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Welcome

McCart42, 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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• Wikinews:Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
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• Wikinews:Introduction - overview of the site
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There are always things to do on Wikinews:

• Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
• The front page lead articles often need updating
• Developing stories need finishing and publishing
• Discussions need your input
• Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
• And of course, stories need writing!

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! -- Davodd | Talk 23:56, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

OK to summarize existing news?

This is a bit more of a question about the overarching mission of wikinews than about simple etiquette. My goal so far when putting up requested articles has been to read, internalize the information, and summarize what I've learned, with a particular eye for facts that make the story extraordinary. This is mostly what every reporter does; however, since all of my sources (to this point, and for the foreseeable future) are secondary, I generally refrain from adding some of the more human-interest elements of a typical story, such as quotes and pictures. This, of course, is due to copyright - am I correct in assuming that these would be copyright violations?

And also, should I be looking to do more than just summarize? - McCart42 01:19, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It it imposible to copyright facts or incidents. This means if you paraphrase and cite sources, you are not violating copyright. For instance, let's say the Wall Street Journal' quoted Pres. Geroge W. Bush saying "America will destory all evil doers."

You may write:

• "America will destroy all evil doers," Pres. Bush said in a Dec. 14 Wall Street Journal interview. (Or somethign similar if it was an exclusive interview with a WSJ reporter)
• Pres. Bush told reporters that America will destroy all "evil doers." (Or something similar if you see the quote in more than one source and it came from a press conference)
• "America will destroy all evil doers," Pres. Bush said. (If you see the quote in any official U.S. "dot gov" [i.e. www.whitehouse.gov] press release or other report - because it is public domain, you do not need to cite the source of the original quote in the text.)

Of course these are just three examples. Remember, copyrights only apply to the WAY information is written -- not the facts presented. If you re-arrange the facts in an original presentation so that your work does not look like a duplicate of the original and cite your sources, then copyright should never be a problem. -- Davodd | Talk 13:06, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

DPL on developing

Hey McCart, could I ask you to share your thoughts on this here? Thanks Dan100 (Talk) 28 June 2005 23:49 (UTC)

Sorting

The category sort, using the alternative text, should work. For example, if you add another with [[Category:2005-07-07 London bombings|2005-07-10]], it should appear in the list above the article with [[Category:2005-07-07 London bombings|2005-07-12]] and below the article with [[Category:2005-07-07 London bombings|2005-07-07]]. It only lists the "2" just like it only lists the "A" for articles beginning with that letter.

- Amgine/^talk 03:36, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Wikinews link in current events template

I'm disappointed you decided to undermine my proposal. If you'd checked to see where the current template was being used, you'd actually have seen that Wikinews is already covering all the stories.

The little "Wikinews stories" boxes are useless - they're invariably buried at the bottom of pages. Even if anyone ever finds them, by that point they probably won't be bothered to click the link.

As I pointed out on the water cooler - the only reason why the London bombings article gained so much traffic from WP was because the link was (briefly) at the top of the article. Dan100 (Talk) 21:34, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Response (originally posted on Dan100's talk page, was deleted 2005-07-15 18:29:51)

Wikinews link in current events template

I didn't mean to undermine your proposal, I just wanted to state my opinion. Of today's events in Current events, as of right now, only 5 of 10 of them have stories at Wikinews. In the Current events category, it's the same, from what I can tell. I do think that using the extra Wikinews link will draw people to contribute the article if it doesn't exist already, but the important thing is that it must add value to WP, not to WN; we're the ones changing their template, after all. And if only half of the WP articles marked with the Current template actually have information at WN, we will be forcing their readers to sift through our site for information that might not even be here. Eventually, I think the time will come that we will have a better ratio of current events covered, but let's wait until then to impose upon them to add WN links to the Current template. At that point I don't think they will be able to argue with us that nearly every current event they have is covered on WN, and the link will be useful to BOTH parties. - McCart42 (talk) 22:26, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the amendment. : )

Kevin Baas^talk 17:36, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Article naming

Originally brought up at Future talk, though I wasn't at the discussion itself. I was wondering if there is any thought to changing the way articles are linked in case we find ourselves rehashing similar headlines. A good example is with sports stories. It's not inconceivable that Team A might win a match over Team B by the same score on some different date. Right now, I guess we'd just look up our thesaurus and find a synonym for "defeat" - which admittedly isn't that difficult. But it seems as though maybe articles should be linked to by a combination of their date and their title. That would eliminate any reasonable possibility of having two articles with the same name. Maybe I'm being naive about this and it isn't a big deal though. Has anyone thought about this (non)issue? - McCart42 (talk) 22:09, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Actually this was brought up un November, 2004.. And the consensus was - no one could agree, so we left it alone. -- Davodd | Talk 03:44, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Link? Or was this on IRC? - McCart42 (talk) 15:03, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

Link:Wikinews:Dateline Poll -- Davodd | Talk 00:14, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Clarify - brought up in Nov - vote in Dec. -- Davodd | Talk 00:15, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Future talk 2

Hello, I would like to invite you to attend our second future talk, it will be held on Monday, August 1 at 21:00 UTC. It will be held on the Wikinews IRC channel #wikinews For more information please see the page on meta The main topics will be audio Wikinews, WNN and portals/neighborhoods It would be great if you will be able to attend. --Cspurrier 15:42, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

User: Rcameronw has been blocked for requesting de-admin vote and alleged "trolling"

Just wanted to let people know that, following yesterday's discussion, user rcameronw has been blocked for 24 hours. It was decided that rcameronw's request for a de-admin vote constituted "site disruption". (see article talk page for more info:[1]) - 80.43.47.169 forgot to sign at 2005-10-10 07:07:15 (EDT)

Request to Neutralizer

McCart42, I noticed your message to Neutralizer which invited him to submit work under your account during his time of ban [2]. Please do not interfere with the blocking policy on Wikinews. --Mrmiscellanious 20:41, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

your sig

noticed your sig was messed up. you probaly already know about this, but anyway, here's how to fix it Wikipedia:Wikipedia:How to fix your signature. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:53, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Cats for Basketball Article

Hi McCart42, I appreciated that you added cats to the "Stanford women's basketball knocks three-time champion Connecticut out of NCAA tournament" story. That's the only way I found it. It would be easier to find this news if the cats "Women's basketball" or "Women's NCAA basketball" were added. It's protected and I can't do so myself. Deeb 23:06, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Hello there!

I'm writing to inform you that we are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:

• Contact us on IRC at #wikimedia-pa
• Join our mailing list
• Visit our blog at http://wmfpa.blogspot.com
• Sign our list of interested participants

Thanks and I hope you sign up! Cbrown1023 talk 16:42, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called McCart42. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name McCart42~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

23:21, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

06:34, 21 April 2015 (UTC)