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User:DouglasGreen

I am a new wikijournalist and I like this site. Everyday I visit Wikinews and the number and quality of articles just keeps increasing. I look forward to the day when Wikinews is a major source of neutral point-of-view (NPOV) news that competes with major news outlets for stories. I am a believer in the wiki concept and I think it is powerful. The concept of anyone being a potential Wikinews reporter means we can have eyewitnesses on the ground anywhere, which would result in widespread coverage.

I think that there is a lot of bias in the Mainstream Media and there always has been. That however is not the reason why I am here. Journalists are entitled to their interests and beliefs just like anyone else--they are entitled to have an opinion. But I think the open dialog process of creating Wikinews articles has the best potential for restraining bias and representing the collective intelligence of multiple points of view.

I am located in Gainesville in North Central Florida so if anyone gets a "hot scoop" in this area you may wish to send it my way.

As a new member, I welcome feedback on my articles and corrections to articles. Let's all work together to make this site a success!

"With its vast and direct influence on public opinion, journalism cannot be guided only by economic forces, profit, and special interest. It must instead be felt as a mission in a certain sense sacred, carried out in the knowledge that the powerful means of communication have been entrusted to you for the good of all." (Pope John Paul II) "With regard to my factual reporting of events... I have made it a principle not to write down the first story that came my way, and not even to be guided by my own general impressions; either I was present myself at the events which I have described or else heard of them from eye witnesses whose reports I have checked with as much thoroughness as possible. Not that even so the truth was easy to discover: different eye witnesses gave different accounts of the same events, speaking out of partiality for one side or the other, or else from imperfect memories." (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War) "The parallels between The Hitchhiker's Guide (as found in Adams' original BBC radio series and novels) and Wikipedia are so striking, it's a wonder that the author's rabid fans don't think he invented time travel. Since its editor was perennially out to lunch, the Guide was amended 'by any passing stranger who happened to wander into the empty offices on an afternoon and saw something worth doing.' This anonymous group effort ends up outselling Encyclopedia Galactica even though 'it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate.'" (Paul Boutin, Slate)

June, 2005

 * June 18: Sudanese government signs major deal with opposition group
 * June 13: New rocky planet discovered in orbit around nearby star
 * June 6: United Kingdom, Czech Republic suspend referendums on EU constitution
 * June 5: Two women first ever to serve on municipal council in Kuwait

May, 2005

 * May 29: American Samoa asks again to be removed from U.N. colonies list
 * May 28: Shared history textbook written by scholars from Japan, China, South Korea
 * May 28: German Parliament votes yes on EU constitution; French referendum may vote no
 * May 28: Defense rests in Michael Jackson case
 * May 24: Voyager 1 enters heliosheath at edge of solar system
 * May 23: Laura Bush visits Middle East in goodwill tour
 * May 23: Marshall Islands to request $3 billion more from U.S. for health effects of nuclear testing
 * May 23: Democratic Republic of Congo adopts new constitution, plans elections
 * May 23: U.S. senators reach compromise on use of filibuster
 * May 20: Cuban dissidents hold rare public meeting
 * May 6: Muslim opens first Arab Holocaust museum in Nazareth
 * May 6: Yemen's first-ever feature film to be screened at Cannes Festival
 * May 5: Israeli withdrawal halted until Palestinians disarm militants
 * May 3: Turbolinux adopted by China's largest bank
 * May 2: Issues of World Press Freedom Day raised in U.N., Africa
 * May 1: World's oldest seaborne passenger vessel on tour as floating library
 * May 1: China introduces new jury trial system

March-April, 2005

 * April 30: Swiss finish drilling world's longest overland tunnel
 * April 30: Two university students shot, killed in Cameroon strikes
 * April 30: Violent rioting, deaths follow disputed election in Togo
 * April 29: Hindu mythological theme park planned for banks of Ganges
 * April 28: U.S. EPA submits 2003 greenhouse gas inventory to U.N.
 * April 25: Historic summit, commemoration by Asian-African leaders in Bandung
 * April 23: NYSE to merge with Archipelago; NASDAQ to buy Instinet
 * April 22: Female sponge contraceptive re-approved for US market
 * April 21: Breakthrough in talks between Philippine government, Muslim rebels
 * April 20: Iraq's PM Allawi survives fifth attempted assassination
 * April 19: Infrared technology enables recovery of lost classical writings
 * April 18: Elwood Norris receives 2005 Lemelson-MIT Prize for invention
 * April 17: India, China to jointly construct Buddhist temple in Henan Province
 * April 16: Freelance reporter fired from Boston Globe for adding fictitious details to story
 * April 15: Senate unanimously confirms Michael Griffin as new NASA head
 * April 15: ACLU, Minutemen trade accusations of misbehavior
 * April 14: United States arrests 10,340 fugitives in first-of-kind nationwide sweep
 * April 13: Major 'Spiritual Life of College Students' study released by UCLA
 * April 10: Israeli president shakes hands with leaders of Syria, Iran at Pope's funeral
 * April 10: South African former apartheid party dissolves
 * April 7: First Iraq Medal of Honor recipient receives memorial headstone at Arlington
 * April 6: First female boxing death occurs in US sanctioned match
 * April 5: Advocacy groups complain about 4parents.gov sex-ed website
 * April 3: Tartan Day festivities April 6 in New York
 * April 2: Ted Koppel to step down from 'Nightline'
 * April 1: Minutemen gather to patrol US-Mexican border in April
 * April 1: Harvard hosts conference on technological future of news media
 * March 31: U.S. Supreme Court hears MGM v. Grokster

News Search
news.google.com - Google News news.yahoo.com - Yahoo News

Conservative Opinion
rushlimbaugh.com - Rush Limbaugh (EIB Network) nationalreview.com - National Review townhall.com - Town Hall opinionjournal.com - WSJ Opinion Journal humaneventsonline.com - Human Events Online

Independent Sites
drudgereport.com - Drudge Report worldnetdaily.com - World Net Daily newsmax.com - NewsMax.com frontpagemag.com - FrontPage Magazine

Participative Sites
theworldforum.org - The World Forum lucianne.com - Lucianne

Public Domain News
voanews.com - Voice of America pdtimes.com - Public Domain Times

Polling Organizations
zogby.com - Zogby.com people-press.org - Pew Research Center

Think Tanks
Note: source for most labeling of political alignment comes from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a media watch group.

