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[edit] Man Shot dead in Glasgow this afternoon

At an Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow this afternoon a man has been shot dead. I don't know how to work wikinews yet but i was hoping to suggest the story to see what people know.

Well, that's a pretty local story, i wasn't aware of it. If you want to write up an article on it though, you're certainly welcomed an encouraged to do so. Just take a look through the welcome message on your talk page, that should get you started. It's really not difficult to write a story. :-) If you need help, please feel free to ask me. Tempodivalse [talk] 16:18, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] I've replied

on thewub's page with another problem!    Tris   16:14, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the welcome message

Thanks for the welcome message.. Kenrick95 (talk) 02:07, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

You're quite welcome. Tempodivalse [talk] 02:08, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

For the unpleasant task of trawling through US Gov't images trying to find a pile of corpses, you deserve this. It's actually for OR but it's a camera and I ruke the world so I'm using it. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 23:31, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Oooh, thanks! Much appreciated. Tempodivalse [talk] 23:32, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] World Bank President to make eight-day African tour

I just changed the title from World Bank President to make eight-day Africa tour to African tour as I believe it reads a little better. Hope you don't mind - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 09:44, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

I don't mind at all. Thanks for the move, it does indeed read better that way. Cheers, Tempodivalse [talk] 12:02, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Sitenotice typo

Perhaps "1 day" rather than "1 days". --The New Mikemoral ♪♫ 01:22, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Nevermind, I asked nicely on IRC. --The New Mikemoral ♪♫ 01:33, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Wikinews writing contest reminder

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[edit] WWC contest standings

I updated the score. I decreased BRS's score to from 5 to 3 as his article was in the 1200-1900 word category (3 points), and i increased your score by 2 points (all of your articles seemed to be over 1200 words). Did i miss anything when scoring them? Bawolff ☺☻ 12:43, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Nope, you didn't. I've increased my score to twenty with the publication of my other articles, could you recheck to make sure i've done it correctly? (The Haiti story was less than 1.9 kb when first published so I don't think I should receive a bonus for that.) Tempodivalse [talk] 13:08, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Review article

Please can you review David Abraham appointed as new chief executive of Channel 4 for me? I'm worried that this article is going to go stale. --Rayboy8 (my talk) (my contributions) 17:56, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

I'll see if i can get to it. Tempodivalse [talk] 18:00, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Done Tempodivalse [talk] 20:21, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Butterfly

Why, thank you very much! Bencherlite (talk) 13:25, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Piccies

Any chance with your articles you could send a couple of minutes to add a picture in? It looks better and is easier for leads. Obviously, some stories shouldn't have one because it would be pointless and crap. Otherwise, great writing, keep it up!    Tris   17:50, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, probably should. Problem is, it's hard to find a picture that is both relevant and complements the article with extra info. Mebbe i'll do a more thorough search on Commons next time. Tempodivalse [talk] 17:58, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

It's fine I understand, it's just I've noticed most of your articles, whilst good, lack them. Anyway, looks like you're doing pretty well with the comp!    Tris   18:00, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] The dismiss button

Sorry to be wasting your time with this, but I when pressed the dismiss button on one of those links at the top of the page, the link disappeared. Now I don't know how to get it back. Can you please help me? --Rayboy8 (my talk) (my contributions) 23:16, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Hmm. To be honest, I don't know how to return it, or if you even can return it. Perhaps you could try asking in WN:IRC? There are usually a few people about there who could help you in real-time. Or perhaps the water cooler. Tempodivalse [talk] 23:41, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Its cookie based. delete your cookies. (the message is File uploads will be turned off at 9 pm UTC while we move to a new media file server. We expect this to take 30 to 60 minutes; for status updates join the #wikimedia-tech irc channel on freenode. which will probably be removed shortly as the image server is almost ready AFAIK.). The other one is for Wikinews contest, which can be viewed at mediawiki:Sitenotice. Cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:44, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Bawolff. Tempodivalse [talk] 23:45, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Votes in Sri Lankan presidential elections counted

Hi, hope you are doing well. Can you add {{Image source}} credits for the 2 images? And also be more precise, remove the "file photo" caption, and just say the name of the person and year it was taken? Cirt (talk) 03:04, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Will do shortly. Completely forgot about image sourcing. Tempodivalse [talk] 03:04, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

