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User talk:Deridolus~enwikinews

Welcome
Deridolus, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Mrmiscellanious 00:58, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Deridolus. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Deridolus~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:14, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:SethDelisle

Welcome
SethDelisle, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Mrmiscellanious 00:58, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
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Great work
Thank you for your edits to Bush poll data down again. You've done a really good job in adding clarity to the article. irid:t 00:15, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikilinks and thanks
Hey! Thanks for linking Brookings and Gaddy on the Putin article. For future reference, you don't need to use an html link to link to WP. Instead, you can use a wikilink by using the Europe will link directly there. Thanks again! Lyellin 19:15, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

RE: UN article
Thanks, I'll be sure to take a look at it in a few minutes. --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 01:11, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Keep up the good work. You did a good job with Liberian president taken to war court. ReporterFromAfar3136 03:18, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Please do not make unsourced factual statements.
Your edit is not correct to the source you cited. Please avoid making unsourced factual statements in articles. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 06:07, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

good work on UNSC article
You wrote: use UN news wording rather than CNN for less POV - good work, but in fact, the UN press release itself seems to be a rather biased (rather POV) presentation of the statement by the UNSC - e.g. it misses the first paragraph which is about reaffirming Iran's (and other states parties') right to do exactly what it recommends that Iran temporarily suspend in order to build confidence while negotiation happens. In the internet era, we don't have to rely on press releases for this sort of political statement. Go for the primary source whenever possible (if you have time)! For official institutional statements, it generally just requires a few more clicks and a bit of common sense. Same applies for national laws - rather than relying on press releases, it's often better to go to the source texts themselves, even if they can be quite big documents. http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=S/PRST/2006/15&Lang=E&Area=UNDOC Boud 23:32, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:George Kenyon~enwikinews

Welcome
George Kenyon, 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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 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
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 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called George Kenyon. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name George Kenyon~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:18, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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Apple plans another special event

October 4, 2005

Within one month of the iPod nano and iTunes phone special event, Apple Computer announced today another special event to be held on October 12. It is to be held at the California Theater in downtown San Jose, California.

The invitation reads, "One more thing...", the teasing tagline of Steve Jobs. The words were atop a picture of closed theater curtains.

Recently Apple has been gaining rights to sell music videos from record labels. This has increased rumors of a video iPod(vPod) along with this event. AppleInsider is claiming that there are sources that have seen the new iPod. Alongside this rumor, AppleInsider claims to have seen a wireless device similar to Apple's Airport Express that supports video.

Other rumors for this event include a major iTunes Music Store update and a Macintosh with a Intel processor.

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User:Sj/EmVent

The Emerging Ventures conference in Boston is being held October 11 & 12, 2005, at the Boston Ritz. I'll attend as much of it as I can; Tuesday is easier for me than Wednesday. If there are particular sessions you'd like to see covered, or speakers you'd like me to interview, leave a note on my talk page. You are welcome to add story ideas and suggestions below. Sj 01:15, 5 October 2005 (UTC) Panelists | Speakers | Young companies | Detailed company schedule

Basic plans

 * Talk to Sagan @ Akamai -- a local mover. What does he see as the future of distributing/caching information?
 * Interview Tony Lee, who has made a career out of gathering and spanning large bodies of information (about real estate, politics, and jobs/careers). Ask about making businesses out of free-content databases and classification systems; compare the current eHow with its predecessors.
 * the publisher of The Wall Street Journal Online Vertical Network, which includes CareerJournal.com, OpinionJournal.com, StartupJournal.com, RealEstateJournal.com, CollegeJournal.com, CareerJournalEurope.com and CareerJournalAsia.com. Mr. Lee also oversees “Political Diary,” a paid email newsletter about politics. He sits on the board of CareerCast, a software firm that develops scalable web-based job-board solutions for the Internet's leading media companies, and is a board member of the Newspaper Association of America’s New Media Federation. Previously Mr. Lee co-authored “The Jobs Rated Almanac” (2002, Barricade), and “Career Choice, Change and Challenge” (2000, JIST Pub.). Earlier Mr. Lee was editor-in-chief of the "National Business Employment Weekly" and of "Managing Your Career", both published by Dow Jones & Co.
 * Update: not free during the conf, can do an interview some other time; perhaps the following week, or via email?

 * Large, slow story:
 * Startups in '06 : Where to find good global information about young technologies, startups, markets, vendors and investors. Contrast: VCs looking for startup info, startups looking for other info.  Ask individuals where they personally look.

 * Snapshot piece:
 * on the smorgasbord of startups and companies on display - a sentence about each of the 50 'hand-picked' young companies strutting their stuff; a few choice photos; a sense of what it's like to be there.

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Bush may deploy military if bird flu breaks out

October 4, 2005

President Bush has asked Congress to discuss the option of allowing him to deploy military resources if avian flu breaks out in America.

"I'm concerned about what an avian flu outbreak could mean for the United States and the world," said the president in a conference today. The president also expressed concern that local response would be slow, given the precedent provided by the recent gulf coast hurricane disasters, the aftermath of which has triggered widespread criticism for what many view as instances of long-delayed and inadequate delivery on the part of the white house and congress. "I want there to be a robust discussion about the best way for the federal government, in certain extreme circumstances, to be able to rally assets for the good of the people," the President said previously.

Avian flu is not currently able to easily pass from human to human, limiting epidemics. The president and others warn that the virus may mutate into a form that more easily spreads through social contact.


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Google, Sun Microsystems to collaborate on software development

October 7, 2005

On Tuesday, Google and Sun Microsystems announced that they are working to get software such as Google Toolbar and OpenOffice.org (both products of Google and Sun Microsystems, respectively) more widely available. The companies stated that this collaboration will make software by each respective company more enhanced. The New York Times reports that this event is to help compete with Microsoft, although they were not explicitly mentioned at a press conference.

Sun and Google agreed to explore opportunities to promote and develop Sun technologies. Despite being a clear announcement, the exact effects of this deal are not yet known. It is known, however, that Java programming software will be equipped with Google Toolbar, and that Google will purchase more from Sun.


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F. Scott Fitzgerald house struck by lightning

October 5, 2005

During a thunderstorm tonight, lightning set fire to a former home of F. Scott Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota. Amidst reports about flash flood warnings and floating cars, KSTP TV said that lightning had set the steeple of the F. Scott Fitzgerald house on fire. Fire fighters were working to extinguish the smoky fire, which seemed to be limited to the steeple. Video images suggest the building is the 599 Summit Avenue residence where Fitzgerald wrote This Side of Paradise.


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User:Rainbird~enwikinews

I am a writer, photographer, and graphic designer. I am very intrigued with wikinews, although the type of writing done here, isn't the kind that I am most fond of doing.

I hope it can evolve into a news source which can delve into context, and not merely be an echo chamber for the associated press, reuters, and other news feeds.

I am quite astonished at this phenomena in my country which is called "the newspaper" It seems to me that many of the local newspapers around the nation evolved out of a verbal spat between the interests of labour and the interests of business. Somehow, that antipathy became transformed into a vigorous pursuit of writing about disasters, and tragedies. In my opinion, the current atmosphere of the typical newsroom is not a nurturing environment for writers. Deadlines -the fact that the material about today's events needs to be written today, The practice of editors who will take apart the motif scheme which a writer puts together. These things hurt the ability of writers to produce quality work.

Also, when writing about negative events, it's easy for writers to fall into the trap of seeing the issue through the lens of their own fears and hesitations. There is a social construct in our society called "trust" and "withholding trust." This is a different philosophy than "prudence." The former has to do with how you view people, while the latter is about dealing with a situation wisely. Writers tend to write in view of their own passions and prejudices, rather than putting the events into the appropriate actual human contexts. It's sad, I think, to look around and see reporters who will write stories, as if they were a cartoonist drawing up a caricature. Because they are pressed for time, because they have limited sources, and because of their own feelings about the situation, they take out a stock template of that situation, and fit all the parts of that story, onto that template. Sincerely, Rainbird

My weblog can be read here... for those who are interested: Zephyr Lake

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Tom DeLay faces two new indictments for money laundering

October 5, 2005

Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay indicted by a grand jury on two new charges of money laundering during the Texas redistricting warrant controversy, on Monday, following his indictment by a separate grand jury on criminal conspiracy charges last week. Craig McDonald, director of Texans for Public Justice, said that "for a new grand jury to indict DeLay on a day's notice suggests the evidence of his participation is convincing." DeLay dismissed the charges as partisan, though the veteran prosecutor in the case has indicted three times as many Democrats as Republicans in his career. DeLay faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Related news


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Talk:Iraqi insurgents guilty of war crimes, says Human Rights Watch

Mr. Miscellaneous - I take your point about single sources but my argument would be that a major organisation like HRW issuing such a comprehensive study of such a major issue is a news story in its own right - and at the time I wrote the story (notwithstanding the backdated BBC article, which wasn't appearing on google news at the time) it was "breaking news" - and Human Rights Watch themselves were the only source I could find for the story.

