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Forced eviction article

I fear it took me too long to get back to the article today, and now I've only got about three hours left before it slips past the outer edige of its review window (per WN:Freshness). I'm going to do what I can, though; just thought I'd warn you, this article may turn out to be a learning experience but not get published, which does happen, not infrequently, with a new contributor's first try at an article for en.wn, as there's a lot to learn. We'd all much rather it works out, though. --Pi zero (talk) 21:04, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Your kind efforts are appreciated. Thanks Nannadeem (talk) 21:22, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

An ambiguous sort of result: it didn't pass, and it's lost freshness, but there seem to be new developments that might offer a way to refocus. I had a good deal to say in my review comments, which I hope may be useful. --Pi zero (talk) 23:11, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Nannadeem.

I am very sorry that this is not fresh anymore. :-(

Please see the review comments.

Hope new developments occur and a refocus is possible, and/or this feedback is helpful for writing your next story.

--Gryllida (chat) 04:47, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Ok. Please place it into the deletion dustbin. Nannadeem (talk) 09:33, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Pakistan Supreme Court acquits Asia Bibi from blasphemy charges after eight years of solitary confinement

Hi. We didn't miss the story. However, there was a significant problem with the article; there were various passages much too close to the source text for our standards (which are quite stiff, due to both journalistic ethics and aggressive news-site legal actions). There are some suggestions on this at WN:PILLARS#own, and discussion at WN:Plagiarism.

It can be quite difficult to get distance-from-source problems out of an article once they get in, and we had (due to unfortunate review delays) little time left, so the problem was resolved by another Wikinewsie rewriting the article. --Pi zero (talk) 01:58, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

@Pi zero Ok, no problem,please Nannadeem (talk) 18:38, 4 November 2018 (UTC)