User talk:Scientomogy
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[edit]Scientomogy, 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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Website mocking Tom Cruise fights to stay online
[edit]Hi Scientomogy, welcome to Wikinews! You need to review the talk page for the article you created. If it is original reporting, you need to give us some information about the nature of the original reporting. - Borofkin 02:37, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
- Hi! This article appears to be a press release. Can you explain how it is not a press release, and is a viable news event, on the talk page of the article? - Amgine | talk en.WN 04:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Interview?
[edit]Hello.... during discussions on Talk:Website mocking Tom Cruise fights to stay online it has been suggested that a possible way to deal with this story is to do an interview. Would you be willing to participate as the interviewee? - Borofkin 05:23, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
- Of course :) Glen Stollery C T 05:24, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
- Excellent. What we'd like to do is delete the article Website mocking Tom Cruise fights to stay online, the conduct the interview and create a new article from scratch. Are you okay with this? - Borofkin 05:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)