Samuel Alayev

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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 08:12, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Doh

Sorry for my confusion on the comments page. --Pi zero (talk) 13:02, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Btw, if you think there are grammatical errors, it's appropriate to discuss them on the article collaboration page, or correct them (your edits are not published until reviewed). Fwiw, I think you'll find "crew" versus "crew members" really is a zombie rule; both usages correct. --Pi zero (talk) 13:12, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

North Korea fires seven missiles into sea

Hi. I assessed this article not-ready for publication in its current form. See my review comments, and history of edits during review. --Pi zero (talk) 20:05, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

manual 'publish' tags

Do not, ever, manually put the publish tag on an unpublished article. We have technical measures in place so it won't cause publication when done manually, but don't do so anyway. --Pi zero (talk) 21:21, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

You're doing something wrong that causes this tag to get added to articles when you create them. Whatever it is you're doing that causes it, recalling the punchline of an old Vaudeville joke, don't do that. A simple way to create an article with the basic formatting elements on it is to use one of the article creation forms scattered around the site; there's one in the WN:Newsroom, there's one on the {{Howdy}} template at the top of this page, and there's one at WN:WRITE. --Pi zero (talk) 19:04, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

North Korea fires seven missiles into sea

Please do not re-submit for review with absolutely no action taken to address the points upon which an article has been marked as not ready. Repeatedly doing so may be construed as disruption. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 06:07, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

File:6335122-3x2-700x467 - копия.jpg

I deleted the photo you uploaded because it was against Wikinews's fair use policy, specifically, "media from competing news organizations uploaded without permission can be deleted on sight." —Mikemoral♪♫ 09:52, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

I also deleted File:Lindt Cafe Reopening.jpeg. Please don't continue to uploaded photos from other news agencies. This is against site policy. —Mikemoral♪♫ 09:57, 20 March 2015 (UTC)