Coasty
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editCoasty, 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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Hi,
thank you for your article. However, I've unpublished it, because it needs to be improved:
- First off, don't sign articles with your name. Articles are created by everyone here, that's the way a wiki works... Btw we can all see who wrote it from the pages history.
- Please read: Wikinews:Writing an article. More specifically, the article is built up around a point of view, and this violates Wikinews:Neutral point of view; please trim the article so it sticks to the facts.
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