User talk:Patjhynes
Welcome[edit]
Patjhynes, welcome to Wikinews! Thank you for your contributions; I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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welcome again, and thanks for contributing. i guess u've figured out how to leave messages on user talk pages (yes, the add comment' link at the top of the page).
regarding OR sources, if u've gathered the contributions information from an online source, then just add a link to it along with the other sources in the article. if it was not online, just indicate clearly what your source is, u don't have to duplicate the content of the source. the idea of doing all this is to ensure that wikinews is a reliable source - all the information presented in it should be verifiable. so an interested reader should be able to locate the source using the information u've provided. hope this helps, Doldrums 13:51, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
- and once u've added the or source, u can remove the {{or dispute}} tag in the article. Doldrums 13:54, 19 August 2006 (UTC)