User talk:XndrK

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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 18:44, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Bevo article

The Bevo article was not published. Hence, the deletion of your comment. It did not pass review. --LauraHale (talk) 00:59, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Ah. Thanks.

Kermit Gosnell on trial for murder

Hi. I've tried to write a fairly detailed explanation of our newsworthiness criteria in review comments, which I hope will be helpful in clambering up our initial learning curve. :-)  --Pi zero (talk) 21:01, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

You asked on the article talk page whether I could help cover the story.

I'm the most active reviewer around here atm. (By which I mean at this moment, that I'm aggressively making myself available to review things — though just in the past few days there hasn't been much submitted for review, so I'm making myself available but nobody is availing themselves of my services. This is perhaps ironic since at other times we suddenly get a whole bunch of articles submitted at once and then I end up with a backlog since I can't review them all at once and a full review takes a lot out of a reviewer.)

The thing is, a reviewer has to be substantially uninvolved with the article they're reviewing; if I helped write an article, I wouldn't be allowed to review it. So for me to be available to review articles, I have to not be part of writing them.

We are working on various ideas to help contributors with article writing (and to help reviewers with article review). It's a slow process, though; my current project in this regard, I've been working on for about a year and a half. --Pi zero (talk) 12:12, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Your user page

I'm checking with you about this, because otherwise I can't tell what happened.

An IP created your user page. Although it's possible that could have been you, not logged in, we have no way to know that (unless you tell us so), and if it wasn't you then the IP shouldn't be creating your user page.

So until and unless I hear from you that it really was you, I'm deleting the page created by the IP. --Pi zero (talk) 12:26, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

What was the IP's number? Please don't until I have the number. It was probably me. --XndrK (talk) 18:31, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

IT WAS ME!!! IT WAS ME!!! How do I put it back??? --XndrK (talk) 18:33, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Easy: just ask. :-)  Restored. --Pi zero (talk) 18:44, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

I stand corrected. I don't speak Russian. >.< I'm going to delete it. --XndrK (talk) 21:42, 29 April 2013 (UTC)