On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 14:08 +0000, Tristan Thomas wrote: > I agree that long stories are good, but also remember that it's very > good if we can get lots of stories out so that when people come to > Wikinews, they see, "Oh yes, that story is covered here; it's not some > amateur, crappy, hit-and-miss news website". > > On the other hand, we're no different if we don't have anything of our > own! > > But hey, 30 articles in a day is pretty damn good. Anyone fancy some > sweepstakes for the final competition total?!
As expected, activity has tailed off today. And, regrettably, there's a lot of sign-ups who've not put anything in yet. My key objection to the bare-minimum articles is they will encourage people to go elsewhere for details. Next, I'd like to raise a few points I keep seeing when copyediting. * Monday was yesterday - use the latter, not the former. * At least 8 times out of 10 the word "that" can be omitted. * Active voice invariably reads better. * The narrative has to be coherent; yes, you may draw from what several sources identify as different stories, but make it clear how it is all interrelated. * It is "BBC News Online"; look at the Wikipedia page this links to for the justification for this pet hate of mine. -- Brian McNeil <[email protected]> Wikinewsie.org
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