User talk:Daniel/Archive/1

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Contest

Have you seen my contest? ★MESSEDROCKER★ 12:21, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I'll have a look :) Daniel.Bryant 08:58, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Tea

☻ Someone has poured you tea ☺

 — Doldrums(talk) 09:02, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

:) Daniel.Bryant 11:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

new user

thanks for the heads-up. the user has not actually reverted, he's replaced one source by another, and i've little inclination to verify if the new source substantiates whatever the old one does (am supposed to be on a break...that isn't working out the way it shld). will leave it to other 'newsies to get that article to publication.  — Doldrums(talk) 14:03, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, fair call. Daniel.Bryant 11:27, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Your "vandalism" [*cough*]

In none of the five sources is written that it is the world largest helicopter but only of Russia. With the new link there are all the latest information written about the incident. Please stop to vandalize the page. --Wikiaccount1 11:21, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure you're wrong on this one - the most experienced active Wikinewser agrees with me.[1] Please don't call good faith edits vandalism. Daniel.Bryant 11:25, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

local news are news

Local news are news, even if Wikinews target more on World news. For example i never heard something called Ashes Test in Australia wins dramatic second Ashes Test. It's also local news Jacques Divol 14:41, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Not really...a annual cricket series watched by over 100 million people doesn't exactly qualify as "local news". Daniel.Bryant 02:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Nonetheless local news is allowed. ★MESSEDROCKER★ 02:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

it's CommonWealth centric POV Daniel, Cricket, BaseBall and American football are more or less unknown sports in France (we learned since sport tv channels came to us) . 60 millions people live in France. Jacques Divol 22:35, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Back onto the point, and that fire is still unsourced, hence no assertion of notability (suprise, suprise!). Daniel.Bryant 22:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

i don't understand what you mean here, sorry, Jacques Divol 10:12, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

redirect

weird.  — Doldrums(talk) 06:15, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Yep... Daniel.Bryant ^{[ T · C ]} 06:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Genius

Thanks for letting me know. I had left this message without seeing this previous discussion. guillom 16:59, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

No problems. Daniel.Bryant ^{[ T · C ]} 17:17, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

RE Archived article

Did I fix it right? DragonFire1024 09:43, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that's great, thanks. Daniel 10:08, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

mangled archive tags

the mangled archived tags were placed on a large number of articles during a bot-run. so individual editprotected requests on talk pages is not a particularly good way of asking for a fix. –Doldrums(talk) 05:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

What would you suggest? I can't fix them, because they're protected as archived stories. Daniel 05:35, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

best way i can think of is another bot-run. perhaps a note on WN:AAA or to Craig's Bot, which i think did the first run. –Doldrums(talk) 06:25, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Brian New Zealand springs to the rescue. –Doldrums(talk) 08:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

:) Thanks for the note, and thanks to BNZ (I thanked him on IRC before, but cross-posting regardless). Daniel 03:52, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Greetings!

Hello Mr Bryant. Nice to see you over here. I hope you're enjoying the long weekend. :) Thanks for saying hello! Take care Danny, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 07:15, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

:) Good to see you around these parts. Daniel 09:48, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: IRC

In the past I had a similar idea, which I don't have time for anymore: User:Stevenfruitsmaak/Goings-on. I think the idea for the blog was to report from the community for the outside world, who reads it on Planet Wikimedia and such. I recently added a license tag to the bottom of the blog, saying that all the stories are now under the same license as Wikinews, i.e. cc-by-2.5 with a credit to "Wikinews" so, of course you can use it, certainly as far as my material is concerned.

IRC doesn't seem to work okay for me, if you have further questions try MSN or possibly Skype.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 09:41, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I am confident that the blog has a different target audience to the Bulletin. Thank you for allowing your material to be used, as it has been :) Cheers, Daniel 09:47, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

The Wikinews Bulletin updated for June 11, 2007

The Wikinews Bulletin

June 11, 2007	The Wikinews Bulletin	Volume 1, Issue 1

From the editor: New Wikinews community newspaper established	Wikinews contributor Sean Heron at G8 summit, after issues with accreditation delays
Community mirror proposal for Google searches	Administrators and accreditations: May 28 — June 11
Cascading protection system created for archiving articles	Featured content: May 28 — June 11
Wikinews Weather Service BETA version established

Project news

The Wikinews Bulletin

June 11, 2007	The Wikinews Bulletin	Volume 1, Issue 2

Editor's note	Board elections turn political; Wikinews has candidate
Wikinews gets own OTRS queue	Administrators and accreditations: June 11 - June 26
Blog activity: June 11 - June 26	Featured content: June 11 - June 26
What did the Cabal discuss on IRC these past 2 weeks?	Bulletin Shorts

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 09:09, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikinews Bulletin Delivery

The Wikinews Bulletin

July 3, 2007	The Wikinews Bulletin	Volume 1, Issue 3

Editor's note	Wikinews popularity soars as result of Wikinews investigation
July 1 Mass Image Deletion	Administrators and accreditations: June 27 - July 3
Blog activity: June 27 - July 3	Featured content: June 27 - July 3
What did the Cabal discuss on IRC these past 2 weeks?	Bulletin Shorts

Delivered by your friendly neighboorood Thunderhead 08:50, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

I User:DaGizza, award Daniel this barnstar for his wonderful contributions and devotion to Wikinews!

I've also gone away for English Wikipedia. Guys over there tend to forget about the other wikis like news, books and Wiktionary. A fair number of the Indian Wikipedian community are unaware of Indian languages Wikis too. I'm glad to see you move away from "The Wiki." :) DaGizza 04:52, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

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"templated" Kingjeff

Oops, sorry. I didn't see your note about not giving him the "welcome" template. --SVTCobra 00:51, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

No problems, it's not a huge thing :) Daniel 00:54, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Questions Pages

Excellent idea, thanks for creating them in my temporary absence. :) Thunderhead - (talk) 04:10, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

:) Daniel 05:19, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

AFC Asian Cup: Saudi Arabia edge out Indonesia, Uzbekistan trounce Malaysia

Nice job on this one. I'm not a sports fan but it is well written. Reminds me of watching the Match of the Day reports on a Saturday afternoon as a kid. Would make good audio (hint, hint). --Brian McNeil / ^talk 11:33, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Ha ha, thanks. I've just recorded the article (the player names were ... interesting), and now have to convert and upload it :) Cheers, Daniel 00:16, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Speaking of which, I have no idea how to convert it...*asks around*. Daniel 00:18, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

What format did you record it in? When I did some audio wikinews I used Audacity, and I think I was able to write .ogg straight out of it. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 07:56, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ --Brian McNeil / ^talk 08:02, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Done, although I had to use a different program (Audacity didn't like my phone's format). I uploaded it to Commons, which posed the problem that Commons doesn't like colons in filenames, and changed it to a dash :| However, all done :) Daniel 09:42, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I recently had to convert some audio, and used http://media-convert.com/ -- it's an online converter for a ton of different file formats, and worked very well for me. -- IlyaHaykinson 17:38, 16 July 2007 (UTC)