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User talk:Stevenfruitsmaak/Archive2

Language templates
Hi, Stevenfruitsmaak! Yesterday, I started a new attempt of translating an article from the German wikinews into English. Brian McNeill created a new template for translations (Template:Translated Wikinews) and also visited me on my talk page telling me that you had used some kind of language templates for your articles. What I've found out myself so far is the existence of the template Languageicon. (Unfortunately, I could not figure out what the difference between the two parameters would be.) He also told me that there was probably some documentation for these (and maybe others?). So, once you are having a break from your wikinews holidays, it would be nice if you gave me a short answer as to where more information can be found. Thanks. --Angela H. 21:10, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Hi, I left a small note to you on my talk page. ;-) --Angela H. 23:22, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Copyvio
While policy is normally to give a longer time frame, it's clear that his contributions are substantially copyright violations. They can be rewritten even after deletion. Ral315 (talk) 01:11, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It is also worth noting that our Speedy deletion guidelines allow for obvious copyright violations to be deleted on sight --Cspurrier 01:27, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

India Daily
India Daily is directly sponsored by the Indian Government, so I don't understand how its fake... unless it is not? I am having trouble finding more sources because not many people (big newspapers) publish this type of stuff.

 * http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=massive+particle+collider&btnG=Search+News ... will this work? Nima Baghaei 18:33, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

 * but they have only 1 article, and that is india daily ... ok why would google publish this if it was not reasonable? this in my opinion, shows how realistic this is.  If google will do it, (yahoo did it to if u want the link), then so can wikinews ... Nima Baghaei 18:38, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

 * ah ... well how do i put back up the welcome message ... also yahoo news has the same link in their news ... if google and yahoo will do it, why not wikinews! Nima Baghaei 18:41, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Using these setting on google news I found some stories mainly talking about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN... the background is probably that they are trying to recreate the big bang at CERN. But I doubt that if the experiment is succesful, i.e. if the Big Bang can be produced with a Particle Collider, that it necessarily means Extraterrestrials from Hyperspace are the ones doing it 15 billion years ago...--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 18:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

 * But that is why i have the question mark at the end of the article I put up ... to leave people thinking neutral ... look i dont get it, if google and yahoo news will put a direct link to the article, why cant wikinews! google news and yahoo news will not publish lies in order to maintain viewers, thats illegal.

 * Yahoo sources to the same site and same article! Nima Baghaei 18:52, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Yahoo news: http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Extraterrestrial+Particle&fr2=sp-top&ei=UTF-8&x=wrt .... no i dont want to change the title because that is not what the article is about (:OP  ... it is about ET creating the universe, not about us trying to create it (:O)\\

 * I think the question mark is perfet (:O) ... I have broken no rules, once again (b/c i feel this  is being ignored) if google news and yahoo news will publish it by providing a link, then wikinews can to Nima Baghaei 19:21, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

 * But they will not publish a lie like this, about ET creating the universe? They take these things seriously, and so should Wikinews! Nima Baghaei 19:28, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

 * But where can I get more! most major news groups probably wont publish it b/c they have their strings pulled, but wiki should be much more open!  where can i find more on this! *sigh* Nima Baghaei 19:30, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: I'd appreciate your feedback...
Good job on the Audio! I recomend that you do some more for Wikinews, if you want. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  20:45, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Not too bad at all on the audio, if you go through the archives of spoken Wikinews you'll find I read a few articles at one time.
 * The summary flowed quite nicely, but Shiite is pronounced "She height" (without the H) ;-). If you can find someone to act as an audience while you record you'll find that it becomes a lot easier to have a natural delivery. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:55, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Sounded great. Bawolff ☺☻ 16:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Nice work on Audio Wikinews! I'm trying to free up some free time, and hope to run somewhere around 12-hours opposite yours. (I also picked up a video camera, in hopes MrM's idea might go somewhere....) terinjokes | Talk | Come visit the WikiBistro 16:59, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Main page experiments test redesigns etc
I hope you don't mind, but I've removed the categories portal and no publish from the main page test in your user-space. Main page tests shouldn't be listed in category:Portal. I have included category:Sandbox as main page redesigns/tests are commonlly listed there. Bawolff ☺☻ 17:05, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

People keep attacking me new posting!

 * http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/UFO_Spotted_in_Istanbul%2C_Turkey

People keep attacking this post I made! I cannot make it any longer then it is because the information provided by the news agency was very minimal! Can you please help me protect it or lock it so others cant touch it! I had someone vandalize it earlier today, with some bad words...

Audio
Excatly what I've been trying to do lately. Ever since Gumboyaya left, the project has been dead, no one person has the time and effort daily to record an episode. I guess we can make a monthly calendar, but assigning days that one person does it doesn't seem very "wiki", which I'm trying to bring more into the project (by moving RSS over, asking the community to help out with scripts, and really opening the whole thing to more community involvement). I can't, and you can't be doing this every day. If a community is behind the project, one day with someone missing is no big problem, another person and quickly take up the duties. But without the community, its dead-air, and really makes the project seem "bad". terinjokes | Talk | Come visit the WikiBistro 03:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * No first I need to learn how to use Audicity. Previously I'd used Apple's Garageband, however it *coughs* is no longer included with my mac. The recording from yesterday was recorded using my computers internal mic (I'm still on vacation!), but my bigger question remains "How did you add the music to it?" terinjokes | Talk | Come visit the WikiBistro 15:25, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the samosas!
Thanks a lot. Happy editing, and wish you the best for 2007! PVJ(Talk)(Newpages) 16:50, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

WN:CT
Thanks for helping out with commons ticker. I've been neglecting it way to much. Bawolff ☺☻ 04:42, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
For that welcome message, placed on my user page :-) - MessedRocker removed it, and i've got another on my talk page, but thanks for the thought anyways - Martinp23 14:43, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

main page redesign
has been flagged for a long time, and hasn't gone anywhere. feel free to remove (the flag, that is). — Doldrums(talk) 19:32, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Nice Work!
Nice work on that! You did a great job, I'd love to keep recieving it. Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 00:53, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

They wont let me publish my article! can you help me please!
Human Genome Project finds Extraterrestrial Genes in Human DNA/Temp

I tried my best to fix it up, can you please help me publish it! (:O( —Nima Baghaei 17:38, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Skype
Do you perchance have Skype? I just listened to your latest audio brief and its pretty good but there are some mis-pronunciations in it. I wouldn't object to a call to help with the audio brief from time to time. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:41, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Can you help me publish my new article? Iran UFO incident
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/UFO_crashes_in_Iran The source is good, its a legitmate news agency reporting on Iran.

