User talk:82.41.156.176

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Story preparation/Interview with Robert Cailliau
I like the question you added to the interview preparation, but we are going to have to hack this back a bit, we're hoping for expansive answers to do a "Wikinews Interviews" article with a sub-page for the interview transcript. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:18, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * When I say hack back, I mean the setup for emailing - not necessarily your question. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:20, 22 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Ah, but news reporting doesn't always involve getting things out the door in 5 minutes flat. Sometimes what is called for is research for background, or digging up court documents and the like. I'm not sure when we're going to send off the interview questions, but the key thing I think is to ask if there are details you'd like filled out on Robert's Wikipedia page... We can do original reporting and can then be used as a source. --Brian McNeil / talk 13:10, 23 July 2007 (UTC)