Club2007

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Your articles

Hello and thank you for your contributions to Wikinews! Just a note that if you want to write stub articles this would be a great place to start. If you have any questions please direct them to my talk page. —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 20:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Re:WikiCheck

Lol. But I would really love to get paid! Especially from Thunderhead: the userpage copyright violator! —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 19:38, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Pre-emptive edit-conflict/war

Ello ello, I saw you capiitalised Missing airplane may been found, and I undid that and made the title better as well. Now, to avoid you changing it and creating nasty edit wars I tend to be good at attracting (see my talk page) I'm going to go ahead and say: At WN, only first words and proper nouns are capitalised. Thanks for your time. Neebs 23:14, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Here's that policy, for reference. Wikinews:Style_guide#Headlines Neebs 23:17, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

In regards to your comment about upstyle titles. we had a poll at the beginning to decide which type to use. the results were in favour of down-style. Note some other news sources also do that. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:31, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

It was when wikinews started (2, 3 years ago?, not sure). But actually concensuss wasn't exactly clear, so there may be room for another poll (I believe the most important thing is consistancy either way) anyways here it is: Wikinews:Capitalization poll . Bawolff ☺☻ 00:36, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, it ended on Jan 21, 2005, which was around 3 months after the project started. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:38, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to start one (Wikinews:Capitalization poll/2 (there was not a clear concensss at the first one anyways.) Make sure to list it at Wikinews:Polls and put the words {{poll}} on it. It may be better though to discuss it on a more wide basis with the site first (Voting is evil) at WN:WC, but that's your choice. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:41, 4 February 2007 (UTC)