User talk:FellowWikiNews/Archive 6

image of Andre Boisclair (Image:André Boisclair.jpg)

Has been deleted several times at commons, and the admins there haven't been notifying you like they should. In short, they claim its all rights reserved, which this page tends to agree with. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:39, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Consider also images in this category

Boobs

It seems yet agian our concerns are ignored. Tags were removed when they were placed WITH merit. Personally, I do not want to be part of wikinews if we are going to look like amyspace blog. DragonFire1024 19:30, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

And I readded the tag and noted that nothing was resolved in the article dispite the addition of cleanup. DragonFire1024 20:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Personally, I liked the "putting a link to the images on commons" idea but it was reverted. —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 17:59, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks much for the help =) i liked it very much. i got another news story. pretty funny one at that ill try working on it soon it would be great if you help me out a bit on it too =)Maverick423 16:39, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

If you spend a couple of months writing for Wikinews, you will be a pro at writing news articles. So, keep writing! —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 17:10, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey

The news story i just made is here =) i talked about it on the water cooler that there is no links as of yet so i guess it makes me the original author =) please fix it if you can and tell me what you think of it. I hope my skills are improving a bit. [1] Also you tricked me =( =P but ill get you back Maverick423 18:18, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

wikiholic

dont worry - admittance is good!!--Markie_Talk 18:59, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I need to go to the WikiHospital :P —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 19:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Could i also ask you to delete some of the abandoned articles as some of them are weeks old and there is a a huge list of them on the front page (not quite as big as the developments list though!!). thanks --Markie_Talk 19:04, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok. —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 19:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Yup get your head fixed and cheers!--Markie_Talk 19:07, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

• lol. —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 19:08, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Flags in sigs

I have removed the flags from all my signatures, with two exceptions. Talk:Jimmy Wales asks Wikipedian to resign "his positions of trust" over nonexistent degrees and a post made on WN:RFA which is now in archives. Sorry for the breach in policies. (/me passes the tea) terinjokes | Talk 21:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

No problem :) —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 00:24, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Red links

Yeah cheers for that - not sure why it happened but it's gone now--MarkieTalk 17:36, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Tea

Thanks for the tea comment - aprriciate it!--MarkieTalk 17:39, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikinews:Requested articles

Hiya, just wanted to ask you to make sure that your new format gets to Template:New page/tip.  Thunderhead  ►  01:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Done —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 03:14, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Nice additions to article!

Hello FWN. Thanks for the additions to the Elizabeth May article the other day. Great stuff! Cheers, Jcart1534 11:03, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I got the information from Wikipedia. You also did a great job on creating the article! Good work. —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 19:34, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Welcome

hi thanks for the welcome but i am actually the ip of another user here. thanks anyway --86.136.226.58 17:26, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

What user are you on Wikinews? —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 19:24, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

ah now that would be telling :-). no it's markie.--86.136.226.58 19:26, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Then you should login. BTW, thanks for the welcome! —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 19:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

That's fine, every new user gets one!!:-) Yeah i should login but sometimes (esp for simple reverts) i can't be bothered!--MarkTalk 19:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Lol. —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 19:32, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Archives/Guidelines

Your archive and guideline sections at the top of this page are broken. I suspect this is related to the breaking of the dynamic boxes on the front page. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 17:29, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I will temporarily add a list to my archives separately on my talk page. But I still don't understand why the dynamic boxes arn't working...strange. —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 19:26, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

wikinews ads

Great job with the advertisements. However from a format point of view they're better as png's as jpeg compression results in bad quality for anything that's not a photo. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:27, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok. Do you want me to re-upload them as png? —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 02:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Well probably doesn't matter very much, as you can't really see any quality loss, but just something to keep in mind for the future. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Any future ads will be in png. Thanks for the info. —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 02:13, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

countries

im bored today, hehe what can i say (:O) -Nima Baghaei (talk) 19:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok, but mabie the countries with no articles should not have an infobox? —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 19:55, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I create them now so people do not have to create them in the future, especially if they are new to wikinews and would like to use one for a news article they may want to write, i feel its better to be ready for the future (:O) -Nima Baghaei (talk) 19:57, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok. Just try not to mix up LocationAntiguaAndBarbuda.png with all of the infoboxes! :) —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 19:59, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

• yah i know haha! i didnt even notice that i did that until afterwards (:OP (:O) -Nima Baghaei (talk) 20:00, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

HeHe. —FellowWikiNews (W) (sign here!) 20:01, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Breaking news - Liberal minority government re-elected in Quebec

Hello FWN. Glad to help. What would you like me to concentrate on? Jcart1534 02:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, It would be great if you could help me write the article and add the results :) I seen the OLG article you created -well writen and reporting that Wikinews strives for! —FellowWikiNewsie (sign here!) 02:53, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Thanks for your help. —FellowWikiNewsie (sign here!) 19:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome! Jcart1534 22:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Quit?

