User talk:Shubhanshu shukla
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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 14:58, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Rain hits Mumbai[edit]
Hi. I've not passed the article for review. If you're interested in working towards improving the article, I would be happy to help you. First, please read the style guide. :) You'll need a second source of information that verifies the information found in the article. You'll also need at least three paragraphs, written in active voice, with the most important details at the top. :) --LauraHale (talk) 01:20, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
Asha Bhosle's daughter Varsha, who killed herself, cremated in Mumbai[edit]
This was a 'blatant copyright violation' from the source article. Work submitted to Wikinews has to be in your own words; choose two or more mutually independent, trust-worthy sources and read them all before writing, then produce something that has only facts verified by the cited sources but with a differently worded headline, different article organization, and different sentence and phrase structure from, and no more than three consecutive words the same as, the sources. See the instructions on the {{Howdy}} template, above. --Pi zero (talk) 13:07, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Pillars[edit]
Hi! For another perspective on Wikinews, you might be interested in WN:Pillars of Wikinews writing. --Pi zero (talk) 14:06, 15 November 2012 (UTC)