As this is primarily a story about HRW issuing a major new report, and as HRW themselves have announced that they're launching this report, and as the entire report is viewable online, I think we're on pretty safe ground in our assertion that HRW has issued a new report. In fact, you could say that we have direct eyewitness confirmation for the assertion (eg. I checked the HRW website, and you can too - the report is here: http://hrw.org/reports/2005/iraq1005/)

It would of course be nice to have some independent evaluation of the claims that HRW makes in their new report, but unfortunately none was available at the time I wrote this piece. As you'll see, I've since added a story from BBC News, but unfortunately as far as I can see they do almost the same thing as we've done - eg. just give an outline of the report and its conclusions!

Great Story
Congrats to the contributors. Neutralizer 14:09, 5 October 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Apple plans another special event

Date of event
Event date is incorrect. Sunday is Oct. 9th.

Live Coverage?
Do we have a wikinewsie that is going to this event? I think would be great for all if we had live coverage of the event. --Nathan8225 23:41, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

What do you think is the Announcment?
Apple has a way of giving you just what you needed when you didn't know that you needed it. So what do you think the Apple announcment is? (vote once and/or twice. if you have a new category please add it) --Nathan8225 23:48, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Video iPod

 * Nathan8225 23:48, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

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Dock worker killed by snapped cable

October 5, 2005

A dock worker on the Panamanian cargo vessel Ma Altair was killed when a cable snapped and threw him through the air. Witnesses say that the 54 year old worker was struck on his right side by a 1-1/2 inch cable being used to unload steel products.

Authorities were notified at 8:10 am CDT (1310 UTC). The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

Snapped cables are a significant occupational hazard, capable of maiming and dismembering people nearby. Equipment struck by cables snapping under load is often destroyed.

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User:WAvegetarian

see my Wikipedia user page

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Cool front to bring lasting relief for Texas

October 5, 2005 A cool front is expected to move into Texas Thursday night, bringing an end to the recent record high temperatures. Temperatures are expected to fall to the low 60s across the area, and may reach the lower 50s for inland areas.

There is some speculation that the low pressure area associated with the front may draw a yet-to-be-formed tropical storm in from the gulf with little to no warning, as happened with Hurricane Alicia in 1983. Experts say there is no specific reason to believe this will happen, but plan to monitor the situation.


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Wikinews:Deletion requests/Archives/Deleted Archive 7

'''This archive is closed. If you wish to add a closed deletion request, go to Deletion requests/Archives and find the latest archive.'''

Template:Noncommercial
'Consensus has been reached on this deletion request, and the result is keep''. Do not add anymore votes or comments on this request.  —M ESSED R OCKER''' (talk) 11:56, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Noncommercial images must meet Fair use whitelist requirements to be hosted on Wikinews, so template is "in excess of what is required or sufficient; useless." ( from wiktionary ) - Amgine / talk 03:27, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Ditto. Delete --Deprifry | +T+ 06:07, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Word. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 11:57, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You're drinking my cup of tea. --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 21:57, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- superfluous is a big word. --Chiacomo (talk) 22:08, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Insert funny comment here. - Borofkin 23:15, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- I must remind you all that "shenanigans" and "funny business" are strictly prohibited on Wikinews. Please conduct yourselves in a stone-like, "stick up the bum" manner. --Wolfrider 23:49, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire receives PG-13 MPAA rating
Kind of abbandoned (last edit: 3 days ago was minnor, and next one was 6 days ago) and in my opinion not really notable. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:12, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd say delete. With a storyy like this you either have a hit or a miss.  With a hit you're going to have editors defending it.  With anything else, nobody is going to care. Brianmc 00:49, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Vote: 2-0, consensus to delete - Amgine / talk 19:57, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Archiving previously deleted files - Amgine / talk 19:49, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Earth
Read it, need i say more? Bawolff ☺☻ 00:20, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - waaaaaayyyy too ambiguous. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 11:42, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, that's what the main page is.....-- Flying Canuck 16:52, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This deletion request is closed. The consensus reached is delete.  Do not place anymore votes on this request.  —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 11:59, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

WICK MAKES FOUR-STAR LIST
Copyvio -- Flying Canuck 16:51, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

CAN THE BIG M HELP SAVE THE WEST COAST FISHERY? Senator Mahovlich On Fisheries
Copyvio -- Flying Canuck 17:00, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

ROUND TWO
Copyvio -- Flying Canuck 17:00, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

THIEVES TARGET VACTION HOMES
Copyvio -- Flying Canuck 17:00, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

WOMEN'S BUSINESS NETWORK SHOWCASES LOCAL TALENT
Copyvio -- Flying Canuck 17:00, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

INMATE DIES AFTER SUSPECTED OVERDOSE
Copyvio -- Flying Canuck 17:00, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

I WAS CANADIAN?
Copyvio -- Flying Canuck 17:00, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Satire
Not something Wikinews does/can do --Cspurrier 18:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * And why exactly is that??? Emphaticdrivel 18:55, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * See What Wikinews is and What Wikinews is not - Amgine / talk 19:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete not in the scope of Wikinews. - Amgine / talk 19:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I wanna du-du-dulete you from yo head to yo toes, and I wanna merge some parts down down down down to the Wackynews. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 23:40, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Would be cool as another project outside of wikinews, like wikipedia ↔ unencyclopedia. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 23:09, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Whoopes already exsists Uncyclopedia:UnNews Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 23:11, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Jakarta Muslims attack Catholics
Abandoned --Cspurrier 12:59, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Expenditures by U.S. relief agency questioned in wake of Katrina
Abandoned --Cspurrier 12:59, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Apple releases professional upgrades
Abandoned --Cspurrier 12:59, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

State of Guantánamo Hunger Strike: Force-Fed Via Nasal Canal
Abandoned --Cspurrier 12:59, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

China not happy with Canada's potential Taiwan bill
Abandoned --Cspurrier 12:59, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Alice Cooper in Calgary!
Abandoned --Cspurrier 12:59, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Arrested persons' legal aid is delayed in Singapore
Abandoned --Cspurrier 12:59, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Not enough awareness of needy in Singapore, says volunteer
Abandoned --Cspurrier 12:59, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Slain woman's husband, Daniel Horowitz; "We're all animals"
Abandoned --Cspurrier 12:59, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Birmingham (UK) Race Riots Continue - Second Death
Possible copyright vio, first version of the article matches the text at http://www.newscover.squarespace.com/law-order/ including a spelling mistake which was corrected in a later edit. copyvio added to article by User:Edbrown05, but he didn't follow through here or include URL. Wangi 11:30, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wangi
 * Comment: The Website says on its the front page: "This website is freely available for syndication by any website provided content is attributed to Newscover Magazine." That licence is compatible with ours. --Deprifry | +T+ 12:02, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Though I suspected, I hadn't noticed the licensing stuff. I wouldn't want to read a copy and paste job from Voice of America here any more than Newscover Magazine. I want to read the contributor's take on the news, and pursue the sources if I chose to. -Edbrown05 15:39, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I don't think we should encourage copy & paste jobs even if its compatible with our license. Also if it is a C&P we should note that by more visible means then just a source tag. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 00:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The consensus is in favor of deletion.  Do not place anymore votes for this request.  —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 21:24, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Category:Bush administration handling of pre-war intelligence
Not a news category. - Amgine / talk 00:01, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

 *  Keep Rename. Used in Template:Pre-war intelligence infobox for the DPLBawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 01:06, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It is used, in that infobox, to create a strong bias in articles via guilt by association. The infobox is unbalanced and not NPOV. - Amgine / talk 01:08, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Agree with Amgine's claims. Delete.  --Mrmiscellanious 01:22, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. The category/dpl should be something like "2003 Iraq War Intelligence", or something similar. - Borofkin 01:26, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or rename - against the npov, which is a necessity if we're going to defeat the corporate news. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 21:54, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Rename Category with a neutral title is usefull per Bawolff. --Deprifry | +T+ 12:05, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Rename. I found it useful to dig out Plame leak stories. "2003 Iraq pre-war intelligence" maybe. -Edbrown05 15:34, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

The consensus that has been adapted is in favor of renaming the category. ''' Do not place anymore votes for this deletion request.  —M ESSED R OCKER''' (talk) 23:22, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The transfer was successful, and the new category is Category:2003 Iraq pre-war intelligence. I also request that this deletion request remain on the deletion request page until November 2, 2005. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 00:30, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Template:2003 Iraq pre-war intelligence infobox
'Consensus has been reached on this deletion request, and the result is delete''. Do not add anymore votes or comments on this request.  —M ESSED R OCKER''' (talk) 12:01, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Template's only purpose is to imply the USA administration egaged in misleading the public. NPOV states "one is very careful not to state (or imply or insinuate or subtly massage the reader into believing) that any particular view at all is correct." This template clearly violates this element of the NPOV policy. - Amgine / talk 03:26, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep- This info box has been here since June and has been quite useful. The assumption above that its purpose is to imply something is absurd nonsense as one can not apply motive to a Template. Furthermore, the nominator for deletion relies upon NPOV which states;

 * "We should not attempt to represent a dispute as if a view held by only a small minority of people deserved as much attention as a majority view. That may be misleading as to the shape of the dispute. If we are to represent the dispute fairly, we should present competing views in proportion to their representation among experts on the subject, or among the concerned parties."

