User talk:Jverwey

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 02:27, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Submission
Hi. Just a reminder, draft articles (such as your shorts article on February 26, which of course long since lost freshness) don't get reviewed for publication unless they're submitted for review. --Pi zero (talk) 11:58, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

User page comments, wiki syntax
John,

The use of Page title reads the w: part as a directive to look on Wikipedia, where the page titles you've used do not exist. Local links do not require any prefix, so [[Main page ]] goes where you'd expect here, and  [[w:Main page ]] lands you in . There's also the wikt: [[wikt:prefix ]] for wiktionary. Yes it's primitive, and ugly too! We all learned it by copying markup code from elsewhere, and still get caught out by quirks in it. (Disclosure: I had to preview, and re-edit, this comment several times to get what I wanted). However, primitives can build some pretty-impressive things, such as a Death Star constructed entirely from Lego.

I also notice you've got an intern 'gong' on your userpage. I appreciate the word published isn't in there; but, that's due to those pre-dating independent review. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:14, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

News briefs
At this moment, all of the (ten) articles on the main page have been published within the past seven days. (I'm recalling the news briefs script preview, late last month, in which most of the articles available for inclusion in the brief were more than a week old.) --Pi zero (talk) 13:53, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

US Capitol on temporary lockdown after shooting
Drat. New developments, so the article needs a rewrite to bring it up to date. --Pi zero (talk) 22:27, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * In case I wasn't clear: we're being told the lockdown has been lifted. That means a change of focus, with changes to both the headline and the lede.  --Pi zero (talk) 22:38, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Hopefully, this will both result in a published article and leave you well along our steep-but-hopefully-short initial learning curve. Once you've got the basics down it gets a lot easier.  See my review comments, and .  --Pi zero (talk) 02:08, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, it did get published; another contributor came along and revised it. --Pi zero (talk) 23:47, 12 April 2015 (UTC)