User talk:Halli B

Welcome

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

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There are always things to do on Wikinews:

• Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
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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! Cirt (talk) 21:24, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Redirects

Please don't create articles specifically for the purpose of redirecting them to your story. There is no practical reason to do that, and it just clogs up wikinews. Gopher65_talk 20:06, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

I believe this guy's userpage should explain away some of that;). Wikinews has different rules about many things — even key issues like Original Research. OR is antithetical to Wikipedia's core mission, but it is the foundation that Wikinews is built upon (or it will be, when we have enough users to do a significant amount of OR, and dealt with a few other issues). Wikinews ≠ Wikipedia. Don't worry if it takes you a while to adjust; everyone who comes here from Wikipedia has growing pains. Gopher65_talk 21:21, 26 August 2008 (UTC)