copyright
Dear Stevenfruitsmaak

as i have explained to many,

this is not a simple copyright violation. I source most of my articles directly from the Australian Assosiated Press. As my office pays for a subscriptoion to this website, the AAP supplies a feed of the ;latest stories. These are usually written by reuters or the AAP because of the nature of services such as this, these articles are bound to be found on other sites Symode09 23:20, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I shall stop inserting these comments. if my newspaper pays for a subscriptioni, they can use in in any way they deem reasonable. that means, the story can be used anywhere for anyone. The newspaper takes credit for many stories supplied for them. If you read up on it, you shall se this is a legal and common practise. wikinews is no different
 * Symode09 23:24, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

 * yes they do rtain copyright stories however when the newspaper retains the story, they can use it in ANY way they think is reasonable. next time I am on I shall quote the applicable pages

 * for example, reuters supply stories to other services such as the aap and newspapers. the aap then sells stories to other services and newspapers. this cycle goes on. by the end there might even be 8 or 9 authors!

 * My newspaper can do what the AAP do and circulate these stories for money or, free of charge.

 * Symode09 23:30, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I am compatible with wikinews - I can claim this story is mine as long as my newspaper is paying for this story. Myself along with hundreds of other journalists do this and above all - it is legal!

Symode09 23:32, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

 * i shall be going now. Please understand and feel free to add any other arguements. I shall speak to my companies lawyers, (they are here now) I will do whatever thwy reccomed. I will show them ALL the pages of debates, my sources and my stories. Thanks

Symode09 23:37, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I'll do that!

 * I won't add anymore stories like that (you guys are giving me a headache lol) but i'll be in contact with you.

 * thanx
 * Symode09 23:43, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Unnative needing help
I've had a lot of criticism but you are the first one to significantly improve my writings ; I'm afraid what you've done won't be enough to save this new entry from deletion ; please have a look here to know better about what is needed to help the unnative that I remain. 82.224.88.52 13:37, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Pretty good brief
The brief was pretty slick, the only words you seemed to fluff were "impropriety" and "noose" (the latter which should ryhme with "moose"). --Brian McNeil / talk 17:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Better yet... "noose" should rhyme with "huis". ;-) Wish I'd thought of that one earlier. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:23, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

copyright
I have spoken to my company lawyers and they essentially said that it was alright to publish stories as long as the company is paying a subscription however, to play it safe and to comply with some other overseas laws, the story should still be credited to the origional Journalist

thanks

Symode09 00:57, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello
Hello I' am a new user on Wikinews, and I was wondering are you allowed to put stories onto this site, from offcial newspapers without getting into any form of copyright or licensing? The Mackem journalist

No seriously, I think we should get over the whole copyright thing, it is two difficult to be involved in this debate everythime I insert a story so, I shall just write it, it shouldn't be to hard

thanks anyway, it is mainly my fault I should have just given up because it is not worth it

Let's mov eon and focus on improving wikinews

thanks Symode09 06:34, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Roxbury Mosque image, Is islamophobia the new anti-Semitism?
I obtained the Roxbury Mosque image from. I asked ISB officials in the past when I used it in articles whether it was public domain, and I was told that it indeed was. I know of no such notice on their web site, but I could ask one of the ISB officials to send you an email to confirm the status of the image. ThorsProvoni 14:17, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I am sure that I will be able to work out the legal details with them, for they want to be helpful. I will take care of the details with the interfaith coordinator later today. ThorsProvoni 17:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

user: 70.238.168.157
I beleive this is the same user as Sustain. DragonFire1024 22:39, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Agree terinjokes | Talk | Come visit the WikiBistro 22:40, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * What an enthusiasm! :-p --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Archiving deletion requests
Don't forget about the archive! Deletion requests/Archives ★ MESSED  ROCKER ★  23:46, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * My advice is to do the ones you've "archived" and put them in the proper archives -- I've spent a lot of my life keeping the archives in fit shape. ★ MESSED  ROCKER ★  23:49, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Munchkinguy's picture
I had originally put a "Fair Use Publicity Photo" tag on it, but Bawolff left a message on my talkpage saying:

"we can't really say its fair use/publicity as its not in an article (Fair use/publicity only works for articles). Could you maybe just write on the page that its a picture of yourself and you allowing it to be here?"

So that's what I did. --Munchkinguy 20:31, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Image (response)
regarding this, thanks a lot :) are you sure the copyright is ok? Towsonu2003 21:51, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

thanks for the award
hey, thanks a lot [again] :) Towsonu2003 22:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Screenshot
This is where I exercise common sense: screenshots are typically usable under fair use. ★ MESSED ROCKER ★  17:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikinews Trophy

 * Seconded by Thunderhead Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 05:08, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

RE: COmmunity Newsletter
Thanks for sending it to me, it is greatly appreciated. I havent been able to keep up with the goings on here recently - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 02:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Audio brief
Confused the hell out of me when I picked up the top story in the audio brief and it continued into other stories. I think you need a smaller link to the audio where you link to both the transcript and the audio and have a slightly longer text description. On the plus side, I didn't spot a single pronunciation error. :-) --Brian McNeil / talk 19:46, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Philippines article
Thanks for the clarification and other edits. --Pulitikal 23:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Apple-iPhone.jpg
Note that was cc-by-2.0, not 2.5. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:13, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

ARBCom voting rights
Sorry I forgot that. Thanks for the message anyway. Pulitikal 15:40, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

commons template
I noticed you were editing it with lots of edit summary's like "it isn';t working",I am not sure what your trying to do, but do you need any help? Bawolff ☺☻ 21:26, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I was trying to make it work with an optional second parameter, but it didn't seem to work so I had to settle for a "name=" parameter. Could you make it work with just ? It should work I think, maybe I just didn't look hard enough... anyway works now too and is explained. I ocasionally try to show some template skills but usually reach my limits pretty fast :-D

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * How's it look now (You need to purge the cache ( http://en.wikinews.org/w/title=template:commons&action=purge ) to make the template update if its included on its own page. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

VOA News
Just so you know, news stories from VOA (Voice of America) are in the public domain and do not have to be changed, necessarily, to avoid copyvio. It took me a while to figure that out too :) DragonFire1024 21:29, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The only thing that is copywritten on VOA is the images (90% of them because they are usually taken by the AP or something.) DragonFire1024 21:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The thing is, I usually chage the wording from VOA sources just because to copy and past the whole article, looks cheesy. DragonFire1024 21:32, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Abu Ghraib
The new cat is singular, the articles you're adding reference multiple cases - plural. The cat may need renamed to cases --Brian McNeil / talk 21:54, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I like the use of the word "affair", perhaps a category of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse affair. The point is that "case" is inappropriate as each lawsuit against a different set of soldiers is a case and there are multiple cases then.  Buuut, this is what tools like AWB are designed for. ;-) --Brian McNeil / talk 22:04, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

My reporting ..
Mr. Steven Fruitsmaak,

I have a degree in writing from Emerson College. I have covered the Boston music scene for the last ten years. It is my belief this story is worthy 'Wikinews.' Mr. Cherone has struggled for many years and is finally recieving some much deserved recognition.

