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Talk:Police raid filesharing resources

Additional references
These links lead to related stories. I just didn't want to overload the article itself (correct me if I'm wrong).

It seems good. -- Carlosar 01:01, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Title
Should it be "Police raid filesharing resources"? Lyellin 04:12, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * May be. Paranoid 08:28, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * That's a dialect thing. In British English, "the police are" is far more common than in American English. For an international publication, I think it doesn't matter much.

 * Whoops...my mistake. I completely forgot to check the Talk page before moving this.  I'm usually pretty tolerant of international English dialect.  Should my move be reverted? - McCart42 05:37, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Vanuatu PM accused of assaulting envoy

This looks fine to me. Lankiveil 02:44, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/


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Talk:USL v. BSDi settlement agreement unsealed

Fine to go- short, but is fine otherwise. Lyellin 04:50, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Accuracy: The details of the settlement may have ramifications with respect to the SCO v. IBM case with SCO believing it is the successor in interest to USL. Neutrality: Legality: Scope/comprehensiveness: Style and writing:
 * I checked the following facts.
 * The 1994 settlement agreement between UNIX Systems Laboratories (USL) and BSDi (USL v. BSDi) was unsealed in November 2004 under the California Public Records Act (California Code § 6250-6270).
 * sources:
 * http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=135515&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=2&liChannelID=28&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1
 * http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2728
 * http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=10311&Page=1&pagePos=4
 * http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/gov/6250-6270.html
 * http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041126130302760
 * I think BSDi may be replaced as University of California, since that seems to be the party to the lawsuit/settlement. Other than that, no problem.
 * Seems okay to me.
 * Seems okay to me.
 * Though short, it is publishable, I think.
 * I think sources should be there.

I will make those changes, and I would find no problem publishing it.Tomos 21:16, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Additional comments:

After I made the changes, I came to think that we do not have to have sources that I added. After all, the article was written before those news reports. And it cited the primary source, Groklaw. I used secondary sources only to verify the articles' contents. So perhaps those sources can go out. Tomos 21:49, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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User:Jam2k~enwikinews

Hi! I'm an engineering student from India. I can't put up much in this page because I haven't contributed much as yet... Visit my Wikipedia user page User:Jam2k

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User talk:JustPippa

Weather
Hi B-101,

Thanks for your interest in the Weather page.

Do you have a source for your contribution?

Any scientific claim should have a citation to back it up.

For example, was the number you gave 3.5 degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit?

Thanks again for your interest in the Weather page.

Cheers,

— DV 16:34, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Another user has created an Environment section for stories such as this one.

 * I have moved your announcement to the Environment major events section, as your assertion is a scientific announcement, not an event.

 * Please feel free to follow up in that section when you have a citation (hopefully an online reference) to back up your assertion.

 * Cheers,

 * — DV 02:32, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I saw that an increase in global temp would affect Latin America on the CNN new ticker. I'm not sure which temperature scale they used, but it may have been an increase in both scales. Thanks for letting me know about my mistake.- B-101 12:19, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't think you made a mistake. Your news item sounds like an important story. It sounds like you saw this on TV, so I will check the CNN archives to see if I can dig up a source for your story. If you are interested in continuing this type of reporting, I'd appreciate it if you could help look in Google as well.

 * Cheers,

 * — DV 13:16, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * The following article appears to contain the announcement you are referring to:

 * 3-degree temperature rise could imperil Latin America, Chicago Sun-Times, December 15, 2004.

 * If you are interested in this report, please create an article that we can link to from the Environment section. If I can be of further assistance, please let me know.

 * Cheers,

 * — DV 06:43, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Culture and entertainment
I started the movie listings for the United States in the Culture and entertainment section, and also added some commentary in the water cooler. — DV 01:39, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for starting on The Incredibles movie review.

 * I went ahead and added a neutral synopsis and some production notes for House of Flying Daggers, but I am wondering what you think about expanding our movie reviews to include firsthand reports of what the reviewer thought of the movie?

 * For example, comments on the quality of the plot or the cinematography, or the overall entertainment value? I'm hard pressed to point to another outlet for movie reviews that doesn't provide any subjective opinions of the reviewed films, so I'm wondering - why should we be constrained from doing so as well?

 * I am still wrestling with how firsthand reports can be crafted without violating the NPOV policy, as it would seem that any firsthand report is necessarily filtered through your own biases and interests.

 * Please let me know if you think we should go ahead and add such commentary to our movie reviews.

 * I think the lack of any opinion makes for a very boring review (it's almost as if the reviewer had not attended the movie, or is a robot!), so I am hoping to build a consensus that firsthand reports with opinions that convey the total movie-going experience will be acceptable.

 * Thanks.

 * — DV 06:02, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I don't know what the NPOV is. But maybe, we could have a section where users include their own opinion. I think I will be very useful with movie reviews. Respond soon.- B-101 15:43, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Man bites dog, charged with animal cruelty

December 15, 2004

In a rare case of man-bites-dog, a Gainsville, Florida man was arrested on an animal cruelty charge on Saturday after authorities determined that he had been biting his dog as punishment.

The man — Mount Lee Lacy, age 21 — told officers that biting was an effective form of punishment. He had most recently used biting in response to his dog defecating in the house. He has not yet posted his $25,000 bail.


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Talk:Man bites dog, charged with animal cruelty

I've joked about Wikinews being a place where we might end up with Dog Bites Man stories, while what we really need is Man Bites Dog stories. Well, since for once there actually was a Man Bites Dog story in the news, here it is. -- IlyaHaykinson 19:00, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Googlenews returned a group of 187 stories on this one...big news.

I have read two articles on this, and verified the facts. I did not know if the arrest was made because of the ongoing biting or just one act, but other facts seem to match with what's reported. Tomos 22:18, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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User talk:IlyaHaykinson

 Older talk at /Archive1, /Archive2, Archive3. Please add newer talk notes at the bottom.

Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and oversight requests
There are two requests in relation to CheckUser and oversight which require the approval of the Arbitration Committee before they are presented to Wikimedia stewards for action to be taken. I would ask you to review these two requests:
 * 1) User:Brianmc has recently been elected to the committee and requests CheckUser and oversight
 * 2) User:Chiacomo hasn't been re-elected and has been inactive on the project since March, User:Adambro has suggested his privileges are revoked.

I would appreciate your input, as a member of ARBCOM which I understand has the final say on whether a user has these rights, on these two requests. Adambro 14:12, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Input provided. Thanks for calling this to my attention, Adambro! -- IlyaHaykinson 23:59, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Former Timberwolf Eddie Griffin dies at 25
Thanks for your help. I'm sure this is probably random, but that was my first attempt at expanding an article here. 6,000+ edits on the English Wikipedia, but I'm a newb here and feel like one. Anyway, thanks. LaraLove 04:49, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Image credit on Template:Lead article with large image
Hi,

As the template utilises the image, it needs to provide a direct link to some form of attribution (per the CC and GFDL licences which is has been placed under). Having the user go to the subject of the template in order to click on something else is not acceptable - and indeed the whole prospect of attribution can be missed if the user follows the link to the Apple Portal. The attribution doesn't need to be in the form I placed it - some text could be placed under it linking to the image page, but having no attribution is not an option. Thanks, Martinp23 21:30, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the barnstar. I'll open a discussion about the attribution question somewhere appropriate — I feel that use of the image does not have always include attribution in exactly the same place as where the image is used, as long as it's findable.  For the time being I'll enable to default imagemap "blue-i" feature which places the information link in the corner of the image automatically. -- IlyaHaykinson 22:03, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, I liked your approach. -- IlyaHaykinson 22:13, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks for doing that - looks a lot better than my version! As far as I know from my reading of the CC licences, attribution needs to be obvious wherever the image is displayed.  The rules may be different for GFDL.  However, IANAL, but better safe than sorry :) Martinp23 23:42, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Just a note that the image as it is laid out at this moment, has a quirk. The last word, "Greece" overruns the image and spills out into the white space just a little on the right-hand side. I am using Firefox, if that helps. --Jcart1534 23:15, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Interesting... what computer platform are you on (OS and browser)? What's your screen resolution?  I'll decrease the font size to fix the problem, in the meanwhile. -- IlyaHaykinson 23:19, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I am using Ubuntu Linux 6.10, Firefox 2.0.0.6, and have a screen resolution of 1400x1050. I should mention too that the phrase "More from Greece" is broken into 2 lines. "More from" on a line above the word "Greece", which is on a new line. On my Windows box with IE it looks fine. By the way, the title "Forest fires burn in Greece" looks fine now. The change you made worked. All the words fit within the image. Cheers, --Jcart1534 23:31, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I made the div for More from Greece a bit wider. I'll get myself a VM with Ubuntu installed so I can check a few of these out... I think the moral of the story is "always assume you'll need more space than you think you need to make it fit". -- IlyaHaykinson 23:37, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Looks great now! --Jcart1534 23:44, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Greek Fires
5 arrested 63 dead--ZaDiak

