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I must admit that this sounds very, very unlikely. The US was among Akajev's strongest supporters. Sounds like a public opinion engineering stunt. Also have a look at the pages of the Democratic Party website of neighbouring Uzbekistan: http://www.uzbekistanerk.org/
 * The story has, in fact, been reported by well-respected news agencies, and partly substantiated by US State Dept. accounts. Dpr 02:18, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I reworked and expanded it to focus on known facts and such, let me know if you still have problems with it. - VF 03:53, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I saw some stuff on this when I was researching for all the other articles I did, I'll take this over and expand it now. - VF 02:47, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. - VF 03:53, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * VF, great job. Thanks for taking over and building a great piece from my baby steps. Dpr 04:37, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Iraqi insurgents attack Abu Ghraib

April 2, 2005 An insurgency involving approximately 40 to 60 fighters at Abu Ghraib prison base was repelled by the Iraqi and US armies on Saturday, according to Lieutenant Colonel Guy Rudisill in a conversation with Reuters.

The conflict, described as intermittent and lasting an hour, involved two car bombs, rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire. Officials in Baghdad reported approximately 20 U.S. service members and 12 prison detainees were wounded. According to the Colonel the attack occurred at 10 a.m. EST.

US forces responded with heavy weapons fire and eventually brought the situation under control. There are no reports how many insurgents were wounded or killed in the battle.

CBS News reported that there was a car bomb explosion today in the city of Khan Bani Saad, located in central Iraq, killing 4 police officers and injuring 5 civilians. While in Iraq's capital city of Baghdad, in a drive by shooting gunmen killed Hassib Zamil, an education official, outside the Education Ministry offices.

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Inspectors close Chicago landmark Healthy Food restaurant after finding dead mouse in cooler

April 2, 2005 Chicago city inspectors closed the landmark Lithuanian restaurant Healthy Food on Thursday, after finding mouse feces on the meat slicer and cutting board, and a dead mouse in the cooler.

The restaurant has operated at 3236 S. Halsted, on the south side of the city in the Bridgeport neighborhood, since the 1930s.

Wikinews reporter David Vasquez placed a call to the restaurant to inquire if they were open. The call was answered by a woman who said, "No, we're closed. There's some technical difficulties. I'm sorry. Thank you for calling." A second phone could be heard ringing in the background.

Streets and Sanitation spokesman Matt Smith told the Chicago Sun-Times, "To reopen, they're going to have to present us with a revamped game plan for not only rodent control but also housekeeping, they'll have to make all the corrections that our inspectors point out," he continued, "and pass a very stringent follow-up inspection."

Patrons have praised the restaurant's sauerkraut soup and other dishes over the years. Before it was closed, the restaurant had a lot of traffic from the nearby Cook County Circuit Court. The restaurant was once voted "Best Ethnic Eastern European Restaurant in Chicago", according to New City.


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Volunteers gather to help patrol Arizona's border with Mexico

April 3, 2005

Volunteers from across the United States and some foreign countries gathered Friday to start an unofficial border patrol project.

They converged on the town of, Arizona to take part in what organizers call the Minuteman Project.

Many came with personal firearms, cell phones or walking canes.

Most estimates numbered the group at 400 to 450 people, recruited from the Internet, far less than the 1,300 the organizers had hoped for, but “it was enough to send a message,” according to. , R-.

"The federal government has walked away from this border," he told some volunteers. He gained support and popularity for his stance against illegal immigration, but was characterized as anti-immigration in general.

"We are here to exercise what is a basic American right: free speech and the right to assemble," he said.

Local citizens such as Luis Martinez, a third-generation Tombstone-area resident, were very unhappy with the developments. "They've come here to cause problems -- to fight. Not to solve problems.

"I work in a ranch and all the ranchers use labor from the other side" of the border.

As Martinez fought back tears, he said he wanted to see the throngs leave Tombstone and go home.

During speeches delivered at orientation meetings, Rep. Tancredo was applauded loudly as he dismissed criticism from those who have called the volunteers racists and xenophobes. His fellow [[Republican Party (US)|Republican}}, President, described the group as "vigilantes." Mexican President used the term cazamigrantes — immigrant hunters.

