User talk:B.j Shepherd

-- 01:15, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Water cooler
I have replied to the question you asked on the Water cooler. -  Amgine | t 04:36, 4 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi, B.j Shepherd. I'm afraid there were some failures of communications about how Wikinews works.  Maybe I can clarify some; sorry if I'm wrong about some of your thinking on this.  Hopefully this will help you get started on Wikinews; we know there's a steep learning curve here, and we want to help.
 * A Wikinews article is not simply submitted by a single author and then accepted.
 * It may initially be written mainly by one author, but this is a wiki, and other contributors may also help to improve it. (Just to be clear on that.)
 * It must be rigorously peer reviewed by an authorized reviewer, and may either pass or fail review. If it fails, the problems that caused failure are identified by the review template on the article talk page, and the article needs to be improved to (attempt to) fix the identified problems before resubmitting it for review.
 * Your article received a failing review; it's possible you might have missed that, since the redirect to another article (see below) was added shortly thereafter. The failing review template admittedly did not have the sort of useful explanations on it that ideally it would have had.
 * One of the requirements for a Wikinews article to be published is that, at the time of publication, new information must have come to light within at most 2–3 days (and the news event itself has to have been within 7 days).
 * Your article was about an event that took place about three days before you wrote the article; and the sources were from then too, so there was no new information that came to light later.
 * There was a Wikinews article about the same news event already published two days before your article was written.
 * --Pi zero (talk) 06:05, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

These edits...
Take account of one of the points on which this article was failed the first time. Regrettably, it was not the most important point. Please, to start with, refrain from marking something for review when you obviously know it isn't (and prove that with near-immediate substantial edits). Note there is no such country as "Yemeni", and correct the Random capitalisation - should you wish to resubmit this article. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:21, 10 April 2011 (UTC)