User talk:Willsome429
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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 22:49, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Exactly because this was rather well-put-together for a first attempt, I was able to identify various things, of various sizes, that want address in it, which I wrote up as a set of review comments. The first article tends to be especially difficult, as one is trying to learn all at once all the basics one needs to make an article fly; hopefully, we can help you past that initial learning curve and things will get much easier. --Pi zero (talk) 23:41, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
- Alas. Neither I nor (evidently) anyone else was able to re-review this in time. You did a fine job of revising it for resubmission, and with a bit of tweaking here and there I suspect it likely would have passed. My guess is, after the experience with that you'll be able to produce an article that both looks very clean (making it an attractive target for volunteer reviewers) and is very clean (so it will pass on first review). With that goal in mind, I made some review edits and wrote up a second set of review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 16:17, 31 July 2019 (UTC)