Well to look at the deletion log:
07:00, 8 March 2010 ShakataGaNai (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "Dyslexia A new perspective" (this is an editorial,)
I would at first glance say it was because it was an editorial. Wikinews does not accept editorials, as it goes against are policy of neutral point of view. Furthermore looking at the article, its written from a first person prespecive, and is essence a story about how you teach kids with Dyslexia. A Wikinews article should report about something that happened in news style, like you would read in a news paper. It should answer the who what when where and why. Your article tries to convince us to reconsider how we label dyslexia, which may or may not be a good idea, but its trying to convince of us something (which is what an editorial does) instead of trying to report the facts (What a wikinews article does). Well I think its great that you're helping dyslexic kids, this type of piece is more appropriate for a blog. Since you have a blog, everyone wins. :D
You might try http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Request_an_interview - but most times such requests go unfilled.
I don't think it was published because Wikinews is not a spammed article board. A quick google search lists the article on countless sites.
I wouldn't exactly phrase it like that, but wikinews articles should generally not simply be mirrors of content elsewhere (especially if the content is opinionated), but instead should add something new, either new information, or by combining information from multiple sources. The purpose of wikinews is to create new content, not to give pre-existing content more exposure
I would also recommend you read through http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:CG -- - bawolff Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:56 AM, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/03/2010, luqman michel luqmanm2002@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Dear Sir, I would be grateful if you could kindly let me know why my article "Dyslexia - A new perspective" was not published (deleted).
Just want to know why? Thank you and kind regards, Luqman Michel
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