Wikinews:Accreditation requests/Hawkeye7-prior


 * Closed as successful --Brian McNeil / talk 11:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Hawkeye7 (talk)

 * Name: Ross Mallett
 * Location: Canberra, Australia
 * Areas of interest: Sports, Military, Academia, Australia
 * Reason: To facilitate ability to cover international sporting events.
 * Accomplishments: Cannot play piano, but did contribute to the 70+ articles published during the Paralympic period.
 * Contact information: hawkeye7@gmail.com
 * User ID: 180828
 * Applied on: 02:14, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Comments

 * I should've closed this and issued email account and so ages ago. However, it's usually to a firstname lastnamewikinewsie.org address.
 * There is precedent for those details being a pseudonym, but a pseudonym that looks perfectly plausible. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:25, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Votes

 * While basic formatting and verification needs occasional work, has done a lot of good work and accreditation would be useful to reporter. Works really well in team reporting. --LauraHale (talk) 04:29, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Great asset to WikiNews, has shown he can do reporting. Giving him accreditation would be ideal as it would allow him to attend events which require accreditation. Bidgee (talk) 05:38, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Would help us do more on-the-ground coverage of sporting events. -- CalF (talk) 22:15, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
 * . Hawkeye put a great deal of work into Paralympics coverage, helping to prove the project can do quality coverage of international sporting events on the ground. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:20, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * --Sure! What the heck! --Bddpaux (talk) 21:22, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
 * --Pi zero (talk) 22:11, 7 November 2012 (UTC)