User talk:KirstenJamieson UOW

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 01:23, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Deaflympics 2013: US swimmer breaks second world record
I have reviewed Deaflympics 2013: US swimmer breaks second world record and left feedback at Talk:Deaflympics 2013: US swimmer breaks second world record. Please address all the comments, fix these points and resubmit ASAP. Please do not resubmit without addressing these comments, as it will take more time for you and the reviewer to address concerns to try to get it published. Please remember, most new contributors lose their first story or two. --LauraHale (talk) 05:56, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

NSA says thousands of privacy violations were 'human error'
I have reviewed NSA says thousands of privacy violations were 'human error' and left comments at Talk:NSA says thousands of privacy violations were 'human error'. Please address these concerns before resubmitting. --LauraHale (talk) 08:51, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Screencasts of some of today's reviews
The six videos are screencasts of reviews done today. As a whole, all the articles have improved tremendously from when they students first submitted. Now, they have infoboxes. They usually have a relevant picture, most of the time giving credit to the photographer. They more often than not have categories. The external links are not in the body. The sources are more consistently and better formatted. These little changes make a huge difference for motivation when reviewing because they show reviewers students are listening to feedback and attempting to get things published according to community standards.

That said, the current issues get to the more difficult spot of issues with making sure inverted pyramid style reporting is done, plagiarism and very close paragraphing need to be better avoided, facts need to match facts conveyed in sources, and relative dating needs to be better done. These are on one level the much harder part of doing good reporting on Wikinews. The screencasts of reviews included from the batch I reviewed this morning are more so you can see that what we are (I am) thinking when we are (I am) reviewing. This may not be educational in terms of teaching you how to report, but it might give you insight into what we are looking for. Hopefully that can be a little bit helpful in terms of understanding what we as a community on Wikinews are looking for in publishable works. --LauraHale (talk) 11:32, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

New lead under investigation in six-year-old Madeleine McCann case
Hi. Rather than not ready New lead under investigation in six-year-old Madeleine McCann case, I have moved it back to the draft stage to give reporters time to address the comments on the talk page as these will need to be handled before the article is ready for publication anyway. I would also suggest looking at the article's history to see what changes other community members have made. Looking at the individual edits should give you a better idea of what sort of things reviewers are looking for. --LauraHale (talk) 16:49, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the fix
Would you like to join projects together? Danger^Mouse (talk) 18:36, 1 November 2013 (UTC)