Sincerely,

James (Faruhk) Castle

Steven,

Yes, I did interview Mr. Cherone over the telephone. The second paragraph in the story is the 'boiler plate' info that ABLC's publicity honcho David Early supplied. He didn't want a credit, but asked that it be included.

Faruhk 01:32, 31 January 2007 (UTC)James

ATUNGA Rock Band Resurfaces in Cyberspace
Steve,

I am not understanding why WIKINEWS will not publish this story. Please advise.

Faruhk 15:41, 2 February 2007 (UTC)James

Vacation notice
I'm out of town for a while...--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 18:42, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Aids trial article
could u take a look at HIV vaccine trial set to begin in South Africa, especially to see if i've got the description of the vaccine working right. thanks! — Doldrums(talk) 17:49, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * thanks for the cleanup and enjoy your holiday! — Doldrums(talk) 17:59, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

SSKH Hiring Scandal Story
To date, this has not appeared in the media. Would you like the story? Hans

AWB
I noticed you don't have the automated changes turned on in AWB. It will take care of minor details for you, try and turn all the typo and common error fixing on. What gave it away was not having the categories neatly arranged on their own lines. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Feedback on Autism genetics story
Thanks for the feedback on my first story! Re: neurexin on chromosome 11 - I don't have subscription access to any journals. I tried to figure out where neurexin was, but didn't succeed. I saw several references to it on 11, but the abstract made me think it was elsewhere.

Your point about summarizing the previous research was well taken. That's one thing I'm definitely struggling with, how much background and context to include.

If you look at my latest story, NASA detects dry, dusty atmospheres on extrasolar planets, you'll see I'm taking your advice on wikilinks and pictures, too.

User:Stevenfruitsmaak/Userpage
Instead of redirecting User:Stevenfruitsmaak/Userpage to your user page, use: (see my user page for example). Just a thought :) — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  19:57, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I got the idea from User:Mrmiscellanious. Smart, isn't it... — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  20:05, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you.
... for the welcome. And the publish/etc. Nice admin work here. Valencerian 04:33, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

U.S. develops parks above highways
You have left a tag on this article which is not explained on the talk page, could you please respond on Talk:U.S. develops parks above highways. Thanks.--Grace E. Dougle 11:34, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Translation from it.wn
Done, but please clean it up. :) --Tooby 14:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Nothing to say. Thank you! :) --Tooby 15:10, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: someone has asked for clarification about that story on the talk page. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:57, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Interwiki
I seem to remember you adding several Interwiki links to articles that don't exist, I don't think that's the proper thing to do...--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 09:51, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi ! Don't worry : all the interwiki links I added point to an article of WN fr. Most of the time, the french articles wich are linked to local ones are translated by myself, as you can verify it by having a watch on WN fr. See you. Grimlock 16:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Wow Indeed
Thanks for the nomination, of course I'd be honored to accept it! --Thunderhead - (talk) 23:05, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

spot of OR
care for a spot of OR on this? — Doldrums(talk) 14:39, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Accreditation
Congratulations, you are now an accredited Wikinews user. If you have any questions let me know.--Cspurrier 19:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks, really appricaite it!--Markie 20:43, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Lead
Hi!

It just seemed a slow news day, so I put it up there. No worries, I hear what you're saying.

And thanks for the welcome! Sports are my thing...I've done radio and print for a while now, and while my day job is in music, I like this project as a way to report on sports that I'm already watching anyway.

Theirishpianist 22:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Dummy pages
re: They don't exist on Meta, so I don't see any need for pages like A b here.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:53, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Depends entirely on how much you hate redlinks, doesn't it? You may be correct, but I don't recall seeing that table containing redlinks on m:Help:Links. Well, 66.6:33.3, Meta apparently does have an 'a' page. My recollection is probably more from Wikipedia which has an b and an a b page too, albeit as a redirect page. Shrug. I really have no dog in this hunt! Do tend to hate redlinks though! Cheers! // Fra nkB 05:42, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Problem is they appear in the news room as developing stories... if you decide to pursue, you should try to use a [ [ Cat:no publish ] ] or something to keep them from listing on that page.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 16:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Acknowledge... (Sorry about the delay, but I'm timeshared between sites right now! ) I can see that being something of a problem... I gather that's you're local equivalent of 'New Pages' on WP, which would certainly be much of great interest in a news site. Wp's new pages list is big on any day and I rarely patrol that. Has to be a low energy day in fact for me to do any browsing per se— I've simply too many projects tasks on the to-do list already keeping me up too late at night too often as it is!  Anyway, I'm not looking to work 'Help' pages in any event in any big way... at least not until Mediawiki figures out whether they are taking that over, or whatnot, and make sure not to create any main space pages without checking with someone (I think you elected yourself there! ). Have enough on my plate, and wiki-time is getting tight again for me. // Fra nkB 20:19, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Published
I went ahead and published that article. Cheers!  Thunderhead  ►  23:53, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: SA outbreak
Hello Steven. Thank you for the welcome! On your advice, I did go ahead and create a user page. Cheers, Jcart1534 01:46, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

