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Talk:Opposing a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory

This article is not ready to publish -- it seems to be a jumbled collection of statements from other websites. A re-write, in a news style, would be helpful. Also, properly linking source sites would be nice too. --Chiacomo (talk) 19:05, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

NPOV
Well, it seems rather obvious that this article is trying to make a political point, therefore - tagging to alert others. --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 17:13, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've done a slash-and-burn job on this article, stripping over 2/3 of the content, in an attempt to make it neutral. Can everyone who is interested please have another read and think about whether the NPOV tag is still deserved? Thanks.... - Borofkin 07:43, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Seems good now, but still has some editing issues (so the cleanup tag stays for now) --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 11:28, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Do you mean the "Copy & paste from sources", or is there something else? - Borofkin 22:54, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm unable to find any cut+paste issues with this article. - Borofkin 06:30, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Stuff moved from article
I've moved this content to the talk page as part of a slash-and-burn operation. In my opinion much of it is cut-and-paste from press releases - some parts may be salvageable. - Borofkin 07:43, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

ATHENGE LHERE SAY ‘NO’ TO NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP
One of the Commonwealth Government’s proposed sites for a national nuclear waste dump is on Arrernte land belonging to the traditional owners of Athenge Alhere, an estate group of the Arrernte Nation in Central Australia, Northern Territory. The traditional owners do not accept the Government’s plans despite the land being held by the Commonwealth.

Lucas Heights in Sydney is Australia’s nuclear reactor site and we don’t want their poison to be brought to our country, said Benedict Stevens, (Traditional Owner) today in Alice Springs.

The government says it is safe waste, but if it is so safe why are they thinking about bringing it half way across the country to our land. The government may think this place is remote, but this is our home.

The land is crucial to our way of life and we must protect the stories and dreamings that are significant to our law, our culture and our people. We are very worried and disappointed that the Commonwealth Government plans to dump nuclear waste onto our traditional lands. The government has already taken our land away from us, we have learned to live with that but now they want to destroy that land by putting a waste dump there.

The Government does not respect our way of life and they have not talked to us. The Government have their law, but we have ours which the Elders uphold. As Arrernte people it is our responsibility to protect the land for future generations of our people and all people in the community: to protect the environment of the plants, animals, birds and landscape, says Mr Stevens.

The government must first settle the urgent issue of waste management in Australia before they allow further mining of uranium in a country that has a history of nuclear contamination of the land and the environment.

We are urging Aboriginal people to be strong and say no to the nuclear waste dump also not allow uranium mining on their lands. People in the community must realize that nuclear waste comes from uranium mining activities and that it is the final state of the cycle of nuclear power.

Source: http://www.alec.org.au/site/index.cfm?display=28912&filter=i&leca=139&did=39864540

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Need for a new reactor is a myth: Medical Association for Prevention of War
"We are appalled by the dishonest claims linking the nuclear waste dump to the health of Australians," said Dr Sue Wareham, immediate past president for MAPW. "While it is a health issue, this is more about endangering the health of Australians than protecting it."

The Federal Government has introduced new legislation which would force a nuclear dump on states or territories regardless of opposition from community or state parliaments and which would override countless other state and Commonwealth legal mechanisms, including indigenous concerns.

"It is clear that there is pressure on because the Federal Government want an operating licence for the new reactor in Sydney," continued Dr Wareham. "But the fact that the new reactor was granted a construction licence before the conditions of an operating licence were fulfilled makes a farce of the whole process."

One of the key conditions for the operating licence is the establishment of a viable waste management plan.

"If the government was serious about protecting the health of Australians they would be investing in the development of non-reactor technologies for the production of isotopes, so that we would not have this vast and growing nuclear waste problem."

MAPW released a comprehensive report on the issue of the new reactor which was released in August 2004. This report argues simply that the medical need for a new reactor is a myth. The report: A New Clear Direction - Securing Nuclear Medicine for the Next Generation examines the important role played by Australia's nuclear medicine sector but clearly outlines why the planned new reactor is not needed.

More here: http://www.mapw.org.au/mapw-commentary/press-releases/2005/131005MR_waste_Dump.html

Working together to make a Strong Stand
Traditional owners in the Territory are working together to take a strong stand against the proposed nuclear waste dump on their countries.

Member for Lingiari, Warren Snowdon says traditional owners and communities living near the proposed sites has been left out of the loop and were now seeking real answers from Canberra.

"Locally we’ve seen the Traditional Owners of Athenge Alhere, north of Alice Springs, make a strong statement on their position with the support of Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation," he said.

The NT Government say it's crude politics: "there is no scientific or environmental logic to Canberra's decision to select the Northern Territory for sites for this waste dump. It comes down to one point, and one point only, and it is crude politics..."

All the potential nuclear waste dumps are on defence force land.

How much waste will be managed at the facility?
The Australian Government owns 3,600 cubic metres of low level radioactive waste and 400 cubic metres of intermediate level radioactive waste.

Each year, about 30 cubic metres of low level waste and about three cubic metres of intermediate level waste is generated each year on a routine basis by Australian Government agencies.

The decommissioning of the current HIFAR research reactor will generate up to 2,500 and 150 cubic metres of low and intermediate level radioactive waste, respectively. The exact amount generated will depend on the decommissioning option chosen.

there already is a nuclear dump in the NT
actually, the NT already has a nuclear dump.

It's called the Rum Jungle Uranium Mine

The NT's first uranium mine was attrociously mis-managed : some years the tailings were poorly managed on site, only to be lost to major rainfall events, while in other years they were directly dispersed into the East Finnis river.

Since then there have been two attempts at what has been termed 'rehabilitation' The first, in the 70s, was basically ineffective. In the early 90s, some more realistic work was done, which limited the ongoing impacts of pollution, but did nothing to isolate any of the localised contaminants from the environment.

now Compass Resources, an inexperienced upstart mining hopeful plan to start digging on the boundary of the old uranium mine within the next 3 months (that is by march 2006) with long term plans to increase the footprint of their first stage oxide project to take in the sulphide deposit below (encroaching on the old mine) and eventually return to mill over unprocessed ore at Rum Jungle.

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more detail from my article at : http://dimc.axxs.org/?action=newswire&parentview=5120

The contamination of the region from the regrettable legacy of Rum Jungle Uranium Mine must be more thoroughly addressed by the responsible parties. Foremost among these are the Commonwealth Government, through its agency the AAEC (now ANSTO, who provided the radiological impact report for this project) and notably miner Conzinc (now Rio Tinto, who through its subsidiary ERA, operate Ranger Uranium Mine within the boundaries of Kakadu National Park). There is also a strong argument for funding the rehabilitation of past disgraces such as Rum Jungle through an industry trust built from a levy on new mines.

