Stevenfruitsmaak

Steven Fruitsmaak is currently busy in real life becoming a medical doctor.
Although he might be less active than before, he is always prepared to help out if you ask him via email (that doesn't include house calls, emergency steak knife tracheotomies, or brain surgery...)

Click here to leave a new message. Please sign your posts with four tildes (~~~~). I will respond on your talk page unless you request otherwise. I understand Dutch (native speaker), English, French, Spanish and a little German, so you are welcome to use those languages. Questions, requests, criticism, and any other comments are always welcome!

Talk page archives

August 6, 2006 to December 31, 2006 January 1, 2007 to March 31, 2007 April 1, 2007 to June 11, 2007 June 12, 2007 to January 31, 2008

Talk:Google finds Microsoft bid for Yahoo 'troubling'

Who are Schmidt and Yang? --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 10:55, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, they are Eric E. Schmidt (Google Chairman) and Jerry Yang (Yahoo chairman). I really should have included that in the article as many people will not recognize the name. --{{SUBST:Anonymous101/Signature}} 16:18, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

RE:Accredited

Thanks! I have contacted the other accredited reporter at es.wn and enabled my e-mail. --Boricuæddie 23:26, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

I rushed when i wrote the response :) but yeah, ehhhh, must remember to sign, must remember to sign. hit me on the head next time :) lol WikiBlue - (talk) 15:16, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Oppose

Those two OR pieces were written last year, both within a three month gap of each other. I don't think that's enough for me to want to give accreditation. I'd want at least one OR piece a month. TheCustomOfLife - (talk) 14:08, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I wouldn't want him to churn out one OR EVERY month, but at least an average over a span of time. I just wasn't horribly happy with presenting pieces from a year ago and going "This is my contribution." To me, that didn't sit well. TheCustomOfLife - (talk) 14:22, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Template:Popular articles/recent

Ping! --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 23:06, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm aware of the issue. Basically Leon's tool which my bot got the data from has not been maintained for quite a while. Recently the toolserver folks rearranged stuff, and no one has fixed leon's tool. On the bright side, Wikipedia currently has real stats coming from wikimedia servers, which might spread to us at some point, but in the mean while we do not have any data source for statistics. (come on irc if you have questions) Bawolff ☺☻ 23:12, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:

Thanks for the Welcoming. Terra ^{What do you want?} 18:52, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews Bulletin

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Anonymous101 (^Talk) 21:25, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Good job. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:40, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks --Anonymous101 (^Talk) 21:42, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for adding a reference to Protester says Japanese whalers shot him to Wikinews:Dynamic quiz/quiz/2008/11. Cirt - (talk) 08:09, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again, and thanks for the kind words on my talk page, it's nice to know someone has noticed my work and appreciates it. Cirt - (talk) 22:55, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

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--Anonymous101 (talk · contribs) 20:04, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

IRC

[Why] ...are you never on IRC? --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:20, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Not sure ... I guess because the web interface stopped working for me ... I have now downloaded an IRC client ... maybe I'll pop in. --SVTCobra 22:24, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Featured picture

I think we should probably consider moving to separate featured pictures from those displayed in the news in pictures displayed on the main page. Since featured pictures should really be subject to a community discussion before being defined as such and this process doesn't fit in with the current idea of displaying a relevant image of a recent news event. In the current situation there is little value to declaring proudly that an image is featured because it doesn't mean anything more than one editor has decided to put it in news in pictures on the main page.

We might even wish to consider scrapping the whole concept of a WN featured picture altogether if it doesn't seem workable. Adambro - (talk) 16:10, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

"Featured" is a misnomer, the "News in pictures" header is more appropriate. It's just meant to make the front page more graphical and to promote photojournalism: consider renaming the template if you want to avoid further confusion. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 16:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Please note that I just used the Wikinews template name and moved it to commons with wikinews-en before it. --Anonymous101 (talk · contribs) 17:18, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for adding African nations gather to support a ban on cluster bombs and Two UN contract workers kidnapped in Somalia to Wikinews:Dynamic quiz/quiz/2008/15, nice to know you thought they were worthy of WN:QUIZ. Cirt - (talk) 11:55, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Featuredpic

Hi Stevenfruitsmaak. Before we close this DR, I'd hope we could get a comment from you. Basically it involves migrating "Featuredpic" to "News in Pictures". You were the caretaker of this and the one who ran the Picture-of-the-Year. Cheers, --SVTCobra 00:55, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews Bulletin

