User talk:Derek Rocha
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--Brian McNeil / talk 08:34, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello Derek,
I just read your Lismore story. Interesting. The established editors here are never going to publish it though unless you put it in the format they like. You could take a look at an existing story (especially its "edit" page) to see what the format is. Myself I don't care much about all that, but it would be nice if you gave your source for the story. That enables other people to go to the source to find out more. For instance I thought I might elaborate on the story a bit, but I can't find any information on it. Also they have a rule here that an established editor has to check your sources before they'll publish your story.
Unfortunately there seem to be too few established editors here to check all the stories that are written. Consequently alot of stories just sit unpublished (i.e. not listed on the Main page) for a while and then get deleted. I hope yours does not suffer that fate. Good luck! --Ong saluri (talk) 06:29, 31 March 2009 (UTC)