News Submission Guidelines - Revision history

Debresser: Add bold.

2016-01-24T20:05:16Z

Add bold.

Debresser: /* Help keep the news page maintained */ Add about archives.

2016-01-24T20:04:25Z

‎Help keep the news page maintained: Add about archives.

Winston: eventually, I will get the link right

2006-10-04T11:27:14Z

eventually, I will get the link right

Winston at 11:26, 4 October 2006

2006-10-04T11:26:36Z

Winston at 11:26, 4 October 2006

2006-10-04T11:26:08Z

New page

The Frontier WikiNews is a place where you can easily post anything news worthy in the Elite scene - from projects, to news of new fiction being written, to a Breadbin sighting. However, to keep the news page clean, please follow these guidelines when submitting your scoop.

== Formatting ==

Formatting is very easy - it only needs a couple of bits of wiki markup.

To title your article, use the Wiki 'double equals' (example: <nowiki>== Some news article ==</nowiki>) for your headline, then write the article beneath. Then sign the article at the bottom by just typing four tilde characters (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>) so we all know who it's from.

New news articles should be put at the top of the page, so the newest appears first.

== Keep it brief! ==

The [[Frontier News WikiNews]] page should have a concise summary of each news article - a couple of paragraphs at the most. If you want to write a longer article - for example, an editorial or discussion piece, create a separate page for the main article. Then write a brief summary on the main page with a link to the main article. If you do this, don't forget to put it in the category News so it can easily be found if it's a pure news or editorial item.

== Help keep the news page maintained ==

If there's more than ten articles on the news page, cut and paste the oldest ones into the [[Older News]] page to stop the front page from becoming too long.

== If you see spam or other abuse ==

Revert the page in the normal way - go to the page history, select the last good version of the news page from the history, then hit Edit and Save Page (without changing anything). Make a note in the edit summary that you've reverted the page to get rid of spam or other abuse.

[[Category:News]]

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 If there's more than ten articles on the news page, cut and paste the oldest ones into a Wikinews Archive page.
-Present archives:
+'''Present archives:'''
 * [[Wikinews Archive 1]]
 * [[Wikinews Archive 2]]

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 == Keep it brief! ==
-The [[Frontier WikiNews]] page should have a concise summary of each news article - a couple of paragraphs at the most. If you want to write a longer article - for example, an editorial or discussion piece, create a separate page for the main article. Then write a brief summary on the main page with a link to the main article. If you do this, don't forget to put it in the category News so it can easily be found if it's a pure news or editorial item.
+[[The Frontier WikiNews]] page should have a concise summary of each news article - a couple of paragraphs at the most. If you want to write a longer article - for example, an editorial or discussion piece, create a separate page for the main article. Then write a brief summary on the main page with a link to the main article. If you do this, don't forget to put it in the category News so it can easily be found if it's a pure news or editorial item.
 == Help keep the news page maintained ==

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 == Help keep the news page maintained ==
-If there's more than ten articles on the news page, cut and paste the oldest ones into the [[Older News]] page to stop the front page from becoming too long.
+If there's more than ten articles on the news page, cut and paste the oldest ones into a Wikinews Archive page.
 == If you see spam or other abuse ==