User talk:Jpatokal
Welcome[edit]
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WeatherChecker on WikiTravel[edit]
Hi Jpatokal,
I responded to your request on the request section of the WeatherChecker page. — DV 10:53, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Revising published articles[edit]
Hello there, Jpatokal. I see that you have renamed the article India successfully test-fires Agni-III missile two days after publication. News articles have to be written based on the knowledge of the time, so correcting them "in the future" is not a good idea. Next time you see an article with inaccuracies, publish a correction on the top of the article with Template:Correction instead. Thank you, though, for your contributions to Wikinews. —this is messedr͏ocker (talk) 06:22, 11 July 2006 (UTC)