French elections
Yup i have had a quick copy edit of this - not much wrong with it so very good for a non-native - you wouldnt really know it!! Sorry it wasnt sooner. --Markie Talk 20:44, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Any time - here to help!--Markie Talk 21:38, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank You
Yeah, I Can Do It, Thank You for Visiting Me. -—DelarionDavis13 19:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Great Mind Think Alike:
Take a look at the two latest recent changes :)  Thunderhead  ►  18:25, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar
Thanks for the barn star - really apprieciated. thanks--Mark Talk 22:17, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello
Hi Steven. I appreciate you raising the block issue in my request for accreditation. I went back to re-word it because I thought I came across as too strong, only to find that I couldn't mellow my words. I wasn't aware of the Commons issue, and I was pointed to Wikinews by an admin at Wikimedia, so I was caught off guard by the cool reception. I basically felt the block (with no warning) proved my point that I didn't find WikiNews to be particularly inviting, but that's neither here nor there and not something I really want to get into. But thank you, nonetheless. Could you please remove my request from the page, though? I'd appreciate it. I hope this note finds you well, and best of luck.--David Shankbone 22:43, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey, thank you for the welcome :) ! Have a nice day! Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 18:45, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Sint Niklaas article
Any chance you could do some OR on this? Photo? Quote? There's contact information on http://www.sint-niklaas.be, there's an email address on the contact page and I suspect things will go a lot faster if you start in Dutch. If you get stuck, contact me on Skype - I can give you a phone number to either call me on or pass on to the commune to verify your credentials. Bear in mind that they'll expect any member of the press to have a card from the ministry of the Interior. You have to represent yourself as a citizen journalist when approaching people. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:40, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

RE: Admin Congrats
Just kidding.  Thunderhead  ►  23:08, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Lead
Thanks. =) I've been simultaneously updating the article at the English Wikipedia, so I can put it up on In the News once it is of appropriate length. Nishkid64 21:46, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the Trophy
Dear friend, thanks a lot for the trophy; I appreciate it. :) Zorba 17:50, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

commons:Image:Sint-Niklaas gaat vreemd 6.jpg
Note, cc-by-3.0 has not bbeen approved by commons yet. I'm sure it'd be fine, but just to be on the safe side you may want to dual license it under cc-by-2.5/cc-by-3.0. Bawolff ☺☻ 04:10, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Mass wedding article
hi, great job on Mass wedding held against racism in Belgium. i have a couple of queries regarding how to word some bits of the article, which i've stated in html comments in the article itself. (3 queries, one in section "It started small" and two in "A positive signal against racism". can be seen in the edit tab, look for " <!-- " ). could u pls take a moment to answer those. thanks! –Doldrums(talk) 04:16, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I've posted about this article on Wikinews Reports. I was wondering if you have been able to access the blog? Do you want to write about "Belgian Archbishop lectures on health care and religion"? Remember, focus more on the process of reporting and results (for example who you interviewed, where, and under what circumstances), than the news article itself. --  Zanimum 18:32, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Mainpage
Hey - I'm contacting you as I noticed that you were a currently online admin. The breaking news article on the mainpage currently states that "Iranian forces surround and later release sailors and marines after an inspection was performed by the British Royal Navy on a ship believed smuggling cars into Iraq." I am pretty certain they have not been released though, so it kind of needs an urgent change. Cheers. 80.175.130.133 19:40, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Wotcha studing?
So you're at KUL? Which campus and what are you studying? I'm frequently in the area of the city centre campus as there's a Thai shop there. With my partner being Thai I have to put up with her having expensive taste in foods. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

MP3 Players Sneak Up On Airwaves
how would i go about proving that I'm a student at WLU without revealing private information? And when I get my hands on my survey notes, ill have to take them somewhere to get them scanned before I can upload them.

PREXCEL-Q press releases
Hi Steven,

Please check out the link: http://www.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/2007/mar/gallup.shtml and the link: http://www.biologicalprocedures.com/bpo/general/home.htm and: http://76.162.25.80/bpo/arts/1/122/m122.htm and: qPCR.net

This is in response to your comment:

"I might be interested in interviewing you... however I'm currently busy with exams so I can't take time to read your article properly (for background). I might send you an email on Tuesday. My question to you for the moment is: have you submitted a manuscript about this software to a journal already? If there were an article published the story would be a lot more credible.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:28, 28 January 2007 (UTC)"

If you are still interested - please let me know - I would welcome an interview. I can be reached at Iowa State University, phone # 1-515-294-5844.

Many Thanks for your constructive criticism,

~Jack M. Gallup Eag 14:06, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations
Congratulations on your mass wedding article making it to Featured. Keep stuff like this coming!

Incidentally, are you planning on going into the field you're studying or have you enjoyed Wikinews enough that you'd try and get a job writing news about the topic? I can imagine that would offer some interesting options (like travel and so). --Brian McNeil / talk 13:30, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

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Wikinews Shorts: April 27, 2007

Stephen Hawking goes weightless
65-year-old scientist Stephen Hawking took a ride on the "Vomit Comet", an airplane producing weightlessness by following a parabolic flight path. He did this to show awareness for space exploration. The flight took off and landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Hawking, who is confined to a wheelchair due to a degenerative disease, was unstrapped from it while the plane made eight free-fall maneuvers that simulate zero-gravity to those on-board. Hawking told reporters he enjoyed the zero-gravity part of his flight and other people with him said he "didn't want to come back".

Hawking made the flight to draw attention to the importance of space exploration. "I believe the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space," he said.

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Saudi Arabia arrests 172 militants
Saudi police have arrested 172 militants planning to attack Saudi Arabia's oil fields. They also planned to free inmates and use an aircraft.

"They had the personnel, the money, the arms. Almost all the elements for terror attacks were complete except for setting the zero hour for the attacks," said Brig. Mansour al-Turki, a Ministry of Interior spokesperson. "They had reached an advanced stage of readiness and what remained only was to set the zero hour for their attacks."

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Abdullah Gül does not get presidency in first round

Turkey's Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül failed the first round of voting in parliament on Friday. He received 357 votes; 367 votes are required to win. Opposition parties asked the Constitutional Court to stop the voting. If the Constitutional Court rules in favor, a general election could be called.

A second round will be on May 2. If Gül doesn't pick up the additional ten votes then, the process will move on to a third and if necessary a fourth round. During those rounds, only a simple majority is needed so Gül seems assured of getting the presidency.

Related news

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Chinese cat reportedly gives birth to 'poodle'

A cat in Zhengzhou, China gave birth to four kittens of which one reportedly looks like a white poodle, says owner Zhang Qiming. People from around the city are making visits to the house where the cat gave birth.

"It looks very different from the other kittens, and its mouth, nose and paws are all dog-like," said owner Zhang Qiming. "Also, its tail is one centimetre shorter than that of the other three kittens."

There appears to be no proof other than the owner's statements that "kitten" is a dog or that the cat in fact gave birth to it.

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Top al-Qaeda operative reported in US custody
Bryan Whitman, a spokesperson for the US Department of Defense, said today that the United States has captured Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi, whom it says has worked directly with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Whitman said al-Iraqi was captured when trying to enter Iraq, presumably for the purposes of taking over al-Qaeda operations there. He was taken to Guantanamo Bay about a week ago.

