User talk:Banedon
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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 11:19, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Inviting you to Wikinews[edit]
Hey, Banedon. I just want to invite you to write new articles in Wikinews. You can be a journalist in Wikinews, while working in Wikipedia makes me and you researchers. Come and join in. For an example, here is my co-written piece: "Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts". I'm sure you can do it... right? --George Ho (talk) 02:46, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
- One wiki is enough for me I'm afraid ~~ In fact even just Wikipedia might be taking up too much of my time already. Banedon (talk) 08:02, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
- Umm... you can take a semi-break from Wikipedia and contribute to Wikinews. Looking at your contributions, you have been interested mostly on chess topics. Why not writing news about chess competitions or tournaments? Me... this helps me ease my mind and stress from Wikipedia, though I'm still making edits there... not much this year... yet. --George Ho (talk) 19:37, 18 January 2017 (UTC)