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=Thai Political Background= Current Reports

October 2005

 * By-elections due in Pichit, Uthai Thani and Sing Bur. Positioning himself as "self-appointed disciple" of internationally respected scholarly Buhhdist monk, Phra Thamkosajarn.  Contrasts with having been blasted by monk Luangta Maha Bua and compared to Buddha's evil cousin.  Basic politiking for Thai Rak Thai party/candidates.

November 2005

 * " Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said he would give special attention to those provinces that supported TRT" (Thai Rak Thai party). "... has made similar comments twice in the past ... priority would first be given to party provinces ... those who supported the opposition would have to wait in line ... " 1997 Thai Constitution: "All persons are equal before the law and shall enjoy equal protection under the law". Thaksin's comments may be violation of this.  Remainder of op-ed piece is critical of Thai PM, he is currently the 4th richest man in the country.(Aside: 2nd place goes to the guy who owns the Red Bull brand.)

 * TRT lost 2 of the three provinces up for grabs in recent by-elections. The PM's public stance of favouritism towards areas where his party enjoys support is an issue as the troubled southern provinces predominantly voted for the opposition Democrats.

 * "About 20,000 residents will be trained and armed in the three southernmost provinces enabling them to defend their villages and spy on the movements of insurgents in the restive region, commander General Ruangroj Mahasaranond said yesterday."

 * "Muslim lawyers said police continue to use forms of torture, coercion or threats of bodily harm to obtain confessions from suspects ... issue was raised at a seminar on the judicial system and peace building in the three southernmost border provinces at Chulalongkorn University on Friday ... Kijja Aleehislah, a member of the Muslim Lawyers' Association, said few lawyers dared to represent Muslims facing security charges, fearing that their safety would be in jeopardy following the disappearance of Muslim lawyer Somchai Neelapaichit, who is feared dead"

December 2005

Dropping of lawsuits against Sondhi (one for one billion baht). Follows mild rebuke from the King in a speech given on his birthday.

 * "More suspected insurgents in Thailand's deep South reported themselves to state authorities in the country's southernmost province of Yala on Saturday. ... The 137 ... surrendered to the authorities at Yala's City Hall ... saying they were lured by masterminds to get involved in the spate of unrest ... "All the men will be sent for training in nearby Songkhla Province before they return to the society as good citizens," the interior minister revealed."

 * " Despite the improving situation, it will probably take generations for peace to return to the deep South as the problems are deep-rooted for hundreds of years, Deputy Prime Minister Chidchai Vanasatidya, the senior minister in charge of national security said on Tuesday. ... Chidchai denied newspaper reports that provincial officials were forcing hundreds of innocent villagers to attend re-education camps initially set up to handle militants arrested by security forces."

 * "The government plans to install 9,000 closed-circuit cameras in key government buildings, schools and temples in four southern provinces by the new year"

 * "Action plans and measures imposed under the government's emergency decree in the southernmost provinces have been initial successful, Deputy Prime Minister Pol. Gen. Chidchai Vanasatidya announced Wednesday. ... proposal that soldiers assigned to the insurgency-troubled region help local villagers work on their rubber plantations. Such assistance will be helpful in fostering considerably good relationships between civilians and the authorities ... closed-circuit cameras will be installed at some 9,000 places throughout the Far South as well as somewhere in Bangkok to help with the security measures."

 * "Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Thai government to end the practice of blacklisting suspected militants in the Muslim-majority south, saying it is creating a climate of fear and distrust. ... increasingly using flawed blacklists to pressure Muslim villagers to turn themselves in to the authorities ... On December 10, HRW said Interior Minister Kongsak Wantana and other senior officials presided over a ceremony in Yala celebrating a highly publicized "peace-building" course. ... ceremony turned into a major embarrassment after many Muslim participants complained loudly that they had been forced to "surrender" and take part in 10 days of training at the "peace-building" school at an army camp...in Songkla"

 * "nsurgency-related violence in Thailand's Muslim-majority southernmost provinces is under control and unlikely to escalate, according to a senior government security official. ... local people have witnessed no major incidents recently, while operations to track down key insurgents have been continuing. ... security personnel have been instructed to provide maximum security for the public during the New Year's holidays. ... A few hours later, two villagers in Yala's Raman district were shot dead by a gunman riding pillion on a motorcycle. Police said that the incident was believed to be the work of insurgents."

 * "State forces are poised and prepared to cope with any changed tactics which insurgents in the country's deep South might apply, ... further disruptive activities could not be ruled out now -- at a time when the country's southernmost provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani are seriously affected by flooding and related dislocation ... Royal Thai Army is currently operating in small and maneuverable squads, instead of large units, in the restive South ... dismissed allegations of warnings that a group of foreign militants is currently standing by 'somewhere outside Thailand', waiting to secretly slip into the South for insurgency during the forthcoming New Year. ... army chief also discounted rumours that Muslim women had been assigned by insurgents to collect tin cans for use with the making of bombs."

 * "The government will review and continue to improve its functional strategies in the deep South to best fit the situation and effectively address southern woes, Deputy Prime Minister Pol. Gen. Chidchai Vanasatidya said here on Tuesday. ... told journalists after attending a four-hour meeting of the National Reconciliation Council (NRC), in which he is a member, that several issues concerning the southern unrest were proposed and discussed ... government would review and continue to improve its functional strategies in the deep South as proposed by the NRC."

January 2006

 * "Former prime minister Anand Panyarachun, currently head of the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC), called on the Thakin government to become resolute and consistent in sustained efforts to put an end to unrest in Thailad's southernmost provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani."

 * "Deputy Prime Minister Pol. Gen. Chidchai Vanasatidya assured the public Sunday that Thailand's southern insurgency would be resolved within the current term of the Thaksin administration."

 * "In the space of just two years, a bloody insurgency gripping Thailand’s Muslim South has escalated, with militants combining shock tactics and more sophisticated methods of attack to take their violent campaign to a higher plane. ... local people in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat have never been more frightened. ... Dozens of soldiers were killed in ambushes last year, mostly by insurgents who hid in the dense forests waiting to attack troops riding in pairs on motorcycles or packed into pickup trucks. Sergeant Somjit Lorsaeng became the first such victim of 2006 when he was shot and decapitated while on patrol in Yala yesterday – one of at least 20 people to be beheaded since May 2004 in attacks bearing all the hallmarks of Iraq’s deadly insurgency."

 * "Former prime minister Chavalit Yongchayudh yesterday warned the government not to get carried away with its recent success in rounding up scores of suspected southern insurgents, saying the battle can only be won with a better understanding of the problem. ... “The solution for the problem is still confusing. The people in the South are easy to deal with if only we have understanding and know how to heal their pain.”"

 * "Marking what he termed a growing success of government forces against the simmering southern insurgency, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra warned security forces in the three southernmost border provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani to not become complacent. ... "Officials need to take extra precautions now as they (the insurgents) seem to be planning more attacks," he [Thaksin] said."

 * "Varied development schemes for the far South will continue to be implemented as planned in order to foster lasting peace throughout the border region, Deputy Prime Minister Pol.Gen. Chidchai Vanasatidya said Thursday. ... emergency decree, enforced in the border provinces since last July, had prompted more suspected insurgents to flee into the jungle or to turn themselves in, Pol.Gen. Chidchai said. ... Areas in which the insurgency is no longer evident will be declared as communities of peace -- 'peace villages' or 'peace sub-districts', he said."

