User talk:Hash Panditharatne and Alina Oussova~enwikinews

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Australian Miners town Beaconsfield suffers backlash
Hello... welcome to Wikinews! I've had a look at the articleAustralian Miners town Beaconsfield suffers backlash, and I think it's quite good. We certainly need more articles like this. There are a few things that need to be fixed up before this article can be published, however. Firstly, the sources at the bottom need to have hyperlinks to the online editions of those newspapers - that's what the "url=" field is for. See Cite sources for more information on sourcing. Secondly, the article isn't really written in a journalistic style. News articles should have a single event as their focus, the title should describe this event, and the first paragraph should reflect the title and the content of the article. It should be possible from reading the first paragraph to know what the article is about. For example, it isn't really clear until near the end of your article what the "backlash" is. You may wish to have a read of the Wikinews Style guide for more information on style. I'm moving your article back to "develop" (by adding the tag) so it can be worked on further. I hope you decide to work some more on this article - I would really like to see it published. Discussion of the article will occur on the article talk page. - Borofkin 09:19, 15 May 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 Hash Panditharatne and Alina Oussova. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Hash Panditharatne and Alina Oussova~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 23:18, 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) 06:32, 21 April 2015 (UTC)