User talk:StudiesWorld

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 22:00, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

wikilinks
A small but useful style point. Wikilinks in the body of an article should use the w template (which has several functions, but the most obvious is that it automatically implements local policy by using a local link when available, otherwise linking to Wikipedia).

For example, for Irbil, Iraq, one would write

which would produce

--Pi zero (talk) 15:18, 18 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Where you know the link will go to a local link (for example, the name of a country) you can just use the 'standard' wikilink . Hope you like it here and stick around. :) BRS  (Talk)   (Contribs) 17:37, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

ISIS attacks United States consulate in Irbil, Iraq
Hi. We need three paragraphs, and a bit more text, to reach our basic minimal article size. See review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 20:00, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Don't forget to resubmit for review when ready. --Pi zero (talk) 20:50, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Published. Congrats on your first Wikinews publication! Please see my review comments, and . --Pi zero (talk) 03:09, 19 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I will try and work on those things in the future. StudiesWorld (talk) 10:38, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Chess championship
If I'd realized the time problem I'd have pointed it out much sooner; sorry about that. --Pi zero (talk) 07:37, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It's okay. Is there any special tag or category it should go in now? StudiesWorld (talk) 19:42, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
 * In the natural course of events, after four days (or more; we're behind atm) of inactivity an unpublished article gets tagged abandoned, and then after another two days it can be deleted. --Pi zero (talk) 21:49, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Can we move it to our user space for reference in the future? If it hadn't been for timing would this have passed? StudiesWorld (talk) 22:04, 21 April 2015 (UTC)


 * With OR we usually do userspace ones that don't work out; with synthesis we usually don't, except that we sometimes do on special request and often do if the reporter is a student (we have two university classes submitting articles this semester). With an unsuccessful synthesis article, I generally do a copyright check first, to reassure myself we're not saving copyvio; that's mostly why we're behind right now, because some of the abandoned articles want a copyright check first to see if they're safe to userspace.


 * I'll try to take a somewhat closer look at the article when I get a chance; though I probably won't be able to do a full source-check, since the amount of time and effort a full source-check takes is generally understood to be one of the limiting factors on Wikinews throughput atm (I'm hoping eventually to mitigate it with semi-automation, which I'm developing the underlying tech for in my copious free time). --Pi zero (talk) 22:39, 21 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I understand that you couldn't do a full source check because it would take a while but I would appreciate any advice. Could I keep this one just for purposes of looking at my past work in comparison to my future work? StudiesWorld (talk) 23:14, 21 April 2015 (UTC)