 * "Deputy Prime Minister Chitchai Wannasathit yesterday refuted accusations of incompetence and human rights abuses in the government’s efforts to quell two years of bloody violence in the South. ... Chitchai’s comments followed a 29-page Amnesty International report on the southern insurgency, which condemned the government for its failure to restore security and uphold justice throughout the two-year crisis."

 * "Pattani – In this hotbed of separatist violence, where many ethnic Malay Muslims say they are treated like second-class citizens by their Buddhist-majority rulers, establishing a breakaway Islamic state seems the last thing on anyone’s mind. ...“We are not interested in independence,” says Masae, an elderly villager from Pattani ...Islamic insurgents behind two years of violence across this region say they want the Pattani kingdom back, ... oldest of the groups, the Pattani United Liberation Organization, or PULO, says Thailand rules the three southernmost provinces with “colonial oppression” ... Government decrees in 1921 and 1939 forced Islamic schools to close, banned traditional Muslim sarongs and outlawed the use of Malay names and dialects, while the 1960s transmigration of 160,000 Thai Buddhists lured by offers of free land, was seen by many as an invasion."

 * "Leaflets urging parents and teachers to pressure for military pullout from the southern border provinces were found Friday morning in Sungai Padi district."

 * "Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday dismissed the possibility of an impending terror attack in Bangkok after a Singapore-based security expert warned the government that southern insurgents would soon bring their bloody fight to the country’s capital. ... “Until now there has been no trace of a possibility of terrorism spreading to Bangkok as suggested,” Thaksin told reporters. “Thailand and Malaysia have consistently had good cooperation at every level. I believe there will be no problem.”"

 * "The government will soon begin to declare 'peaceful areas' in Thailand's three troubled southern border provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani and will speedily determine within one month which specific areas in the deep South, as well as some areas in Songkhla Province and Bangkok need to be installed close-circuit TV cameras (CCTVs), according to Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Pol. Gen. Chidchai Vanasatidya."

 * "The government will soon begin to declare 'peaceful areas' in Thailand's three troubled southern border provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani and will speedily determine within one month which specific areas in the deep South, as well as some areas in Songkhla Province and Bangkok need to be installed close-circuit TV cameras (CCTVs), according to Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Pol. Gen. Chidchai Vanasatidya."

 * "Deputy Prime Minister Chidchai Vanasatidya dismissed rumours that further violence would occur in the three southernmost border provinces during a period of so-called "19 days of danger" coinciding with the Chinese New Year holidays. ... hidchai, who concurrently serves as justice minister, nonetheless, said he had instructed authorities in the South, especially Narathiwat Provincial Police commander Pol. Maj-Gen.Yongyudh Charoenwanich, to stay on alert during the approaching Chinese New Year holidays because of rumours that violence will take place between Jan 10 and Jan 29 in the border region."

 * "Thai statesman Gen. Prem Tinsulanond will assist the government in addressing the continuing insurgency in the kingdom's three troubled southernmost provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala, according to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. "

 * "About 900 closed-circuit television cameras will be installed throughout Hat Yai municipality in a bid to monitor incidents of violence which might spill over from the insurgency in the southernmost provinces. ... Songkhla governor Somporn Chaibangyang said the television cameras would be installed at places throughout the southern city within six months ... National Security Council has yet to approve the proposed use of closed-circuit TV against possible insurgencies."

 * "Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Saturday that he had instructed officials to speed up prosecution against suspected Muslim militants following their arrest."

 * "Ban Johor, Narathiwat – Deep in the jungles of the Muslim South, a much-criticized scheme to halt a wave of separatist unrest with free cable TV seems to have gone down well. ... But while happy with the government’s gesture, few here believe that peace can be returned to this troubled land by screening English Premier League football. ... “Free football is a good thing, but it won’t make any difference to the situation,” says Masae, the chief of this tiny rustic village in Narathiwat’s Rangae district, a hotbed of Islamic militancy awash with troops and police. ... “Someone who wants to kill won’t change their mind because of free Premier League football,” he says with a wry smile."

 * "The Ministry of Interior has launched a new short message service (SMS) on mobile phone networks in Thailand's deep South for people to provide tip-offs to authorities on insurgents' plans, according to Interior Minister Air Chief Marshal Kongsak Wanthana. ... Mobile phone users in the country's three southernmost provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani would begin to provide tip-offs to the authorities through the Dharmrongdharm Centre's special helpline, 1567, free of charges from February 1, ACM Kongsak told journalists here on Monday."

 * "Thai citizens in the country's troubled southernmost provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani will have their new electronic identity cards, or "Smart Cards" by early March, according to a senior Interior Ministry official. ... Director-General of the Department Provincial Administration Charnchai Suntornmath told journalists ... Ministry of Interior had issued nearly 454,000 "Smart Cards" ... in the three southernmost provinces ... more than 1,141,000 who had applied for the new electronic ID cards. ... All Thai citizens, age 15 and upward, must now apply for their electronic identity cards and renew their IDs within the specific timeframe indicated on each card."

 * "Thailand's Education Minister Chaturon Chaisang today offered monetary compensation to the families of those persons who were killed or wounded in the continuing violence in Thailand's three troubled southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala."

 * "Interior Minister Air Chief Marshal Kongsak Wanthana today dismissed as rumour reports that weapons stolen in a raid on an army barracks two years ago and hidden since then in Malaysia will be carried back into Thailand to provide arms for staging insurgent attacks."

 * " Victims of the southern violence complained about a lack of basic assistance from the state at the opening of a "healing clinic" in Pattani yesterday. ... Their complaints were heard by Education Minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who presided over the opening of the clinic."


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Poll shows Préval with clear lead, but ineligible candidate Siméus could have presented a challenge

December 20, 2005

An opinion poll taken in Haiti from November 6 through 16th shows that former President René Préval leads the race of likely presidential candidates with 30% of those polled. However disqualified candidate Dumarsais Siméus received 34% of those polled, signalling that if Siméus were declared eligible it could be a tight race between those frontrunners. Siméus was declared ineligible in September due to his dual citizenship with Haiti and the United States. In December the Haitian Supreme Court ruled for a second time that Siméus is eligible under the Haitian constitution. However the electoral council said that due to the ballots already being printed, Siméus could not be added in this election cycle. It should be noted that the poll was taken by a political organization called The Democracy Group, a political consulting firm hired by the National Organization for the Advancement of Haitians, a group for the restoration of democracy in Haiti to which Siméus is a member of. However a partner of the polling firm, Shawnta Watson Walcott, says that Siméus had nothing to do with the polling procedures and was not involved in any other way.

The poll also showed that among eligible candidates, Charles-Henry Baker received 7%, Marc Bazin received 5%, and Evans Paul received 5%. Also on the poll was the question of whether Siméus should appear on the ballot, to which 54% said that he should. When questioned with whom they trust most to lead the country, 31% said that Préval is that person. The polling is said to have a margin of error of 3.7% plus or minus with 703 Haitian voters questioned.