Ticker
Thanks :) At the moment, it's customisable in your monobook.css, but that's all. I'm just going to arrive at a method that looks good. Any suggestions? TheFearow 00:44, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, you can see what it would look like on the mainpage at User:TheFearow/MP. Feel free to change. TheFearow 00:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll try that - right now it waits 5 seconds after typing it out - i'm considering putting that up to about 7. Also, please purge your cache, i've done some bigger updates to make it look MUCH better on the main page :) TheFearow 00:55, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, what exactly is broken? Can you click the javascript error button (bottom left in statusbar on IE6) and tell me what the error is? TheFearow 01:15, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I think I know what it is - AJAX is horribly in IE. Does it display the "Recent stories" text or does it display nothing at all? TheFearow 01:16, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep, it's the AJAX issue I thought it was. Sadly, it's unavoidable, but at least it works reliably for Firefox and most other non-IE browsers. TheFearow 01:23, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm considering getting this implemented; the version on User:TheFearow/MP looks great, and the major issues have been resolved. Who is best to ask to implement? Also, do you think using importScript (loading from my userspace) is possible, so I can update the script if necessary? Thanks! TheFearow 01:44, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll stop the error coming up for IE. Just note this will NOT work in IE - the bug is in IE, not my script. I'll just disable the entire thing for IE, so no errors come up. TheFearow 02:51, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * IE's AJAX doesn't allow forcing a MIME type, making the received content unusable. It also requires all sorts of other stuff to be changed. TheFearow 02:55, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Lastly, would you object to having it use importScript to load from my userspace? It allows me to update the script with bugpatches etc. TheFearow 02:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * In that case, could you implement it? All that needs doing is renaming it to User:TheFearow/public/ticker.js, importing it in MediaWiki:Common.js, adding to mainpage, and deleting the old redirect from User:TheFearow/ticker.js. TheFearow 03:05, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

And it looks great :) I'm going to put the speed of the typing up a little bit, but no other big changes. TheFearow 03:17, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Ahh :) I better fix that, will do now. TheFearow 10:02, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I have programmed custom tickers, which can be seen at Newsroom and Portal:Football. I will implement any new ones on request. TheFearow 04:32, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Portal:Football
I registered today because I saw that Portal:Football was very out of date. I have written a few articles so far today and will do every day to keep this updated. I was thinking of an idea though but I wanted to ask a sysop first.

Could we 'employ' users to be football writers for their team. So if this goes ahead there would be a group of users per team who will write up the latest news and match reports for Wikinews. The team links would be Portal:Football/LeagueName/ClubName. So for Celtic it'd be Portal:Football/SPL/Celtic. If you go to Portal:Football you will see that the fixture list has been updated, the featured results has been updated and that I am going to start a major revamp of Portal:Football. I am going to ask Dark Squall to help me as most of his contributions are football related topics.

Thanks. Please send your comments to me ASAP. Celticfan383 01:05, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your very quick reply. I am just making minor changes currently. I agree with the only make a team page if it'll be updated rule. I was thinking of a great idea just currently which I will demonstrate on the Celtic page soon. Thanks for supporting my ideas! Celticfan383 01:17, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Page moving
When moving pages please check for double re-directs esp when moving the lead article as it caused the main lead links to break - not good. Please remember if you move it, you fix it. --Mark Talk to me 12:36, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Oops. I thought I did check for double redirects; I may have screwed up. :-) -- IlyaHaykinson 17:06, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * ok no worries, we all do!! --Mark Talk to me 20:21, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Breaking news overlay
Ilya, the Breaking News overlay on the Lead article with large image template looks great! Jcart1534 00:57, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! -- IlyaHaykinson 00:58, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

這個編輯是不是破壞. 謝謝你的耐心.
攻擊結束. 返回代理開放以後.

God
Oh give me a break. Chambers admits that his lawsuit is complete nonsense. With him admitting that, I see no reason why we cannot have as much fun as he is. Besides, if someone wants to be technical, see NPOV. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 09:36, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
 * We are reporting the news. If the Associated Press has tried to contact God and did not get an answer, please feel absolutely free to report it.  However, Wikinews is not a humor site.  -- IlyaHaykinson 09:39, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. See Wired News. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 09:53, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I still don't like it much, but I'm much happier with attributing this nonsense to others than to ourselves. -- IlyaHaykinson 09:55, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree with your edits. But if the Senator did not admit the fact that he has no basis for his lawsuit I just decided to elaborate on his humor. Had he actually been serious, I never would have thought to be so humorous. No hard feelings. :-) DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 10:06, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

DPL mode
Hi. I was wondering if you could help be a bit at the Icelandic Wikiquote. I'm trying to make this look like this exeapt by using DynamicPageList. Do you have any idea how to do this? --Steinninn 02:37, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Russian opposition presents alleged evidence of election fraud
I cannot believe you are publishing this. I can't even find a single reference to this so-called opposition group, Smena. All it is a video of a woman feed paper into a machine. We have no evidence of anything about it or even when it was made. --SVTCobra 04:20, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

 * I left a comment on the talk page. The group is legit in that it is mentioned by major newspapers as a "youth opposition movement".  I did a search in Russian for "движение СМЕНА", which means "movement SMENA" and got a number of hits including one from kommersant.ru — which is a major newspaper in Saint Petersburg. -- IlyaHaykinson 04:23, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

לערי ריינהארט
Hi Ilya! You are a « [ bureaucrat]» at « : ». Can you please rename my account clicking [ here]. Thanks in advance! Best regards Gangleri

·לערי ריינהארט·T·m:Th·T·email me· 16:51, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Request
I have requested a user name change, at Changing username. Wilhelm 22:28, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

B'crat
I've emailed your cited address about getting made up to 'crat. IIRC it was FellowWikinews who archived my 'crat vote before I was given the privilege bit. With the time this is taking I think we really do need more 'crats. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Looks like Cspurrier beat me to it. Congratulations! -- IlyaHaykinson 01:06, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

tag parser function hook
can we have the tag parser function hook installed, for use in the fancy-image leads. –Doldrums(talk) 22:07, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Anonymous Protests (March 15)
Hi, I noticed you attended the previous “anonymous” protests for Wikinews. Will you be able to cover the March 15 protests? Please be aware that preparation for the March 10 protest is being coordinated at this page. If you think you could report on the article for Wikinews add your name to the list. Anonymous101 Talk 18:16, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No, probably not going to be able to — I've got a major project coming due at work and will be busy that weekend. -- IlyaHaykinson - (talk) 17:44, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Newsroom DynamicPageList
Can you have a look at "Articles in development" in the newsroom? It is including about 10 older articles. Bjweeks - (talk) 15:29, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure what your question is. It's including all articles in development, not limited to 10. -- IlyaHaykinson - (talk) 22:58, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It seems to be resolved, possibly a category bug but before it was showing about 10 articles that were published and archived over a year ago. Bjweeks - (talk) 06:19, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Help
Can you help me? --Humberto 2 - (talk) 00:52, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Image:Matt Hanson.jpg
Good work getting this image released under a free license. I've now uploaded it to Commons with the same name and nominated it for deletion here. Regards. Adambro (talk) 11:53, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Thanks -- IlyaHaykinson (talk) 10:18, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

2008 Arbitration Committee elections
I have nominated you for the Arbitration Committee. Please see Arbitration Committee/Elections July 2008 and if you wish to, accept the nomination and then provide a brief statement. Thank you, Cirt (talk) 21:22, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the nomination. I wasn't actually planning to run, and thus decline — though I feel honored by your thought to nominate me. -- IlyaHaykinson (talk) 18:10, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

intersection extension
Hi, I am a sysop on italian wikibooks. I saw you are the author of the intersection extension; this extension is very good but as now it cannot show an alphabetical list of pages, that can only be ordered by lastedit or categoryadd mode.