A US State Department website described al-Iraqi as "being a skilled, intelligent, and experienced commander and is an extremely well-respected al-Qaeda leader."

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Help needed on Shorts
I started today's shorts. But I am at work and we just got busy, so I am asking for someone to take over. --SVTCobra 15:31, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I wrote the stories and I hope you like them. Feel free to copyedit/fix/do whatever you want with them. — Fellow Wiki  Newsie  16:23, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Thank you to you and the others that helped out. --SVTCobra 22:39, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem. I'm always here if you need any help :-) — Fellow Wiki  Newsie  00:05, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

cats and pups
the source says that's what locals are saying, does not "confirm" it. and neither shld we. –Doldrums(talk) 16:13, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Use
I suggest use Wikinews Shorts:Today, because this can be a permalink.

Hawking
Hawking didn't travel to space, he rode the vomit comet. —Zachary talk 16:55, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:Arabian Peninsula dust SeaWiFS.jpg
Please replace the satellite image with Image:Arabian Peninsula dust SeaWiFS.jpg (dupe). Thanks. 82.95.171.213 03:06, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Jcart1534 04:36, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:195.50.217.181

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eyewitness reporting
hi, adding original reporting to articles requires you to add notes to the article's talk page, allowing other contributors to verify and fact check the reporting. –Doldrums(talk) 16:11, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:77.209.25.129

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Wikinews Shorts:2007-04-27
What is this page for? — Fellow Wiki  Newsie  16:28, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * see Wikinews Shorts:Today. also, i've changed Wikinews Shorts:Today to stick to our current headline style for Shorts. –Doldrums(talk) 16:37, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It´s a permalink. But we must use the date standard format, this is 2007-04-27 instead of 27-04-2007, april 27 2007 and so on (see UTC ).

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User talk:Yzmo

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image:Write.svg
Thank you for uploading the svg version. You technically uploaded it to the wrong place, but I fixed it so everything should be in its proper place. (our upload system is quite confusing. Basically we have two separate upload systems, and local. If its at commons all wikimedia projects can use it (like wikipedia (in all languages), wikisource, wikibooks, etc), where as at the local upload, only us (the english wikinews) can use it. We generally use the local one for fair use images (which we can use but not some other projects due to complicated legal things i don't pretend to understand) and commons for general images, as well as images wich the copyright owners were nice and gave us permission to use. [so that everyone can use it]_). Anyways, thankyou for the upload, and happy editing. Bawolff ☺☻ 05:51, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:66.4.209.131

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Wikinews:Proposal for new namespace "Comments"

This page (and its related discussion pages) hold the discussion for the creation of a new namespace on the English Wikinews, namely "Comments". Users are encouarged to write their own proposals for this idea, and to discuss possible changes on the talk page of this proposal.

Proposal 1
The Talk namespace, relating to articles that are in the Main namespace (such as articles) becomes a discussion area for the article content, layout, formatting, and other editing-related discussion. The new namespace, Comments, becomes a generic discussion area about the news item where NPOV is not strictly enforced.

 * Article: New namespace created on English Wikinews
 * Editing Discussion: Talk:New namespace created on English Wikinews
 * General Discussion: Comments:New namespace created on English Wikinews

This proposal will also work vice-versa.


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Wikinews talk:Proposal for new namespace "Comments"

I personally think that this is a good idea which follows on from the current Comments system we use. We need community support to implement any change - so discuss what you think should happen in the best interests of the Wiki. --Skenmy(t•c•w•i) 18:10, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

The Current Problem (tm)
Currently we use a "poor man's namespace" method of holding these user comments. The proposal is to create an enturely new namespace for these pages, so instead of Talk:Article_name/Comments, we get Comments:Article_name.

The current problem with using the /Comments method is that we have an "add" button at the top of it. This creates /Comments/Comments. Users who are not careful will end up splitting the discussion. A new namespace using similar methods to Talk: would be the best way of removing this problem. In my opinion I think the Comments: namespace will also make it more appealing to users. They will know where to go to discuss, rather than getting confused over where the /Comments goes. They will be able to type in the address without much thinking - much like Talk.
 * Umm, that is not true. /comments/comments doesn't happen anymore. Bawolff ☺☻ 18:44, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

As for having the namespace move with article names, this will be presented to the wikimedia techs. If needs be we can write a bot that will automatically move associated Comments: pages, but I suspect that we may be able to use a MediaWiki hook of some sort to get around this minor issue. --Skenmy(t•c•w•i) 18:31, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree that if we are to continue to do this, a new namespace would be good. Bawolff ☺☻ 18:44, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I think this is an excellent idea.  Vagish  [wp]  [wn] 18:35, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

What would the "Comments_talk" namespace be for? Discussions about the comments page? —Zachary talk 18:44, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It wouldn't exist. A namespace does not need to have an associated _talk. --Skenmy(t•c•w•i) 19:05, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

What we need
We need a space where people can post their "WTF?" messages to Wackynews and the like, without having a separate namespace Comments: this is tricky and we have to rely on cludges and people remembering to do renames.

Personally I'd like to see the idea of having that space for user comments expanded. Why shouldn't we link to a page where people can leave their opinion on what we write? It is a small step from critic to contributor, and I think we'll get a few of the latter if we welcome the former. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:55, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The main problem is the name of it. Currently we have: Talk:, Disscusion:, view opinion: add opinion:, add comment: I can barely keep which is what straight myself, how do we expect random user to? Bawolff ☺☻ 22:51, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * "Feedback", "Remarks", and "Comments" still stands out? 'Opinions' does seem like a dud. -Edbrown05 10:23, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I am opposed to the tab "add Opinion" (or what ever the name will ultimately be). The "add Opinion" tab is instruction creep. Only one tab should be there to make a Comment, or a Remark, or send Feedback on a news story. If it gets messy in there then so be it. -Edbrown05 11:09, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It might be the job of people here that know better to go in and say, "Hey", this is how you make a proper post. After that... it's a "free for all". -Edbrown05 11:15, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Then there could be users, thinking Markie, that might want to go in there and delete content. -Edbrown05 11:32, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we could even rename the discussion button to "Editing Discussion" and then have "Article Discussion"? --Skenmy(t•c•w•i) 20:58, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


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Funeral held for two Lebanese youths found slain

April 27, 2007

Lebanese mourners held a funeral on Friday for two Sunni Muslims slain this week in an attack linked to sectarian tensions.

The two Lebanese youths were abducted on Monday, and their bodies were later found on the field on Thursday. Ziad Qabalan, age 25, and Ziad Ghandour, age 12, were kidnapped and shot in the head and their bodies. Police found the two lying dead in a field in Jadra, an area between south Beirut and Sidon on Thursday evening.

