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I archive my talk pages so that they can be easily viewed and questions quickly answered.

• January 2006.
• February 2006.
• March 2006.
• April 2006.
• Present archive
• February 2, 2007 and earlier.
• February-March, 2007
• March-April 2007
• April 2007
• April-June 2007.
• April (cont.)-July 2007.
• July (cont.)-August 2007.
• August-October 2007.
• October 2007 - Mid January 2008.
• January - February 2008.
• April 2008
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• August - October 2008
• November - December 2008
• January - February 2009
• February 2009 - August 2010

Wikinews Video Edition

Comments here

just a reminder that any matarial on commons should have [[category:Wikinews TV pilot]] and {{video}} on it. Thanks, it looks great. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:12, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Comments?

I've sent an e-mail to Mariner Energy asking for a comment, and intend to do the same for the US Coastguard—is there anyone else you reccomend asking for a comment from? Regards, WackyWace^talk 16:46, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Might want to try or think about trying agencies local to the area like the EPA. Maybe even try for the coast guard fire department. At the moment that is all I can think of. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 16:49, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

I've added the article to the main page - could you possibly approve the pending change? Thanks, WackyWace^talk 17:08, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Cargo plane crashes in Dubai, two dead

Heya DF. Good to see you around again. On the above article, you missed checking out where the image had come from etc as part of the copyright check - it needed an FU rationale. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 15:26, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Re: San Bruno Fire

Just so I am sure, the sources should be added at the bottom in the "Sources" section, but not inline like Wikipedia, correct? - Neutralhomer (talk) 14:11, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Correct. There is a clickable template for the 'sources' just above the edit summary box. You can place the cursor to just under the sources bar of the article, then click the source template to add it to the text. Without changing the order of the source template information, add toe relevant info to the template. Example:

*{{source|url=http://www.url_of_source_here.com|title=Title here|author=Author (if applicable) here|pub=Published by what agency here|date=Date source published information}} DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 14:16, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Re: New flotilla planned to set sail for Gaza Strip

Hi. It's been bought to the attention of Wikinews via the comments page for the above article, that it contained a statement which did not appear in any of the sources on the article, and as such, it appears the article / sources were not properly verified prior to your review and subsequent publication. Please ensure that the sources and the article correspond when publishing material, and that any statements or quotes which do not appear in the article are removed before publication. Thank you. BarkingFish (talk) 23:23, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

I thought I checked it well. Not that I do not believe you, but can you link me to the edit(s)? DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 10:40, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

I can tell you it started out here. Since I was tired, and hence uncertain, I pinged some other folk in IRC and I dunno how they took it from there. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 11:28, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Twitter

Despite my rather caustic and sarcastic comments in IRC, I hope you understood the point I was making about the feed; it should never be used to push out a news item we've no coverage of.

I know, I know, it's currently a bit broken. Twitter changed their software with very little notice. Shaka likely hasn't the time to figure that all out and get it going again; besides, being closed source, this problem could happen again and again.

Now, apart from tweeting stuff enWN hasn't covered, I find use of 'breaking', similar lowbrow alerting methods, and sensationalism odious/"Murdoch-esque". You've been guilty of all of these. A 'breaking' story tagging should be reserved for the most serious of stories - By that, I mean things like 9/11 or the Indian Ocean tsunami. These are cases where a lot more detail will emerge over the next few hours, days, weeks, and possibly even months.

Amgine and I have been pondering the review workload problem, and looking to revive a form of shorts. The general thinking is we'd do better pushing stuff out through identi.ca - first, it's open source. Second, we know the CTO (a certain Mr Vibber), and whereas twitter has tweets, identica has dents. If the coding can be arranged, we'll have WNDents. That would then feed to twitter, leaving Brion to keep the identica-twitter gateway functional.

Alas, time is a resource we all seem to lack. That's why shorts/WNDents needs pushed forward. That'd be a 3-5 sentence piece, 2 (max 3) sources. Quick to write, quick to review. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 13:35, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Cholera spreads to Port-au-Prince, five cases reported

The history of this article has been a confused mess, all due to my clumsy handling of it, of course. Bottom line, it had been published for a time, and was the most popular article at the time I suspended its publication. Therefore, as I understand practice, we cannot leave a memory hole where it was. I was actually in the process of crafting a stub for it when it got deleted out from under me.

Anyway, I figured I'd better drop you a line to explain why I created an article on top of your deletion. --Pi zero (talk) 12:19, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Oh ok...no problem. Feel free to the re add review or what not. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 13:22, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Your recent article

Your article is quite short, and may be better featured on Wikinews Shorts. Nascar1996 00:34, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Ghana bans gay and lesbian conference (edit needed)

1. REDIRECT Template:Editprotected

Fourth paragraph of this article begins with "BBC reporter Kwaku Sakyi-Addo (based in the Ghanese capital Accra)...". The word Ghanese should be replaced with Ghanaian.

