PaulBustion88

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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 03:34, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

{{under review}}

Please be careful not to edit an article while it's marked at the top as under review. (No great harm done this time; I did lose about fifteen minutes worth of copyedit, but I remember what it all was.) --Pi zero (talk) 01:26, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

The article actually failed review, btw, so it's back under development. --Pi zero (talk) 03:58, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

It looks to me like the article was written by a foreigner, because it had a very peculiar writing style. --PaulBustion88 (talk) 04:00, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Heh. Actually, it was written by a journalism student at the University of Wollongong. --Pi zero (talk) 04:11, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

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--Pi zero (talk) 14:03, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Good work!

That little bit you did on the egg article.....good work! That's a great way for new users to learn how things function here: making tiny little edits to article which are in progress. --Bddpaux (talk) 22:12, 18 May 2015 (UTC)