User talk:OmerMarcel

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 20:50, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Categories and articles
Hi. We try to have three published articles on a topic when we create a category for it. Afaict, we don't have any published articles yet that would go in a category Golaghat. One solution, of course, would be to get some articles published about it. There's a compact overview of what we do here, which I recommend to newcomers, {{nowrap}Pillars of writing}}; and then, there's an excellent tutorial on writing a first article for Wikinews, Writing an article. Cheers! --Pi zero (talk) 16:19, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know, Pi zero! I have just created a news article and hence had the category so that it would get tagged. I understand that it will remain orphan for now, however, I intend to report other news from the region, so will create the category once there are three or more published articles. Will appreciate your inputs, if any. Kind regards, OmerMarcel (talk) 16:37, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

A big thank you...
For your quick response and editing at Internet services snapped in Golaghat. I haven't reviewed it, but the quick editing as requested by reviewer is admirable. Big thank you!

Regards, --Gryllida (talk) 22:53, 11 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for taking the time to go through and appreciating it! My first write-up on here! Best regards, OmerMarcel (talk) 02:51, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Sourcing
Your article about Assam looks very thoroughly sourced to me. However, please remember that whichever reviewer works on your article will have to read every single word of every single source, even if you only used it as backup. Wikinews requires at least two sources for the main point of the article (in this case, that Assam is having its telecoms suspended) but only one source for every other fact in it. I don't mean you need to trim out sources from the current draft, but it is one key difference between Wikinews and Wikipedia: the fewer the better instead of the more the better. Darkfrog24 (talk) 01:40, 12 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the pointers! I didn't realize that would be the case.
 * I intend to contribute more in the future and will be mindful of this fact! It's a short write-up, so the message should be conveyed while referring to the first few sources. The other sources are just substitutes, indicating that different Indian journals have reported it. Thanks again for assuring that the article appears alright in its current form. I hope by citing too many sources I have not increased work for the reviewer! I apologise in advance if that would be the case, it wasn't my intention! Kind regards, OmerMarcel (talk) 02:51, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Problem during fact-check
There's a problem with what the article says the bill does. And probably a problem, following from that, concerning perspective on the situation. Alas, that review got held up on this one; I mean to complete verification of everything else about the article while I'm reviewing it, so there (probably) aren't any other problems hanging around it. We have about a day to try to get this into shape, reviewed, and published, even without updates (for example, with a source verifying the ban ended when scheduled on Thursday, and a mention of that somehow worked into the lede, that would extend the "shelf life" of the article by one day); or we could simply move on to another focal event, if you'd prefer that &mdash; with all the lessons learned from this one, including whatever else I pick up during this review. --Pi zero (talk) 21:32, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for picking this up, Pi zero and providing the feedback! I was away and hence couldn't pick this up until now! I have responded to your questions, let me know what you think or if you need anything else from me at this stage. Kind regards, OmerMarcel (talk) 16:35, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm giving it a quick look-over now; I suspect it's going to need a bit of revision by a reporter, at this point, as I'm in the role of an independent reviewer so can't do too much myself. If it turns out I can do it all myself, I'll have to suspend the review and complete it later, what with things going on where I am in "real life". --Pi zero (talk) 18:42, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, here's what I found: The article could, likely, be rearranged just a bit and pass muster, if we got it all done fast enough; in its current form, I not-ready'd it with an (extensive) review comment in which I tried to explain what's needed, as best I could. --Pi zero (talk) 19:28, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I have rearranged the article for freshness as advised by you in your review comments. Have submitted for review, so please let me know. OmerMarcel (talk) 21:13, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Hi again
Hi OmerMarcel

Recall that you wrote a story about Internet services in Golaghat, India. It didn't get published in time; pretty common for a first article. (Alas, volunteers are not always available to improve the report in the first day.)

Are you in India? Has the pandemic affected your availability? Are you well?

Perhaps you would be interested in receiving notifications of newly created drafts to see if any of the reported topics are interesting to you? See User:Gryllida/welcome a bit for more information about this, and how to sign up.

Or perhaps you have interesting news to share, without committing to writing a complete article? If the event is sufficiently recent (i.e. today or yesterday), Requested articles can be a good venue for this. Or you can just continue to create full articles, like you did before, and volunteers would keep trying to help you! This would be a bit more difficult, but if you are committed to it, this could help you with your next story; the way you'd write it would improve every time.

Are you a programmer? If so, what programming languages do you know?

Do you speak a second language?

Many thanks. --Gryllida (talk) 00:15, 7 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello Gryllida,
 * I am not in India. I am available but not contributing much. I am OK, thanks! Trust you're well and safe!
 * Thanks, will go through reported drafts notification sign up process.
 * No, I am not a programmer.
 * Yes, Assamese, Hindi and Sanskrit.
 * Kind regards.