No worries, Cirt (talk) 03:05, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Done. The first pic doesn't need an image credit as it is PD. Tempodivalse [talk] 03:06, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Not quite. Please see [1]. (And it can't hurt to give credit and attribution for images, even if they are PD.) Cirt (talk) 03:14, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

The diff you linked to is actually a different article, that's not mine. :-) Tempodivalse [talk] 03:16, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

This image is in public domain. Tempodivalse [talk] 03:16, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

The diff I linked to was to show you proper image credit formatting. And please see my prior reply about that... :P Cirt (talk) 03:20, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit conflict] Generally image credit should be given on the basis of its a nice thing to do (and potentially to be clear to readers), not because it is legally required (really we don't have to give any credit, as its on the linked image page). Bawolff ☺☻ 03:22, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Ok, noted (although IIRC public domain means that there is absolutely no restriction on using the image anywhere, right?). Done in any case, thanks. Tempodivalse [talk] 03:23, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

e/c = What Bawolff (talk · contribs) said. Cirt (talk) 03:24, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

It should be noted that that is not entirely true, it depends on country and stuff. (IANAL) I think it is in US. In other countries it varies. Some countries you cannot refuse some of rights. From my understanding (which is very limited, and probably wrong). In Canada for example (I think, might be wrong IANAL), I think you have to sign a contract in order to refuse to reserve your moral rights (right to attribution, not having the work used in a degrading way). See w:Moral rights (copyright law). The commons people probably know this better then me. Bawolff ☺☻ 03:30, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese company recalls two million needles in US

• Japanese company recalls two million needles in US

I think the dates in the Sources section are wrong... Cirt (talk) 03:47, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Fixed. i've written seven articles today, must be getting tired. Surprised i missed something like that. Thanks! Tempodivalse [talk] 03:52, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

No worries, Cirt (talk) 03:59, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] 2009 was worst year for airlines, says International Air Transport Association

I changed the title to this, hope that's okay. Feel free to move it back or to something else if you wish! :) Cirt (talk) 19:49, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

That was good, thanks. I wasn't sure how was the best way to phrase the headline, but your suggestion is better. Tempodivalse [talk] 19:50, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Okey. Cirt (talk) 19:55, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Re: writing contest

Noted. I think I re-added any needed categories to the article (created the appropriate category page as well). Still new at this site but I think I'm getting the hang of it :) I'll of course use the template for future writings. Wizardman 20:05, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Alex Reid wins UK's Celebrity Big Brother 2010

Having just received a rejection from Brian McNeil, can you please help me to verify the information in the above article? --Rayboy8 (my talk) (my contributions) 11:56, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure I completely understand what you want me to do. If you mean that you watched the thing on television, and know that it's correct, but can't find any online sources for it, you could label it as {{broadcast report}} (but make sure to put detailed notes on the talk page about what information in the article was taken from personal observations on the television screen). Hope this helps, Tempodivalse [talk] 14:21, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Delevoping template

This article is under development. You are welcome to contribute to it. If it is ready to be reviewed and fact-checked, change the {{develop}} tag to {{review}} to bring it to the attention of reviewers, you should review comments and discussion related to this article, and verify original reporting notes are adequate. Click here to add OR notes.

It can be at either end of the page (although I personally prefer it being at the top, because it's more visible there, but it really doesn't matter much). However, {{review}} should always appear at the top of the page so it's prominently seen. Tempodivalse [talk] 14:27, 31 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] Deleting prepared story

I would like to question you deleting my prepared story about Coronation Street. The 50th anniversary episode is not due to be broadcast until December 9, 2010. And what exactly are you referring to when you say "event happened two months ago"? --Rayboy8 (my talk) (my contributions) 17:41, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Oh dear, I'm terribly sorry about that. I somehow misread the date tag and though the anniversary was due for December 9, 2009, not 2010 - which would make it an event several months in the future, not the past. :-b I've now fully restored the page, apologies for any inconvenience. Tempodivalse [talk] 18:39, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Print Edition

The print edition is fairly easy to do. It's just an OpenOffice template that you paste bits into to make the document, then save in a variety of formats (including export to PDF).

