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Chile Earthquake

Hi. I found it wasn't ready for publication. Tried to provide the best feedback I could, tailored to the situation. Review comments. Alas, that you caught me about to turn in for the night (time was I could review all night if necessary, but I'm mostly not up to that anymore). --Pi zero (talk) 03:50, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

@Pi zero: Thank you for your help. This is my first time using Wikinews and I attempted too big of a story this time. I'd like to become a regular contributor here. Thanks for all of your help! --Philipnelson99 (talk) 04:00, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Okay. It is a challenging subject, yes.

You may (if you've not already found it) find WN:Pillars of Wikinews writing useful as a compact overview of the project. Then, a great resource (imho) for first-time writers is WN:Writing an article. --Pi zero (talk) 11:01, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

User page

Do you want me to delete your user page so your meta user page shows? SVTCobra 22:46, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

That would be much appreciate @SVTCobra! Philipnelson99 (talk) 22:47, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Done SVTCobra 22:51, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Huggle

Wikinews does not have some of the templates you tried to invoke on this page. Perhaps we should? SVTCobra 20:00, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

I think we should. I can work on creating them. Philipnelson99 (talk) 20:01, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

@SVTCobra is that okay with you? Philipnelson99 (talk) 20:02, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

I don't mind. I presume they are used on a great variety of projects. SVTCobra 20:04, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

They are, the content may vary from project to project but I'll look through the different options as far as types of reverts on wiki news go that huggle supports and get to work on creating them. I will let you know when I have them created. Philipnelson99 (talk) 20:05, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

How does this look @SVTCobra?

Hello, I'm Minorax. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. You can read about how to contribute to Wikinews at the help pages. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Water Cooler. Thanks. ~~~~

Philipnelson99 (talk) 20:24, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Looks fine. Perhaps link to the WN:Water cooler/Assistance subpage. Anyone with Huggle will automatically generate this when they use Huggle to revert a non-constructive edit? SVTCobra 20:35, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

I believe so. Let me read through the documentation on enwiki. Huggle uses a tiered system of warnings. So you get the first level and then a second and so on. On enwiki, it's up to four warnings, and then the account gets sent to enwiki's equivalent to WN:AAA. Philipnelson99 (talk) 20:38, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

I wish I could help, but I've only ever used Twinkle. SVTCobra 20:41, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

That's okay! Thanks for letting me know. I had meant to create the various warning templates the other day because I noticed they were non-existent on wikinews! I'm trying my best to start working on the smaller wikis <3. I think the warnings are set somewhere in the project configuration according to mw:Manual:Huggle/Deploying but let me do a closer read just to be sure!

I did change it to link to the assistance page on the water cooler :) Philipnelson99 (talk) 20:48, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

@SVTCobra It appears I need to go ahead and make uw-2 as well per this edit. Philipnelson99 (talk) 03:29, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

We also do not have {{Shared IP advice}}. SVTCobra 03:59, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

I will work on that! I've stepped away from my desk for the day but I'll work on it tomorrow if I have time! Philipnelson99 (talk) 04:19, 26 January 2024 (UTC)