Qabalan had been a member, along with Ghandour's father, of the pro-government Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), led by the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt. It is suspected that Shi'a Muslims abducted the boys in revenge of the killing of Adnan Shamas, a Shi'a Muslim, back on January 25 of this year, during clashes between supporters of the government, which has Sunni backing, and the opposition, which includes Lebanon's main Shi'a groups.

The Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, condemned the assassination and asked for calm. In a telephone interview with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) he said,

This act aims at dragging the Lebanese toward civil strife. We are in need of calm, patience and discipline.


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User talk:Augeralf~enwikinews

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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 Augeralf. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Augeralf~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.

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User talk:205.213.111.52

Welcome
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Medford
Please do not recreate very similar articles to one that has already been deleted. Thanks --Mark Talk 19:31, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:WikiRules~enwikinews

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Bad Medicine leads to 3 deaths
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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 WikiRules. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name WikiRules~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.

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User:David Levy

Please see my user page at the English Wikipedia.

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User talk:200.122.46.9

Welcome!

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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!--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation gets new chairman

April 28, 2007 Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda has appointed Timothy W. Casgrain as the new chairman of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

"Mr. Casgrain's credentials will bring strong leadership to the CBC," said Oda. "I am confident that his experience and sound judgement will greatly benefit the CBC."

Casgrain was born in Montreal, Quebec and studied at McGill University. In 1969, he served as a teacher in a small African town in Chad for two years. Some years later, he became an accountant. In 1976, he was chairperson of Skyservice Investments Inc., a Canadian aviation company and was Executive Vice President of the Brascan Financial Corp. In 1988, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of NBS Technologies.

Since then, Casgrain has served many other positions and has many other honours in his name. Casgrain has been a member of the Order of Chartered Accountants of Quebec since 1976 and is the president of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.

Former CBC chairman controversy
This appointment comes after former CBC chairman Guy Fournier resigned after making an "offensive" comment about defecation being more pleasurable than sexual intercourse on a French-language Toronto, Ontario radio show.

"As you grow older, you continue to go poop once a day if you are in good health, while it is not easy to make love every day. So finally, the pleasure is longer-lasting and more frequent than the other. It is just as heretical as if you read the National Post while making love. It is not to be recommended," Fournier said in the interview.

In the 9 September issue of 7 Jours, Fournier wrote:

In Lebanon, the law allows men to have sexual relations with animals as long as they are female! Doing the same thing with male beasts can result in the death penalty.

Fournier defended his comment on the Radio-Canada program, Tout le monde en parle.

Fournier resigned over it and the president of the CBC, Robert Rabinovitch, has been serving as chairman ever since.


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Talk:Wikinews Shorts:Today

To me it just seems like another element, like Lead Article, that will have to updated daily. However, if (and I don't know much about the 'behind the scenes' workings of wikinews) it can automatically link to the current day, I guess that'd be a good link to have somewhere on the Main Page. --SVTCobra 00:55, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

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NHL: Sharks Nab Game 1 in Detroit

April 28, 2007

San Jose leads series 1-0 (Best of Seven)

The San Jose Sharks silenced the fans at Joe Louis Arena while stunning the Detroit Red Wings with goals 24 seconds apart.

Matt Carle and Mike Grier scored midway through the first period and Evgeni Nabokov made 34 saves to lead San Jose to a 2-0 victory Thursday night in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals.

"We got the crowd right out of the game," said Joe Thornton, who had an assist on the first goal. "That was huge."

Nabokov's shutout was his first this postseason and the fifth of his career in the playoffs. He was tied for second in the NHL with seven during the regular season.

The stellar goaltender said it was important that the Sharks maintained their two-goal lead for the final 2 1/2 periods.

"I guarantee if we would've given up one goal, they would come hard and get the momentum," Nabokov said.

Dominik Hasek had to make just 17 saves because the Sharks played very conservatively after taking the lead, possessing the puck on offense and blocking shots on defense.

"We probably could've pushed a little bit more, but we feel comfortable with 2-0 leads," Thornton said.

Game 2 is Saturday in Detroit.

"You know they're going to certainly bounce back and throw some new wrinkles at us and have a lot more energy in the next game," San Jose coach Ron Wilson said.

Entering the series, home ice was regarded as perhaps the only advantage the top-seeded Red Wings had against the fifth-seeded Sharks.

San Jose quickly took that edge away.

Carle's goal at 9:45 of the first period was set up by a fantastic series of passes around the perimeter, ending with Thornton's cross-crease pass from the corner.

"It was just bing, bang, boom and it was in the back of the net," Thornton said.

The Red Wings put San Jose's powerful power play on the ice for the first goal and lost the puck in their zone to set up the second.

Grier was in the right place when the puck trickled into the slot and he wheeled around and beat Hasek with a slap shot.

"I don't think he knew what he was doing," Hasek said. "He just shot the puck and hit the post and it went in. It was maybe a lucky goal, but if you make a turnover, bad things can happen."

It was a much different start for Detroit after taking 2-0 leads midway through the first period in each of its first two games in the first round against Calgary. The Red Wings won the series in Game 6 after winning all three games at home.

"We would've liked to have a better start, but we made a couple of mistakes and the puck was in the net," Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said.

The Sharks seemed right at home in Detroit, perhaps because they won a league-high and franchise-record 26 games on the road this season and won twice more in Nashville, including the series-winning victory in Game 5 last week.

The Red Wings had three power plays in the second period -- while San Jose didn't have one -- but they took just four shots.

San Jose's swarming defense had a lot to do with that, though Detroit did seem to miss Tomas Holmstrom standing in front of the crease to redirect and shield shots.

"We thought they had four blocked shots on our first power play when we had people in front of the net and the puck never got through," Babcock said.

San Jose blocked 13 shots and took 13 shots through two periods, and finished with 18 blocked shots.

Holmstrom missed the game with an eye injury and the Red Wings were also without defenseman Brett Lebda because of an ankle injury and concussion. With stitches around his left eye, Holmstrom said he hoped to play in the series, but didn't know if he would be ready for Game 2.

Even at full strength, however, Detroit doesn't seem to match up well with the Sharks' combination of depth, size, speed and skill. That appeared to be the case Thursday night and during the regular season, when San Jose won three of four meetings.

