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Wisekwai~enwikinews, 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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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! --Brian McNeil / ^talk 16:28, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Bangkok Bombings

ok cool, shall i merge mine into yours?UKWiki 13:26, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Nickname

Isn't the nickname a bit contradictory? :-) --Brian McNeil / ^talk 16:28, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

I like the nickname, hope you're going to stick around and contribute to this, the story on the Bangkok explosions is pretty well written and I've put it up as second lead. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 16:36, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for your contributions today, and have a good and prosperous new year! --Brian McNeil / ^talk 21:50, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

interesting stuff, Bangkok hit with further New Year bomb blasts and Bombings reported in Bangkok. Best regards. -Edbrown05 09:08, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Lead

If you check the front page you'll see the second lead is now doubled with the two Bangkok stories and the shopping centre picture is up. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 11:26, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Thailand article

no sweat. looking forward to more such well-crafted articles from you. best, –Doldrums(talk) 16:15, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

21 dead in south Thailand attacks merits this

You deserve one of these for the excellent job you've done on the latest story to go in Category:South Thailand insurgency. I sincerely hope we're going to see more of you doing things like this. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 21:48, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Cambodian ASEAN story

Can you find another source in a non-english language? If it can be processed through a translation service and vaguely backs up the content of the article that's usually good enough to get past most of us. I'd hate to see us lose the story, I found it interesting and amusing. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 20:32, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

ASEAN

have found another source, see talk page of article. --MarkTalk 20:33, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

hmmmm shame to loose the story!! i will see if i can find another --MarkTalk 20:41, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Excellent work!

Nice work on the article, World's defense chiefs meet in Singapore. Very comprehensive and well written. --Jcart1534 22:24, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Ploy images

Hi,

I like them, is there any chance you could write an article on the film release, a bit of background about the film etc? Self-made works get priority on the front page, and an article will certainly get them selected.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:21, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I've put it on the main page, great article, you should always write about it if you go to something like that! How did you get in, did you say you were from the press? Or are you a celebrity :-) ? Anyway good work, thanks! --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 09:06, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Incredible that you wouldn't have written it otherwise... tssss... I'll add it to my list of contributions then . Nice to have a real reporter among us, welcome! --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 09:47, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Nice job on the Ploy premiere article. Is it safe to assume that you are the same Wise Kwai that is behind this? --SVTCobra 23:33, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Popemobile boarded

Yes, some people like to leave the headline behind with a link to the full story. Others remove all trace of it from shorts. --SVTCobra 19:39, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I should say that if there is any good content in the short version or good sources, then they should be incorporated into the full article. --SVTCobra 19:46, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I went ahead and made the links, if that is okay? Jcart1534 19:45, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

There shouldn't be two articles. See the changes I made. --SVTCobra 23:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Atlantis

No problem :) I just thought it was on there for a few hours is all. I guess I misread the addition time. :) DragonFire1024 19:53, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Easy on the sources!

Hi Wisekwai. I noticed you started the Wikinews Shorts: June 12, 2007. I just wanted to comment on the number of sources you listed for the first item. You have six sources listed for a two-sentence story! We shouldn't be collecting sources, but rather only listing ones that were used. The Wikinews:Cite sources states, "Only cite sources used for information - do not add sources if you did not include any information from them." It makes it difficult for users/editors to verify information if there are many sources, which weren't used. Cheers, and my apologies if they were all used, but I didn't have time to go through them! :) Jcart1534 19:28, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

No worries! But just to stress, sources shouldn't be added unless specific information was obtained from them. We shouldn't add sources in the hope that someone might use them to expand a story. It just adds confusion. If someone were to add to an article, they should add a source at that time, if they obtained unique information from that source. As for dead sources, we should be careful to select a unique URL from the source, not a main page. There is less chance of it "going dead". We shouldn't add sources to build in redundancy. We can move this to a Policy page discussion if you would like input from other users? In any event, your contributions have been fantastic. Keep it up! Jcart1534 19:50, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Currency article

No Problem. :)I thought it was a good article BTW :) Good Job! DragonFire1024 21:35, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Laos Plot

You beat me to it ;) Bail denied in Laos overthrow plot, Hmong protest. Good job again! DragonFire1024 21:41, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Accessing commons and wikipedia

I know this is hours later, but I am not having the same problem. --SVTCobra 10:25, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Admin Privs

I suspect you'd sail through an admin nomination. Do you think you could make use of the extra buttons, or are you happy as a "mere mortal" editor? :-) --Brian McNeil / ^talk 14:55, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

I answered your response on my talk, but I should probably put something here too. :-) You've done enough that the community would grant you admin privs - I have no doubt about that. However, you have to decide when you think you actually need them. If you start spotting vandalism in Recent Changes and things like that then you're probably needing the privs to clean up when you're about. It isn't mean to be an onerous duty, just a best effort by a bunch of people who trust each other. You? You've earned that trust through your contributions. You've shown yourself open to listening to folks that have been around a bit longer, and you're now at the stage you're well-enough practiced that you can probably do an article and publish in one take. One key thing to remember about Wikinews is that being a sysop isn't some special privilege, it is something that virtually every reasonably trusted editor ends up with. I - and probably 90% of the community - wouldn't care if you only used the buttons once or twice a month. It'd likely be when nobody else is about due to timezone differences, and that is why it is good to have a lot of sysops.

As it stands, I think you've done an excellent job "taking over" from my efforts to cover the south Thailand insurgency. We need more reporters like yourself, so stick at it - and when you've seen enough vandalism to want to be able to fix it either nominate yourself or ask me to - I'd be happy to. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 20:25, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Austin, Texas incident

Thanks for the move. Just FYI, the first stories I saw did indicate the accident as hit-and-run; I wasn't assuming or reading in. :) Lawikitejana 19:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

sources in Zimbabwe article

Hi, If you check the sources listed you will see all the information contained in the article is reported in them. CNN is listed their, and the quote given to the Guardian comes from the BBC article. The state media stuff comes from the CNN article. Please read the sources provided and then get back to me. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 13:55, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

While I was writing this you mentioned AP on the talk page. That's mentioned by one of the listed sources too, think that it is again CNN. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 13:56, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry about it; to pull it down quickly when it looked dodgy was the right thing to do and I would have done the same. I apreciate what you mean about tracking down originals, though - if I can, I will add them. If not, tough. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 14:00, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

It's

Hi, it's no big deal, but you should be aware that in Brittish English, which the article should conform to as a news story about Scotland's legal system, it's is the possesive form as well as a contracted form of it is. Since the article should conform to Brittish English as I've mention, Ive changed it back to saying it's. Generally speaking, though, go ahead and change it, just beware of UK articles. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 06:20, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. I know plenty of Brits who don't realise (Probably from seeing it so much in other forms of English, I wonder if our possesive commas may one day die out...). Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 06:45, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

great work!

For writing a long series of exceptionally fine articles and expanding Wikinews coverage of the Asia-Pacific region, I, Doldrums am pleased to award Wisekwai the Wikinews Trophy.

I echo Doldrums' opinion. Great work! [1] (SEWilco 13:07, 29 June 2007 (UTC))

Accreditation

I was wondering... Are you planning to apply for WN:AR? We've just got "wikinewsie.org" and all active accredited reporters will be given accounts on it. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 17:44, 4 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 Wisekwai. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Wisekwai~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

23:39, 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)

06:40, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

???

We haven't seen you in a long time! How're things with you??--Bddpaux (talk) 15:57, 24 April 2024 (UTC)