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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 13:53, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Please note.......

First, welcome to EN Wikinews! We welcome all newcomers here and hope you will contribute more in the future! Re: your ice bucket challenge article, please do not self-publish articles. We use a certain editorial oversight process here and any article must be checked before it can be published. I've changed your article back to developing. --Bddpaux (talk) 20:23, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, this was unintentional (first time user). The notes are the original 'manuskript' handwritten by Lisa-Marie and a foto from the 'set' during production. NesneJ

Also......

Please visit Wikinews:Introduction to learn more!! --Bddpaux (talk) 20:24, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Yes, thank you NesneJ

Notes have been added. I have now changed to review status. o.k.? NesneJ

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Please fix. Thanks NesneJ (talk) 11:15, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

STOP-CP! Ice Bucket Challenge 2.0 launched‎

Hi. I took a closer look at this, but there were some basic problems. I can't really tell, from my side, whether or not the problems can be fixed, but I did my best to explain in my review comments what the problems are, so that hopefully you can tell whether or not their fixable from your side. Review comments. The first article written for Wikinews is generally the hardest, as you're learning everything for the first time; sometimes that first article finally makes it to publication, sometimes it doesn't, but either way it should be a learning experience, and we try to help folks up the learning curve as best we can. --Pi zero (talk) 20:35, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your support, this is very much appreciated!

1. International readership: I enclosed your suggestions, reorgenizing the para 1 and 2

2. Relevance/freshness: I included more recent (groundbraking) background ( cord blood stem cells)

3. Sources: I was on the scene, the notes were streamlined for the homepage. They are not independent, however, this is as close as one gets, given the fact that I was not involved in the preparation and no other journalists were around due to the fact that the youngsters lack celebrity status. I could omit it.

4. I merged para 3 and 4

Thanks again,

NesneJ (talk) 10:56, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

I've looked things over again. You successfully addressed some of the concerns from the previous review. There are other problems remaining, including the things I was worried might not be fixable. I still don't know whether or not they're fixable. I've written another lengthy set of review comments, to try to explain these difficulties. Review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 13:28, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Well, the form of the article is a lot better (though I'd still noted something to improve), but we're now down to really difficult problems. As I've noted (go down to the bottom of the article collaboration/talk page), there's verification, and WN:COI. --Pi zero (talk) 22:35, 6 September 2014 (UTC)