User talk:PaulBustion88

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 03:34, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

under review
Please be careful not to edit an article while it's marked at the top as under review. (No great harm done this time; I did lose about fifteen minutes worth of copyedit, but I remember what it all was.) --Pi zero (talk) 01:26, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The article actually failed review, btw, so it's back under development. --Pi zero (talk) 03:58, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * It looks to me like the article was written by a foreigner, because it had a very peculiar writing style. --PaulBustion88 (talk) 04:00, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Heh. Actually, it was written by a journalism student at the University of Wollongong.  --Pi zero (talk) 04:11, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Contributing
Two things. --Pi zero (talk) 14:03, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Don't write articles without status tags on them. Use one of the article-creation forms scattered about the site to create an article, as that automatically provides the basic formatting elements required; there's one on the Howdy template at the top of this page, for instance, and there's one at WN:WRITE, and one at the WN:Newsroom.  The point of the project is for you to write something and submit it for review; that's the only way it'll get reviewed, the only way it could get published, the only way you'll learn how to write articles that can meet the standards needed for them to get published.  Note, the writer–reviewer collaboration relationship is the first pillar at WN:PILLARS.
 * As a new writer at Wikinews, don't write a whole bunch of articles right off; we've got a steep (if hopefully short) initial learning curve, and if you make the same mistake on a multiplicity of articles, the first one that gets reviewed is liable to show you things that the other articles would have benefited from you knowing before you wrote them, so that the other articles may be an inefficient use both of your effort and of some reviewer's effort (and please have great sympathy and concern for reviewers' efforts, all reviewers are volunteers too and we're always short of reviewer labor).

Good work!
That little bit you did on the egg article.....good work! That's a great way for new users to learn how things function here: making tiny little edits to article which are in progress. --Bddpaux (talk) 22:12, 18 May 2015 (UTC)