Bare minimum of information

As I recall, you placed a template on the articles entitled Home destroyed by fire in Geneva, Florida and Border agent killed in Arizona, four in custody. The template placed on both articles was a notice of the articles containing "a bare minimum of information." I would disagree with this. Both articles are at least three paragraphs long. Can you please explain to me why you placed these templates on the articles? --Rayboy8 (my talk) (my contributions) 16:55, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps its the size of my monitor, but the first article barely made the minimum 3 paragraphs required. The second article is awaiting new information. I just had a discussion about it in IRC and if no new information becomes availbale, I do not see why it can't be published. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 16:58, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

I readded review for the first article and passed it. I understand there was not a lot of information on the incident. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 17:02, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

May your family have
a joyous holiday season
and a new year blessed
with hope and happiness.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

The Ceremonies for Christmas Day (Robert Herrick) Kindle the Christmas brand, and then    Till sunset let it burn; Which quench'd, then lay it up again    Till Christmas next return. Part must be kept wherewith to teend    The Christmas log next year, And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend    Can do no mischief there.

If you don't celebrate Christmas ... Happy (belated) Hanukkah! Happy Eid al-Adha! Happy Kwanzaa! And of course, Happy Festivus! May this holiday season bring you the music of laughter, the warmth of friendship, and the steadying hand of love. ☃

—fetch·comms 22:57, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

NK

Thanks; no worries! wackywace 19:14, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Twitter

Hey there, BRS told me he thinks you run the Wikinews Twitter account—if you do, could you change the profile image back to the standard logo? Thanks, wackywace 17:46, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Do not self-sight substantial edits to published articles

Hi. Reminder. Self-sighting a substantive edit to a published article is self-publication. Don't do it. I'm referring to this edit, which clearly requires independent peer review when done to a published article. --Pi zero (talk) 17:19, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Please review throughly

You recently published Egyptian man names daughter 'Facebook' without a single edit to the article itself. Please make sure that, in future, smart quotes (“ & ”) — which normally signify a direct copy-paste of another article, and therefore should always prompt a thorough review — are removed from the article and replaced with 'typewriter' marks ("). Please also ensure that categories are added to the article: just "Egypt" is unacceptable. Bear in mind that no article is ever ready for publication after just one editor: always perform a copy-edit — there is always something to fix. — μ 13:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Reviewing this edit was also unacceptable, as it broke the image and turned it into a redlink! This should have been apparent immediately, and should not have been sighted as-is, and instead edited manually. You left a main lead broken for six hours – this is inadmissable. — μ 14:01, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

It was a simple mistake. The user was fixing the spelling, which was also spelled wrong in the image. I sighted the edit to correct spelling. Sorry I did not look at it immediately. I have a job and was not around after that. You can definitely try to be a bit more nicer. You are making it sound like I am doing all this on purpose. Thanks. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 14:35, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

This publish should also have been checked for typographical errors. Remember, always edit the article. If you don't have to, you've probably missed something (in this case, three obvious misspellings). — μ 16:44, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Anti-abortion activist Bernard Nathanson dies aged 84 was very POV and should not have been published as it was when you did so. The term 'pro-life' is a deliberate marketing technique to imply their opponents are anti-life – not permissible and against one of the basic tenets of Wikinews writing. — μ 16:52, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

It was not my claim. It is what HE called himself. I merely said what he called himself and what the sources said. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 14:34, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Recent 'drama'

I hope my recent contributions in an effort to defuse an unacceptable situation meet with your approval.

You may note the "post-mortem" item on a sub-page of Geoff's talk; your comments on that, subsectioned, would be most welcome.

Geoff starting on, what I felt was an attempt to lay groundwork for defence of later outbusts, isn't. A followup in the same form based on the actual version reviewed may reinforce that more-than-serious quality concerns existed; plus any remarks on xe's response to what I characterised as a "terse rejection"(see xyr talk).

Obviously I'd want my advice on WN:AAA considered, possibly given clear indication it meets with community consensus, and a strict interpretation and application of action suggested therein.

Would you concur? --Brian McNeil / ^talk 08:06, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Request

Please review this page: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Talk:38_killed_in_attack_on_Afghani_bank#Review_of_revision_1182379_.5BPassed.5D Tadpole256 (talk) 14:06, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

since you are online now, could you fix this?

Someone has vandalized Deadly tornadoes rip through southern US, killing over 300, adding ridiculous information. Would you fix this vandalism? Regards, Mattisse (talk) 15:55, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Here is the diff [1] Mattisse (talk) 15:57, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Mattisse (talk) 16:00, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

No problem. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 16:04, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Feb?

He has been gone for some time now. --Beginner2 (talk) 20:10, 11 May 2011 (UTC) NVM --Beginner2 (talk) 20:18, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

I am sorry...what do you mean? DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 02:45, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Prohibition Party National Convention article

I've sent all correspondence to scoop for the article Prohibition Party holds convention; nominates Jack Fellure for U.S. President.--William S. Saturn (talk) 17:27, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the review. Also, could you place it in one of the lead slots of the main page? --William S. Saturn (talk) 21:32, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

I made it a lead. --Pi zero (talk) 21:59, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

...RIA Novosti celebrates...

Thank you very much for your help! Lvova (talk) 20:39, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Whoa!

You, once again, found the edit button. Great! I was beginning to think we'd lost you.

I've been quietly working on recognition of our accredited reporters, and as one of "the few" who went out on the streets and told police &c you were press, I'd welcome your input on that. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 21:16, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Yet another edit request

Hi! You’re listed as an editprotected volunteer, so I’m asking you to make this change in the Social bookmarks template. Thank you in advance! —Fitoschido ^[shout_track] @ 10 February, 2012; 12:42