 * Even if the contents of the info-box leave a reader with the feeling that pre-war intelligence was wrong and/or misused; I submit that such an overwhelming majority of the world's "experts on the subject" as well as "the concerned parties" are on the record as believing that "Iraq pre-war intelligence" was so wrong and so misused, that the info-box, if anything, is too mild in terms of identifying articles which in themselves are too mild in reporting the extent of the wrongness and misuse of that so called "intelligence". The argument for deletion,as stated above, is spurious and without merit. Neutralizer 03:55, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

I thought it was a category to throw stories into so when the a need arose, there was a place to look for it. -Edbrown05 04:32, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Or it could be deleted, or rather renamed again, so that when you are desparate for the hard work that went into creating and sourcing a story you are hard out of luck. -Edbrown05 04:41, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I see this as having been a renamed template from last month. My understanding is that it may be controverial but it covers an important topic.  As for the earlier discussion of this under it's previous incarnation I think archiving of this issue should be deferred.  When it comes to the vote, I'm saying Keep. Brianmc 00:16, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. No need for an infobox on this category, which shouldn't even be here in the first place - not a news category.  --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 00:59, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep and fix - I'm pretty sure this may serve as a useful category if it's cleaned up a bit. And by "a bit" I mean "a lot". —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 02:54, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete - I consider this one to be different to Template:Immigration australia infobox and Template:Human rights united states infobox. Those two display the intersection of two legitimate categories, whereas this one displays a category which is POV, IMO. - Borofkin 07:36, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Unnecessary and very POV --Cspurrier 12:52, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * "2003 Iraq pre-war intelligence" <-- POV? Cspurrier, Borofkin, Amgine, you are going to have to explain this one to me in baby talk; I just don't get it. How is providing a pointer for readers to articles about an important news topic POV? Mrmiscellanious: "not a news category"? I'm on a planet called Earth where Iraq pre-war intelligence is a huge news topic. If this is not a news category where you live, I'm going to have to find out what planet you are on. --JWSchmidt 21:07, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Attempt at reply: The title is misleading; the category is used exclusively for articles about percieved administration mishandling or failures regarding "pre-war intelligence". This has two elements of POV in it: it strongly implies the administration mishandled or had failures regarding "pre-war intelligence" (violates the opinions and judgements of WN:NPOV). Second it is not an "event", but a perception - opinion - regarding a time frame. It is not even a broadly agreed upon perception, let alone a discrete news item. Under this rubric all articles regarding Iraq - including the Saddam trial and more - should be included, but they are not being included because the category is being used exclusively for pushing a POV. (similarly, Google finds 152 articles using "immigration", but only 15 articles in the category - the majority of which are critical or negative articles about Australia) So my third argument for deletion is the category on which it is based is being used in a POV fashion. - Amgine / talk 21:33, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Keep "Perceived administration mishandling"? Um. Amgine, the US government (including George Bush) has admitted to the failure of intelligence that lead to the war in Iraq. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, George Bush has made a public apology regarding it (although I could be thinking of another video). After looking around I can't find it, perhaps it was part of a wonderful dream I had. I did find this though: Report: Iraq intelligence 'dead wrong' --Wolfrider 01:41, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * "Percieved." Clearly not all the "intelligence" was mishandled. In fact, afaik, none of it was. The public relations campaign, on the other hand, is rather more dicey. - Amgine / talk 02:02, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Goodness Wolfrider! you cited an article about a political committee (appointed by President Bush) which exonerated the president! You really should choose more reliable sources. - Amgine / talk 02:07, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * That is why the White House launched an investigation to look into the failure of the CIA to report accurately on the existence of WMD's.... because there was no failure? I politely direct you to this BBC article and CBC story And looking at your second comment I have absolutely no idea what you're taking about. Your original rebuttal to my argument was that there was no mishandling of intelligence. I pointed to an article that clearly stated otherwise. --Wolfrider 02:18, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Allow me to catch my breath and then respond.
 * The CNN article covered a report which found the intelligence provided the executive branch was wrong, not that the executive branch mishandled it.
 * Military intelligence is mishandled when its use or failure to be used results in a failure to achieve military objectives.
 * The articles in that category do not discuss the use or failure to use military intelligence, but rather the use of military intelligence in propaganda, for political objectives.
 * Hope I clarified my rebuttal (despite the interruptions.) - Amgine / talk 02:52, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Now I understand a little better. I have to contend though that "Military intelligence is mishandled when its use or failure to be used results in a failure to achieve military objectives." is a good description of what happened in Iraq. --Wolfrider 03:06, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, JWSchmidt, thank you for your comments. Now for mine.  This category and it's infobox have both been hugely the subject of POV pushing.  I don't understand how these items need their own category - itself is a little too liberal of posting stories into the category which have absolutely nothing to do with the "pre-war intellegence".  And excuse me, but why does having links like this one: Why has 'Downing Street memo' story been a 'dud' in US? make any sense in the infobox on Wikinews?  --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 21:53, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * So call me clueless. I never used the info box and having seen it on the side of Lewis "Scooter" Libby indicted on five charges I had assumed that it linked to previous Wikinews articles and maybe some useful Wikipedia pages. Now that I have looked at the external links, it seems like the practice of continually having people putting various external links into the info box and other people taking them out is not constructive. Maybe there should be a rule that almost all links in an info box are to past Wikinews articles and maybe there could be a few links to vitally important information at other wikimedia projects. Another rule could be that nothing is added to an information box until after it has been reviewed and used in a published Wikinews article. --JWSchmidt 01:31, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Amgine: Are you saing that Category:Immigration is not a legitimate news category? Or would the POV issue be resolved if I add all those other immigration articles to that category? The situation has arisen because myself and other Australian contributors have used Category:Immigration, and we have mostly been writing articles (which on their own are NPOV) about Australian government immigration policy, but contributors from other countries have not been using this category. Considering that it is not POV for a person to only write articles about a topic that interests them, I suppose my question is: from where does the POV problem arise? - Borofkin 23:04, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I just added Category:Immigration to Canadian Immigration Minister outlines plan for application backlog, job vacancies. Any Canadians able to follow the minister's speech and fill it out a bit? Brianmc 23:14, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Borofkin: I'm saying that sub-categories (or deeper) will almost always fail to be used uniformly. On Wikinews, we should strive to use top-level categories only, these categories should be clearly understandable and the same as thosed used generally in journalism, and they should be value-neutral. Immigration as a concept is inherently biased as it is almost universally viewed negatively, induces confusion in the readers (is it about the process of immigration, the persons who immigrate, or the government's divisions dealing with immigration?) and is not even possible in many countries of the world. - Amgine / talk 01:18, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Amgine: Fair enough, I think I see your point, however I think such ambiguities and "value judgements" exist even with the top level categories. For example, is terrorism polictics or crime? - Borofkin 03:52, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I would say both. It's not a question of ambiguities so much as a case of smaller categories by their nature tend to be used narrowly. It's my opinion that larger, more basic categories will be more easily understood by contributors, and will be more difficult to skew toward, or against, one or another POV. - 24.85.85.76 04:30, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment Not sure if this is directly related to some of the discussion's nuances, But today the US Senate had a major upheavel solely related to Iraq pre-war intelligence; so certainly the issue is alive and well and exceptionally newsworthy. Imo, this info box as well as the others being discussed are helpful to the readers of wikinews. In my opinion, a lot of this discussion is introspective navel gazing about abstract organizational preferences and the entire question of whether the info-boxes are pov to the point of warranting deletion seems to have been sidelined. The paramount issue should be; "are the boxes useful to the readers ?" and absolutely no argument has been made thus far to the effect that the boxes are not worthwhile for article readers. Neutralizer 23:59, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, no. The NPOV policy has been listed by Mr. Wales as one of the only non-negotiable elements of the Wikimedia Foundation. - Amgine / talk 00:03, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * NPOV when read in its entirety does not come into play at all with reference to any of the 4 deletion requests made on Oct. 30th. Certainly, the info boxes and category in question have not been proven to the satisfaction of the community to be POV. Neutralizer 00:18, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * At least, this is your POV on the matter. - Amgine / talk 00:20, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * No, that is my opinion. There is a differnce between a personal opinion and an infraction of a community guideline ("POV"). That's the core of most of the problems in the community; the misuse of the term, "POV", just as it was misused above. Neutralizer 00:45, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * On this, I'm afraid, we will have to agree to disagree. - Amgine / talk 00:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Or not agree to agree :) Neutralizer 00:54, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree with Borofkin (above). --Chiacomo (talk) 05:04, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Category:2003 Iraq pre-war intelligence
'Consensus has been reached on this deletion request, and the result is delete''. Do not add anymore votes or comments on this request.  —M ESSED R OCKER''' (talk) 12:05, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

