User talk:Juliancolton

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[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Accrediated reporter

I have made you an accredited reporter. Please contact Brian to make you an account and email at wikinewsie. Thanks, Computerjoe's talk 15:22, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Great, thanks! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:40, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Article writing contest - update

Hi! I noticed that you signed up at User:Tempodivalse/Writing competition to participate in a possible future writing competition. Just as an update, rules and dates for the competition have been agreed upon now and are visible here. Please add your signature to the signup page there if you're still interested in participating. Thanks, Tempodivalse [talk] 15:44, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Your welcome

Thanks for stopping by. Bit quieter here, isn't it...? Bencherlite (talk) 20:21, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, it's nice to get away from the fast pace at enwiki sometimes. See you around! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:34, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Seahen's request for editor status

Hi Juliancolton! Regarding the discussion on Seahen's request for editor status, do you think that putting myself up for reconfirmation/recall would resolve the issues brought up? Would such an action even be necessary? Thanks! Benny the mascot (talk) 05:22, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'm not sure why that would be necessary. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 05:48, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

I might be getting paranoid, but when Dendodge said, "yours should also have been re-opened, in my opinion," I just felt that I have to. Benny the mascot (talk) 12:24, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

I didn't mean you should re-run (I would have supported in the first place if I'd got round to it), but that—for the sake of consistency—single vote requests should be re-opened in the future. Unless you do something terribly wrong, I have no problem with you having the rights, but—as Seahen's proved—this is not always the case. Dendodge _T\^C 15:41, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] A little help, if you have time

Hi Julian, I've just taken an excursion onto here from Wikipedia- it's certainly a lot quieter on here! I don't know if you've seen me around but I don't think we've formally "met". I wonder if you could help me out a little? I've just created this but, embarrassingly, there's a typo in the title. How do I move it to a "typo-free" title and how can I get a few more eyes on it? Any help you could extend would be greatly appreciate. Regards, HJMitchell You rang? 14:25, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

(sorry for butting in here, just noticed this in the recent changes and thought I'd try to help) We use the Vector skin for our default, so a couple of key buttons are arranged differently from WP's Monobook. To move a page, go to the bar at the top of the page (where it says Discussion, Edit, etc.) and move your cursor over the arrow, select "Rename" and that should get you to the move page dialogue. also note your account has to be autoconfirmed. Hope this helps, cheers, Tempodivalse [talk] 15:16, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Hi Julian, just wanted to drop by and say thanks for the support on my RfA (and again for the kind offer to nominate me previously). the wub "?!" 23:45, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Congrats on passing! Good luck. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:44, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Climate contrarians in Copenhagen

Please join the discussion, if you can do it attentively, if you have some free 30 minutes?

I'm just afraid that this novice user Wikiwide, the author of the article, being probably a scientist (you just look at the first version of this article), has a very little understanding of what Wikinews is. And probably has lots of other work to do, is not interested, etc. Even the topic of climate contrarians near UNCCC sounds scientific, doesn't it? I think that if you revive this article, it will be very good

• for Wikinews,
• for this user, and
• for the environment
  • (as some of the "skeptics" or
  • just common diesel car drivers can find this article realistic)

Please be informed that only an experienced Wikinews user can manage with such significant and responsible task. Q/0/k 04:14, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Problem

there is a problem and i need help

Koyoto Massami (talk) 18:34, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Anything in specific? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:35, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Today's quiz

Hi Julian, due to an unfortunate error in this week's quiz one of the answers was wrong. Just a heads-up, please take a look at Wikinews talk:World News Quiz and adjust your score if necessary. (This might account for the fact that people are getting unusually low scores today.) Sorry. Tempodivalse [talk] 03:16, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

NP, at least I got 1/5 now. ;) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:39, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Your support for my RFA

I would like to thank you for supporting my successful RFA and for your confidence in me. I look forward to serving further the English Wikinews community in this new capacity. I shall take the new tasks required of an administrator on board step by step and will make the utmost effort to fulfil the role to the best of my abilities. Kind regards Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 12:37, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Cool. Good luck! –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:45, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] I noticed ...

I noticed you Quick-adding category "Julian Colton (Wikinewsie)" to a story. I have not seen this before. Are you adding this category because you contributed to the article? Is this common practice? I haven't been as active lately as I once was, so I appreciate your response. --SVTCobra 01:57, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

This archived water cooler thread from a few weeks ago might tell you what you want to know. Nice to see you around again, Cobra! :-) Tempodivalse [talk] 02:08, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Tempo. --SVTCobra 03:00, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

What Tempo said. Also, the categories are hidden, so they don't have an effect on the articles themselves. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:30, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Wikinews writing contest reminder

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[edit] Editor status

Thanks - you'll spot that I've tried out my new powers already! Bencherlite (talk) 17:51, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Ah, cool. :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:26, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] The Wikinews Writing Contest 2010 Newsletter