If you send me an email, I'll send you the template to have a go. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 12:47, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Eh, that was just a fleeting idea in IRC yesterday, not sure I really want to devote myself to doing it regularly. But sure, I'll send off an email when I have a chance - a bit busy atm. Tempodivalse [talk] 15:01, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Email sent, waiting for response Tempodivalse [talk] 15:37, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Review, pretty please, with a cherry on top?

Since your in the lead and all that... would it be possible for you to review Inappropriate actions by captain caused crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 says safety board for me? Pretty please? --Patrick M (TUFKAAP) (talk) 15:19, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Hm, I'm kinda busy right now. If it were a shorter article with fewer sources, perhaps I'd have time to go through it, but not with eight sources and several kbs of text. I'll try to look through it in a few hours if i get a chance. Tempodivalse [talk] 15:36, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Newsletter this week

Hey Tempo,

As the current leader in the writing contest, do you fancy writing the summary of the week for this week, as Brian did last week. Basically, sum up the goings on and talk about anything that you would like to see done better? If so, if you could email it to me by Sunday evening that would be great. Please let me know. Thanks!    Tris   10:25, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Sure, i see if i can get around to it a bit later. Tempodivalse [talk] 14:37, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Done Tempodivalse [talk] 15:47, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Query

Hi Tempodivalse, I hope you are doing well. Perhaps you could take a look at this edit? I do not think enough has been changed, and still have major objections as raised in the first review on the talk page. See also comments at the talk page by Brian McNeil (talk · contribs) and SVTCobra (talk · contribs). Cheers, Cirt (talk) 15:18, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

I agree with you and Cobra, only part of the concerns (which I think are legitimate) have been addressed. i.e., "Obama has shown a frequently strained relationship with the mass media" hasn't been altered. Perhaps I'll fail the review a second time. Tempodivalse [talk] 15:46, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your attention to this, Cirt (talk) 17:28, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Superbowl

That's fine, add what you will. Don't have much time to add info so I may not have it complete when I leave.

[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] Michael Jackson doctor charged with involuntary manslaughter

Sorry to bother you, but do you think that this article is ready for publishing? --Rayboy8 (my talk) (my contributions) 23:34, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

No bother at all. The article is perhaps a bit on the short side, but a quick read through doesn't reveal anything that would stop it from being published. Go ahead and place it for {{review}}, if you feel you've nothing more to add. Tempodivalse [talk] 00:28, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Background on user page

Can you please help me with this problem I'm having? I've tried to copy Juliancolton's idea of using an image for a background, but with a paragraph all over an image instead of userboxes. Can you please help me by spreading the text all over the image in some way if possible? And could you please remove the space between the bottom of the picture and the border if you can? Please help me if you are available. Thanks, Rayboy8 (my talk) (my contributions) 23:12, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Hmm. Well, I'm not very proficient with wikimarkup, so I'm probably not the best person to ask about things like this. But I'll help as much as I can. I *think* that the correct formatting for a page layout similar to that of user:Juliancolton is this:

 <div style="position: relative; height: 1%;">

 <div style="position: relative; margin: 0 -1em; padding: 0; background-color: transparent; border: 1px none #ddd; height: 1%;">
  <div style="position: relative; margin: 0 auto; width: 725px; border: 1px solid #4E562C; height: 1%;">
   <div style="position: relative; overflow: hidden; height: 450px;"><!-- Height of the main image -->
    <div style="position: relative; overflow: hidden; margin: 0;">[[INSERT IMAGE HERE|INSERT IMAGE WIDTH HERE]]</div>
   </div>
   <div style="position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 96%;">
    <div style="margin: 1em; font-size: 95%;">

    </div>

<div style="position: absolute; left: 1em; top: 1em; z-index: 10; width: 250px; border: none; padding: 0.75em 1em; background-color:none;">

<div style="font-size: 2em; margin: 0.5em 0; padding-bottom: 3px; color:blue; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif;"><font color="white">INSERT TEXT HERE</font></div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
</t>

Try copying that to your userpage, replacing "INSERT IMAGE/WIDTH/TEXT HERE" places with the image and text you want to use, you can also change things like the font colour or font type by altering font color="white" or font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif;, respectively. Let me know if that works; if not, I'll try looking into it more. Tempodivalse [talk] 00:03, 10 February 2010 (UTC)