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Your recent edits to Wikinews

Hi. I'm writing this because some of your recent edits to Wikinews appear don't appear to comply with our guidelines, such as the deletions and speedy deletions you are marking on pages, without fully understanding what you are deleting and why. Please be more careful with your edits, and consider reading our policies and rules before continuing. BarkingFish (talk) 22:13, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

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BarkingFish (talk) 01:05, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Changes to published articles (such as Jerry Brown defeats Meg Whitman in election for California governorship‎)

(Congrats, BTW, on the article being published!)

You'd be better off actually editing a published article directly, rather than just leaving a note on the talk page. There's only a 24-hour window after publication for making substantive edits to a published article; after that, only copyedits are allowed. When you edit the published article, the change isn't published, but goes into the review queue; a reviewer will then review it, and either pass it without change, pass it with change, or revert it. A general note on the talk page is much less likely to cause the changes to occur in time. --Pi zero (talk) 12:23, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Pi Zero! Well, the reason that I didn't want to change the article was to avoid edit warring with BRS, but I'll take your advice and change it now and see what he thinks. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 14:12, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Speedy template

One of your changes is not inappropriate; the final sentence should say articles with this template are added to the speedy deletions category.

en.Wikinews produces articles in the main namespace, not pages. There is almost no other namespace where a speedy deletion is necessary. This is the normal jargon used on this project. Although interwiki links are not exactly necessary for templates, they refer only to the :Template page; they are not transcluded to the articles tagged with the template. Because it does no harm for us, and other language Wikinews projects often refer back to en.WN pages they have translated, the language interwikis should be allowed to remain.

- Amgine | ^t 16:30, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

You have been blocked from Wikinews for {{{1}}}. If you believe this block is unjustified or wish to contest it, you may add {{unblock|your reason}} to this page, go to Wikinews IRC to request to be unblocked, or send a message to wikinews-l wikimedia ● org.

Diego Grez ^{return fire} 18:58, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Very sorry about that, TeleComNasSprVen, I think someone was in a bit of hurry when examining the logs and didn't realise this was a very minor revision issue. (The block was removed almost as quickly as it was applied.) - Amgine | ^t 19:05, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

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