If there is a policy to lockdown article contents after 10 days, why isn't it automated?
On Dec 17, 2007 6:54 PM, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
Is Wikinews an acceptable source for Wikipedia? The same reasoning that stops it appearing on Google News would seem to make it inappropriate for Wikipedia too.
It should be - if the article is about a week old. I've probably protected more pages than anyone else as part of Wikinews' archiving policy. When our stuff is 7-10 days old it should be fully locked down and no content edits allowed. With that policy and an open edit history I believe that when an article gets to the archived state it should be a credible source for Wikipedia - if not before.
There are a handful of templates on Wikipedia for linking to Wikinews articles, they serve in a limited way to advertise the existence of the project, but there is no {{breaking-help-Wikinews}} template to add to articles that are in the news.
Brian McNeil
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