First, whom ever is list modding needs to ban hammer both these users for socking. I know it is a mailing list, but it is very obvious it is the same person. Second. I deleted that "article" because it isn't a news story. If it were anything, it would be an editorial, which we don't accept. Go spam it somewhere else, -Jon On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:04, Ron Cannon <rcannon2(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Jon [[User:ShakataGaNai]] / KJ6FNQ http://photo.snowulf.com/ - Buy a pic, feed a photog. http://snowulf.com/

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 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(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry for the confusion. We're not accusing you of spamming in general, we're pointing out that anything that is posted to Wikinews must be *news*. As in, a factual representation of events that have happened in the past 3 days. Nothing older than 3 days is accepted (it's not news if it isn't new), and editorials are not considered news. Anything that doesn't qualify as news is considered spam and deleted, even if it isn't posted with ill intent. If a significant event happens in (or to) the dyslexia community then you could write a news article about that event on Wikinews... as long as the significant event was less than 3 days old. A significant event would be something like a new medical discovery about dyslexia, or (potentially) even a large conference about dyslexia. But editorials or personal anecdotes will never be accepted on Wikinews. That simply isn't what the site is for. That's what blogs are for. Thank you for your interest in Wikinews. I hope that this encounter hasn't soured your opinion of us or our site. gopher65 -------------------------------------------------- From: "Luqman Michel" <luqmanm2002(a)yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 7:36 PM To: <wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Dyslexia - A new perspective