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Talk:40 alleged drunken Santas accused of running amok

Thes is wacky, i will work on it! International 17:39, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Title
I propose "Santas protest the commercialisation of Christmas" International 18:07, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

not

"40 alledged drunken Santas accused of riot by media and police" International 19:51, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

...or at least "Forty alleged drunk Santas accused of riot by media and police" which is the grammatically correct version of the current title! -Etoile (posting as 216.220.208.123 22:19, 20 December 2005 (UTC))
 * ok "drunk". Is "running amok" bad language and should be replaced with riot? International 22:29, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Title revert war today again
Oh Noooooooo! *<;D>

International 23:11, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Not ready for publishing
This article is not ready. "An event, 17 december, organized in the forum of a online skateboard magazine rented big media publicity for good or worse..." -- what does that mean? It's improper grammar. In addition, the article seems to quote a "Santa" — since it can't be the Santa, it must mean a person, but this is unclear. Please adapt to good newswriting style before republishing. -- IlyaHaykinson 23:19, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Help needed!
Im not too good at english so I have to ask other Wikinewsies to help with copyedit of this article. International 23:42, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Article ready?
Somewikinewsie who think the article is good enough, feel free to publish International 01:55, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Whats wrong w/ wackynews? Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 02:50, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I dont think its enough wacky anymore but if you think so put it back again International 03:17, 21 December 2005 (UTC)


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This is just a note from a new guy to WikiNews. I'd like to start covering local stories for the Richmond, California beat. I wonder if there are any guidelines for this.

I will explore the portals here and try and figure it out.

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Early returns in Iraqi elections

December 20, 2005

The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) reported uncertified early returns in the Iraqi legislative election. The preliminary numbers indicate that religious parties have done well, winning up 80 percent of the vote in some provinces. In Baghdad province, the Shia United Iraqi Alliance leads with 58% of the vote. The United Alliance had received 1,398,778 votes, followed by the Sunni Arab Iraqi Accordance Front with 454,107 votes, and the Iraqi National List ticket of Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister, with 330,082 votes.

In the Kurdish dominated Northern provinces of Dohuk, Erbil, and Sulaymaniyah, the Kurdistan Coalition List had received between 87% and 95% of votes cast. In the southern province of Basrah the Shia United Iraqi Alliance held a commanding lead with 615,255 votes. Allawi's group was in second place with 87,538 votes, while the Iraqi Accordance Front trailed with 37,098.

According to the IECI, these preliminary results are subject to the adjudication of complaints by the IECI Board of Commissioners. Following the adjudication of complaints, only results certified by the IECI Board of Commissioners will be considered as final. Election officials are investigating more than 1,000 complaints about irregularities, 20 of them considered serious. Final results will not be released until early January. Abdul Husain Hindawi, the head of the IECI dismissed calls for a re-vote by Adnan al-Dulaimi, one of the leaders of the National Concord Front coalition.

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Talk:Spacex cancels Falcon 1 launch until 2006

This article is not a repeat. Spacex have yet again cancelled their launch - and put another launch announcement up.

If you're fond of deleting things, go speedily delete their invalid launch announcement.

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Is this the current state of Wikinews?
I can't believe how POV this article is, and the mindless contempt of trying to prepare a story about launching a spacecraft. The maiden launch of any rocket is going to have repeated delays and set backs. Honestly, the Falcon I has a surprisingly smooth launch history compared to other rockets in the past, and this is just growing pains for a new rocket company. Perhaps this is just new to Wikinews reporters who aren't familiar with how things in the space industry works.

BTW, it was not SpaceX who posted and prepared the story, but rather I was the person who started the seemingly eternal prepared story about the launch of the Falcon I rocket. It will launch, but it will be a spectacular success or failure. Either way, it is a worthy news story and something that deserves to be in the prepared story bin. If you disagree, nominate the prepared story for deletion. Don't write contemptful stories of this nature that shows Wikinews to be a bunch of rank amatures. --Robert Horning 18:57, 11 February 2006 (UTC)


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Mayor under investigation in San Jose, CA, USA for spending without consent

December 20, 2005

San Jose, California mayor Ron Gonzales is being investigated by the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office. Gonzales is accused of secretly agreeing to pay $11 million in city funds to waste disposal company Norcal Waste Systems, without notice or approval by the city council. The scandal has already resulted in an independent investigation, civil grand jury proceedings, Gonzales's censure by the council, and council members calling for his resignation or removal from office.

In a statement responding to the DA's investigation, Gonzales announced he has hired Allen Ruby, a high-profile Silicon Valley attorney, to represent him in this matter. Ruby has previously represented the National Football League in lawsuits against Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis. Gonzales's statement also supported the decision of the DA to conduct further investigations into the city's contract.


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Two trains collide near Rome

December 20, 2005

Two trains have collided at Roccasecca, 120km south of Rome in the Frosinone province of Italy.

Initial reports claimed 30 injured, with people trapped in the wreckage. A BBC report however suggested there could be at least 40 injured. Two people have been reported missing since the collision occurred, possibly being the two drivers of the trains. One person was reported killed.

The incident is already under investigation by the Italian authorities and the Italian state Railway Operator, Trenitalia. As yet the reasons for the collison are unclear.

Relief efforts are being made difficult by the dark and cold weather.

The two trains were travelling on the same line, in the same direction, with different destinations. The first one (regional train number 3361) departed from the Roma Termini station, in Rome at 13:47 and was a local service to Cassino, stopping at the major stations along the route. The scheduled time of arrival was 15:38. The second train (inter-regional 2361) also left from the Rome terminus, at 14:15, and was heading in the same direction, with a final destination of Campobasso. The scheduled time of arrival was 17:27, and the first stop first stop was at Cassino, scheduled at 15:42.

Around 15:00 the first train had stopped at the station of Roccasecca, and was just to restart its journey, when the second train came at high speed on the same rail, slamming into the back of it. The locomotive of the second train was pushed over the first train and landed on the last carriage of that train. The injured were taken to local hospitals for treatment.

A similar incident recently happened in Southern Poland.

The train service has been suspended over the line. Long distance trains are reroutered on an alternative line (the one which pass through Formia, Villa Literna e Caserta

It has been alleged that the second train passed a red signal. However no evidence about that has been collected to support this at present. An operator of the railway stated that the signal should have been red, but what he has said came from what he saw on the control panel inside the station, he did not see the colour of the signals. The two train drivers of the second train said that they did not see red signals, but only green signals. It was alleged that the train has been misrouted. Actually if the second train had to pass the station without stopping and overtaking the first train it seems resonable that it would pass on a different track. Hovewer the railway authority has confirmed that there has been no error in this sense, because both trains were scheduled on the platform 2.

Several union representatives of the railways employed claim the security system on most of the Italian railways is not updated. The line was not serviced by an advanced security system to automatically help the driver. Works to implement a more modern security system were just made on the line and the new system would be ready in just some days. Nevertheless even if the line were equipped by a modern security system, it would be of no help in this case. The locomotive of the second train was a very old locomotive, a diesel locomotive of type 668, with no equipment to dialog with modern security system.

The inauguration of the new "high speed" line between Rome and Naples was in program just for the day after the crash. The inauguration have been delayed.

Casualty Updated (Dec. 22)
The official number of the casualties has risen to 69, and the number of the fatalities has risen to 1 (one of the injured, Antonio Vallillo, has passed away on December 22).

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Talk:Two trains collide near Rome

should move the !

Article title
Shouldn't this be moved to something like "Train Collison in Italy" ?

Italian Wikinews item on the matter...
Anyone able to translate from: http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Grave_incidente_ferroviario_a_Roccasecca ?