I was interested in having alphabetical order mode so I have developed it in the extensions by adding this two three code lines at line 196: and this code at line 340 (343 if you have added the lines above): I tried the code and it seems to work well. Do you think it is possible add this code to the stable revision? Thank you :-) --Ramac (talk) 14:59, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Please help to document the extension, for my purposes its usage (and compatibility) is completely undocumented, see. Many thanks for programming this, but at the moment no non-insider can use it. --Vigilius 05:56, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Hi guys; I haven't worked on that extension for many years. The Intersection (i.e. original dynamic page list) extension has been completely supplanted by the DynamicPageList extension everywhere except for maybe here on Wikinews. I recommend trying to use the new extension which is a lot more flexible and is well-documented.  -- IlyaHaykinson (talk) 07:26, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Name changes
Hello. There haven't been any beuros on WN:CHU since 6 July. Could you check it? --Mephiles (talk) 11:09, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Done, sorry for the delay. -- IlyaHaykinson (talk) 07:16, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

FlaggedRevs
If you have not already seen this, please look, comment, and vote both here and on bugzilla. Further assistance such as contact information for Google would be a very useful detail to share and help in petitioning for a listing in their news index. --Brian McNeil / talk 14:57, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Left my thoughts on a policy there, though I do not think that we should contact Google at all until our FlaggedRevs operation is super-smooth (i.e. maybe another few weeks or a month or so, when all the kinks are worked out). -- IlyaHaykinson (talk) 07:23, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Agree totally on contacting Google. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:14, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Bugzilla feedback request
Hi. In 14971, alphabetical order method for DynamicPageList, a patch is proposed. As you are listed as one of the extension authors, please provide feedback. If the patch gets your OK, I will commit it. Cheers! Siebrand (talk) 08:08, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Responded on the bug page. -- IlyaHaykinson (talk) 01:50, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

SUL request
Dear bureaucrat. This is joseph from Turkish Wikipedia. I want to usurp the account named locally as "joseph" for SUL merge. Here is confirmation Thanks. (any message here please) --88.227.206.227 17:21, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Main page leads
Could you update lead 3 to use this article School shooting leaves one dead in Tennessee, United States, and lead 4 to use US Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones dies at age 58. Thanks, The Mind's Eye (talk) 18:33, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like someone got there before me :-) -- IlyaHaykinson (talk) 21:19, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Arctic Portal
Thank you for your comment, will put together a wikinews arctic portal then shortly, the wikipedia arctic portal has already a good base, and some tweaks and a few moreadditions. 70.64.162.23 02:15, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, I tagged the article you requested with Category:Arctic; please feel free to tag other articles. -- IlyaHaykinson (talk) 18:30, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

SUL
Hello ;). There is a new request here. Thanks in advance ;). --Lucas 08:43, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Please rename me
Hi, I have changed my username at my homewiki and want to to it here to. Please rename me to Calandrella. Here is confirmation. Thanks, Leo Johannes (talk) 19:20, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Skenmy's RfB
It has been over 7 days since this RfB discussion started, and it has a majority of support consensus. I think it can be closed as successful and the candidate promoted. Cirt (talk) 04:47, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, took care of it, thanks. Cirt (talk) 06:25, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Email
Hi,

I have send a while ago an Email about downloading for bulk with: Wikimedia Commonplace

Its not working!

Can you help me?

I can not login! I have every where the same acc. but it's not working for Wikimedia Commonplace.....

Karel J. Labberté

--Labberté K.J. (talk) 13:04, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll take a look at this problem this coming weekend, and will let you know. -- IlyaHaykinson (talk) 04:58, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

RfB ready to be closed ?
Hello, you are one of the bureaucrats that did not vote in the RfB for (see WN:RFP). I made a comment that I think it is ready to be closed as promote - could you take a look? Thank you, Cirt (talk) 18:09, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅, by . Cirt (talk) 07:52, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Intersection
Sorry for bothering you here, but I need your assistance in a small problem with your extension.

I installed the extension on a private wiki according to the notes on the page (#include("$IP/extensions/intersection/DynamicPageList.php");), but it doesn't work. When I disable (commenting out) the extension in the localsettings.php, I can see the page. If I enable the extension I only get a white page displayed on pages with , all other pages can be edited and shown. (Setup: Mediawiki 1.13.2, Php 5.1.2 (apache2handler), MySql 5.0.26 and the following extensions
 * ExpandTemplates (Version 2008-01-09)
 * BugzillaReports (Version 0.9.8)
 * Cite
 * DynamicPageList
 * Inputbox
 * LabeledSectionTransclusion
 * ParserFunctions (Version 1.1.1)
 * SimpleSecurity (Version 4.2.14, 2008-09-12)
 * SyntaxHighlight (Version r37495)

Thanks for helping --Joergens.mi 11:01, 6 February 2009 (UTC) my main user page is user talk joergens.mi at german language wikisource -- Joergens.mi (talk) 10:29, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Commonplace (417)
Hi. I confirm defect report issued as #18: "Remote server returned Error 417". I have a Windows XP SP2 and .NET 2.0 on a regular local PC. I have capitals, numbers and accented letters in my password, but logging in on the common way makes no problems. The error details message has not significant differences to the issued one. It's a pity, I would like to use this too very much. Maybe later. -- hu:Orion 8 (talk) 16:17, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

You have a message
I have left you a message at the Wikimedia forum on Meta-wiki. Best wishes. Immunize (talk) 19:52, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * sigh* thanks. -- IlyaHaykinson (talk) 04:37, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I have retired from editing wikinews, if you wish to contact me, see my English Wikipedia or Meta-wiki talk pages. Immunize (talk) 18:54, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Japanese nuclear plant operators ordered to compensate affected families amid calls for prime minister to resign
Hi. That edit really shouldn't have been self-sighted; just make the edit and leave it for someone else to peer-review. Policy in place since early 2010 prohibits self-sighting of substantive edits to published articles; it's self-publication. This specific edit both tinkered with the meaning, so would have benefited from a second set of eyeballs for safety's sake, and was, as you pointed out in the edit summary, unusual in that it was far past the horizon for substantive changes (now 24 hours after publication btw), so that leaving it for someone else to sight would have insulated you by distributing the judgment call between two people. (I actually did peer-review it myself, after the fact, and it passed. :-) --Pi zero (talk) 12:02, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

DPL thanks and proposals
Dear IlyaHaykinson, first I would like to thank You very much for the excellent tool of DynamicPageList for Wikimedia. In Czech Wikinews we use it and after we had solved few issues we are very satisfied. I am not a fan of technical tools, anyway I think this is one of the few that are really useful. So thanks a lot.

And now a thing that I write for, but in fact - as I write it now, I believe it is less important than the thanks before: I would propose two small(?) enhancements of the DPL. First is a possibility to select and sort the articles randomly, second is a possibility to add the category sortkey to the list - as can be the date added through addfirstcategorydate. What do You think about such idea? And how should I propose it - through the buglist?

Once again thanks for Your work and also for Your possible answer. Okino (talk) 12:55, 6 January 2012 (UTC) (on cs.wn

privs
'''Note! Your privileges on English Wikinews have been reduced.'''
 * Under the Privilege expiry policy (enacted October 13, 2012) the rights held by your user account have been reduced due to inactivity, or lack of privilege use.

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--Pi zero (talk) 21:16, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Bureaucrat Flag
Here's the request for the removal of your bcrat flag over at Meta. -- Sken   my talk 17:01, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * No worries. Clearly, I'm not an active contributor anymore. I don't think it made sense for me to have these privileges. -- IlyaHaykinson (talk) 16:27, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Being bothered by User:Pi zero
He is bothering me with rubbish each edit. He is never contributing. He deletes articles comments sites here, although the article is existing. Articles under development are clean up articles. I might not write about RB Leipzig. My started articles have interest and he says that other archived articles are which from amateur clubs, university clubs or something else. He wants to rename my name here and is not rename me. My articles are written after the style such as about other proven football match reports. He is psychic unable to name reasons. Please remove him from the board! He neither productive nor socially competent or educated, for a globally representative on public free sites. --Nikebrand (talk) 21:45, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

admin bit
'''Note! Your privileges on English Wikinews have been reduced.'''
 * Under the Privilege expiry policy (enacted October 13, 2012) the rights held by your user account have been reduced due to inactivity, or lack of privilege use.

 * Point 4 of the Privilege expiry policy provides for fast-tracking reacquisition of privileges. We all understand that real-life commitments can severely curtail the level of commitment you can give to Wikinews; the privilege reduction is in no way intended as a reflection on your past work, or to imply you are unwelcome. The aim in curtailing privileges is to address security risks, and concern that a long period of inactivity means you may not be up-to-date with current policy and practices.

--Pi zero (talk) 11:47, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

 * Makes sense, thx. -- IlyaHaykinson (talk) 16:03, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

DPL website
apparently you are required to login to view any page of the manual (the host has changed but still redirects from the old one) but there is no way to register. suggestions? --Charitwo (talk) 00:33, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

 * Sorry, I have no connection to DPL anymore.... IlyaHaykinson (talk) 17:00, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

DynamicPageList
Hi,

I am a user from Turkish Wiktionary, and lately I have been working on the category tree module. I wasn't able to copy the English version into Turkish Wikt., it was so complex. So, I decided to create a new one. It works very well at this point. We started using the module through some templates on most categories. But there is an addition in the English version of the module. As you can see here, there is a table at the right of the page gives us info about recent additions and oldest pages. I want to do the same thing on Turkish Wiktionary, but to do that I need to activate (I guess) DynamicPageList feature. Found a page on MediaWiki: Extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia), it talks about the exact same thing, but it cannot be used on Turkish Wiktionary. Saw your name in the page, and if you could help me how to use this extension on our wiki, I would be very pleased. Thanks! ~ Z  ( m ) 16:57, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry, it's been more than 10 years since I've touched that code, or worked with the extension. I'm afraid I can't help you. :-( -- 47.151.142.62 (talk) 06:57, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Your recent comments at the watercooler
Hi Ilya, I'm just reading what you posted there, about the need for changes, and I very much agree. Imho one part of the solution has to be to tap on Wikipedia's resources, not only by reusing content here (the license incompatibility has to be solved, though), but also by making it more attractive for WP editors to contribute here. So, I posted some discussion points at Wikinews talk:For Wikipedians. Would be great if you gave some feedback on this. Thx, and keep on fighting for changes! Gray62 (talk) 15:16, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll read and follow up when I can. I don't want to be fighting the community to do what it doesn't seem to want to do though. -- IlyaHaykinson (talk) 21:55, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

 * <wave> -  Amgine | t 03:58, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh hey! -- IlyaHaykinson (talk) 07:22, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

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Talk:Heavy Lift Delta IV Rocket Launches

Regarding User:Tomos's edit summary (...existing article... what should we do...). I don't see anything wrong with multiple articles on the Delta 4.

