User talk:ICameHereForNews/Archive 2
I'm proud to say I hit 100 edits after being here for less than a month. ICameHereForNews (talk) 21:37, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
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I'm not sure why you reverted my comment. I was aware when I wrote it that you were no longer working on the article, and directed my comment toward future writing. --Pi zero (talk) 06:58, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
@Pi zero: Oh, sorry. ICameHereForNews (talk) 20:23, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
- Not a problem. Honestly just trying to be helpful, here. :-) --Pi zero (talk) 21:13, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
Important note
Note to users that I will archive all discussions on my talk page every time I have six discussions. See User talk:ICameHereForNews/Archive 1 for archived discussions. ICameHereForNews (talk) 08:02, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Tom Hanks and Covid
Hi ICameHereForNews, I was sorry to see your article was not published on wikinews. I come here peridically to check to see if new covid stories were published. Just wnted to tell you your article would have had more appeal for me if it linked to the post on twitter you had mentioned in your story, but I am not sure if wikinews rules allow for such links? G'day, Ottawahitech (talk) 03:10, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
- External links if appropriate are placed in a section "External links" following the "Sources" section. --Pi zero (talk) 03:16, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
I see you had an interaction on https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Talk:Tom_Hanks_and_his_wife_catch_coronavirus With an IP and that you were told that wikinews is not a free webhost and therefore your so-called stale article cannot be moved into your userspace. A couple of years ago, when I tried to participate in wikinews I was told the same thing. Unfortunately it appears that the small community of editors who are active here don't understand why newbies want to maintain access to their own work. Am I making sense? Ottawahitech (talk) 13:50, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Ottawahitech: Being married to a news article and not moving forward is one of the reasons why newbies don't get past the initial stage. When I started editing, five years ago, most of my first articles didn't make it. Yes, we are proud of them, what we did. But accept it, it didn't make it. Move on, pick something else to write. The more you write, the better you would get at writing publishable stories and then you won't have to request user-spacing the articles. If the article is so dear to you, save it as a PDF. I can email you your two-year old articles if you want. If ICameHereForNews feels like keeping their article, I can send the PDF of the article to them. But keeping non-published articles without a valid reason is abuse of Wikinews.
•–• 13:57, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Ottawahitech: Being married to a news article and not moving forward is one of the reasons why newbies don't get past the initial stage. When I started editing, five years ago, most of my first articles didn't make it. Yes, we are proud of them, what we did. But accept it, it didn't make it. Move on, pick something else to write. The more you write, the better you would get at writing publishable stories and then you won't have to request user-spacing the articles. If the article is so dear to you, save it as a PDF. I can email you your two-year old articles if you want. If ICameHereForNews feels like keeping their article, I can send the PDF of the article to them. But keeping non-published articles without a valid reason is abuse of Wikinews.
@Acagastya: I'll just forget about it. You can delete it, if you want. ICameHereForNews (talk) 00:28, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Device
This web site marks the majority of your edits as mobile. Seeing that you're quite committed to it, would you perhaps like to also try getting a laptop or a desktop? In my experience they may make the editing a lot easier (such as, starting a new article that is more than one sentence long). --Gryllida (talk) 00:51, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
I sometimes do use desktop. ICameHereForNews (talk) 01:52, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Category:Categories
Hi. Not sure what you had in mind? The Wikinews category hierarchy already has a Category:Category. All categories, afaik, are directly or indirectly contained in Category:Category. (The whole arrangement is also circular, but that's another story.) --Pi zero (talk) 01:06, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
- (No problem; thanks.) --Pi zero (talk) 02:37, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Category:Stubs
The concept of a "stub", though I'm familiar with it from Wikipedia and Wikibooks, has never really been a significant concept in the workflow on Wikinews since I've been here (which is roughly since the introduction of our review process, somewhat over ten years ago). What do you have in mind, in creating that tracking category? I mean, is it referred to somewhere on the project, or, otherwise, what did you have in mind? --Pi zero (talk) 11:44, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
- Perhaps redirect to Category:Stub? --Green Giant (talk) 12:39, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
- Ah! Thanks, GG, for reminding of that. (Though, re specific remedies, afaik we've always shied away from redirects in category space.) --Pi zero (talk) 12:58, 3 May 2020 (UTC)