpful a set of review comments as I could. I wanted to provide my review sooner rather than later, because, after all, on Wikinews there is a deadline. (When I was growing up, the local paper in our small town had a deadline of Tuesday night for submission of articles, with the weekly edition mailed out Thursday morning. At the time, I thought that was an awfully long time. After being on Wikinews for a while, and looking back at that memory, their schedule makes a whole lot more sense.) --Pi zero (talk) 13:48, 22 February 2017 (UTC)