User talk:Chapter49493

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 16:06, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikinews Shorts: December 13, 2023
Hi. For your information, a shorts piece does need three shorts; and I think it's unlikely anyone else will be willing and available to add to this (I have to stay independent of authorship of it if I'm going to review it eventually, which is likely).

In the past decade or so, many Wikinewsies have come to regard writing standalone articles as more worthwhile than shorts: Among the reasons, basic tasks like writing headlines or finding and citing sources have to be repeated for each short but only performed once for a standalone article, and the time saved can be used to write more and better. Since the minimum length requirement for standalone articles was recently reduced to one paragraph of 100 words, you may even end up actually writing more with three shorts than with just one very short standalone article. That's not to say shorts are prohibited, of course, but. Heavy Water (talk) 19:19, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Ok, I made an article and expanded it to just over 100 words. --Chapter49493 (talk) 13:31, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Great! When you create an article, please be sure to use an article stage tag to indicate its status, usually develop or review, and haveyoursay (which links to the article's opinions page if and when the article is published); this is done automatically when one uses the article-creation box, located, among other places, at the Main Page's "Write an article!" section and Writing an article. I've added develop and haveyoursay to this. Heavy Water (talk) 14:42, 14 December 2023 (UTC)