User talk:MikeCapone~enwikinews

Welcome[edit]

MikeCapone, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these!

Wikinews:Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
Wikinews:Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced

Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews:

Wikinews:Introduction - overview of the site
Wikinews:Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
Wikinews:Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
Wikinews:Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
Wikinews:Contents - the contents page.

There are always things to do on Wikinews:

Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
The front page lead articles often need updating
Developing stories need finishing and publishing
Discussions need your input
Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
And of course, stories need writing!

By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes (~~~~), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! -The bellman 13:51, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Heyla mike...[edit]

If you have a moment, could you join us in IRC? - Amgine 05:46, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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The Regular - mighty nice. Thanks! btw: can you add ideas/methods at Wikinews:Story propagation? I'm trying to spread the word, and could use your good ideas! - Amgine/^talk 21:04, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've actually seen and published (I'm an editor at The Regular) many Wikinews stories at the Reg. I guess next time I'll see one I'll write about it at the Story propagation page, ~~but I'm sure that if you go back a few pages in the archives you'll see a handful.~~ I went and found a few. MikeCapone 06:09, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

<grin> Sorry about the delay in getting back to you... Yes, I've been hitting The Regular fairly often of late, and see your name up there most days. Thanks for sharing our stories! (And even more for your edits here! <sly grin>) - Amgine/^talk 04:40, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sources[edit]

Thanks for the the work you have done on source formating but there is an easier way we use a template for this, you just copy paste this in a fill it out.

{source | url=Web site address | title=Article title | author=Name of author | pub=Name of Publication or Source | date=Date as DD Month, YYYY}}

--Cspurrier 18:40, 15 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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 MikeCapone. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name MikeCapone~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

23:18, 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)

06:34, 21 April 2015 (UTC)