This is not a news category - it is an encyclopedia category (Wikinews is not an encyclopedia) - and is being used primarily to create a POV info box used to imply the Bush Administration has engaged in misleading the public. NPOV states "one is very careful not to state (or imply or insinuate or subtly massage the reader into believing) that any particular view at all is correct" - something the Template:2003 Iraq pre-war intelligence infobox clearly attempts to do. - Amgine / talk 03:22, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep-The nominator for deletion relies upon NPOV which states;

"We should not attempt to represent a dispute as if a view held by only a small minority of people deserved as much attention as a majority view. That may be misleading as to the shape of the dispute. If we are to represent the dispute fairly, we should present competing views in proportion to their representation among experts on the subject, or among the concerned parties."

I submit that all polls show that such an overwhelming majority of the world's citizens beieve that "Iraq pre-war intelligence" was so wrong in fact and so misused, that the info-box, if anything, is too mild in terms of identifying articles which in themselves are too mild in reporting the extent of the wrongness and misuse of that so called "intelligence". The argument for deletion,as stated above, is without merit. Neutralizer 03:57, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

I disagree with the way Neutralizer has tried to justify the continued existence of this infobox, that is inherently POV. So, in this case I'm going to abstain, but I think the infobox needs work to make it more NPOV. Tricky when you're just talking about a box that links together a set of stories, but I think Wikinewsies need to set themselves very high standards. Brianmc 00:22, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This category needs several articles removed from it, such as Mother's plea to U.S. president gains widespread attention, this article suggests that Bush would brush off Cindy Sheehan with the idea that the Iraqi war was about removing Saddam or liberating the Iraqi people. There is nothing in it about Iraqi pre-war intelligence.  Others that I think should be reviewed and possibly have the category removed are: Bush appoints John Bolton United States' ambassador to the United Nations, and Bush likely to appoint Bolton during congressional recess.  I know some people are keeping score and waiting for the whole house of cards to fall down, but that category on these articles implies Wikinews has passed judgement on the man. Brianmc 21:39, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Unnecessary category.  --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 00:58, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep and fix - I'm pretty sure this may serve as a useful category if it's cleaned up a bit. And by "a bit" I mean "a lot". —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 02:54, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete - I consider this one to be different to Template:Immigration australia infobox and Template:Human rights united states infobox. Those two display the intersection of two legitimate categories, whereas this one displays a category which is POV, IMO. - Borofkin 07:36, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Unnecessary and very POV --Cspurrier 12:52, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep -- The failure of the Bush administration relating to the collection of accurate intelligence in Iraq is a fact, not a point of view. NPOV does not mean "give Bush a break." A few stories contained within need to be removed, but I fail to see how a collection of NPOV articles can create a POV category. --Wolfrider 01:58, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * IMHO, it is POV in many ways. One of the strongest points could be that this category links to articles about many items NOT about pre-war intelligence.  The Plame case is very vaguely linked to the Iraq war, and is not applicable in this category without someone trying to make a political point (one would have to follow through and start making claims that the Bush admin. was trying to get back at Wilson for his report and criticism about the administration, which would not be NPOV).  I wouldn't mind if it was just one article, but MANY of the articles seem to be stepping into this category in which they do not belong (Sheehan articles, for example, also do not belong here - nor does the article about Ted Turner claiming FOX as whatever).  It would have been better served to name this category "Downing Street Memo case" (or similar) during its infancy, however it's really unrecoverable right now (unless someone wants to weed through all the articles).  --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 03:02, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with the need to remove the stories, but I see no reason to delete the category. I'm sure we can get someone to do it, and if no one volunteers I can pick it up as a project, although it will have to wait for a few days before I can take a long look at it. --Wolfrider 03:18, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm seeing only 3 articles that ACTUALLY pertain to the category's title. Three. Who can explain the others? --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 00:06, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I count 10 or 11. Resolution of Inquiry into pre-Iraq war U.S.-U.K. correspondance fails by one vote, CIA gives up search and interrogation on Iraq WMDs, Rep. Barbara Lee calls for U.S. Congress probe into Iraq War planning, United States President George W. Bush makes speech to rally support for war in Iraq (Although this one is debatable), AP Probe suggests Bolton manipulated Iraq inspections to favor War, Citizen groups ask Congress to file formal "Resolution of Inquiry" against Bush, $1,000 reward offered for answer from US President, and the four downing street stories. (Including the John Kerry one) --Wolfrider 01:02, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Alright, maybe three was a little exaggerating. I've got five: Resolution of Inquiry into pre-Iraq war U.S.-U.K. correspondance fails by one vote (debatable), CIA gives up search and interrogation on Iraq WMDs, Rep. Barbara Lee calls for U.S. Congress probe into Iraq War planning, Associated Press publishes 6 new "secret and confidential" Downing Street memos, Secret Downing Street Memo leaked.  All others do not apply to the topic, IMO.  --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 03:06, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment Not sure if this is directly related to some of the discussion's nuances, But today the US Senate had a major upheavel solely related to Iraq pre-war intelligence; so certainly the issue is alive and well and exceptionally newsworthy. Imo, this category as well as the others being discussed are helpful to the readers of wikinews. In my opinion, a lot of this discussion is introspective navel gazing about abstract organizational preferences and the entire question of whether the categorizations are pov to the point of warranting deletion seems to have been sidelined. The paramount issue should be; "is this category useful to the readers ?" and absolutely no argument has been made thus far to the effect that it is not worthwhile for article readers. Neutralizer 00:03, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * In addition,NPOV when read in its entirety does not come into play with reference to any of the 4 deletion requests made on Oct. 30th. Certainly, they have not been proven to the satisfaction of the community to be POV. Neutralizer 00:20, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * At least, this is you POV on the matter. - Amgine / talk 00:22, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * No, that is my opinion. There is a difference between a personal opinion and an infraction of a community guideline ("POV"). That's the core of most of the problems in the community; the misuse of the term, "POV", just as it was misused above. Neutralizer 00:48, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * weak keep How is something being unnessary a grounds for deletion? I think this could be useful if it is fixed up. If the bush government did something good with intel then it would be listed there too. unfourtantly they havn't been paticurly good with intelligence so theres alot of bad things listed there. Isn't it more POV to not to link together all the articles about intelligance,for the specific reason that there has been very little good happening, thus if anything bad happens lets not tell anybody about it. If someone did a search about pre war intel they'd probaly come to the same conclusion as if they read the infobox. With that being said the category should not have anything but stuff about pre-war intell.
 * Didn't this just go through deletion request and the concensus was to keep? Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 00:24, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, however that was mostly a naming dispute, and now that the name is fine, there are other things about the template to complain about. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 01:53, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete I agree with Borofkin (above) --Chiacomo (talk) 05:05, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Wal-Mart to change health benefits plan
Copyvio. Bawolff ☺☻ 19:38, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Renewable energy
Doesn't belong here possible copyvio, not news -- Flying Canuck 16:57, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Bantam Dell Pays Reported $7 Million for First-Ever Authorized Warren Buffett Biography
Copyvio -- Flying Canuck 05:35, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Bush named Saudi Arabia and Pakistan as among possible future targets
Abandoned -- Flying Canuck 05:28, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Abandoned. - Amgine / talk 03:44, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

British Columbia Teachers' Federation not allowed to fund strike
Abandoned -- Flying Canuck 05:15, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete abandoned - Amgine / talk 03:42, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

