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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 07:00, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Melbourne school boy killed in a suicide bombing and explosive devices found in his family home[edit]
Hi,
I've "not-readied" this, with feedback I hope you can make good use of on the article's talk page. I — usually — would've done more editing to give examples of needed changes, and stylistic guidance; but, I've got to get myself ready and over to the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art for an exhibition press preview this morning.
I felt it was important to give you feedback as soon-as possible, given you've been smart enough to pick an extra-fresh story. I'd shorten the title somewhat - say, "Melbourne schoolboy killed in suicide bombing, explosives found in family home", your account won't have the rights to do that at the moment, but if you've any alternative ideas just put them on the article's talk/discussion page after the not-ready review. It'll get picked up on next submission and changed.
If you've not got a link from me by this time tomorrow for a MediaWiki markup "cheat sheet", give me a shout. I'll suggest to David he get copies run off, since it's a single page handout that should make life easier. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:08, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
- Hi. Thanks for creating Melbourne school boy killed in a suicide bombing and explosive devices found in his family home. Unfortunately, it has been deleted as an abandoned article. Not every article succeeds; we look forward to your continued contribution to Wikinews. Wikinews' content guide and guide to writing an article are useful resources for writers. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or at the assistance page. Your article has been moved to your userspace and can be found at User:Sul1y.uow/Melbourne school boy killed in a suicide bombing and explosive devices found in his family home for future reference. —Mikemoral♪♫ 08:40, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi. See review comments, detailed history of edits during review. --Pi zero (talk)
Userspaced lost article[edit]
Hi. I've restored the article and "userspaced" it, that is, moved it to your userspace; it's now at User:Sul1y.uow/Chernobyl fire extinguished, radiation threat low.
- A few months ago (I think it was), we changed the way the template works that reports there's something wrong with the article — it used to list the problems, briefly, and now it has instead a big, prominent link to the talk page. Which may be less useful for purposes of assessing the article from a screenshot; so maybe we'll have to reassess the way we handle that template yet again, though I'm not looking forward to tangling with the template's complicated internals.
- Userspacing student articles has extra overhead (stuff that really should be checked to make sure it's okay to archive on a permanent or semi-permanent basis) and I haven't been able to keep up with it this semester, so a lot of student articles have been allowed to just go the way of all unsuccessful articles, i.e., deletion.