User talk:Brian.
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[edit]Brian., welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay! If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account.
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Comet article
[edit]Per your comment I have made an alteration to the article on the potential comet, take a look at the change - you could probably have done it yourself and we encourage people to go ahead and try and fix problems. --Brian McNeil / talk 23:09, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hi again, one of the wiki concepts we encourage is to be bold. Make changes, don't worry about being reverted until it happens - then look for consensus. If you don't actually make contributions you'll never be sure you're doing things right or wrong. In short, click that "edit this page" tab more often, you're probably as qualified as anyone else, just not as experienced - and the only way to get the experience is... --Brian McNeil / talk 20:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Good work and persistence at that article. Your efforts helped make it better. Thanks. -Edbrown05 06:09, 18 May 2007 (UTC)