Reason for rolling back 169.244.143.115's edit
This user placed down that the article needed to be cleaned up, though the article's been published for a while. If it needed cleaning up, wouldn't it be addressed back then? —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 19:34, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Use of the word "casualities"
Casaulaties spelled wrong? Just wondering. --169.244.143.115 19:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Does the article even use that word? —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 19:37, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Apparently it does, and I fixed the spellings. —M ESSED R OCKER (talk) 19:39, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Early returns in Iraqi elections

source?

Source Added
I added a source from the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq.

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Iranian Baha'i dies in jail

December 26, 2005

The Bahá'í International Community has claimed that a Bahá'í has died in mysterious circumstances in jail in Yazd, Iran.

Dhabihu'llah Mahrami was arrested in 1995 and convicted by an Iranian court of "apostasy" - converting from Islam to another religion. He was sentenced to death, but following protests from the international community the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1999.

Mahrami was a lifelong Bahá'í, who was fired from his civil service job after the Iranian revolution in 1979 on grounds of his religion. An article later appeared in a local newspaper stating he had converted to Islam, but Mahrami claimed this had been written by colleague and he had always remained a Bahá'í. After he had repeated this publicly, he was arrested and charged with apostasy. Iranian authorities later claimed he was jailed for spying for Israel, but this was contradicted by the court documents.

The Bahá'í community claims that Mahrami had no known health concerns at the time of his death, but had been forced to do arduous labour in prison and had received death threats. They say they hold the Iranian authorities responsible for his death and his only crime was belief in his religion.

They claim the Bahá'í community in Iran has suffered an increase in persecution this year, with 59 Bahá'ís arrested so far.

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Wikinews:Briefs/Business/December 21, 2005

December 21, 2005

US wholesale prices fall by 0.7%
The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods declined 0.7% in November. The Index rose 0.7% in October and rose 1.9% in September. The drop in price for finished goods is due to energy prices, which fell by 4% percent. The Index is seasonally adjusted.

US Patent office may back Blackberry
The five patents in the lawsuit between NTP and Research In Motion, the seller of Blackberry may be struck down. Both companies said that the US Patent office will reject the five patents held by NTP. The final rulings are expected to come by mid-February.

China is now the sixth largest economy
China has raised its GDP estimate after a year long survey. China has outplaced Italy becoming taking sixth largest economy in the world. World economists now calculate that China's economy will be larger than the economy of the United States, the current largest economy. Economists also predict that China will pass France and the UK by the end of 2006. Service industries such as telecommunications, retailing, and real estate accounted for 93% of the revision. Economists also say that this means that China's growth is more sustanable than previously thought which means pressure will mount on China on other issues including its currency valuation and trade negotiations.


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Audio Wikinews
I would be the one who is doing Audio Wikinews, along with Gumboyaya, is there anything I can help you with? terinjokes User Page / Talk 09:45, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Urban Planning...
Great work...

Assuming the solution suggested on the talk page is acceptable, and the articles aren't copyvio keep going :)

BTW Are you in Urban Planning professionally?

ShakespeareFan00 22:43, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

 * No, I'm not in Urban Planning, but I've written real estate stories before. The text wasn't written by me, but by a new user user:Steins. I've searched for the text on google - I don't think it is a copyvio. --Grace E. Dougle 18:47, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

proposed articles
hi, just wanted to let u know that there's an idea to replace the proposed articles list on the newsroom by allowing users to write brief reports in Wikinews Shorts. — Doldrums(talk) 10:21, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Audio Wikinews
I wanted to ask you what the status was on any Wiki-radio projects you know of? Is WikiCast dead? Do you think our audio can be used on other wiki-radio projects? --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:48, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes I have skype, it's listed on my userpage: steven_fruitsmaak is my username on skype, I'm usually there somewhere between 5 and 12 pm UCT. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:26, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

leeds accomodation investigation?
Why was this taken of the colab requests? I am assuming because it wasn't a story yet? ShakespeareFan00 22:32, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Primarily it was because it listed with the entire url and not as an internal link. Also, the fact that the story prep is empty is a factor. I think it should point to the active investigation instead. I will re-add it as such and you can see how to use the internal link. I should have done that right away, but got distracted. Cheers and happy editing, --SVTCobra 23:07, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Your recent edits
I unpublished the Chief Constable in Court for road offences story because as of right now there is no news in it. Compare to the story we had on Oct. 31 and look at the date of the sources.

Articles, which are original reporting and that have notes posted on the collaboration page, do not need additional sources as you commented about Branding professionals in Taiwan promoted on the "Smiling Curve" in the "2007 Taiwan Brands' Trend Forum". --SVTCobra 18:53, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Story preparation/Leeds, England rented student accomodation investigation.
FYI: You were among the people that worked on this. I am considering this abandoned and will be nominating it for deletion. Cheers, --SVTCobra 23:32, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Bhutto death
Ta for the info, I'll check it out next time :) Guinness2702 14:55, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Obits...
Thanks for the feedback on last weekend's obits article. Not sure if I can guarantee a weekly or regular appearance, as that article actually took a fair bit of time to put together, even with sources and content readily available. Regular features really require some sort of group effort - witness the on/off action with the Audio Wikinews. However, I could rough in an obits article for this weekend and hope people can contribute and expand things. DL+1613 03:01, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

RE: OMM Converage
Sadly all my edits got removed. Nobody said why. Sigh Johnellis (talk) 00:01, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Ze German trademark law...
Hi, here's my business card with babel, email and the whole enchilada. Cheers, --Gnom (talk) 23:30, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Revert image of Apeldoorn
Hi there. I have reverted your edit on the article about the Koniginnedag incident. The reason was that the image you provided had a dutch caption and had a worse frame of reference than the previous image you provided. Greetings, 193.244.33.47 13:14, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Publishing
Hi - if Im not mistaken, only "Editors" can publish articles, as they have to be sighted to show up on the front page. As far as I know, even for breaking news, the process for this is to review the article first (also by an Editor). So Ive changed the Dutch article to "breaking review", which usually get it attention relatively quick (fraid I have other stuff on my hands just now, was merely browsing by the Wikinews). Regards (and of course feel free to ask back if you have questions) Sean Heron (talk) 13:22, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

I just noticed that there is another, slightly longer article: Car_plows_into_crowd_during_Dutch_Queen's_Day_celebrations. If you have the time, you might try to merge the article you were working on into that one. Sean Heron (talk) 13:27, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

UK winter
I think these articles are getting rather redundant. Perhaps you could hold back on writing more for a few days? Regards, – Juliancolton  | Talk 16:51, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Snow Video
Thanks :-) I'm looking to do some interviews with locals at some point, I'm planning to do a follow up video at some point, possibly tomorrow or when the thaw starts. I don't have any contacts in the Parish Council, but I'll certainly have a look around. The local newsletter, for which I write, comes out on a quarterly basis (with the next one in January), so I'm not sure what they'll be saying about it. I'm on good terms with the editor, though, so I'll have a word.  wacky wace  17:22, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Scrapyard burns in East London
Unfortunately, another user added a "review" tag to the above article and I had to fail it. I am unsure whether you were finished with the article, abandoned it, or planned on adding to it, but it seemed incomplete and did not stress the newsworthiness of the event.--William S. Saturn (talk) 23:04, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Thomas Read Kemp
I am interested in the drawing of TRK by Lawrence; are you able to email me on the subject? My office holds many of the family's papers best wishes Christopher Whittick Senior archivist, East Sussex Record Office christopher.whittick@eastsussex.gov.uk