These responsible parties must recognise that rehabilitation takes priority over any other objective, particularly a proposal as incompatible as this.

The Legacy of Rum Jungle Uranium Mine

The Public Environment Report for the browns oxide project makes numerous references and allusions to the degradation brought by the Rum Jungle Uranium Mine, where a litany of mismanagement was distinguished by the tailings ‘dam’ (such as it was) regularly (both by routine, and frequent accident) washing into the River.

Since then, despite a couple of attempts at rehabilitation, which demonstrated degrees of success in reducing pollution but certainly fell short of isolating contaminants from the environment, the disaster zone left behind at Rum Jungle has contributed to ongoing environmental impacts. As the PER reports:

‘long-term generation of acid drainage from the Rum Jungle mine site has caused severe adverse environmental impacts on this river system’

In the face of this admission, the report repeats assertions such as :

‘Possible future extension of the Browns project into the old mine areas, with subsequent rehabilitation using more modern techniques, based on the extensive data available, could be a preferred outcome for the overall rehabilitation of the area.’

This approach to conservation management must be rejected outright. In fact, coming as it does from the responsible Commonwealth body (ANSTO, formerly the AAEC, who controlled the mine under the Atomic Energy Act), this assertion is downright cynical.

Engineers carry the maxim :

‘When your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail’

In the face of the unparalleled destruction and pollution wrought by Rum Jungle Uranium Mine, to suggest that more mining is a way forward to rehabilitation of natural values is not just absurd; it is profane.

The Commonwealth government already owes a debt of responsibility for appropriate rehabilitation. We do not need to surrender the region for further exploitation to earn it.

Inadequacy of piecemeal assessment

It is blindingly obvious that the current proposal facing stakeholders, such as government and the public, is just a glimpse of what the mining industry has planned for the Rum Jungle region. In fact, this proposal represents simply the first stage in a much more significant plan to exploit the region. The public information sessions, laudably staged by Compass Resources, clearly communicated that the very day they receive approval for the Oxide project, Compass will begin the process of pursuing approval to mine the Sulphide deposit, which lies underneath, and extends into the old Rum Jungle site.

Indeed, the proponents presentation on the project from January this year was sub-titled ‘Profitable Early Development Followed By Major Long Life Sulphide Project’ and maintains references to the extent and value of the sulphide deposit, reporting over 20 years of sulphide resources, and ‘major resource additions indicated’. This report on the Oxide Project concludes with a flowsheet for the Sulphide Project, and a sketch of the Sulphide Project’s lead plant.

Further, the ANSTO report suggests that:

‘other sources of ore, not in the mineral leases, may need to be assessed, but would be subject to separate independent permitting’

and the latest half-yearly report, discussing tenements covering Rum Jungle, identifies ‘excellent potential … to define uranium resources at several locations’.

While we all know full well that there are bigger plans afoot, we are not being allowed to see the big picture. It is entirely inappropriate that the proponent should be permitted to pursue piecemeal approval of a much larger project, with much larger environmental costs, and a much larger burden of radioactive waste.

This is underscored by the cynical attempt by the proponent to use the region’s degraded environment as justification, or at least a smokescreen, for further pollution. Undoubtedly, if this illogical argument is successful this time, it will be applied again in pursuit of the next, major stages of this multi-staged project.

So why would Compass choose to pursue segmented assessment, when their further plans are so well developed, and where best practice clearly dictates that stakeholders deserve the opportunity to scrutinise and contribute to discussion of the whole project before works begin? For one thing, Compass is not well resourced. A new company, who have never operated a project like this before, Compass is lean on capital, capacity and resources.

These shortcomings not only explain Compass’s failure to follow through on an appropriate model of assessment, but must also reflect on their preparedness to accept responsibility for the costs borne by the impact of the Browns Oxide project on the rehabilitation of Rum Jungle Mine. Encompassing management methods designed with the primary objective of avoiding the sterilisation of the sulphide deposit, incorporating rehabilitation strategies which look more like short term management, and risking drawdown on contaminated water at Rum Jungle, the Browns Oxide project will inevitably delay and complicate the challenge of adequately rehabilitating Rum Jungle Uranium Mine. This will not only result in further environmental harm, but will translate directly as further cost to the Commonwealth Government who must eventually take charge of rehabilitation. Given that Compass have not yet raised all the capital for their Browns Oxide proposal, we can have no confidence in their capacity to compensate this additional cost at Rum Jungle.

But to be fair, it must be acknowledged that the proponent has sought assessment of the combined Oxide / Sulphide proposal. Although this process was abandoned, due to the proponents inability to fulfil the requirements for approval, there are some lessons to be learnt from their failed attempt. In particular, while the PER goes to great pains to highlight that the Oxide Project escapes regulation as a nuclear action, it must be recognised that the original combined proposal was determined as such for referral under the EPBC Act. By taking a step back, and seeking approval for the oxide ore that sits above the major sulphide deposit, the proponent has staved off the rigorous assessment and scrutiny that this later stage will demand. In doing so, they have denied the public the accompanying degree of scrutiny and information about their plans to conduct a nuclear action.

This sleight of hand has been quite deliberate. The latest public information session in Batchelor was punctuated by ridiculous to-ing and fro-ing over the question of whether there was any uranium, any radioactive pollution and any radioactive waste in relation to the project. Technical director Rodney Elvish opened his presentation with the assurance that there was no uranium at Browns. This was immediately challenged, and he conceded that there is a considerable quantity of uranium, but that it is not being processed for commercial purposes. Despite this clarification, the same speaker repeatedly attempted to claim that the project involves no uranium, even displaying an overhead slide that emphatically denied the presence of uranium. Each such attempt was challenged (each time by a different, confused member of the public) and rescinded. After insisting that the project would not generate radioactive wastes, the same technical director emphatically vowed that all such wastes would be covered by a Radiation Management Plan.

This farcical fumbling over the pertinent issue of radioactive waste and pollution demonstrates clearly that the company is keen to downplay, even deny, the significant radiological issues implicit to their project. In this light, the decision to attempt piecemeal assessment can be recognised, in part at least, as a further attempt to hide and obfuscate the significant radiological impacts of the further plans for Rum Jungle. Given the clearly communicated and often repeated intention of Compass Resources to immediately pursue assessment of the Sulphide project upon attaining approval for the Oxide project, this strategy must not prevail. The Community deserves to be informed and consulted upon the true breadth of radiological impacts embodied in the plans Compass has for Rum Jungle.

