User talk:Kinnerc

Welcome

Kinnerc, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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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(talk) 17:37, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

anti-spam capchas

hi richard, the only account verification that i'm aware of, is to provide an e-mail address (to be set in your preferences). in any case, i think u'll be rid of it after 4 days or 50 edits. so do try and bear with us till then :). some more info abt these features is available at m:Anti-spam Features.  — Doldrums(talk) 15:29, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

PVJ's pages

nothing's wrong at all. u reverted the user page, i reverted the talk page, both of which were vandalised. and don't worry too much about making the odd mistake. this is a wiki, and everything can be fixed just fine :).  — Doldrums(talk) 16:30, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Saluton

Sal, Richard! Mi estas malpreta al komencos Esperanto-Wikinews, mi povas nur paroli baza nivelo de Esperanto ;) Bona al vidi vi! --Skenmy^{(t•c•w•i)} 08:59, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Awesome

		Exceptional Newcomer Award
		I, Messedrocker, award you this Exceptional Newcomer award for being such an awesome n00b. You remind me of me back when I wrote articles. 14:51, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, Jim. I'm having a lot of fun, really. Because of the environment and the pace there seems to be a greater sense of being able to make a difference on this project if you want. Hopefully I'll continue to live up to the award. Thanks again! -Richard 'Doc' Kinne 17:22, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

I Second That Nomination

		Exceptional Newcomer Award
		I, Thunderhead, award you this Exceptional Newcomer Award for being the best n00b we've had in a long time. Go get em! 14:51, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Thunderhead. I've been having fun, and hopefully I've been useful at the same time.  :-) -Richard 'Doc' Kinne 16:05, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Reconsider Accred. Request

Thanks Richard. I will most certinaly be applying again soon - it just seems that people were either too reluctant to post any vote at all (didn't know which way to swing and influence the vote) or just didn't see it. I'll try and get out there and do some photojournalism and get some of it under my belt before I reapply. Hopefully that will help the balance tip. --Skenmy^{(t•c•w•i)} 21:13, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Article publication

No worries. I forget sometimes too - you just end up getting used to what categories are there and what isn't. --Skenmy^{(t•c•w•i)} 21:56, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Recent comments

Please see WN:NOT. The articles are not considered to be appropriate for Wikinews - as they have no news sources that can be cited for the data included. Also, with these types of articles we have to be *extremely* careful about NPOV. I can see a lot of NPOV in those articles you have commented on. The content may be good, however the way it is written is not. They do not adhere to our style guidelines for published articles, they attribute the text to a single author, and could also be considered to be editorials - which are not accepted for publication on Wikinews. --Skenmy^{(t•c•w•i)} 18:10, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Kinnerc! I have really enjoyed working with you this year, and I am honestly looking forward to another year just like it. Wikinews is a great community, and I am really excited to be a part of it. Again, Merry Christmas! Thunderhead

Merry Christmas!

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FellowWikiNews is whishing thou a Merry very pegan Christmas , Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, or whatever thou calls it, and realised they had purposefully forgotten about thou. This user is completely thoughtless, doesn't care about Season's Greetings, and therefore DEMANDS you have yourself a Merry Christmas... NOW! Failure to comply will result in going to jail with Santa. (Note: Santa is Satan spelt backwards)! Christmas Story (Children Friendly): So kids, is Santa Democrat or Republican??! Often depicted as an obese man wearing a tasteless red, ermine trimmed suit, Santa Claus is a self-employed Caucasian male who's been married to the same woman for several centuries. It appears likely that he is a churchgoer, insofar as he is a Catholic saint and a former bishop. It has to be assumed here that Claus was released from his vows, or else he would not have been married. Frequent arguments have erupted over the political affiliation of Claus. Ten years ago, Dick Cheney inadvertently dealt a savage blow to the morale of the Republican Party when he misidentified the political affiliation of Santa Claus in his best-selling book, Parliament of Whores. "Santa Claus," he said, "is a Democrat." However it is perfectly obvious from his demographic profile alone that Santa is in fact a Republican. This assessment is often rebutted by Democrats with Anne-McCaffery counter-analysis: Santa Claus has no children. High-achieving professionals without children trend Democratic. While the Clausian canon does not specifically address the issue of Santa's children, numerous extra-canonical sources suggest that Claus did, in fact, reproduce. Numerous Christmas TV movie specials alone support this point. Santa is renowned for an aggressive adherence to a binary naughty/nice list, which suggests an impatience for nuanced moral positions that betrays his Republican preferences. Santa's mere willingness to define individuals along a naughty/nice axis demonstrates his indifference to the philosophical stance of, say, The New York Times. And note that no canonical or extra-canonical Clausian text indicates that Santa ever attended college or, God forbid, graduate school. THE END!!! FellowWikiNews approves of this story.