Tancredo said: "We are saying to our government, 'Please enforce the law,' That is not a radical idea. That is not a vigilante idea. It is an American concept: the rule of law."

Many of the volunteers, some from as far away as Italy, are bedding down in the nearby Miracle Valley Bible College for about $5 a night. Others are camping on the grounds of the run-down campus, about two miles north of the border.

Opposing sides were on the streets in Tombstone, although it appeared there was little contact or friction. Local, state and federal officers had mobilized in case confrontations arose.

James Gilchrist, a former Marine and a retired accountant from Aliso Viejo, Arizona, who ran the sign-up effort, said he expected more than 1,000 volunteers to help highlight the 30-day effort. The project's goal is to patrol 23 miles of the, watch the border, and report illegal activity to law enforcement officials.

Many people fear that the project could result in vigilante violence. Organizers hope it causes the U.S. government to increase border patrols.

Tombstone is best known as the site of the 1881.


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Losses almost double for 3, a mobile phone company

April 3, 2005

3, the 3G mobile phone firm owned by Hong Kong based Hutchison Whampoa has reported pre-tax, pre-exceptional losses of HK$37.5bn (US$4.8bn/€3.7bn) for 2004. This compares with losses of HK$19.6bn (US$2.5/€1.94bn) in 2003 when the company was only in operation for seven months.

Despite the losses, Hutchison Whampoa chairman Li Ka-Shing said "3 achieved substantial business momentum in 2004". The firm now has over eight million customers worldwide, with three million of these in the UK.

3 was the first 3G provider in the UK, ahead of incumbent Vodafone by launching in 2003. Vodafone currently has about 200,000 customers for its 3G service in Britain.


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Wikinews:2005/April/3

 * Alex Sanchez suspended for drugs
 * Akayev signs resignation agreement
 * Annual rich list shows Ireland now has six billionaires
 * Web site claims Abu Ghraib attack for Al Quaida
 * Speculation abounds on future pope
 * Tartan Day festivities April 6 in New York
 * World Bank to tighten security belt for Wolfowitz arrival
 * Chinese protesters smash up Japanese market
 * Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for African Pope
 * Names of Australians killed in helicopter crash released
 * Catholic Church prepares for papal election conclave
 * Marketing blitz begins for final 'Star Wars' film
 * United States helped Kyrgyz pro-democracy programs
 * Time for North Americans to spring ahead one hour
 * Volunteers gather to help patrol Arizona's border with Mexico
 * Losses almost double for 3, a mobile phone company
 * Two Newcastle football players fight each other, both sent off

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Talk:Inspectors close Chicago landmark Healthy Food restaurant after finding dead mouse in cooler

Reporter's notes
I placed a call to the Healthy Food restaurant to inquire if they were open. (The contact number is provided on the menu web page I listed in the See also section.)

The call was answered by a woman.

I asked, "Hello. Are you open today?"

The woman who answered said, "No, we're closed. There's some technical difficulties. I'm sorry. Thank you for calling."

I could hear a second phone ringing in the background. I'm wondering if many news organizations are calling this restaurant now that they are receiving national coverage for this story.

It's kind of sad that a restaurant which has been open since the 1930s would be brought down by a single mouse.

I hope they are able to sanitize and re-open the establishment soon.

That's my report from the Food Safety desk.

— DV 23:08, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Oh I think this is great, DV...Wikinews could have plenty of this in the future since we may have users all over the world! --HiFlyer 00:36, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Healthy Foods reopen
I have just called Healthy Foods & they gave their opening hours. Their website is up & running.

http://cityinsights.com/healthyfood.htm

I'm looking forward to going back there. It is alot like my grandmother's cooking!

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Please replace the mouse image with "Apodemus sylvaticus bosmuis.jpg". Thanks. Siebrand - (talk) 09:12, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
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Talk:Volunteers gather to help patrol Arizona's border with Mexico

Hopefully no one will get hurt at this event.