I wrote the other Delta 4 article (Delta 4 Heavy rocket poised for maiden launch) and intended to link it up on the eve of each scheduled launch. I'll plan on removing the links (in the technology section etc... after launch). Hopefully this article will be ready to supplant the first one soon. (looks like it will).

Duk 20:53, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This story needs to be pulled. Rampant plagarism...
Hmmm.... Verbatim text copies from various Internet sources and not acknowledged. This is bad.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:LDp2lLBuUNMJ:www.fsri.org/FSRI%2520Archives/Aerospace%2520News/Aerospace%2520Update%252010-11-04.pdf+Congressional+leaders+are+asking+how+the+government%27s+contribution+to+the+EELV+rocket+project+grew+from+%2417+billion+to+almost+%2432&hl=en for the phrase "Congressional leaders are asking how the government's contribution to the EELV rocket project grew from $17 billion to almost $32..."

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:5XFXtBWG40oJ:www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140948,00.html+A+U.S.+panel+in+2001+described+American+defense+and+spy+satellites+as+frighteningly+vulnerable,+saying+technology+to+launch+attacks+in+space+was+widely+available.&hl=en "A U.S. panel in 2001 described American defense and spy satellites as frighteningly vulnerable, saying technology to launch attacks in space was widely available..."

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:oCgzqzU661wJ:24hour.startribune.com/24hour/politics/story/1907195p-9853082c.html++refused+to+sign+the+congressional+compromise+negotiated+by+others+in+the+House+and+Senate+that+provides+for+future+U.S.+intelligence+activities&hl=en "... refused to sign the congressional compromise negotiated by others in the House and Senate that provides for future U.S. intelligence activities"

I suspect that there are more than these three examples. I'll leave the discussion about how to prevent this for later.

(I'm reading docs on how to kill this story...)

Magic5ball 09:23, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * If I decide to rewrite/edit/improve this article, could it be removed from the deletion requests? I need to know!

I rewrote entire article using the three references quoted on the page, needs to be duly edited of course though.

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User:Lyellin~enwikinews/Thoughts

I'm using this to organize some of my thoughts on Wikinews, as it continues to grow and change.

Strengths
One thing that we need to emphasize is that we do have strengths. Even by just summarizing articles from AP, reuters, wherever, we can become a central repository for the information. Beyond that, we can interwiki link to wikipedia. This CANNOT be overlooked. The ability to do that means we can provide easy background information, helping readers who have no idea about a subject to have a broader understanding.

Frustrations
Mostly these are things that I know shouldn't bother me, and wiki projects should be used to. Unfortunetly, this is happening more and more from the WP community, and that bothers me. This is a new, baby project. The continued "doubting of it's viability" among other things, is just annoying. I really am getting tired of continual posts by WP editors, who should be used to the idea of a ever-growing and adapting out of the mainstream project, not giving WN a chance.

Quality
Quality, Quality, Quality. We've seen that we won't struggle for actual articles on the wiki- we tend to have several new articles made every day, of varying degrees of quality. The issue becomes one of stagnation, as articles are written and forgotten, lost in Development and Review tagland and never brought into "published" stages.

We need to combat that, but the answer is not to remove all structure and allow for mad editing throughout the board. Due to the early stages of the project, we just don't have enough editors and policers to ensure that badly written articles, vandalism, or anything else for that matter, is removed from the highly visibile portions of this site quickly enough. We need to have a loose (emphasis on loose) review structure in place, and encourage the use of it. To this end, we need to be thinking along the lines of a weekly, or twice monthly news magazine model, and not a daily newsource. If we can admit we just don't have the resources to be that quick in releasing articles, we give ourselves the leeway to move forward.

This doesn't preclude breaking news articles, but we need to have a system in place to get them out quickly to the main page. Perhaps a breaking news section, unlike the digest, that is monitered more closely. Who decides what can be considered breaking news?

So, goals. Encourage use of review/etc, in the loose form being talked about now. Reviewed articles can then be added to the Digest, which could be sent out to an e-mail list of some sort that people signed up for (we need to create this mechanism). Also it could be possible to feature the Digest on the main page, with weather and "in Dev" articles as well. This could replace the current format of adding any article at all to the main page. The advantage here is that we are showing the world a face which has passed some sort of standard, and begins to have substance.

Community
We need to build community, any way we can. Many of our problems will at least partially be solved by increased participation. We are currently stagnating a bit, so if we can increased participation, we get a few things.

 * 1) More people working on editing articles, hopefully.
 * 2) Perhaps establishing communities like the WikiProjects on WP (see Wikibureaus, below).

How do we go about this....
 * 1) More Advertising on wikimedia projects
 * 2) We need to re-do the main page, make it more attractive, and decided on what kind of things we want on there.

Goals-Long Term
Long term goals, which may take awhile.
 * 1) Get enough contributors and editors/reviewers to get to a daily level.
 * 2) Figure out a policy for allowing opinion articles. Where do they go? Who can do them? What process? Editorials?
 * 3) Figure out a policy for investigative or original reporting.
 * 4) Establish a system for Bureaus to feed into larger Bureaus.

Things we need to accept:
 * 1) We will not have full or even 1/3 comprehensive coverage for a very long time.
 * 2) Processes will be in flux if not forever, for awhile. Bear with us.
 * 3) Some review will be nessecary-a full blown wiki system may work, or may not, we're still playing with everything. Be aware of that.

Original Reporting
This is perhaps the biggest issue facing us, and one that is central to a lot of things that wikinews could or could not be doing. Basically, we have a battle against the wiki principals, which include NPOV, allowing anyone to edit anything versus the idea of having editorials and reporter levels, perhaps of trusted reporters, who would be able to write outside the POV rules in some way.

I like how the idea that de has been done, at least, from the bit I can understand from my bad translations in my head. Each person has to request being credited, be approved on the page, and leave contact info for the reporter. We'd also need a system to remove crediting as well. I'd also like to see each one be targeted for a specific area, if possible.

Bureaus
Just like WP has Wikiprojects, I propose the idea of having a WikiBureau system. For instance, we could have a WikiBureau:Indiana, where wikinews reports from the area work together to bring that section as up to date as possible. Why? Because not only does quality mean quality of articles, but quality of sections. To have a great Indiana section would then feed to US, then North America, then world, with perhaps a system of featured articles to see what gets to the largest digest. We could then, when we are much larger, include Bureau specific digests.

Questions I'm unsure of:
 * 1) Where would these go? Same page as the main page? Seperate bureau page? Main page talk page?
 * 2) Do we need them? I think we do- organization is always a good thing.
 * 3) Possible example?

Digests
In addition to the idea of Bureaus, I'm beginning to favor the idea of a digest for each Bureau, where the articlse that the Bureau works on can be put, in a central location, and then that digest can be the "product" of the Bureau. It was still require posting the links on the appropiate main pages, but the Digest would be a good "product" for the wiki to have, perhaps as a mailing list system weekly

What would be needed?
 * 1) Ability to easily move articles to a central digest. This is related to Eloquence's view that we need to have an automatic system to get articles to main pages by using categories.
 * 2) Ability to set up mailing lists through the mediawiki software for specific purposes.

Reference attribution
After discussion in the water cooler, mostly with Karim and Tomos, the idea of being able to attribute references and their verifibility seems like a really good idea. Karim suggusted using some sort of template to differentiate. We'd need to see if it's possible to do it that way- or to have a master page of sources that we count as good, and then only tag the ones we can't be sure of? Perhaps the references page could be that master page?

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Portal talk:Environment

Please note that the announcement about the effects of a temp increase on Latin America was originally posted by user B-101. Hopefully he will follow up with a citation over here, to back up his assertion.

Cheers,

— DV 02:36, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Hello. I keep track of sci-tech news, and thought to help this page a bit by indexing environmental news from sci-tech category. Now there is one that I might say an environmental news, but others might say not. I decided to report it here than deciding myself.
 * It's this piece:Researchers discover high temperature enables more efficient hydrogen generation. Tomos 02:53, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Talk:Puerto Rico's election for governer contested

Governer
It's spelled "governor" isn't it? I haven't changed it, because I'm not sure if this is just a case of US English diverging from proper English, and me not being aware of it, but if it is a typo it probably should be corrected before this article is "put to print".

Other than that, the article seems to be fine.

Lankiveil 06:39, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC).

