User talk:70.18.9.105

Welcome
Welcome!

70.18.9.105, 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:

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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!

Thanks for creating portals, a couple things:
 * Please start them with the name portal at the begining. portal:place name instead of place name.
 * It is considered good practice to only create portals for subjects which we already have articles for. A portal is useless without articles. There are many subjects without portals, but articles. For example portal:Horse_racing would have lots of articles (see category:Horse_racing), some of the places you created, like Portal:Eastern Shore have very few articles
 * For cities and towns and tertiary divisions, we generally use the tertiary division, secondary division naming scheme. Portal:Eastern Shore, Maryland instead of Portal:Eastern Shore.

Thanks, and happy editing. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:22, 30 May 2007 (UTC)