nira.go.jp - NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks brookings.edu - The Brookings Institution (centrist) cfr.org - Council on Foreign Relations (centrist) heritage.org - Heritage Foundation (conservative) aei.org - American Enterprise Institute (conservative) csis.org - Center for Strategic and International Studies (conservative) cato.org - Cato Institute (conservative/libertarian) epinet.org - Economic Policy Institute (progressive) rand.org - RAND Corporation (center-right) carnegieendowment.org - Carnegie Endowment (centrist) urban.org - Urban Institute (center-left) hoover.stanford.edu - Hoover Institution (conservative) frc.org - Family Research Council (conservative) cbpp.org - Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (progressive) ppic.org - Public Policy Institute of California (centrist) nber.org - National Bureau of Economic Research (centrist) washingtoninstitute.org - Washington Institute for Near East Policy (center-right) manhattan-institute.org - Manhattan Institute (conservative) cdi.org - Center for Defense Information (progressive) cartercenter.org - Carter Center (centrist) publicintegrity.org - Center for Public Integrity (progressive) iie.com - Institute for International Economics (centrist) hudson.org - Hudson Institute (conservative) ips-dc.org - Institute for Policy Studies (progressive) aspeninstitute.org - Aspen Institute (centrist) ppionline.org - Public Policy Institute (centrist)

newamericancentury.org - New American Century (neo-conservative)

Not News
theonion.com - The Onion

Indexes
rssgov.com - RSS in Government FirstGov - US Government RSS Library rssfeeds.com - RSS Feeds search engine

Feeds
Al Jazeera (English) AP Top Headines BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition Christian Science Monitor | All Stories CNET News CNN Most Popular Stories] Discovery Channel News Drudge Report Archives - Popular Headlines FoxNews.com - US and World Free Republic: News and Activism Guardian Unlimited InfoWorld: Top News MSNBC.com: News National Institutes of Health (NIH) Press Releases New Scientist - Latest Headlines NPR Topics: News NYT Homepage NYT Home Page OpinionJournal.com PBS News Hour People-Press.org Reports PR Watch Reuters: Top News Scotsman.com News Slashdot State Dept - Press Releases The Register The Smoking Gun UN News Service USATODAY.com News - Top Stories US Dept of Defense News Releases US Newswire Releases US News & World Report Voice of America News Watching Justice Wired News Yahoo News: Top Stories

Email Alerts
junkscience.com - Junk Science wwrn.org - World-Wide Religious News

Federal Government
cspan.org - C-SPAN.org census.gov - Census Bureau cia.gov - Central Intelligence Agency publicintegrity.org - Center for Public Integrity opensecrets.org - Center for Responsible Politics fema.gov - Federal Emergency Management Association archives.gov - US National Archives and Records Administration firstgov.gov - FirstGov gao.gov - General Accounting Office gpoaccess.gov - Government Printing Office Access mspb.gov - Merit Systems Protection Board state.gov - State Department thomas.loc.gov - THOMAS whitehouse.gov - White House

Political Parties
gop.com - GOP.com democrats.org - Democrats.org lp.org - Libertarian Party

State Government
ncsl.org - National Conference of State Legislatures nga.org - National Governors Association stateline.org - Stateline.org myflorida.com - MyFlorida.com followthemoney.org - Follow The Money

International
un.org - United Nations who.int - World Health Organization amnesty.org - Amnesty International transparency.org - Transparency International cia/publications/factbook - CIA World Factbook

Education
ed.gov - Dept of Education nces.ed.gov - National Center for Education Statistics collegeboard.com - College Board

Environment
epa.gov - Environmental Protection Agency usgs.gov - US Geological Survey sierraclub.org - Sierra Club scorecard.org - Scorecard.org

Law/Criminal Justice
supremecourtus.gov - US Supreme Court usdoj.gov - US Dept of Justice usdoj.gov/marshals US Marshals Service fbi.gov - Federal Bureau of Investigation trac.syr.edu - Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse martindale.com - Martindale.com (lawyer locater)

Military
defenselink.mil - US Dept of Defense af.mil - US Air Force army.mil US Army usmc.mil - US Marines navy.mil - US Navy uscg.mil - US Coast Guard

Transportation
dot.gov - US Dept of Transportation ntsb.gov - National Transportation Safety Board faa.gov - Federal Aviation Administration nhtsa.dot.gov - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Business
sec.gov - Securities and Exchange Commission (visit EDGAR) hoovers.com - Hoover's Online dismalscience.com - Dismal Science (economics, if you must ask)

Health and Medicine
hhs.gov - US Dept of Health and Human Services nim.nih.gov/medlineplus - National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE

Science
nsf.gov - National Science Foundation nas.edu - National Academy of Sciences

Sports
nfl.com - National Football League mlb.com - Major League Baseball

Other
factcheck.org - FactCheck.org maps.google.com - Google Maps mapquest.com - MapQuest weather.com - Weather.com first.gov.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml - U.S. Government Graphics and Photos

Journalism
ire.org - Investigative Reporters and Editors journalism.org - Journalism.org honestreporting.com - Honest Reporting sourcewatch.org - SourceWatch, formerly Disinfopedia

Wikinews
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The Newsroom Writing an article Style guide Public domain news sources Reference desk

Wikistats - statistics all about Wikinews; informative - check this out!

Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Research resources Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License resources Wikipedia:Free or semi-free non-Public-Domain information resources Wikipedia:Public domain image resources Wikipedia:Maps

Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
Help:Interwiki linking

Article Template
Here is a template for an average article, including a breakdown of source material that is intended to be for temporary use during writing of articles to arrange facts without confusion.

DATE

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== Major Header ==

Text goes here

=== Minor Header ==

Text goes here

== Sources ==

Sources for which you have an URL, listed in descending date order with newest first, for example:

*

== Press Releases ==

I have personally decided to keep press releases in a separate category from sources

* DATE: Title of Press Release

== References ==

Supposed to be sources for which you do not have an URL; however, I have decided instead to make this links to non-news sources, such as Wikipedia articles from which I have drawn factual information

== Related Stories ==

Older articles on Wikinews

* DATE: Name of typical wikinews article

== External Links ==

Links to other non-wiki websites for deeper exploration.

''Categories are simply listed at the bottom of an article, without being contained in a section. For an up-to-date list of categories to use, see User:CGorman/Categories, from which this information was copied for convenient reference.''

''ALL articles must contain a Topical and a Regional category. These categories are used to present the latest articles to the readers. Please also add Continent, Country, Topic, Subtopic to all articles.''

