User talk:Danaman5

Welcome

Danaman5, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these!

• Wikinews:Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
• Wikinews:Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced

Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews:

• Wikinews:Introduction - overview of the site
• Wikinews:Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
• Wikinews:Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
• Wikinews:Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
• Wikinews:Contents - the contents page.

There are always things to do on Wikinews:

• Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
• The front page lead articles often need updating
• Developing stories need finishing and publishing
• Discussions need your input
• Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
• And of course, stories need writing!

By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes (~~~~), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! → CGorman (Talk) 23:18, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for helping to correct post-publication spelling and grammatical errors in Wikinews articles. Wikinews, unlike Wikipedia, has, by necessity, an exceptionally short article turnover time. Where Wikipedians have months or even years to work on an article, Wikinewies have only hours. This can lead to a larger-than-acceptable number of errors cropping up in our articles (mainstream news has much the same problem, believe it or not). Anyway, having people like you occasionally correct an errors is an important part of Wikinews, and (obviously) helps improve the readability of our articles. So thanks:). Gopher65_talk 17:18, 5 January 2009 (UTC)