User talk:80.94.225.194

You have been blocked for 50 hours for advertising your product on Wikinews. This page has been protected to prevent you from spreading similar advertisements here. It will be unprotected after your block expires. PVJ  (Talk) 13:43, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

A problem which sometimes comes up is press releases. Press releases are sometimes excellent sources, but they do not qualify as unbiased news articles so they can't be published as they are. Two key things to remember about press releases is that they're usually written to represent the viewpoint of an involved party (Thus likely running foul of our Neutral Point of View policy). And second, they are generally covered by copyright which can conflict with our open editing approach.

A better way to get an article on an exciting subject published here is to write an original article following the guidelines described in writing an article, or to write a brief explanation of the subject and include the url address of articles or websites to use as sources.

We welcome your contributations. Thanks for reading this!

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please do not post advertising press releases and promotional material on wikinews. they will be deleted. please see content guide to see what material is appropriate for wikinews. please note that repeated reposting of deleted material will get u blocked from editing wikinews. Doldrums 17:18, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

another add do we block this IP for a more long time ?
today Jacques Divol 09:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikinews is not an advertising service. Please read the template instead of removing it. Looks like you've been warned before. Press release that aren't re-written are automatically deleted. If you're just copying press releases, you're wasting your time, and you can end up blocked.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 16:19, 15 March 2007 (UTC)