User talk:Khalsa

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

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Sikh
Hi,

Your piece on some of the goings on related to the Sikh religion looks interesting, but it also looks like you might have copied it from somewhere else. Can you review the links provided above to get a better idea how a Wikinews story should look and revise it somewhat please? You may want to change the title as well as all story titles must be unique. Brian McNeil / talk 20:36, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
 * ALL The material you have put up on wikinews is a Copyright violation, and does not conform to Wikinews standards as laid out in the above links. I'm sorry, but it will end up deleted in it's current form. Brian McNeil / talk 20:52, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

A limited license to copy isn't enough for Wikinews I'm afraid, and your material - even if the copyright were to turn out compatible - is not in the right format for Wikinews. You're building a portal which will not ever be linked to from the front page because it looks like a news aggregator, not a news article. I suggest you start again with one story, write it in your own words, and cite the source you're using in the template that is offered when you start a new article. Anything that goes on Wikinews can be mericlessly edited by anyone and I very much doubt that is compatible with your source's copyright terms. As it is, we cannot provide links to sources in headlines and your material does not conform to our standards. There are a number of people who would help you build a Sikh portal for Sikh-specific news if you ask on the Water Cooler. Other faiths have done so and we have things like Bahai (or however its spelt :-) Brian McNeil / talk 21:04, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

New Category
Okay... Slow down, think about what you want to do, and bring it up on the Water cooler (there should be a link at the top of this page). I'm sorry to say it is highly likely one of the administrators will delete most of what you've done to date, but don't take it too personally. Someone will probably ask you to take a look at the portal that has been done for some Quakers who want to use Wikinews, and if you look through their portal you can get an idea of how you can use Wikinews to disseminate news about your religion.

We don't do the style you've adopted, although you either know Wikicode, or have got to grips with it incredible quickly - which should be a help in getting a proper portal set up for you. Brian McNeil / talk 21:24, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Copyvio articles
I have removed the cut and paste copyright violations from Portal:SiKHi NEWS. --Chiacomo (talk) 23:49, 1 December 2005 (UTC)