User talk:Setting a democratic precedent

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 15:03, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello!!
...and welcome to English Wikinews! --Bddpaux (talk) 15:28, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Your Taiwan article.......
I only marked it as abandoned, because the event itself is so stale now......HOWEVER: it seems to me that it could readily be freshened up quite easily. Just my two cents.--Bddpaux (talk) 21:21, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
 * One of Taiwan's PBS directors resigned amid political pressures
 * Please try to NOT read these words as being more harsh than they are intended. Instead of correcting the fact that I put the Aband. tag on YOUR article, and WHEN I put that tag on your article AND when it is/isn't appropriate to put said tag on an article (yes, 4 days is standard, BUT I noted why I was doing so above on your user page)......maybe you could focus on FRESHENING UP the article and putting some English sources on it. Your correction/comment is a perfect example of how people here FOR MANY YEARS bog down in the letter of the law, and deviate away from just getting and reporting good news. To save you the mental annoyance, I am well aware of processes/policies here. I hope you do well here as a reporter.--Bddpaux (talk) 17:23, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Setting a democratic precedent (talk) 18:52, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello. Please don’t be disheartened but I think you should stop working on this article. In it’s current state, it will not be published. We have all had difficulties with our first articles but it is simply a matter of understanding our WN:Policies and guidelines. I was going to delete it last night but I became busy with something else. Since you added something today, I thought it might help to point out some problems:
 * * The story is no longer fresh and does not qualify as news anymore. The latest source is from 22 January. Our policy is that stories must have been reported no more than three days ago. So this story stopped being news from 26 January onwards.
 * * Articles should try to follow the 5Ws and H i.e. Who, What, When, Where, Why and How questions. In this case the article, despite the headline, has not answered the Who question properly - who is the director in question? The earliest source names the director as Zhuang Fengjia. Nowhere in the article is his name mentioned. When did he resign? Was it immediately or in the days after the finance committee suspended discussions?
 * * Although the latest changes show what KMT and DPP are, there is some confusion about PBS. This might be a question of translation. As far as I can see, there is no media organisation in Taiwan with this name. The director, who resigned, is from, which is part of (TBS). Another part of TBS is the . In future, please try to be clear about which person or body you are talking about.
 * * In the third paragraph, there is a quote from Fai Hong-Tai but he did not say this in English. The grammar is what might be expected from a literal translation, but it does not make complete sense because while reading it, I had to rearrange the words in my kind. Readers shouldn’t have to try to decipher the correct grammar.
 * * Finally, you’ve added 16 non-English sources but just one English source. This makes it very difficult for anyone to review the article because they would need to see a translated version of every source if they are not conversant in Chinese. As a guide to make it easier in future, please try to provide at least two English sources and no more than two non-English sources.
 * * Also, until the end of April 2022, we are allowing articles to be as short as one paragraph of 100 words. Fir your next article, can I suggest writing a shorter article?
 * I hope this makes sense. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask any of us on our talk pages or at the community board. [24Cr][talk] 12:26, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Sandbox
Not a requirement....just thought you might want to set up a 'Sandbox' to store various ideas/templates etc. etc. in. Just a suggestion!--Bddpaux (talk) 18:32, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Are you still here?
Just making certain you haven't run away...our processes here can be a bit strange, but we don't like to see newbies vanish! Please submit another article.--Bddpaux (talk) 18:07, 11 July 2022 (UTC)