User talk:DiamondPress~enwikinews

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Please add your original reporting notes to Talk:Interview with Mani Raziani at the Diamond high council.. Then edit your article to meet our WN:SG standards.  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 18:09, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Interview with Mani Raziani at the Diamond high council.
Dear user,

thank you for your article, we are very happy to see you want to contribute. However, the first time people use Wikinews can be very difficult, so here are some tips how to do it.

1. Don't simply undo edits by other people when they are telling you what is wrong with your article. Read what they are saying, read the policies and guidelines they refer to, take your time to get yourself acquainted with our website, then try to improve your article. You will not be able to publish the article unless you improve it. If you don't take this advice, you might even end up getting blocked for disrupting our site.

2. To improve your article, look at other interviews and try correct formatting. Read the style guide.

3. We need to be able to verify your work: read our page on original reporting and follow those guidelines.

4. I think you have a conflict of interest with regards to the subject of your article. This causes problems with neutral point of view. If you want an interview you can request an interview and the community can decide wether or not this would be a good idea.

So you see, a lot of hard work will be needed to get your article up to publishing standards... hope this has been helpful, good luck!

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:25, 24 October 2007 (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 DiamondPress. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name DiamondPress~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 23:14, 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: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:30, 21 April 2015 (UTC)