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Automate

Hang on, I'm gonna see if I can save us the trouble and automate the process of leaving the {{proxyblock}} template. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 23:58, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Okay. Can't the template be added using AWB or something? Tempodivalse [talk] 23:59, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, it can. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:15, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

The problem is generating the list of pages, but solved none the less. ShakataBot is on the case. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 00:27, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Tempodivalse [talk] 00:28, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Thx for the deflag. Forgot about that. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 17:14, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Review

I see you appear to be around now too :P. -- Care to review Scientology ties at New Village Leadership Academy stir controversy for Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith? Thanks for your time, Cirt (talk) 14:26, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Done Tempodivalse [talk] 14:40, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks :). Cirt (talk) 14:50, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Query on source usage

Do you think w:The Sun (newspaper), in addition to the other two non-notable sources used at Former WWE superstar Jeff Hardy arrested on major drug charges, are sufficient for our site verifiability standards? Cirt (talk) 15:04, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Hmm. I generally don't consider tabloids to be reliable sources, and none of these look very trustworthy to me. I'd feel more comfortable if the article contained references to more reliable news sources. Tempodivalse [talk] 15:09, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Careful about "tabloid", which may refer in one usage to quality, and another merely to the style and format the newspaper is printed. However I would agree with you about w:The Sun (newspaper), and the other sources used. Cirt (talk) 15:11, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello

Hello, sir, I would like you to review Wikinews:Changing_username#G.phanisrinivas_.E2.86.92_Srinivas. Please help me out in the earliest. --G.phanisrinivas (talk) 08:21, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Renamed Tempodivalse [talk] 12:38, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

changing username

When handling username change requests you really should not usurp/name out the way an account that has edits unless the requesting user can log into it and confirm its theirs. Saquib... Well, he has a not very good history; I would have been disinclined to carry out his request. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 14:27, 13 September 2009 (UTC)'

Hmm, that didn't occur to me. Thinking over it now, I should have requested he log into the other account and verify it's his. Stupid me. (I suppose we could still request he log into the usurped account and make an edit, to confirm?) Tempodivalse [talk] 14:35, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

I'm here, you've done nothing wrong. By the way, which Saquib, you're talking about. Saqib Qayyum  talk  14:44, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

• I think Wikipedia has a better template for namechange requests - could probably do with something with more detail and links to check things. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 14:51, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

• Yeah, we probably should have more detailed instructions for how to verify things. I usually try to pay attention when doing things like this, just had a senior moment back there. I'll try to be more attentive in the future. Tempodivalse [talk] 16:14, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Encyclopedic content

Heh. If you check recent changes you'll see I was putting in place the stuff to make that it's own WN:SD entry and add it to deletion dropdown list. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 16:41, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

That sounds like a good idea, I'm surprised this hasn't been done before. I'll be sure to use it in the future. Cheers. Tempodivalse [talk] 16:44, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome, I was wandering if you could review Jordan Lloyd wins US Big Brother 11? It is my first article here and I am a little unsure if I followed the guidelines correctly. Alucard 16 (talk) 19:36, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

I would like to mention that Jordan winning Big Brother 11 happened on the 15th but the interview with Allison Grodner that revealed that she held the overwhelming majority of the public votes wasn't released until the 16th. Since this was information regarding this topic and the source I provided with this information wasn't published until the 16th keeps the news article from being stale if I understand the policy correctly. Alucard 16 (talk) 02:43, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Review ahoy!

Avast there ye scurvey editor! Since I reviewed your shooting article, could you take a look at my pirates? Keep it up either way! Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 19:05, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Done Tempodivalse [talk] 19:31, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

RE: De-Editor

I've posted my comments on the de-editor request. All I'll add here is - address the underlying issues (the long wait time) and It is more likely to reoccur --RockerballAustralia (talk) 01:16, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Could you review the offending article--RockerballAustralia (talk) 01:22, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

I don't have time right now to do a review, sorry - maybe I'll be able to get to it later. Tempodivalse [talk] 02:41, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Looks like someone else got around to it. Tempodivalse [talk] 13:49, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Hiya

Care to have a look at Prosecutors begin NY State Sen. Hiram Monserrate felony assault case? If it is reviewed/published, might be an interesting piece to have as a lead... Cheers, Cirt (talk) 01:25, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Done Tempodivalse [talk] 01:31, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! :) Cirt (talk) 01:32, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Re: Welcome

Hello! Thank you for warm welcome :) Best wishes, Patrol110 (talk) 13:29, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome. Tempodivalse [talk] 13:30, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Please Review

Hello again, I had contacted you earlier for renaming. Now I am contacting for reviewing Lightning strikes kill three in Mumbai. Could you please do it? Srinivas 09:05, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Done Tempodivalse [talk] 12:57, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

+strategy

You have a message on your strategy user talk. :-) Philippe (talk) 00:24, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Noted. Thanks! Tempodivalse [talk] 00:35, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

currency conversions

I see you took out the {{money}} template here. Look again closely, it was reporting "10,000 thousand rubles", i.e. ten thousand thousand (or, as you changed it to, 10 million). I've highlighted this display bug on the template's talk page. Another thought is, are the figures lifted from the Guardian correct? If I use Google calculator I get 208.1 thousand GBP. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 14:07, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Ah, that's right, a thousand thousands are a million. I got confused and thought the extra "thousand" was redundant. Not sure what's causing that bug in the conversion template. Tempodivalse [talk] 14:18, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Article

