Talk:Wikinews 2014: An 'Original reporting' year in review

Accepted
Here are the reasons the articles used in this article were selected:
 * UK media apparently conflict with Scots law in Mikaeel Kular case (& follow-up) [Detailed analysis on legal problems facing the media]
 * Cold as ice: Wikinews interviews Marymegan Daly on unusual new sea anemone [FA]
 * Warhol's photo legacy spread by university exhibits [FA]
 * Wiki loves the European Parliament in Strasbourg [FA]
 * Wikinews interviews specialists on Russian intervention in Ukraine [Five top experts and detailed analysis. Would likely pass FA nom.]
 * Presence actually at the Paralympics [Huge stash of first-hand accounts from the Games]
 * Glasgow cannabis enthusiasts celebrate 'green' on city green [Reasonably detailed account backed with photos, from actual attendance by two reporters]
 * Wikinews wanders the Referendum-year Edinburgh Festival Fringe [FA]
 * Wikinews interviews Kristian Hanson, producer-director of indie horror film 'Sledge' [Lengthy, detailed, and fun; may pass FA nom]
 * Wikinews interviews Australian wheelchair basketball player Tina McKenzie [Solid candidate for FA nom]
 * Category:2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship, European Deaf Swimming Championships, and Category:Sunshine Coast Rugby Union season presence [Good multi-article series] [Maybe do one bumper entry for all the sport, to fairly expose while avoiding oversaturation]
 * Death of captive rhino halts propagation efforts in US [Comments (& video!) from expert at the heart]
 * 300 protesters greet Farage's return to Edinburgh [Photos, videos, and details aplenty from the scene]
 * Wikinews interviews Australian wheelchair basketball coach Tom Kyle [Another very detailed potential FA]
 * Edinburgh's 'Million Mask March' flies distinctly Scottish colours [Very large photoessay, even if light on the intro]
 * The deaths of Adrianne Wadewitz and Cindy Ashley-Nelson (uncertain) [Navel-gazing, but poignant and not noticed by mainstream] [Accepted after reviewing the article once all firm acceptances were in and deciding space was readily available]
 * Glasgow-Oban and Mallaig train diverted onto wrong track in points mixup (very uncertain; pure OR however) [Hyper-local; but, we had a reporter actually on-board] [As above]
 * Western Australian school performance undisrupted by WBC [Short but I like how the reporter called WBC on their bullshitting] [As above]
 * Small protest seeking justice for victims of Franco held in Madrid [The photos give a great overview, less compelling than the Scot protests though] [As above]
 * Anti-budget protest decends on Brisbane Australia [As the Madrid protest]

Rejected
The following were longlisted, but rejected for the reasons given
 * Claire Tiltman murder: Prosecutors mull charges in notorious English crime (uncertain) [Reject: Nice OR, but nothing earth-shattering. Much is synthesis.]
 * Indiana legislators vote for state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage (uncertain) [Reject: Cool quotes but again nothing really cool.]
 * Rail border between the Ukraine and Russia remains open [Reject: Relatively straightforward OR] [Later accepted as one part of the Paralympic series]
 * Glasgow inmate John Clark accused of murder in Barlinnie prison (uncertain) [Reject: The OR was relatively simple]
 * Russia Crimean action protests held outside Downing Street in London [Reject: Short, we missed the main protest]
 * Hamilton wins 'incredible' Bahrain race, F1's 900th Grand Prix (uncertain) [OR definitely adds a lot of vaue to the archive but ultimately nothing outstanding]
 * 20th edition of FIB music festival begins (uncertain) [very short]
 * Thousands attend skateboarder Jay Adams funeral over Labor Day weekend (uncertain) [Reject: Much more synthesis than OR]
 * Wikinews interviews Asaf Bartov, Head of Wikimedia Grants Program and Global South Partnerships (uncertain) [Reject: Navel-gazing (very good to have published, however)]
 * Multiple fatalities in bin lorry crash in Glasgow, Scotland [Although it's an eyewitness quote, it was simply lifted from fb]
 * Researcher discovers 39 new cockroach species, increasing genus Arenivaga fivefold [Short but the OR is at least central] [Reject: On closer inspection OR is minimal. Should not have made longlist.]

Heaven Sent Gaming interview
I'm left with one problematic item:


 * Wikinews interviews Mario J. Lucero and Isabel Ruiz of Heaven Sent Gaming [Nice! But the talk leaves me uncomfortable - "There's content here that probably would have made quite a good article if it had been presented substantially unadorned about a month ago."]

I'm very uncertain as to if we should use this or not. Thoughts appreciated. BRS (Talk)   (Contribs) 12:11, 23 December 2014 (UTC)


 * For the two-way conversation about that article (versus the mostly-one-way concerns in successive review comments), see User talk:Gownirony. --Pi zero (talk) 13:25, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * No. There was always that "smacks of publicity" &mdash; albeit done mostly-correctly about it. --Brian McNeil / talk 13:30, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Paralympics
I'd suggest rolling up the paralympics presence into a single piece, and doing a 'retrospective synthesis' from all the reports. --Brian McNeil / talk 13:31, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Having refactored the headings, and seeing sport at the back (just like a newspaper), what are thoughts on doing the same to other sport articles in this? i.e. have the Jan 3rd interview 'introduced as' prep for the paralympics reporting - carried out in January - as an opening on the sports section? --Brian McNeil / talk 14:36, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Flows nicer that way than I was expecting. BRS  (Talk)   (Contribs) 16:21, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Presentation
I think the presentation on this is going to need a lot of work. For a start, the TOC needs shrunk and floated (right-side) so people are straight into the body of the article. --Brian McNeil / talk 13:35, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd definitely retitle this, but not come up with a definitive alternative yet. In-itself, this is most-certainly navel-gazing; but, I think it is fully-justified. There are UK national newspapers publish less original reports in a year than already selected for this article.
 * As a suggestion for the title: "Wikinews' 2014, in original reporting". --Brian McNeil / talk 14:02, 23 December 2014 (UTC)


 * I was hoping to figure out how to have ToC collapsed by default. With three of us now firmly backing this, I suppose this has left the realm of the 'possible'. BRS  (Talk)   (Contribs) 16:25, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * TOC collapsed-by-default will require a little Javascript (I believe). Then it'd be a parameter on the template(s) to activate it.
 * Chucking it on one side was the best I could come up with, and makes it more in-keeping as almost-content. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:52, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Don't think we need, nor want, the collapsed ToC now. Could perhaps do with a couple more images, but I think this looks purty now. It will need copyediting somewhat more, plus captions double-checked (found one with "last 'day-of-week'"). --Brian McNeil / talk 17:48, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikimention
I think we could do with either a smaller section-aimed wikimention template, or a one-off template for (footer?) of the article. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:55, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * size=small parameter sounds useful. BRS  (Talk)   (Contribs) 17:02, 23 December 2014 (UTC)