User talk:Reflectingscotland

-- 01:57, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Iconic Historic Scottish Castle Receives 4.6Million Funding Boost
Please cease repeatedly submitting this article for review when virtually none of the points raised in prior failing reviews have been addressed.

The links in the above Howdy template detail the stylistic aspects of writing an article for Wikinews, and provide a fairly simple guide on producing a publishable article. Your submission still contains sentences lifted near-verbatim from press release sources, and that is unacceptable plagiarism.

The subject is indeed newsworthy, and I would like to see Wikinews carry an article on it. But, as it stands, it would require 2-3 hours of research on my part, followed by a from-scratch rewrite, and this would disqualify me from reviewing it. --Brian McNeil / talk 12:10, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * As you will note here: Historic Scottish island castle wins the lottery, I've done the needed rewrite-from-scratch on this. I think the closest way to compare Wikinews content to that of Wikipedia is when you're submitting for review, material is near-GA quality. But, the style is markedly different. There were a variety of problems with your submission of the article, but the one that was always going to be a showstopper was that you had cut 'n' pasted from sources. I also took the time to crop the Lews Castle image and tweak it a little. If you check the edit history, you'll see the level of work involved in preparing an article for Wikinews; this is further compounded with deadlines to publish whilst still newsworthy. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:11, 22 November 2011 (UTC)