User talk:Smurfy

Welcome
Brian McNeil / talk 17:40, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Landmark coalition offensive launched in Afghanistan
I've just done a medium-sized copyedit on this to – I think – bring it closer to what will be accepted for publication. I've deliberately tried to avoid referring to the sources yet so I can still claim enough impartiality to do the peer review should you choose to submit for review while I'm still about.

Can you look over what I've done to make sure I'm not wrong in any of the changes made? It would be nice to have a longer/more detailed article, but given the circumstances I can understand if there's not much information to further flesh it out.

When you do decide to submit for review, please be sure to put the review template at the very top. I'd recommend on a line of its own, with the date template on the next line. This means the reviewer sees what the final published article would look like rather than some of the strange layout messes you can get with the review template in among templates and images at the top of the article.

In any case, you were pretty close to something publishable with what I saw - at least, once the probably edit conflict you and I had were sorted out.

Let me, once again, say Welcome to Wikinews. --Brian McNeil / talk 02:01, 13 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your help with the article, after further editing I have now submitted it for review. Smurfy (talk) 02:28, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll take a look. N.B. I took out the NOEDITSECTION directive - that will be a total pain in the ass once you've a few more sections on your talk page. Lastly, all source dates on Wikinews should have the consistent "Monthname daynumber, year" format - this is just in case there is a need at some point to have a program work through articles and read date information. A consistent format will make programming such dramatically simpler. --Brian McNeil / talk 02:42, 13 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Article is now published, on Lead 2 on the main page, and will appear in Google News in moments. --Brian McNeil / talk 02:55, 13 February 2010 (UTC)