User talk:217.154.45.231

Welcome!

217.154.45.231, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions 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:
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * 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
 * And of course, stories need writing!

Here are some other hints and tips:


 * I would recommend that you get a username. You don't have to log in to read or edit articles on Wikinews, but creating an account is quick, free and non-intrusive, requires no personal information, and there are many benefits of having a username.  (If you edit without a username, your IP address is used to identify you instead.)


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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! &mdash; Doldrums(talk) 15:10, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

testing
Additionally, thanks for experimenting with Wikinews. Your test worked, and you've reverted it. Please use Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles will be reverted quickly. &mdash; Doldrums(talk) 15:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

For Sale: Digg
hi, thanks for ur interest in Wikinews. i saw the article For Sale: Digg that you created, do note that Wikinews is a news site and not a blog. particularly, articles in the mainspace should report factual and sourced news, without any specualtion. all that wikinews can report about this topic are facts about this rumour, that somebody is speculating about it. also, any discussion about the news event should take place onj the article talk page, not in the article itself. Writing and article and Content guide has more on this. &mdash; Doldrums(talk) 15:29, 27 October 2006 (UTC)