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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 13:42, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

'The mystery of a super-civilization is solved': Wikinews interviews scientist and inventor Evgeny Molchanov

Hi. I reviewed this, finding it not ready for publication in its current form, and wrote up an extensive set of review comments explaining basic problems with it. It seems to me this article is probably too ambitious for your first submission to Wikinews; you'd need to start small, learn the ropes and accumulate a reputation here. I recommend you read WN:Pillars of Wikinews writing first, a compact overview of what we do here, giving a sense of the project; then WN:Writing an article is a great tutorial for getting started. --Pi zero (talk) 12:43, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

• Thank you very much for your time and detailed analysis. Your comments are very valuable. We will study them carefully and maybe submit a new article. --Spiritual Psychology 03:43, 16 October, 2016 (UTC)

It concerns me that you say "we".

• This suggests your account may be a role account, which is not permitted on Wikinews; and
• It sounds as if you may be grouping yourself together with the interviewee, which strongly suggests a COI problem (as I mentioned in the article review comments).

--Pi zero (talk) 15:22, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

• Dear Pi zero: Once again, thank you very much for your good assistance. My English is very bad. I can read and write only with a dictionary. It takes too much time. I understood everything. I'm working on my User page now. I would like to tell my story so that you can make a decision regarding my participation in Wikinews. --Spiritual Psychology (talk) 15:49, 22 October, 2016 (UTC)