If the Company is to be permitted to pursue segmented assessment, then the Project should at least be recognised as part of the major plan for exploiting the sulphides, and so should qualify for an EIA as a nuclear action under the EPBC Act.

Radioactive waste and pollution

The fact that uranium concentration at Browns is not commercial does not discount the fact that mining operations would result in the mobilisation and dispersal into the environment of significant radioactive pollution. While the current small set of measurements of radioactivity fall below bureaucratic levels for regulation, and anticipated human doses fall below so-called ‘acceptable’ limits, it must be highlighted that

‘environmental impact assessment concluded that there will be some environmental impact from the presence of uranium in ore’.

In recognition that they ‘may require that appropriate measures be taken … to minimise any environmental impact from tailings, waste liquors, airborne emissions etc.’, Compass commissioned a report from ANSTO, the national nuclear science organisation, which significantly recognised areas of potential radiological impact :

Water – any uranium and thorium and long lived progeny; Air – any radon / progeny; Dust – U and Th decay chains; External gamma - U and Th decay chains.

While acknowledging that significant radioactive pollution would result from the proposal, the PER admits that baseline radiological data is limited. Assurances that this data will continue to be collected as the part of the ongoing Mine Management Plan are particularly unimpressive. While it may not be uncommon for the collection of ‘baseline’ data to be undertaken after the horse has bolted, this by no means validates the flawed method. It must also be recognised, as with other pollutants and contaminants in the Rum Jungle region, that any such data, whether taken now, or after the ‘development’ progresses, are not natural baseline data, but are rather data for a highly contaminated site, heavily polluted by previous inappropriate mining practices at Rum Jungle Uranium Mine.

Furthermore, while outlining the need for a Radiation Management Plan, there has been no indication of the nature or detail of such a plan. It is highly unsatisfactory for approval to proceed without public scrutiny of this Plan. The public cannot be confident that issues related to radioactive contamination and the management of the inevitable radioactive wastes this proposal would produce have been adequately addressed in the absence of this Plan. It is inappropriate to relegate such significant details until after approval.

The ANSTO report acknowledges international trends towards the development of policies for the explicit protection of the environment from radiological pollutants. The report clearly states that the prevalent criteria of acceptable human doses are now recognised to be insufficient to guarantee environmental protection. And yet we are told that :

‘current regulatory controls on radiological impact are based on the assumption that the protection of humans will result in the protection of the environment.’

By a process of induction, it follows that these current regulatory controls are insufficient to guarantee environmental protection. While the report goes into great detail on anticipated dose calculations, this data falls far short of providing a basis for the important objective of protecting the environment from radioactive waste. Perhaps to offer some comfort, the report indulges in a combination of guesswork and hand-waving to give a vague promise of

‘an indication of the likelihood of whether there is potential for a significant impact’

This clearly falls short of what the community expectations of environmental protection from radiological impacts.

In fact, the report clearly identifies a number of scenarios in which, despite conforming to the current regulatory controls, radioactive waste from the proposed operation at Browns could present a significant impact on the environment. One such scenario is that of tailings washing in to the River. While this is characterised as ‘an unlikely event’, it must be remembered that regular repetition of such an ‘unlikely event’ is responsible for a major component of the detrimental legacy of Rum Jungle Uranium Mine. Similar unlikely events have been recorded at the heavily regulated and scrutinised Ranger Uranium Mine as recently as January last year, as they have throughout the life of that highly regulated and monitored mine.

Another disturbing scenario identified is the potential for a process water spill. The ANSTO report warns that uranium will accumulate in the recycled process water. We are told that the process solution may contain accumulated concentrations of radioactive contaminants which would represent an environmental impact. The maximum indicated tailings discharge water concentration exceeds UNSCEAR guidelines for water-plants and frogs. Yet the Water Management Plan (such as it is) makes no reference to objectives of managing this radioactive waste. The Water Management Plan describes how wet season flooding of the Tailings Storage Facility would overflow into the main sediment trap, which in turn would be released into the River.

Reference is made to processing, which would assumedly accumulate the radioactive precipitates with the radioactive tailings wastes. However there is no detail given to assure the public that any effort will be made to manage the radioactive wastes that may accumulate in the process water. Perhaps this requirement is to be relegated to the Radiation Management Plan; however it is inappropriate for approval to proceed in the absence of this fundamental information. As already stated, the public deserves more detailed knowledge of the proponent’s plans for the management of the radioactive wastes which will inevitably be generated by this proposal.

Concerns about the lack of detail about the management of contaminated water are only strengthened by recent experience with the Ranger Uranium Mine. Despite the intense scrutiny afforded this project, and despite the fact that the uranium product earns the Ranger Uranium Mine regulatory controls for their radioactive materials that this first stage at Browns may evade, there has been frequent mismanagement of contaminated water at Ranger Uranium Mine. Particularly relevant are the regular wet season overflows, where despite the presence of mechanisms and plans for the treatment of water, certain extreme weather events during the wet season seem to catch everyone by surprise, and result in the unintentional release of ‘hot’ water ahead of the planned management actions. The lack of detail provided by Compass makes such fumbling appear even more likely for this proposal.

All other concerns aside, on this matter of the appropriate management of radioactive wastes alone, the proponent should be sent back to the drawing board. The project should be assessed with all the scrutiny and rigour afforded a nuclear action under the EPBC Act, to guarantee the public greater confidence in the integrity of their management plans, ahead of any approval to proceed beyond this planning stage.

Community sensitivity about the likely environmental impacts of radioactive wastes from the Browns Oxide project can only compound in the face of the realisation that this is but the first step in a multi-stage plan for further exploitation of the Rum Jungle region. While the public has unfortunately been denied an accurate picture of future developments planned for the area, it is clear from the cursory report on the potential impacts of the first stage of this segmented proposal that we should anticipate environmental impacts due to radioactive wastes. Given the footprint of the Sulphide deposit, and the reference to extension of the project into the old mine, it is clear that this would be the first step along a trajectory that would guarantee greater levels and volumes of radioactive waste than are addressed by this PER.

Rather than considering opening the region up to further contamination from radioactive waste and other heavy metal contaminants, our immediate plans for Rum Jungle should remain focussed on rehabilitation. While some progress has been made in managing the significant pollution suffered by the Finniss system, we clearly have a long way to go. The degraded local environment must not be used to justify, nor camouflage, any proposal for further pollution. The current degraded status must not be used as a basis for benchmarks or targets for water quality or rehabilitation status. Neither can the regrettable state of the locality be abused as justification for further pollution. We don’t need another miner to come in to resolve the outstanding responsibility for rehabilitation: this already sits firmly on the shoulders of the parties who profited from Rum Jungle Uranium Mine, who remain well resourced to address their responsibility.