The InterAmerican Court on Children's Right to Nationality
Copyvio Note: original tag added by another user, added here for them by: -- Flying Canuck 04:53, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. Article has good potential as a news story if NPOV balanced and additional sources in english. (Article never tagged for deletion - please add if listing here) - Amgine / talk 03:36, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd normally have to say no consensus, but it's a copyvio so I have to delete it. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 12:12, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Patti Smith performs at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival
Copyvio and abandoned -- Flying Canuck 04:50, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete abandoned copyvio - Amgine / talk 03:23, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Joe Crede of White Sox baseball team out for season
Abandoned and not sourced and kinda weird...--Flying Canuck 04:42, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete abandonded. - Amgine / talk 03:21, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Rob "Coach" Fulton wins Australian Who wants to be a Millionaire
Not news, people win game shows evrey day...--Flying Canuck 04:38, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment: Strongly disagree with this as a reason for deleting an article. The story is likely of great interest to persons in the region, as well as those who are local to Mr. Fulton and may be interested in a local story. OTOH, the article appears likely to be considered abandoned shortly. - Amgine / talk 03:19, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Answers.com and Wikimedia Foundation to Form New Partnership
Copyvio, another article on same topic already exsists -- Flying Canuck 04:13, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Inquiry after boy killed by train
Copyvio original tag added by another user, added here for them. | Remeber to wait till October 22 to delete. -- Flying Canuck 06:01, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Student from Israel aims at 1 billion website visitors
I'm neutral on this, but somebody else listed it for deletion so here it is. Note: They used the wrong template: instead of  So i changed the template. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:57, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Opposed, defintly not an advertisment, it should not be deleted. -- Flying Canuck 05:55, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Inclining to delete For me it is seems to be very similar to advertisement, although I don't say it IS for now. The article says the website owner hopes a lots of access and doesn't show what kind of website it is ... this smells very advertise-like for me but it has no straight recommendation, so I would like not to determine at this moment. -Aphaia 06:13, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
 * To be deleted - 2 in favor, 1 oppose, 1 neutral. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 14:28, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Chicago wins American League Division Series title for 2005 season
Abandoned --Cspurrier 15:15, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Suspected maoist blast kills twelve Indian policemen
Abandoned --Cspurrier 15:15, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Level of New York subway security threat unknown
Abandoned --Cspurrier 15:15, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Thomas Schelling and Robert Aumann win Nobel Prize in Economics
Abandoned --Cspurrier 15:15, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

DeLay's lawyer claims that indictment was based on non-existent law
Abandoned --Cspurrier 15:15, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

2005 Ironman Triathlon
Abandoned --Cspurrier 15:15, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Nashville Police accused in Taser death of Patrick Aaron Lee
Abandoned. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 02:21, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

REGARDING THE $100 LAPTOP
Abandoned, editorial. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 21:18, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Deletethis article. Fritsky 15:57, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * $ sign is an illegal character for titles. Shouldn't this be speedy? Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 23:09, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Australian House Prices Fall
Article is copywritten text, link given on article. Brianmc 09:04, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

ACLU; investigations of contributions in corrupting a judicial society
Article originally tagged 28 September 2005 - Amgine/talk 07:48, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Delete this incoherent editorial. Fritsky 15:54, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Brush fires in Southern California
Article originally tagged abandoned 7 October 2005 - Amgine/talk 07:45, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Syrian interior minister commits suicide
Article originally tagged as speedy deletion, "Duplicate: Syrian Interior Minister Kills Himself has same and more content", but duplication is not a speedy justification. Retagged as deletion request, listed. - Amgine/talk 07:31, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Duplicate article, but why not simply merge the article and dispense with the deletion process? --Chiacomo (talk) 14:27, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Mostly because I don't remember how to do history merges, and don't have the access time to figure it out. (Content-wise it appears there are no additional factual statements, both used the same original source) - Amgine/talk 14:37, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Uzbekistan
Substub originally tagged for deletion 10 October 2005 - Amgine/talk 07:17, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Category:Astronomy
Tagged for deletion 4 October 2005 - Amgine/talk 07:14, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * prior archived Concensus was to keep Bawolff 22:57, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Protesters storm Bali jail, demand death for bombers
Copyvio. --Deprifry | +T+ 09:55, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Lions Lose the City
Abandoned, no sources, incomplete, bleh. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 11:07, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

British pair awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Abondoned.Flying Canuck 15:57, 12 October 2005 (UTC) Original tag added by another user, added to this list for them

Cleaner, Crisper Volumetric Images
Copyright infringment: Obvious cut and paste from press release in sources. Tag on article added by another user, added to this list for them by: Flying Canuck 23:04, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Police Investigate Mail and Guardian
Copyright infringment: Cut and paste from news story: http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=251744&area=/oilgate/oil_from_mg/ Flying Canuck 02:05, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

ישראל
Hebrew story, for which there is no Hebrew Wikinews (yet). --Mrmiscellanious 18:47, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure this is even a news story. The title means "Israel" in Hebrew. --Deprifry | +T+ 05:04, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Whats wrong with having stories in other lnaguages? - Nyarlathotep 19:52, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Nothing wrong with them, just that you can only have English stories in English Wikinews. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 23:23, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Is there a misc. language wikinews?
 * Nope. If you want a Wikinews in a certain language, petition for a new edition. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 22:05, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Nominated for speedy deletion because it's a foriegn language for which a wikinews does not exist and does not appear to be a news story.Flying Canuck 23:05, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Am I Raising An Abuser?
Not only does this have a terrible headline, but it is strongly POV, and seems nothing more than an infomercial/propoganda. --Munchkinguy 01:00, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Lindsay Lohan crashes her car
Most likely not news, only one senetence and one source. Already a day old, and used copyrighted pictures.... which turned out to be from another accident.... --TUFKAAP 17:23, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Extreme lesbian delete. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 03:45, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Should have been a real story.... Delete (unfortunately) - This should have been a real news story because it was not just this famous actress getting in a car crash, but the idiotic tabloid reporters who follow her around noting every scrap of food she eats and every time she takes a dump in the bathroom. In this case one of those "reporters" rear ended her vehicle, sending her to the hospital via ambulance.  Very similar to how Lady Diana died.  Obviously full of POV issues, but those could have been cleaned up.  --Robert Horning 05:35, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Joe Blemhuber wins Texas Hold'em Poker Jacket Match
Doubtful to be news, has had false info added to it and very close to being nonsense --Cspurrier 12:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * KEEP This news section is only just begining and has a strong following at Northern Michigan University. Yes, there have been some problems with people adding untruthful events but give it time and allow me to learn how to sniff out these traitors.  shaggrugg anonymous user
 * Please dump it. Anthony DiPierro 23:46, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I've researched as best I can and can find no source at all for this article. I'll gladly change my vote if someone can provide something (anything!) in the way of corroboration that this event actually exists as this is an excellent example of local coverage that is fun to read. --Chiacomo (talk) 14:35, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP Why does there need to be a source for this article? We are the source, we post the news as it becomes available.  There is such thing as news that occours outside of The AP or Gannett news service, or any big news conglomerate for that matter.  Wikinews has provided us with a great forum to broadcast this news to the nation and planet.  It's a shame that rules intended to weed out articles that are irrelvent, and deemed not news worthy have to weed out articles that have value to many people.  Please reconsider your actions to delete this story. NBABUCKS1

Chicago White Sox clinch playoff spot
abandoned --Cspurrier 12:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Soham murderer Huntley to serve 40 years
abandoned --Cspurrier 12:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Student revolt at Metropolitan University of the Cape
abandoned --Cspurrier 12:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Rihanna jams into GameCube
abandoned --Cspurrier 12:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Rare eclipse to appear over Eastern Hemisphere
abandoned --Cspurrier 12:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

HD-DVD delayed until early 2006
abandoned --Cspurrier 12:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

No debt cancellation for Hurricane Katrina victims
sources are old, no longer news --Cspurrier 12:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC) See thats not really true, itswould still be news. However, I'm reasoonably sure I put up a version of this story a while back, so its not news in the sence that we've already covered it. :) - Nyarlathotep 03:41, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

18 poor nations will get debt cancellation.
sources are old, no longer news --Cspurrier 12:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Controversy over statements of first DeLay grand jury's foreman
Original source for the artcile does not exist -- Herda05 16:22, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I can't actually find evidence of the statements in question.
 * There's only one statement that I can directly find reference to through newspaper accounts, and it has conflicting context provided that disagrees with the article's assertions.
 * ""Delete"" - I can't find the source either. - Nyarlathotep 16:54, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Threats...
for obvious reasons. proably should have been speedy, but wasn't sure—Bawolff 00:32, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It has met Speedy Deletion requirements, and has been deleted per them. --Mrmiscellanious 12:30, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