Although technically of course  is the first half of a matching pair of delimiters for a paragraph, i.e.,   before the paragraph and   after the paragraph, authors of html pages have, from the earliest days, usually used   as a standalone separator between paragraphs. Does it really make sense to change a  at, say, the end of a template expansion (where it presumably is there to guarantee a paragraph separation from any following text) to a   which seemingly specifies an unimagined empty paragraph? --Pi zero (talk) 23:56, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

 * Well what does the HTML standard actually say? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:53, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

 * Html caters, especially in some of its simplest (and therefore most humanly manageable) aspects, to human authors as well as automatic generators; exactly which parts of this catering is done officially in the html standard, versus how much of it is in the implementations of web browsers, idk.
 * Historical digression: The increasing prevalence of machine-written html, which tends to be humanly-unreadable even when it sticks to the simplest of html elements, tended I think to degrade html as a practical markup language for humans, and was partly responsible for creating the problem that wiki markup answered to tilt things back in the humanly-usable direction.  Html has been less-often written by humans since the rise of wiki markup, but, besides various non-wiki situations, traces of html are still needed to augment the imperfectly-realized wiki markup.  </historical digression>. :)
 * --Pi zero (talk) 12:25, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

 * Duly noted. I can ignore the P issue for now, but the use of single P might be something that needs a special case in the Linter.

Article infoboxes
Hi. It looks like all of the templates on which you fixed lint errors today are article infoboxes which are candidates for being upgraded to Infobox, so it would be more helpful to upgrade them. Cheers, --SVTCobra 11:23, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

 * Feel free, I was working within my competence. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:44, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

 * In fairness, converting infoboxen sometimes requires adding categories to the transcluding pages, most of which are of course fully protected. There are also horizontal infoboxen that infobox doesn't handle and I never decided how best to bring within the system. --Pi zero (talk) 11:49, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

 * Pray tell, what is the purpose of fixing lint 'errors' in signatures. Surely, the most sensible thing is to just tell the user to fix their signature customization. --SVTCobra 20:11, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

 * That would fix it for future uses, it wouldn't fix the many existing uses. If you want me to discontinue the efforts ....ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:16, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

 * What are the "future" uses? I don't understand. Keep in mind, I am probably the least tech savvy person on this project. Sorry if I am being "thick" but there are so many signatures on talk pages. Are you proposing to fix lint on the pages and pages of archived talk? --SVTCobra 20:21, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

 * Yes, that's what the effort was intended to do, However I am perfectly happy to UNDO every single edit, and put back lint errors if you feel that would be more appropriate. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:24, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
 * And to be fair, It might be better if the fix that was being implemented was done by a script, so it's done in one massive batch...ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:26, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

, I'm pausing, and will consider UNDOing any effort made so far unless I get a clear response. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:33, 8 September 2020 (UTC) , I would suggest checking your signature customisation, as many of the entries here: https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LintErrors/html5-misnesting&dir=prev&offset=13418983&namespace=4 seem to relate to signatures you left on content previously, and obviously before things were handled more strictly by the Mediawiki backend. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:33, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
 * No, and I didn't ask for UNDOs. But you didn't answer the first question. And while you haven't asked, you may be wondering why I am concerned about what you are doing. The reason is, every time you edit something on a page that has been static for a long time, somebody else needs to look at it and see if it was done correctly. Otherwise randoms could vandalize most of the site. So, your benevolent and good-faith edits are making a demand on other people. For this, I ask a reason. What are the future benefits for us all to contribute to your fixing of lint errors? Cheers, --SVTCobra 20:36, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The future benefit, is that the HTML generated from the wikitext markup is well-formed to a defined standard, meaning that :
 * It's possible for future updates to the back-end to be made without having to consider edge cases caused by previous non-standard coding.
 * The rendering of a given page, can be assured to generate a specfic well-formed HTML equivalent, which makes it easier to determine if something is actually a glitch in the rendering as opposed to a user-side mark-up error.
 * Removing the lint errors, makes the site look more professional, (if anyone ever examines the HTML source in depth), and shows that the volunteer base care about this.

 * I appreciate your concerns about having to check edits (so they aren't vandalism or inadvertently break things), which is also partly why I'm pausing to let someone else review. Naturally the last thing I want do is inadvertently break things, owing to a lack of understanding about how something was 'supposed' to work, ( and in updating some Templates, I ran across situations where I could have made a fix, but didn't feel confident about doing so.)ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:54, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

 * A few miscellaneous thoughts.
 * Most of your changes appear to be fixing things that I find it hard to object to fixing, other than, as SVTCobra points out, the sheer volume of edits that need checking. Some of them, admittedly, I'm uncertain whether they originally worked or not.  I've been pretty torn, philosophically and, moreover, strategically, about fixing stuff that actually works: on one hand, it makes us less vulnerable to having things broken by ill-conceived or poorly realized platform changes; on the other hand, it might make the Foundation feel more free to do things they frankly should not be doing.
 * If the Foundation is acting competently and in good faith, pretty much nothing they would actually do would break functioning wiki code. Which said, it's my experience that little things get (temporarily) broken often, by software updates in which, afaics, their purpose is to make changes in accordance with some vision of theirs.  In the past their vision of where things should be headed has repeatedly turned out to be incompatible with the interests of the volunteer community, and summing all this up, I find myself reckoning that the Foundation is failing to meet at least one or the other of the two conditions at the beginning of this bullet item.
 * The rate at which we can conveniently check your edits is noticeably less than the rate at which you can make them. Edits to templates are more manageable; when you make those, I immediately check only that the revision just before your edit has been sighted; thus, your edit goes onto the flaggedrevs pending-changes queue, which is now extremely long; it's okay that the queue is extremely long, though, because the queue waits patiently for us to get to those items.  Occasionally I'll knock off one or two of the oldest ones.  As I write this, the oldest changes on the queue are 16 days old.  However, as a practical matter, I find edits to talk pages or project pages have to be checked immediately, because those namespaces don't use flaggedrevs so there's no convenient way of remembering what edits you've made except by processing them immediately when they show up on RecentChanges.  Thus, edits to these other namespaces are more of a burden.
 * --Pi zero (talk) 22:24, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

IRC
Hi, do you happen to use IRC? If so, can you please join #wikinews-en? •–• 17:42, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

 * I use Discord mostly these days.. but okay..ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:43, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi
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Posted deadlines for Christmas delivery

December 21, 2005

In the United States of America and other parts of the word, as Christmas and the holidays draw near, shippers have released information on shipping deadlines. Remember to always clearly label and address your holiday packages.

FedEx
FedEx International Economy

This is the last day to ship to Mexico from the US.

U.S. Post Office
Deadline to ship using Priority Mail® service

DHL (U.S.)
Second Day Delivery

FedEx
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This is the last day to ship to Canada and Puerto Rico from the US.

DHL (U.S)
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Before I get POV arguments and gripes, nothing is stoping anyone for posting articles for any holiday shipping schedules they wish. Many EN readers will be shipping gifts to friends and family over the holiday so for the completeness of Wikinews I wanted to post shipping deadlines just like any other news source.

