User talk:Peter.C

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Tempodivalse [talk] 21:04, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Interview with Diego Grez, Chilean earthquake survivor

Methinks the formatting is better now, but you are allowed to replace Wikinews as the interview with your own name. --Mikemoral♪♫ 02:48, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

• I think I might do that, might land me some English extra credit :P Irunongames•play 02:51, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

  We wish, and try, but it doesn't happen, especially with my cheerleader honors teacher. :p Speaking of English, it seems I massacred it... --Mikemoral♪♫ 02:54, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

  Btw, I'm not sure if you did so, but you need to send a copy of the IRC log from the article to scoop@wikinewsie.org. --Mikemoral♪♫ 03:38, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

  Thanks for reminding me :D Irunongames•play 11:34, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

The headline for WHO: Drug resistant tuberculosis on the rise is substantively wrong

The article title given here is inaccurate and misleading. The WHO specifically did NOT say that. According to their report, ""The country data reported to WHO make it impossible at this time to conclude whether the (drug-resistant TB) epidemic worldwide is growing or shrinking". This misrepresentation should be correct immediately, in my opinion. (This note is left as a community member and not within the respect of my role as a staff member at the Wikimedia Foundation. This does not represent an OFFICE action). Philippe (WMF) (talk) 22:03, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

I've taken the liberty of moving the article; I hope neither of you mind. C628 (talk) 22:33, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Rollback

What was this revert for? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:29, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

• • File Photo was better because it was not taken during the volcanic eruption and as a wikipedia user with rollback rights I clicked rollback instead of undo which is a habit I have to work on Irunongames•play 00:06, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Hey Peter...

I just wrote an article and I was hoping you can review it for me, its my first :D Obama_to_suspend_arctic_oil_drilling ☠  Travis "TeamColtra" McCrea ☠ - (T)(C) 08:14, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Gaza aid convoy vs Israel

Did you really read every single one of those sources? I simply can't do so to verify the unreviewed quote just chucked into it. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 13:11, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Favicon

Here it is:

Diego Grez ^{return fire} 23:14, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Public domain images go to Commons not Wikinews

There are several benefits to that, which is why 'free use media upload' (to commons) is the sixth link on the left hand side bar. --InfantGorilla (talk) 16:42, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Every time I upload to commons I get yelled at for random reasons, now I get yelled at here....I think I'm done with uploading images :P Irunongames•play 16:51, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Oh sorry mate. I didn't mean to yell. I am not used to your name in recent changes, so I thought you were relatively new to uploading images, and it is years since I have been yelled at in Commons, so I was blissfully unaware of it happening to others. Just keep doing it - one of the rest of us can move it to Commons. --InfantGorilla (talk) 17:07, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

{{copyvio}}

{{copyvio}} Learn to use it. It is your friend. It is also what you should be doing to copy/pasta's instead of "reviewing" them. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 16:59, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

• Hehe, sorry about that, I was going to out {{delete}} but that didn't sound right so I just stalled, I was about to put that template up but by then it was already gone Irunongames•play 17:01, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Edit to another user's page?

Hi, could you please explain this edit? I assume it is some kind of misunderstanding, but would like to make sure. red-thunder. 01:16, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

• Hehe sorry about that. Netalarm said to edit his "COI" page on wikipedia but I accidentify must have done it here. Sorry!Irunongames•play 10:11, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Pirate party interview

Hi, I enjoyed your interview with Britanny Phelps. It was well done. I would like to point out that from a practical viewpoint, and assuming this was an oral interview, it's not possible to differentiate between someone saying "effective" and "affective". I don't know Brittany Phelps, but it's unfair to her and makes her look ignorant to include the "[sic]" next to the word "affective" (unless of course it was a written interview, in which case it's entirely appropriate). So if this was in fact an oral interview, I would encourage you to remove the "[sic]" and just assume that she meant to say "effective". Thanks!

Hey, just wanna point out, it was not an oral interview, it was an interview conducted via email.. Thanks for your concern! Peter.C•play 00:28, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

South Sudan gains independence

I hope I didn't step on your toes, here. Mattisse had proposed an edit to the date, restoring some earlier wording, which I'd failed to realize was actually inaccurate (due to the publication date being different from the date when the article was written), and it was pending; then an interwiki was added, and you sighted that. I wasn't sure if that was a goof on your part, accidentally sighting the other edit along with the interwiki. My deepest apologies if I misread the situation. --Pi zero (talk) 18:19, 15 July 2011 (UTC)