Since the article is being edited, I've placed a map showing where Arizona is located, with a caption ready to go, here on this talk page.

Cheers,

— DV 23:35, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the consideration DV...I will move it now as I am done with my part of this story. --HiFlyer 23:41, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * How strange that someone from Italy would volunteer to help patrol the US-Mexican border. Perhaps he or she has relatives in Arizona? — DV 23:47, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I heard from a friend that there were several foreign countries represented. But the news sources only found an Italian. I think it's a bad thing...doesn't look like much now, but could get ugly ;-/ --HiFlyer 23:56, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It's part of a new International outreach called "vigilante tourism", where they show up, beat up some lawbreakers, snap some photos then go home... ;-) DouglasGreen 19:55, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Abbas orders more security reforms, hundreds of security officers to be forced to retire

April 2, 2005 Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas has ordered hundreds of Palestinian security officers to retire as part of a plan to reform his forces and end continuing lawlessness, a Palestinian official told Reuters.

The official said that Abbas has ordered the ratification of a law which would effectively force hundreds of security officers from Fatah's older guard to retire early. The Fatah faction is widely seen as corrupt, and Abbas has promised to fight this corruption.

"Hundreds of security men will retire," the official told Reuters. He also said that the law would take effect next week.

This comes just days after Tawfik Tirawi, head of Palestinian Intelligence in the West Bank, resigned, and Abbas had several security chiefs fired for failing to curb lawlessness in the West Bank and Gaza.

Haj Ismail, head of Palestinian national security in the West Bank, who resigned Friday after Abbas called for his resignation, blamed the government for not stopping violence and lawlessness in Gaza and the West Bank in recent months. Tirawi also said that heads of other security organizations were not doing enough to halt the lawlessness when he retired.


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Time for North Americans to spring ahead one hour

April 3, 2005 The time has come for North Americans to enjoy the extra length of the Northern Hemisphere’s spring and summer day, by observing Daylight Saving Time (DST).

In most areas of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, DST observers should turn their clocks ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday morning.

In Canada, the change takes effect in Newfoundland and New Brunswick at 12:01 a.m., and 2 a.m. in most of the rest of the country.

Arizona, Hawaii, the part of Indiana in the Eastern time zone, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa do not change their clocks. Certain areas in Canada also do not observe DST, such as Saskatchewan province. Mexico only started observing DST in 1996, after the North American Free Trade Agreement, to coordinate their times with neighbouring states.

North America isn't the only region observing DST. Many European countries began last week and several countries south of the equator returned to standard time in March as they enter autumn. Other countries continue to discuss whether or not a switch to the system is a good idea. In Israel, a Knesset committee recently decided to begin observing daylight savings on the last Thursday before April 1.

In North America, daylight savings time ends the last Sunday in October.

Safety advocates say this is a good time to change batteries in your smoke detector as well.


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World Bank to tighten security belt for Wolfowitz arrival

April 2, 2005

Despite controversy ignited by the White House nomination of Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank (WB), the 24-member board of directors voted unanimously on Thursday to accept his confirmation. A whirlwind tour by Wolfowitz, who traveled to many capital cities of the bank’s major shareholders and met with voting board members, quieted misgivings over his succession to the incumbent president John Wolfensohn.

Widespread criticism of the Wolfowitz role in the US build-up to war in Iraq heightened levels of security concerns within the bank as they anticipate his arrival. The WB, from the executive level down to memos circulated among departments, express concern for it becoming the target of terrorist attack. The level of seriousness being taken by WB led it to set up cost estimates for improving security.

Wolfowitz will assume leadership in June this year. Despite a belief by some that he acts unilaterally and lacks development experience, a European Commission spokeswoman, speaking for Commissioner Olli Rehn, told a news conference that[Rehn] "was satisfied with everything he heard from Mr Wolfowitz concerning free trade and also on poverty reduction and development policy."

The Associated Press quotes the Belgian Development Aid minister saying, "There are no objections of EU countries."