You Quit? Why? DragonFire1024 21:26, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

April fool's

pls see Wikinews:Water cooler/miscellaneous#April fool's. –Doldrums(talk) 04:03, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Car radio story

Sorry, no email on that so I guess it is DR time. I tried to help rescue the story, perhaps someone needs to keep a log of lost stories and the minor things like this (an email) that would help us keep them. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 21:18, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Foundation letter

Please see: User:DragonFire1024/DRAFT: Open-letter to foundation-1 mailing list on why this image policy Will Hurt Wikinews edit it add it clarify it or whatever...then sign your name if you like. DragonFire1024 04:56, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

admin

cheers for that--MarkTalk 21:13, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Opener

Hey FellowWikiNews,

You can see the video without needing an account at the porject's blog - http://videowikinews.spaces.live.com/

thanx

--Symode09 23:33, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. —FellowWikiNewsie 19:42, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

ticker

Whilst your online could i get you view on this. Thanks --MarkTalk 19:37, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Coud you check the q i just left on the bots page please. Cheers --MarkTalk 19:46, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

What's a "q i"?? —FellowWikiNewsie 19:49, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

sorry should be ...the question i just.... --MarkTalk 19:56, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, we should use the bot from de.'pedia. —FellowWikiNewsie 19:59, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Right ok just to clarify. --MarkTalk 20:00, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikinews on YouTube

I have made a small trailer for the Wikinews Video 2.0. It is only a promo. Tell me what you think :) DragonFire1024 21:31, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

It's really cool. But mabie we could use the music from Wikinews:Broadcast/Soundtrack instead. —FellowWikiNewsie 23:20, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Changing Accounts

Sure can do! I don't know how to change my account from User:Raccoon Fox to User:RingtailedFox, though. Raccoon Fox 23:52, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikinews:Changing username should let you. Thanks!  Thunderhead  ►  23:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Shorts for April 8

I removed "The soldiers will be remembered at the 90th anniversary of the battle of Vimy Ridge."

It is not the sources and is likely information that is after the story came out. --SVTCobra 00:00, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

RE Video

I am not likeing the current beat to the old WN theme song...IMO not newsie enough...but thats just me. DragonFire1024 03:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

superportal

Try going to user:Bawolff/Sandbox/superportal again.(after hard refresh). you copied the wrong part to special:mypage/monobook.js (I've fixed it now). Bawolff ☺☻ 00:45, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't work. —FellowWikiNewsie 18:16, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Did you do a hard refresh?, define not working. does it give you instruftions to install some javascript. Also what skin are you using? Bawolff ☺☻ 22:55, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I did do a hard refresh. I'm using the Datrio+MrM skin. —FellowWikiNewsie 19:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Video Wikinews

Since Brian has enough on his hands and you are another Admin that is aware of the Symode issue, I'll refer this to you. Please look at the following exchange I had with with him about copyright: Behold The Wikinews Player. It refers to this external link [2] Thanks, --SVTCobra 23:28, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

After reading WN:EDP I feel that the wikinews image used on the website is an issue but not a big deal. I think the real issue here is the trustworthyness of the user. —FellowWikiNewsie 00:27, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Umm, WN:EDP is an internal policy for wikinews. Its not the law. (Although wether or not that site is okay is debatble, but i feel that he did it in good faith as a semi-private demo) Bawolff ☺☻ 02:18, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

If you say so, but I felt that it jeopardizes the wikifoundation by putting Wikinews insignia on an obvious infringement of copyright. BTW it is not an just image, but an entire comedy routine taped for some television program. --SVTCobra 00:59, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Could you please log on to the Wikinews IRC channel for further discussion? Thanks. —FellowWikiNewsie 01:06, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Santa arrest image

I have no nominated for deletion at WN:DR. Bawolff ☺☻ 17:52, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

lead synopsis

where'd u get the "Thousand of inmates have escaped" bit? i removed it as it appears to be unsourced or incorrect. –Doldrums(talk) 20:39, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Thousands of inmates do live at the New Castle Correctional Facility so I thought I would add it to the lead. —FellowWikiNewsie 20:43, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

