Talk:Minyama residents promise to keep fighting to stop McDonald's development

Original Research notes
Mooloolaba McDonalds -> 24hr -> in larger complex -> has drive through -> licenced premises nearby (ie bowling club, pub etc) -> road each side

--RockerballAustralia (talk) 02:11, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Email to Peter Slipper
Subject: 	24 hour McDonalds in Minyama Sender: 	Patrick Gillett add Recipient: 	Peter.Slipper.MP@aph.gov.au add Date: 	Today 09:47

Mr Slipper I am currently writing an article on Wikinews (http://en.wikinews.org) about the proposed 24 hour McDonalds at Minyama. I would like to get your thoughts on the proposal for said article. -- Patrick Gillett Media, Australian Rockerball Editor/Journalist 1st XV News --RockerballAustralia (talk) 03:46, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

What part of this is an interview?
Since Peter Slipper failed to respond to the e-mail, I don't see how this is an interview. And for copy-editing it's "McDonald's" and not "McDonalds". --SVTCobra 00:40, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Title and country name
I'll note that while I was pretty sure that Queensland was part of Australia, I wasn't complete certain. I can't name the provinces (states?) of Mexico either, or the regions of India, or the provinces of China. I can name most of the countries (even the ridiculously small ones), and most of the capitals of those countries, but provinces and states... no. So why is the country name not given?

Also please do not use local names in the title! "Minyama" is completely meaningless to virtually everyone on the planet! I suspect that even most Australians don't know where that is, or much care to know. Personally I certainly can't name every small town in Canada. According to Wikipedia (and it was mislinked, btw) it has a population of 2,544 people. Unless it is a big city (a BIG city), use the country name. This title should have been something along the lines of "Residents of Australian town (village? suburb?) promise to keep fighting McDonald's development". I'm not big on local micro-news as it is, but if people are going to write it at least remember that it has to be understandable by an international audience.

Even if the person writing the article didn't realize this, those who reviewed it should have. It's post publication, and I really hate changing titles post publication unless there is no choice (especially now with googlenews), so all I'm going to do is add in the country name in the article and fix the wikilink. Gopher65talk 04:14, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, this was published with a large number of very obvious spelling errors. Gopher65talk 04:22, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Typo in headline: developement -> development
GeorgeII (talk) 16:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Realized I could rename/move it myself, though it needs to be sighted. I'm correcting double redirects now. If someone posts a comment/creates the comment page before the sight, it'll have to be moved also. GeorgeII (talk) 16:38, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

The comments page was previously created. It's been moved. Dbl redirects redirected. Hopefully I did everything right. GeorgeII (talk) 16:43, 2 December 2008 (UTC)