User talk:Zantastik~enwikinews

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Brazilian President party received money from FARC, say documents

We welcome multiple articles on a single subject on Wikinews. Sometimes the articles will have different angles, or focus on different elements of a single story, and each has its strong points. In this particular case, however, the initial author of the spanish article (User:Carlosar) is also the contributor who created the link here on en.WN and is probably planning to translate his earlier article.

It is generally considered polite to wait until the initial author make the initial save, since it is likely they will have to deal with an edit conflict if you do not. - Amgine 03:48, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Please Stop Vandalizing

Right now Yahoo search found 1,064 NEWS stories for keywords "ebay for sale".

Please stop vandalizing. Register a dispute if you wish or better yet, write a story that you think is news. Paulrevere2005 00:14, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

I appreciate your comments on my user discussion page.All the best. Paulrevere2005 04:41, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Bush's Texas law unplugs baby(against mom's wishes)

Hi, I just wanted to give a "heads-up" I am starting a article focusing exclusivly on baby Sun. I'll leave the rest to you to blast off. Paulrevere2005 13:50, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Article about the Oil for Food issue

Thank you very much for your comments. Actually my article Oir For Food is in great part a translation of the Oil-for-Food Programme article in Wikipedia. I just updated and added somethings, including pictures. I see no trouble in translating my article to English. I can do that when I have time. --Carlosar 10:40, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

legal issues

Actually, there is a legal problem with your article, if it is in great part a translation of the Oil-for-Food Program article on Wikipedia. Wikinews is public domain, whereas wikipedia is gfdl, and the two aren't compatible.

What should I do? Should I change the article a little? --Carlosar 02:46, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Zantastik. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Zantastik~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

23:24, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

06:41, 21 April 2015 (UTC)