Topical

Regional

Article Resources (temporary, delete when article written)

- Possible images to use

- Direct quotations

- Proper names and terms of interest

- Useful facts

- Inaccuracies in source material

- Opinions

- Questions

Email templates
Here are a couple of e-mail templates intended to be sent to two sides of a controversy about which something has been reported. The basic template of the first two emails was written by myself and extended by some others, but this version is mine. If you wish to borrow these e-mails, note a couple of facts.
 * 1) I link to the draft of the Wikinews article, which is self-accrediting (they can see the article and how fair it is).  This accomplishes the objective of gaining their trust.  I have heard that some professional journalists make a practice of showing a draft of their article to people they are interviewing for the same reason.
 * 2) I have represented myself and this site honestly and accurately.
 * 3) I asked for evidence, particularly of the kind that enhances our articles and their presentation.
 * 4) If someone wishes to borrow these e-mail templates, I suggest that they be posted to the discussion page of the article under draft for feedback before they are sent, in order to eliminate bias in questioning and "leave no stone unturned".

Email #1
To: First Lastname  From: Douglas Green

Mr. Lastname,

I am an independent journalist with Wikinews. Our site is working on an article pertaining to (draft version of our article is located at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Title_of_article).

In a recent news article from,  ( article is located at http://www.website.com/article_location). The article states,.

I have a few questions I would like to ask of you:

1. Can you please confirm your statements as reported above?

2. Do you have specific examples of you described above?

3. Have you gathered any evidence of, such as pictures or video? If you have, would you be able or willing to allow Wikinews to publish any of this evidence?

4. Are there any other aspects of this story you think we should be covering, which we do not already have? That is, what else do you think is important?

I wanted to thank you for your time in considering this message.

Regards, Douglas Green me@address.com http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:DouglasGreen

Email #2
To: Organization Name  From: Douglas Green

Organization Name Media Contact,

I am an independent journalist with Wikinews. Our site is working on an article pertaining to (draft version of our article is located at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Title_of_article).

In a recent news article from,  ( article is located at http://www.website.com/article_location). The article states,.

1. Can you confirm or deny the allegations by in the news report above?

2. Do you have any evidence or reason which show these allegations may be false, such as photos or video?

3. Are there any other aspects of this story you think we should be covering, which we do not already have? That is, what else do you think is important?

I wanted to thank you for your time in considering this message.

Regards, Douglas Green me@address.com http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:DouglasGreen

Email #3 - Request for image license
To: Organization Name  Subject: Request use of image for Wikinews article Message: Hello,

A Wikinews article (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Name_of_article) has been written today on < >. I would like to request permission from you to upload one of your photographic images (http://www.yoursite.com/link/to/image.jpg) to Wikimedia Commons, and use it to illustrate this already-written article.

The Wikinews project, started last year as a companion project to the well-known Wikipedia, is a non-profit source of news stories that currently licenses its articles as public domain, although that may change to GFDL or some other free license once we are out of Beta phase. Although I am a writer of articles for the site, I am not an official representative of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Please note specifically that this request does *not* fall under fair use, as you may expect; the licensing requirements of Wikimedia Commons are very specific to our project, and non-licensed images are subject to removal. The terms of the license, cited at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing, are quoted here for your review:

 * Republication and distribution must be allowed
 * Publication of derivative work must be allowed
 * Commercial use of the work must be allowed
 * Acknowledgement of all authors/contibutors of a work may be required.
 * Publication of derivative work under the same license may be required.
 * Use of open file formats free of digital restrictions management may be required.

The following restrictions must not apply to the image or other media file:

 * Use by Wikimedia only
 * Noncommercial/Educational use only
 * Use under fair use restrictions

Specifically, the following are generally not allowed:

 * Screenshots of software that is itself not under a free license. Screenshots of software under the GPL or a similar free software license are generally considered to be OK.
 * Scans or reproductive photographs of copyrighted artwork, especially book covers, etc
 * Trademarked symbols, Logos, etc

Please advise if I can upload the photograph to the Wikimedia Commons under those terms and use it to illustrate our Wikinews article.

Thank you for your time.

Douglas Green me@myaddress.com http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:DouglasGreen

Definitions of what is "news"

 * News is the "first draft of history", what will later be in the history books.
 * News is what people will be talking about around the water cooler.
 * News is events that are unusual or strange.
 * News is the exposure of corruption and criminal activity.
 * News is a means to "comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable".
 * News is informing the public about how money and power affect them.
 * News is celebration of public happenings and movements.
 * News is an enabler of democracy by keeping watch on democratic institutions.
 * News is story-telling about human beings and current events.
 * News is an agreed-upon set of facts that drive important public debates.
 * News is a biased attempt to gain power and manipulate public opinion.
 * News is a sacred responsibility to tell the truth without fear or favor.
 * News is a corporate product used to sell laundry detergent.
 * News is whatever journalists and other newsmakers say it is.

Google tells all
1. Try to pick sources in different countries, particularly countries that are related to the news event, otherwise you may just end up rehashing the same old AP/Reuters stuff without realizing it. Once you know of several subtopics in a single event, do separate Google news searches

2. Usually you want to search Google News by date, not "relevance", so you can get the latest, most informed sources. Googles topic summaries are for several days, some written as events were gearing up, others as they were winding down. Which is not to say you should ignore articles that are months or years old, they can be particularly helpful in supplying relevant background events that later articles don't even touch.

3. Put phrase in quotation marks if it is an exact phrase

"prime minster" singh

4. Do a site search on Google if you know the site:

site:japantimes.co.jp text to search

5. Search both within and outside the News area of Google, in order to get the most relevant websites as well as news articles, for your "External Links" section.

6. If articles are missing, moved, or deleted, use the Google cache.

7. Another excellent way to keep on top of new developments of interest to you is Google Alerts. Put in your city, county and state, as well as any topic of interest to you (I myself am interested in news from certain countries, as well as fishing for news that is "historic" or "first ever", unique events). Set the news delivery period to Daily or As Develops for hot-ticket items.

8. Image searches can be focused in a specific kind of domain, for example, .gov domains to see if any government related website has an image. An example of a Google image search:

abu ghraib gov

Disclaimer: I don't work for Google... but that's just my tough luck, isn't it? ;-)

Scrounging up press releases
9. Always look for press releases, because much of the news comes from press releases where you can find more details and fuller government quotes. For national government news, go to the relevant government.

All-you-can-eat RSS feeds
10. One good way to keep up with the news is RSS feeds. It is better than surfing their website because you can sign up for dozens of diverse feeds and then the news is delivered to you, rather than trying to figure out what is new from their website. You can find RSS links typically from the homepage of the site that interests you; but if that fails, try http://www.rssfeeds.com.

Going back in time
11. You can get snapshots of old web sites from the Internet Archive "Way Back Machine"; see http://www.waybackmachine.org/ for details.

Research
__ Does the article have a variety of sources (at least 2-3 major independent sources minimum for most articles)? Are they reputable? Are they similarly biased in some way? Are at least some of them in the same language as the article?

