Wikinews:Article flags

These are article flags for use on unpublished articles. Add them at the top of a page to indicate situations that need to be resolved before publication.

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This article is actively undergoing a major edit.
As a courtesy, please do not make edits to this article while this message is displayed, in order to avoid edit conflicts. If you need to know who is working on the article and when the edit session began, please check the edit history.

Use only to mark an article you are actively working on, if you want to let people know. This may help reduce the likelihood of edit-clashes. Please remember to remove the flag once you are done!

This article does not adequately cite its sources and may contain unverified information. Please develop this article by adding sources or removing unverifiable material. If this is an original report or contains information obtained first-hand, there must be extensive notes about the event on the collaboration page.

Article lacks sources or references completely or contains information which has no references

This article is based on a single source. Using multiple independent sources is required for synthesis articles, as they help independently confirm the news events, bring a wider diversity of reports into the article (serving NPOV), and avoid problems of copyright infringement. Exceptions may be possible for original reporting. Please help improve this article.

Articles lacks sources, only identifies one source used.

This article contains a bare minimum of information. Please expand it to a minimum of one paragraph with at least 100 words. If the article is not expanded, it should be deleted within the next three days.

Article is so small as to be not worth publishing in its current form.

This article is currently a brief. You can help Wikinews by expanding it.

Similar to {{minimal}}(see stub).

The neutrality of this article or section is disputed.
Please see its talk page and try to resolve any actionable objections.

You believe the article to contain an explicit or implicit bias, or presenting only one point of view in a contentious issue.

This article is in dispute. It is alleged to contain incorrect or misleading information. See the article's talk page for more information.

Fact checking indicates that the article is incorrect.

The completeness and balance of this article are disputed. Before publishing it, please see its talk page and try to work with other editors to add missing information. If this cannot be done within a reasonable timespan, it may be acceptable to remove this tag and publish the article.

You feel that more information should be added to the article, and would like for you, or the community, to be given time to add that information before it is published.

The following reason for editorial cleanup has been cited: Reason
That means a contributor considers this article not publishable in its current form. Please help improve this article. If, after changing the article, you believe you have addressed the concerns listed, then you may remove this tag.

Contributor concerns:

Reason

Please help improve this article. Once the concerns have been addressed, you may remove this tag.

The article is poorly written, wikified or formatted, or other serious deviations from the article style guidelines

This page or file(s) linked to this page have been requested for deletion. Please see its entry on Wikinews:Deletion requests for justifications and discussion.

The story falls foul of the Wikinews:Policies and guidelines/Deletion guidelines and does not belong on Wikinews. Please remember to list the article on the deletion requests page.

The validity of this article as a news story in its present form is disputed. Wikinews does not publish encyclopedic content, editorials, blog-style entries, or advertisements. Please try to resolve objections on the collaboration page, or the article may be nominated for move to Wikipedia or another sister project, or for deletion.

The story falls foul of the Wikinews:Policies and guidelines/Deletion guidelines and does not belong on Wikinews. Please remember to list the article on the deletion requests page.

This wikinews has been submitted for speedy deletion according to the Criteria for speedy deletion.
The reason given was: Reason
If you think this deletion is unwarranted, or have fixed the problem outlined above, please leave a note on the talk page.

The article is an obvious test, vandalism etc.

{{copyvio}} Visit Template:Copyvio page for full form The article contains suspected copyright violations

This article reads like an essay. Essays are not considered to be news stories
If there is community consensus, it may be moved to a userspace or deleted.

For articles that are written in the wrong (essay like) style. See also template:cleanup

This article may not be ready to be published. The following things need to be done:

thing that needs to be done

When these things have been done, and the article is ready to be reviewed and fact-checked, Submit for review by changing the {{tasks}} tag to {{review}}.

This article may not be ready to be published. The following things need to be done:

thing that needs to be done

When these things have been done, and the article is ready to be reviewed and fact-checked, Submit for review by changing the {{tasks}} tag to {{review}}.

Adding a task list of things that need to be done before publishing. Can take several arguments. There are several special codes recognized by this template. For example, {{tasks|mos|src}} says the article needs sources, and formating (mos=manual of style). See template:tasks for details.