Caverbrien

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Lantern festival article

Welcome to Wikinews! Thanks for creating Lantern Festival in Taipei lights up the night, we appreciate articles like this. This article appears to be what Wikinews calls original reporting. Wikinews articles must cite sources for all assertions they make. In the case of original reporting, you are the source. The way we usually deal with this is for you to place a comment on the article talk page, stating who you are, what your relationship is to the story you are covering, and describing the nature of the reporting (i.e. interviewing, taking notes, observing events, etc). You should also read Wikinews:Original reporting.

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Image:Lantern festival.jpg

Hi, (I'm assuming you took this image yourself) Image:Lantern festival.jpg needs to have a freer copyright. Its currently tagged as breaking news situation, which is okay especially considering you took it. However for the long term it needs to have a free license. Basicly that allows other people to use that image for other things. How much permission do you want to give others?For example do you want to:

• Allow them to do whatever they want, without giving you credit
• do whatever, but must give you credit
• Do what ever, give you credit, and make sure that if they modify it, that they allow anyone to do whatever they want with thoose modifications
• Some other combination (Theres lots of others).

Bawolff ☺☻ 00:31, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I see you said, cc-by-2.5. Good choice. You may want to be specific about who you want attribution for. I assume you want it for your username, however some people want it to be attributed to their real name, or directly to wikinews. If you want one of those, please tell me. Thanks Bawolff ☺☻ 07:34, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

please check your commons talk page. onw of your images may be deleted. Bawolff ☺☻ 08:05, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

you have fans: http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Lantern_Festival_in_Taipei_lights_up_the_night/Comments Bawolff ☺☻ 01:16, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Adding sources

Please use this template when adding sources: *{{source|url=|title=|author=|pub=|date=}}. Also please read the welcome message above on how to make articles such as Wikinews:Style guide and Wikinews:Writing an article. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 14:48, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi!

Thanks for your contributions. Are you a police officer? I sort of assumed so from the notes you took on Fatal fall in Yellowstone National Park. irid t i e 03:39, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

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Yes I work as a Ranger for half the year in YNPCaverbrien 03:43, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Only on WikiNews.... Eat that, traditional media! :-) --Kim Bruning 03:53, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Fantastic work

Thanks for the great work on Fatal fall in Yellowstone National Park. I added a couple images to the article, and feel free to change them around. So you know, you can find very good images on the Wikimedia Commons. They can be directly included here, by finding their image name (top of the image page, such as Image:filename.png), and using code like this:

[[Image:filename.png|thumb|right|200px|Insert Caption Here]]

The third value(right) can be either right or left, and the next is the size (in pixels), good sizes are 150 or 200, but it can be different based on where you are using it. The caption can contain almost anything, except the | character.

Enjoy! Matt | ^userpage | ^contribs 05:18, 2 October 2007 (UTC)