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New York firebomb suspect arraigned

In my (interrupted... well, these things happen) review, I found a surprising number of inaccuracies that seemed to have somehow crept in to the story — things that seemed like they might have been meant as paraphrases, but were really going beyond what was given by the sources. There was also some shortfall of caution for the distinction between saying he was alleged to have done things (which is fine) and saying he did do things (which is potentially libelous). If you haven't already, you may find it useful to look over the detailed history of my edits.

Thanks for reviewing my second post-publication edit, btw. --Pi zero (talk) 03:36, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

archiving

I see you archived a bunch of articles. Appreciated. For whatever it's worth, when we're really slow (which has been a lot, lately, though not 100% of the time), my unofficial practice is to never archive down to fewer than ten articles on the main page. My reasoning is that when things get that low, the articles on the main page are serving as examples, and we ought to keep a good variety of examples visible.

Note that the world isn't going to end because we're down to eight right now instead of ten. But I do recommend the ten figure as a good place to put the pivot between archiving by date and archiving by list-length. Ten also means we never have a problem populating all five lead templates; sometimes an OR article will linger as a lead long enough that a shorter-than-ten list would be pushing it, but ten has always been safe, I believe. (It'd be really counterproductive, I figure, to have few than five leads, since they serve as examples of our wares even more than the DPL does.) --Pi zero (talk) 04:23, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

31 die in Mexico jail violence

Great to see you reviewing! I do note, it's always better to look for some copyedit to make before publishing; the earlier the better, since it makes the review process visible. (The behind-the-scenes nature of much of review leaves room to imagine far less work than is actually involved.) (WN:Tips on reviewing articles#How much to do :-). --Pi zero (talk) 19:11, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Indiana Template

Thank you for adding the template so quickly! Crtew (talk) 21:14, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

US government expands definition of rape to include men

You may have already noticed I gave it a not ready review (you were on break when we changed that from fail, I guess), but I've decided I like the habit of leaving helpful notes to authors on their talk pages after a review. It's an idea I picked up a few months back from Brian McNeil (who was using it in reviews of UoW student articles).

See my review comments, and (though pretty slim in this case) edits made during review. --Pi zero (talk) 21:38, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

I've commented on the talk page of this, I'm interested in making it more detailed/comprehensive.

Let me know if you think that's worthwhile. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 22:31, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

• Sadly, nobody responded in a timely manner - so the only addition is about rape vs smoking. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 11:13, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

US Coast Guard rescues Iranian ship

Published. :-)  Edits during review. --Pi zero (talk) 00:29, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Oops

I'd made the art theft Lead 5 (replacing the oldest non-main lead), so when you made it Lead 3, it was redundantly two out of the five leads at once. (I've fixed it.) --Pi zero (talk) 06:20, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Video

You've downloaded something from YouTube —in my experience, most news-related stuff there is pirated from news sites— and didn't provide the URL you'd gotten it from. It's pretty meaningless to say the copyright status is currently being determined if wherewithal isn't provided to determine it.

Keep in mind that Wikinews fair use does not allow stuff from other news sites, and as I say, most news material I've observed on YouTube is pirated from news sites. --Pi zero (talk) 20:40, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Man killed in police shooting in Brooklyn, New York

A heads-up. There were a lot of serious mistakes in this. Saying the guy with the gun was coming into the house. Saying the guy without a gun lived there. Saying the police hadn't said whether the gun was registered. (Those I remember off the top of my head; the detailed edit history shows a few other things.) It seems unlikely that much of that (and possible that none of it) would be due, in this case, to changing sources. After fixing so much I had to think very carefully to decide whether I was too involved to review. Please be much more careful. --Pi zero (talk) 12:10, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Woman gives birth on New Jersey PATH train

• Woman gives birth on New Jersey PATH train

Great article, fascinating stuff, especially their possible chosen name, heh. -- Cirt (talk) 23:43, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Unarmed man killed by narcotics officer in The Bronx

Found not ready. Review comments; listed everything I could think of. --Pi zero (talk) 03:15, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Susan G. Komen Foundation reneges on Planned Parenthood funding cuts

Published. Review comments, edits during review. --Pi zero (talk) 15:05, 4 February 2012 (UTC)