User talk:68.186.127.51

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James Kim
Please have a look throught some of the above links. I've undone your changes on our article that reports Mr Kim as missing. This was published for several days and should not be changed. There's a new article on the fact that his death is confirmed, if you want to contribute there then that's the place to bring up the new information.

Wikinews is quite different from Wikipedia in how we handle our main namespace. It gets protected after a relatively short time as we have a "historical record" job to do too. And in cases like the James Kim one we'd rather have a few short articles that are good snapshots of what was known than one encyclopedic piece that isn't news.

If the death is confirmed then the main task on the final article is to do a decent obituary cover. --Brian McNeil / talk 23:35, 6 December 2006 (UTC)