__ Are original-research articles adequately documented and credible?

__ Did you "look behind the press release" or merely rehash it without critical scrutiny? Press releases from some organizations tend to be politically correct and factually inaccurate pablum written for an uncritical media and public.

__ Does the news focus on recent, hot news events of the past week or so? Or is it a rehash of old events from previous months or years?

__ What is the long-term significance of this event? If it has no long-term significance, perhaps it is better to find another event to write about.

__ How can this event be covered that makes Wikinews better or different than other news outlets? Focus on adding value to the other accounts, where they miss it or leave important background questions unasked.

__ Does this proposed article have any primary information sources (documents, photographs, video) available that you can use to make up your own mind and derive your own focus apart from other media sources?

Writing
__ Did you take an adequate amount of time to acquaint yourself with the full facts of the story before charging ahead?

__ Is the article appealing, well written, and reasonably presented?

__ Is the style of the article simple and direct, with word choice appropriate for a diverse international audience?

__ Is each paragraph short and does it convey a single point? If not, break apart paragraphs.

__ Are comparisons and contrasts made between experiences and customs of different countries, as appropriate, or have you taken a too-narrow view of a broader subject?

__ Has the public interest been adequately explained to them, in service of the trust that is committed to you as a wikijournalist?

__ Have you considered the possible effect of your article on the people mentioned in it should they hear of the article or read it? Have you respected their legitimate needs of privacy, or held them up to unnecessary ridicule?

__ Did you pass judgment in the article when you should have remained objective? Or did you fail to reach an obvious and necessary conclusion?

__ Does the article falsely represent controversy where there isn't, or consensus where there is none? Does it speak in terms of generalities?

__ Did you fairly identify the party allegiance or sources of financial support of your opinion makers? Identify liberals as well as conservatives.

__ Is your article really commentary or opinion pretending to be news? Are you pretending to expertise that you do not possess? Are you serving a hidden political agenda?

__ Do you carefully distinguish between opinions and approaches you have learned from others, giving them proper credit, and your own ideas? Note that this refers not to facts, which are generally public domain and cannot be copyrighted, but to comparisons, inferences, and judgments that people bring to a subject.

__ Can you add quotes from real people? How about relevant pictures? (Note: it's OK to add neither and go with straight text). The quickest way I have found to get pictures is:
 * 1) Look at Wikipedia articles.  Not all these are compatible with Public Domain license, though.
 * 2) Look for press releases.
 * 3) Use Google Image search and look for Public Domain Sources.

__ Does the article tell a story with an attention-grabbing, complete summary at the beginning and a conclusion at the end? Is it bursting at the seams with interesting and vivid facts that nail the story down and put the reader at the scene of events?

Editing
__ Has the article been spellchecked in the original language/locale (for example, US English versus UK English) and checked for grammar? Verify the spelling of proper names.

__ Have all the facts been double checked? Is each fact relevant in some direct way to the subject?

__ Are the technical or political terms and phrases of the article accurately used?

__ Have all the acronyms (except extremely common ones such as US or UK) been spelled out on their first usage?

__ Are people referenced by their full name and title on first reference, and by their last name and possibly title thereafter? Use pronouns like "he" and "she" only if completely unambiguous.

__ Is the article NPOV? That is, are biased or slanted assertions made in the article that are better off being made by participants in the event, not by a journalist?

__ Are the quotes letter-for-letter accurate? Do they fairly represent the current attitude of the speaker?

__ Does the article plagiarize? Note that our public domain license does not allow the direct importing of other material except for public domain material, including lifting direct text from Wikipedia, which has a different license.

__ Are the less-common and more-relevant proper terms linked to the appropriate articles in Wikipedia or elsewhere, so the reader can immediately dig further?

Organization
__ Is the article well-organized, and divided into sections and subsections as necessary?

__ Could you better represent some of the information in the article as a table or bulleted list for speedy review? Remember that writing for print, like many of our sources do, is different from writing for the web.

__ Can you represent the sequence of events in the article in careful chronological order? That can be a lot easier to understand than just presenting a jumble of events out of order.

Publishing
__ Add a date, but not a location, in the header unless you are doing on the spot reporting

__ Add appropriate categories. It's best to re-use the major categories on the Wiki homepage rather than making more up on the spot.

__ Wait a few hours for others to comment and extend, re-read the article with a fresh frame of mind, then move your finished article up to the active articles page if it looks good and ready.

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New Doctor Who quits series, BBC searches for replacement actor

March 31, 2005

Success may be too much of a good thing for the future of storied BBC series Doctor Who. After the unexpected popularity of last Saturday's return of the series to BBC airwaves, the star of the show is calling it quits from fears of typecasting.

According to a report from the BBC, actor Christopher Eccleston, who injected a edgier and sexier image onto the title character plans to leave the series once his 13-episode commitment is over later this year. Eccleston told reporters that his last appearance as The Doctor will be for a December Christmas special.

The show, which debuted March 26 after a 16-year hiatus, was the highest-rated television show in the UK that night. With an estimated viewership of about 10.5 million at its peak, more than 44 percent of all television households in the country tuned in to see the new Doctor. "The audience's response for the new Doctor Who has been incredible and I am really proud to be part of it and I hope viewers continue to enjoy the series," Eccleston said in a BBC release.

But that popularity was a double-edged sword for Eccleston. With roughly half the population seeing him as Doctor Who, he feared that once typecast as a science fiction Time Lord, audiences may not accept him in other roles. At one year, Eccleston will be the shortest-lived Doctor after Paul McGann who starred in the 1996 telemovie.

But the television network airing the show wants more of the crowd pleaser. The BBC has committed to producing a second 13-episode run of the reinvigorated series and says it is in talks with actor David Tennant to take on the role. Tennant is a star of the BBC period drama, Casanova.

In the announcement of the renewal of Doctor Who, the BBC did say it re-signed series co-star Billie Piper, who agreed to reprise the role of the Doctor's sidekick for series two.

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Dresden city council wants DNA matching for doggy-doo

March 31, 2005 Councillors at Dresden City Council in Germany would like to match doggy-doo left by pets on the sidewalk and in parks, against a database storing profiles for all of the city's 12,000 registered dogs. Karl Jobig, a politician in Dresden, was surprised when his proposal received a majority vote.

"In this way, Dresden will once again be one of the cleanest cities in Germany," Roland Putzger, the leader of the local council, told .

DNA from registered dogs would be collected from blood or saliva for the "genetic fingerprinting" service.

's data protection commissioner, Andreas Schurig, ruled that dogs had no rights over their data and could not object to the compulsory tests.

The proposal will be binding if the council passes it by majority vote in May.


