User talk:Simon~enwikinews

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

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! CGorman 21:10, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

Science, technology and health content
I was just going through Recent Changes and spotted your user page edit. Im delighted to see a professional journalist interested in taking part in Wikinews! Its fantastic! Anyways you proably are aware of the Science and technology and Health pages. So if you happen to write any relevent articles, it would be a great help if you post them there when you publish your article. Feel free to make it a Major Story on these pages if you think it warrents such status or if the current leads are getting old.

If you are ever looking for a picture, pop over to Wikicommons and have a look around... althought it is hard to find exact photos (like a picture of a Cat-Scan machine, Nokia 3310, Dell Dimension XPS etc.) you will proably be able to get generally pictures (e.g. the UN flag for an african famine story; or a major landmark to indicate a city... like Conference on XYZ takes place in Paris).' You are particularly lucky, as you probably will write a few astronomy articles; many of NASA's pictures are copyright free so you can load them onto Wikicommons and use them in your articles.

I notice you are use to working with online media, so I presume you will get use to wiki tags quite quickly, so heres a few useful ones:


 * - used at top of article, writen in form of February 25, 2005.
 * - added for sources, just fill in the gaps (the author is not compulsory, most major online sources such as the BBC don't tell you who wrote what.)
 * - to link to wikipedia just add a w:.
 * - adding an image is fairly straight forward.

Anyways, if you ever need help with anything, just ask and i'll try to help; im on the Welcommitte and Im the newest Administrater. Good luck - and welcome to wikinews! CGorman 20:45, 25 Feb 2005 (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 Simon. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Simon~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 23:30, 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) 06:37, 21 April 2015 (UTC)