Thread:Comments:California campus pepper spray police suspended/This doesn't make any sense/reply (9)

News articles are different both from encyclopedia articles, and from blog entries. It seems pretty safe to say no one would write an encyclopedia entry about the police suspension, and apparently you would not have written a blog entry focusing on the suspension, either. However, a Wikinews article is written, using inverted pyramid style, about a news event. As our policy pages explain, a news event is specific, recent, and relevant. And yes, there is further elaboration of our criteria for recent, relevant, and (to some extent) specific. The news event that this article was written about, which was specific recent and relevant on November 21, 2011, was the suspension. Like many news events, it was part of a larger network of events, but that's the one that this particular article was written about, the story that was current that day &mdash; the story that was also the focus of the three sources drawn upon for this article (all articles from reputable news agencies). Note that the Sources section of a Wikinews article is not a link farm of handy links to other articles that people might be interested in, it is a permanent record of where the information for the Wikinews article came from. Also note that the lede answers, as called for by inverted pyramid style, as many as reasonably possible of the basic questions about the news event.