Uma~enwikinews

Welcome

Uma~enwikinews, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these!

• Wikinews:Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
• Wikinews:Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced

Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews:

• Wikinews:Introduction - overview of the site
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• Wikinews:Contents - the contents page.

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! Jacques Divol 19:45, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Don't

Don't just go creating a duplicate of an article because of a copyvio, the correct method of dealing with this is to follow the instructions on the copyvio template, create an article on the sub-page and ask for someone other than the tagger to review. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 13:11, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

• it's seem that Spanish, German and this Wikinews received copyvio articles about this author. Could you explain us why ? Jacques Divol 13:57, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

the spam continue in Netherland : see http://nl.wikinews.org/wiki/German_author_Artur_Balder_releases_historical_fantasy_novel_set_in_medieval_England

Jacques Divol 14:21, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Your deleted article

Hi there. I see you're upset that your article has been deleted. I'd like to point out that Wikinews has a policy of immediately deleting violations of w:copyright. The problem is, you're putting text in one of our articles that has been published elsewhere. So we have no indication that you wrote this text originally, or still own the copyright to it, we cannot accept your submission.

If you'd like to write the article again, this time without the copyrighted text, please do so! We'll gladly help you out.

Thanks. irid:t 14:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

I apologize if someone accused you of writing spam. Note, however, that we use "spam" in a couple of different ways on this wiki. For instance, my edit summaries where I reverted your edits to two talk pages included "revert spam". In this instance, I used the word "spam" to mean something that was posted in several places without significant modification.

I want to point out that what you're writing borders on harassment of our users. Please keep your talk page edits limited in their scope.

If you'd like to work with me on this, please collaborate with me on my talk page. I'll help you get your article published on the English Wikinews. Thank you. irid:t 15:01, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to write on either talk page. :) Here's what I would suggest: As long as you're typing in the box, rather than copy-pasting, you're probably fine! You can use all of the same sources as your original article, and even cite your article as a source. Keep in mind, however, that we have a policy of citing multiple sources soas to maintain balance. (We have to assume that a single source article, no matter how well written, cannot be balanced).

Also, because this is a wiki, don't be offended if someone sails in and tags your article with cleanup, NPOV, sources, etc. Don't worry about it. The only thing you need to be concerned with right now is avoiding the copyvio. :) I'll help you with anything you need, just drop a note here or on my talk page.

(By the way, I can instantly see anything you write on this wiki, so it doesn't matter where you type, I'll see it.) irid:t 15:36, 5 September 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 Uma. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Uma~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

23:23, 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)

06:39, 21 April 2015 (UTC)