User talk:Blok Glo
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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 12:10, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi. As I've commented here, the article needs a bit of work and you haven't submitted it for review. --Pi zero (talk) 17:16, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
Article workflow
[edit]Hi!
The way en.wn works is, you write an article and, once you think it's publishable, you submit it for review. This requests that a reviewer do an in-depth review of the article. If a reviewer does a full review and finds the article meets all criteria, the reviewer then publishes the article. At that point, the article is pushed out to Google News, among other places.
So, to move the article forward you really need to try to fix the problem I described on the article talk page, and then click the "submit" button on the {{develop}} tag of the article. If my comment isn't clear, ask questions about it. :-) I've added a {{develop}} tag to the article; not sure how it ended up without one, but it has one now.
Hopefully useful: WN:Pillars of Wikinews writing. --Pi zero (talk) 19:12, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
Srebrenica article
[edit]A stellar first effort!! Back up, take a deep breath, and try again! Please see the article's talk page. --Bddpaux (talk) 20:36, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
- Note, you've got feedback on the article talk page from two different reviewers. That's a great opportunity to learn, both for this article and for future articles. --Pi zero (talk) 15:54, 27 April 2013 (UTC)