Emergency doctor testifies in NY State Sen. Hiram Monserrate felony assault case = care to have a look? :) Cirt (talk) 22:47, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Reviewed Tempodivalse [talk] 22:53, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Cirt (talk) 22:57, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Protected edits

Some protected edit requests here: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Protected_edit_requests --ReneJohnsen (talk) 19:16, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Specifically this edit [1] which doesn't make sense to me. --ReneJohnsen (talk) 19:30, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

I responded on Talk:Norwegian politicians face voter suppression allegations. I'll see if I can get around to the other edit protected requests later. Tempodivalse [talk] 21:29, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Link missing

This article is based on [ ] by VOA News which is in the public domain.

Link missing in the [ ] . Cirt (talk) 23:43, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. I forgot to add that parameter when filling in the sources. Thanks for pointing it out. Cheers, Tempodivalse [talk] 23:44, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Blocked

Just out of morbid curiosity, why did you block User:Wackonews? I looked through their contributions and didn't see anything out of the ordinary. And their username doesn't seem offensive. Is it because it is moderately close to Wackynews? Gopher65_talk 00:18, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

The username was blocked previously by someone else, it was part of a series of disruptive usernames (it's pretty obvious it's the same guy who created those anti-George Bush usernames, judging by the habit of creating a talk page with a period and then removing it). I just reblocked the account, because it was abusing talk page editing privs (although i probably should have used a more descriptive block summary). Tempodivalse [talk] 00:20, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Ah, k, good to know. I haven't been watching disruptive usernames, beyond the obvious profanity laden ones. I wonder, in all seriousness, whether some of these people have mental issues. I can't think of a logical reason for them to act the way they do. Gopher65_talk 00:35, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

You should know by now that everybody on the Internet is nuts... :P –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

As I keep telling people, I want "Warning, contains nut" on my tombstone. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 01:21, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Heh heh! Tempodivalse [talk] 01:51, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

80

Care to review my 80th created-article on the site, Police describe bloody evidence in NY Sen. Monserrate assault trial? :) Cirt (talk) 03:08, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Reviewed Tempodivalse [talk] 03:13, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Cirt (talk) 03:15, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome. Congratulations on writing your 80th article. Tempodivalse [talk] 03:24, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you! :--) Cirt (talk) 03:27, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Your Edits

I was away for a week and I had come back to wikinews just today. I had seen your edits but I can't edit the page to rectify your edits. Two problems with your edits:

• In edit 886554 you have said "Two of the dead had been injured while selling lampshades on the street..." but actually only the woman was injured while selling lampshades and not "two."
• Here you have changed "+330 UTC" to "+3.30 UTC" but actually "+330 UTC" or "+5¹⁄₂ UTC" is correct. "+330" means "+330 minutes".

Could you please correct them. And thank you for publishing the article. I hope that I am not troubling you. Thank you, --Srinivas 05:40, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Fixed, thanks for pointing this out. Tempodivalse [talk] 12:33, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Oi!

Oi, I did the lead first! I'll change 2.    Tris   17:06, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

OK, no worries, you seem to have done it!    Tris   17:07, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

No problems. I chose to revert your edit and not mine because the previous article on Lead 2 was newer than the one on Lead 1. Cheers Tempodivalse [talk] 17:09, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Taliban

Please use Taliban, not Taleban. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 17:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Noted. I got confused about which variant is the more common way to spell it, will try to keep this in mind in the future. Thanks Tempodivalse [talk] 17:47, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

New Main Page Progress

I just posted a status update of the main page redesign progress. Since you've been heavily involved with the process so far (and things have been quiet for a few days), I wanted to give you a heads up. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 17:54, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Page move

They are borrowing the money from the United States, of course it is in US dollars. No need to repeat "US", twice, in the title. Cirt (talk) 19:50, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Thanks for the move. Tempodivalse [talk] 19:52, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

No worries. Cirt (talk) 19:52, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

BOT creating article

whats going on in Newsroom? Did you see, a BOT is automatically generating article pages of stale news. Please take action.--110.37.29.192 (talk) 16:33, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

yeah, I noticed that. This is part of a proposal to have a bot create news articles for us, see this thread for more info. Unfortunately, the bot doesn't seem to recognise that the articles are stale and keeps creating them anyway. If the bot continues to flood the newsroom, i'll consider blocking it (but it seems to have stopped now). Tempodivalse [talk] 16:37, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Did you see my request for changing username. WN:CHU#Saqib_Qayyum_.E2.86.92_S_Q.

