User talk:Kyalami~enwikinews

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 * Hi there, thanks for the audio version. Since this is an audio version of an article that is licensed under the cc-by 2.5, The recording should also be under the cc-by 2.5. Would you consider changing the license on the recording? All you have to do is edit this from  to  . Thanks. Happy editing, and if you need any help with anything, don't hesitate to ask. Bawolff 23:19, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Two briefs of the most important news happpenings today
I am looking at your work on this. They both seem large enough to warrant their own articles. If you want to write briefs, using this link is a good way to start. However, I may break up your current work into two articles, since they are both fairly substantial. Hope you don't mind. Cheers, --SVTCobra 23:40, 26 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay. If you say so. But I think the Immigration Story is still a brief. The Paris Hilton story, on the other hand, may, repeat may, be able to be its own article.


 * I agree that it is short, given the topic, but a rough "rule of thumb" is about three paragraphs (this is not policy by any means) for a stand-alone article. Of course, I will add the tag to encourage other editors. --SVTCobra 23:52, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Paris Hilton/Senate Immigration Bill dates
You said:
 * I think you should leave the articles on June 26th. I wrote them when it was June 26 in local time, and on Wikinews.


 * the Hilton story (as best I can tell) is June 26 (I guess you changed it). The immigration bill story has yet to be published. It is awaiting review. At this point it will be a June 27 story. Like a newspaper, the date is not when it happened or when the journalist began making notes, but when it is published that determines the date. --SVTCobra 01:21, 27 June 2007 (UTC)


 * From the time when you said that the Immigration story didn't even deserve an article to now, you certainly have become aggressive in publishing. I do not think this story got a proper review. By insisting on the June 26 date, I think you are assuring fewer readers. I know that the speech was on June 26, but many Wikinews readers around the world had already gone to bed, not sure if they want to read "yesterday's news". Beyond that, you are going against Wikinews guidelines on the date of articles. --SVTCobra 01:33, 27 June 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 Kyalami. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Kyalami~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 23:17, 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) 06:33, 21 April 2015 (UTC)