User talk:Jluow

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 05:41, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Images
I note you've tried to put an image into the article you're creating. It's fine reusing a 'file image' from Wikipedia; assuming it is also over on Wikimedia Commons (click on the image to check that) you don't even need to upload a local copy. However, that is not a case where you can resort to vanilla HTML markup. You need to use the  [[File:  Mediawiki markup.

It's covered in the style guide, but a quick example of the preferred usage here on Wikinews would be:  . That explosion of parenthesis gives the image shown to the right. I'll admit we do complicate things by giving credit/attribution on all images used in articles (the  {{{image credit}}  component of this example); and, do so even where images have been uploaded and placed in the public domain.

Just to cover the messy edge cases, ... Wikipedia allows images to be uploaded locally (i.e. not on Commons). If you come across one which does not have a "See its description page there" when you click on it, you would need to download it from Wikipedia, use the Upload file link to the left (Tools section), and upload here too. What you can't do in such cases is re-upload an image locally which originated with a competing news agency. Wikipedia, being an encyclopedia, can claim fair use/fair dealing in using a low-resolution version of such; we can't, as a competing news agency.

Hope that helps! Please share the tip(s) with your fellow students. --Brian McNeil / talk 07:48, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Irish class A "legalisation"
I've made a number of changes to the article. Firstly, we do not link out to non-Wikimedia sites within the body of any news report. As the author, what to bear in mind here is you want the audience to read your story in its entirety, not vanish off elsewhere to read their version.

I've also added an external links section; because of the above, and the links you had embedded are worth providing as additional information for readers.

This is an interesting story, but you're referring to events which should've taken place last night (you even use the past-tense to do so). That just looks odd, I - and I suspect you will too if you re-read it - go "was? Well, did he or didn't he?" There's special guidance on future events in the style guide, along with emphasis on the need to try and use active voice wherever you can. Most of the other points I've corrected &mdash; such as date format standards &mdash; are in there too.

But, you're in good company. Nobody ever reads the fine manual until they've got something wrong. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:18, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Hard drugs temporarily legal in Ireland due to constitutional loophole
This article has been published. Congrats! See the , which includes edits by Brian McNeil prior to review and by me during review. --Pi zero (talk) 00:55, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Power outage at Fukushima poses radioactive risk
Published. See review comments and . --Pi zero (talk) 20:02, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Citizenship of Australian terrorists overseas under question
Published. See review comments, . --Pi zero (talk) 15:28, 27 May 2015 (UTC)