Nikai

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Nikai, 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 :) Nikai 13:58, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Dateline/byline

Hi, I just want to caution against adding datelines/bylines to articles unless you were actually at the event being covered. To quote from Encarta: "dateline - line giving date and location: a line at the head of a newspaper article or similar item giving the date and place of writing" - we don't want to mislead readers by suggesting we were there, when we weren't! Can I suggest using the {{date|month dd,yyyy}} template instead? PS Thanks for your work on Wikinews! Dan100 (Talk) 19:09, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I only changed the formatting of an already existing dateline, but I understand that datelines are in general problematic in wiki articles. Nikai 22:10, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)