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Talk:New Delhi terrorist attacks

Merged with earlier story

 * An earlier story (now titled Explosions_rock_New_Delhi_marketplace) has merged with this one. Karen 20:33, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

 * This story has been merged - is no longer a duplicate. Stop marking it as a duplicate without discussion.  It's highly annoying to have people who should know better making changes without discussion. Karen 17:50, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Again, this is a story that is being 'merged, and is beyond 'dupe' - when I observed that it was a duplicate, I begain merging and everyone followed by moving to the other article. If "merging" is not appropriate, then explain here in the discussion page, so I don't waste more time complaining about people making changes without reading discussions in this general discussion. Karen 11:49, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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I have redirected this story to Explosions rock New Delhi marketplace. Move along now, nothing to see here. --Chiacomo (talk) 19:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Tom Cruise parody site defiant in face of Scientology threats, demands its day in court

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There website used to source the info for this news item is owned by myself, it states on the site and I will state it again now "This information is available so it can be referenced, copied and distributed freely in any medium - please do so with our full permission"

Therefore it does not infringe on copyright. It is newsworthy as it follows the former news item on the church suing us.

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Unicode char might cause problem for some people
the unicode character in the line 15 U.S.C. � 1125(a). might not be viewable to some people. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:21, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

something ain't clicking
this is a story... ... the Bosely vs. medical vs. I can't get-a-date.... oops
 * all i know is i like this article -Edbrown05 04:04, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * unreal.

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the site is gone. now a godaddy parked page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.27.240.6 (talk) 21:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Yep, same thing here - no site available, just a placeholder. Anyone know what's up ? Sean Heron (talk) 13:42, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I think he stopped maintaining it. :( Cirt (talk) 17:50, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

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 * Please tighten the category from category:Religion, to category:Scientology. Wilhelm 05:59, 22 October 2007 (UTC).


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Talk:Romania switches to Winter Time

After reading this article twice, I can't figure out what's so significant about Romania? Many other countries, not just Romania and others in Europe, such as the United States and Canada, are falling back an hour at 3:00 AM -> 2:00 AM tonight. -TLH

 * Well I found it interasting that it happens at 4:00 → 3:00 unlike here where it is 2:00 → 1:00. The part about the history of its adoption in romainia was also interasting. and I don't even live there(or on that side of the globe). Wikinews is not just global news as well, Local news is also an important part of wikinews. As for why Romainia, our Romainian reporter was the first person to write about this. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 02:23, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I wonder what the squirrels think? -Edbrown05 02:39, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * squirrels ????? Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 03:00, 30 October 2005 (UTC) heres my pict of a squirrel ◙: can you draw a better asci art squirrel? Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 03:00, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree. I don't see the point of this article covering the switching to winter time in Romania specifically. - Apollyon 12:39, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps most of this story should be an article on Wikipedia instead of a news story. However, I'm inclined to say this is a good example of first-hand journalism and as such should remain -- But what do I know? Karen 19:28, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Is there such a thing as unnatural sunlight?
Yes - this is how some grow plants in their basement.

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Please replace "Romania flag 300.png" with "Flag of Romania.svg", or "Flag of Romania.png". Siebrand - (talk) 10:07, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
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Portal talk:Islam

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Not sure what symbol to use so i used the one used on wikipedia (Mosque). Alternate is the star and cresent, but wikipedia says its not actually a symbol of Islam but of the Ottoman Empire (right beside a Cite sources notice). see commons:Category:Islam for more Bawolff ☺☻ 02:05, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Islam is religiously opposed to representative symbolism. Please see my comments on Talk:Religion. It would be impossible to adequately represent the many competitive and/or divergent views of Islam on a single portal; trying to do so is inherently POV. - Amgine / talk 03:36, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

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Portal talk:Spirituality

NPOV
The Religion portal is biased, as it does not adequately represent or support all religions. Furthermore, it does not recognize other forms of spirituality, and mis-represents Budhism as a religion (it is not, it is a spirituality without a concept of Theo/Thea/Deity.) I would also suggest it would be impossible to create an NPOV news portal, and am personally opposed to WN even attempting to do so. - Amgine / talk 03:08, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I suggest that a portal for Religion will remain biased until there are a significant number of contributors putting up articles that bring balance to it. Are you proposing that the Category be removed altogether to avoid the inevitable result of articles being tagged with it?  That's something I would oppose, as filing away an article under a particular category need not be a POV action. Brianmc 08:05, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think this is biased any more then any other country portal. we don't have an equal spred of articles for each country simply due to lack of contribritures in those countries (although Country of the week is trying to address that.) We can't represent religions that no one writes for. However I still think that portals (including this one) serve a very useful purpose, and if people see their faith not listed here they're free to create it., Causing it to become more balanced. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 22:59, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm still concerned about the category, as it is one likely to develop intentional as well as inadvertent bias. However, I see good faith efforts to minimize bias, so I'm removing the NPOV dispute tag. I'm also working on an extension which would allow the use of "Religion OR Spirituality" for the DPL, which would work well here. -  Amgine | talk 02:47, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

 * [[image:wikiThanks.png]]Thank you. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 03:53, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Baha'i Faith
I would be interested in starting a wikinews along the lines of the Quaker one to cover the Baha'i Faith. The kind of news items would be similar to my webgroup www.yahoogroups.com/BahaiMonitor/ but would also cover internal news, e.g. results of elections.

Is there anyone else who is interested in joining me on this?

User:AndrewRT

Having a "Spirituality" portal without a "Religious" portal???
I am strongly against hiding stories on organized religion behind the word "Spirituality." All the religious people that I know do not use the word "spirituality" very often. They may refer to "spiritual" things but describe themselves as "religious" and their organizations as "religions." A "spirituality" portal may be fine for stories on Bhuddism and New Ageism and Flying Spaghetti Monsterism but "Spirituality" and "Religion" are two very different categories and there is news in both of them. --Nerd42 22:09, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Do you have a better suggestion for the name. The terms are too close (for the average person imo) to have both. It'd be like having a portal for Open source software and another one for free software (note, currently we use category:FLOSS. yes they are different, but they are too close to give them separate portals (again imo). Bawolff ☺☻ 23:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Why not make it "Portal:Religion and Spirituality" That would cover everything? JoshuaZ 14:43, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

This conversation did die three years ago, but I'd like to toss my two cents in and agree with Nerd42; "Portal:Religion and Spirituality" seems like a much better title. Cheers, C628 (talk) 00:01, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

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IBM partners with Google to produce a corporate desktop search program

October 31, 2005

IBM and Google have partnered to start production on a desktop search program for corporate users.

