When adding a news story to the Swords in the News forum, please follow the following steps:

Copy the entire article from a web-based content provider such as a magazine's or newspaper's webpage. Remember to include the url and all the writing credits.

Please use the italics selection for the text of the news article and please do not use italics for replies to it. That way, news updates posted to the same thread will be more easily found.

When replying to an article, please remember the purpose of this site - enhancing our experience as students of HDGD. If we are posting about a sword crime, for example, responses might deal with how this has affected community perceptions of swords, sword related laws, etc. Discussion of legal issues surrounding the articles is particularly welcome. Fanboy responses that treat the crimes trivially are not welcome.

Thank you for your attention.