Wikinews will be nothing if it cannot be useful. --Sfullenwider 00:38, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't see any POV problems. However I don't think its that newswrothy. However I'm on the edge of if this is newswrothy so I'm not going to it Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 02:44, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I think it's a very helpful guide to some. Being informative is one of the majors of being a news site, so I'd definitely say it's news worthy.  --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 02:46, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Edit Protected
editprotected Could someone please add Category:Christmas, please? Surf Dog (talk) 03:49, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ in line with Wikinews categorisation methods. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:04, 5 July 2012 (UTC)


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Australian on death row in Vietnam for smuggling heroin

December 21, 2005

An Australian man arrested last December near the Cambodian border in Vietnam, Trinh Huu, has been sentenced to death by a Vietnamese People's Court for smuggling 2kg of heroin. Amnesty International has urged the Australian Federal Government to do everything it can to help the man. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs has said that Trinh was receiving consular assistance, but that it was too early to negotiate for clemency as his case is still subject to appeal. The government has reiterated its long standing opposition to the death penalty.


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Australia to continue burning Indonesian boats

December 21, 2005

Indonesian Fisheries Minister Freddy Numberi has asked the Australian government to stop burning Indonesian boats found fishing illegally in Australian waters. His Australian counterpart, Senator Ian Macdonald, has said that the practice will continue. "The law is that we are required to offer the boats back on payment of a bond somewhere between $4,000 and $10,000, and if the owners don't pay that in 28 days then the boat's forfeited to the Australian Government," he said. "We have no use for them and we destroy them and we'll continue to do that."

The boat owners, who often come from poor backgrounds, generally can't afford to pay and are then deported. While waiting for a decision one fisherman has died. Under a 1974 agreement with Australia, traditional Indonesian fishermen are permitted to take fish within a 12 nautical mile radius of Ashmore Reef, Cartier Island, Scott Reef, Seringapatam Reef and Browse Island. Often the fishermen caught are traditional fishermen who navigate by the sun, stars and with the wind, so with no visible borders, they often mistakenly fish in illegal waters.

Some fishermen are professionally profiteering on catching sharks for their valuable fins while throwing away the rest of the sharks body. There is even confusion as to who could be defined as a "traditional fisherman" and who is just profiteering illegally. Fisherman who persist and get caught more than once can end up in detention.


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Travel warnings issued for Sydney

December 21, 2005

Following the racial violence which occurred in Sydney last week Britain, Canada and Indonesia have issued travel warnings for their nationals in or wishing to travel to Sydney. The British warning cites recent "sporadic outbreaks of racially motivated violence in Cronulla, Maroubra, Brighton-le-Sands" and "areas of south-west Sydney". British nationals are advised to "monitor the situation and exercise caution".

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Work Choices Fair Pay Chief heavily criticised

December 21, 2005

Professor Ian Harper the government appointed Fair Pay Chief has come under heavy criticism this week from the Labour groups and the federal opposition.

Professor Harper was a non-executive director of the Australian Derivatives Exchange (ADX) when it was put under administration in March 28, 2001. The company went broke owing workers more than $700,000. In the process ADX breached the corporations law by failing to maintain required cash reserves, although the company eventually gave workers their entitlements.

Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews appointed Professor Harper in October, Mr Andrews spokesman Defended the appointment saying the government was aware of the economist's history with the company and said in relation Professor Harper role in ADX ’s demise: "There has been absolutely no wrongdoing," "The government was made aware by Prof Harper, and also by doing a check ourselves, of the company going into administration.” "We believe that Prof Harper is an eminently qualified person to head up the Australian Fair Pay Commission."

Wayne Swan the Oppositions treasury, who has attacked the government over the Robert Gerards appointment to the reserve bank affair,spokesman has said there were serious questions to answer about Prof Harper's appointment. "There is a pattern of behaviour here and a stench that surrounds the Howard government,". "This is a government whose actions and appointments are blinded by extreme ideology." Mr Swan said commenting on the recent history of important government appointments.

Sharan Burrow the president of the ACTU has told ABC radio that the government must better scrutinize Mr Harper’s business behaviour. "How on earth can they expect Australians to have any faith in their so-called Fair Pay Commission if the very head they've appointed, another government mate, is under a cloud,"

Controversial Government Appointments

 * Robert Gerard
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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 Headrattle. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Headrattle~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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Security is important for potential presidents in Haiti

December 21, 2005

In a debate that took place Sunday, sponsored by the U.S. embassy, two potential presidents cited security as an important priority for Haiti after the presidential election. They referred to the presidential election as the restoring of democracy, although the role of the USA in terminating the previous democratic period is disputed, in particular because United States marines and other security personnel escorted and flew the previous democratically elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide out of Haiti in circumstances which Aristide refers to as kidnapping. One candidate, Charles Henri Baker stated that "economic development will never come to this country without security," alluding to both the economic situation on the island, where growth has been minimal in the last couple of years, and the security situation involving some areas of the country and even areas of the capitol as not being under police control.

Baker added that if elected he planned to quadruple the police force and reinstate the army. The army had been dismantled, with wide popular support, by Aristide, because of its massive and systematic human rights violations. Baker's goal is to have the police force up to 20,000 officers. Another candidate, Evans Paul agreed saying that "the priority is to create the conditions of economic growth," and pledging to bring inflation down from the 22% in 2004 down to below 10%.


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Headlines should be active
Perhaps: "Candidates cite security concerns in Hatian election" not sure that captures it, but it has the right voice.


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Hi, I like to have bigger thumbnail sizes so I created a userpage.

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I reverted your edit to WN:, as I believe that alphabetizing is a good thing. Bawolff ☺☻ 08:04, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

 * That's fine. Thanks for your contributions and taking the time to drop a note here.
 * That Guy, From That Show! 17:13, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * OK. Thanks. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 19:43, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

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NRMA stands by "unsafe" smash repair system

December 21, 2005 NRMA, one of Australia's largest insurers, has come under scrutiny following the release of a scathing report into its online smash repairs system.

The report by the New South Wales Government's Staysafe committee found that NRMA's online repair tendering system was "unsafe". NRMA has said it has no intention of suspending the system despite the findings.

The report, which was released yesterday found that "[The] system of allocating damaged motor vehicles to smash repairers without the repairers physically inspecting the damaged vehicle before quoting for work ... is an unsafe system in its current form". According to committee member and Port Stephens MP John Bartlett the vehicles were "being repaired to the standard of a brick and the crumple zones at the front and rear no longer worked and all the impact was being felt in the cabin".

According to the report "the system would lead to cost cutting and unsafe repair practices, with the quality of repairs lowered by encouraging smash repairers to take short cuts".

According to NRMA, only minor "cosmetic" repairs are put through the system - however often there can be further damage which is only evident after a complete inspection. The NRMA system simply places photographs of the vehicles on its website where approved smash repairers bid to carry out repairs.

David Brown, head of claims and assessments at NRMA, said this of the report: "[W]e totally reject the findings of the report, in fact we find the report's fundamentally flawed with no evidence of safety issues, and [it] has been prepared without seeing the system first-hand". He further added that the system would not be scrapped.


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What is the NRMA? Please explain in the article. -- IlyaHaykinson 09:48, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I made a stupid assumption that all would know what NRMA is (as it has been in Australia as long as the automobile!) - Cartman02au 10:52, 21 December 2005 (UTC)


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Indian Ocean tsunami, one year after

December 26, 2005 One year on from the, the world's grief and compassion returned to the tsunami-battered coastlines of the Indian Ocean, where at least 216 000 people lost their lives. Under a clear sky and before a gentle sea, the world commemorated those lost their lives, in one of the worst natural disasters that the modern world has experienced.

