User talk:AKA Casey Rollins

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 01:27, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

National Guard sent to Ferguson, Missouri
Hi. I point out that you've got no sources at all; you should be carefully documenting the sources of your information by identifying them in the Sources section of the article before you begin to write the content based on them. As the above howdy template notes, we strongly recommend that you choose your sources and read them all before you start writing. If you haven't read WN:PILLARS, I recommend that too. --Pi zero (talk) 00:30, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

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Alright, Pi, I've wrapped up my news article. How do I publish it? It doesn't show up in any portals. --Casey ([[User talk:AKA Casey Rollins|Talk with Casey) 11:20 PM, 17 November 2014 (EST)


 * I found some problems on review. See my review comments, and .  --Pi zero (talk) 05:43, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

You claimed to have actually gotten material from broadcast reporting. What broadcast did you get it from? Like, network news, local news, what? And, specifically which network, which local news channel, or the like? I'm trying to get perspective on what was done. --Pi zero (talk) 20:48, 19 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Verification difficulties, and remarks re freshness: review comments; also, . --Pi zero (talk) 22:16, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Your contributions
Please do not create categories casually. We have an existing category system, and we do not add to it without careful consideration and attention to category hierarchy design principles. --Pi zero (talk) 01:55, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

How to contribute
I get the impression you're off to a difficult start here over how to go about writing an article that will work for Wikinews. I suggest you don't mess with broadcast reporting at all. Also, "shorts" haven't really been a successful form here for years, really; as someone remarked here recently, they're a print newspaper thing that was done because of limited real estate on the physical page.

The short-short version of how to write a basic synthesis article is actually the simple step-by-step instructions on the howdy template at the top of this page. There are also several other attempts we've made over the years to explain the process; WN:WRITE is one, a shorter version of that is WN:ARTICLE, and an attempt at a (non-interactive) "article wizard" is WN:Article wizard. I wrote that last one myself, and concluded from the experience that what we really need is an interactive article wizard, something the wiki software does not support &mdash; so I'm working on some deep voodoo to make the wiki software support interactive pages.

Our initial learning curve is steep; we realize that, and try to help newcomers up it. Fortunately, though steep, it's also short for most people: once you get the hang of it, writing synthesis articles quickly gets to be pretty straightforward (not that one ever stops learning, hopefully). It's not uncommon to lose an article, or more than one, during the learning process (as I guess you've discovered). --Pi zero (talk) 17:24, 18 November 2014 (UTC)