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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! --Chiacomo ^(talk) 03:25, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you again...

Thank you again for your contributions to Wikinews. Your recently submitted article, Body found in river, is not quite ready to publish. Please review Wikinews:Style Guide and Wikinews:Content guide for tips on how this article can be more properly presented. Please let me know if I can assist you in any way! --Chiacomo ^(talk) 18:41, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

President Shimon Peres discusses the future of Israel and the irrelevance of the elderly

Hello. This article is still under development so please do not publish it. The author of the article will mark it as "ready" to let everyone know it can be published first. —FellowWiki Newsie 23:42, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Again, I have reverted your edits. Please don't publish articles until they are "ready". —FellowWiki Newsie 00:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Same goes for Wikinews questions Senior Counterterrorism Counsel of HRW on Camp Delta and more. This interview doesn't even have answers yet. --SVTCobra 00:55, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Blocked for repeated publishing of stories that are not ready

You have been blocked from Wikinews for 72 hours for adding the publish tag to stories that are not ready despite warnings. If you believe this block is unjustified or wish to contest it, you may add {{unblock|your reason}} to this page, go to Wikinews IRC to request to be unblocked, or send a message to wikinews-l wikimedia ● org.

Copyright

Please do not add stories to Wikinews that are copied from other websites as they are copyrighted. The only one allowing copying is Voice of America sometimes. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 00:37, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Adding comments in the middle of articles

Please don't add comments in the middle of articles. We have talk pages and opinion pages for that. In any event, I've added a clarification that should alleviate your concern about the article. JoshuaZ - (talk) 03:57, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Please don't create non-news articles

Please don't create non-news articles. This is wikinews. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:46, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Not Ready

This clearly is not ready. Please do not publish articles that are not ready. As you have been warned before, if you continue to do so, this will result in a longer block. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 01:48, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Blocked

You have been blocked for 1 day for publishing articles that are not ready despite many warnings. Anonymous101 (talk) 20:05, 18 June 2008 (UTC)