User talk:Ixfd64

Welcome

Ixfd64, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Late edits

This article is now 2 days old; unlike Wikipedia we don't constantly update things. Once 36-48 hours old only minor non-content corrections (eg spelling or grammar) should be made. Wikinews aims to have a 'snapshot' of what was known at the time, and articles slide off the front page being - in an ideal world - archived (See WN:ARCHIVE) when a week old. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 08:42, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

• OK, that makes sense. Are there any ways to correct factual errors without starting a new article? The problem is that most people never read talk pages. --Ixfd64 (talk) 18:44, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for pointing out all those page move vandalism remnants - some of them had been around for years. I've deleted them all. Cheers, Tempodivalse [talk] 01:56, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Headlines

Hi. Just noting, we go out of our way to not build specific death tolls into headlines, partly because it's undesirable to rename an article after publication (it causes duplicate entries in some feeds). --Pi zero (talk) 21:50, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

• All right, I'll keep that in mind next time. --Ixfd64 (talk) 22:05, 14 December 2012 (UTC)