I and I think many feel irritated, annoyed or shakes head at the little-no work in bringing articles, write-ups note from here and there into the forum raw as the saw it on the other site with out at least refining it with there own knowledge from it, knowing if its correct/of-help.
This is not my first time on this topic, I had made a topic about it
Try providing suggestions with summaryNewbies and low-rank member are to know that even if you can write out a whole article no matter how long it is from another site and hide under the canopy of putting the link, all the time then you not developing, it does not feel right.
We news on other site, also exciting articles, announcement,information on other site and think its going to be helpful here, thats good, but how we bring it makes it quality and better.
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Read it first to the end: some Newbie-low rank can get over excited by the first lines or paragraph and with that desire to do something/stamp a ground on the forum can make them overlook reading the article to its conclusion, you always must read the article first to the end before bringing it here, it will help you to understand it and helping in properly bringing it to us.
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find-out if its outdated: articles,news,information mad more get outdated and new ones that may counter that one are pushed in, so there is a probability you can at the time be reading an outdated one although still exciting and interesting and outdated article can cause confusing, so you check out for that.
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Probe the article: if the article is a guide, instructions or anything. You may want to probe it, if brought to the forum and no disclaimer then it exposes you, take-time to do this, know how actual it is.
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Highlight or portion the article: it does not feel write shipping the whole article to the forum, newbies you can learn from others how they bring-in articles to the forum. You can highlight or portion it bit by bit or direct to your portion of interest and break it down how you excited about it or understand it, it makes it even tidy,
But amongst all always put the link