User talk:SashaFAQ

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 17:45, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Request for help
Helpme I am a parishioner of the New Apostolic Church. I regularly receive threats to blow up our church. We want to state this publicly, that God sent us salvation, but Wikinews requires proof of news. I have screenshots of letters where they threaten to blow up our church. Will this work as evidence? We can also collect signatures or record video appeal. God bless you. SashaFAQ (talk) 15:14, 13 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi. Sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you.


 * Wikinews publishes only verified news. We have a system of review by authorized reviewers for quality assurance; it's mentioned as the first "pillar" at WN:PILLARS.  Verification isn't an automated process; we have to think about the situation, to be alert for potential problems.  The sheer number of separate accounts involved with these articles is suspicious; it suggests (though does not prove) sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry.  We don't know you.  You ask whether screenshots of letters would be evidence.  Well, no.  Screenshots clearly could be faked &mdash; and again, we don't know you.  --Pi zero (talk) 18:35, 19 April 2017 (UTC)


 * As I remarked at the article review, you would need to learn the project, rather than thinking of it too much in terms of how to get a particular article to succeed. I would suggest starting with WN:PILLARS.  Perhaps it would also be useful to read through WN:Article wizard.  Then there's WN:WRITE.  --Pi zero (talk) 15:49, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Copyright violations
Please don't upload Google Street View screenshots to Wikinews, or photos of people you found online - these are copyright violations. --McGeddon (talk) 09:00, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
 * In principle, if they were here in real support of a publishable/published news article, and if the copyright were not held by a competing news org, we could host images under our fair use policy (hammered out years ago with Wikimedia legal). In this case, I don't expect that to stand; just saying, it's not quite as simple as "if it can't be hosted at Commons, it can't be hosted at Wikinews either".  --Pi zero (talk) 12:23, 21 April 2017 (UTC)