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Original reporting of court cases

I was consdering covering some court cases by physically attending the hearing and taking notes. I have had a look at the OR page but was a little confused: (1) Are OR notes alone sufficient for an article to be published or is it necessary to get an interview or make contact with primary sources? I likely wouldn't have any sources other than my notes since contacting trial participants may be difficult or impossible due to contempt of court, lawyer-client confidentiality, etc. (2) Is there anything in particular I should take notes on if I am covering a court case? QuantumControl (talk) 15:34, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

"[E]very article must have multiple sources contacted behind-the-scenes." Wikinews:Original_reporting#Talking_to_sources

Make note of who you contact and when. If they don't respond, note that as well.

If they respond, the onus is on you to fact-check their response. Also remember to introduce yourself as an independent journalist not representing Wikinews.

Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 15:57, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Category to populate

As I have done previously, I created Category:Stevie Wonder and am asking an admin to help me populate it:

• Obama's Inaugural Celebration "We are One" attracts 400,000
• Stevie Wonder to perform pre-game show for Superbowl XL
• Live 8 concerts around the world to "End Poverty Now"
• Live 8 concert plans announced

Additionally, in the last article, "PINK FLOYD" is shouted at us. I know we're hesitant to edit old articles that have been reviewed and published, but can this be changed to "Pink Floyd"?

Thanks.

Additionally, do admins here think it's worth my and the community's time to go thru the process of asking to be an admin? I ask because I don't like introducing this overhead to admins when I make a new category, but I am also not as active a user here as the existing admins tend to be. As you can see from my edits, I am involved in fighting spam and vandalism as I see it and I have been a productive member of the community for several years, even if I dip in and out at times. I'm open to any thoughts about if it's worth the effort to apply. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:48, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Well, simple question: Do you want to be an Administrator here?--Bddpaux (talk) 16:20, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Disputed?

Develop tag can we remove if it's tagged for deletion? Thnx BigKrow (talk) 22:58, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

I suppose, yes.--Bddpaux (talk) 15:54, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Scoop??

Is anyone checking Scoop??--Bddpaux (talk) 15:55, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I suppose we can take that as a resounding "no." -- 64.229.15.199 (talk) 00:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

I don't think I actually 'archived' properly......

Can someone look at/please fix my error?
Wikinews:Featured article candidates
....and: Thanks!!--Bddpaux (talk) 16:19, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I need my own draft space or sandbox please

Since I'm currently on mobile and doesn't want to flood recent changes thank you very much. BigKrow (talk) 18:59, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

You can edit User:BigKrow/sandbox any time. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:16, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you lots!!! BigKrow (talk) 20:49, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Mathpoints.net

User (last digits of IP = 138) is vandalizing, inserting this URL into source URL's. XE is currently blocked for a bit. We will see how things evolve down the road behaviorally.--Bddpaux (talk) 18:23, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

On the future etc.

I will keep this brief -- I'm very busy. A little while back, I pretty much stepped away from this project and then recently came back pretty hard. I am not a young man. I am not elderly, but I am certainly not young either. Time is a valuable commodity to me. While it might be lofty to think this place will run like a news organization, it isn't too out there to think it could run like a solid news project. I have been deeply involved here for roughly 16 years or so. We've had some VERY SMART people ensconced here over the years -- two of them have left this world. We've had professors, undergrad. students, grad. students etc. etc. .....not to mention people from every other walk of life one could imagine. But, let me put down what my future plans look like around here: Put succinctly, I will be focusing my attention largely on 2 actions here in the near future..... Reviewing and developing Reviewers. I will do a pinch of Admin. work around here (and thank God for the people who pretty much only do Admin. work here), but we have absolutely GOT TO develop some Reviewers around this place. I get angry when people call English Wikinews 'a failure' -- I mean, which kind of yard stick are they using, to begin with? Whatevs...... We absolutely MUST re-focus on the core principles of what we are here to do: Report the news. Please think long and hard about how you can further that focus. We need reporters and reviewers. What can you do to make that happen? At the end of this year, I will deeply consider my future here. Let's do some good work. Citizen Journalism matters in this world.--Bddpaux (talk) 16:42, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Agreed and I really appreciate the hard work of anyone who has contributed, but to answer your rhetorical question, Wikinews is a failure to the extent that someone using this site would not really be informed about what's going on in the world or in his world (if we are talking local news), which is the goal of a news outlet. Since wikis are dynamic, they can change at any time and we could have some insurgence of great reportage and competent editing that makes this a go-to outlet for news. Probably not, tho. I continue to contribute here and I continue to believe in this platform for citizen journalism, but let's be real here: after 20 years, it's actually declined from when it was most active and vibrant and there is no clear path to having a stable group of editors doing reporting that could leave someone reasonably well-informed about current affairs any time soon. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:18, 22 April 2024 (UTC)