User talk:Tenyearoldtriplehitter

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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 02:02, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Onion the dog case set for Nevada high court oral argument

I have edited it to basically submit Onion the dog case set for Nevada high court oral argument for review, and then done a quick review on it. Please read the style guide, format the sources appropriately, remove red links and use relative dating. Please establish why this is news now. Once done, please submit the article for review again so it might have a chance of getting published. If you have any questions, please ask. --LauraHale (talk) 02:41, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

• Hi. Thanks for creating Onion the dog case set for Nevada high court oral argument. 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. —Mikemoral♪♫ 03:30, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

New categories

We don't create a category until we have at least three published articles ready to go in it. --Pi zero (talk) 16:57, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Nevada Supreme Court Sends Onion the Dog Case Back to Las Vegas Court

I'm afraid this looks like an encyclopedia article, and Wikinews is — as the name should suggest — a news site. The layout, style, and presentation, is not at-all like that used on Wikipedia.

The general recommendation is to look at a selection of published articles, these being the ones which make it through an independent peer review. That should encourage you to look at a number of the site's policies and guides; it can be quite a steep learning curve, and having initial attempts deleted isn't intended to be deliberately discouraging. The key problem is that submitting something in an encyclopedic style is going to require so much work on the part of any reviewer, that they disqualify themselves from clicking publish due to their depth of involvement. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 13:23, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Oak Park and neighbors to study Les Golden's intergovernmental cooperation proposals

This was missing required elements, which I've added, and doesn't have working links to the sources. There may be some misunderstanding about the nature of our review process; see WN:PILLARS. --Pi zero (talk) 18:44, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Question; and, what Wikinews is, and isn't

What are your plans for the two unpublished pages you currently have in our mainspace?

If you intend to turn them into viable articles, explain what you're going to do, and when. Both articles are clearly stale, and both have style problems that have been explained on tags on the articles but have not addressed.

Our workflow is explained at WN:PILLARS. Our required aritcle format is really not complicated, and is not hard to learn, and we try to help newcomers who are trying to learn (which includes answering questions); but WIkinews is not a web host: we're not here to provide a place for you to store things you're not trying to turn into publishable articles. If you aren't going to try to turn them into viable articles, they're de facto abandoned regardless of whether you're occasionally making edits to them. --Pi zero (talk) 14:43, 13 January 2014 (UTC)