User talk:Matticusmadness

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 10:28, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

"Encyclopedia of news"
Ewww! That name is just ickky. :-P

As the above template says, Welcome! But, remember no news site is an encyclopedia; an encyclopedia can, and generally does, draw upon news articles when composing its own content. A news site, in contrast, simply has an archive of past reports. --Brian McNeil / talk 13:07, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Heh, sorry, You can tell i'm not that used to Wikimedia's other projects besides Wikipedia. I mean i've read over the differences and get that while you can go back to a Wikipedia Article you only get one shot at a Wikinews Article and that a Wikinews Article is checked before it goes live as well as that you have to get it in there pretty quickly. I do plan to have a go around Wikinews eventually, not all my contributions will be to WN:CHU, in fact hopefully all the CHU's i'll need are done. Don't suppose Wikinews does anything like Wikipedia's 'adopt a user' does it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adopt_a_user Matticusmadness (talk) 09:59, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The community is small enough that questions usually get noticed and responded to, and any reasonable attempt at an article generally gets as much feedback as reviewers' limited time permits. If you accept you might lose your first story on a couple of go-arounds of reviewing and learning the style/language, you'll probably be fine. --Brian McNeil / talk 00:21, 28 November 2012 (UTC)