User talk:207.200.116.201

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Your article about a no-show bartender is probably not news (thus its deletion). Please see links above concerning Wikinews Content. Again, please contact me if I can assist you. --Chiacomo (talk) 00:55, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Your article...

I've added your article to Wikinews:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense, under Parody. It's funny, but it isn't news at a level Wikinews is interested in covering. - Amgine/^talk 01:00, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

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