Wikinews:Accreditation requests/Archive 4
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Closed as not promoted --Mikemoral♪♫ 04:08, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
- Name: Paul Grundman
- Location: Los Angeles, Ca
- Areas of interest: Mastering, Aerospace, Recording Engineering, Entertainment, Music, Music Business
- Reason: Wikinews is more delivering of the facts that are perceived by the reporter/contributer instead of being sponsor controlled or otherwise influenced content. I am interested in contributing and focussing on music, music business, technique , events in hollywood... after all I am here in the "heart" of hollywood at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Also, I have a love of sciences and aerospace. I am interested for example , in covering one of the last shuttle landings that I hope will be at Edwards. Of course, to also attend other events in the entertainment industry locally or abroad.
- Accomplishments: I have written for EQ magazine, they have not published my work online, only in print. EQ covers artists, recording techniques, and reviews. I've interviewed George Duke, wrote pro tools how to's, philosophy on recording, mic technique styles used by The Doors, and others..I have had about 6 articles published.
- Contact information: pg@bgmastering.com is fine.
- User ID: 206222
- Applied on: 20:31, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Votes
Oppose based on the fact that your only two contributions are for this page. --Thunderhead (t - e - c) 19:58, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Weak oppose per above. --Diego Grez let's talk 01:07, 23 April 2010 (UTC)- Respectfully
Oppose, need to see some more contributions to this project before I can make an informed opinion on whether you should be given accreditation. Tempodivalse [talk] 02:33, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
Oppose Per Tempodivalse. --Mikemoral♪♫ 02:50, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
- Thank You for responding... I totally agree actually. I am contributing in the science and space now and will continue to do so with great respect to the WikiWorld. I reached out to Nicholas Gerda whom was very helpful and informative. However, I do ask if you have any tips about what will accelerate my articles in being complete, or if you see I have neglected to submit a certain way that is making the news become stale, to please email me... or yell really loudly at the monitor so I can hear you. The code use is new to me so ... be gentle ;)
Thank you and , can't wait for round 2.
Best
Paul
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Closed as promoted. --Mikemoral♪♫ 04:07, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
- Name: Peter Coti
- Location: Ridgewood, New Jersey
- Areas of interest: Politics, Crime, Technology, Disasters
- Reason: One of the main reasons why I want accreditation is because I am picky when it comes to writing articles due to copyright reasons. With AR I could do more AR. I live in a suburb of NYC where a lot of things happen. Also my school is a hot spot for senators and other government officials who try to push anti-cyberbulling laws (in fact Parry Aftab came to my school today (never got a heads up so I could not request a interview). Lastly my school is going to a anti cyberbulling event with my school, many senators + congressmen are expected to go to it and being accredited could help me set up a interview.
- Accomplishments:
- Tensions continue to rise between North Korea and United States
- Tensions rise between North Korea and United States
- Wikinews interviews Diego Grez, Chilean earthquake survivor
- Contact information: petercoti@gmail.com
- User ID: 47047
- Applied on: 22:07, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Comments
- Have you attempted to request an interview without the accreditation? What do you plan on using it for past the cyberbullying event? Are you a photographer? You list yourself as "Technology", have you written or contributed to technology-related stories? Would you consider do live Twitter-streams for unfolding stories? terinjokes | Talk 22:25, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
- Yea, I requested interviews with several congressmen and their press secretaries say I need credentials. At the conference I plan to take notes on what people talk about. I am not a photographer but I can always buy a camera or we could use stock photos as a last resort. Admittedly I have not written any technology articles (at least here) due to news worthiness. Also, I would totally consider doing live twitter streams, it would keep people in the loop and attract more people to wikinews. Irunongames•play 22:56, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Votes
Support Known him as a contributor for a while, and he seems pretty good, and would be a useful asset to the contributing team, especially if he could score some interviews. Go Get 'Em. terinjokes | Talk 04:11, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Support I trust the person. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:10, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Support Absolutely. --Thunderhead (t - e - c) 02:51, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Support Trusted. Pmlineditor discuss 16:45, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Support Why not? (while singing: Where do I begin?... to tell the story on how great a love can be?) --Diego Grez let's talk 17:16, 17 April 2010 (UTC).
Support Yep Benny the mascot (talk) 17:42, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
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Closed as unsuccessful. --Mikemoral♪♫ 00:09, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
- Name: Mohamed Mahir
- Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Areas of interest: General topics,politics, tamil news
- Reason: with this accreditation can directly attend govt events and meet people in various personalities. Can contribute world classical tamil conference events news. And wish to be a part of tamil wikinews team.
- Accomplishments: I am the first person designed the tamil wiki news (ta.wikinews.org) home page and invited and promoting tamil wikinews to the public.
