User talk:Brittany

-- 04:51, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Timeliness
Hia! I just saw your article on prison torture. Unfortunately, I don't think it's going to meet Wikinews' requirement for a news article to be timely. News has to be 'new' by definition (new is part of the word, after all;)). If a story is more than a few days old, it ceases to be news and becomes encyclopedic content. At that point the information in the article should be added to Wikipedia rather than Wikinews.

However, this doesn't necessarily mean that your writing needs to go to waste. There may well be updates in the prison torture scandal story that would warrant the creation of a new article. When that happens, a lot of the material that you wrote for this story could likely be used as background material for that new article. (Just think, when you read a BBC article, you get 1 paragraph about recent developments, and the rest of the article is background information. That applies here too.)

I've moved the article in question to your userspace here, along with the associated talk page. That will save it from deletion, and allow you to reuse most of your work when updates to this story happen. Gopher65talk 22:06, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, please consider reading this short help page about article writing. It gives some great advise that will help you get your articles published in a quick and timely fashion. Gopher65talk 22:17, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Manually editing templates
Hi! I just saw your edit on the Bahrain story, where you manually edited the tasks template, ultimately leaving a broken template behind. In future, if you want to move the story back to review, after changing it, simply click the "Change" button in the tasks box, and the system will make the necessary changes for you. Regards, BarkingFish (talk) 00:42, 10 April 2011 (UTC)