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Anonymous101 :) 12:18, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: ArbCom

Added :) Thunderhead 00:45, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

ArbCom

Hi, I have nominated you in the upcoming ArbCom elections. Please go to your nomination and state whether you accept or decline. Cheers, --SVTCobra 17:14, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Reminder: WN:ACE08

Hi, as you are a member of the Wikinews Arbitration Committee Election Coordinators, I am just letting you know that the voting is supposed to be open now. It is supposed to run July 18, 2008, 20:00 UTC to July 31, 2008, 20:00 UTC. Cheers, --SVTCobra 22:43, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews Bulletin delivery

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Rename AIDS category -> HIV/AIDS?

Hi, I just noticed that Category:AIDS might be more accurately named Category:HIV/AIDS since some of the articles relate to HIV, and not HIV with a low CD4 count and an OI. Also this would give it consistent naming with Wikipedia:Category:HIV/AIDS, although not the commons category (Commons:Category:HIV). -Optigan13 (talk) 05:46, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Results

I will be posting the results at exactly 20:00 on the actual page. You can second the certification then (FWIW, it's the same as yours, but I prepared a little statement like last year's people did). Mike Halterman (talk) 19:50, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Message from IRC User drivamgr2008Spri (User:Tmalmjursson)

Hi. This is a mass message to those I know on IRC from Wikinews and Wikinews EN. Please refer to my userpage for an important message concerning my IRC Presence. Thanks! Thor Malmjursson (talk) 14:15, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: WN:AR for Tmalmjursson

Thank you very much for the questions you posted to my AR. If you go to the Accreditation Requests page, you will find that I have responded to all of the questions you posted, plus your additional regarding the "Media release form". I would ask for the review of these responses, and any other questions you may wish to add are more than welcomed. Regards, and thanks for voting. Thor Malmjursson (talk) 16:25, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

FlaggedRevs

If you have not already seen this, please look, comment, and vote both here and on bugzilla. Further assistance such as contact information for Google would be a very useful detail to share and help in petitioning for a listing in their news index. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 14:52, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

OR notes

Hi Steven. What are your OR notes for RNA journal submits articles to Wikipedia? I'm assuming that it's just diffs on Wikipedia but I wanted to make sure. Thanks, --PatrickFlaherty (talk) 22:01, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Article review

I'd rather leave it a little while, since verifying sources in a language I don't speak, while possible, would be extremely difficult and time-consuming. If no-one else goes for it after a good few hours, then I'll take the plunge tonight. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 17:51, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

User:Tempodivalse/Writing contest

Hello! I noticed you're online today. Just wanted to let you know there's an article writing contest that's currently in progress. If you're interested in joining, drop a line at the above link. Thanks! ♪Tempo di Valse ♪ 14:29, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

A penny for your thoughts

Okay, not really, but I am requesting your participation in the following Water Cooler Discussion: OR and Broadcast report. The discussion involves the need for specific policy concerning how Original Reporting relates to information recieved from a broadcast report of an event. This can include both news-style reports and non-news reports, such as a sporting event. Thanks and again, please share your thoughts on this so we can get as many people involved as possible, especially since this relates to an important topic such as OR. —Calebrw (talk) 05:18, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar!

A barnstar in recognition of your 100th published article. --Rayboy8 (my talk) (my contributions) 17:44, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Accreditation Expiration

Greetings, I wanted to let you know that our policy regarding accreditation has recently changed slightly. Specifically we've enacted an automatic expiration of accreditation after 2 years. You can very easily "re-up" your accreditation should you choose to, but at this point in time you're on the Inactive list. As such your accreditation will automatically be revoked on March 15th unless you request otherwise. Currently, posting to the following thread will keep your accreditation. At a later date, all Accredited reporters will be put in for that "re-up", at which time you'll be notified. Thank you, and should you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 20:47, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

You have been put up for desysoping due to inactivity

Hi Stevenfruitsmaak, just as a heads-up, you have been put up for deadminship based on your recent inactivity. If you wish to comment on this, please leave a message here. Thanks, Tempodivalse [talk] 01:55, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Inactivity - Permissions removed

Since you were inactive on Wikinews, we removed your account bits (Administrator, Reviewer). If you become re-active and would like your bits back, simply ask as 'Crat. Thank you. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 18:14, 23 June 2010 (UTC)