Three Stars of the Game

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 * #3 = Kris Draper, C, Detroit Red Wings - 0 Goals

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MLB: Twins defeat Tigers after pinch hit scores two

April 28, 2007

The Minnesota Twins faced the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park Friday in a AL Central Division match-up. Twins starting pitcher Ramon Ortiz gave up five hits and two runs in the six innings he pitched. Tigers starter Nate Robertson allowed one run in seven innings, but was charged with the two runners that scored for the Twins in the eighth inning.

The Tigers pounced in the third inning; Carlos Guillen singled scoring the veteran Gary Sheffield. The Tigers would add one in the sixth with a Craig Monroe double, scoring Sean Casey. The Twins would get on the board in the seventh inning, with the lead off hitter Justin Morneau sending his first pitch over the left field fence.

But the Twins would rally with a four-run eighth inning, which started with a Mike Redmond single, driving in two runs to tie the game at 3-3. Joe Mauer, who wasn't scheduled to play, pinch hit in the DH spot and brought in the go-ahead run, plus one, giving the Twins a two-run lead. Joe Nathan picked up the save, his seventh of the season.

The middle game of this three-game series will be played tomorrow at noon in Detroit. Starting for Detroit will be Justin Verlander, and Carlos Silva will start for Minnesota.

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U.S. nonprofit news agency shuts down

April 28, 2007 The online news agency The NewStandard (TNS), a U.S.-based daily dispatch service, ceased publications on Friday, April 27. The not for profit media organization run by the PeoplesNetWorks Collective out of Syracuse, New York was begun in 2004. The 5 staffers that run the collective said that the reason for closure was a "lack of support".

An announcement made earlier this week on Monday said, As those familiar with us or our work can imagine, this was a tremendously difficult decision for us to reach. But the five staffers who form the PeoplesNetWorks Collective – the nonhierarchical nonprofit that publishes TNS – have accepted that the news publication we envisioned cannot be achieved without a greater level of support. We do not believe we will be able to obtain that support in the foreseeable future, and as individuals, we have reached a point at which we are unable to sustain the long hours and stress that publishing TNS entails.

A Friday email to subscribers again announced that it would be the last daily dispatch, in what the publication called "our unusual endeavor", where unusual meant because it did not accept advertising revenue for any of its online page content. All TNS publications were ad free. Premium donors, those who donated US$10 or more each month, and contributions made by its readership and other organizations, funded the news agency during its 3 and a half year life. In this way, donations were the revenue substitute for advertising dollars.

TNS came close to shutting down once before, over a year ago. Readers were warned of the pending end, and the publication managed to survive with financial support given by both large donors and small. The publication never took off according to an Alexa web traffic ranking result shown in a graph in the 'External links' section below. In comparison to The Washington Post, where the line on top in that graph represents their ranking, TNS was barely on the radar screen.

The content of the online publication was derived from original and featured article reports written by contributors to the publication who were paid between $125 — 100 per article. $50 — $25 was paid to suppliers of news briefs derived mainly from other news agencies, and $25 to cartoonists for their published submissions. Contributors came from all areas of the United States, along with some international.

Cartoonist Daryl Cagle, of CagleCartoons.com, who recently starting posting blog content on emails sent to subscribers of his featured cartoon of the day, blogged Wednesday this week in what he titled,  Newspapers and Cartoonists Wandering Blindly: For many newspaper editors, internet strategy is a fantasy from the movie "Field of Dreams." "If you build it, they will come." Good content is nice (Slate has great original content) but securing a continuing audience for that content is more important. Yahoo and Google maintain top news sites with almost no original content. That's journalism 2.0: circulating content that is created in other media, while paying little or nothing for the content.

Cagle, currently employed by MSNBC.com and formerly Slate, also remarked that, "I still make my living selling cartoons that are printed in ink on paper from traditional clients who actually pay." He said The Washington Post is one of the most visited online media outlets to grow out of the newsprint era.

"When The Washington Post Company bought my old employer Slate.com from Microsoft, the negotiations focused on Slate continuing to receive a huge audience flow from promotions on MSN.com. The Post understands the Web where traffic flows like a river - the river has to keep flowing or the lake will dry up." Cagle said.

The staffers that run TNS are in the process of wrapping things up and promise to archive as much of the site as possible for future reference, and give a fuller explanation for the site’s closure in this coming week.

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Wikinews:Jobs We Love™

This page is intended as a humorous page to describe some of the more fun jobs performed by the Wikinews community and it's administrators. This list can also be used as a list of tasks to perform when you get bored, or if you need something to do to relieve Wikistress. Please also see Jobs We Hate™.

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U.S. Director of Foreign Assistance Randall L. Tobias resigns

April 28, 2007 Randall L. Tobias, the United States Director of Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator, has resigned after he admitted to ABC News to being a customer of Pamela Martin and Associates, a call girl company.

A woman by the name of Jeane Palfrey, who worked for Pamela Martin recently revealed to the media a list of people who are allegedly customers of the call girl company. One of the names on the list is Tobias', according to ABC News.

"[I called the agency] to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage. [There was] no sex," said Tobias.

Despite the claim by ABC, the U.S. State Department says that he resigned due to "personal reasons."


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Wikinews Shorts for Canada: April 28, 2007

McGill University students records made public
Records at Montreal, Quebec's McGill University were made public because of a glitch in their new computer search system, CBC reports.

At a single search of a student, one could find all their transcripts and their marks. Several students that were interviewed by the CBC said they could find transcripts and other students' marks.

CBC contacted the University and they responded quickly.

"As soon as we discovered the breach, we immediately addressed it," deputy provost Morton Mendelson said. "We removed the files, corrected the breach and we are moving forward. We'll take precautions to ensure that analogous problems do not occur again."

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Newfoundland premier in conflict with Prime Minister
Newfoundland and Labrador premier Danny Williams says Prime Minister Stephen Harper's attitude of Atlantic Canada is that they are a "culture of defeat".

The remarks were in response to Harper's recent comment about the province of Newfoundland and Labrador's budget.

"It sounds like a good Conservative budget to me," Harper said on Tuesday's Question Period. "It also sounds like Atlantic Canada is having awful rough treatment and it wants it to continue."

"His buddy [U.S. President] George Bush calls him 'Steve', so, you know, I can call him 'Steve'. I'm not a buddy of his," Williams told reporters. "By the same token, I have to basically treat him with the same disdain that he's treating Newfoundlanders and Labradorians."

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Environmentalist David Suzuki says gov't needs to meet Kyoto targets on time
Environmentalist David Suzuki said Environment Minister John Baird's new environmental plan, entitled Turning the Corner, an alternative plan to Kyoto, needs to meet its requirements on time. The Conservatives say the new environmental plan will miss the deadline by years.

