User talk:23prootie~enwikinews
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Tempodivalse [talk] 18:18, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
delays on your article[edit]
Hello 23prootie! Thank you so much for submitting Philippines and US hold naval drills in South China Sea amid territorial dispute. You are clearly a great writer whose talent would be very helpful to our work here on Wikinews. :) Unfortunately, the review process seems to have been delayed for this particular article, especially since so many available reviewers have already gotten too involved with the article. (Wikinews policy forbids editors who get too involved with an article from publishing it onto the main page.) Surely this is just a sign that so many people are dedicated to well-informed, accurate coverage of the current territorial dispute in the South China Sea. Hopefully someone will come along and take the final few steps to get this published! Cheers, Ragettho (talk) 05:52, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
- The article got published! (albeit under a new name) Thanks for submitting the article! Ragettho (talk) 00:23, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
An excellent effort. Please tighten up and re-submit! --Bddpaux (talk) 22:23, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
- It's getting a bit long in the tooth, isn't it? --Pi zero (talk) 23:12, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
Alas, we didn't get to this one in time; it seems an interesting item. There's always the chance of a fresh development to refocus on, though in this case I'm not sure what that would be. --Pi zero (talk) 12:20, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Quick note on requesting review[edit]
I absolutely realize it's possible to think you're done with an article and then see things after you've submitted it for review. That kind of thing happens. But from the reviewer's perspective, it can be disconcerting (if not a little demoralizing) to take up an article that's been submitted for review and then realize the author was continuing to change it after submission. So, just a thought, maybe create an article with the {{develop}} tag in place, then look it over for a few moments to convince yourself you're really ready to have it reviewed before requesting review. --Pi zero (talk) 13:41, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
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Trying to understand. Why did you create this page? --Pi zero (talk) 01:44, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
- Meh. Duplicate of a pre-review version of the article; I could reasonably have history merged it into the article, but that would be a no-op, since it was already in the article history.
- I'm still a bit uncomfortable with the creation of this duplicate in the first place. Was there a reason? (Which begs the question, have you any objection to the deletion?) --Pi zero (talk) 06:19, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
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Published. There was a lot of stuff that needed fixing, though; see review comments and detailed history of edits during review. --Pi zero (talk) 06:06, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
Published. See detailed history of edits during review. --Pi zero (talk) 16:06, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
Your account will be renamed[edit]
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 23prootie. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name 23prootie~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
23:11, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Renamed[edit]
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)
06:27, 21 April 2015 (UTC)