news guidelines
To create a news story,
follow this link to submit a news story
Thanks for writing a news story! Feel free to contact a senior editor if you have any questions.
- Open Politics News Stories are licenced under the creative commons. CC-BY-SA
- You can snarf stories from wikinews and other creative commons licenced sites.
- Don't copy copyrighted news stories.
- You may paraphrase or refactor copyrighted news.
- You may quote sections of news stories if you provide a link to the original source.
Other guidelines:
- not quoting your sources is the best way to not impress senior editors.
- Firefox has a neat extension called Copy URL+ - try it.
- google toolbar has a spell checker for forms that works great with wiki. - try it.
- Show your work. Dump all your raw source material into version one of your page and then refactor, in your word processor if you like, starting with version two.
- Use a Canadian spellcheck please.