I took a look at the talk page for the article you wrote; you didn't note in your earlier message that your article was actually failed because you didn't provide the notes that they're looking for, and because they wanted someone with a familiarity with Japanese to review the Japanese sources. To be fair to Pi zero, that's not quite the same thing as "It can't be published because it happened in a foreign country."
Pi zero and Mikemoral, the two reviewers who looked at your article, both agreed with you that Wikinews has a reviewer-availability problem. Pi zero explained in some detail why an article with foreign language sources might languish; I didn't see you offer alternatives for how the minimum quality of an article can be verified before it goes live if there is no one available to verify it who speaks the language of the source. That may not seem like a very wiki-like policy, but Wikinews has some legitimate reasons for doing it that way. It's possible the problem is insurmountable, as others have suggested, but claiming to mount a relentless campaign for apologies and user-rights is possibly not the best way of communicating that message. Finally... Edit-warring with an administrator on a policy page is, on Wikinews as on most WMF wikis, a good way to get blocked. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