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

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! -- Davodd | Talk 03:09, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
 * Contents - the contents page.
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UN Report: Earth ecosystem in peril

March 31, 2005 A report Tuesday from a United Nations-backed project, consulting more than 1,300 scientists from 95 countries, and written over the last four years, warns that 60 percent of the basics of life on Earth — water, food, timber, clean air — are currently being used in ways which degrade them. Furthermore, fisheries and fresh water use-patterns are unsustainable, and getting worse.

"The harmful consequences of this degradation could grow significantly worse in the next 50 years," according to a press release from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), a massive four-year study begun in 2001.

"We've had many reports on environmental degradation, but for the first time we're now able to draw connections between ecosystem services and human well-being," Cristian Samper, director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington and a chief architect of the study, told the Christian Science Monitor.

The project's Synthesis Report, first in a series of eleven documents and published yesterday, explains the objective: "to assess the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and to establish the scientific basis for actions needed to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems and their contributions to human well-being."

It then goes on to report on four main findings:

 * Changes over the last 50 years to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel, have effected substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

 * Net gains in human well-being and economic development are offset by growing costs, in the form ecosystem degradation, the possibility of abrupt and unpredictable ecosystem changes, and worsened poverty for some groups. Unless addressed, these problems will substantially diminish the benefits that future generations obtain from ecosystems.

 * Ecosystem degradation could grow significantly worse over the next 50 years, presenting a barrier to meeting UN Millennium Development Goals.

 * The challenge of reversing the degradation while meeting increasing ecological demands can be partially met under some scenarios, but only with significant changes in policies, institutions and practices — changes that are not currently under way.

Walter Reid, the study's director, speaking at yesterday's London launch of the report said it shows that over the last 50 years "humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable time in human history."

"This has resulted in substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth," he said.

It is unclear what this will mean to future generations or the possible emergence of new diseases, absence of fresh water and the continuing decline of fisheries and completely unpredictable weather.

With half of the urban populations of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean suffering from several diseases associated with these problems, the death toll is reaching 1.7 million people a year. Entire species of mammals, birds and amphibians are disappearing from the planet at nearly 1,000 times the natural rate, according to the study. Oxygen-depleted coastal waters and rivers result from overuse of nitrogen fertilizer - an effect known as "nutrient loading" which leads to continuing biodiversity loss.

With the United States' non-participation in the Kyoto Treaty, former U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth, president of this U.N. Foundation, says "U.S. leadership is critical in providing much-needed expertise, technological capabilities and ingenuity to restore ecosystems.

"We can take steps at home to reduce our nation's adverse impact on the global environment."

"At the heart of this assessment is a stark warning," said the 45-member board.

Sources providing unjustified claims about the report

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I should warn you: Wikinews does not accept press releases as articles. Repeated recreation of a deleted article is grounds for banning. We appreciate articles which are balanced and multiply sourced.

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Man attempts to foil breathalyzer by eating feces

March 31, 2005

A man accused of driving under the influence of alcohol stuffed his mouth full of feces in a failed attempt to foil the police breathalyzer.

The man was arrested Sunday by South Simcoe Police after his pickup truck was pulled over on Ontario Provincial Highway 11 in Stroud, Ontario, Canada. On the way to the police station for testing, the 59-year-old vomited, urinated, and defecated in the police cruiser. Sgt. James Buchanan said that upon arriving at the station, the prisoner grabbed a handful of his own waste "and placed it in his mouth, attempting to trick the breathalyzer machine".

Nevertheless, the man registered two readings of more than twice the legal blood alcohol limit of 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood in his system. He was charged with impaired driving and driving over the limit and was released on a promise to appear in a Bradford, Ontario court on May 12.


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Harvard hosts conference on technological future of news media

April 1, 2005

Harvard University recently hosted a symposium called "Whose News? Media, Technology and the Common Good" at its Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Held March 3-4 and providing a certain amount of video to be rebroadcast through the web, the event was widely commented on by both bloggers and traditional media.

Among the participants was Richard Sambrook, Director of the, which has taken on the challenge of incorporating the voices of citizen journalists into their news gathering and presentation process. At what he calls the "community level", the BBC is engaging a project called "Digital Storytelling" in which they are assisting and working with individuals in the recording and production of videos that "document their lives and report and cull things of importance to them", which the BBC has then distributed by a variety of means. They are also encouraging participation in issues of citizen concern at the national and international levels.

Some participants such as co-creator of the seminar, Matt Thompson expressed concern over the growing centralization of the ownership of mainstream news media in the hands of a few corporate sponsors, at the same time it incorporates these growing sources of audience information. "I think that people are looking forward to a media that can truly respond to them, even if the...corporate centralization aspects of it in this giant 'Googlezon' entity give many people pause" quoting a thread to the effect, "I for one welcome our new Googlezon overlords."

There was some discussion of the traditional media and its engagement with recent issues of national importance. "I think there's been a massive media failure across the board...there's been an institutional failure", said MediaChannel Executive Editor Danny Schechter in discussing his film, "WMD: Weapons of Mass Distortion". He suggested two basic fixes including "more diversity of perspective...let's have a real debate and discussion" and "don't take everything at face value and check facts and look at perspectives from other countries." He decried what he called "" in American media and called for "more feisty independent journalists, and more watchdog, less lapdog."

However, some other critics have elsewhere expressed concerns about the actual independence and diversity of webloggers and other non-traditional media as an antidote to perceived media bias. For example, there is often a perceived lack of race or sex diversity among top bloggers. Steven Levy, a senior editor of Newsweek, has recently written a column addressing concerns about the over-representation of white males among top bloggers on the Internet. Technorati.com, a website which describes itself as "the authority on what is happening on the real-time web", maintains a list of the top 100 blogs that was used as the basis for his column. However, others such as at  have pointed out that there are no actual barriers to participation to anyone who wishes to engage in blogging, and so such imbalances in representation are probably not the result of personal bias.


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Talk:Man attempts to foil breathalyzer by eating feces

De-Wikified
I understand "Ford" being removed for being irrelevant and de-wikifying "pickup truck" as fairly commonly understood but why de-wikify slightly vague legal terms like: "driving under the influence" and "impaired driving"? Also Ontario provincial highway 11 is a very well-known and important roadway in Canada, often called the longest street in the world. If we link to more info on cities, provinces, and countries, why not to a highway of prime significance? Oh and thanks for helping me learn the ropes here. DoubleBlue 06:13, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I may have over-done the dewikifying... In my opinion (and it's just mine, feel free to revert me!!) if the wiki links are particularly relevant to the article, they should be there. This article seemed to be focused on the feces eating, and the reason was the breathalyzer/blood alcohol level. I suspect the geography links should go as well, but I left 'em. It was just my judgement, nothing more. - Amgine 06:17, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)]
 * Amgine, thanks for another speedy and informative reply! I was wikifying anything that could lead to more interesting information as that is one of the things I like about wikipedia (i.e. following links and riding madly off in all directions) but I see your point about using it only for more info relevant to the article.  DoubleBlue 03:37, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Eeeew, I feel sick! Dan100 (Talk) 07:58, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Holy sh(self-censoring enabled)! Literally! Veritos 22:46, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

No word on whether they cleaned the machine?
Breathalizer machines aren't known for being the cleanest of equipment; any word on whether they tried to clean it after he used it?


