Cllewr

Welcome

Cllewr, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes (~~~~), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! Dan100 (Talk) 20:46, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Fair use

Hi there!

I had to delete Image:Terri Schiavo.jpg, as it lacked a proper fair use tag. I recognized it as an image that was frequently used on CNN; as such, it is almost certainly not legal for us to use it as fair use (the context is competitive). Wikinews distinguishes between free media (under free licenses) which can be uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons, using the "Upload free media" link, and fair use media, which can be uploaded locally. However, fair use is very limited; the list of exceptions where we allow it can be found at Wikinews:Fair use. Generally, when it comes to images from other websites, when in doubt, it's generally best not to upload them, or Wikinews could get in trouble for violating copyrights. Thanks,--Eloquence 04:25, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: WN remix jingle

See (here)

Hi. Sorry about the delay in replying... Yes, I created the remix myself - I've uploaded it to here. :) --Malfidus 16:28, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

News Contest

Fellow judge, I could use your input on how to handle an issue that has come up, at the "Judge's Forum" section here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:International_Wikinews_Writing_Contest

Thanks, StuRat 13:22, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Help !

Note to other English-language judges: I feel I am doing a disproportionate amount of the judging of English-language articles. Ideally, I would like to see all judges render an opinion on all articles in their language. I will not be doing any judging today, so could especially use some help now. Also, please respond to the issues I have raised on previous dates in the Judge's Forum:

• m:Talk:International_Wikinews_Writing_Contest#Sept_3

• m:Talk:International_Wikinews_Writing_Contest#Sept_7

• m:Talk:International_Wikinews_Writing_Contest#Sept_8

• m:Talk:International_Wikinews_Writing_Contest#Sept_10

PS: I saw your disclaimer about not being able to spend much time judging, but any little bit would help.

StuRat 14:23, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Nintendo unveils controller for Revolution console

Hey, I noticed your substantial edit on it, and I would like to thank you for it. However, I noticed you removed the picture of the controller itself. What was your motivation in doing so? Be sure to reply on my talk page. Messedrocker 18:18, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

I know, I'm on #wikinews and I heard about how the pictures weren't from Nintendo's site, so they couldn't qualify. I reuploaded a picture, this time, from Nintendo's site. Messedrocker 19:03, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Adminship?

Would you be opposed to my nominating you for adminship? - Amgine / ^talk 21:07, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

<grin> You have been nominated! You'll need to accept your nomination on the page, and thanks for volunteering! - Amgine / ^talk 21:50, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

News briefs

Hey there! Great job on your latest Brief. On the transcript page, could you please include [[Category:Brief]] on all new brief pages? Without it, they get caught in the Developing box, and well - they kind of irritate some users there.  :). Thanks. --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 20:40, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you big time for the edits on US state of Kansas in battle over "Intelligent Design" in education! --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 21:26, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Image:Google Print.gif

File:Google Print.gif Do you mind if i delete this, it doesn't seem that useful? Bawolff ☺☻ 23:32, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Now an Admin

Congratulations you are now an Admin :) --Cspurrier 22:50, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

w00t! <so oblivious I missed this at the time...> Congratulations! - Amgine 23:35, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Congrats you can now add yourself to the wonderfull category:Admin. So wonderfull that half the admins don't use it. ☻ Geuss thats what special:listusers/SysOp is for. Congrats. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:53, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Rfda

This is a message to inform you that I have added every administrator to the Rfda section on WN:A. This is not personal and I feel as if the community, who did not have the option of voting for or against most of the administrators, should be able to choose who they want to be in charge. I also want to say that I value everyones work on this site and I know that everyone does their best. I hope that none of you will take this personally and I hope that all of us will continue to work together. Jason Safoutin 12:10, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

New Policy has users up in smoke

Hello. I am not sure if you check this page anymore, but I thought you might be interested as to what is going on here at Wikinews: Wikinews:Image use policy/New wikimedia policy action plan. I am outraged as well as others...do you have an opinion? DragonFire1024 09:49, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

RFDA

Please note i have put you up for de-admining at Wikinews:Administrators --MarkTalk to me 18:01, 9 May 2008 (UTC)