CNN says 1600, so less than 2000 and therefore not thousands. also, i see no reports that they've "escaped". from what i can make out, they're all still in the prison, a danger only to themselves and whoever goes in there. we need to be careful about stuff like this. u can imagine the reaction of someone in the area who's told that thousands of prisoners have escaped from the prison and later finds out, that that's not quite the case. –Doldrums(talk) 20:48, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Whoops. I was mislead after reading the article. —FellowWikiNewsie 20:50, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

hmmm...anyway, it got fixed quickly, and that's the important thing. –Doldrums(talk) 20:52, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Stephen McNeil becomes leader of the Nova Scotia Liberals

Great job! Could you please put OR notes on the talk page? Thanks! —FellowWikiNewsie 15:52, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually, the story is by a university student, not me. Full notes on talk page of article. -- Zanimum 18:11, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Block impersonator

A request from meta, to block a user for impersonation of a Wikiquote administrator. Please see [3]. —Zachary ^talk 23:26, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Done. The IP in charge of this vandalism, [4], was blocked indef on both Wikinews and Wikiquote. —FellowWikiNewsie 23:31, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Peoples

I see you created Category:Ed Stelmach, all the categories you drop it into should have [[Category:Ed Stelmach|Stelmach Ed]], the bit after the bar instructs the wiki with a sort key, without it the category will appear under E on politicians and so on. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 08:47, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Or you could use {{DEFAULTSORT:Stelmach Ed}} which will automatically do it for every category. Bawolff ☺☻ 08:53, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Right. I will do it with all "my precious" categories :D —FellowWikiNewsie 01:04, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

My Precious.............. haha :) —Zachary ^talk 01:06, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Changing username.

Thanks for the heads up. --Remi 22:31, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the support

Thanks for supporting my article on the Russian forces anniversary, I cut it back trying to work by consensus, but I too though it was decent, thanks for the support, and back up it goes.

cheers. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rz350 (talk • contribs) 00:00, 8 May 2007

Heh...the more information you add to any article, the better it gets :-) —FellowWikiNewsie 00:55, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Journalists page

see talk. –Doldrums(talk) 12:05, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Block

Oops... my fault, last block I dealt with was an IP. Sorry!  Thunderhead  ►  01:14, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Also, why did you block User:24.124.3.1 with an expiry time of 1 year? His edit was long ago. (last year I think but it seems he has no contributations.) —FellowWikiNewsie 01:24, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

The edits were reverted, and shouldn't show up on Special:Contributions/24.124.3.1.  Thunderhead  ►  02:30, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Why did you block him for one year?? Why not three or six months? —FellowWikiNewsie 18:23, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Re: Block

The person revealed personal information (e.g. phone number) about someone, and I have no oversight.  Thunderhead  ►  21:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I know that... —FellowWikiNewsie 22:05, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm re-blocking for three months, contact me if you disagree :)  Thunderhead  ►  22:07, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmm. On Wikipedia the IP was blocked for 6 months. We should do the same, imo. —FellowWikiNewsie 22:12, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

status changer

Thats cool. You may want to also merge it with template:online. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:24, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks :) Currently it's not working for me so I'll have to experiment a bit later when I have some time. —FellowWikiNewsie 22:27, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

oh, thats prpobably because when you link to somewhere with an interwiki prefix in the title of the url, the raw part of the url is ignored. (this would break the way you're transcluding the scripts from wikipedia). For example, compare http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=w:User:Topaz/wputil.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript vs http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Topaz/wputil.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript Bawolff ☺☻ 22:38, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

template:abandoned

I've made some changes to it. Thoughts? Bawolff ☺☻ 05:03, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

I deleted deprected beside template:abandoned. I think both ways are okay...{{subst:aband}} automatically puts the date for you, {{abandoned|May 20, 2007}} doesn't. —FellowWikiNewsie 19:48, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Changing the sidebar

I believe you were looking in the wrong place. See MediaWiki:Sidebar if you want to change this further. :) —Zachary ^talk 21:54, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Also, I tried to add random page to MediaWiki:Monobook.js but it's not working. Your help with that also would be appreciated. —FellowWikiNewsie 22:06, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I've just done that. Works great too! Nice to read some random news once in a while. :) —Zachary ^talk 00:13, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Chat login

Hi

Could you tell me what was wrong with the chat login page please and ill try and fix it?? Thanks --MarkTalk 21:08, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I seen you replace the wikizine chat to http://wnirc.awardspace.com/, I clicked on it and wanted to try it out so I typed in my IRC name "FellowWikiNews", after I logged out but when I clicked on the url again it showed my IRC username. When I do a hard refresh (ctrl-r) it quickly refreshes to "Wikinewsie???" then my name "FellowWikiNews" appears again. Please fix it!! —FellowWikiNewsie 21:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm i have tried it again and atm i cant get it to replicate the error. Thanks for letting me know and i will try and fix it tommorrow. Cheers and goodnight!! --MarkTalk 21:20, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

• It's fixed now. —FellowWikiNewsie 23:19, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Opinion?