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Talk:SciScoop changes ownership

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In July 2005 Davodd reverted this to the false claim that SciScoop had shut down and to the original, incorrect article title. Why? It should either be moved back to the old title, or a notice should be added at the top stating that the article is incorrect.--Eloquence 17:34, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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Voting in Zimbabwe starts amid accusations of rigged outcome

March 31, 2005 Elections in Zimbabwe began with both the ruling and opposition parties predicting victory.

Current president Robert Mugabe predicts a "mountainous victory" for his party, the (Zanu-PF). The main opposition — (MDC) claims the election is being rigged, and despite being allowed to freely campaign, the government's intimidation of voters and moves to hurt opposition supporters will prevent the MDC win.

The government recently withheld food aid from those supporting the MDC, according to a United Nations report. The UN further reports the government dismissed election officials and poll workers suspected of supporting MDC.

Criticism of the government has been loud. Last week, a Catholic archbishop in Zimbabwe urged followers to start a non-violent, popular uprising against Mugabe, and rallies have been common in recent days. The previous elections, which the MDC almost won, were marred by violence and similar allegations of vote-rigging.

More than 5.7 million Zimbabweans are registered to vote, and can cast their ballots at one of the more than 8,000 polling stations.


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The Zimbabwe flag image needs to point to File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg. Zscout370 (talk) 22:59, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

 * ✅ Tempodivalse [talk]  23:03, 26 October 2009 (UTC)


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Chlorine spill in China's Jiangsu province kills 28, injures hundreds

March 31, 2005 A tanker truck filled with 35 tons of liquid chlorine collided with another truck and crashed in China's Jiangsu province on Wednesday, leaking its load, killing at least 28 and injuring hundreds. 10,000 villagers have been evacuated from the surrounding area along the Beijing-Shanghai expressway.

The driver left the scene of the accident in Huai'an city, but later in the day turned himself over to authorities in Nanjing, the provincial capital. The driver of the other truck died on the scene.

Vice mayor Lu Changsu told China's Xinhua that the death toll may increase because three patients are still in critical condition. Lu said that 350 people remain hospitalized.

A cleanup crew is treating the accident site with a caustic soda. Area farmers are concerned that local farmland will be rendered infertile by the spill.

CPC Vice Premier Huang Ju asked the provincial Jiangsu government to "spare no efforts", according to Xinhua.


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Copyvio
The lead of this article is a verbatim copy of the lead for one of the sources. This will violate the "heart of copyrighted material" test for copyright violation. - Amgine 17:34, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

ok..once i fix it, how do i get the tag removed? Paulrevere2005 00:50, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

is it ok now? Paulrevere2005 12:43, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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User:Sajad

I am Sajad from Iran.
 * Sajad is active at the  Persian Wikipedia (fa) and Persian Wikiquote (fa).

How to contact me

 * Mail: sajad[dot]gh[at]gmail[dot]com

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User talk:213.224.186.120

Welcome
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Talk:UN Report: Earth ecosystem in peril

I renamed this article because the previous headline was anthropomorphizing Earth and could be seen as POV. -- Davodd | Talk 16:04, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Someone give this person, Simeon, a basic primer in journalistic courtesy. DON'T MESS WITH OR 'EDIT' SOMEONE'S WORK until it posts. --Alan J. Franklin 04:23, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * First of all - this is a wonderful start to a very intresting story. Second, by helping, Simeon did nothing wrong. Blue links on the front page in Developing stories are fair game to editing by all, as is the wiki way. If you do not want anyone to "MESS" with your work, try adding the tag to the top of your story to let others know it is still being worked on and not ready for prime time. Otherwise a wikinewsie is likely to take the story over, finish it and move it to Latest news. Additionally, you may want to write new stories in a /Sandbox off your User Page to keep others from helping in the collaborative was Simeon was rightfully doing. -- Davodd | Talk  05:06, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Alan - fine, but if you don't tell people when it will be posted or that its being worked on, and it looks like wild assertions, then I think what I did is OK, I didn't make much change, just toned down the lead a little by crediting it to someone with authority, not just 'some wikinews guy' - Simeon 05:03, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

dodgey source => led to inaccurate facts, distorted POV
The following source

makes an assertion which I can't find factual casis for, and which I think is what caused the initial story to be fairly alarmist: being that 60% of resources are at critical already.

I am tempted to remove this source from the story sources list, but unsure how to flag that it is dodgey other than this note.

Any ideas/comments? Simeon 07:54, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * It does not say "60% of resources". It says "60% of ecosystems". Dan100 (Talk) 09:38, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Slap me. It actually says "ecosystem services" (a phrasing I've never heard of), which I guess is the same as a 'resource' Dan100 (Talk) 09:40, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah. I paraphrased. Point is, the report doesn't say what the Editorial says. :\ Simeon 01:50, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Found a second article which mentions similar figure, created a section Sources providing unjustified claims about the report for identifying these articles until the issue can be resolved satisfactorily, emailed the second source, The Guardian, email reproduced below:

 Dear Editor,

I am writing to clarify what seems to me to be an inaccuracy in a recent article from your paper. It's the headline: Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up'

--- clipping ---

Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up' Tim Radford, science editor Wednesday March 30, 2005 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1447863,00.html

The human race is living beyond its means. A report backed by 1,360 scientists from 95 countries - some of them world leaders in their fields - today warns that the almost two-thirds of the natural machinery that supports life on Earth is being degraded by human pressure.

--- end clipping ---

Nowhere in the report do I find the headline of your article justified.

I am curious, where did you get the '2/3 used up' figure from? I have seen similar claims that the report says this (Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial Board, "Our Living Planet: Prescription for change", http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/218147_earthed.asp, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 30, 2005), but in fact in the report, I couldn't find this mentioned.

The report says, as is mentioned in the body of your article, that 2/3 are *being degraded*. It also mentions a lot of figures about specific cases, which indicate significant levels of existing degredation. But nowhere do I find an overall assessment of the percentage of world's resources irreversibly 'used up'.

