User talk:PeppersauceUOW

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 07:32, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikinews articles
Hi. I've been observing the article you just started, Trans-Pacific Partnership. Now, there are two or three basic problems there, so I thought I'd just point out some of the early steps in writing a Wikinews synthesis article. You may find WN:Pillars of Wikinews writing helpful for overall perspective, and then WN:Writing an article. --Pi zero (talk) 13:41, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Choose a focus that's newsworthy. The three main elements of newsworthiness are that the focus should be specific, relevant, and fresh.
 * Choose at least two mutually independent trust-worthy sources that corroborate the focus.
 * Write a headline that is a sentence, in present tense, preferably in active voice, that tells the most important and unique thing about the focus.
 * Create your article (probably using an article creation form, such as the one at WN:WRITE).
 * Write a lede that briefly summarizes the focus by succinctly answering as many as reasonably possible of the five Ws and H about the focus, written for a general international audience, and in the process establishes that the focus is newsworthy. Note particularly that it should answer "when" in a way that includes a "day" word &mdash; "today", "yesterday", or the name of a day of the week; if it isn't easy to answer "when" that way then maybe the focus isn't specific enough, and if the answer doesn't involve a "day" word maybe the focus isn't fresh enough (in fact, if you can't say it happened today or yesterday, it may be getting a bit long in the tooth).  Details and background, beyond just a few words per five-Ws-and-H, should generally go further down in the inverted pyramid.