Hello FWN. I see that you are online. If you have time, could you please look at China warns US on trade and offer your thoughts on the neutrality of the article? It has been disputed on the Talk page, although the article doesn't seem too biased to me. The user is new and I would like to encourage him. Thanks, Jcart1534 18:09, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Stress

Hello, I was wondering how you can adjust your stress level —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Agwin12193 (talk • contribs) 18:52, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

See Commons:Wikistress. —FellowWikiNewsie 14:06, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: POTD

Replied here: Wikinews:Water_cooler/proposals#POTD. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:39, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

IRC cloak request

I am FellowWikiNews on freenode and I would like the cloak wikinews/FellowWikiNews. Thanks. —FellowWikiNewsie 02:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Template talk:Featured picture

Hi FellowWikiNews,

I've noticed that you don't have a lot of time, but still, I'd like you to have a look at the page and share your thoughts. I've added your name as a participant since you previously showed interest in the project, remove it if I've been too bold there. Anyway I've listed some candidates and I was hoping that you could join in updating the template if you have time... Make sure to put the page on your watchlist!

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 12:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

No problem...I will vote on images and update them from time to time, but I will not be active on the project all the time. —FellowWikiNewsie 19:44, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

That's not needed. Thanks!--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

U.S. President Bush responds to Russian criticism

Thus far, my contributions have been limited to technical/styling issues, such as links and use of templates. If you can point out some of the NPOV criticism, I would be more than happy to take a look at them. --SVTCobra 00:15, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I asked you because I thought you could help me with the NPOV issue in the first sentence (which I thought were obvious), and I see that you edited it. It looks much better. —FellowWikiNewsie 00:39, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I have softened some of the words in the article. I have also added my own criticism to the talk page. However, it seems factually correct (relying on the sources of course). --SVTCobra 00:38, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Well you didn't really think that you could notify me of this without me giving it at least a once-over, did you? --SVTCobra 00:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

The words "has flared up yet again" sounded a little editorial sounding, imo, but you addressed the issue and it looks much better now. I guess I should have clarified what I meant in my request but it is over now and I think it is best to keep it at that. Thanks. —FellowWikiNewsie 02:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Note

Hey FellowWikiNews. When deleting templates [5], even when they have been passed through WN:DR. you must check to see if it is use, expressly in articles. The deletion left several articles having a red notemplate markup in the middle of the text. cheers Brian | (Talk) | ^{New Zealand Portal} 04:56, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Commons

If it was you that left me a message on my talk page on Commons, I have responded to it there. If it wasn't you, someone is trying to give the impression that it was you. I am a strong advocate of keeping discussions threaded so would appreciate further discussion remaining there and not spread across multiple wikis. Thanks. ++Lar: t/c 11:41, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that is me. —FellowWiki Newsie 15:18, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

DPRK launches missile

As I've noted, this article needs expanding, but could I ask you clarify why it cannot be published on the basis of its length? Adambro 14:29, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

It is one sentence long and yhere is no information on the event. Journalists write news stories to inform people. One sentence is not journalism. I'm sure not many readers will benefit from a report that is one sentence long. —FellowWiki Newsie 14:32, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me, I've replied on my talk page. Adambro 14:42, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes but how long would the article stay as a stub on the main page? I'm not very keen on publishing one sentence articles, especially when they are breaking news and more information needs to be added immediately. —FellowWiki Newsie 14:47, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you have a point but I was worried that it would stay as a stub. Anyways, when I publish breaking news articles I never wait for other people to add information, I do it myself. —FellowWiki Newsie 14:54, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Image uploads

You might wish to consider uploading images available under a free licence like you recent photographs to Commons instead. Doing so means they can be better organised and used on other Wikimedia projects. Apologies if there is a particular reason why you haven't done this. Regards. Adambro 15:39, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

I uploaded them here because I cannot login to my current account on Commons. I only uploaded them for my article and I do not want them for use on other projects. But thanks for your interest. —FellowWiki Newsie 15:42, 19 June 2007 (UTC)