The public display of support belies dissention underneath. Reuters reportedly received a confidential email that provided details of a comment line on an internal website for the WB staff who use it from their far flung locations. The feelings about the Wolfowitz nomination received 1,300 responses, mostly about the bank’s reputation and effectiveness under the new leadership.


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Thanks! I hadn't heard it mentioned in the news all day! -edw 02:23, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * That's a truely fabulous photo. ~The bellman | Smile  03:05, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Surely WikiNews should reflect a more international approach to the NEWS than this? It is not news, please create a WikiPublicServiceAnnouncement for this type of stuff. --GregStephens 03:40, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

This is getting beyond a joke

 * 1) This is not a North American website! Clocks change at different times all around the world. Plus it's autumn in the southern hemisphere, not spring.
 * 2) Is this news? What's next - 'sun rises this morning'? Dan100 (Talk) 09:49, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, it IS a North American website AND a European web site, AND an Asian web site and so forth. We are global and local. People are free to write about city council meetings in Lima, Ohio as they are international political intrigue originating in Lima, Preu, vandalism at Indonesia's Pandawa Lima Temple or even the Sept. 20 Holy Day celebration in Ponte de Lima, Portugal if they want. If it's not your cup of tea, then don't read it. -- Davodd | Talk 02:45, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * There has to be a reasonable limit to what can and cannot be put in. Does my cat catching a bird (which is highly unlikely) qualify?  No, it does not.  There is a line, anything mundane and irrelevant to the world does not get put in.  Unless of course, you want articles on my cat, in which case I will happily oblige.  Actually this is a fairly important discussion, prehaps this should get moved on to the mainpage discussion?  --GregStephens 02:26, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * On the one hand, Wikinews allows local coverage, as long as enough context is given so that people from an entirely different hemisphere of the planet can understand it. On the other, pieces like this are regarded by traditional news media as "filler" articles.  They are "dead donkeys".  Wiki is not paper — we don't have column inches to fill.  On the first hand (again), wiki is not paper — we don't have to "drop the dead donkeys" to make room for more important articles that come along, either. Uncle G 12:22, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

No political agenda, eh?
DST is also observed in Canada and Israel, so this is truly an international story. There is also some controversy about DST time as discussed in the Jerusalem Post article.

So this is a newsworthy story.

Wikinews is not a forum for anti-American posturing. I can recommend other forums for such politics if that's what floats your boat. NPOV can apply to story selection as well. Some of us in North America enjoy reading stories about North America. I'm baffled that hatred of America would run so deep that even a story about DST is offensive to someone's sensibilities.

Hundreds of news outlets are covering this story. I understand that if one isn't living in North America, this story might not interest you, but even The Guardian is covering daylight savings time. (The Guardian is hardly a pro-American news outlet.)

Listing articles about American events for deletion just because they don't affect your personal country of residence is a particularly bad faith gesture that does not help to build a community. The definition of "assume good faith" makes an important point that one should not blindly assume good faith:

"'We want people to assume good faith from the outset, but of course we all learn from experience. There is a difference between assuming good faith and ignoring obvious bad faith.'"

This sad episode of listing a harmless article about DST for deletion has certainly been a learning experience for me.

— DV 11:54, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I personally don't regard any country's use of DST to be newsworthy. Note that there was no article on topic when Europe changed clocks last weekend - I for one didn't write one as I didn't think it was a 'news event'. It's written on my calendar, that's enough for me.

