Talk:US presidential candidate Barack Obama has 50% support

Revision 705691 of this article has been reviewed by ShakataGaNai (talk · contribs) and found not ready at 16:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Not ready: I'm sorry, but we've had several of these "stats" articles and they all say the same thing. Yes, Obama has a small lead now, but a few percent? Where is the significance of this? If suddenly one candidate had a significant lead, then it would be worth it, but 6.5%, With the amount of error in these polls, is statistically insignificant. Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: --ShakataGaNai ^_^ 16:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC) Questions about the above? Ask. If possible, please address the above issues then resubmit the article for another review (by replacing {{tasks}} in the article with {{review}}). This talk page will be updated with subsequent reviews.

Revision 705691 of this article has been reviewed by ShakataGaNai (talk · contribs) and found not ready at 16:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Not ready: I'm sorry, but we've had several of these "stats" articles and they all say the same thing. Yes, Obama has a small lead now, but a few percent? Where is the significance of this? If suddenly one candidate had a significant lead, then it would be worth it, but 6.5%, With the amount of error in these polls, is statistically insignificant. Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: --ShakataGaNai ^_^ 16:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC) Questions about the above? Ask. If possible, please address the above issues then resubmit the article for another review (by replacing {{tasks}} in the article with {{review}}). This talk page will be updated with subsequent reviews.

Um disagree? Reporting new polling data is newsworthy. It might not be very newsworthy (or might not strike you as as interesting) but a lot of people pay attention to this sort of data and care about it. JoshuaZ (talk) 17:44, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

I agree with JoshuaZ. Also as to the point about poor accuracy : That is kind of addressed, in the article, by giving up a figure : '..a margin of error of 0.70%.' In addition what Wikinews needs is more news, not less, at least for the moment. By stopping stories like this or letting them hang in a limbo until they are certainly not fresh anymore, potential contributors are scared away. I have seen many other articles published that I would judge as less newsworthy than the article here. I have recently experienced this as a (potential) contributor, and would like a fair review on my recent article that is marked as ready to publish and can be found in the Newsroom : Nobel Peace Prize misused says Norwegian lawyer and activist. BalansR (talk) 13:57, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

I agree with both of the comments made here. This is very newsworthy and we have had very few articles on this topic. I'm going to go ahead and publish this since it does meet all the criteria. --PatrickFlaherty (talk) 14:01, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Revision 706691 of this article has been reviewed by PatrickFlaherty (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 14:02, 9 October 2008 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: Comments above The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.

Revision 706691 of this article has been reviewed by PatrickFlaherty (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 14:02, 9 October 2008 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: Comments above The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.