User talk:MErrfan

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 10:45, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Contributing
Hi. There's a compact overview of what we do at WN:PILLARS, then a good tutorial on writing a first article at WN:WRITE. Note that required formatting elements are provided automatically by the article-creation form at WN:WRITE (or should be, unless you're using the "mobile" interface). --Pi zero (talk) 11:00, 27 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Again, please read WN:WRITE. It explains how to write an article, and provides an article creation form that (unless accessed via the "mobile" interface) automatically adds various required page elements that you're missing.  --Pi zero (talk) 12:20, 30 May 2017 (UTC)


 * I honestly don't see evidence that you are trying to learn to follow local policies. If you continue this way, I will, regretfully, block your account to prevent further project disruption.  --Pi zero (talk) 13:22, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Um... maybe you should try out more WN:Original reporting instead. That way, you don't have to focus on synthesizing articles from websites. Thoughts? --George Ho (talk) 03:03, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * We strongly recommend users learn the ropes, and accumulate a reputation on the project, by writing synthesis before moving up to the more demanding original-reporting form. --Pi zero (talk) 03:39, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

I'm giving you a short block, in which to reconsider how you approach contribution to this project. --Pi zero (talk) 12:48, 12 June 2017 (UTC)


 * You tried to self-publish an article. I undid that, explaining in the edit summary that it's a severe policy violation.  You then, apparently, did it again.  That's not acceptable, and I'm giving you another short block.  Self-publication is one of the most severe transgressions possible on Wikinews; you had already been warned; you removed the other warnings I'd put on the page; and you have never responded here to any of the comments left for you.  --Pi zero (talk) 16:23, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Attack outside the Finsbury Park Mosque
I was about to write about this, but then I saw you had created the article. Well, the article needs a lot of improvement in terms of style. I haven't checked other aspects like neutrality, but of course, it uses one source which is a blog, and unofficial blogs are not trustworthy. Would you mind if I have to rewrite the article? acagastya 10:01, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Lack of response
You have been posting material here for some time that ignores our review policy. We've left notes here, which you have not responded to, and twice you were given short blocks which still brought no response and the problem behavior continued. This appears to me to be a chronic abuse of the Wikinews project. I am now applying an open-ended block to this account; to lift it, we would need a realistic reason to think your behavior would change. You can still edit this page, under the block, to respond. --Pi zero (talk) 12:29, 20 June 2017 (UTC)