Confused

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Confused, 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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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! --Brian McNeil / ^talk 13:14, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry Brianmc i know i have made some mistakes so far.

<copied from my talk --Brian McNeil / ^talk>

Just wanted to say sorry i really do get confused easily lol. --Confused (talk) 13:47, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

We all have to start somewhere, no need to apologise. / separated dates is a real headache from the U.S. using MM/DD/YY and most of the rest of the world using DD/MM/YY so in the dim and distant past Wikinews settled on spelling the month to avoid errors and confusion. The rest is just stuff you'll pick up as you go along so don't sweat it. Nobody will bite over genuine mistakes that you learn from. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 13:56, 14 September 2008 (UTC)