- Contact information: mahir78 at gmail.com
- User ID: 16
- Applied on: 18:43, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Comments
- You will find most contributors here on enWN are totally unable to assess your contributions to Tamil Wikinews and thus assess your suitability for issuing an accreditation from here. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /'alt-talk • main talk' 19:11, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Votes
weak oppose. I would like to see other languages formulate accreditation policies, but without a well-established community that has cross-wiki language links to here, there is no way to judge if someone is suitable for accreditation, appropriately trustworthy, or vouched for by someone from the Tamil Wikinews that is well-known to people here. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk 19:11, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
oppose. We have discussed this in Tamil Wikimedia community. The Tamil Wikinews project is in its very early stage. This is too early to consider such request for anyone. We would like the community to grow a bit and then draft procedures and qualifications for such requests as a policy decision. User: Mahir has also expressed his willingness to withdraw this request. Thanks--Ravidreams (talk) 11:20, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Oppose for the same reason I opposed Ezarate below; we're just not in position to determine whether or not you'd make a good accredited reporter as practically nobody here speaks Tamil. Perhaps the Tamil Wikinews should consider implementing its own accreditation process instead of requesting it here. Tempodivalse [talk] 13:22, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
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Closed as unsuccessful. --Mikemoral♪♫ 20:12, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
- Name: Esteban Zárate
- Location: Tandil,Argentina
- Areas of interest: Computation, Sports
- Reason: I want to interview peoples so I can do articles with more quality
- Accomplishments: Links to some articles you've written
- Contact information: jezarate@gmail.com
- User ID: 47086
- Applied on: 20:50, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Comments
Here you can see my contributions on the Spnish Wikinews where I edit. --Ezarate (talk) 21:05, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Comment Spanish Wikinoticias has been notified Benny the mascot (talk) 15:57, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
Votes
--Diego Grez let's talk 21:03, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Oppose Not involved here in Wikinews (as far as I can see on your contributions). I know you edit on the Spanish one, if you specify it, then I'll support you.
Support But please edit here too! Yo edito en ambas :-) --Diego Grez let's talk 21:09, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Weak oppose for now. I can't decide whether I think you should be accredited because I'm not familiar with you or your contributions - as you haven't contributed here. If I understand properly, you want the accreditation for work on other another language edition of Wikinews, but we're not really in position to make a proper assessment of your contributions. Please don't think that this is a personal reflection on you, I'm sure you're a very helpful user at Wikinoticas, but I just don't know enough about you to consider supporting. Perhaps es.wikinews should consider coming up with its own accreditation policies instead of coming here to request it? Cheers, Tempodivalse [talk] 21:24, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Comment I'm requesting here because on eswiki doesn't exists this policy--Ezarate (talk) 22:08, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
- Perhaps you can propose that over on es.wikinews as Temodivalse suggested. --Mikemoral♪♫ 22:25, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Support Seems to be a productive contributor at esWikinoticias. Benny the mascot (talk) 16:07, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
Strong oppose the user doesn't write a good news in es.wikinews. His articles doesn't have a good complexity to be an article and he writes many histories about his town (Tandil, Argentina) and don't write about anothers news in anther places on the Earth. The user doesn't have a "community life" and sometimes have a problem with identificate a news from a Wikipedia's article. Sorry for Ezarate, but a news reporter acredited must be a excelent reporter and not only a good writer of news (perhaps this request, shows him that is a good user but doesn't a news writer). To english community, please sorry for my poor english level, because I'm a basic student of english. Any question, please make in my talk@es.wikinews Superzerocool (talk) 16:24, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
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- Closed as promoted temporarily, for a week. --Diego Grez return fire 23:05, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- Name: Matthew Edwards
- Location: Los Angeles County, California
- Areas of interest: Entertainment, sport, culture, arts
- Reason: I understand that this request is likely to be denied, and that is fine, but I didn't want myself or Wikinews to miss the opportunity, so... On Friday of this week (21 May), the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Tour_of_California will be holding its sixth stage in my home town. My father-in-law is working security at the event, and they are holding a press conference at the start and finish of the stage. I have access to the conference. I know also that the procedure takes longer than two days, and if this request cannot be sped up for special circumstances, please archive it on Friday as the opportunity will have obviously passed. Thank you
- Accomplishments: Heh, none. This would be the first work I carry out for the project.