This is important to me, not only as a resident here on earth, but because we have covered the article for Wikinews en.wikinews.org and the article was subject to some contention.

Simeon Scott (contact details were provided in actual email)

Needs cite
With half of the urban populations of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean suffering from several diseases associated with these problems, the death toll is reaching 1.7 million people a year.
 * Checked - OK Dan100 (Talk) 09:36, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Entire species of mammals, birds and amphibians are disappearing from the planet at nearly 1,000 times the natural rate, according to the study.
 * Checked - OK Dan100 (Talk) 09:36, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Coastal waters and oxygen-dead rivers result from overuse of nitrogen fertilizers which try to pull every possible sprout from overused and otherwise dead soil.
 * Nitrogen fertilizers are mentioned but it does not say "which try to pull every possible sprout from overused and otherwise dead soil". I feel that is opinion. Dan100 (Talk) 09:36, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This is called “nutrient loading” and will lead to continuing and unstoppable biodiversity loss.
 * This is not in the source text - nutrient loading is not said to be "unstoppable". Dan100 (Talk) 09:36, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Climate change is part of the deadly cycle.
 * This is not stated in the source text. Dan100 (Talk)

-- Davodd | Talk

The cite is the source of the article, the Millenium report. Try reading it if you have the time. Remember to do this in the future to save others the needless aggravation of responding to these flags. Additionally, several of the newspaper citations have commented on the same thing. Unless you can show me that the article does not contain the information in my carefully researched piece, I am removing your flag. I will cite for vandalism anyone who doesn't read the cites in the future. --Alan J. Franklin 05:04, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Again, thank you for volunteering to write here. In order to ease your frustrations, I do reccommend you start using the tag at the beginning of your articles when you start them. Also, please remember that in Wikinews, you do not own your work once you hit that submit button - it becomes public domain. ;-) Second, since Wikinews is collaborative, it is open for all to edit. Thirdly, in following of our NPOV mandate, every opinion or assertion needs to be cited individually to its source - in every paragraph. Or, it will likely be removed by a fellow editor as supposed POV of the wiki reporter (which is not allowed under NPOV). -- Davodd | Talk  05:14, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Removing dispute tag
Please do not remove dispute tags until there is some consensus to do so. - Amgine 05:10, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I do think it's fair for an editor to remove the 'sources' tag when they have checked sources. However, in this case, the problems highlighted here on the talk page hadn't actually been fixed. Dan100 (Talk) 09:50, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Typo
editprotected "Millenium" => "Millennium" Van der Hoorn (talk) 15:20, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

 * ✅ ♪Tempo di Valse ♪ 15:53, 13 March 2009 (UTC)


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Terri Schiavo dies

March 31, 2005

Terri Schiavo died this morning in, Florida, moments after 9 a.m. EST. Thirteen days ago, her feeding tube was removed after courts repeatedly ruled Schiavo would not want to be kept alive in her current state. Schiavo suffered severe brain damage in 1990 after a mysterious cardiac arrest.

Many news sources allege the cardiac arrest was caused by an eating disorder, while her family maintains she had no eating disorder at all. During the attack, her brain was starved of oxygen for 14 minutes, leading to the death of many of the in her brain and possibly leaving her in a  (PVS).

Michael Schiavo argued before the courts that his wife would not want to live for a prolonged period on a feeding tube. In 2001, the tube was removed, but was reinserted two days later after an appeal by Terri's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler. After the Schindler family had all of their appeals rejected, the tube was removed once again in 2003, but reinserted six days later when Governor and the Florida legislature collaborated on a bill, allowing Bush to order the tube reinserted. After the law was overturned in May of 2004, and the Schindler family's numerous appeals were again rejected, the tube was removed on March 18th.

President George W. Bush held a press conference, in part to offer his condolences to the friends and family of Schiavo. The president commended those on both sides of the issue.

An autopsy is planned to be performed in the coming days, which both the Schindler family and Michael Schiavo hope will shed some light on the cause of her brain damage.

Schiavo is survived by her husband, parents and her younger siblings Robert Jr. and Suzanne; she had no children. Schiavo was 41 years old.

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Hi, thanks for your excellent work on the Schiavo article. I hope you can continue to contribute to Wikinews! Dan100 (Talk) 19:03, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Google starts prefetching top search results for Mozilla and Firefox browsers

April 1, 2005 Google engineer Reza Behforooz announced in a Google blog entry on March 30 that search engine Google has enabled "link prefetching" for some of their search results. The link prefetching has not been standardized, but it can enable faster page loading of Google search results in Mozilla and Firefox browsers that have the feature enabled.

When Google determines a user has a high likelihood of clicking on a search result, Google inserts a tag into the results they send out in response to a search. Some browsers can then preload that page, so in the event the user does select the page, it loads very quickly.

For example, a Google search for "wikipedia" today by Pingswept yielded an HTML page with this code included: While not a formal benchmark, in casual testing by Pingswept, Firefox 1.0.2 loaded the Wikipedia main page in about half the time when the page had been link prefetched, as opposed to when it had not been. The load times were approximately 1.5 seconds and 3 seconds respectively. Internet Explorer 6.0 loaded the same page in slightly less than 3 seconds.

Users who want to disable prefetching in Firefox can do the following:

 * 1) Type "about:config" in the address bar.
 * 2) Scroll down to the setting "network.prefetch-next".
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Translations
Hello, I wanted to let you know that translation requests go on Workspace Thanks for your work. --Cspurrier 03:18, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Rocket story
Do you think this all smells a little bit fishy? I mean... an undercover reporter and all. -Edbrown05 05:51, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:81.91.98.19

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User talk:195.10.23.126

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User talk:172.200.50.156

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User talk:Sajad

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User talk:196.39.8.226

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User talk:216.229.236.96

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User talk:195.202.72.50

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User talk:Phil Boswell

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User talk:Oliphaunt

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User talk:203.173.21.86

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Wikinews talk:Writing contest/chart

Could someone remove me from the chart?! It's quite embarrasing. If only the competition had launched two months earlier... ;) Dan100 (Talk) 22:27, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Palestinian security chief quits, says too little is being done to curb lawlessness

March 31, 2005

Tawfik Tirawi, head of Palestinian Intelligence in the West Bank, resigned Thursday. Fatah officials said he told President Mahmoud Abbas that too little was being done to curb lawlessness in the West Bank and Gaza.

"I cannot work under these conditions," he wrote in a letter of resignation given to Abbas.

He reportedly claims other heads of Palestinian security organizations had not done enough to impose the rule of law Abbas has promised. Abbas himself said some senior Palestinian officials are blocking his reform efforts.

Tirawi is the most senior security official to resign since Abbas' election in January.


