User talk:BF.UOW

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 05:06, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Sony developing virtual reality headset
Hi. I've found the article has some problems before it might be publishable. As submitted, there was already a lot right about it, and I've made the sort of small improvements here and there that are permissible for a reviewer (since reviewers can't publish an article unless they remain sufficiently independent of its writing); see the changes I made, in the . On the current state of the article, see my review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 18:22, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, this article hasn't been worked on for several days. Please pick it up again, so that we can get to publishing it – if you don't we might have to delete it. Microchip08 (talk) 19:02, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Your recent edits
Every once in a while you make some edits to one or another abandoned article; but I haven't noticed that these edits moved any of the articles involved closer to being publishable. Why, then, are you making these edits? I want to understand. --Pi zero (talk) 11:57, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi there. I am a university student and I've been tasked with editing five articles not written by myself. I have made some edits to these abandoned articles to fill this criteria without making unnecessary edits to a story that might already be publishable. I apologize if this has caused any inconvenience.


 * Ah, I see the difficulty. We have low throughput at the moment, so there aren't a lot of viable articles around to edit.  Though, the act of making superficial edits to articles that are fundamentally stale is kind of empty.  Actually refreshing a stale article so it becomes publishable would be a meaningful act, but of course is a good deal more difficult.


 * If everybody is looking to edit an article they didn't create, and nobody is actually starting an article of their own, then there won't be any articles-by-someone-else around to edit. Excepting the occasional articles written by veteran Wikinewsies; but there aren't very many of those around.  I gather the fall semester is wrapping up at UoW and it's now exam time?  Which would suggest nobody has time to create articles.


 * This need to edit others' articles does explain an incident last week. An article was submitted by, iirc, a newcomer who was seemingly not a student of any stripe, it had a problem for which it was not-ready'd, and several UoW students pitched in to help fix it.  Which was gratifying because (a) as one of the UoW remarked in an edit summary I think, it was an interesting article, and (b) one suspects the newcomer who'd written it might not have realized in time that it needed fixing, nor known how to fix it, so the article probably wouldn't have succeeded without the students' help.


 * Thanks for the perspective on your edits. --Pi zero (talk) 11:52, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

I thought this was the case. Yes, it is the end of the Autumn session at UoW and everyone seems to be in a hurry to finish assignments. Unfortunately, I was recovering from surgery during this semester so I was unable to edit articles from other classmates. As a result, I've been rushing to edit any article possible just to satisfy the quota for this assignment and most of these haven't had a particularly meaningful impact on the article. I've nearly finished the edits required but I will keep looking for an article I can make effective edits on. Thank you for the advice and feedback also.