Previously, IBM's OmniFind could only look inside standard applications such as Oracle, and Google's Desktop Search program didn't have any extensive network capabilites. The end product of this collaboration will allow for searching managed databases, as well as many unmanaged files, such as personal e-mails, Microsoft Word documents, and rich media files, within corporate servers.

"Getting these two products together makes sense for both of us," David Girouard, general manager of Google's enterprise business unit. "If you want to have a good corporate search product, you have to have desktop search," he said.

No exchange of money has been made between the two companies, and this announcement comes only a few weeks after Google announced its partnership with Sun Microsystems, Inc. Some speculate that Google is making a move to directly challenge Microsoft Corp. in the field of PC Desktop software.


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Cuban funds tied to Lula campaign, Brazilian magazine alleges

Former advisors to Brazilian Minister of Finance Antonio Palocci have claimed that three million US dollars from Cuba were used in the 2002 political campaign of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The accusation was printed by the Brazilian magazine Veja in its issue circulating this week.

According to Veja, Rogério Buratti, Palocci's secretary in the early 1990s during the period when Palocci was mayor, claims that Ralf Barquete (another advisor to Palocci) had asked him to find a way to bring money from Cuba.

Another source, economist Vladmir Poleto who had also worked for Palocci, claimed to have brought the three million from Brasília to Campinas by plane. He stated the money was hidden in whiskey boxes: Johnnie Walker Red Label and Black Label and Havana Club (a Cuban brand of rum). Barquete received the money at the Campinas airport Viracopos. Afterwards he claims the money was transferred by car to São Paulo and delivered to Workers' Party treasurer Delubio Soares.

Workers' Party President Ricardo Berzoini has responded saying that the accusation is false. And Lula's aide Gilberto Carvalho has said the story is "absurd".

According to the blog of Folha de S. Paulo reporter Josias de Souza, Palocci and Lula are worried about the interviews being aired on Brazilian television.

The president of the PPS, federal deputy Roberto Freire (Pernambuco state), has stated that his party will ask the Electoral Justice investigatory agency and the Public Ministry to begin a investigation into the charge. The parties PFL and PSDB are also considering demanding an investigation.


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Bush narrows choice to Supreme Court

October 31, 2005

Reuters is reporting that President Bush is expected to announce his choice to replace to the Supreme Court on Monday.

The Chicago Tribune reports that President Bush narrowed his short list of Supreme Court nominees to two, with a possible third. The two top individuals in consideration are Judge Samuel Alito of New Jersey and Judge Michael Luttig of Virginia. Judge Priscilla Owen of Texas may remain as a third possibility. Reuters late Sunday also listed Appeals Court Judges Michael McConnell, Edith Jones and Alice Batchelder as possibly under consideration. CBS added that the list may include Appeals Court Judge Karen Williams and Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan.

The nominee, when and if confirmed, would succeed Justice Sandra Day O'Connor who announced her retirement in July. This latest nomination process was made necessary when Harriet Miers withdrew from consideration.

Since Congress returned from summer recess, there have been significant changes at the court. When Justice O'Connor originally announced her intention to retire, President Bush nominated Judge John Roberts to replace her. However, when Chief Justice Rehnquist died in September from thyroid cancer, Roberts became the replacement for the Chief Justice.

Both Alito and Luttig are viewed by many as staunch conservatives with strong qualifications. The debate over either conservative candidate is expected to be largely partisan, unlike the Harriet Miers nomination that was widely criticized by both legislative parties for her lack of judicial experience.

Samuel A. Alito, age 55, has served as a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia since 1990. J. Michael Luttig, age 51, has served as a judge on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond since 1991. Both were originally nominated by President George Herbert Walker Bush.

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Moldova State University student to represent Moldova at world cyber games in Singapore

October 30, 2005

Maxim Kuzmenko, a mathematics and informatics student of Moldova State University, will be representing the Republic of Moldova at the World Cyber Games to be held in Singapore on November 16. The young man won the qualification War Craft computer game tournament held in Chisinau recently.

Moldova WCG Committee Chairman Mr. Vladislav Lyahov says Kuzmenko has few chances to win at the forthcoming world championship. However, the experience of participation in such grand assemblies and learning more about computer aces' game strategies is simply priceless, he said.

Selective tournaments in Moldova were held in 4 computer games most popular here. The winners in other game competitions will participate in respective World Cyber Game tournaments.

In Moldova, the qualifications gathered nearly 300 aspirants aged 15-24, including women, from all over Moldova.


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Russian peacekeepers will not leave Transdniestria, official says

October 30, 2005

Russian peacekeepers will stay in the Transnistrian region until adoption of a political decision on change of their mandate, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has told Russian journalists. Also, Ivanov claims that Russia does not insist on an exclusive right to peacekeeping mission in the region, although Chisinau's appeals to change the make-up of the operation have not received support and have not been introduced in the agenda of the negotiations from October 27-28.

In a discussion with Russian journalists Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev accused Tiraspol of illegal sale of Russian weapons (that would have been used in Beslan too), but his statement was refuted by Russian and Chechen officials.

Ivanov stated: "I stake my life that no munitions left the Russian military bases". Transdniestria has its own army that can defend very well its own depots, Ivanov added.

Minister Ahmed Dakaev, Chechnya's Deputy Home Affairs, as stating that he knows nothing about the sale of munitions from Transdniestrian to Chechnya. He qualifies these statements as political.

Of the Transdniestrian foreign department Vitalie Ignatiev said rumors about the illegal sale of weapons from Transdniestrian exist for more than 15 years but nobody could prove it. He has also refuted Moldovan Prime Minister’s statements and sought evidence.

The 1999 OSCE summit in Istanbul had obliged the Russian Federation to withdraw its troops and ammunition from Moldova. Russia interrupted the process two years ago under pretext that Tiraspol delays the withdrawal of weapons from the region.