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EU, Canada impose duties on some US goods in retaliation for Byrd Amendment

April 1, 2005

The European Union (EU) and Canada announced they will impose a 15% tariff on some United States (U.S.) imports. Permission for the sanctions was granted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) due to the U.S. maintaining a law known as the Byrd Amendment, which gives its companies billions of dollars collected from foreign rivals.

U.S. Congress failed to repeal the four-year-old Byrd Amendment ruled illegal by the WTO in September 2002. The WTO gave the EU and Canada, in addition to Brazil, Japan, India, South Korea and Mexico the right to impose retaliatory tariffs on November 27. The tariffs will take effect May 1.

The retaliatory tariffs will largely affect U.S. paper, clothing and machinery for the EU and live swine, cigarettes and oysters for Canada.

In the 2004 fiscal year, U.S. based Timken received $40 million, and Lancaster Colony Corp. received about $26 million. The EU says that total payouts will rise as high as $1.6 billion in the fiscal year of 2005 unless the law is repealed. The U.S. Congressional Budget Office estimated that payouts for the fiscal year of 2006 will reach $1.15 billion.

The European tariffs will collect near $26 million, while the Canadian tariffs will amount to near $11.6 million.

The European Commission, in a statement, said the tariffs were caused by "the continuing failure of the U.S. to bring its legislation into conformity with its international obligations."

According to Canadian Trade Minister Jim Peterson, the tariffs are "a strong message that we are all sending to the U.S. that international rule, those of the WTO, must be respected. We just cannot allow the U.S. to illegally disburse funds that are collected."

A spokesman for the U.S. Trade Representative, Richard Mills, said "We're disappointed that this step is being taken. The U.S. is working to comply with the WTO decision."

Other countries such as Japan and Mexico are considering a similar move.

President Bush has called for congress to repeal the Byrd Amendment since February.


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Wikinews:2005/April/1

 * FBI: Death of the Georgian Prime Minister was an accident
 * The Vatican: Pope suffers from congestive heart failure
 * Witnesses saw truck "rev up and race" before Texas blast
 * Zimbabwe election victory for Mugabe
 * MS-13 gang threatens the Arizona "minutemen"
 * Rural African school goes to Sweden for environment award
 * Minutemen gather to patrol US-Mexican border in April
 * Parents of Terri Schiavo to sell list of supporters to marketing firm
 * Bus drivers to strike in Auckland
 * Pope in medical crisis
 * Iraq: Uneven voter turnout elects women who push sharia law while anti-woman violence rages
 * Metal press crushes Illinois worker
 * Harvard hosts conference on technological future of news media
 * Google starts prefetching top search results for Mozilla and Firefox browsers
 * US lowers bar in age discrimination suits
 * EU, Canada impose duties on some US goods in retaliation for Byrd Amendment

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Pope in medical crisis

April 1, 2005 Several sources report Pope, who was receiving nutrition from a tube inserted through his nose, is no longer using the tube. The tube was inserted shortly after the pontiff appeared at his window overlooking and was only able to speak several words.

The tube used was threaded down the nose and throat into the stomach. A surgically implanted tube was also considered at the time, but it was deemed excessively invasive according to Dr. Barbara Paris, director of geriatrics at in.

There are reports the pontiff has a severe urinary tract infection. The infection caused a severe fever which developed into a medical crisis. He is being treated by antibiotics and has recently suffered from heart failure and a significant reduction in kidney function. According to the Vatican, he is currently "lucid", breathing shallowly, and surrounded by his top aides.

The Pope's condition has led many to pray — both and non-Catholics. A large number of people are outside the papal apartment in the. Many people have also come to pray at in.

The ailing Pope also suffers from, which makes it difficult for him to talk while knee and hip ailments are taking a serious toll on his mobility. The series of new ailments follows the breathing tube insertion by only a month's time.

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User talk:170.224.224.118

Hello,

It appears that you have written a misleading article about the Pope. Specifically, you claimed that the Pope's feeding tube had been removed and that the sources you provided this assertion.

I read all 5 sources that you provided:
 * New infection necessitating removal of feeding tube Houston Chronicle
 * Italian doctors recommend surgically implanted tube
 * Description of former tube treatment
 * 01:18 UTC (1:18 a.m.)
 * Pope was being fed through tube in nose TheBostonChannel.com

Here are the same links with the correct titles:
 * Infection causing high fever in pope Houston Chronicle
 * Italian doctors recommend surgically implanted tube
 * Description of former tube treatment
 * Vatican: Pope Being Fed Through Tube In Nose TheBostonChannel.com
 * Vatican: Pope Being Fed Through Tube In Nose TheBostonChannel.com

You falsified 3 out of 5 titles.

People such as myself have now spent their time correcting your fabrications. Should this occur again, you will be banned for 24 hours. In the meantime, you are welcome to write and edit articles. Pingswept 01:23, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:EU, Canada impose duties on some US goods in retaliation for Byrd Amendment

- Amgine 02:58, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC) -


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US lowers bar in age discrimination suits

April 1, 2005 The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that plaintiffs bringing lawsuits against employers need not prove the employers intended to discriminate against them on the basis of their age. The ruling lowers the legal bar, over which an employee who felt wronged by an employer must pass, by allowing cases to move forward when explicit evidence is lacking.

The court ruled on the case of police officers in Jackson, Miss. In their 5-3 decision, they found for a group of officers to proceed with damages claiming they were harmed by their department’s salary policy. The findings of the court do not mean the group of officers will necessarily win their lawsuit. Rather, the judges thought their particular case was flimsy, but they ruled the officer’s complaints were on valid grounds to pursue the claim. Therefore, the suit will not be thrown out of Mississippi’s state court as being groundless.

Business interests closely watching the case and fearing worse were reassured by the court stopping far short of supporting the officers’ claims. The Jackson city salary plan was changed to increase the pay of junior level officers by 30% to be competitive with surrounding municipalities and attract recruits.

The more senior level police officers’ age discrimination allegations will probably not be enough to win the suit, but the effect of the new law means employers will need to defend their practices, and cannot summarily get lawsuits dismissed on the basis of allegations being groundless. Legal scholars believe this has importance because it acknowledges some forms of age discrimination in the work place are subtle. With half of US workers in the workforce now over 40, employers will need to be attentive to their practices or find them challenged in court.

The language of the ruling broadens the nation’s existing law found in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act passed in 1967. While lawyers do not expect a great increase in age-bias cases due to the ruling, it does make the path to mounting a case easier. It is notable that corporate policies that do adversely discriminate against older workers are still considered legal if they are formed on reasonable grounds other than age. The law’s effect will not necessarily have employers change their policies, but rather re-think their practices to assure they are fair.