User talk:ReporterX

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 17:41, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Coffee increases the chances of survival to intestine cancer
Hi. Great to see you're interested in contributing to Wikinews. Some thoughts on this.
 * We ask that a synthesis article &mdash; such as this article &mdash; have two mutually independent source corroborating the focal event. The focal event here is the publication of the study.  This can be challenging for articles about scientific publications, especially when combined with our freshness criterion, but you may find it useful to look at other articles of this sort that we've published.  Here's a good example of the genre:
 * Notice that the focal event &mdash; the publication &mdash; is identified in the lede, and when it happened is specified &mdash; the function of the lede is to briefly summarize the focal event by succinctly answering as many as reasonably possible of the five Ws and H about it, and in the process to establish that the focal event is newsworthy. As noted by the advice on "when" at page WN:Five Ws and H, if the lede doesn't contain a day "word", something's probably wrong.  (In that example, the lede contains the word "Tuesday".)
 * Notice that the focal event &mdash; the publication &mdash; is identified in the lede, and when it happened is specified &mdash; the function of the lede is to briefly summarize the focal event by succinctly answering as many as reasonably possible of the five Ws and H about it, and in the process to establish that the focal event is newsworthy. As noted by the advice on "when" at page WN:Five Ws and H, if the lede doesn't contain a day "word", something's probably wrong.  (In that example, the lede contains the word "Tuesday".)

Welcome. --Pi zero (talk) 23:26, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
 * If you use an article-creation form to create an article, such as the one at WN:Writing an article, it automatically provides for you all those basic formatting elements that I added to the page you'd created.
 * We require independent review of an article for its publication. Notice that the first element on the article is a status tag.  When you create an article, the status tag is develop.  There's a button on it to submit the article for review, and clicking that should replace the develop tag with review.
 * The way the project works is compactly described, starting with review, at page WN:Pillars of Wikinews writing.
 * Another good reference for folks starting to learn the ropes here is WN:Writing an article.