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You need to provide source information for that image. Also, if it is indeed PD then please upload it to Commons and not here. --SVTCobra 15:20, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

PD images
This image, Image:AirMoldovaAirbus.jpg should be on Commons if it is PD. --Brian McNeil / talk 12:18, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Are there a way to redirect it to commons? --Serhio 13:49, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I will add it to Commons if you give me info on why it is PD (otherwise it will just get deleted)? --User:Anonymous101 15:44, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't know very well the copyright state of this image. The image was taken from the official main page of the Moldovan national state company "Air Moldova" - . Accordingly to the moldovan law on copyright, state symbols are not subject of copyright. Anyway, the site contains the  (c) Air Moldova 2006 symbol bellow. How can I proceed in this case? --Serhio 06:37, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

welcome!
I hope you can greatly improve our coverage of Moldova News, if you need any help copy-editing articles don't hesitate to ask. A fellow European, --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:21, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * ;) Greetings, Steve. Thanks for support. You write about the Great Britain, isn't? So, I Shall be glad to cooperate! --Serhio 06:05, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

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This image needs to be explained per Fair use. Currently, it is lacking in rationale and may be deleted. --SVTCobra 02:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'd like use this image like an image from a news site, like the Image:Robert Maltby.jpg one. What kind of licence information should I apply to the images like that? --Serhio - (talk) 07:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * You can not ever use images from a news site --Anonymous101 (talk · contribs) 09:51, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * What about the image given as example? (Image:Robert Maltby.jpg)--Serhio - (talk) 12:10, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I've deleted the image you refer to as an example because it is a copyright violation. Only freely licence images can be uploaded to Commons and it couldn't be uploaded here as fair use because it is from another news agency. Adambro - (talk) 12:19, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

 * What about the images published on the official state sites, like www.usa.gov or www.gov.md? --Serhio - (talk) 16:57, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Image:Greceanii.jpg also needs sorting as soon as possible. Unfortunaly I can't find any details of the copyright status of the material on gov.md but in the case of the US, many government images are released freely as public domain. Unless information can be found which says this is the same with Moldova then these images will either have to delete or their use justified as fair use but I'm afraid I suspect we'd struggle to come up with a valid rationale for these. Adambro - (talk) 17:20, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I sent a mail on the government site gov.md to find out the details about the copyright status of images on the site. I wait for an answer. --Serhio - (talk) 10:19, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Adding UK info to Moldava template
Why did you add UK logo to moldova template --Anonymous101 (talk · contribs) 12:16, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Refresh, to see the latest news ;) --Serhio - (talk) 12:17, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I've just noticed you reverted it. --Anonymous101 (talk · contribs) 12:17, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Now, there is a Moldova image instead. --Serhio - (talk) 12:19, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * OK --Anonymous101 (talk · contribs) 12:19, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

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That article is fancruft and is inappropriate for Wikinews, as it has no reliable secondary sources. Jack Merridew returns - (talk) 12:13, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

 * What does mean "fancruft"? --Serhio - (talk) 12:15, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Ignore it, the user in question has just been banned for vandalising a load of articles. --Brian McNeil / talk 12:46, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, thanks Brian! --Serhio - (talk) 12:58, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

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Please do not add this to any more articles until details of the licence are provided. Adambro - (talk) 18:08, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * "Free alternative can not be created as person is missing" - Huh? Presumably you've been copying and pasting and not changed all the details. Adambro - (talk) 18:48, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

fixed --Serhio - (talk) 04:40, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

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Hurricane Beta makes landfall in Nicaragua

October 31, 2005

Hurricane Beta hit the Nicaraguan coast early on Saturday, sending powerful rain and winds their way.

Although it lost some speed during landfall, Beta was still a Category 2 hurricane, with winds of up to 110 Mph (175 kph) and was expected to dump up to 15 inches of rain. Residents from the local coastal fishing villages rushed into flimsy makeshift shelters as the hurricane approached.

"We had a very bad night. The water leaked in, the children were cold. They brought us here without telling us anything. We don't have food or water," Norma Smith, a mother of six, said on Sunday morning.

Neighboring Honduras declared a national emergency, and planned to evacuate 125,000 people. However, residents in the isolated coastal regions are usually wary of outsiders, and many failed to heed the warnings.

"These people do not believe in danger until they really feel it," said Col. Mario Perez-Cassar, the head of Nicaragua's civil defense.

Emergency officials say there have been no deaths so far, but the projected path of Beta takes it straight across Nicaragua, raising the possibility of lethal mudslides in mountainous areas.

Beta, which was not expected to hit the United States, was the 23rd hurricane this year, more than any Atlantic season on record. This season has also seen more storms than at any point since record-keeping began in 1851. The previous record of 21 was set in 1933.

Last week Tropical Storm Alpha formed, the first time a letter from the Greek alphabet has been used because the list of storm names was exhausted.


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Talk:Russian peacekeepers will not leave Transdniestria, official says

Title
The headline has an argumentive tone. How about "Russian peacekeepers to stay in Transdniestria"?
 * It definitely needs a new headine, the current one includes the byline for the report who wrote the source piece.
 * I'd also like to see a second source on the story, I've not gone through this to see if it is a proper rewrite or just a rearrangement. Brianmc 16:57, 30 October 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Moldova State University student to represent Moldova at world cyber games in Singapore

Again, a local story on the front page. I haven't been at wikinews long enough to know how stuff ends up on the front page, but it seems that someone could write a more globally-applicable story such as "World Cyber Games to be held in Singapore." This story stresses the fact that one person in Moldova competed against many others to qualify... but this exact same thing happened in many other countries around the world, so maybe a story like tha could be mentioned. This story belongs on a local section for maybe Moldova, if it has a section. - TLH
 * All news including local news should go on the front page --Cspurrier 21:32, 30 October 2005 (UTC)


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World Bank continues its support of Moldovan private sector development

October 30, 2005

The World Bank approved a US$9.8 million Competitiveness Enhancement Project (CEP) for the Republic of Moldova Thursday. The approved amount represents a US$4.90 million credit and a US$4.90 million grant. The credit is offered under IDA terms, the World Bank Moldova Country Office has reported.

The overall objective of the Competitiveness Enhancement Project is to assist Moldova in enhancing the competitiveness of enterprises through improvements in the business environment and making adequate standards, testing and quality improvement services available to enterprises.

"The project will help the Government of Moldova to implement the business regulatory reform that had been started earlier," said Irina Astrakhan, World Bank Task Manager for the Project. "It will also assist the government to begin modernization of the national standards and quality system, leading to improved competitiveness of the Moldovan economy in domestic and international markets and more attractiveness for foreign direct investment."

The CEP Project has four components -- business environment improvement; modernization of measurements, standards, testing and quality (MSTQ) system; facilitation of enterprise access to MSTQ services; and facilitation of access to finance.

