User talk:99.63.87.8

June 2011
Hi. I'm writing to inform you that your recent contributions to Wikinews have been deleted. When you write news for us, it should -


 * 1) Be recent (within no more than 3 to 4 days)
 * 2) Be sourced (you should add information stating what you base your report on)
 * 3) Be accurate (you need to make sure what you write is correct)

The work you posted, whilst both newsworthy and accurate, was exceptionally out of date. Stories from 3 months back are not recent news, no matter what happened. As for the other pieces, 5 months (Charlie Callas) is a little extreme, but the one going back well over 2 years - there is no way we could have published this.

Don't whatever you do, think I'm being mean - I'm not. If you want to write something for us, please do, but make sure it's recent news (as I say, within 3 to 4 days) and if you get stuck formatting anything, please ask for help. We won't eat you :)

BarkingFish (talk) 01:24, 25 June 2011 (UTC)


 * One other thing I forgot to mention - if you go to write something, please check the recent changes to ensure someone isn't already writing about the same thing - I've removed your piece on Peter Falk too, since there is a story already awaiting publication and there was nothing additional from your work which could be merged in. I suggest you have a read of some of the material in the Welcome template right above here before you carry on contributing to Wikinews, since it could give you a lot of pointers which would help stop your work from getting deleted en masse. BarkingFish (talk) 02:32, 25 June 2011 (UTC)