User talk:Adam UOW86

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Cronulla re-sign banned coach

Hey Adam. Brian McNeil has reviewed your article, Cronulla re-sign banned coach, but found some issues. I've fixed a few problems for you, but there's a few more issues:

• The article headline is too vague. You can read more about how we write headlines at Wikinews:Naming conventions. Someone unfamillar with Cronulla won't know what the article is about, nor does it state which sport is involved. I suggest reading the headline guidelines, and thinking up a better headline. As you already know, you can click the "rename" button near the edit button to change an article's title — one suggestion would be "Cronulla rugby league team re-sign banned coach", but I'm sure you can think of something better.
• We need Special:Categories on each article; ideally this would be things like Syria, Category:Politics and conflicts, et cetera. I've added some for you. For future reference, to add categories to a page, you add [[Category:Syria]] to the bottom of the article. You can also use "HotCat", which adds a easy interface for adding categories. You can enable it in your preferences. Generally, we try to add, at a minimum, a category for "where" (e.g. Category:Australia, Category:New South Wales), and "what" (Category:Rugby), and sometimes a "who". We also add at least one top-level category from the list at Category:News_articles_by_section.
• I notice that you tried to add a category by using braces ({{}}) — these are used for templates (typing {{sports}} will "transclude" the contents of Template:Sports into the article at that point). For categories and other links, we use square brackets ([[]]).
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Hope you get your article up to scratch! Looking forward to it, Microchip08 (talk) 09:52, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi. I reviewed the article. Please take a look at WN:PILLARS#own; and, actually, you might find WN:Plagiarism of interest. Review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 21:32, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Australian rugby league team sign Papua New Guinea player

This is set for deletion from the main namespace tomorrow, under abandoned policy. If you require screenshots, or the article moved to your userspace, please do so within the next 24 hours. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 12:44, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

This article has been moved to your userspace. You can access it at User:Adam UOW86/Australian rugby league team sign Papua New Guinea player. Good luck with your next article. Microchip08 (talk) 09:38, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

User:Adam UOW86/Papua New Guinea Hunting Big Scalps in Queensland Cup has also been moved to your userspace, as it has had no edits for a significant period of time. Microchip08 (talk) 09:41, 18 April 2014 (UTC)