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Welcome

ALE!, 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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Commons "eating" images

Thanks for pointing out the deleted image on the Thai king article, as I've pointed out on the article talk we have a place for requesting changes to protected articles on the admin alerts page. Can you point out to whoever deleted the image on commons that it was quickly changed and it would be polite to give us a chance to make changes before leaving us with redlinks in archived articles. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 15:50, 29 September 2006 (UTC)