User talk:Tedlipien
Welcome[edit]
Tedlipien, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Copyvio issue[edit]
The article you created, "Audiences and Independent Journalists in Eurasia lose another Voice of America outlet for exchanging views with the U.S.", has been deleted as a copyright violation. The article is released under CC-by-nc, which is not compatible with CC-by, the license under which all Wikinews articles are released. If you can arrange with the original author(s) to release the article under CC-by it can be posted here. - Amgine | talk en.WN 00:53, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
- This is a warning: please do not continue to recreate this article. It has been deleted as a copyright violation. If you believe this has been deleted in error, please leave me a message explaining why this might be the case. - Amgine | talk en.WN 01:29, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Inline links/references[edit]
Hi, just a quick comment on our conventions on offsite links. General practice is to place all links to non-Wikimedia sites in an == External links == section at the bottom of the article after the == Sources == section. Your VOA article is also missing Categories. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:12, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
identity confirmation[edit]
Wikinews needs to confirm that you are indeed Ted Lipien. one simple way to do this is to send an e-mail to an accredited user or an administrator from an e-mail address verifiable as that of Mr. Lipien (such as one posted on your website). confirming your identity, of course, will go a long way in lending credibility to the original reporting claim on the VOA journalists article. –Doldrums(talk) 15:19, 8 June 2007 (UTC)