User talk:Cgauba

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 23:59, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Your contributions
There has been some speculation about your contributions. The two leading theories are that you're a car enthusiast, or that you're a car advertiser.

Now, we welcome contributors with different interests. So if you are a car enthusiast, welcome! We'll try to be fair with you, and help you along. At the same time, we don't allow advertising, so if you're an advertiser, your time here won't end well.

Just wanted to be clear, on both of those fronts (enthusiasts welcome, and advertisers not). --Pi zero (talk) 02:19, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Block notice
From what I have seen, it appears you are an advertiser rather than an enthusiast (per above remarks). The pattern your behavior fits, thus far, is an adevertiser who attempted up to a point to shape your material to fit within our parameters, but at a certain point gave up and started just trying to slip it in by hook or by crook.

If that's the not the case,. This block is not "permanent", merely "indefinite". --Pi zero (talk) 04:38, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi Cgauba. I'll try to write up some comments here to help you along. I'll have to give it some thought, what will be most helpful to you. --Pi zero (talk) 16:10, 9 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I'd really hoped to write something up for you here before this. But meanwhile, I've tried to but a lot of my thoughts on this into my review comments for the Honda AMAZE article.  --Pi zero (talk) 23:40, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Your news article
Hi! Thanks for taking your effort to submit 2013 Honda Civic’s 1.6-litre i-DTEC Engine in Detail for review: we have not so much car news and the topic is interesting. Please do take a moment to read all the links in the un-numbered list at the article talk page: they are a barebones requirement to get a story published at Wikinews. As odd as it may seem, we try to avoid blatant copy-pastes; the reason is simple: Wikinews has a more free content license: most websites content is licensed under license incompatible with ours, and copy-pasting is not allowed. To get a story published, you may want to start with


 * picking at least two independent sources,
 * rereading the style guide,
 * taking a good time (averagely half of an hour for me) to write the story following the style guidelines and writing in your own, unique wording, sticking to a coherent flow of the descriptions and being as objective and informative as possible.

In addition to such (somewhat tedious) activity of gluing few independent sources together into one article, Wikinews does Original Reporting and if you have a chance to carry out some first-hand interviews or see a news event in your area, it may require less rewriting work on it; you would just have to write about it in your own words from scratch.

As I have not said that yet, welcome! -Gryllida 03:24, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Your recent contributions
We really try to help new contributors along. But you don't seem to be making progress. You need to make an effort to learn news writing style &mdash;you're continuing to submit stuff that reads like advertising rather than news&mdash; and your most recent contribution didn't even claim more than one source. You should certainly be aware by now that we require at least two mutually independent source corroborating the focal news event.

You say that you're a car enthusiast, rather than an advertiser. We're open to newsworthy stories on any topic. But if you want to contribute car-related news, you need to learn how to contribute news. --Pi zero (talk) 20:13, 21 November 2012 (UTC)