User talk:Gfenley

Welcome
Gfenley, welcome to Wikinews! 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: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ), which produces your name and the current date. 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! --Mrmiscellanious 00:03, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
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Copyright violations notice
Thank you for telling us about your concerns. I greatly respect you doing that. We're trying the best we can in our busy lives, and I'm sorry if we have offended you or any of your fellow journalists. Wikipedia has gotten the same critisism, even from the president of Encyclopedia Britannica himself. I don't know all the details of copyright law myself, but we did believe that there were no issues with paraphrasing copyrighted works and citing the sources we paraphrased from. If this is a problem, please let us know; we certaintly mean fellow journalists no harm. And thank you for approaching us as a friend, as I will always regard you as a friend.

Sincerely, NGerda 00:53, August 31, 2005 (UTC)