It is likely mav is not aware of what press credentials are. Press credentials indicate a person is actually writing for a news source to a news event handler. They do not say a person is employed by, or specifically represents, the news source. The primary purpose is to allow news event handlers to control both who attends news events and what messages the attendees recieve. For example, I recently requested to attend a lunch speaking by a member of the Fed here in Vancouver. Because I do not have press credentials with Wikinews, I was not allowed to attend. I did go down to the hotel and hang out a bit, learned some stuff which might have been great in an oped, but nothing which could be published on Wikinews. Another en.Wikinews contributor who does have press credentials was able to request entry to the press sections at this fall's Apple events. He was able to attend a number of small press conferences at the event, as well as the major floor events, and turned in two articles about it. News events managers do not let everyone with credentials in. They accept candidates from news sources they feel will give them the coverage they want. They also usually want to be able to verify press credentials. The latter is why en.Wikinews built a policy which is actually more stringent in some respects than our adminship policies. The policy includes methods of credential verification including voicemail contacts. En.Wikinews has approved a total of 8 reporters for credentials. One reporter has left the project, and three are currently inactive. Another is not primarily a Wikinewsy, Sj. Currently we have one candidate for accreditation, Fuzheado (Andrew Lih). I encourage Mav to take a look en's policy

verification

and requests

Amgine _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l(a)Wikimedia.org