Wikinews:Accreditation requests

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Accreditation requests (AR) is the process by which the Wikinews community decides which users can be recognized as official Wikinews reporters.

I	Before making a request, please read the accreditation policy first. You can also view the list of accredited users.
II	Add your username in the box below and click the Request accreditation button. Complete the questions on the resulting page and save it. Transclude the request page at the foot of the section below by adding the title of the request page, enclosed with curly brackets e.g.: {{Wikinews:Accreditation requests/YourUsername}} Then inform the Wikinews community of your request.
III	Questions You may be asked questions by other users so they can review your request. Please try to provide full answers.
IV	Community decision The request must remain open for at least seven days for a new request or fourteen days for revocation. Other users may {{support}} or {{oppose}} the request. At the end of the minimum period, the request will be closed and the accreditation or revocation will be confirmed, if there is consensus. In the case of revocation a request may be closed early, but no earlier than 7 days, when there is overwhelming consensus. Closed requests are moved to the archives.
Upon successful accreditation
Email	Once accredited, you can get a personal email address on WN-Reporters. Please contact acagastya or Gryllida about this. Your email address will be made up based on the details given when applying. If you have a middle name and you feel having this in the address (or its initial) is important, please say so. You must either provide an existing email address for the password to be sent to, or have enabled email from your en.wikinews account and specify this as the preferred contact method. For further information, contact an active, established, already-accredited user. Requests for an email address must be verifiable — either submit via 'email this user', or signed and on the talk pages of Acagastya or Gryllida.
Cards	In addition to a wn-reporters.org email address, accredited reporters may — at their own expense — obtain a stock of business cards clearly indicating they are an accredited reporter. You can see a sample here. (Note: degraded to a quality that prevents use.)

Requests

DRC-B5 (talk)

Name: D Roy Chowdhury

Location: West Bengal, India

Areas of interest: Politics and conflicts, Space, Internet and Sports

Reason: I was thinking to expand my identity to wider space in Wikimedia. It has been less than a month and I contributed here. To be a good reporter, I joined here, trying here to competent myself well in this platform, publishing international articles and more. So I thought I should apply for this position.

Accomplishments: My published articles are listed at Category:DRC-B5 (Wikinewsie) (with a bit of contributions from this community here). I published my first article Pakistan reverses block on Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, projecting the Wikimedia Foundation. Also, I'm a rollbacker and active editor in Simple English Wikipedia.

Contact information: reewapal2018@gmail.com

User ID: 2857299

Applied on: 14:18, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Stats

• Links for DRC-B5: DRC-B5 (talk · contribs · deleted · count · logs · block log · review log · lu)

Questions and comments

DRC-B5: I've been meaning to comment here for the past week-and-a-half this request has been open, but various things, on-wiki and otherwise, have prevented me. Anyway, from this comment, I have the impression you think OR can only be done by physically going to an event. Not necessarily. Broadcast reporting is similar to OR, and much OR is conducting interviews/requesting comment.

You would do well, both to ensure the success of this request and to become familiar with OR, to start with interviews/requesting comment, where accreditation is less needed. For an interview: you find someone in the news or with expertise on something in the news; write up questions; contact them (usually via email) to request an interview; if they agree, you conduct the interview (via email, phone call, or video call); then write up the story and verify it (forwarding emails to scoop, uploading videos or audio). A request for comment is just shorter, and usually via email. Let me know if you need help. --Heavy Water (talk) 19:51, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

@DRC-B5:, do you have any planned articles where accreditation would be instrumental? If so, please share some of the ideas. Cheers, --SVTCobra 00:03, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

@DRC-B5: You have been inactive for six weeks. You are not responding to questions and comments. What are we to think about this request? SVTCobra 04:42, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Votes

strike --JJLiu112 (talk) 23:58, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

@JJLiu112: They have actually written seven (see Category:DRC-B5 (Wikinewsie), the link was invisible above because one can't link directly to a category). Heavy Water (talk) 20:43, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Hm. I actually haven’t noticed that. My apologies. JJLiu112 (talk) 23:57, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Revocations

For requests for revoking credentials, {{Remove}} means "remove accreditation" and {{Keep}} means "keep accreditation."

Note: only accredited reporters who have misused their credentials (with concrete evidence) may be listed here.