- Actually, I created File:Preah Vihear Temple.png for the article Thai-Cambodian generals in talks after border clash kills two, but it wasn't much. I just added some dots and text. Matthewedwards (talk) 00:43, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- And I've written numerous FLs, FAs, GAs, etc at en-Wikipedia, where I'm an admin. If that helps. Matthewedwards (talk) 00:45, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- Contact information: mmmatthewedwards@aol.com
- User ID: 25090
- Applied on: 00:37, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Comments
Votes
Oppose You can report for Wikinews anyway if you want. --Diego Grez return fire 00:46, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- You're right and I will do that, but reporting on the event, and being inside the press enclosure with access to all the participants, are two different things. Matthewedwards (talk) 01:20, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Support temporary accreditation for 7 days and urge speedy closure on this discussion. This has been done before; see previous request. I'm sure this user wouldn't request accreditation if he didn't need it. Benny the mascot (talk) 01:15, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Support, sort of per Benny, but I'm not sure why it has to be only for 7 days. That seems kind of unfair. –Juliancolton | Talk 01:18, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- I don't think so, he hasn't done anything outstanding there and he may only need it once.
Support exactly 7 days, per Benny. --Diego Grez return fire 01:21, 19 May 2010 (UTC) - He really needs it for only one day. What do you have in mind? Benny the mascot (talk) 01:22, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- As he said, he's a en.WP editor, hasn't done anything outstanding there. Obviously if he does sometime, I'll gladly support any request from this user. --Diego Grez return fire 01:25, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- I believe there has been a miscommunication. I directed my comment at Juliancolton. (note the indentation) :) Benny the mascot (talk) 01:29, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- I know. But that question was too obvious :) --Diego Grez return fire 01:30, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- I believe there has been a miscommunication. I directed my comment at Juliancolton. (note the indentation) :) Benny the mascot (talk) 01:29, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- As he said, he's a en.WP editor, hasn't done anything outstanding there. Obviously if he does sometime, I'll gladly support any request from this user. --Diego Grez return fire 01:25, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
- I don't think so, he hasn't done anything outstanding there and he may only need it once.
Support the temporary accreditation thingy and early closure. I've worked with this editor over on en.wiki and will vouch for his writing ability and trustworthiness. While more activity on this project is desirable (hint, hint!), this could be a chance for a good bit of reporting for WN, but for accreditation beyond 7 days, I'd like to see more activity here. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:37, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Support for 7-day accreditation. Mikemoral♪♫ 05:18, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Support 7 days or permanent. Pmlineditor discuss 07:41, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Support 3 days, 7 days or permanent, and I support early closure. User's achievements at Wikipedia demonstrate his commitments to NPOV and to good prose. Therefore his presence in the press enclosure will be a credit to Wikinews. --InfantGorilla (talk) 08:11, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Support Temporary. Full accreditation has purposely been set with a reasonably high bar (compared to things like Reviewer) and I would expect some work round the project first. If the work at this event is good then that alone might be enough for me. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 10:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Support per BRS. Drop me an email if you need an "Editor-in-Chief" to send a request for access to the press enclosure. ;-) We don't as-yet have physical credentials. That is, slowly, being schemed towards. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:13, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Support Per Blood Red Sandman. C628 (talk) 17:59, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Support Close it already! Griffinofwales (talk) 22:48, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
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- Speedily Closed. Not successful. Diego Grez return fire 21:41, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
- Name: Rodd L. Peck, US Marines/US Army, Retired
- Location: USA/Germany/Thailand/Iraq/Afghanistan
- Areas of interest: US Military/Politics
- Reason: Access to US Military comanders
- Accomplishments: Have written articles for the Army Times/Stars & Stripes/Bangkok Post
- Contact information: BigPecker162@yahoo.com
- User ID: 215562
- Applied on: 28May2010
Comments
Votes
Oppose Accreditation is given only to established Wikinews contributors. I suggest that you spend some time here writing articles first. Benny the mascot (talk) 13:29, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Oppose, I'd like to see this user spend some time on Wikinews first, to be able to ascertain that he is fully familiar with our policies. We generally only give this out only to established contributors to Wikinews; please consider writing some articles first. Tempodivalse [talk] 13:54, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Oppose Big Pecker? Really? You want me to take you seriously when you turn up out of the blue? Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 14:19, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
- I'm just going to AGF on that one... :D Benny the mascot (talk) 14:30, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Oppose Per above. --Diego Grez return fire 17:22, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Oppose. We don't do AGF on this, and I feel I got burned on the last one. I put a great deal of effort into getting Matthew Edwards press access; this resulted, to the best of my knowledge, in zero coverage for Wikinews via a temporary accreditation. I, frankly, was made to look foolish - I gave the Tour of California press people a clear assurance there would be coverage on our site. I am not giving my support to someone else ever again unless they first make a noticable effort here. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:19, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Oppose per Diego. --Thunderhead (t - e - c) 20:25, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
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