Talk:Miles Levin - Teen Blogger Dies before 19th Birthday

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This is the first WikiNews article I've written. Improvements are welcome.

I included information about the fund created in his honor. I'm not sure if that's ok, but it was listed in mainstream press.

I also wasn't sure which terms should be cross-linked or if I should leave them as local links or cross-link to places with more information. For instance, should the form of cancer which killed him, alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, be linked to Wikipedia?

Thanks in advance for any assistance. —CocoaZen 21:44, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

It looks more or less ok to me. As for local links versus cross links, allow me to explain. We would only use a local link for something hich a category exists for - examples include United Kingdom or Lordi. Here, cross-namespace redirects are permitted to take people accross to the relevant category (there's a policy against it on Wikipedia, don't know if you know). Anything else that people might reasonably be expected to want information on should go to Wikipedia articles. Links can potentially go to any other Wikimedia site, but realisticaly the only other use of cross linking might be some obscure word linked to Wiktionary. Other than that, damn good for a first (or for any) article! And welcome to Wikinews! Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 21:57, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I personally don't believe this is newsworthy. --84.65.21.21 23:23, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

If you think there should be more important stuff up, write an article on something you deem to be more important! Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 23:28, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

This isn't news... some kid died, and that's sad. But it's not newsworthy. 121.220.44.147 09:05, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I think it is an interesting story, certainly newsworthy.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 12:16, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Approximately 1/4 million people tried to access the server where his blog is yesterday. That included normal traffic, but it was significant enough to cause the hosting organization problems and cause noticable access problems. Every child's death is sad, but I wouldn't propose that everyone's be posted to here or Wikipedia. But not every child writes something read that widely and affecting enough people that it makes national news multiple times during his life. It's not so much whether his death is newsworthy, but whether his life was. And after this discussion, I think it was. When I get the time, I'll write something for Wikipedia. Thanks for the feedback! —CocoaZen 15:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

National news? What about global news? --84.65.21.21 15:13, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I thought it was interesting, and I have no conections to America - I've never even been there. So, yes, global news. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 16:26, 22 August 2007 (UTC)