President Awards Medal of Honor to Korea War Vet, Tibor Rubin
Abandoned --Cspurrier 12:57, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Pearl Harbor Hero Welch also First Mach Triple Ace
Abandoned --Cspurrier 12:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Joran van der Sloot, suspect in Holloway case, target of death threats
Not news and getting old almost abandoned --Cspurrier 12:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Rumors speculate Microsoft purchasing AOL from Time Warner
Older not news story --Cspurrier 12:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Outraged Lebanese protest against attempted murder of journalist
poorly writen, npov --Cspurrier 12:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Google celebrates 7th birthday, as indicated by front page
Notnews --Cspurrier 12:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Rebuilding New Orleans and Southern Louisiana could be risky if drastically eroded Delta Region is not rebuilt
Abandoned --Cspurrier 12:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Earthquake in Southern California
Abandoned --Cspurrier 12:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Google enters 'The Big Five League'
No sources --Cspurrier 12:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

New Facts Relevant to Supreme Court Nomination
No sources, doubtful it can become a story except maybe by merging it with some thing else --Cspurrier 12:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Swiss Inventioneering Architecture Exhibit and Lecture Comes to San Francisco in October
No sources & press release. --Cspurrier 12:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Investors ask: Should Microsoft Buy Google?
Notnews & no sources --Cspurrier 12:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Disaster humor
Not really news. It's great and all, but it's not news. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 20:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * delete AnyFile 11:53, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Image:Beach_Wreak_no_Dialogue.jpg
Image that cannot really be used on any article. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 20:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * delete AnyFile 11:53, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Unvollkommene Immunsysteme helfen Autoimmunkrankheiten zu vermeiden
Not english. I know this isn't the right place for trans-wiki's, but where am i suposed to put them.
 * Transwiki to apropriate language, obviously. Bawolff 08:34, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Already there. So, delete. --Deprifry | *T* 09:03, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Source and other templates seem to work only within the English wiki... So Do not delete (until source templates are transferred to German section). --172.176.150.76 14:25, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Changed the "Sources" manually... Can be deleted now. If somebody knows how to introduce the appropriate templates to the German section of wikinews, please "complete" the section. --172.176.150.76 14:36, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

ISPs terminate credit card fraud Web sites
abandoned--Cspurrier 04:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Rumors speculate Microsoft purchasing AOL from Time Warner
abandoned--Cspurrier 04:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

 * and a dupe — Microsoft, Time Warner talk on partnership. Delete Bawolff 04:25, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep the Rumors speculate Microsoft purchasing AOL from Time Warner as a PREPARED story (see tagging). Delete the other (Microsoft, Time Warner talk on partnership), this dupe should've been here earlier.  --Mrmiscellanious 04:33, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * what's wrong with the other one (Microsoft, Time Warner talk on partnership)? It seem's perfectly publishable to me. Bawolff 08:37, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * It was created after the article, and all the information from it was merged into the other one (which is also perfectly "publishable"), however - it is just a rumor right now. --Mrmiscellanious 20:19, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Mush, Manmohan meet trapped in a logjam
abandoned--Cspurrier 04:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Federer wins the US Open of tennis
abandoned--Cspurrier 04:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Former Australian opposition leader opposed US alliance
abandoned--Cspurrier 04:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Karl Rove placed in charge of Katrina reconstruction
abandoned--Cspurrier 04:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Rumors speculate Microsoft purchasing AOL from Time Warner
abandoned--Cspurrier 04:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC) This is up here twice. see above. Bawolff 08:38, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

The Lancet against the arms trade
abandoned--Cspurrier 04:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

category:Astronomy
More or less duplicate of category:Space with fewer articles. Neutral Bawolff 22:27, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: I disagree that this category should be abandoned. Perhaps redefined and some new direction.  There is quite a bit of activity with space exploration that involves technology and groups of people that are building spacecraft, doing robotic missions, and getting into political issues that can cost many billions of dollars every year.  Astronomy is more a specific scientific disclipline that happens to be the observation of distant objects and information about the skies.  That people are now going to places (like the Moon) that were previously only the study of astronomers is besides the point.  Astronomers may be a part of some robotic missions to distant planets (like the Cassini mission to Saturn) but the X-Prize Cup in New Mexico will have almost no participation by astronomers except perhaps as strong fans for the event and some of the companies involved.  That is clearly something for the "Space" category and not "Astronomy".  A discovery of a supernova going off in the Magenellic Clouds would be a story for "Astronomy" and not "Space", except perhaps as a side note regarding the Hubble Telescope being used for observations of the object.  --Robert Horning 22:44, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * IMO A discovery of a supernova going off in the Magenellic Clouds would be a story for space because it happened in space. However It could easily be redefined as you said above, so I withdraw my delete vote to neutral. Bawolff 22:57, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * What do you think of how the changes to the pages went?Bawolff 23:20, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Australian leader planned end of US alliance
The content of this article is duplicated at Former Australian opposition leader opposed US alliance. The article name is also wildly misleading. Um, I'm not sure if I should merge and redirect... in my opinion the article name is just plain wrong and should cease to exist. -- Borofkin 03:44, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree. The article title is very misleading. It should be deleted a.s.a.p. --Wm 21:26, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Many nations offer, Bush accepts, material aid to hurricane victims
Abandoned, regretfully. --Chiacomo (talk) 20:15, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

ISPs terminate credit card fraud Web sites
Abandoned. --Chiacomo (talk) 20:15, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Did some work, removed tag for now. Thanx 69.142.2.68 04:47, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

India, Pakistan to exchange prisoners today
Abandoned. -- user:zanimum

Maine on standby for refugees of Hurricane Katrina
Abandoned. --Chiacomo (talk) 03:09, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. --  user:zanimum

Tropical storm could reflood New Orleans: Hurricane Center Director
Abandoned, not an article as it stands. --Chiacomo (talk) 03:12, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. --  user:zanimum
 * Delete. Content merged with Florida Keys evacuated. -Edbrown05 19:27, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Who took George Bush to the woodshed
Simple editorial, which is not permitted on Wikinews. —Brent Dax (talk) 22:25, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, should have been speedy. --  user:zanimum

Category:Entertainers
added 14 June by NGerda "" - Amgine/talk 05:40, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, if anything it should be the broader term of celebrities. --  user:zanimum

Category:Crime
added 9 May by DouglasGreene "Deletion request" - Amgine/talk 05:35, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, surprised it exists when Crime and law also does. --  user:zanimum

Category:Civil War
added 9 May by DouglasGreene "Deletion request" - Amgine/talk 05:30, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, if a Civil War in some country gains enough articles, the category should be specific to the exact name of the specific Civil War. --  user:zanimum

Dogs being shot by law enforcement in New Orleans
added 14 Sept. by Cmwhite "am going to incorporate this into another article" - Amgine/talk 05:22, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * There is already a DR for that article a few paragraphs below, just under its old title. --Deprifry 05:27, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Category:Askar Akayev
added 9 May by DouglasGreene "Requesting deletion" - Amgine/talk 05:27, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

First Nestorian search engine goes online
Copyvio --Deprifry 14:51, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Contributor has indicated that he is the Original author. --Deprifry 17:56, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree that it's a copyright vio, but think we should give the author time to fix that before deleting. StuRat 15:22, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Law Enforcement Shooting Dogs in New Orleans%2C LA
Doesn't need to be a story in its own right: have incorporated the story and source into Katrina survivor searchers prepare for the worst as part of the background on the aftermath. ClareWhite 09:03, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. StuRat 15:14, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Good move StuRat. -Edbrown05 16:40, 14 September 2005 (UTC) Pardon me, ClareWhite, good move. -Edbrown05 17:33, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Do Not Delete.. I feel the article is shocking enough to warant its own piece, and will likely be ignored/missed in a larger/older article.
 * Has this person not heard of the word "Keep"? --  user:zanimum
 * Delete. Not much to say about this story.  —Brent Dax (talk) 08:20, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, too short. --  user:zanimum

Eyewitness account of Katrina aftermath

 * Editorial not in a user space, as well as a copyvio. --Mrmiscellanious 10:40, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

This is an eyewitness account, not an editorial. It is not a copy violation, as it is not a copyright protected text published elsewhere. Okay, I concede - you have provided proof of Copyvio I was ignorant of. Sorry. Delete it.

I got this as a forward and it had been made freely available for use anywhere. I would call it an rather than an editorial and move it. See watercooler. ClareWhite 09:12, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I've moved the body of it to Portal:Disasters_and_accidents/Eyewitness_accounts/Katrina_aftermath_Bradshaw_and_Slonsky and will move others there too. They can be used as sources there and the page can be given a link on the new orleans disaster box, i guess. ClareWhite 09:50, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, as long as it's used as a source. I was sure I read that account somewhere and was suspicious... --Mrmiscellanious 10:42, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Yeh, I had too, but it was fairly clearly released for general use by anyone so that makes it OK doesn't it? Anyway, you could delete the original story now if you wanted? ClareWhite 12:50, 15 September 2005 (UTC) Do not delete this, Using something like a headline about katrina survivors prepare for the worse necessarily renders this story too second page news. I clicked to see the video because I thought that it was newsworthy and interesting. It deserves to be a news article in its own right and not fall under the rubric of "the day after."


