Published articles are reviewed as they are written and are looked at by readers. If you see a problem with an article, you can add a tag at the top to explain the problem, but please also leave a comment on the article's discussion page explaining why you have added the tag, so that other editors know how to fix the article. The following tags are available:
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| {{editing}} |
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This article is actively undergoing a major edit.
As a courtesy, please do not make edits to this article while this message is displayed, in order to avoid edit conflicts. If you need to know who is working on the article and when the edit session began, please check the edit history |
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Use only to mark an article you are actively working on, if you want to let people know. This may help reduce the likelihood of edit-clashes. Please remember to remove the flag once you are done! |
| {{sources}} |
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Article lacks sources or references completely or contains information which has no references |
| {{single source}} |
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This article is based on a single source. Using multiple independent sources is strongly encouraged, as they would help independently confirm the news events, bring a wider diversity of reports into the article (serving NPOV) and avoid problems of copyright infringement. Exceptions are possible for Original reporting, Breaking news and local stories. |
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Articles lacks sources, only identifies one source used. |
| {{minimal}} |
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Article is so small as to be not worth publishing in its current form . |
| {{stub}} |
 This article is currently a brief. You can help Wikinews by expanding it.
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Similar to {{minimal}}(see stub). |
| {{npov}} |
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You believe the article to contain an explicit or implicit bias, or presenting only one point of view in a contentious issue. |
| {{misleading}} |
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This article is in dispute. It is alleged to contain incorrect or misleading information. See the article's talk page for more information. |
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Fact checking indicates that the article is incorrect. |
| {{incomplete}} |
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The completeness and balance of this article are disputed. Before publishing it, please see its talk page and try to work with other editors to add missing information. If this cannot be done within a reasonable timespan, it may be acceptable to remove this tag and publish the article. |
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You feel that more information should be added to the article, and would like for you, or the community, to be given time to add that information before it is published. |
| {{Cleanup|Reason}} |
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The article is poorly written, wikified or formatted, or other serious deviations from the article style guidelines |
| {{Deletion request}} |
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The story falls foul of the Wikinews:Policies and guidelines/Deletion guidelines and does not belong on Wikinews. Please remember to list the article on the deletion requests page. |
| {{Notnews}} |
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The story falls foul of the Wikinews:Policies and guidelines/Deletion guidelines and does not belong on Wikinews. Please remember to list the article on the deletion requests page. |
| {{delete|Reason}} |
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The article is an obvious test, vandalism etc. |
| {{copyvio|url=insert_web_address}} |
Visit Template:Copyvio page for full form |
The article contains suspected copyright violations |
| {{Ready}} |
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This article is marked as ready for publishing.
Please check if it complies with Wikinews policies and guidelines.
To publish the article, replace the {{ready}} tag with {{publish}}; If not, with {{develop}}, noting reasons on the Talk page.
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This article has been marked as finished by an editor. Please look over this article to ensure that it complies with all policies. |
| {{essay}} |
| Essay-Style Reporting |
 This article reads like an essay. Essays are not considered to be news stories, as per the Style Guide policy.
If there is community consensus, it may be moved to a userspace. |
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For articles that are written in the wrong (essay like) style. See also template:cleanup |
| {{controversy}} |
| Controversial Material |
 This artice contains controversial material, or controversial words. Please rewrite this article so that controversial words are not included. More information about this should be listed on the article's talk page. |
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For articles that are written using controversial words, such as "terrorisim" or "terrorists". |