Since the, patchy progress has been made on the return to a normal life for those who lived through the experience. Efforts to implement a warning system similar to that coordinated by the  in  have past a number of significant milestones. Tourist resorts in many places have been rebuilt, and many visiting them at this time do so as a form of remembrance. Yet still there remain those who may never recover from the tragic events of one year ago. Some $13 billion was pledged to relief and recovery efforts, of which 75 percent has already been secured.

Banda Aceh
In one of the first ceremonies,  joined in a moment of silence at the  located in a  coastal suburb flattened by the disaster. Yudhoyono said that "was under the same blue sky, exactly one year ago, that Mother Earth unleashed her most destructive power upon us, The assault began with a massive earthquake but ... that was only a prelude to the horrific catastrophe to come."

In a live video address   said "The toughest time after last year's devastating tsunami may be yet to come, It was so brutal, so quick, so extensive that we are still struggling to fully comprehend it."

Andaman and Nicobar archipelago
Many of the survivors of the tsunami who live in the Andaman and Nicobar islands have yet to see significant benefits from international relief efforts. Over 10,000 families are having to come to terms with the policies of their government. Whilst local people would be happy to continue with traditional wood and bamboo materials, disputes see the government trying to impose higher standards.

Thailand
In, the anniversary of the massive wave sees tourists returning and reconstruction of resorts. However, not all is so positive. Many who lost loved ones suffered from, and whilst 75% of those suffering are said to be recovered, those who still suffer may need life-long psychiatric help. In, the hardest hit part of Thailand, there are around 300 people in that category, their symptoms including a deep-seated fear of the sea. Binge drinking has also become a problem among many who lost everything, including family, when the disaster struck. In an attempt to focus on a recovery from the trauma inflicted on the children of Thailand, concerned parties have published a number of children's books aimed at rehabilitating. Sponsored by the Canadian Embassy, The Day the Tsunami Came tells the tale of a boy who loses his father when the wave hit his fishing village in Phanag-nga province. Its aim is to spread the message to those affected that they are not alone. Apart from publication in Thai and English, the book will be available in Swedish, Dutch, Indonesian and Singhalese.

Measures to prevent a recurrence of the massive casualties have been implemented in the year following the tsunami. Earlier this month Thailand's tsunami early warning system passed its first official test. National Disaster Warning Centre Director Plodprasop Suraswadi stated, "Thailand is the first country in the region to successfully install a comprehensive tsunami early warning system. I believe the system can, from now on, save lives and assets of Thais and international tourists alike". The centre is due to be expanded in the coming year to cover "natural disasters [such] as severe floods, forest fires and even air pollution." Implementation of the tsunami warning system has not all gone according to plan. Earlier in the month a false alarm caused by a technical error panicked tourists and local residents in the six provinces hit by the disaster,, Phang-nga , , and.

and a member of the royal family who lost her son were among those who spoke in the resort island of, the source of some of the most graphic footage of the incoming waves. Thousands attended ceremonies held in Phuket and other affected parts of the country, observing periods of where flags were lowered to half-mast and bells rung in remembrance.

Some villagers refused to take part saying the rites were expensive, inappropriate, events designed to attract tourists and showcase the government.

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Across Europe; hundreds joined in commemorating those who died. In, which suffered the highest loss of life for any country outside of Asia, official ceremonies were held, with more Swedes attended ceremonies in Thailand.

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I'm hoping with a bit of collaboration this could be a good (featured?) article to go up on the 26th. I've covered Thailand, and found a couple other sources that could be added on.

-- Brian McNeil / talk 12:05, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Google ads reveal some companies are cashing in on people's fear of tsunamis. Brian McNeil / talk 12:16, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

 * This is a great idea for a good article, Brian... I'll try to work some later today (when i'm not at work).. :D --Chiacomo (talk) 15:47, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Good job. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:11, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Nice work, folks User:Dan100 (Talk) 00:43, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Nobody covered Sri Lanka. :( Brian McNeil / talk 21:46, 28 December 2005 (UTC)


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Clicking Images
Clicking on the logo of a sister project should link to the project itself instead of the page for the logo. (See "sister projects" on Wikipedia Main Page for correct behavior.) This is easily fixed, I think. Is there some reason it hasn't been?--68.72.136.21 11:02, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * This is technicly not posible. All images have to link to the description page. the closest we can get is make the image a redirect to that project, but the user still has to click through. (because inter-wiki redirects are only links) Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 23:07, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, it appears the WP accomplished this with a set of nested template... See W:Template:Click and W:Template:WikipediaSister. --Chiacomo (talk) 23:13, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * That is so cool. last time i clicked on the image was before that was implemented. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 23:18, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

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Hi. Admins - please change the following:
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 * Change the brief description of Wikisource to "The Free Library" (its new motto and as it appears on the Wikipedia Main Page).

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Wiktionary
Please change the text for Wiktionary: The Free Dictionary. This is our official tagline. (Yes, I'm an admin on that project.) -  Amgine | t 16:58, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

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Regarding this edit: I think that Dendodge's version is better, as it is clearer and more explanatory. I won't revert Brianmc's revert to avoid an edit war, but I'd like some opinions on which version is more suitable. Tempodivalse [talk]  20:32, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * It was the wikisource one I took issue with, 'original texts' seems to indicate you could add something original. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:47, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

 * Given we already use the term 'sources', that too is confusing. Perhaps 'source texts' or 'source documents' would be better? Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 21:36, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd think we should probably ask someone from wikisource about that. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:38, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd say that "Source texts" would be more suitable of the two, since wikisource deals with all sorts of texts, not just documents. Tempodivalse [talk]  23:14, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikiversity
Edit protected For consistency, please replace Wikiversity's "Learning tools" with "Learning resources". See Wikipedia:Template:Wikipedia's sister projects and associated discussion. Thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (talk) 18:47, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Done. --Pi zero (talk) 19:25, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikimedia Incubator
+ One more sister project: Wikimedia Incubator. See d:Template:Sister projects on Wikidata. --ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 09:35, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

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Australian States to launch high court battle against IR reforms

December 22, 2005 After months of threats from the states to take the government of Australia to the  over its Work Choices Act, New South Wales has formally lodged a writ with the High Court. Other states have indicated that they will follow the New South Wales government's lead.

The 30-page Statement of Claim lodged by NSW Industrial Relations Minister John Della Bosca and Solicitor-General Michael Sexton claims that the Work Choices Act is unconstitutional as the act extends the commonwealth's powers beyond what the has given them. The government has argued that they have such powers under the corporations provision of the constitution. Mr Della Bosca argues that the corporations provision is there to protect individuals from corporations.

Mr Sexton said "The heart of the Commonwealth legislation is its reliance on the corporations power, and the question is whether that is valid in these circumstances. In other words, whether it's possible to legislate in effect about industrial relations simply because the employer is a trading or financial corporation".

The Howard government's plan effectively collapses the state's industrial relations systems, which differ greatly from the new system.