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Jefferson to face forward on new nickel

October 5, 2005

For the first time, the United States Mint will feature a president facing forward on a coin. President Thomas Jefferson will face forward on the 2006-dated five cent coin. This image is based on an 1800 painting of the president by Rembrandt Peale. This design is referred to by the mint as the "Jefferson 1800".

"The changing images in the Westward Journey Nickel Series™ lead us back to Thomas Jefferson, who envisioned the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark expedition as a way to move the Nation forward. The image of a forward-looking Jefferson is a fitting tribute to that vision," said United States Mint Acting Director David A. Lebryk.

United States Mint Artistic Infusion Program artist Jamie Franki, of Concord, NC, designed the obverse. It will be sculpted by Donna Weaver, and will feature the word "Liberty" in Jefferson's handwriting. The reverse will feature Monticello, designed by Felix Schlag, and restored from original work by John Mercanti.

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Scientists recreating the 1918 flu virus say 'it came from birds'

October 5, 2005

US scientists have recreated the flu virus from the 1918 flu (aka 'Spanish Flu') via reverse genetics from lung tissue samples of persons who died from the pandemic. The flu was resurrected and injected into mice, according to Terrence Tumpey of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "to understand the biological properties that made the 1918 virus so exceptionally deadly."

Disturbingly, the scientists have found genetic mutations and markers that are similar to those in flu viruses found in birds. This has raised concerns that the so-called "Asian bird flu" could spread to humans, becoming the next global flu pandemic.


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U.S. watchdog group lists "most corrupt members of Congress"

October 7, 2005

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a U.S. legislative watchdog group, has released a report attempting to document the unethical and illegal activities of who they are calling the "most tainted members of Congress". In describing the reasons for the report Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW said, "[CREW] was compelled to research and release a report on these corrupt members because the ethics committees in both the House and Senate are completely inert. The report calls for the House and Senate to act to investigate and take appropriate action against them for these violations of the rules." She went on to attack both parties regarding ethics, "Democrats are just as much to blame as Republicans for the current ethics deadlock. The Democrats won't file ethics complaints against even the most egregious violators like DeLay and Ney…. The Democrats are spineless."

The report covers possible violations of federal laws, as well as congressional ethics rules. To compile the report, CREW drew upon Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports and audits, sworn testimony, emails, and personal financial and travel disclosure forms. By analyzing that information, CREW then attempted to determine if the member's activities violated federal laws, regulations, or congressional ethics rules. The 13 members of Congress covered are:

 * Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT)
 * Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN, Senate Majority leader),
 * Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA).
 * Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO, House Majority Whip)
 * Rep. Randy Cunningham (R-CA)
 * Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL)
 * Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA)
 * Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO)
 * Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH)
 * Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA)
 * Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ)
 * Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC)
 * Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)

The report is entitled "Beyond DeLay: The 13 Most Corrupt Members of Congress", seeking to capitalize on the current media attention on ethics that has come about due to the indictments of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. However, the report does not cover any of Tom Delay's ethics problems, nor does it have any information on his current legal problems.

The report was criticized by the office of Rick Renzi, one of the congressmen listed, arguing that CREW are biased and pursuing a political agenda. "This group is run by one of the biggest Democratic Party donors in the nation and is a mouthpiece for its fierce political attacks," said Renzi's office in a statement. "The group's biased accusations show the campaign season is starting early."

Representative Burns, also one of the representatives named in the report, responded through spokesman James Pendleton calling CREW's report "pure politics." The press secretary for Representative Bob Ney, also named in the CREW report, said, "We don't give Melanie Sloan and her liberal organization an ounce of credibility."

Both Members of the House whose residences have been searched as part of a criminal investigation, Cunningham and Jefferson, are included on the list. Burns, Ney, and Feeney are cited for their dealings with lobbyist Jack Abramoff. 11 out of the 13 named representatives are Republicans.


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Is there any way to make the PDF link appear on the source line? - Nyarlathotep 19:35, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * PDFs, and other links to sites outside WMF, belong in a separate section below the sources called "External links". See the styleguide

 * Well there is no need to link to the PDF at all, especially not if it occupies visual real estate. I just thought if there was a way to tag a PDF link on the sources line it would be a good idea to do it.  Oh, your saying that source should be in an External Link?  For now, I'll just comment out the PDF, no one will read it anyway. - Nyarlathotep

 * Nevermind, I'm an idiot, its trivial to fix.

NPOV
This "report" is from a political action committee, which by definition is not an unbiased source. It is not news when PACs produce reports - they are for all intents and purposes press releases and advertisements, not news events. Please read the NPOV policy which is not negotiable. Repeated creation of articles is grounds for blocking. Repeated creation of biased articles is considered a disruption of the wiki. - Amgine/talk 19:38, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * What are you talking about? I've never created an article twice as far as I know.  Has this article ever been submitted before?  As for PACs being ads, okay fine, but the report is a very interesting list of ethics violations.  It looks to me like these people have done some work here.  Okay sure its biased, but it makes an interesting read and a nice condensation of various news stories.  This is much more news and much less advertisement than Apple's release of a new iPod, which we seem to cover without discussion.  The article can probably be improved by including Ney's statment, no?  I've not seen any other statment issued about it.  - Nyarlathotep 19:49, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Amgine, I am trying to reach you but do not know where your talk page is; I did send something to that site with the chinese symbols. I am trying to alert you that CSpurrier broke the 3 revert rule [] by reverting to the old Bush appointee story for lead 3 times today;Please cancel CSpurrier's last revert. Also, please do not threaten new contributors. Please read the etiquete section. Imo, this story is not NPOV as there is no other side to present within this report. We can't be playing devil's advocate when we report events.

 * Amgine is usually easiest to reach on IRC. - Nyarlathotep 21:02, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Nice, I didn't even notice that "Apple plans another special event" was posted. I think its not hard to see that this article will be more news and more NPOV than that article. - Nyarlathotep 21:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Amgine, I don't really see what the problem is here. Do you think that CREW should be identified as a "political action committee" rather than a "legislative watchdog group"? The article, as it stands at the moment, is reporting on an event that occurred: some group released a report. I don't see why it is for us to make judgements about the biases of that particular group. If the report, or CREW, have been criticised by someone for being biased, then add reporting on these criticisms to the article. You said: "they are for all intents and purposes press releases and advertisements" - so why can't we present it as such? For example: "CREW has claimed that.... ?" - Borofkin 00:14, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

 * It is reporting on a commonplace event; every day in D.C. PACs release "reports" which are, in reality, either negative advertising about their targeted opponents (such as this one), or positive advertising for their targeted proponents. There is no way, so far as I can see, to make this article neutral unless it is reduced to the minimal factual detail about the reports release. Please read the NPOV policy and What Wikinews is not, which specifically addresses this type of article. - Amgine/talk 22:24, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Amgine I'm a little confused about your charge that CREW is a Politcal Action Committee (PAC). A PAC is defined by wikipedia as "the name commonly given to a private group organized to elect or defeat government officials in order to promote legislation, often supporting the group's special interests." This group seems to be a "legislative watchdog" as it's described in the article. They describe themselves as a group that "targets government officials who sacrifice the common good to special interests". They don't appear to be advocating for or against paticular candidates or seeking to get any paticular group elected, rather modeling themselves on groups like Judical Watch simply with an opposite ideological bent.
 * I disagree with the idea that if an organization, even a PAC, releases a "report" it is immediately labled as advertising. The organization may have be partisan, but that does not in and of itself mean the report is false. The report should not be disregarded without review. The person reporting on it here at wikinews, and other editors need to review the report and the article, and figure out if it's ideological advertising. This article documents a report that cites ethical lapses by both democrats and republicans and lists its methodology for anyone to crtique.
 * Amgine, are you referring to this section of What Wikinews is not: "Wikinews articles are not advertisements. Especially, they are not political advertisements. Excluding opinion columns, an exclusively one-sided article, either pro- or con- the subject of the article, is a form of advertisement." ? I've added to the article a response from one of the congressment criticised in the report, which criticises the report itself and also CREW. The article, as it currently stands, reports on an event, and presents opposing points-of-view regarding that event. Does this satisfy the requirement that it not be "exclusively one sided"? - Borofkin 00:37, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Borofkin I removed the statement regarding CREW being criticized as a liberal group even though they claim to be non-partisan. I did this for two reasons:
 * Non-partisan indicates that you identify yourself as neither democratric nor republican. For instance, you can be a conservative non-partisan group, or a progressive non-partisan group, but you can't be a Democratic non-partisan group.
 * The statement is redundant. The quotes listed below state that CREW is both partisan and liberal.--Herda05 01:22, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Damn, you're right, on their website they do appear to identify with a particular side of politics: "The mainstream needs a parallel to the conservative groups mentioned above — CREW will fill that niche." . I don't agree that the quotes mean anything though - they are just a couple of congresspersons point-of-view. - Borofkin 01:58, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