I'm still awaiting. --110.37.29.192 (talk) 16:40, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Done sorry for the wait. Tempodivalse [talk] 16:44, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Oh, Thanks! --110.37.29.192 (talk) 16:46, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Is it okay, If I delete my user talk of old account?--110.37.29.192 (talk) 16:47, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Generally, after a rename the user talk page of your old account is redirected to the new user talk page, not deleted. Tempodivalse [talk] 16:49, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

SETimes bot

Those articles should be the last which will be outdated. New articles will be up to date because bot won't add articles which it already added. In this construction of the bot it happens just once, at the beginning of the work. --millosh (talk) 19:22, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

BTW, it is not yet fully automated because the account is not yet autocomfirmed. --millosh (talk) 19:22, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

OK. Thanks for your explanation. Cheers Tempodivalse [talk] 19:34, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Iz not gonna do what you want

I see the CSS you're trying to change, and it's not doing what you want, because the main page is one giant table. It was setup that way so all the cells lined up (top leads, along with bottom "info) to give it a nice clean look. Without that we would have ended up with possibly 9 "columns". Anyways, the changes you make dont work because all the other cells are setup with widths for the same 33/33/33. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 23:45, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

oh .... okay. Shows how little I know about mediawiki markup. :-( Is there any way to get the DPL column to be a bit wider? There's too much whitespace around the leads right now, imo. Widening the recent news column would help balance it a bit. Tempodivalse [talk] 23:46, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

It's not really MW Markup, it's more HTML/CSS. Anyways, I can reduce the padding, that will help reduce the whitespace. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 23:49, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

I see you changed the padding. The whitespaces are still there, but it looks better now. Thanks Tempodivalse [talk] 23:53, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

US Senate finance committee to vote on health care bill

Please see the flagged section on the article's talk page. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 00:32, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Hello Again!

Hello again! Please review Advani talks of Ram Mandir at Navi Mumbai. Hope I am not troubling you, Srinivas 13:26, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

I'll see if i can get around to it soon, can't do it immediately. Tempodivalse [talk] 14:12, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

I'd like to review your article, but I've made some rather significant changes to it and might no longer qualify as "uninvolved" enough in order to do a review (see Wikinews:Reviewing articles). It might be better to let someone not involved with editing the article to check it instead. In any case, thanks for your efforts creating the article. Cheers Tempodivalse [talk] 22:12, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Don't you think that the article's headline is quite very long: "Leader of Indian BJP party visits Navi Mumbai to support candidates for general election". I guess it can be shortened. Srinivas 04:54, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

It's a bit long, i agree, but titles should be made clear for an international audience. The old title might be a bit confusing for readers not from India, for instance not everyone might know who Advani is or where Navi Mumbai is located. The new title makes all that more clear, although at the expense of a few extra words. Tempodivalse [talk] 13:09, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

World News Quiz

Can I please write the World News Quiz next week? If you say yes, I will write it unless I get blocked from the website - which is unlikely. ;) --Rayboy8 (talk) 09:26, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Sure, go ahead and write it up next week if you like, i don't mind. Cheers, Tempodivalse [talk] 13:10, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you so much - I promise you won't regret this --Rayboy8 (talk) 20:22, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Could I please have a go creating the World News Quiz this week? --Rayboy8 (talk) 14:19, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Sure, go ahead. :-) Tempodivalse [talk] 14:30, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Re-editorship FYI

Just letting you know that I've renominate for Editor Status --RockerballAustralia (talk) 04:44, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Writing contest 2010?

Could you please make it possible to do a writing quiz in 2010 just like the one you did earlier this year? I missed it because I joined up to the website in August 2009. --Rayboy8 (talk) 08:39, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

That sounds good, writing contests are fun. Maybe i'll propose another one for next year. Tempodivalse [talk] 13:04, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Proxies

Where are you getting reliable information that these IPs are proxies? I ran a scan of 195.68.63.147, it isn't even running anything. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 19:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm getting the IPs off w:Wikipedia:Open proxy detection and m:Meta:Open proxy detection, which i think are pretty reliable. I don't know why that particular IP was a fals positive, perhaps it closed itself since then or i made a mistake when copying the IP number. Sorry. Tempodivalse [talk] 19:15, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

I take it you've now sussed some of the proxy-checking and range identification stuff? --Brian McNeil / ^talk 18:52, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

no, I haven't gotten around to that yet - i'm still getting the IPs from meta's proxy list. I'll try to look into getting a proxy checker later. Tempodivalse [talk] 20:01, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Quote

Which quote did you not find a source for at NY Sen. Monserrate found guilty of misdemeanor assault? I will show you the source I used for it. Cirt (talk) 02:29, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

It was the Giola quote. It seems to have disappeared from the NY Daily News article. I just added another source to back it up. Tempodivalse [talk] 02:30, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Very odd! It was there when I read the article, and Google is still showing it there in the New York Daily News link, when I search for the quote! Cirt (talk) 02:32, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, i noticed that too when I did a google search - they most likely updated their article and removed the quote between when you wrote up the article and I reviewed it. No problem though, the extra source backs everything up, the article is good to go. Tempodivalse [talk] 02:34, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you! Cirt (talk) 02:35, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Please Review

I hope I am not troubling you really but, please review Self-defenestration of Lilavati hospital CEO's son shrouded in mystery. Thank you, Srinivas 06:01, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Done and published. Tempodivalse [talk] 15:40, 16 October 2009 (UTC)