"The Project will bring about unquestionable benefits to the economic environment in Moldova by focusing on stability within the framework of business regulation, the promotion of adequate legislation, access to product certification services in line with the standards set by the European Union, encouragement of an innovative potential for enterprises, and facilitation of access to funding by means of various up-to-date mechanisms", said Mr. Valeriu Lazar, the Moldovan Minister of Economy and Trade.

The enterprise sector, especially SMEs, will be the primary beneficiaries of this project. The Ministry of Economy and Trade Business Regulatory Reform Commission and Secretariat, the Service for Standardization and Metrology, the National Institute for Standardization and Metrology, the Accreditation Center for Conformity Assessment of Products and other institutions of the MSTQ infrastructure will also be helped by the project.

The total cost of the CEP Project is US$14.3 million. In addition to the World Bank credit and grant, the project will also be financed by the Government of Japan in the form of grant amounting to US$4.5 million. The Project implementation period is 4 years, from January 2006 to December 31, 2009.

Since Moldova joined the World Bank in 1992, Bank commitments to the country total approximately US$592 million for 29 operations.


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Talk:United Church of Christ endorses same-sex marriage, largest Christian denomination to do so

Anon IP comment
All that matter's is what God stated... Leviticus 20:13 If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. Seems like that says it all and God will Judge.
 * Don't forget divorce lad. I hope you're willing to let fire and brimstone rain down upon divorcees too. --Wolfrider 23:07, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
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Page disappeared?
Can someone explain why this page I have worked on all day disappeared when I changed the date to October 31? I figured that October 31 had not been created yet, so I changed the date back to October 30 and the page is still not listed?

Help appreciated. --Psusen 02:58, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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Bush nominates Alito to U.S. Supreme Court

October 31, 2005 U.S. President George W. Bush nominated Judge Samuel Alito of New Jersey as Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court in a formal announcement at 8 a.m EST (13:00 UTC) this morning.

Bush called Alito one "of the most accomplished and respected judges in America" and stressed that he has   "more prior judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in more than 70 years."

Alito is currently a judge at the 3rd Circuit Appeals Court in Philadelphia. He is viewed as a staunch conservative and has been compared to current Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia.

The nominee, when and if confirmed, would succeed Justice Sandra Day O'Connor who announced her retirement in July. This latest nomination process was made necessary when Harriet Miers withdrew herself from consideration after being met with harsh criticism among Democrat and Republican lines alike.

The debate over the conservative candidate is expected to be largely partisan, unlike the Harriet Miers nomination that was widely criticized by both legislative parties for her lack of judicial experience.

Alito, 55, has served on his circuit court since 1990 and was originally nominated by President George Herbert Walker Bush.


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Talk:Bush nominates Alito to U.S. Supreme Court

Do you want to merge: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Bush_nominates_Alito_to_Supreme_Court

--Psusen 11:56, 31 October 2005 (UTC)


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User:Elliot K

Elliot K's Article Blog

i'm a
frequent australian Indymedia hack and a volunteer editor/admin. on Wikinews i attempt to research and publish at least one story per day - dependent upon time restraints and distractions.

i also present and produce a weekly independent non-corporate news and information program on local community public radio in perth, wa - i report various local perth, western australia, national, oceania. i cover global grass-roots participatory events, news items and actions.

the wikinews australian portal is my homepage.

today my focus is on deep respect for the biosphere, social justice, guerilla art, grass-roots participation, consensus and other shit.

i am 39yo.

i like no borders.

i am potentially anarchista.

i respect the Nyungar/Noongarland.

See this: i live in this country

i am currently studying web administration at TAFE.

i don't own or drive a car.

why
reasons to become the media, not hate it, like: "Copyright. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed."
 * 1) Corporate-owned media is an inherent greed-seeded hyperbole machine.
 * 2) Language and meme control commodified, homogenised and monopolised. exemplified by crap like this:
 * 1) The glaring reality of corporate mindshare, the insideous mental real estate boom.
 * 2) Globalised Monocultural Dominant Cultural meanings. Deny.
 * 3) Mindless capitalistic control of language and culture. Resist.
 * 4) Memes designed to never satisfy desire. Repeat Consumption. Cancer fetish.
 * 5) Intellectual Property Rights vs the sexiness of Open source and the freedom of ideas.
 * 6) People/country before profit. Many generational decision-making. Consensus.
 * 7) Advertising eats my face off in strips of energetic farce. Unwanted eye candy.
 * 8) Good men can't sit still in dark rooms. Not knowingly.
 * 9) Anyone is a journalist. innit. even you.
 * 10) Open Source art and science is my godhead