It may be that the ballot is for the election of someone who governs the political party, where "governer" is a more generic term. I'm not sure. But I wanted to say that "a governer of their political party and any one person" is a pretty confusing phrase anyways. What does "any one person" refer to?

--Thesilentist 00:32, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I don't know if it really matters to anyone at this time but, I'll give you some info.

Puerto Rico has three ballots: the state ballot (Papeleta Estatal), the legislative ballot (Papeleta Legislativa) and the municipal ballot (Papeleta Municipal).

All three allow voting in the following manner:

 * Integral Vote (Voto Íntegro) : In which a voter only puts a mark below a party symbol. Equals a vote for each candidate under that column.

 * Mixed Vote (Voto Mixto) : In which a voter puts a mark below a party symbol and a mark(s) besides another party's candidate(s). Equals a vote for each candidate under that party's column except that candidate(s) for whose position the voter marked other parties' candidate(s).

 * Candidate Vote (Voto por Candidatura) : In which a voter only puts a mark besides each chosen candidate.

The issue here was with the state ballot, in which we elect the Governor (Gobernador) and the Resident Commissioner (Comisionado Residente). Many Independence Party voters cast a Mixed Vote in which they put a mark below their party symbol and a mark besides both Popular Democratic Party's candidates. The intent of this vote was to vote ensure the defeat of the New Progressive Party's candidate while maintaining their party's "offcially inscribed" status. The New Progressive Party argued that this was an invalid vote. --JRPastrana 14:25, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)


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User talk:Rje

Please feel free to add any comments/insults below, I will answer on your talk page as soon as I can.

Categories
Thanks for taking the initiative to reorganize world categories. Which categories do you think stories should be put in? My opinion is that at the very least there should be a date category, a subject category and a location category (when those make sense). However I've also thought about the need to put them into both a Region (continent?) wide category as well as a country-specific category; and a big subject category as well as a specific subject category.

The reasoning is that stories about, say, Spain, might be of interest to people of Europe as well. Someone browsing Category:Europe might want to see what's listed for Europe as a whole instead of having to click on each country.

The counter-argument is that categories should be as specific as possible (i.e. city or even neighborhood level, if possible, down the line), but the region pages (i.e. Europe) should only have the recent stories including articles from areas that are included in the region.

I'm interested in what you think on this topic. -- IlyaHaykinson 00:50, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Your user page
I've deleted your page, but kept the latest two revisions since they include no personal info. --Deprifry|+T+ 19:06, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem. Don't let the bastards grind you down. --Deprifry|+T+ 08:43, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

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UK terror suspects win appeal

The House of Lords, the UK's highest court, has ruled that detaining foreign terrorist suspects without trial contravenes British and European human rights legislation. The appeal, on behalf of nine suspected terrorists, was upheld by the Law Lords with a vote of eight to one. Despite the ruling, Home Secretary Charles Clarke, in his first full day in office, has decided that the terrorists will remain in prison; six of the suspects are being held in Belmarsh prison, the other three in Broadmoor Hospital.

The solicitor representing eight of the suspects has said that she will take the case to the European Court of Human Rights if the men are not released immediately. The Liberal Democrats have called on Charles Clarke to stand up to the draconian anti-terror measures enacted by his predecessor, David Blunkett, in the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. This act was passed in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The ruling is the second major blow to Prime Minister Tony Blair's anti-terrorist legislation in the space of 24 hours following the resignation of his key ally, and architect of much of the legislation, David Blunkett yesterday.

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Talk:UK terror suspects win appeal

Fact Checking
Facts checked):
 * House of Lords Law Lords made the ruling
 * Ruling mentioned incompatibility with European human rights laws
 * vote was 8 to 1
 * Clarke did say terrorists will remain in prison
 * Charles Clarke indeed 1st day in office, and Blunkett resigned the day before ,
 * Solicitor represents 8 suspects and is a woman
 * Solicitor said she'll take the case to European court
 * Liberal democrats mentioned that Clarke should use opportunity to reverse laws

NPOV concerns:

 * Article seems neutral, with the use of draconian as the only iffy part. However this is not an uncommon characterization (the Herald Sun used draconian as well for covering this article ), so I think it's fine.

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EU sets date for membership talks with Turkey

On the first day of a two day EU summit, a provisional date of October 3 2005 has been set to begin membership talks with Turkey. However, with the large barriers that must be crossed before Turkish membership is accepted the talks could take as long as 15 years, and membership is far from guaranteed.

The first major hurdle is Turkish recognition of Cyprus. EU leaders, including European Commission President José Manuel Durão Barroso, have made recognising the island member-state a key pre-requisite for talks, however, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has previously said that he would not bow to demands to recognise the nation citing this as one of four "red lines" he will not cross. Erdogan has said that recognition is entirely dempendent upon the Greek-Cypriots accepting a United Nations peace plan to re-unify the island, which previously they rejected.

The other main stumbling block is possible restrictions on Turkish citizens travelling to and working in other EU nations. There are worries amongst many member-states about the possible impact on labour markets of Turkey's 71 million people joining the EU, a population which is expected to hit 80 million by 2015 and to pass Germany, the EU's current largest member, soon after that.

Should Turkey's application be successful it would extend the boundary of the EU to the borders of Iran, Syria, and Iraq. Turkey would also be the first majority Muslim nation to join the multi-national organisation.


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User:Robin Patterson

See http://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Robin_Patterson et al

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Students Gain Early Access to 2004 HSC Results

Approximately 100 students gained access to their Higher School Certificate results, before the official release date of Friday 17th December 2004. Police are pursuing the matter.

The access was gained through the Board of Studies website. To read their results, the student required a .zip archive, which was being distributed among students using the Internet. This archive seems to have contained a URL. This URL was either directly to the board of studies site, or to a script/site which allowed as student to enter information then assembled a URL to the board of studies site, allowing students to view their results early.


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User:Monet~enwikinews

Hello There.

Useful Links: The newsroom

Weather
en:Template:Weather World

 * en:User:David Vasquez
 * en:User:IlyaHaykinson/Wikinewsbot

Audio

 * WikiNews_Network

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Draw for Champions League round of 16 made

The draw for the first knockout round of the proper has been made today at 's headquarters in Switzerland. In perhaps the tie of the round the league leaders of the and, Chelsea and Barcelona, have been drawn together.

Here is the complete draw:

Real Madrid v. Juventus v. Barcelona v. Chelsea v. Liverpool v.   v.  Manchester United v.  Bayern Munich v. Arsenal

The teams listed first will play their home game first. The first leg matches will be played on February 22/23, with the return games played on March 8/9. The FC Porto-Inter Milan second leg will be played on March 15 due to UEFA rules saying that a stadium cannot be used to host two games on consecutive days; Inter share their San Siro ground with AC Milan


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2004 Commonwealth Judo Championships

This event saw an emergence of the Pacific Island nations into the Commonwealth Judo community. For many years only Fiji's Nacanieli Takayawa was apparent on the international scene. Although not taking many medals, the efforts going into development in nations such as Tonga allowed many of their players to place 5th or 7th. India also performed well, especially their women's team.

2004 Commonwealth Judo Championships

13-14 November 2004, Auckland, New Zealand

Mens -60 kg
 * 1) Chana, Navjot (IND)
 * 2) Smith, Tom (ENG)
 * 3) Boore, Stephen (WAL)
 * 4) Leat, Alister (NZL)

Mens -66 kg
 * 1) Carder, Gareth (ENG)
 * 2) Pilley, Ben (NZL)
 * 3) Ovtchinnikov, Anton (NZL)
 * 4) Singh, Bhupinder (IND)

Mens -73 kg
 * 1) Ewers, Craig (WAL)
 * 2) Broom, Peter (NZL)
 * 3) Reed, Tom (ENG)
 * 4) Reid, Lyndsay (NZL)

Mens -81 kg
 * 1) Cousins, Thomas (ENG)
 * 2) Preston, Luke (WAL)
 * 3) Endicott-Davies, Morgan (AUS)
 * 4) Solanki, Vinod (IND)

Mens -90 kg
 * 1) Cousins, Peter (ENG)
 * 2) O Connor, Mark (WAL)
 * 3) Dill-Russell, Ryan (NZL)
 * 4) Dill-Russell, David (NZL)

Mens -100 kg
 * 1) Kelly, Martin (AUS)
 * 2) Pragnell, Andrew (NZL)
 * 3) Koster, Jason (NZL)

Mens +100 kg
 * 1) Takayawa, Nacanieli (FIJ)

Mens Open
 * 1) Cousins, Peter (ENG)
 * 2) Pragnell, Andrew (NZL)
 * 3) Fakaosi, Epoki (TGA)
 * 4) O Connor, Mark (WAL)

Women's -48 kg
 * 1) Archbold, Lisa (NZL)
 * 2) Archana, (IND)
 * 3) Chanu, Ningthoujam Gomti (IND)

Women's -52 kg
 * 1) Chanu, Angom Anita (IND)
 * 2) Welsh, Elizabeth (ENG)
 * 3) Fong, Kelly (AUS)

Women's -57 kg
 * 1) Johnstone, Sophie (ENG)
 * 2) Devi, Laishram Nirupama (IND)
 * 3) Stormont, Vicky (NZL)
 * 4) Taylor, Sharon (AUS)

Women's -63 kg
 * 1) Hutchins, Gemma (ENG)
 * 2) Newham, Allison (AUS)
 * 3) Kaur, Pawan Deep (IND)

Women's -70 kg
 * 1) Holt, Michelle (ENG)
 * 2) Williams, Joy (NZL)

Women's -78 kg
 * 1) Wilson, Sian (ENG)
 * 2) Bittu, (IND)

Women's +78 kg
 * 1) Iredale, Fiona (NZL)
 * 2) Diviya, (IND)

Women's Open
 * 1) Wilson, Sian (ENG)
 * 2) Williams, Joy (NZL)
 * 3) Healy, Shauna (NIR)

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Talk:2004 Commonwealth Judo Championships

Just another Judo entry to get the ball rolling.

