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Hi
editHi Pitille02 :-)
I've reviewed as 'too old to be news'. Not your fault: you wrote of it straight on the next day. Here are the issues that prevented the article from being published:
- Language barrier leading to grammar and punctuation errors.
- Inexperience leading to 5W not being answered in first paragraph.
- Inexperience leading to issues with neutrality.
- Misquote in the initial submission.
- Reviewer not trimming the article to remove unverified information.
- Back and forth between yourself and reviewer awaiting the issues fixed and assessing what else needs to be done.
- Lack of interaction on live chat (WN:IRC) as it is easier, for me at least, to read than the entirety of recent changes on-wiki.
- Many, I would say most, other contributors were not aware of the article existence and as a result were unable to offer assistance. I welcome your proposals how users can get notified of the drafts and their status to have an opportunity to get involved.
- Does @Michael.C.Wright have something to add to this feedback?
- Privmsg me on IRC to get your 'always online' Quassel IRC account setup?
You are welcome to write a story about something fresher, now; I will try to offer you as much support as I can.
Regards, Gryllida (talk) 03:10, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Gryllida But I will never write anything on Wikinews, they made it clear to me that they are incompetent in doing their job, this does not seem like a collaborative project, this is an execution in every sense of the word, they never gave me help and @Michael.C.Wright He did nothing but flee cowardly. They have disappointed me because I literally tried my hardest. how sad. Pitille02 (talk) 04:07, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Gryllida: I would add that it is first and foremost the author's responsibility to provide sources for all information. It is not a requirement that a reviewer remove unsourced information on a failed review. My review did not hold up publication in regards to unsourced information. The author held up publication by not providing sources for all information. This was the first article written by this author and therefore learning by doing is the best course of action. Further, unsourced information was not the only reason the article failed review, as communicated in my third review[1]. —Michael.C.Wright (Talk/Published) 13:46, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- Ok,
- To speed it up in review comments we can write 'author needs to either provide a supporting source or remove this part'.
- Afaik when I make a new draft or edit an article there is, by default, no automatic notification nor email to me about new messages on article talk page. I'll make a sock account in a few minutes to test this.
- There is no feature for a user to get notified each time a article is created, or each time a article is added to a category, through Echo. 'Subscribe' to Category:Disputed is not a thing. Why not?
- It is probably debatable whether reviewer can remove a big chunk and remain uninvolved in editing. What are your thoughts on this?
- Thanks, Gryllida (talk) 00:41, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- Ok,
- @Gryllida: I would add that it is first and foremost the author's responsibility to provide sources for all information. It is not a requirement that a reviewer remove unsourced information on a failed review. My review did not hold up publication in regards to unsourced information. The author held up publication by not providing sources for all information. This was the first article written by this author and therefore learning by doing is the best course of action. Further, unsourced information was not the only reason the article failed review, as communicated in my third review[1]. —Michael.C.Wright (Talk/Published) 13:46, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Gryllida But I will never write anything on Wikinews, they made it clear to me that they are incompetent in doing their job, this does not seem like a collaborative project, this is an execution in every sense of the word, they never gave me help and @Michael.C.Wright He did nothing but flee cowardly. They have disappointed me because I literally tried my hardest. how sad. Pitille02 (talk) 04:07, 27 October 2024 (UTC)