 * But DV please stop telling me that I have a political or personal agenda when I have none. I do not "hate America". Where do you get this idea I'm Listing articles about American events for deletion just because they don't affect your personal country of residence? If that were the case, why I have I only listed two stories out of the tens, possibly hundreds written about North America?! Dan100 (Talk) 18:01, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Your frivolous Deletion requests are corrosive and damaging to the community spirit here on Wikinews. I'll trust the community to judge your actions on the Deletion requests page. You are showing your true colors today. — DV 18:37, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Dan100 shows xyr true colours by the amount of external promotion of Wikinews that xe does. Going by the comments on message boards that I've tripped over in several places, and the showcasing of Wikinews content on other sites, xe definitely has an agenda. ☺  Uncle G 12:14, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Would you have a problem with me writing an article on the change of months? How about the change of seasons?  Trivial matters should not be what the project is about. --GregStephens 03:42, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * What is a trivial matter? For many, the death of a religious leader not of their faith is rather trivial. Wikinews covers the news its contributors consider important. - Amgine 03:49, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Indeed, by GregStephen's standards, we should have no news about New Zealand. There are millions of people who've never even heard of the country. Rather than try to focus on world-shaking news, I look forward to more news about New Zealand and any other country that has something going on. As a matter of fact, if GregStephens can find a cat doing something amusing, I'd even read a cat story, but that's just me. — DV 07:08, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Answered on user's talk pages
I didn't respond to all remarks, but those users I felt could help Wikinews in the future were answered on their user-talk pages. Thanks! --HiFlyer 16:28, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Catholic Church prepares for papal election conclave

April 6, 2005 With the death of Roman Catholic pontiff John Paul II, 84, on Friday, the prepares for the conclave, or assembly of cardinals, who will choose the next pope. All under the age of 80 are required to attend and cast their votes at the election, which must be held from 15-20 days following the funeral of the deceased Pontiff.

The papacy, the highest office in the Catholic church, lies vacant until the election of a new leader for the over one billion-strong denomination.

117 cardinals will meet in the Vatican's to conduct the election, beginning on April 18, it was announced today.

This conclave will be the first time in history the cardinals will be allowed to move around the Vatican instead of being isolated in the Sistine Chapel during the elections. However, they are not allowed to receive or send any messages outside Vatican city during the election period. Those who do so will face excommunication.

This will also be the first time that after a full week of voting, two votes each morning, two each afternoon, the required 2/3+1 support can be set aside and a new pope elected by 50%+1 of the cardinals.

At the last conclave, John Paul II was elected after four days.

Thus, the new pope is expected to be known sometime between April 18 and April 25.


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Would this piece be better off with a different title?
 * Should we split the info on papabili to a sep. article? Dpr 05:00, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Done Dpr 07:21, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Can someone help with the Sistine chapel image, or add a more appropriate one? Thanks! Dpr 05:59, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * This icon is missing twice. 82.224.88.52 21:49, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Added language icons — two, one . --Pi zero (talk) 16:28, 9 December 2014 (UTC)


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User:Simeon.A.Scott/How to link to sources and external pages and stuff

The official Help page on this topic is not very useful. It is generic because of an inadequate merge procedure for the upstream source at wikimedia which documents the wiki software that is used for the site. This makes it hard to include instructions particular to our customised setup, which I will document below, for my own use, and for others if there is actually no other documentation for this.

Wikilinks

If you put  then the link will be displayed using the Wikipedia actual page title — and not including the 'w:'.

Transcluding pages within other pages
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Marketing blitz begins for final 'Star Wars' film

April 3, 2005 With six weeks before the sixth and final Star Wars film saga, Revenge of the Sith, hits theaters worldwide on May 19, the movie studios behind the brand have launched a massive marketing and merchandising campaign. It includes toys aimed at children, collectibles for adults active in fandom and other related merchandise such as science fiction novels based in the Star Wars universe.

The 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm studios make millions of dollars in licensing fees from toy manufacturers and promotional deals with fast-food restaurants, candy and cereal boxes. Even telephone companies are getting into the act. Cingular Wireless will be rolling out a Star Wars-themed promotion and handset downloads within the next few days, according to a company spokesman.

Sales from Star Wars tie-in merchandise have brought in a lot of money over the years. Star Wars toy sales themed with The Phantom Menace brought in $500 million. In 2002, Attack of the Clones toy sales were $225 million, according to reports.

In January 2003, toymaker Hasbro struck the biggest licensing deal for the brand when it agreed to pay Lucasfilm $200 million in cash and stock for the exclusive rights to make Star Wars-themed toys until 2018. That figure does not include Lucasfilm's percentage of the profit from each toy's sale.