I've added a wrap up paragraph which rambles a bit, but sucessfully summarizes the PAC opposition, as requested by Amgine. If you feel it needs to be stronger, you could alwasy add the Ney quote, but I just realized that he didn't say it himselve, so I just folded it into other objections. - Nyarlathotep 22:18, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I've edited further to include more quotes from those involved, both CREW and the various Representatives. I also edited the paragraph about DeLay to point out that CREW released the report to capitalize on the current focus on ethics, and not necessarily on DeLay himself.--Herda05 01:22, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I also added more info regarding the methodology of the report.--Herda05 01:28, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Yup, looks better now. - Nyarlathotep 12:48, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with Amgine on this article - while it should be up, it basically amounts to an arm of the Democratic Party labeling several Republicans (with a few Democrats thrown in so it doesn't look like bias) as corrupt. It's barely news.  I'd keep it up because several other news outlets are reporting on it, but in the future we ought to stick to actual events or something of a bit more importance. - McCart42 (talk) 16:46, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Sure, they are on the left, but I've mostly found the story covered on libertarian blogs. Get it through your head that some of our "agendas" include seeing any politician's dirty laundry aired.  - Nyarlathotep 04:00, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * No they don't. There were all sorts of PACs that formed during the Clinton scandal.  Very few (none?) of them that aired his dirty laundry had ties to the Democratic Party.  Party politics is party politics.  It's fine to report on what these "most corrupt members of Congress" actually did that makes them so corrupt, but that is nowhere in the article.  Instead, we're reporting on what some PAC says, which makes us a mouthpiece for that organization, which is not a media outlet, but rather basically an editorial board.  I supported the use of the "anti-torture" phrase in the article about McCain's amendment because that's what the amendment is about, and that's what everyone else is calling it.  But a PAC is not an important news-maker - it's just a PR machine.  I mean, this is just hilarious: "Democrats are just as much to blame as Republicans for the current ethics deadlock. The Democrats won't file ethics complaints against" Republicans.  So Democrats haven't done anything wrong, except when they failed to point out that the Republicans have done something wrong.  Come on, this isn't news.  I mean keep it there because a lot of effort has been put into this article, but next time please don't just put up an article like this. - McCart42 (talk) 12:45, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Please remove the tag and publish
Only one contributor feels this article needs a tag; and that contributor will block me if I remove it. Neutralizer 14:34, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I've asked Amgine on his talk page if we can remove the tag.--Herda05 19:13, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It's been a couple of hours and Amgine/talk hasn't responded. If he feels the article still needs development or that it violates NPOV, he can put the tags back on.--Herda05 22:30, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Just got this message a couple minutes ago, Herda05. Article looks to be balanced by the additional criticism, though it's still barely a news event. Consensus. - Amgine/talk 00:39, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Not constructive for this article to have been delayed so long by 1 contributor. Doesn't the tagger have a responsibility to remove the tag themselves when they see the consensus against them? not wait over 2 days? or...just leave a message that they'll not be watching the story and give the ok for someone else to remove the tag? Neutralizer 12:54, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, you are correct that long delays on the part of the tagger are considered improper, and referred to as "tag and dash". However, one should keep it in perspective.  This particular story was never "breaking news" where we cared about "being scooped".  It was just generically interesting to those who feel politicians are corrupt and should have their dirty laundry trotted out whenver possible.  On a time sensitive story, like say the WIPO's Broadcaster Treaty, the tagger should be held to a high standard of participation.  But, likewise, the tag objecters should put in a little more work, like logging into IRC to ask for someone to read their changes, or even asking your buddy at the office to read them.
 * Also, If your really feeling bitter about particular users, you could always keep notes on their "tag and dashes", perhaps inside your user pages. That way you don't end up turnning any talk pages into flame wars, and you've got evidence backing you up eventually.  But, most importantly, your free to not do anything if you one day end up chatting with the person on IRC and discover that they are not such a bad guy after all.  :)  - Nyarlathotep 04:25, 10 October 2005 (UTC)


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There appears to be no exact match among Rembrandt Peale's paintings of Jefferson. This was the closest match I could find, although there is another that has similar features and matches the "straight collar" more closely, albeit with Jefferson facing the wrong direction.

The hint of light under Jefferson's right cheekbone along with the neckerchief and angle of his face make this a match in my opinion however. Any dissenting opinions? Glitch010101 19:48, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I just quoted what was in one of the sources. I don't see why that can't be the pic though. Jordanmills 20:16, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Looks fine - thanks for providing an image of the (likely) original art. 06:32, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Commons image duplicate
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Please replace File:TJeffersonrpeale.jpg in the article by File:Rembrandt Peale-Thomas Jefferson.jpg, as the former will be deleted on Commons. --Túrelio (talk) 19:38, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

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Autodesk to buy Alias

October 7, 2005 California-based Autodesk Inc. announced yesterday that they plan to acquire Toronto-based Alias for $182 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to be completed within six months. “Alias’ technology spans several of our most important markets and augments the synergy between our design and media business,” said Carl Bass, COO of Autodesk.

Autodesk is the creator of one of the top computer aided design programs; AutoCAD, which is used by many engineers and architects for design activities including drafting. Autodesk’s software is used by over 6 million people. They are the 5th largest PC software company in the world. They employ approximately 3,500 people. In the past fiscal year they earned $1.2 billion.

Alias produces 3D graphics software used in the creation of special effects, video games, industrial, and automotive design. They were founded in 1983 under the name Alias Research. They merged with Wavefront Technologies under SGI in 1995 and changed its name to Alias in July 2003. In June, 2004 they were spun off from Silicon Graphics Inc. and acquired by Accel-KKR and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. In the 2005 fiscal year they earned $83 million in revenue. They currently employ approximately 600 people. Alias customers include DreamWorks SKG, Pixar, Nintendo, Industrial Light & Magic, General Motors, and BMW. According to Alias, their software has been used in nearly every film nominated for an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the Best Visual Effects and Best Animated Feature Films categories.

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Python pops after eating gator

October 5, 2005

Scientists report that alligators might not be as effective as hoped in controlling the burmese python population in the Florida Everglades. A six foot alligator was found with its rear half hanging from the belly of a 13-foot python last week. Because of injuries on the alligator's body, Frank Mazotti, a University of Florida wildlife professor, believes that the gator was injured but alive when the python attacked.

"Encounters like that are almost never seen in the wild. ... And here we are, it's happened for the fourth time," Mazzotti said. These remains were discovered September 26 by pilot and researcher Michael Barron.

The non-native pythons are often released by individuals who are ill-equipped to care for the pet when it has grown more than expected. Iguanas present similar problems. The invading species often consume natives like the alligator, or tropical flowers, in the case of the iguanas.

While some have expressed concern that children are in danger from these pythons, Joe Wasilewski, a wildlife biologist and crocodile tracker, says it's not a great issue. "I don't think this is an imminent threat. This is not a 'Be afraid, be very afraid' situation."

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Seabrook city councilman takes heat for words

October 5, 2005

John Buhman of the Seabrook, Texas City council is accused of racism by counselwoman Dee Wright. She says his use of the word "tarbaby" is derogatory and is calling for his resignation.

Buhman states that the word is used to refer to a business deal that is a sticky situation, and invited others to check a dictionary. The council will vote on the need to involve an ethics review board.

Merriam-Webster Online lists the sole definition of "tarbaby" as "something from which it is nearly impossible to extricate oneself".


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Wings over Houston Airshow comes to town

October 5, 2005

The 21st Annual Wings Over Houston Airshow, featuring the Snowbirds will open October 8-9th at Ellington Field. Gates will be open Saturday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for static displays. Aerial performances begin at about 10 a.m., though times are subject to change.

Aerial performances are often visible from two or three miles away, and simulated weapons fire can be heard from even farther. The performances scheduled include flybys of an F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter, B1-B Lancer bomber, and A-10 Warthog tank-killer, several aerobatics performances, and ground-based demonstrations of various aircraft.

General admission at the gate is $20 for adults, $5 for children 6-11. Children under 6 are free.