User talk:Sou Boyy

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 06:53, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

User pages
Hi. We're quite sensitive about advertising-y things here at Wikinews. We allow a little leeway on the user pages of contributing members of the Wikinews community. --Pi zero (talk) 11:04, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Articles
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner.

Some points to make clear about Wikinews up-front.
 * We have a strict neutrality policy. We don't do advertising.  We do factual articles about newsworthy recent events.
 * You don't self-publish. Don't ever manually place the publish tag on an article; that's considered attempted self-publication, a severe policy violation.
 * We don't create a category until there are at least three published articles that belong in it.

You need to get a sense of how the project works, starting with what kind of articles we publish, and how our process of independent review works. I recommend reading WN:Pillars of Wikinews writing to start. --Pi zero (talk) 12:40, 25 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, I'm familiar with the principle of not biting the newcomers. :-) It's obviously a good principle broadly, though the details necessarily differ between Wikipedia and Wikinews because we're a news site while they're an encyclopedia.


 * We put a lot of our volunteer labor into trying to help out newcomers. Keep in mind, our purpose is to enable anyone on the internet &mdash;who is willing to put in the considerable effort&mdash; to publish quality news.  That's a tall order.  Contributing here can become relatively easy, if one has a knack for it, and after one has learned how, but the learning curve to get there is steep.  Hence our wish for an interactive article wizard (and various other things we're working on).  An essential part of news production is not letting things get published until and unless they meet our standards, and that requirement defines the bounds within which we have to operate while helping newcomers.  --Pi zero (talk) 17:33, 25 August 2013 (UTC)