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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 06:17, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Languages?

Hi ICameHereForNews :-)

Welcome to Wikinews.

Regarding this news about plainrock124, it seems that relevance is the largest concern. Would you like to share news about something else that has more significant impact? Just a headline and a couple URLs to sources would suffice for a start.

Seeing that your user page does not say a lot at the moment. Here are a few questions which are of interest (commonly highlighted on the user page). Do you speak any languages other than English? Do you program -- if so, in what languages? What are your topics of most interest in regards to news?

Thanks, --Gryllida (talk) 09:13, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

No I don’t speak another language. Also I have expanded my user page a bit. Thanks, ICameHereForNews (talk) 06:27, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Re: Plainrock124 hits 1 million subscribers

How many YouTube channels have 1 million subscribers? Can you find out? This could help with analysing this article.

Also, as an exercise, it would be great to know the exact date when this channel reached this many subscribers.

Thanks, --Gryllida (talk) 11:03, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

@Gryllida: I think it was in February 2020. There are a lot of channels that have 1 million subscribers, but this is more recent. ICameHereForNews (talk) 00:59, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

A lot -- how many? Gryllida (talk) 07:55, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Stores in Australia lower toilet paper limits per transaction

Published by Pi zero just now.

The essential information missing in the initial draft was the 5Ws and the H in the first paragraph.

There was a delay as I was offline on the first week and could not expand.

It was possible to refresh as the stores lowered the limits.

Please click 'History' tab and go through the edit history, viewing each of the changes.

This may help you see how the improvements were made (by other authors, and by the reviewer).

Thank you for starting the story. Keep up the great work!

Regards, --Gryllida (talk) 22:19, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Just curious......

You still working on the Tom Hanks article??--Bddpaux (talk) 19:55, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

@Bddpaux: I haven’t been on wikinews lately. However, I might as well make some contributions to it now. ICameHereForNews (talk) 10:42, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Tom Hanks and his wife catch coronavirus

Hi. I reviewed this article, and wrote up a set of review comments; I was trying to be as helpful as possible in explaining the various points, which made the comments long-ish. See my review comments, and also the detailed history of edits during review. --Pi zero (talk) 12:16, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

It's not uncommon for a first article to just take a bit too long to pull together, because there is so much to learn at first. It can still be a big learning experience. In that spirit, I left an additional note on the talk page. --Pi zero (talk) 03:15, 22 March 2020 (UTC)