User talk:Finno

Busy
Hi folks - I'm stuck in real life busily working on a tender (gotta pay the bills). I know I have a personal goal of contributing one article per week. When I come up for air I will endeavour to catch up on my missing weeks. Yeah I'm talking to you Reviewer person - get your red pens at the ready... :) Finno (talk) 22:49, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Welcome
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Thanks Thanks for the welcome DragonFire1024. I'm slowly working my way through all of the introductory material - there does seem to be a lot that overlaps itself. Finno (talk) 01:02, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Update welcome
The project has evolved considerably since 2007; here's the most recent welcome template &mdash; though I think it's due for an update; an even more recent development is WN:Pillars of Wikinews writing. --Pi zero (talk) 19:15, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

New video games rating R18+ becomes available in Australia
There are some things that need cleaning up, and I hesitated to do too much since I need to maintain sufficient independence for review. See review comments, and.

(Starting small is a wise approach; the first article tends to be a difficult hurdle.) --Pi zero (talk) 19:15, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Updated & Thanks Thanks for your feedback Pi zero. I have made some updates following your suggestions. I can see it's going to take me a few articles to really get my game on here but I am looking forward to it. Thanks again. Finno (talk) 01:02, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello! I'd noticed your edits to the article about The Hobbit, from an edit summary I see you'd picked up one of the issues with the article - it doesn't answer one of the 5W, namely where.
 * We tend to explain to newcomers to Wikinews that the learning curve is steep, but - thankfully - it is not a long learning curve. Trying to compete with the mainstream is where we're always going to fall down, but creating synthesis articles is the ideal way to practice the format and style of a Wikinews article; it also builds confidence in your abilities and reliability. --Brian McNeil / talk 12:25, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Thanks Brian - I was trying to help out with some of the articles that needed work. I am a bit confused though when it comes to some of the older ones - is it still even worth publishing articles from Dec 16? There was one about shootings in Las Vegas but I doubt it's even news worthy any more so I didn't bother with it. Cheers Finno (talk) 13:58, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

--Pi zero (talk) 14:13, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Published the video games article. Congrats!  See review comments, and.
 * In answer to your above question, it's probably not worth trying to save an article from the 16th. It'd take a complete refocusing to achieve freshness (and then there's the 'good news' article, which has gradually slide from non-newsworthy in the direction of disruptive trolling).  If an article doesn't make it to publication, eventually (as a matter of bookkeeping) it is given a two-day warning and deleted as abandoned.

Thanks Again I guess that's that milestone complete - next! It is certainly helpful to have experienced folks such as yourself providing feedback and support. Thank again. Finno (talk) 14:22, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Fires burn across eastern Australia amid summer heatwave
Congratulations on getting the story published. Thanks! --Gryllida 09:50, 14 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your tips and advice! The more I do the more I get the hang of it. Onwards! Finno (talk) 11:31, 14 January 2013 (UTC)