User talk:Editorinsaif

Welcome

Hello All!

It's just been few days for me here and I am surely liking this place :) People around are good and often great help. Thanks Doldrum,PVJ and Steve!

(Editorinsaif 04:45, 13 September 2006 (UTC))

By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes (~~~~), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! Doldrums 11:51, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

hi

nice to have more newsies around. appreciate ur contributions to wikinews. u might find looking thro' Wikinews:Writing an article helpful. also, it would be niec if wikinews articles are based on more than one source. that way, we get some independent confirmation of events, representation from diverse views as well as fewer copyright infringement issues. hoep u enjoy contributing to wikinews. i look forward to more from u. reg, Doldrums 05:55, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

sure!

Wikinews:Browse/Topic has a list of comonly used categories. A more detailed list and a (difficult to use) full list of categories is also available. A category, say Category India is added to the article by placing [[Category:India]] in the article, convention is place all the categories together at the bottom of the article.

as for the dateline, if u've created a new article, u can add a date by ... simply doing nothing - leave the line

{{date|{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTDAY}}, {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}

alone, don't change anything in it. and it'll automatically add the correct date. if something went wrong, or if u want to change the date, then adding {{date|September 10, 2006}} will add that date to the article. note that an article should have only one {{date}} line.

hope this helps. Doldrums 05:57, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

links

there isn't a cut-and-dry rule. normally, people and organisations which have wikipedia articles get links (u'll need to check if the WP articles exist, as interwiki links don't automatically turn red for non-existent articles). also, entities which are either the focus of the article or whose WP article offers relevent background are linked. finally, terms whose meaning is not widely understood (technical/legal terms) can also be linked. excessive wikilinking is not a very terrible thing (They can always be removed, if found excessive). the idea is that the wikilinks should offer a way to get relevant information, but not distract attention too much from the article itself. (incidentally, this is my interpretation of how we do things, Wikinews:Style guide offers some guidelines). Doldrums 06:19, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

local only stories

actually, the reason i hadn't replied yet was i don't know for sure. adding [[Category:Local only]] is meant to do the job, but doesn't, as of now. it doesn't because wikinews currently doesn't run so many stories a day that it should exclude any from the main page. so the category has been been created and kept ready but not actually used.

my suggestion is to spend a little more time on the article to get it ready to be published on the main page itself (it's not all that hard, is it?). u can also ask for assistance at Water cooler/assistance from people who know better than i. hope this helps, Doldrums 05:00, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Re:How to breaking news.

After writing an article, to list it as breaking add {{breaking} to it, but make sure you remove the "Breaking" template later. To add "breaking" to the lead article, you will need to edit Template:Lead article and add [[Image:Breaking.png]]. We don't generally use Wikipedia as a source though, maybe you can try [www.cnn.com CNN] or some other news-website. Cheers! PVJ(Talk) 09:57, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

How to insert picture

Hi,

1) You'll need to upload the picture, preferably to http://commons.wikimedia.org, or to wikinews (by clicking Upload fair use media). Images from other non-free news sources can't be used. You can also browse Commons to look for an appropriate image, e.g. a map of the area. See also: Wikinews:Image use policy.

2) You can read Wikinews:Introduction for tips on how to use images: also check some existing articles (by clicking "edit this page") to see how they use images.

3) I don't understand entirely, but if you are referring to edit summaries; you can type a little explanation of how you changed a page in the white space under the edit box. In fact, it's very important to use that as much as possible. See also the Wikinews:Introduction.

If you have more questions, ask at the watercooler or on my talk page. Also, good work! Happy editing,

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 12:02, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

hungary riots

some of the language in the article needed improving for grammar and usage. the article also needed to be "expanded", with enough information added to ensure that people who read the article without much previous knowledge of Hungary's politics should still be able to make sense of it, and have a reasonably complete picture of the events there. i've tried to fix the problems i saw, and have now removed the cleanup tag. could u take a look at it, and if it looks ok, publish it again. thanks. Doldrums 07:16, 20 September 2006 (UTC)