User talk:202.4.4.48

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Philippines articles

The two articles on Philippines u published contain a substantial amount of text copied from another news source. Until Wikinews can confirm that that news source agrees to Wikinews republishing their work, Wikinews cannot publish these articles. Also, the location in the dateline is only used for articles that have Original reporting, so i've removed it from these articles.  — Doldrums(talk) 07:44, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

You're the best! How's the confirmation? --202.4.4.47 06:21, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

The source states that anyone can use their contents with attribution and notification - i.e., we shld inform/take permission. as far as i can make out, that does not make it compatible with our CCA license, which does not place any "notification" restriction. i've mailed to the site asking for permission to use their material and have not received any response so far. i intend to wait for one more day for a response. if i don't receive one, then i will delete the article as a copyvio. one way to avoid that is to rewrite the article, using the Bulatlat article as a source - this is what we usually do on Wikinews, instead of simply copying their article here. if u'd like someone else to look at the article to check the copyright status, feel free to post a note on Wikinews:Water cooler/assistance.  — Doldrums(talk) 09:36, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

TxtPower article

i think this article is way out of bounds of what is acceptable on Wikinews. i would suggest u take a careful look at Wikinews:Content guide and WN:NPOV and do try to make a better effort to conform to these policies. repeating defamatory statements, making editorial comments and compiling various events to "make a case" in a Wikinews article is not acceptable, and such articles are likely to be deleted unless they are fixed up.  — Doldrums(talk) 09:53, 23 January 2007 (UTC)