User talk:New mayo

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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 12:30, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello

Saw your story about Germany.

Unfortunately, I am away and can not review until around mid November.

Please check Newsroom and live chat to help with editing other reports as this may help publish yours sooner.

Thanks Gryllida 20:12, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you!

New mayo (talk) 09:00, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Germany article

Extremely interesting topic! It has just crossed the line on freshness though -- is there newer source material you can use to freshen things up a bit? We call that gatwicking an article.--Bddpaux (talk) 15:41, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi

I have received the information. I have seen it. Yes, I have the latest information and will log in as soon as possible.

New mayo (talk) 17:29, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Cool! Looking forward to reading it.--Bddpaux (talk) 17:47, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

I see your work -- excellent effort! Please see Talk page over there.--Bddpaux (talk) 20:23, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Annoyingly, review work takes a chunk of time. Things have gone stale again. If you can find a pinch of something to help meaninfully gatwick the article (as a whole), I will prioritize reviewing the end result.--Bddpaux (talk) 16:42, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

I see your efforts (dropping in something from Nov. 5th) -- excellent effort, but the larger article (for freshness) must focus on the fresh thing, then the more stale stuff must appear farther down -- that is the general spirit of gatwicking. It can be dispiriting to see an article fail AND we do a bit of a learning curve here. Please hang in there. Don't run away! We deeply appreciate your presence and your efforts. If you get frustrated, that can be a good time to jump over to the Newsroom and do some minor copy-editing work on articles being developed. Hang in there!--Bddpaux (talk) 23:44, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your encouragement! My morale is not down at all—I am still learning and really feel your support closely. I am determined to continue contributing here and improve.

I added a new piece of news today and included a link to the graph. It would have been better if I could add the graph directly to the page instead.

I appreciate everything you do and would be glad to be guided by you as I keep going.

New mayo (talk) 12:08, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Military article

Please jump over to the Talk page over there. A few errors on source numbers.--Bddpaux (talk) 16:21, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

• Didn't quite make it -- but it is on the border of being workable.--Bddpaux (talk) 18:30, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Read your message. I appreciate your resilience -- in terms of our learning curve: You're doing great! Keep at it!--Bddpaux (talk) 19:48, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Award

• Somewhere along the line, we missed this!

		The Order of the Humble Pencil For completing 5 edits.
		Great work! Keep it up!--Bddpaux (talk) 19:59, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

That's exactly who I am. I'm so happy. Thank you. :)) New mayo (talk) 06:37, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Your article submission for review (December 17)

Hi New mayo! Thank you for your submission!
Your article Massive fire at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong: More than 120 dead, hundreds missing has been reviewed by Michael.C.Wright (talk · contribs). Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons for the decision are explained in detail on the article's talk page.

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