User talk:Zeddicus Zorander 88

-- 11:19, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Wikinews writing
Hi. First getting up to speed on any site (let alone a place like this :-) can be difficult; there's so much, and it seems everything wants to be the first thing learned. We have the same problem, from the other side, in explaining what's wanted: it's hard for us to know what to say first.

The article you submitted is written in, using "I" and "me". It's also one big paragraph, rather than being broken up into smaller, bite-sized pieces for easy digestion by the reader. When you create an article page using one of the forms scattered about the site (such as the one on the Howdy notice at the top of this user talk page), there's a skeleton "Sources" section set up automatically, with a couple of calls to the source template.

A news article just states what the news event was, first in a short lede paragraph answering as many as reasonably possible of the basic questions, then with further paragraphs that expand on details of the event and background to the story (using what's called  style).

The Howdy notice at the top of this page starts with a quick step-by-step how-to for writing your first article. There's lots of good links in that notice, too. We've got an article wizard 'under construction', here, but it really needs to be interactive, and we need better software tools to make it interact (which we're working on, but slowly). --Pi zero (talk) 17:19, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Trust me..........
.....your first few attempts here can feel like a beatdown of epic proportions! Hang in there........really......hang in there. There's a certain style that's required here......if you're persistent, you'll catch on......hang in there!! Bddpaux (talk) 03:42, 1 February 2012 (UTC)