User talk:SleepyWhippet

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 16:31, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikinews!
Thanks for making your first contribution to Wikinews at Escaped Murder Suspect and Correctional Officer Still at Large! However, the article needs a bit of work before it can be published. Firstly, a bit more information on the focal event (i:e, the escape of a murder suspect) should be included in the article. Do we know who the murder suspect is? How did he escape? When did he escape? All this information is important for a Wikinews article. Currently, articles should be at least one paragraph long with one hundred words, so that might be a good goal to try and reach when starting out. More information can be found at our guides for writing an article and our style guide, and feel free to ask me or any other editor if you have any questions! Again, thanks for your time and effort into contributing to Wikinews! --LivelyRatification (talk) 21:04, 8 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you for nudging me to add more, I meant to do so but totally forgot. Anyway, I took a pass at it and I think it's ready to be published at least as a start. How do I go about doing that? This is my first time contributing to Wikinews as you can probably tell. SleepyWhippet (talk) 22:03, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
 * All articles through Wikinews go through a review process before being published -- they're checked for copyright, newsworthiness, verifiability, neutral point of view, and correct style. If you want your article to be reviewed, you can add the template to the top, and it can be looked over by a reviewer. One issue that I can see, however, is the presence of the New York Times source. As the Times is paywalled, it unfortunately can't be used on Wikinews -- could it be substituted with another source? LivelyRatification (talk) 22:21, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, I replaced NYTimes and added a couple of other sources, thanks! SleepyWhippet (talk) 22:25, 8 May 2022 (UTC)