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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 19:46, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Jay Adams funeral article

I admit, as I start in on this review, I'm concerned about whether this is going to work out. We greatly value original reporting, and we sure do want to encourage contributors; but one of our most basic struggles has always been how to help people know ahead of time what they need to know in order to make this sort of thing work. Helping contributors know what to do is, of course, a struggle for all the wikimedian projects; it's just particularly troublesome at Wikinews because each individual article tends to succeed or fail in — by wiki standards — a very short period of time, and people get understandably very frustrated if their first article fails (which happens quite a lot, here; we try to warn people as early as possible that they may have to think of their first article as a valuable learning experience, but we still wish for some more all-around satisfying solution). One of our more enthusiastic Wikinewsies once gave the interestingly worded advice "don't marry the article", meaning, realize that not every article will succeed and don't get so attached to it that you can't let go and move on to the next.

Anyway, I'm going to try my best for this article. --Pi zero (talk) 15:17, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Regardless of weather it passes or not, I appreciate the support and the time it was given, there were two articles written about the paddle-out that I've found and I'm happy about that, wish I had done my part better in covering the funeral better, because so many great things were said, but now that my first experience is behind me a little I can look forward and see if I can be helpful. I ran across this really well written Blog that covers the paddle-out Venice Celebrates The Life Of Jay Adams I just checked and it does look like the photo's have a good CC license now Jay Adams photo's so if it does pass we can add them. Tinkermen (talk) 16:29, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

With some painful cuts toward the end, I did publish. Please see my review comments, and detailed history of edits during review. --Pi zero (talk) 01:09, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Pi zero for everything you did, I know that was allot of time and effort you personally took on for this article, I am very grateful, this happened so quickly and not being experienced with wikinews, you saved another one Tinkermen (talk) 18:50, 5 September 2014 (UTC)