Thread:Comments:Pakistani journalist found dead in home/Thanks Pi zero/reply

Take a closer look at the edit history (do a diff without the addition of templates, which always messes up the software's ability to match paragraphs), and you'll find my edits didn't add up all that much. I separate edits like that deliberately, so I and others can reconstruct just what I did.

Publication must be by an independent reviewer; if a reviewer gets too involved with an article during review, the reviewer must disqualify xyrself from publishing. So I keep a close eye on the nature and quantity of edits I made to an article during review. (Addition of information is especially problematic, removal especially tolerable, etc.)

A class of college journalism students at the are submitting articles to Wikinews this semester. They're here to learn (aren't we all); and demonstrating improvements is, when possible, preferable to simply telling them "that's not good enough". Their professor, so I understand, looks at whether they continue to improve. When called for, I'll try to take things as close to the edge of independent review as I feel I can. If what's needed is more than I can do within independent review, of course, I have to send it back for more work.

Breaking down my edits makes it easier to judge how much I change, and also allows the author to understand better what I changed and why.