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Hello

Please read the style guide or stop publishing your own work. You can tag it {{ready}} when you are finished and then it can be reviewed by an experienced editor. Cheers, --SVTCobra 15:34, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure I'm following what style guideline I was crossing. I eventually agreed that the last 3 lines were not very strongly related and could be omitted, but otherwise the article was in very good form. 77.127.253.51 17:43, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Jerusalem Post

Just because the Jerusalem Post does something doesn't mean we should do it. Cheers --SVTCobra 15:37, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

I fully understand your publishing concerns but cannot follow your knock at the w:Jerusalem Post. It is certainly common practice for high-quality journalistic sources to add images to their reports. However, if there is some special policy here at wikinews that I'm unaware of, I'd be most appreciative if you link to it. 77.127.253.51 17:40, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

No, it is not a knock on JP in particular. But you were saying that we should use pictures of mice to illustrate rats because JP did it. That makes no sense when we have perfectly good pictures of rats to illustrate the story. --SVTCobra 18:51, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

An illustration doesn't necessarily need to gross the reader and the lab-mice image was far better than the rat image you've replaced it with; both quality-wise and in relation to illustrating the story. Anyways, this is an editorial descision that I'm not going to argue, but I don't think you are more correct than I am on this one.

On a side note, I appreciate the clarification response and hope we'll see more eye to eye than not in the future. 77.127.253.51 20:47, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Nice is not a criteria. Rats and Mice are not the same species. Showing one when the article talks about the other is misleading. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 20:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Illustrations usually has an illustrative part to it. Such as showing a knife to illustrate a stabbing even though the weapon may have been a different sharp object. Anyways, as long as the knock isn't on the Jerusalem Post but on the issue of shown species, then we are ok, because the argument is much clearer than it was before. 77.127.253.51 20:58, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Showing a mouse in a rat story is like showing a knife in a gun story. It illustrates, but not very well. --SVTCobra 23:43, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Not many people differentiate rats from mice as the number of people who differntiate a gun from a knife. Anyways, I accepeted to compromise on this one without making a big fuss. 77.127.253.51 23:50, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Ynet

I left a question on the collaboration page of the Six year old girl story. Would you mind putting in your two sense since you started the article. The Mind's Eye (talk) 18:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the answer, and that part u added to the Obama prayer article, if u have a source that would be great, Thanks, The Mind's Eye (talk) 19:13, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh, the wailing wall material is just basic historical background. I think one of the articles referenced (I think it was Reuters) wrote something that it's holy to Judaism while noting the dates in which both previous temples were destroyed. This made me realize that the info is very much missing from the article. Btw, I couldn't find the supposed publishing on the NRG/Maariv website, but seeing Reuters published the letter, I'm assuming the story is correct... and very saddening that someone the people involved were so immoral to do such a deed. 77.127.253.51 19:21, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

I agree completely it is a violation in so many ways. On the 200 prisoners article can we translate that name and the Authors name into english for formatting purposes? It messes up the template format. The Mind's Eye (talk) 19:32, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Heyo

Source for verification of these new numbers? Cirt (talk) 19:16, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Ynet changed the text and title in their article. 77.127.253.51 19:20, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

No worries about how u sounded, I responded on the talk page. The Mind's Eye (talk) 20:07, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Done with a addition from both of us. I found a Time source, and thought that that was reference enough. The Mind's Eye (talk) 16:30, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Create an account?

Though of creating an account? There's more stuff you could do (such as moving pages) and If you needed any help you could just let me know or someone else would be willing to help out. Cirt (talk) 19:26, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

I'll think about it. Any other advantages other than page moving? What would I need to do in orther to be able to give some input regarding wikinews lead articles? Page moves is not appealing enough at this point in time. 77.127.253.51 19:29, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Well you would also be able to edit pages that are semi-protected. Cirt (talk) 19:35, 26 July 2008 (UTC)