User talk:ResignationWatch

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 15:32, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

News articles
Hi. Glad you're interested in Wikinews. We publish articles on current events, after a rigorous peer-review process. There's lots of helpful guidance on creating articles here in the Howdy template, at the top of this user talk page. --Pi zero (talk) 15:59, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the friendly and fast greeting, Pi zero. I've acted on steps 1 through 3 of that template. Step 4 is to add specific facts. My goal is to see a compilation of specific facts. Step 5 is to ask for help. I want help assembling the facts about news stories that fit into this category.

As you see my goal is to compile current news reports on a particular subject. I don't have any news about the subject to publish myself. I simply want to find relevant articles on this subject. Gathered in one place, and updated through collaboration.

Is my project better for Wikipedia or some other Wiki site?


 * Do I understand correctly that you want to collaboratively maintain a list of news articles across the internet on a particular subject? I don't know of a place to do that.  The tricky part seems to be "collaborative" &mdash; specifically, finding others interested in collaborating with you on the project.  If you didn't care about others being able to edit the list, you could do it on a free blog service.  To allow collaboration, a wiki does seem appropriate, and you could inquire whether Wikiversity would be willing to host such a thing.  But to actually find others willing to help maintain the list &mdash; I don't know what to suggest on that.  I suspect if you started a list on Wikiversity, you'd probably remain the only person maintaining it.


 * Btw, please don't create opinions ("comments") pages for unpublished articles. The place to remark on the writing of an article is on its collaboration ("talk") page.  Also, from some of your remarks, you may be misunderstanding how Wikinews articles evolve.  While an author is writing an article, it has the develop tag on it; so it's unremarkable that, for example, the Texas rains article which is under development might not be currently in a valid state.  As long as an article hasn't been published yet, it isn't here to be viewed by the news-consuming public, it's here to try to get published; and once it is published, it pretty much can never be changed again, for all time &mdash; it's a snapshot of what was known at the moment of publication.  A Wikinews article isn't something that evolves until it's no longer useful and is then abandoned; it's trying to reach publishable state, fast, and then stop evolving, and it isn't considered "useful" until and unless it does get published.  Hope that helps.


 * Cheers. --Pi zero (talk) 02:03, 16 March 2012 (UTC)