Wikinews:Water cooler/assistance/archives/2019/December

Typo correction
Unfortunately, I don't understand some of the more technical aspects of editing wikis. Hopefully this isn't misplaced and I haven't screwed up anything too badly. I understand that there are volunteers that can assist with editing protected pages? There is a typo at https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/French_tourists_killed_in_California_bus_rollover_accident -- "Fesno" should be "Fresno."

--2601:199:67F:D680:B91B:25D5:426B:FB8E (talk) 09:38, 6 December 2019 (UTC)


 * No problem. Done; thanks. :-)  --Pi zero (talk) 11:53, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

New to Wikinews . Question about sources
Hello Everyone, I am new to Wikinews and I would like to write my first article. I´ve read the guidelines and I would like to make sure if I need two different sources of the content in order to write an article based on it. Is that right ? Would be this and this source ok ? Please let me know. Thanks --Italianfilms (talk) 12:21, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Those sources look like advertising. I doubt they'd be considered "trust-worthy", for any given purpose.  Exactly what is okay for what purpose depends partly on the nature of the story &mdash; a source that's okay for one purpose might be un-trust-worthy for another.  What sort of story did you have in mind? Btw, if you haven't happened upon Pillars of writing, I highly recommend it, as a compact overview of things. --Pi zero (talk) 13:29, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

I´ve read the Pillars of writing. Thanks. I would like to write an article based on an interview featured in here and here. The subject of the article has an article on Wikipedia if that makes a difference. When you say that those sources look like advertising you mean that they are not authoritative/independent enough for Wikinews ? --Italianfilms (talk) 14:59, 20 December 2019 (UTC) Also do sources have to come from a publication in English or they can come from publications in other languages too ? I can´t find that sort of information on Pillars of writing. Many thanks --Italianfilms (talk) 16:27, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * We generally avoid articles about somebody else's exclusive; it's too much like republishing somebody else's news, which we (also) don't do. I can think of at least one article we did about (iirc) a controversy that had arisen as a consequence of somebody else's interview.  We're generally wary of news about news, which veterans here have been known to call "". Non-English sources:  Depending on the language, the way they're used, etc., they can sometimes be managed when they need to be, or can sometimes be a major problem.  The place I recall where they're mentioned in our documentation is WN:CITE.  (Yeah, I know, the section heading doesn't immediately suggest "look here for what we have to say about non-English sources".) --Pi zero (talk) 17:48, 20 December 2019 (UTC)