User talk:BKHuffman

-- 17:12, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

PR Expert Knows Why Facebook is Worth $50B issues
Hi! The article you created is an exact copy-paste of the text of an article previously published at http://axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show?id=21369 which is a problem for en.Wikinews. All articles on en.Wikinews are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 (CC-by 2.5) copyright license, as you were notified in the editing screen. Unfortunately the license at axcessnews.com does not appear compatible with the CC-by 2.5 license. (Of course if you are the original copyright holder you can re-license the content to CC-by 2.5, which would resolve this particular issue.)

The second problem is the content of the article. The article is a very well-written column, with interesting research and some really great quotes. Unfortunately, en.WN requires articles be written from a neutral point of view, and all original reporting notes need to be filed on the article's collaboration page. For example factual statements such as Did you know 1 in 9 people in the world, yes the entire world, are now on Facebook? would need to be sourced there so our readers can see where the facts are drawn from. It's sometimes frustrating to put all the citations and interview notes together with the article, but it makes our articles very transparent - our readers can look at the same sources as we use to draw their own informed conclusions.

Again, I really appreciate your thinking of Wikinews for your article! I hope we can work together to get the article ready for publication on this site! -  Amgine | t 18:06, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Howdy! Amgine has asked me to try and give you a hand with this; as I understand it, the article is your own work and you're happy to release under a CC-BY-2.5 license. What I'll do in the next 5-10 minutes is: undelete it, move it to your userspace, give a little feedback on where it might not meet our Style Guide, and some advice on adding original reporting notes.
 * Starting with OR is pretty ambitious, but we'll see if this can be saved. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:01, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Your article is now restored, in a sub-page of your userspace. I've done what I can to try and offer some constructive criticism. I hope you can work from that to bringing the article to Wikinews' readers. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:47, 6 April 2011 (UTC)