User talk:Knd615UOW

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 03:22, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Assange demands government reveal any link with PRISM operation
Hi. I've asked for cleanup of basic style issues, so when I or some other reviewer attempts a full review of the article they can do so efficiently. See the review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 13:48, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, it does sometimes happen that the articles waiting on our review queue exceed our available supply of volunteer reviewer labor, and some of them lose freshness while waiting. Although it would be tempting to blame this on a dearth of active reviewers, I've seen times when we had quite a few more active reviewers than we do at the moment, and it happened sometimes even then.


 * At any rate, I'm glad you were fortunate enough to get some feedback (one not-ready review). The more you learn from each article, the easier your next article will be to review, and the more likely to pass on its first review. :-)  --Pi zero (talk) 11:06, 19 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Welcome to Wikinews! Thanks for creating Assange demands government reveal any link with PRISM operation. Unfortunately, it had to be deleted as an abandoned article. I really hope that you choose to continue contributing to Wikinews. Wikinews' content guide and guide to writing an article are useful resources for writers. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or at the assistance page.  — Mike  moral  ♪♫  20:04, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Death of Lou Reed
Two articles were attempted, covering Lou's death as a news event. The first, Rock legend Lou Reed dies aged 71, was started about 20 hours after a citation from Rolling Stone was used to update Wikipedia with the fact he was dead. The second, Rock and roll royalty Lou Reed dies at age 71, nearly three days after his death.

Wikinews can't compete with that speed of update, nor do we believe we should actively attempt to. But, coming back to how I've characterised the two submissions, they're now stale. The first has a better selection of soundbite quotes from people who knew Lou, but lacks the depth an obituary would usually have.

Because Wikinews has everything pretty-much 'out in the open', there's an natural aversion to holding obits under the, rarely used, prepared stories page. And, you're tilting at windmills &mdash; trying to beat from-scratch &mdash; the depth of the Rolling Stone piece used as a citation for his death on Wikipedia.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news on this. The window of opportunity for a piece like this is extremely tight, and I think UoW students were 'geographically disadvantaged' when it came to trying to cover it. Yes, some fans will read everything; but, what they want, is everything with original reporting &mdash; you'd need to be in the music press to do this properly, and prepared to make a lot of phone calls for quotes.

As you'll see from the story prep page, we're pretty bad at picking up past prep-work. I'd have no qualms about actually reviewing a prepared obituary, provided it didn't turn into a hagiography. Whether or not you can 'bet' on someone who is going to pop their clogs this semester is another matter entirely. ;) --Brian McNeil / talk 10:25, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi. Thanks for creating Rock legend Lou Reed dies aged 71. Unfortunately, it has been deleted as an abandoned article. Not every article succeeds; we look forward to your continued contribution to Wikinews. Wikinews' content guide and guide to writing an article are useful resources for writers. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or at the assistance page.   — Mike  moral  ♪♫  07:39, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

IUCN declares Western black rhino extinct
Moved to your user-space due to lack of active editing. --Gryllida 06:49, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Blasts outside China's Communist Party office kills one
The article was deleted and I've saved it to User:Knd615UOW/Blasts outside China's Communist Party office kills one for you. — Mike moral  ♪♫  07:54, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Don't forget to vote!
Arbitration Committee/2016 election/Nominations and voting --Bddpaux (talk) 22:00, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Actually, Knd615UOW doesn't have enough edits to qualify. Their questions and comments are welcome, of course.  --Pi zero (talk) 22:03, 19 July 2016 (UTC)