Rickyrab

Thanks for the addition. Do you have a source for this? - Amgine 01:38, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Here, have a boilerplate. Some of our policies are subtly different from other wikis, and it should be a handy reference.

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Creationist who threatened biologists threatened others at university

Thank you for your interest in this article. However, changes should not be made to articles that have been published for days. Unlike Wikipedia, where articles are works-in-progress, news is "as of" the date it was published. Imagine an old-fashioned print-newspaper, once it is printed it doesn't change (even if it is wrong). Cheers, --SVTCobra 02:17, 19 July 2007 (UTC)