Hopefully, better set out with categories and a bit of a blurb. I can't add too much more not having been there. :)

--Lancew 15:15, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * The "Category:13 November 2004" should be removed from the page since the correct category is "Category:November 13, 2004". —Moverton 08:33, 4 September 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Draw for Champions League round of 16 made

Bravo on writing a sports article without mentioning which sport it pertains to anywhere within the article! (Yes, I can figure it out, but this is the sort of thing that should be mentioned...)

Ideally I think this article would appear in a football category (I will create this shortly). Given the notoriety of the competition, especially in Europe, I felt it unnecessary to mention the sport. Personally I think it seems a little odd to mention the sport explicitly in the article, no newspaper or internet new source would do that. Give the project a little time to get the categories sorted out. Rje 20:56, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Manchester United
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Please add Category:Manchester United. Calebrw (talk) 00:51, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

 * ✅ Tempodivalse [talk]  00:54, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Juventus F.C.
editprotected

Please add Category:Juventus F.C.. --Brateevsky (talk) 14:22, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Pi zero (talk) 22:51, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

CAT request
editprotected Please add the following categories to the article. 14.139.242.195 (talk) 11:50, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) A.C. Milan
 * 2) Chelsea F.C.
 * 3) Liverpool F.C.
 * 4) Bayern Munich
 * 5) Arsenal F.C.
 * 6) Serie A
 * 7) La Liga
 * 8) Bundesliga
 * ✅ Decided to do the leagues too on this one, and also threw in Inter Milan. --Pi zero (talk) 19:19, 26 February 2016 (UTC)


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User:Lancew~enwikinews

Just getting things started on the Judo front really.

--Lancew 20:24, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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The set of 'articles' such as Oceania should be changed into subcategories now that there is an automated category system which works by labels. Simeon 15:17, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I am changing the categories of the various individual nations to their continent/regional affiliation as opposed to this category. I am doing this because looking into the future Category:World will get very large and unwieldy once every nation on the planet (which is around 250 or so) is included. Please refer to some of the massive births and deaths categories on Wikipedia to see what I mean. Rje 00:10, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Wikinews:WikiBureau United States

WikiBureau United States attempts to bring editors together who are working on writing and publishing articles regarding topics in the United States.

Parent Bureau
WikiBureau North America

Descendent Bureaus
California | Indiana | Massachusetts | Pennsylvania | South Carolina | Virginia | Nevada

Digests
United States Main Digest

Editors

 * 1) Lyellin
 * 2) NGerda
 * 3) DragonFire1024

Related pages to put links

 * North America
 * United States

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User:Conny

Hello,

I like to be your authority for Bautzen. You can ask gladly an inquiry for information on my discussion page in the german wikinews, I would like provide these from first hand to procure. My articles written by me correspond to my personal as neutral as possible view.

Regards,

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International Anti-Smoking Treaty to Take Effect Soon

18 December 2004

The global war on smoking passed a major milestone on 30 November 2004. On that date, Peru became the 40th country to ratify an international treaty to reduce smoking, thus triggering activation of the treaty in 90 days.

According to the World Health Organization's World Health Report 2003, tobacco consumption is the single leading preventable cause of death. It prematurely ends the lives of 5 million people a year, a figure which will double by 2020 if current trends are not reversed. Tobacco is the only legal product that causes the death of one half of its regular users, more than many illegal drugs. This means that of the current 1.3 billion smokers, 650 million people will die prematurely due to tobacco. Another way to look at the effect of smoking is to measure the average reduction in life expectancy among smokers. A study published in the British Medical Journal in June 2004 followed 34,439 male doctors since 1951 and showed that smokers died on average 10 years earlier than non-smokers.

Although the number of smokers has stabilized or fallen in developed areas, it is rising in developing or transitional regions, which contain more of the world's population and already 84% of the world's smokers. To fight this increasing health threat, the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) was unanimously adopted by the 56th World Health Assembly in May 2003 following almost three years of negotiations. The treaty aims to reduce both the demand for and the supply of tobacco by setting standards on tobacco price and tax increases, tobacco advertising and sponsorship, labelling, illicit trade and second-hand smoke.

Studies show that increasing prices through taxes on tobacco products is the most cost-effective way to reduce smoking. The World Bank estimated that a 10% increase in tobacco prices would, on average, result in a reduction of 4% of the demand in high-income countries and 8% in lower-income countries. Thus the treaty suggests tobacco taxes or price controls, although it neither suggests specific levels nor requires any taxes or price controls.

The treaty requires all countries adopting it to ban, to the extent allowed by their constitutions, all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship within five years. Health warnings must occupy at least half of the principal display areas of a pack, but they must not be less than 30%. These health warnings must be changed regularly and may include pictures. Cigarette packages must contain information on ingredients and emissions.

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An anti-smoking ad (source: CDC Media Campaign Resource Center). View more here.

The treaty aims to reduce smuggling by requiring adopting nations to mark all tobacco packages for tracing purposes and to indicate their country of destination, as well as to cooperate with each other in monitoring and controlling the movement of tobacco products and investigating their diversion. The treaty bans tobacco sales to and by minors.

The idea for an international instrument for tobacco control was initiated in May 1995 at the 48th World Health Assembly. But it wasn’t until 1999, a year after the then WHO Director-General, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, made global tobacco control a priority, that work on the present treaty began. During the year after the FCTC was written, 167 countries signed and 23 countries ratified it, making it one of the most rapidly embraced UN treaties of all time. "The momentum growing around the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control seems unstoppable. It demonstrates the importance placed by the international community on saving many of the millions of lives now lost to tobacco," said Dr Lee Jong-wook, WHO Director-General. "I look forward to more countries joining the 40 states that are making it possible for this Treaty to become law."

Of the countries ratifying the treaty, the largest are (in order of decreasing population) India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, Mexico, Thailand, France, and Burma. Nations that have signed but not yet ratified include China, USA, Brazil, Nigeria, Philippines, Viet Nam, Germany, and Egypt. The largest non-signers are Indonesia, Russia, Colombia, Tanzania, and Uzbekistan. The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan went beyond the treaty requirements when on December 17 it became the first country in the world to completely ban the sale of tobacco.


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The Deadliest Fall

18 December 2004

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Emergency hospital during 1918 influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas (source: National Museum of Health and Medicine, AFIP).

A bout of the flu can be mild. In young, healthy adults, many infections pass unnoticed. But sometimes the influenza virus evolves into a strain that decimates its victims. The worst known strain swept the world in the Fall of 1918, infecting 500-1000 million and killing 40-100 million, about 2-5% of people.

There are several theories about where the pandemic began, but the likeliest origin was in Haskell County, Kansas, in the United States. People in the sparsely populated county, where farmers raised pigs, poultry, cattle, and grain, began suffering from influenza in late January 1918. Unusually for flu, it was young, healthy adults who were hardest hit. Victims fell ill suddenly, many progressing to pneumonia and dying, often within days. Within weeks, however, the epidemic ended. The natural geographic isolation of this community normally might have contained the fatal flu in a sort of unintentional quarantine, but the First World War intervened. Men were uprooted from their home towns and congregated in huge numbers in army camps for training and then shipping out to other camps or to fight in Europe. The destination for men from Haskell County was Camp Funston, part of Fort Riley, Kansas, where the first influenza case was reported in early March. As soldiers moved among camps, the virus spread. Within two months, the epidemic spread to most of the army camps and most of the largest cities in the United States. As American soldiers went to France, so did the virus, spreading first from the port of Brest.

The flu then spread worldwide. The pandemic reached its height in the Fall of 1918. Spain was affected early, and because Spain was not fighting in the World War, there was no wartime censorship, and news of the outbreak became widely known, leading to the flu being called the Spanish Flu in many countries. In Spain, however, it was called French Flu or the Naples Soldier. In India, about 12 million people died of flu. In some US cities, people died so quickly that morticians couldn't cope with the bodies. According to Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux, who worked in the Fort Riley laundry during the epidemic: "They were piling them up in a warehouse until they could get coffins for them."

