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From: TahR78 <tahrim_ramdjan@planet.nl>
Date: Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Subject: Wikinews e-mail about IRC complaining
To: TUFKAAP <patrick.mannion@gmail.com>

Hi Tufkaap,

Im sorry for disturbing you in this late hour (in where i live, Europe, it is now night). I want to complain about an user on IRC, he is much on it. Lets start with the story:

So, i and friends were looking because we were bored, one of my friends said that he found a weather map of Europe. We were going to watch, it was a Celsius map, but it wasnt right. So we joined the IRC channel of Wikinews and we were going to report it. First time nobody reacted, second time also nobody. Thirth time finally somebody was waken up and listened to us. I just nice said ''Hey, there's a kind of fault in this template''. The user i've spoken to, NeoAmsterdam, didnt appreciate that very much. He said to me on a not so nice way that i have to look better, because it are airports. It would stand on a tooltip. Well, tooltips doesnt work on this computer on that day, so i made him that clear. Than everybody said something and, NeoAmsterdam also said that he thinks that the Dutch were stupid to give New Amsterdam to the British.

When he said that, i thought he was going to hurt me, but he didnt. First of all, i cant fix it that New York isnt now New Amsterdam, so dont blame me that and second, it doesnt touch me, because i am born in Holland, but my parents come from a whole other country. I leaved the channel, but friends were still on the channel and said me that they were talking bad about me.

Well, i am not hurt, no, i could even laugh about what NeoAmsterdam said. I am experienced with wiki's, i have a account on the Dutch Wikipedia as well, and have crossuser on, so i can log in on every Wikimedia wiki. But i have also experience on other wiki's like from Wikia. I know this isnt the usual way, im sorry for that, but i donk think this is a nice way to explain things to (new) users on Wikinews, especially foreigners. Also when you are talking bad about a newbie on a wiki, that isnt the right thing i think?

(Why i choosen you is because when i said on the IRC channel some days ago, somebody prefered you. Hope you dont mind my bad English, because i am not so old (11, 12 years) and still Dutch, so i am not a very expert in English. Hope you understand this situation, maybe i made a big thing of it but just wanted to say this.. Only time when i contributed to Wikinews was with a article about the attack on the Dutch queen, no more).

Sorry for the long mail and disturbing you, but i just wanted this to say. Please note that it is a long time ago when this happened, you will be surprised why i send this mail NOW, well, its simple: i didnt have any time. I have also accounts on other much internet communities. There were more people at that IRC conversation but i can only remember NeoAmsterdam.

Greetings from TahR78
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Want to send a reaction, you can mail this email adress back or leave a note on my dutch Wikipedia talk page, my name there is also TahR78, however i dont prefer that because it isnt necessary to tell every Dutch Wikipedians about this story.

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