User talk:PCHS-NJROTC

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 16:13, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Movie theater shooting article
Let me commend you......what a great effort!! Please stick around!! The learning curve here can be kind of twitchy, but stick with it, OK? Please don't run away permanently!! --Bddpaux (talk) 20:19, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * You made two VERY HEFTY edits......good work!! Much better than my first try!! Bddpaux (talk) 20:24, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the praise! I've been active with wikis since 2007, with a presence at Wikipedia, Conservapedia, Rational-Wiki, Wiktionary, and Mafia Wars Wiki, so that's part of it. I do look forward to further contributions here. PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 20:36, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Glad to hear it, especially since (with all that experience) one can assume that you understand the choreography of things-wiki. Please remember:this wiki is a NEWS SOURCE. As such, there is editorial oversight. To be less polite: This ain't Wikipedia. Nearly everyone here is involved at that project, but one must quickly learn the differnces (both the overt ones and the subtle ones as well) between the two places. Keep at it!!! Want my advice....just pop into the Newsroom every now and again, and do a little plain old copyediting on some articles being developed....fix a typo here.....drop in a comma there. That technique will carry you a long way here! --76.6.78.207 (talk) 21:02, 24 July 2012 (UTC)Bddpaux (talk) 21:03, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I see there are significant differences, and to be honest, no two wikis are alike with their policies. Just like how Conservapedia and Rational-Wiki are almost polar opposites, and Wikipedia is somewhere in the middle, but much different than either one of the others. When I formed the article about the Colorado shootings, I examined the source code for a couple other pages and basically mimicked the style for my article. In regards to what to write on, should subjects be of international importance, national importance, regional importance, or just local importance? PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 21:17, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi. Just to drop in a remark here.  Our audience is global, so the significance of each article needs to be explained for an international audience; but not every article has to be of great interest to every potential reader.  Our criteria for newsworthiness do not prohibit relatively local articles... depending.  See WN:Newsworthiness (which essay is about what we modernly call "relevance", one component of newsworthiness).  --Pi zero (talk) 21:27, 24 July 2012 (UTC)