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--Pi zero (talk) 15:46, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

CERN physicists expect discovery of Higgs boson before 2013

Hi. I reviewed the article as not-ready for publication; my main concern was that there wasn't a current event for newsworthiness, as explained in my review comments.

For a synthesis article on this general subject, there'd have to be a discrete current event. It's possible one might put together some original reporting related to it; should you be interested in pursuing that admittedly challenging approach, I'd suggest seeking advice at the assistance water cooler. --Pi zero (talk) 20:59, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Hiya Pi zero - thanks for reviewing the article. I think maybe it would best if I wait until there is a big news story regarding Higgs boson - then would I be able to simply re-use the background material I wrote? I expect there will be a headline this season. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 21:52, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

With the difficulties I found up front, I don't think I pushed on to do source-checking on the article text, for verifiability and copyright. Any material borrowed would have to be reviewed again later; but, supposing it'll pass inspection when the time comes, reusing it has the considerable merit of not requiring it to be written again :-). I'll just move the article to your user space, for safekeeping, and you can draw on it when-and-if. (I'm recalling the Lexx subplot that most civilizations of Earth's type self-destruct by creating a device to measure the mass of the Higgs boson, which causes their planet to be reduced to the size of a small pea.) --Pi zero (talk) 23:37, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Now at User:Arbitrarily0/CERN physicists expect discovery of Higgs boson before 2013. --Pi zero (talk) 23:45, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Haha, excellent - thanks Pi zero. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 15:34, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

CERN physicists announce near-certain discovery of Higgs boson

Wikinews coverage of this story hasn't gone well —yet— has it. Besides general initial-learning-curve stuff for you, science stories have some pitfalls of their own — one has to be very wary of mistakes commonly made by the mainstream press. Actually, even those common mistakes are typically not all that complicated (I wonder if I should try to write an essay for Wikinewsies about them).

Anyway, one of the weaknesses of past reviews I've done for you has been that I didn't push through to uncover deep problems, instead stopping at the first major problem I encountered. I tried to do better this time; as a result, my latest review comments are fairly long. There's also, of course, the edits made during review. --Pi zero (talk) 13:41, 7 July 2012 (UTC)