User talk:71.131.1.147

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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!–Doldrums(talk) 15:05, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Partial-birth abortion article
hi, welcome to Wikinews and thank you for contributing this article. one thing to note is that Wikinews articles need to be fully sourced before they are published, allowing readers and other editors to check the article's contents foor themselves. please do indicate using what sources you wrote this article. add the information in whatever form u can, i can help you format it properly if needed. thanks once again. best, –Doldrums(talk) 15:41, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Just wanted to see process for getting a breaking news story going. Its now over an hour since it broke and this never got approved so I'll have to leave in someone else's hands to take further. Does seem to be one of the day's stories though. Thanks for links. Will read thru how to tune up encyclopaedic POV.