my contributions to wikinews
in alphabetical order (since 0ctober05) Currently over a hundred, i reckon? stories.
 * 'Guantanamo'-style detention facility under construction on Australian Island
 * 'Kama Sutra' worm set to strike
 * 100s of thousands take to the streets across France
 * 2006 "Stolenwealth" Games to confront Commonwealth Games in Melbourne
 * 20,000 South Koreans take to the streets to protest APEC
 * 40 Asylum seekers missing off Torres Strait
 * 42 West Papuan asylum seekers get temporary Australian visas
 * Aboriginal Sovereignty Day Declared
 * Alan Carpenter "effectively" new Western Australian Premier
 * Anti-whaling Sea Shepherd crew detained in South Africa
 * Asylum seeker hunger strike enters seventh week
 * Australia's new controversial workplace regulations come into effect this week
 * Australia accused of bullying East Timor over oil field treaty
 * Australia records hottest year on record
 * Australian children suffering from iodine deficiency
 * Australian troops to provide front-line combat support in Iraq
 * Australians need bigger toilets
 * Australia sends more troops to Afghanistan
 * Australian Government passes new terror laws
 * Australian Greens senator Bob Brown marks 10 years in Parliament
 * Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks gets British citizenship
 * Australian academic study supports nuclear power
 * Australian activists break into Pine Gap spy facility
 * Australian artist Pro Hart dies
 * Australian government paves way for nuclear waste dump in Northern Territory
 * Australian man to be executed in Singapore
 * Australian Prime Minister blames asylum seekers for "Children Overboard" scandal
 * Australian researchers confirm stress makes you sick
 * Australian treasurer makes "extremely divisive" comments
 * Australian troops to provide front-line combat support in Iraq
 * Australians unite against whaling in Southern Ocean
 * BHP halts operations after mine death in Western Australia
 * BHP Mine remains closed during death probe
 * Bomb blasts hit south Thailand market town Sungai Golok
 * Bomb blast near Mosul, Iraq kills at least 40
 * Chinese hunger strike continues at Australian detention centre
 * Christmas Island detention centre reopened
 * Climate change a factor in Australia's warmest year on record
 * Condoleezza Rice labeled "war criminal" by Australian demonstrators
 * Coretta Scott King passes away
 * Corruption blamed for Papuan rainforest destruction
 * Cyclone Emma crosses West Australian coast
 * Coal mine floods in northern China: 12,000 mines ordered to close
 * Darwin and Sumatra rocked by offshore earthquakes
 * Demonstration in Hong Kong denounces WTO
 * Deported Australian granted visa after two years in Serbian limbo
 * Eighteen found dead in a bus in Iraq
 * ETA declares permanent cease-fire
 * European Union demands release of Belarusian opposition leader
 * Farmers clash amidst high security at APEC summit in South Korea
 * Fires at Baxter Immigration Detention Centre in South Australia
 * First Tropical Cyclone of 2006 forms off West Australia
 * French police detain 20 terror suspects in dawn raid
 * Gauntanamo detainee David Hicks seeks UK passport
 * Greenpeace activists clash with Japanese whaling fleet in Southern Ocean
 * Greenpeace, Sea Shepherds end Southern Ocean whaling protest
 * Guantanamo detainee David Hicks seeks UK passport
 * Hundreds of thousands rally in Australia against IR legislation
 * Hypersonic "scramjet" tested in Australia
 * Indonesia warns Australia over West Papuan asylum seekers
 * Indonesian fishermen jailed for fishing offences in Australian waters
 * Iranian president says move Israel to Europe
 * Iranian refugee child granted $400,000 in compensation for "psychological harm"
 * Israelis storm Palestinian jail
 * Japan to hunt 950 whales for "scientific research"
 * Japanese whaling ship to dock in Hobart
 * Jury convicts Murdoch of outback murder
 * Largest mass extinction in 65 million years: scientists
 * Military presence increased in Melbourne for 2006 Commonwealth Games
 * Miners survive underground fire in Tasmania
 * More arrests from Cronulla riots
 * New laws to combat 'endemic' Hong Kong bird flu
 * Missing asylum seekers found off Cape York
 * Opposing a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory
 * Ponting breaks cricket records
 * Protesters mark 3rd anniversary of Iraq invasion
 * Protesting Chinese villagers killed in confrontation with police
 * Queensland's biggest oil spill in 35 years
 * Queensland braces for category 5 cyclone
 * Queensland mops up after Cyclone Larry's billion dollar devastation
 * Racially motivated text messages surface in other states
 * Report details British billionare donations to Australian political party
 * Rio Tinto makes more than $4 billion
 * Row over Australian flag at Bondi Pavilion
 * RU486 Abortion pill hearings begin in Australia
 * Ruddock hints at Australia Card
 * Rumsfeld's Australia visit sparks protests
 * Runaway African Commonwealth Games athletes granted aslyum in Australia
 * Scientists shocked at Great Barrier Reef bleaching
 * Sizzler salad bars shut after rat poison found in food
 * Southern Ocean whale slaughter to resume
 * Sri Lankan attack disrupts peace envoy
 * Suicide bombers blast two Bangladeshi cities
 * Sydney Mardi Gras celebrated by 450,000 people
 * Sydney Opera House 'No War' activists face court for paint cans
 * Sydney racial violence continues
 * Tamil Tigers blamed for attack on Sri Lankan Navy
 * Tens of thousands rally against Thailand's Prime Minister
 * Terrorism expert says Osama Bin Laden could be dead
 * Thousands demand climate change action
 * Thousands of Australian workers set to rally against IR reform
 * USA under pressure at climate talks
 * US President Bush says 30,000 civilians killed in Iraq war
 * US bombers to train in Australia
 * US passes 1000 executions in 30 years
 * Violence at Cronulla Beach as 5000 people gather
 * West Australian Premier Geoff Gallop resigns
 * West Papua refugees sent to Australia's Christmas Island Detention Centre
 * West Papuans refugees forced to fly 4000ks despite tuberculosis fears
 * West Papuan refugees may face death if deported
 * Western Australia braces for another cyclone
 * Workplace reform campaign most expensive in Australian history
 * World's biggest polluters won't cut back on fossil fuel

Wikinews Hacking Since 12:18, 31 October 2005 --elliot_k 13:57, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

i'm also a Wikinews Admin...

Wikinews POLICY.

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User talk:Sylvano~enwikinews

Welcome
Sylvano, 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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Your account will be renamed
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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 Sylvano. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Sylvano~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 23:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Felix the Cat

Welcome
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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!--Cspurrier 12:58, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:Achilles

Welcome
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User talk:Scientomogy

Welcome
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Website mocking Tom Cruise fights to stay online
Hi Scientomogy, welcome to Wikinews! You need to review the talk page for the article you created. If it is original reporting, you need to give us some information about the nature of the original reporting. - Borofkin 02:37, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi! This article appears to be a press release. Can you explain how it is not a press release, and is a viable news event, on the talk page of the article? -  Amgine | talk en.WN 04:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Interview?
Hello.... during discussions on Talk:Website mocking Tom Cruise fights to stay online it has been suggested that a possible way to deal with this story is to do an interview. Would you be willing to participate as the interviewee? - Borofkin 05:23, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Of course :) Glen Stollery C T 05:24, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Excellent. What we'd like to do is delete the article Website mocking Tom Cruise fights to stay online, the conduct the interview and create a new article from scratch. Are you okay with this? - Borofkin 05:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Alanb~enwikinews

Welcome
Alanb, 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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 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
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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 Alanb. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Alanb~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 23:12, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Krazy Kat

Welcome
Krazy Kat, 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!--Cspurrier 12:58, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:Jantje86

Welcome
Jantje86, 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!--Cspurrier 12:58, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
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 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
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User talk:Kilogolf~enwikinews

Welcome
Kilogolf, 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!--Cspurrier 12:58, 31 October 2005 (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
 * 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 Kilogolf. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Kilogolf~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 23:17, 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) 06:33, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Eversmiler

Welcome
Eversmiler, 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!--Cspurrier 12:58, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
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 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
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 * And of course, stories need writing!

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User talk:Admin@seymour-james.com~enwikinews

Welcome
Admin@seymour-james.com, 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!--Cspurrier 12:59, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
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 * 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 Admin@seymour-james.com. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Admin@seymour-james.com~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 23:12, 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) 06:28, 21 April 2015 (UTC)