User talk:MacRusgail

Hello,

your story has been published under a new title: Party supporting Scottish independence from UK wins elections after I read your comment that Wikinews is harder than Wikipedia. Could you explain what difficulties you've experienced specifically? That way we could improve our site. Basically I feel that if people look at the stories on the main page and see how articles look like they're likely to write a good story... Thank you for submitting the article, we hope you contribute other articles too, especially some follow-up on this election, or other important stories about Scotland.

kind regards, --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:40, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I would also be interested in that. Anyways Happy editing, and if you need anything, don't hesitate to ask. Bawolff ☺☻ 06:22, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. It will take a few days to see how it will pan out. There's a lot going on just now. What counted yesterday was gone today. --MacRusgail 00:27, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Welcome

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Re: Thanks!

You're welcome, MacRusgail. Glad to help! Your article, Party supporting Scottish independence from UK wins elections was great, keep it up. Cheers, Jcart1534 22:48, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Party supporting Scottish independence from UK wins elections

You have added a lot of information to Party supporting Scottish independence from UK wins elections. I don't have any reason to doubt its validity, but lots of it seems unsourced. For example, the stuff about Gordon Brown. His name is not mentioned in any of the sources for this article. Sources need to be added or the sections will be removed. --SVTCobra 02:31, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

In addition, MacRusgail, you should not copy and paste from Wikipedia. From Wikinews Copyright info page: "Please do not copy content from Wikipedia, since Wikipedia's GFDL license is incompatible with Wikinews' license." Regards, Jcart1534 03:28, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I thought wikipedia was copyright free except where specified? --MacRusgail 00:24, 7 May 2007 (UTC)