User talk:Cueball~enwikinews

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--Brian McNeil / ^talk 16:13, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the work on the Cornwall article, too. Dan100 (Talk) 14:39, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Cueball, you removed somthing from the UK sailors captured at gunpoint by Iranians, saying that there is no source saying that the seizure was a reaction to increasing military in the gulf. The source says "The Iranians were bowled over by the appearance of the Charles de Gaulle opposite their southern coast, having assumed that Paris took issue with Washington’s tough stand on their nuclear activities and was seeking improved relations with Tehran.". So what is wrong? -- best wishes, Torsten 17:35, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Do you mind if i move this discussion to the discussion page of the corresponding article? I'd like to know what others think about the question. -- Torsten 18:11, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Unetical editing

By reverting my edits in this way refering to pov you bite yourself in the tail. Both the way of edit (reverting) and motivation (pov) you in an agerssivly way support your own pov in favour of storys development. this kind of behavour have some earlier contributors sadly showed and it dont make wikinews to a working community. international 20:31, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Maby you should, as a new contributor, take a look at this. [1] and this "Avoid reverts and deletions whenever possible, and stay within the three-revert rule except in cases of clear vandalism. Explain reversions in the edit summary box." from [2]. Your recent type of editing make ppl leve WN to guys like you and it make WN to a forum for us pov, not a interseting newssource. Have fun then. international 22:21, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Independent review

Wikinews now requires all articles be independently reviewed by an WN:EDITOR and cannot be published or put on leads until such time as this has been done. I know, it probably wasn't like that when you got the old, old welcome template - so I updated it. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 16:15, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Authorities blockade Chinese town rebelling over land dispute

As I hope you noticed, this it main lead on the front page (at least, it is just now).

Everything that's published goes on the front page, and we've—regrettably—a low article count at the moment which means everything goes up as a lead for some time.

Your comment about working fast is what, for many people more-used to Wikipedia, is the hardest thing about Wikinews. You need to turn-around an article in a matter of hours ideally. Failing that and, taking 36-48 hrs or more on an article, it ideally needs to be more comprehensive than most mainstream sources. That's where Wikinews should excel, but there are few writers can push out good copy in those sort of timescales.

I note you've popped onto Wikinews irregularly over a few years; hopefully seeing what can be done here might encourage you to have a go more often. Odds are if you spot something you think deserves coverage at the weekend, you could push out an article here and there. It does get easier with practice. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 23:40, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

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

23:13, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

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)

06:30, 21 April 2015 (UTC)