User talk:Stillwaterising/Archive 1

Hi, and thanks

Thanks for your update to the plane crashing into the Echelon building. I've not seen this story at all today, so I've not read everything on it. Can you expand and wikilink some of the acronyms while I go through some of the sources before sighting your update?

Thanks! --Brian McNeil / ^talk 18:34, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I'll try, my head is spinning trying to keep with this. I'm an experienced Wikipedia editor but a Wikinews virgin. - Stillwaterising (talk) 18:37, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

You're doing pretty well at losing that virginity. When you get a chance, Wikinews: For Wikipedians may be of some help, but you seem to be grasping it just fine without it. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 18:39, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

• Just one thing, be critical of the sources you're adding. I don't think the embeddedart source is at all suitable; it seems like someones polemic rantings. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 18:54, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Add it as an EL then. - Stillwaterising (talk) 18:58, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I already have. Brian, go to embeddedart and check the name and date at the bottom. It's his suicide letter. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 19:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Seems like a manifesto as well as suicide note, haven't read it yet. I have a copy saved to harddrive. -Stillwaterising (talk) 19:03, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I, too, have only skimmed. It looks very interesting, though. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 19:05, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I took a look at your WP page to get an idea of who you are. I note you had to repeat your opposition to censorship seven times and belong to the porno project. Something tells me you're going to get along very well here :p. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 19:26, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I'll take that comment literally and would like to thank you for the welcome. -Stillwaterising (talk) 19:32, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I assure you, it was meant literally. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 19:37, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Personal Update

I need to take a break from covering this incident and take care of personal matters. If anybody wants me to review anything from the News 8 live TV coverage please tell me the approximate time and I'll look into it. - Stillwaterising (talk) 20:19, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

There's no rush, but can you take a look sometime at my request for the text of the letter over on the article talk page? Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 20:21, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Editor status

You should nom yourself atWN:FR/RFP soon. It would mean that if the last revision of a page you edited had been sighted, your edit would be autosighted. You could also sight other user's edits and review articles - although I imagine you'd wait a bit before reviewing. The system is designed to be easy come, easy go so you should pass fairly easily. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 00:59, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Done - Stillwaterising (talk) 01:19, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Redirects

I removed a bunch of Joe Stack redirects you created. Generally Wikinews only has redirects for notable figures who're covered by multiple articles and the redirect is to an associated category.

I think what you'd done was distinctly more Wikipedia-esque. ;-) --Brian McNeil / ^talk 19:36, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Wikimedia founder Jimbo Wales moves to purge pornography from Commons‎

Hi there, good to see you around. Bluntly, I have no desire to get involved in this story - at least not from the reporting end. At the moment the on-wiki end is taking care of itself. I will warn you - your original assertion was that the photograph was certainly, unquestionably child porn. Always use words like 'suspected', 'alleged' and even 'disputed'. It is a fact that people suspected it to be such, it is a fact that people alleged it was such, it is a fact that people disputed that. It is not a fact that it is known to be illegal - if you don't want sued, I'd advise you not to say it. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 11:53, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

I also don't want WMF to suffer any additional legal or financial consequences. Unless that young woman wants to come forward and give her personal identifying information to a reliable source, it comes down to original research. Things will take care of themselves, and I think I'm going to tale a well-deserved wikivacation. - Stillwaterising (talk) 01:23, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Babel

Hi, our babel boxes work differently from en.wp's, as it seems you discovered here. We use {{babel box|language code|level=number}} instead, with a separate template for each language. So, to indicate you're a native English speaker, you would write {{babel box|en|level=N}}. Cheers, Tempodivalse [talk] 21:21, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

User:Stillwaterising/Exclusive: No-bid contract for security review of IRS facilities mismanaged

I've moved the article to userspace. Hope that's an acceptable solution to your recent request on its talk page. --Pi zero (talk) 23:58, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Yes, this is acceptable. - Stillwaterising (talk) 11:13, 17 October 2012 (UTC)