Wal-mart and Target, the two largest toy retailers in the U.S. have entire aisles devoted to tie-in Star Wars action figures, full-sized mock ups of light sabers and other more whimsical items. Hasbro is even marketing a "Darth Tater" special edition of its classic Mr. Potato Head.

The merchandise also has a literary side. Author Matthew Stover has a monetization of Revenge of the Sith as part of a multi-book deal between Lucasfilm and publisher Random House's science fiction specialty label, Del Rey. Stover's book has consistently been in the Top 50-most ordered books, according to Amazon.com. Other Sith-themed books released within the past few weeks include coffee table picture books and behind-the-scenes documentation detailing the making of the film.


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Speculation abounds on future pope

April 3, 2005

Speculation is mounting in Rome with Vatican observers suggesting that many factors will go into the decision of who will be John Paul II's successor.

It has long been considered extremely unlikely that the next pope will be an American. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago declared in 2003 that "to some extent, even the appearance of being in some sense captured by, as we say now, the world's only superpower, would not be helpful to the mission of the church." Some say the choice of a French Pope would also be overly controversial.

The Polish-born Karol Wojtyla was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years. Though in Catholic tradition, the pope bears the title of Primate of Italy and Archbishop of the Roman Province, or for short, "Bishop of Rome," this does not necessarily mean that he must be Italian, or Roman, as was demonstrated with the election of John Paul. Nonetheless, the rise of a non-Italian pope in 1978 may be followed by a desire to reclaim the chair by Italians.

Italy will be the country with the greatest representation on the conclave, with 20 eligible cardinals. The US trails far behind at 11, and behind them are Spain (6), France (5), and Brazil (4).

Europe forms the largest bloc with 58 papal electors, while Latin America and Africa have 21 and 11 respectively.

John Paul II was a relatively unknown archbishop at the time of his election, indicating that it is not impossible for church leaders not well known throughout the church across the world to be potential recipients of the office.

Many analysts suggest the strong possibility that the cardinals will seek to avoid electing a young pope in the wake of John Paul's 27-year reign. Age has been a factor in the choice of pontiff during the church's history, and may surface again. The New York Times speculates that cardinals may choose a slightly older pope "in order to avoid another long reign," like that of John Paul II. Two well-liked figures, Angelo Scola of Venice, 63, and Christoph Schönborn of Austria, 60, may well be too young to be chosen for the office. Moreover, some feel that an older pope may be selected specifically to serve as a "transitional" figure following the previous lengthy papacy.

Among the most prominent 'papabili,' or likely potentials for the papacy are:
 * Dionigi Tettamanzi of Milan, 70
 * Angelo Scola, patriarch of Venice, 63
 * Josef Ratzinger, prefect of the Curia, formerly of Munich, 77
 * José Maria Bergoglio, Jesuit archbishop of Buenos Aires, 68
 * Ivan Dias, Mumbai (Bombay), 68
 * Rodriguez Maradiaga, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 62
 * Claudio Hummes, São Paulo, 70
 * Francis Arinze, Nigeria, 72

Others include Giovanni Battista Re, 71, president of the Vatican commission for Latin America, and Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, 71.

Analysts suggest that among the important issues around which the election of the next pontiff will center are candidates' position on socialism and capitalism, other religions or ecumenism, abortion, homosexuality, clerical celibacy, as well as their degree of progressivism or conservatism and relations with the international community.

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Two Newcastle football players fight each other, both sent off

April 3, 2005

Barclaycard Premiership football match between Newcastle United and Aston Villa ended up with a fight between two teammates. Newcastle hasn't lost a single game since January 23 and looked as favourites for their April 2 home match against Aston Villa. However things haven't went as planned. On the 5th minute of the game Juan Pablo Angel scored for the away side. Villa continued to dominate and in the second half any hopes of fightback for Newcastle were shattered as Steven Taylor got sent off for the deliberate handball. The foul warranted a penalty and Gareth Barry scored from the spot. Seven minutes later he did it again, after Stephen Carr brought down Darius Vassell inside the box.

However, it was not a result that disappointed Toon fans the most. Two Newcastle players, