By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes (~~~~), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! Cirt (talk) 22:10, 3 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 16 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Steve,
I suggest looking at other articles on wikinews too :)
Make sure if an article needs to be reviewd must be done by Peer Review.
Good Luck,
-- IDangerMouse (talk) 11:56, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
PS. Thats such a cute/adorable picReply
Latest comment: 16 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
I have granted you Editor status on a provisional basis. Assuming you don't do anything to un-earn the status, it'll likely become permanent. Cheers, --SVTCobra16:25, 5 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 16 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion
You need to wrap up you edits to this article or perhaps even stop now. Wikinews is not Wikipedia. We publish stories for what is known at the time. We do not keep editing for the latest information. If something material changes, then a new article should be written. Cheers, --SVTCobra04:25, 7 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
sorry, ive removed the edits as they fall way after the 24hr cutioff for the article and is therefore making it a "work in progress". maybe it would be worth a followup, "US voting results in full" or similar? keep up the good work :)--MarkTalk to me11:01, 7 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
That'd be {{peer review}}. The process is, go to the article history, take the top revision and copy the version number out the url (this becomes the revid= parameter). Read the article carefully, then check it matches the facts in the sources and does not copy text from them. If it has original reporting do your best to verify the notes on the talk page are detailed enough.
You may copyedit an article if there are things like spelling errors or poor grammar. Also, adding wikilinks is another thing that can bring an article up to scratch without getting so involved you're no longer an independent reviewer.
When you've checked this and the other items in the template fill it in on the talk page with a review heading, change the {{review}} template on the article to {{publish}} or {{develop}} depending on if it is a pass or fail; if it is a pass, sight this latest version so it appears on the front page.
You may want to read WN:ARTICLE for an example of what the wikicode should look like.
Oh, and if the article fails on a point the parameter should be the reason why it fails, eg "|npov=this is horribly biased in Party X's favour". --Brian McNeil / talk09:20, 10 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
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