User talk:Drawat123~enwikinews

Welcome
, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome!
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Guidelines
Now that you have the above guidelines, there's a bit to read that might help you tidy up your earlier contributions. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:10, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hi there!

On top of what Brian has given you above, it may also be useful for you to know that Wikinews cannot host copyrighted articles, such as direct copy & pastes from another news website. Please rewrite these articles in your own words using a multitude of sources in order to help Wikinews become a good news source.

Thank you for your contributions so far, if you clean them up slightly then they will be ready for publishing! If you need any help, please do not hesitate to contact me! --Skenmy(talk) 20:12, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Citizen journalism article
Wikinews is not a blog. articles in wikinews must report current news events, in a neutral and unbiased way. Wikinews is not a place to host press release and other publicity material. please read the content and style guidelines pointed out above and write articles conforming to them. articles which do not are liable to be deleted. Doldrums 10:47, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Requested Help
In response to your request for help on my talk page, I have a few suggestions for you.
 * Use Wikinews to report current news arther than press releases. You can write a news article based on a press release if you so wish to!
 * Follow the Style Guide when writing a news article. Develop your own style, but use that as a reference when writing.
 * And don't be afraid to ask for help! We are always looking for new editors, and if you need help getting started, or even 100 articles in, you can always ask me or anyone on the Welcommittee - or even an administrator!

Welcome to Wikinews! --Skenmy(talk) 15:23, 18 September 2006 (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 Drawat123. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Drawat123~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 23:16, 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)