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Resignation of Ferguson city manager John Shaw

Hi. Thanks for creating Resignation of Ferguson city manager John Shaw. 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:ThatGirlFromUOW/Resignation of Ferguson city manager John Shaw for future reference. —Mikemoral♪♫ 08:10, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

New Zealand begins process to potentially change national flag design

I really think this is very close, but there's this basic info missing in the lede (that I'm really startled to realize I didn't notice sooner). It should be pretty straightforward for you to fix, though it requires some careful consultation with the sources and so clearly isn't something I could fix during review. Review comments. As always, see also detailed history of edits during review. --Pi zero (talk) 16:27, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

France rejects European Union's asylum seeker quota initiative

Published. See review comments, detailed history of edits during review (several things there may be of interest). --Pi zero (talk) 19:33, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Edinburgh Council petition article

Since it was submitted for review, people keep editing it. Which, you know, okay I could see folks continuing to improve it as along as it hasn't been submitted, but, should it have been submitted yet? Or is it still under development?

Btw, is User:Nudge one of the students involved in this? --Pi zero (talk) 11:14, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi Pi Zero,

Apologies. Yes, it is ready for review, I just wanted to add more images to it to break up the text. I didn't realise you are reviewing it at the same time.

I have stopped with the images so please continue with the review. We will leave the article be.

And Nudge is our class lecturer.

ThatGirlFromUOW (talk) 11:56, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

I was just asking, for clarity. I'm actually not reviewing yet. (I have no idea when I'll fit in reviewing today; hoping I can. There's a lot happening here off-line. Amongst other things, my niece graduated from high school last week and we're giving her a graduation party today. You can see how that would make it hard to fit in reviewing, especially intense reviewing which I suspect this article will be.) --Pi zero (talk) 12:06, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

The article lede needs some work. It shouldn't be too difficult, I think (and certainly hope), but I felt it was too involving for a reviewer to do, keeping in mind it's the single most important paragraph in an article (which is also part of why I treat it as important enough to ask for revision to fix it). I really hope this doesn't hold things up too much. I noted that you, Nmuow93, and MusicrocksUOW had edited the article, and you'd actually created the page, so I'm leaving this note to flag out the situation on your talk and pinging the other two. --Pi zero (talk) 01:08, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Hey Pi Zero, thank you for letting us know. We'll work on the lede and have the article back up for review once it's fixed. =) MusicrocksUOW (talk) 02:18, 20 June 2015 (UTC)