"Mr. Baird, you are the minister of the environment, not the minister of finance," Suzuki said. "Your job is to protect the environment."

Baird said it will still work out even if it will miss the Kyoto deadline. He also blames the Liberals for not having a plan before the Conservatives were elected.

Baird just recently unveiled the new plan on Thursday. He also unveiled some details on Wednesday about the plan before making his formal announcement on Thursday, after the Conservative governments' documents were accidentally faxed to the Liberal Party.

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St. Paul Mayor's vehicle hit by drunk driver

April 28, 2007 Saint Paul, Minnesota Mayor Chris Coleman had a close encounter with a drunk driver Thursday evening when he was rear-ended. The car wasn't traveling much faster than 10 miles per hour, but the driver registered with a 0.26 blood alcohol level, over twice the legal limit.

Mayor Coleman was traveling in a city vehicle and accompanied by a police escort when they stopped at a red light at Victoria and Summit Avenues. At approximately 8:40pm, it was struck by the vehicle of Abbie Raymond, a 22-year-old St. Paul student, who was arrested at the scene. She was booked into the Ramsey County Jail under gross misdemeanor charges of driving while intoxicated. Raymond is a student at the William Mitchell School of Law. She was traveling with a passenger, another woman in her early 20s who may have also been intoxicated. They had been coming from a nearby bar or restaurant.

"The mayor is pleased there were no injuries," said Bob Hume, a spokesman for the mayor. Both vehicles suffered only minor damage.


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Australia defeats Sri Lanka in 2007 Cricket World Cup Final

April 28, 2007

Australia have defeated Sri Lanka by 53 runs (DL method) in the Final of the World Cup at the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados, giving them their third successive title.

Australia progressed to the final without losing a single match - their smallest victory was still by a reasonable 83 runs against South Africa in the group stages.

Sri Lanka lost twice on their way to the final, first against South Africa in their first game of the Super 8s, made famous due to Lasith Malinga's 4 wickets in 4 balls, though Sri Lanka went on to lose by 1 wicket anyway. Their other loss came against today's opponents Australia, however they rested 2 of their main bowlers (Muttiah Muralitharan and Charminda Vaas), as well as strike bowler Lasith Malinga being out injured at the time. All 3 bowlers are expected to be in the squad today, giving Australia a different challenge today.

This is a repeat of the 1996 World Cup Final which Sri Lanka won - however Australia have won both World Cups since, in 1999 and 2003, and have beaten Sri Lanka in every other World Cup match they have faced.

Gilchrist played an incredible innings of 149 - the highest for any batsman in a World Cup final - to give Australia an imposing total going in at to break. Hayden fell for 38, leaving him just 14 runs short of Sachin Tendulkar's record of 673 in a single World Cup, set in 2003.

The match almost concluded in confusing circumstances: the game had run on late, having been reduced to 38 overs a side initially and later 36 overs for Sri Lanka, and bad light ended up stopping play with Sri Lanka's agreement, despite having 3 wickets left in hand and 18 balls left to bowl.

The Australians began to celebrate the win before the match officials informed them, incorrectly, that the remaining three overs still had to be bowled. If light conditions were not good enough for play to resume then they would have to wait for the next day to complete the match. Eventually the Sri Lankan captain sent his batsmen back out to play in near-complete darkness, the Australian captain agreeing to only allow spinners to bowl for the safety of the batsmen.

The final 3 overs were eventually bowled but nothing really changed: Malinga was stumped and sent on his way by Man of the Match Gilchrist but the balls slowly ran out and Australia stormed home to win the tournament.

Match statistics
Toss: Australia won, and elected to bat first.

Fall of wickets: 1-172 (Hayden, 22.5 ov), 2-224 (Gilchrist, 30.3 ov), 3-261 (Ponting, 35.4 ov), 4-266 (Watson, 36.2 ov)

Did not bat: Michael Hussey, Brad Hogg, Nathan Bracken, Shaun Tait, Glenn McGrath

Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Tharanga, 2.1 ov), 2-123 (Sangakkara, 19.5 ov), 3-145 (Jayasuriya, 22.6 ov), 4-156 (Jayawardene, 25.5 ov), 5-188 (Dilshan, 29.6 ov), 6-190 (Silva, 30.1 ov), 7-194 (Arnold, 31.5 ov), 8-211 (Malinga, 33.6 ov)

Did not bat: Muttiah Muralitharan

Australia: M L Hayden, A C Gilchrist (wkt), R T Ponting (capt), M J Clarke, A Symonds, M E K Hussey, S R Watson, G B Hogg, N W Bracken, S W Tait, G D McGrath Sri Lanka: S T Jayasuriya, W U Tharanga, K C Sangakkara (wkt), D P M D Jayawardene (capt), L P C Silva, T M Dilshan, R P Arnold, W P U J C Vaas, C R D Fernando, S L Malinga, M Muralitharan

Player of the match: A C Gilchrist Player of the Tournament: G D McGrath

Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and S A Bucknor (West Indies) TV umpire: R E Koertzen (South Africa) Match referee: J J Crowe (New Zealand) Reserve umpire: B F Bowden (New Zealand)


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Earthquake strikes Kent, England

April 28, 2007 According to the United States Geological Survey, an earthquake of magnitude 4.7 struck at 07:18:11 UTC (08:18:11 local time) in Kent located in the United Kingdom. However, the British Geological Survey reports the quake at a magnitude of 4.3, and Sky News reports that the quake had a magnitude of 5.0.

The epicenter was located 25 km [15 miles] south of Canterbury and was at a depth of 10 km [6.2 miles]. The earthquake occurred close to the entrance of the Channel Tunnel at Folkestone, although there are no reports of damage to the tunnel. A spokesman for Eurostar, the high-speed train service running through the undersea tunnel, said the quake has had no effect on their services.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service claimed to have received calls from residents who say electricity and telephones are out of service. Some residents report cracks in homes and collapsed chimneys. Residents have been evacuated from their homes and businesses, and officials have shut off some natural gas and electric supplies as a precaution.

"We have had calls from people saying their chimneys have fallen down, large cracks in people's houses," said a spokesman for the Kent Fire and Rescue Services, but The Daily Star reports that the quake caused "widespread damage" to homes and businesses.

It has been reported that at least one person has required hospital treatment.

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User talk:Chaoservices

Welcome
, 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! DragonFire1024 10:49, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * 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!

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User talk:BeHE~enwikinews

Welcome
, 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! DragonFire1024 10:49, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * 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 BeHE. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name BeHE~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
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:29, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:BeHE~enwikinews