Wikinews talk:Archive conventions

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[edit] suggesting something that is probably really unpopular (no protection)

Perhaps stopping the protection of archived materials may be of ultimate benefit to the project. There are definitely changes on protected pages that could happen (mostly "trivial" items) and most users are not going to be admins. --Remi (talk) 06:01, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Disagree with this idea, that is what {{editprotected}} is for. Cirt (talk) 06:54, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Definitely a bad idea. Too many people don't get the difference between here and Wikipedia. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 07:02, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Solar Eclips

This file image of the Pleiades star cluster does not show the recent Westerlund 1 discovery, but is used to illustrate what a star cluster looks like.
Image: NASA.

Names of publications and articles

Please italicise names of publications and articles mentioned, including web site names. Don't put web addresses into articles.

When the publication is something like The Boston Globe, note that 'The' is capitalised.

When using a common, shortened form, such as calling The Boston Globe simply the Globe.

Always use the full name of the publication on the first mention, not a contracted name. Unlike with acronyms, there is no need to explicitly define the contracted form in brackets after the first mention of the full name.

Wiki links within an article Do not over-wikify articles. Link only particularly relevant background material. If your article is about a high-speed chase and accident, the make and colour of the vehicle is probably not particularly relevant, but the city or region might be.

If I wave chicken entrails over this, will it make sense? --Brian McNeil / ^talk 06:45, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

This seems to have been copied from Wikinews:Style guide#Names of publications and articles. Not sure what the user was trying to do. Tempodivalse [talk] 20:37, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Seven days

It seems some articles are being protected several days early. I'm not necessarily against this, and I actually think it would be a good idea to protect articles after five days, but we need to be careful not to jump the gun in terms of archiving things. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:51, 30 September 2009 (UTC)