The Wikinews Writing Contest 2010 Newsletter

The Wikinews Writing Contest 2010 Newsletter Week 1 - January 31, 2010 Current leaders The current leadership table looks like this: Rank User Points Articles 1 Tempodivalse 165 36 2 Dendodge 126 12 3 Bencherlite 65 11 4 Pmlineditor 65 10 5 Microchip08 55 13 6 Blood Red Sandman 46 8 7 Rayboy8 36 9 8 Tristan Thomas 26 1 9 TUFKAAP 25 1 10 The wub 20 4 11 RockerballAustralia 19 5 12 Wizardman 13 3 13 Juliancolton 4 2 Total 557 111 A full list of users' articles is located at Wikinews:Writing contest 2010/Standings/log All scores correct at time of newsletter. Many thanks to The New Mikemoral whose bot delivered this to you. Newsletter compiled and written by Tristan Thomas. Any suggestions welcomed. The contest so far As of this newsletter, the Writing Contest 2010 participants have collected a total of 111 articles. This Week Brian McNeil reports on the first week; as the instigator and main organiser of the competition, he has a large interest in its continuing success. Wikinews' 2010 writing contest got off to a brisk start this week with entrants scheming to have the first post-midnight submission. A particularly high number of barely-qualifying articles on the first day saw a notable record sent for the most articles published in one day since the introduction of Flagged Revisions. Tristan Thomas upped the stakes on the second day of competition with an original reporting interview scoring 26 points and moving him near the top of the leaderboard with only one article, as-compared to others prolifically contributing short 3-point articles. Reviewing is, at the moment, the most problematic issue with the competition. This can be as time-consuming as the actual creation of an article when copyediting for active voice, formatting per the style guide, and reading all cited sources. Competition entrants are strongly advised to ensure their browser supports a spell-checker; beware developing offline with a word processor that uses 'smart quotes' and other nonstandard characters; only cite the sources needed; review all copyedit changes to their articles done during, and after, the review process; and, to ensure they are very familiar with the style guide. With only thirteen competitors on the scoreboard at the end of the first week, where are all the entrants? Comprehensive and in-depth submissions could easily change the leader positions. The current top five are Tempodivalse, Dendodge, Bencherlite, Pmlineditor and Microchip08.

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[edit] Writing contest newsletter: week 2

The Wikinews Writing Contest 2010 Newsletter

The Wikinews Writing Contest 2010 Newsletter Week 2 - February 8, 2010 Current leaders The current leadership table looks like this: Rank User Points Articles 1 Tempodivalse 206 44 2 Dendodge 159 13 3 Microchip08 96 24 4 Bencherlite 65 11 5 Pmlineditor 65 10 6 Blood Red Sandman 65 9 7 Rayboy8 59 14 8 RockerballAustralia 48 8 9 Tristan Thomas 26 1 10 TUFKAAP 25 1 11 The wub 20 4 12 Wizardman 13 3 13 MisterWiki 6 1 14 Juliancolton 4 2 Total 557 145 A full list of users' articles is located at Wikinews:Writing contest 2010/Standings/log All scores correct at time of newsletter. Many thanks to The New Mikemoral whose bot delivered this to you. Newsletter compiled and written by Tristan Thomas. Any suggestions welcomed. The contest so far As of this newsletter, the Writing Contest 2010 participants have collected a total of 145 articles. This Week Tempodivalse reports on the second week of the competition. He is the current leader on both points and articles. Well, we're now about two weeks into the contest. The initial "flurry" of activity has now subsided significantly, and we've settled down to an output of about ten articles per day, down from 25-30 articles in the first few days of the competition. That's less than I had hoped, and a lot of the 31 original sign-ups have yet to write anything, but I can't complain; we've attracted at least half a dozen new contributors to the project, such as Microchip08 and Wizardman, who are doing a great job expanding our coverage. The point scoring system was designed to encourage in-depth articles, rather than a mass of stubs, and it shows: I estimate our average article size to have increased by several paragraphs, which I believe is good, as it helps encourage casual readers to stay on the site and read more. I'm in the lead at the moment, and I admit that the gap from first to second place - and especially second to third - is fairly large, but I don't want that to discourage participants (as it appears several people have been). It's not as big a gap as it seems, and two or so in-depth articles would easily bring 50-60 points, placing one well within striking distance. Plus, there are still another ten weeks left, ample time to catch up. Anyways, happy editing to all and good luck.

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[edit] Background on user page

I really liked the idea of a background image on your page. I hope you don't mind, but can you please help me with the background image that I'm trying to put on my user page? The principle is exactly the same as your user page, although, instead of userboxes, I have written some text. I would like you to help me by spreading the text evenly across the whole image if you can. It would also be nice if you could get rid of that whitespace in the box underneath the picture. Please help me if you can. Thanks, Rayboy8 (my talk) (my contributions) 18:54, 8 February 2010 (UTC)