User talk:Sarbrad

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 16:18, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Ukraine’s future remains unclear as Vilnius summit approaches
Hi. I've reviewed your article, assessing it not-ready for publication in its current form. My review comments are here.

If your primary interest here is in political analysis, you need to work out how to reconcile that with our approach to news-neutrality. (Our NPOV policy page, btw, is in need of an overhaul, a task I've been trying to find time for for a while now, as the current version honesty rambles and contains some statements that were written very early in the project when differences from Wikipedia weren't fully appreciated.) A good short-short explanation of neutrality is given as one of the pillars at WN:Pillars of Wikinews writing. You may want to inquire at the water cooler about how best to reconcile your interests with our approach to news here. --Pi zero (talk) 15:32, 24 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the work on the article. I've written a new set of review comments.


 * Our initial learning curve is notoriously steep, but thankfully it can be fairly short. Once one has the basics down, things can go pretty smoothly, though of course we hope never to stop learning.  (I'm hopeful about this article, but note that a reporter's first article often serves as a significant learning experience but never achieves publication; that's happened, even with more than one of their first few articles, to folks who went on to become veteran Wikinewsies.  As one veteran Wikinewsie once advised (the phrase stuck in my mind), "don't marry the article" &mdash; not every individual article makes it through the process, so one does one's very best to make each one work, and then moves on, that being the relentless nature of news.)  --Pi zero (talk) 18:09, 24 October 2013 (UTC)