The disease started with cough, then headache. Temperature, breathing and heart rate increased rapidly. In the worst cases, pneumonia came next, the lungs filling with liquid, drowning the patients and turning them blue from lack of air. Patients bled from every orifice: mouths, noses, ears, eyes. Those who survived often suffered temporary or permanent brain damage. Several million developed encephalitis lethargica, in which victims were trapped in a permanent sleeplike and rigid state, as portrayed in the 1990 movie "Awakenings." In others, normal thought processes were impaired. During negotiations to end World War I, US President Woodrow Wilson was struck with flu, and people around him noted that his mental abilities never fully recovered. The French leader George Clemenceau had wanted harsher punishment of Germany than Wilson had desired. Clemenceau may have convinced Wilson in his weakened state to accept such harsh terms, which may have been one of the factors causing World War II.

Since flu is highly contagious early in the illness, even before symptoms appear, strict quarantine may be necessary to stop its spread during an epidemic. Australia kept its 1918 flu death rate relatively low by enforcing quarantines. However, in many parts of the world, public health officials hesitated to impose such measures, giving the disease time to gain a foothold. In the US city of Philadelphia, a rally of half a million people was planned in September 1918 to sell bonds to fund the war, at just the time when the flu started to infect residents. Although doctors warned the public health director to cancel the rally, he wanted to meet the city's quota to raise money for the war and refused to cancel the event. Within days after the rally, half a million city residents caught the flu.

Why was the 1918 flu so deadly? The influenza virus wasn't preserved at the time of the outbreak, at least on purpose. But in the late 1990s researchers Ann Reid, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, and their colleagues extracted and sequenced the genetic material of the virus, RNA, from tissue of victims who died in the pandemic. They used bits of lung that were preserved in formalin from victims on army bases or from victims buried in permafrost in the Alaskan village of Brevig Mission, where flu killed 85% of adults. Comparisons with known flu viruses in humans, pigs, and birds suggest that some genes of the 1918 virus came from birds or an unknown animal source. Other scientists then were able to show that the amino acid sequence of hemagglutinin protein from the 1918 virus had several changes from other flu viruses that may have helped it to easily bind and invade human cells, and that made the virus look different enough from earlier flu virus strains that people had no immunity.

The possibility exists that another flu pandemic will sweep the world like the one in 1918. In 2004, an H5N1 influenza virus has killed millions of birds and at least 30 people in southeast Asia. So far this virus strain has not evolved the ability to pass directly from human to human, but that possibility becomes more likely as the bird flu pandemic continues and humans remain in contact with chickens, ducks, and other birds. The virus has killed two-thirds of people reported to be infected. Dr. Tim Uyeki, an epidemiologist for the US Centers for Disease Control, says, "you have the ingredients in Asia right now for a public health disaster."

But since sequences of this bird flu virus are known, it may be possible to develop a vaccine or set of vaccines to protect against it. At a special meeting of influenza experts on November 11th and 12th, World Health Organization influenza program chief Klaus Stohr said, "It is not only possible, but also important, that influenza pandemic vaccines be made available... and there's a shared responsibility needed to make that happen…. We have a huge window of opportunity now."

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Copyvio?
This seems to be a direct copy from the reference linked on the bottom. Lyellin 08:29, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * It appears from the nick in the history that the author is copying his own material from an external web site he has written articles for in the past.

 * His smoking article appears to be in the same situation.

 * Since his user and user talk pages are both blank, perhaps a friendly e-mail, asking him to clarify that he is the same person from the external web site, would be in order?

 * — DV 09:05, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

History lesson, no news
As is currently written, this article is of little news value. It's mostly a historical account of the 1918 pandemic with an insulting and scaremongering 'you'd better read this for your safety!' intro on the Main Page. Far more than a few paragraphs of shallow facts regarding a vaccine and why this year is in any way unique need appear before this is of use. 119 13:18, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sometimes, newspaper carries this kind of thing to place latest news into a historical perspective. Whether Wikinews should do that, or Wikipedia is the place to do it, is a good question.

I also realised that the text is very similar to, if not simply the same with, this page http://www.ideaexplore.net/news/041116.html. It is cited as a source here, but unless the author is the same person, I am afraid that there is a copyright problem. I left a note to the contributor's talk page. Tomos 21:54, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I agree. Sometimes this type of story is done to hone the point of a current problem. Having said that, this article seems, at the best, a bit late considering the bruhaha over vaccines has ended months ago. This makes me question WHY the article is written now. Perhaps this is too much too late? --tcv 03:49, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I wrote the article. Thank you for your comments. Yes, I copied the articles from my own website, and I wrote the original articles. I agree that this article is mostly historical, with only the last few paragraphs being news, thus I think moving it to the Reports section was appropriate. I'm sorry my intro was insulting. I've changed it to hopefully be more straightforward. I can also change the title to something less evocative, like "History of a flu pandemic," if you feel that would be more appropriate. The bruhaha over vaccines was about a US shortage of vaccines for ordinary flu strains, while this article was about something different--the risk of the current Asian bird flu jumping to humans in a human-to-human transmissible form to create another pandemic, with the 1918 pandemic used to illustrate what a flu pandemic is like. Perhaps I should rewrite the article to emphasize that and avoid confusion. To make the article more current I could add more news when I have time, such as the most recent bird flu cases and recent comments by health officials on the risk of a pandemic in the near future. Since this is now a report, I may also add information from another article I've written which covers some background on influenza, unless you feel that this is already too long or too historical. Thanks --Larry

 * I think that an article is great, but it's not wikinews material (too late to be news). I think that most of it (basically all of it) should be copied to Spanish flu. That article is currently in a very bad form and is basically a poorly structured collection of random facts. I think your article would be MUCH better (and then facts from existing Wikipedia article can be used to expand it).

 * Afterwards here on wikinews it would make sense to remove most of the background material from the article, possibly rename it and add some references to current situation, for example, conditions of mergency medical services, their ability to respond to a pandemic, what happened during the last pandemic, opinions of the experts on chances of a large pandemic this year and may be some relevant general "medical advice". Paranoid 18:29, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Evidence of Danger
The article doesn't explain the likelihood that the new virus will become contagious among humans. Also, how easily could it be quarentined? Without evidence that the new virus poses a danger, this article seems to be fear-mongering about viruses. The claim that the virus is likely to become dangerous, needs more evidence.
 * "The virus has killed two-thirds of people reported to be infected." I don't know about you, but that is quite scary. And what do you mean "how easily could it be quarentined" considering it doesn't even have a method for transfering from human to human. I suppose the answer is "pretty damn easy" currently. And anyways, why are you asking questions that could be looked up yourself. --Eean 05:12, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Retrospective article is notable
I disagree with those who have been questioning the notability of this article. See Bird flu may infect 20 percent of world's population, kill millions for one recent article and the Wikipedia entry on pandemic for more information. In particular, I quote from that article:

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In November 2004 the director for the western region of the World Health Organization said that an influenza pandemic was inevitable and called for urgent plans to combat the virus. (Reuters)

In May 2005, scientists urgently call nations to prepare for a global flu pandemic that could strike as many as 20% of the world's population.

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Clearly, this is an issue which some very bright people feel is a pressing one at this moment in history. Of course, it could become sensationalist easily, but I think that having this story in WikiNews' log of stories is good for any future occurrence of pandemic flu, be it avian influenza or an actual human pandemic outbreak - we can cite back to this article for a good resource. - McCart42 03:46, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Some personal notes regarding the Spanish flu
My paternal Italian grandmother died from this disease in 1918 in an Italian village located in the Abruzzi.

At the age of six or seven, my mother who was born in 1912, remembers seeing stacked coffins lining the street outside a mortuary in the small rural town of Los Banos, CA

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Wikinews talk:WikiBureau United States

The only concern I have with this idea is that it would put stories on obscure sub-pages where they would be unlikely to be read.

How important would a story in Peoria, Illinois have to be in order to be promoted to the main page?

No one ever intentionally visits Peoria, Illinois, so few editors would be inspired to report news that had happened there if it was not also mentioned on a higher page in the tree of pages.

So, I suggest that stories appear on the appropriate WikiBureau page, and the main page as well.

Thanks for trying to organize the site into departments.

— DV 09:11, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * The way I look at it is this: In the early stages, we put all the articles on the main page, and the appropiate sub pages. BUT, the goal is to make decent bureaus for every area that has editors, so we can still use/highlight these. Perhaps put links for each bureau on the workspace, or make a bureau list of active bureaus, along with perhaps a "featured bureau" on the main page rotating every so often. 68.85.91.55 18:39, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC) That's me.... Lyellin 19:04, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Question
Hi there,

I wondered where I can find a general discussion on the phenomenon WikiBureau. I was thinking of starting a WB on Topics like Health and Science and Techno instead of the geographic WB that are around now, but wanted some feedback first.

btw, isn't the idea of a wikibureau some sort of equivalent of a wikiproject on Wikipedia, you know to bring editors together?

