User:Gryllida/OR

These are the templates that Gryllida (talk) uses for their original reporting. They include the signature, subject lines, body of the e-mail, and a note about species discovery. They are unofficial, but work well for me so far. Please feel free to use them in your work, or leave me a message if you can somehow improve these. Thank you, --Gryllida (talk) 01:27, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Email signature edit

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FIRST LAST
Volunteer reporter for Wikinews
http://www.wikinewsie.org http://www.wikinews.org
Email: first.last@wikinewsie.org

Email templates edit

Interview request edit

In an interview request, the email subject can be

Re: <Title of the existing publication here>
Interview for Wikinews: <Title of the existing publication here>

#1 edit

Dear X,

I'm considering publishing a news article at Wikinews about your study, please, see the attached document and fill in answers at your convenience.

Regards,
FIRST LAST

#2 edit

Dear X,

I'd like to interview you about your <description of work or discovery done> [1] for Wikinews, a part of the free Wikimedia movement [2]. Please see questions below.

1.
2.
3.
4.
...
Regards,
FIRST LAST

[1]: URL to publication
[2]: en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Mission_statement

#3 edit

Dear X,

I'd like to interview you about your <description of work or discovery done> [1] for Wikinews, a part of the free Wikimedia movement [2]. Please see questions attached.

Regards

FIRST LAST

[1]: URL to publication
[2]: en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Mission_statement

Images permission request for Wikimedia Commons OTRS edit

Dear X,

Could you please e-mail me, confirming that
- you took this photo and
- whether it can be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:<Image name here>

I would appreciate if you could quote and answer these two questions separately to make paperwork easier.

Regards,
FIRST LAST

Questions templates edit

New species discovery edit

# What prompted your curiosity in X?
# How was the new species discovered?
# Where does it live?
# What does it eat?
# What technology/equipment was involved/used in the study?
# What activities did the study involve?
# What was the study timeline? How long did it take?
# What were the roles of the people involved in the research? What activity was most time-consuming?
# Are there any further plans on exploring the species habitat and lifestyle?
# Do you have a photo of the new species, of equipment, people, lab?