User talk:Busted~enwikinews

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"Make a new plan, Stan"
I would love to give this article the attention it deserves; and I certainly do not dispute it should be written. However, at the moment I'm involved in a vandal war, and collecting Open Proxy IPs for Wikimedia Foundation, and cannot spare the time. I will get to it, just give me a while until the vandal gets tired of wasting his stolen IPs. - Amgine/talk 05:32, 4 September 2005 (UTC)


 * If the article I submitted exposing the failures of local officials cannot be published until you get the time to help edit it, then please "unpublish" the "National Disgrace" editorial, as it is unfair to only allow one side of the story to be presented on the front page. - Busted 05:37, 4 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Okay, things seem to have calmed down for the moment. I just noticed New Orlean's Mayor failed to follow hurricane plan is one of our lead articles; I need to check this out. - Amgine/talk 06:14, 4 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, after thinking about it, disputing the "National Disgrace" article is not the right way to go. It seems that publishing this article now that it's been improved is a better idea, because I don't believe in censorship. Perhaps the best compromise is to give the readers both a national and a local angle in separate "disgrace" stories, so they can decide for themselves who is most to blame? I'll be interested to hear any more specific ideas you have to make the article less POV. - Busted 06:20, 4 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I agree; there should be two articles since, it seems, there were failures at both the local and the national levels. Actually, there should probably be dozens more, since mistakes were probably made at many levels. One thing to keep in mind when writing, however, is a reporter does not interpret the facts; we just lay them out for people to make their own conclusions. We can quote people who have made judgements, but Wikinews itself does not make those judgements. - Amgine/talk 06:40, 4 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Amgine, I responded to your suggestions in my latest edits to the article and also replied on the article talk page. - Busted 06:42, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Link name
In the Bus yard image you say you don't know how to make a URL clickable. To get the URL from that map, put the cursor over the correct square and right-click. A menu should pop up with an option similar to "Copy link location", which will save the image's URL. You then can Paste into the place you want the URL to be placed. In Wikinews, you can create an external link by [surrounding it with brackets] (I told Wikinews to make those brackets visible instead of making a link). However, in photo credits it is best to just paste the image URL as text so it is visible as part of the credits; the software will automatically make it a clickable link. (SEWilco 19:33, 4 September 2005 (UTC))


 * OK, done. I updated the credits to note that the image in question is a crop and rotate from the NOAA website at: :http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24426569.jpg


 * Thanks for following up. - Busted 22:01, 4 September 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 Busted. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Busted~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 23:12, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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