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Talk) 17:47, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Texas??
So, can I just "start" a Texas bureau?? Buddpaul (talk) 21:09, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

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User talk:Lwbaum

Hello. I noticed that your contribution The Deadliest Fall is very similar to an article with the same titile here, which is cited as a source. Are you the author of the article? If so, is it possible somehow to verify it? Tomos 21:50, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I also found that International Anti-Smoking Treaty to Take Effect Soon is from the same site, and that one says it is by Larry Baum. Well if that is so, I am glad to have an active journalist to join our project.

I think one way to verify your identity is to embed a comment into those articles like "this story is also released via Wikinews." Tomos 22:15, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Talk:Mike Tyson arrested for jumping on car hood

Article is OK
Unless someone else protest, I think this article is ok. -- Carlosar 17:01, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

What Shadow?
Tyson was most dangerous fighter ever, but he was still good in 2004, so shadow of himself is totally out of line! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AliVsRocky (talk • contribs) 21:13, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Indeed, the "shadow" remark in this article is not up to our later news-neutrality standards; it makes a subjective assessment, which we modernly strive not to do in Wikinews's own voice. --Pi zero (talk) 21:22, 10 September 2018 (UTC)


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Cuba erects billboards depicting Abu Ghraib prisoners and swastika in response to U.S. billboard

December 18, 2004

The Cuban government has erected a number of billboards outside the U.S. interests section in Havana, featuring photos of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses as well as the word "fascists" and a red swastika, covered with the text "Made in USA".

The Cuban display was erected in response to the US missions Christmas decorations that feature a large lighted sign with the number 75 on it - the number of Cuban dissidents jailed last year by Cuban government.

Although Cuba made a complaint over the sign and has threatened to take action, the senior US diplomat in Cuba, James Cason, is standing firm by the decision to draw attention to Cuba's human rights offences. The Christmas decorations will remain in place until the end of the holiday season.

The rest of the US display features brightly-lit Santas, snowmen and a large neon pyramid tree, as well as messages wishing the Cubans a Happy Christmas.


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It seems a bit strange text is now here; could some admin revert this change? --Radouch 19:02, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. I am not an admin, but anyone can fix that kind of thing. So I did. See Vandalism how you can help (though, in this case, what happened may be an innocent newcomer using a wrong page for posting a news rather than a vandlism). Tomos 19:17, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Thank to you for excellent Czech - Japanese cooperation. I know I could copy the older version and correct it. But I was a bit lazy :-) --Radouch 19:31, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I see. It is kind of exciting to know, by the way, that so many of us are from different parts of the world. Welcome to Wikinews. Tomos 20:52, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Brazilian soccer player's mother freed by kidnappers

Miss Marina Souza, aged 43, mother of Robson de Souza - known as Robinho (Little Robin) - a Brazilian soccer player for the Santos Football Club has been released Friday, December, 17 by her kidnappers at Santa Cruz Street, in Perus, a district of São Paulo city, after 40 days been captive. She was kidnapped last Saturday, November 6, in Praia Grande, São Paulo, during a barbecue with her relatives.

Right after been released she asked for help in neighborhood, she contacted her son and called the police officers. She was sent to the hospital and the doctors said she is well although a little dehydration and a phew pounds more lean. A ransom (the quantity has not been revealed) has been paid by family and friends.

The police said they are still investigating and they didn't give more details about the case.

Sunday, December 18, Santos will play the last game of the Brazilian Championship and according to Robinho and his coach there are good chances of he playing. Robinho has not been playing (only trainning) with his team Santos since his mother has been kidnapped.

Santos Football Club only needs a victory against the other team Vasco da Gama to be claimmed the Brazilian Champion of 2004 over its only adversary in championship Atlético Paranaense.


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Talk:Brazilian soccer player's mother freed by kidnappers

The article maybe needs some small corrections in Writting. I will appreciate any help, suggestions. -- Carlosar 20:25, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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Talk:International Anti-Smoking Treaty to Take Effect Soon

"Tobacco consumption is the single leading preventable cause of death."

According to whom? I don't dispute the statement, but something to back it up would be helpful. It is very important to back all things up on wikinews.

The Jarge Shrubya picture should be removed. It is biased.

Thanks for the comments above. I've added the reference for the above statement (WHO, The world health report 2003). I don't know who Jarge Shrubya is, but it's OK that you removed the picture, which was intended to be an anti-smoking ad and in that sense might be considered biased. --Larry


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Talk:Cuba erects billboards depicting Abu Ghraib prisoners and swastika in response to U.S. billboard

Article is Ok
I think the article is ok. --- Carlosar 11:43, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

As a single piece it's OK, but some background would be nice. Does the US have formal diplomatic relations with Cuba? What is the "US Special Interests section? Does it engage in anti-Castro propaganda regularly? Has the Cuban government ever responded before? What do Cubans think of the US display and the Cuban repsonse? Also, it would be helpful to add a short para at the end detailing the embargo etc.

Also, this section is biased: "the senior US diplomat in Cuba, James Cason, is standing firm by the decision to draw attention to Cuba's human rights offences." At least offer a response from Cuba. "Standing firm" is a needlessly emotive term and should be expunged or tempered. Change to ""the senior US diplomat in Cuba, James Cason, is standing firm by the decision to draw attention to what he calls Cuba's 'human rights offences'"--- Jmwalsh

I suggest you try to make some small changes. Improve the article. -- Carlosar 02:28, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

At this point I don't want to alter other people's work. I'm just commenting on a few issues, mainly stylistic and/or tone related. --- Jmwalsh


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User:Lwbaum

Hi,

My name is Larry Baum. I edit a news website called Human News, and I post some of the articles from there on Wikinews. I welcome your comments or suggestions.

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Battle of the Bulge reenacted in Belgium

A celebration held here today marked the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge — a key battle for American forces during World War II. With thousands—including King Albert II of Belgium—in attendance at the Mardasson monument, the festivities included a parade of military vehicles, soldiers that participated in the battle, as well as a light show.

A memorable moment in the history of the battle — General MacAuliffe's reply "Nuts!" to the German request for surrender — was commemorated with the throwing of nuts into the audience. Many American veterans attended and participated in the celebration.


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Talk:Battle of the Bulge reenacted in Belgium

Talk more about the first Battle of the Bulge.

rewrite of ... whatever this is
This article needs to be rewritten in a single tense; probably past tense and preferably by someone with more details of the content.

Update request
Please add the following categories:


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User:HarryR

I am Harry R on Wikipedia.

I might as well take the opportunity to plug The Poetry Blog and The Poetry Wiki.

Harry

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Wikinews:WikiBureau Pennsylvania

WikiBureau United States attempts to bring editors together who are working on writing and publishing articles regarding topics in Pennsylvania.

Parent Bureau
WikiBureau United States

Digests
Pennsylvania Main Digest

Editors

 * 1) Lyellin
 * 2) McCart42

Related pages to put links

 * United States
 * Pennsylvania

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European Union Council to accept software patent directive

December 22, 2004

The controversial European Union Directive on the Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions, also called the "software patent directive" has been put to rest for 2004. The directive was expected to easily pass through the European Council's Fisheries Council on Tuesday, December 21, but was removed from the agenda at the request of Poland's Minister of Science and Computerisation, Wlodzimierz Marcinski.

The directive's opponents, some of whom had conceded defeat on Tuesday before the vote was taken, will continue the debate informally until meetings resume in 2005.

Software developers, who supported the European Parliament's proposal last year to definitively rule out software patents, welcomed the delay as a chance to reintroduce those provisions into the current draft.

Florian Mueller, campaign manager of NoSoftwarePatents.com, which is supported by three IT companies (1&1, Red Hat, and MySQL AB), applauded Poland's move.

"The Polish government deserves greatest admiration for its courage!" said Mueller in a press release. "Now Europe has the opportunity to have a constructive debate on the severe shortcomings of the current Council text, under the new Luxembourgish EU presidency next year."

Germany's representative also backed the delay, saying it would allow everyone to align the current proposal to changes proposed by the European Parliament last year.

"We were well aware that [the current proposal] has room for improvement with an eye to the objective of arriving at a consensus position between the EU Council and the European Parliament," Germany's Federal Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries said in a Tuesday statement. "We will continue to work constructively toward finding a solution that even better meets the needs of those concerned than the decision taken in May of this year."

On May 18, 2004 EU Council reached a political agreement on a "Common Position" on the directive which ignored the European Parliament's vote from last year. The Council vote generated a lot of controversy. Later, the Dutch parliament failed to convince its EU representatives to reverse their vote.

According to the new voting weights which took effect on November 1, the majority needed to formally adopt the Common Position (after translations were done) is questionable. The 20 countries that supported the Directive on May 18 fall short of the new qualified majority by 16 votes.

Related news

 * Poland made software patent directive stop
 * Polish government refuses support to EU software patents directive


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User:Herda05

I am a System Engineer in the northwest United States.

FEMA expenses article
Some links for myself:

timeline Senate approves IG for Katrina was this apporved in the house as well? state of katrina auditing Letter detailing auditing OIG plan for audit CNN report on earlier credit card concerns

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