User talk:Keith Macphail

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 12:52, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Your article
Hi. There were some difficulties/anomalies with your article. I took it down, for now; there may be ways to move forward on it, though. Here's a list of basic concerns; if you do wish to pursue the matter, I recommend you don't let this list scare you, but do look through the list to help orient yourself, and I'll suggest, below, where to go next after that. There's no need to be overwhelmed by that list. I'd suggest reading through the compact overview at WN:PILLARS, then using the tutorial on writing a first article at WN:WRITE. Cheers. --Pi zero (talk) 13:44, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The article itself, as submitted, appeared to be claiming to be an article from the Calgary Sun, by reporter Kevin Martin. We cannot host copyrighted articles, and we do not syndicate articles from elsewhere.  We also do not put reporter's names on our articles, even though most articles are written by some single reporter.
 * The article as submitted had no sources cited. We require at least two mutually independent, trust-worthy sources corroborating the focal event of a synthesis article (which is the sort of article a newcomer to Wikinews would first write); and we strongly recommend choosing the sources and reading them all before starting to write.
 * The mention of "Wednesday" in the article makes me wonder when the focal event took place; if that was six days ago, that focal event is no longer recent enough to be considered fresh. You want to start with an event that happened within the past day or two at most.
 * When you do start writing, the form we use is what's called an inverted pyramid; so there will be something to attend to in that regard, as well.