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Accreditation request
[edit]Hi. There are instructions for requesting accreditation at WN:Accreditation requests. You had put your request in the main namespace, which is used on Wikinews only for articles and therefore putting it there was a matter to be corrected promptly. I have moved it to User:Dwight Burdette/Accreditation request, which also isn't the right namespace. I suggest you follow the instructions, and consult the page in your userspace as called for, then request deletion of the userspace page once you're done with it. Cheers. --Pi zero (talk) 14:00, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- The instructions at the top of the page regarding accreditation do strongly suggest you read the appropriate policy.
- I see nothing here in the way of article contributions, which is the primary way in which Wikinewsies judge if someone would be trusted with community accreditation. --Brian McNeil / talk 14:31, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- [Add: Although, you've a suitably detailed list of photo credits elsewhere that I'd certainly consider voting for a temporary/probationary accreditation. But, we are as-yet not issuing Press ID cards.] --Brian McNeil / talk 14:34, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'm really confused now. Do I have a pending request or not? If not, what did I do wrong? As for documenting articles I've written, I mentioned my Wikipedia articles. The instructions I read don't say only Wikinews articles matter, but rather all Wiki projects and that would include Wikipedia and Wikimedia. Dwight Burdette (talk) 15:00, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- [Add: Although, you've a suitably detailed list of photo credits elsewhere that I'd certainly consider voting for a temporary/probationary accreditation. But, we are as-yet not issuing Press ID cards.] --Brian McNeil / talk 14:34, 18 February 2012 (UTC)