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Tempodivalse [talk] 22:28, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

ES stylesheet

Thankyou for contributing the es stylesheet for WiktLookup. Could you please confirm that the following testcases for wikt:es:a work as expected:

• normal 2 definitions, bold showWord page not found.

Thanks. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:03, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Update Amgine is getting some online spanish speakers to test. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:07, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

It seems to work on en.n, Thank you you. JackPotte (talk) 22:38, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Arab Spring by country

Can you help me out there just a bit? "Spring"??--Bddpaux (talk) 21:55, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Presumably Arab Spring. An umbrella category for all these is an interesting idea; I'll give some thought to how best to handle it. It'll probably want renaming, for one thing, as the "by country" part strikes me as encyclopedic, unless this were a strictly internal category (not to be used on articles). --Pi zero (talk) 22:36, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes, we're currently debating on this renaming on the French version. JackPotte (talk) 05:29, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

• French Wikinews? Do they make a habit of putting news articles in encyclopedic categories? A category "Arab Spring" isn't unreasonable, but there's no need whatsoever to break it down by country. That's what DPL is for, one can trivially construct an intersection of "Arab Spring" articles for country x. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 06:07, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Done I've renamed the category Category:Arab Spring. JackPotte (talk) 07:02, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Twitter and Youtube are still blocked in Turkey for two weeks

Hi there. I saw that you created the article Twitter and Youtube are still blocked in Turkey for two weeks with a {{publish}} tag. Unfortunately, articles on English Wikinews need to undergo a peer review process before they can be published, so I've removed the {{publish}} template and replaced it with {{develop}}. You can move it to {{review}} if you think it is ready for publication. You might also want to check out the links in the welcome template at the top of this page and have a look through our guidelines; for example, we don't use inline references tags (although I'm not sure why). Microchip08 (talk) 08:40, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

OK. JackPotte (talk) 08:40, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Turkey announces a tax for Twitter has not been edited for a substantial period of time; you may wish to take another look at it, lest it be deleted (in two days time, for inactivity). Thanks, Microchip08 (talk) 22:09, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your help, but I've already tried everything I could and it seems to be beyond my threshold. JackPotte (talk) 22:11, 19 April 2014 (UTC)