Khukri

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Khukri, 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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Thanks

Just wanted to say thanks for coming over and helping out some of us somewhat scientifically-challenged amateur journalists. I should obviously poke Wikipedians into hopping over here and helping out more often. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 10:58, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah Khukri, thanks also for your wise (and accurate) description of the doomsayers. Just one remark on that: Nicolai's quote on Roessler's paper was "this paper would not pass the referee process in a serious journal". PRD is just the acronym of a specific journal, Physical Review D, published by the American Physical Society. Cheers Ptrslv72 (talk) 13:37, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

You may want to comment on Wikinews:Water_cooler/miscellaneous#Getting_Wikipedians_involved. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 14:01, 13 September 2008 (UTC)