User talk:Franklyn.issac

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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 13:16, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Contributing

Hi. (I'm guessing, btw, it may have been you who appeared briefly on irc; irc can be a great medium for real-time interaction, but it's only real-time, or something approaching real-time, during the actual interaction — making contact there takes some patience. For example, I noticed the query there a bit less than an hour later.)

It looks as if the article you put together has a focal event that took place some time ago. You can get a good compact overview of how the project works at WN:Pillars of Wikinews writing. --Pi zero (talk) 13:49, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Change of template from {{review}} to {{develop}}

Hello! Talking about your contribution to Wikinews (article named Pricol Limited Appoints New CFO), I want to notify you that I have changed the template from {{review}} to {{develop}}. That edit removed this article from Review list. The first and foremost reason for this edit is Article length. Most complete articles should have at least three paragraphs, and single-line paragraphs do not count for this purpose. Don't post articles containing only a link to a story on an external news site and no story text. Such pages are quickly deleted. Because this article isn't long enough, it would have been either flagged not ready or deleted. Article might not be fresh for long. Please act swiftly and add little more description. And you also need to answer 5 W and H questions in the first 2 lines of the article called lede.
And in case the article isn't published within time, don't be disheartened. We have next opportunity as well.
14.139.242.195 (talk) 08:29, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Since a review had been requested, I put the article back on the review queue long enough to write up a set of review comments, which are now on the article's collaboration page. --Pi zero (talk) 23:22, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Pricol Limited releases second quarter and half yearly financial results ended September 30

Hi. Rather than merely dismiss this as stale, I wrote up some things about it that could be useful lessons for future articles; see my review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 12:30, 11 November 2015 (UTC)