JereKrischel

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Help with new article

Saw your cleanup tag on 112 year old joke fools political activists, I was wondering if you could take a gander and see if some of your concerns were appropriately addressed. I think I've put the WWWWWH in the first three paragraphs, and someone else added a link to the AP article, and moved the external links into a further reading section. I split that up, renamed it to "external links" as per the style guide, and created a references section as well. It still reads fairly disjointed (often times correcting a misperception takes a lot more text than the original), but hopefully it can be cleaned up appropriately. Your attention to the first missteps of a newbie are much appreciated! I know it probably isn't very newsworthy beyond those paying attention to the native hawaiian sovereignty issue in the United States, but I thought wikinews might be a good place to one-up the AP who didn't do enough fact checking on their article :). --JereKrischel 23:34, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Greatly improved. ;-) I'm glad you didn't find my cleanup tag offputting, it's always good to see people take what might seem like criticism and treat it as a challenge. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 17:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey there stranger!

Looks like you finally made it over here...I definitely could use some help here in the Hawaii bureau.  :) Aloha, KeithH (talk) 06:36, 20 May 2006 (UTC)