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I almost fell asleep writing this, I will continue it tomorrow only if someone else doesnt work on it ;) - Cartman02au 11:10, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

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I renamed the article as "Australian states to launch high court battle against IR reforms" but mucked something up in the process, and now "States" is upper case and I can't seem to be able to rename it again. God-friggin-damn. - Apollyon 21:14, 22 December 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Poll shows Préval with clear lead, but ineligible candidate Siméus could have presented a challenge

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"Préval" and "Siméus", and therefore the article title which appears on the front page, are meaningless to me. Can someone with an understanding of the article change the title please? Thanks. Bill3 13:17, 21 December 2005 (UTC)


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U.S. Rep. Conyers raises Bush censure issue

December 21, 2005

US Representative John Conyers (D-MI) has brought three resolutions to the House which could begin a process of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, and begin an investigation.

The first of the three resolutions, H.RES.635, would create a select committee to investigate the Administration's intent to go to war before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing torture, retaliating against critics, and to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment.

The second, H.RES.636, calls for Censuring President George W. Bush for failing to respond to requests for information concerning allegations that he and others in his Administration misled Congress and the American people regarding the decision to go to war in, misstated and manipulated intelligence information regarding the justification for the war, countenanced torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of persons in Iraq, and permitted inappropriate retaliation against critics of his Administration, for failing to adequately account for specific misstatements he made regarding the war, and for failing to comply with Executive Order 12958.

The third, H.RES.637, calls for censuring Vice President Richard B. Cheney for reasons similar to those outlined in H.RES.636.

Rep. Conyers is the sole sponsor of all three resolutions, but Rep. (D-GA} has joined Conyers in calling for an investigation of President Bush's handling of pre-war intelligence. Lewis released a statement Monday 12/19/05 using strong language to condemn the president. "In my opinion, the President has violated the law, and the House and Senate must pursue their inquiries into this illegal program."


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40 alleged drunken Santas accused of running amok

December 19, 2005

The conduct by a group of 'Santas' making an unclear statement last Saturday is not appreciated in the business district of, New Zealand. The event, organized in the discussion forum of an online skateboard magazine, caused big media publicity. Alex Dyer, spokesman for the group, stated that in Auckland is part of a worldwide phenomenon. It is disputed if Santarchy is a protest against the commercialization of Christmas or not.

Auckland Central Police spokesperson Noreen Hegarty said to the press that the rampage began in the early part of the afternoon when men wearing ill-fitting Santa costumes threw beer bottles and urinated on cars from an overpass, then rushed through a central city park, overturning garbage bins, throwing bottles at passing cars and spraying graffiti on office buildings.

"They came in, said 'Merry Christmas' and then helped themselves," said a convenience store staff member Changa Manakynda, according to local newspapers.

One writer using the pseudonym 'Le_SigNagE' on the Santarchy! (or also known as the Santacon) website commented, "... after all, this is what Christmas is really about… mindless vandalism and petty theft."

Another writer who posted under the pseudonym Santy Claus said of the media coverage, "There was some major misreporting and Chinese whispers. Breaking bottles and urinating under a bridge, became throwing rocks at buses and urinating on cars from an overpass. The ‘organisers’ as they were, saw little in the way of crime other than one santa attempting to board a foreign vessel by scaling 20 metres along a rope 60 feet in the air. The difficulty and motor skills involved in this task alone should be a defense in itself of being 'drunk' and 'disorderly'."

Due to reputation for integrity and his strict media policy, his sparse communication is mostly one-way: receiving lists from children with wishes for Christmas. It is difficult to get his comment about New Zealands skateboard interested 'Santas'.

In 1994, the staged the world's very first  in San Francisco. Influenced by the movement Discordianism, and other subversive art currents.


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Cuban talk show accuses U.S. diplomat of helping anti-government groups

December 21, 2005

On a state run talk show in Cuba, they dedicated 90 minutes to an attack on U.S. diplomat Michael Parmly. They accused him, among other things, of "having frequent contacts with his mercenaries, guiding them, supplying them and exhibiting them to the press," according to host Randy Alonso.

This is sparked by Parmly, according to the associated press, "after he met with dissidents and charged that some communist supporters acted like Nazi "brown shirts" or Ku Klux Klan members." Parmly is accused of being part of a plan in the United States to spark a rebellion with dissidents and/or to find justification to invade the nation. At a December 10 gathering to celebrate Human Rights Day Parmly gave a speech saying, "the Cuban regime does not represent the people, nor does it have any interest in bettering their lives," and "rather, the regime is obsessed with self-preservation."

Parmly replaced James Cason whose position is blamed by Cuban officials for the imprisonment of 75 dissidents with whom Cason had contact. The talk show features journalists and government officials who took turns discussing Parmly's actions in Cuba calling the diplomats, according to one journalist Arlene Rodriguez, "They are the same pig with different suits," and "The pig is Bush's policy and they are the suits."


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Greenpeace activists clash with Japanese whaling fleet in Southern Ocean

December 22, 2005

The environmental activist group Greenpeace has attempted to disrupt Japan's Southern Ocean "scientific" whaling fleet. After searching for the whaling fleet for nearly a month, the Greenpeace ships, MY Esperanza and MY Arctic Sunrise, are floating alongside the Japanese mothership in Australia's Antarctic territorial waters, directly south of Tasmania.

The Japanese whaling fleet has an expected catch of over 900 minke whales – more than double its previous catch. The fleet - owned by Kyodo Senpaku and part-owned by Nissui, Japan's second-largest marine products firm - is also targeting endangered fin whales for what they claim is a scientific program. Fin whales are the second largest creatures on earth.

Greenpeace say they have asked the whalers to stop whaling immediately and return to Japan, but have received no response from the vessels. In inflatables carrying banners which read "defend the whales" and "stop the whaling," crew from the two ships declared their intention to stop the hunt.

Leader of the Greenpeace expedition, Shane Rattenbury said their eight small boats have begun to "interfere" with the whaling process.

"We positioned our two ships to the stern of the Japanese mother ship in order to prevent the whale being transferred on to the ship and we were successful in stopping that process for about 45-minutes," said Mr Rattenbury, describing a capture boat ramming the Greenpeace ship in an attempt to push it clear.

He said the Japanese boat fought back with water cannons and one of several Greenpeace inflatables capsized in the wash. All crew were retrieved without injury.

"We're going to do everything we can over the coming weeks to interfere with the whaling process, and stop the whales being killed," he said, "our small boats will be putting themselves between the harpoon and the whale.

In a radio call to the whaling vessels, from the bridge of the Arctic Sunrise, Yuko Hirono, of Greenpeace Japan called upon the whalers to stop killing whales "and leave the internationally recognised Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary." Japan's scientific whaling has been the subject of repeated criticism by the International Whaling Commission.

The Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research, claim the amount of scientific data gathered by Japan's research program (JARPAII) is extensive and that Japan's whale research programs are conducted in accordance with the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling. The Institute of Cetacean Research say their research does not involve illegal whaling.

Greenpeace say over the next 2 years, 40 more fin whales will be added to the annual kill, along with 50 humpback whales.

"This whale hunt is unnecessary, unjustified, and unwanted," said Rattenbury. "Once the whales have been measured and weighed by the 'scientists' the butchers get to work and the whales are cut up and boxed for market. This is all about money and not science."

The area in which the Japanese fleet is hunting has been designated as the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, in an effort to allow whale populations to recover after stocks were depleted during the commercial whaling of the last century.

Seventy crew and campaigners from 19 countries are on board the two Greenpeace vessels, including the UK, Netherlands, Canada, Australia, Ghana, Russia, Norway, Denmark, USA, France, Italy, Japan, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Austria and Argentina.

Japan's whaling program is expected to kill nearly one thousand whales this season.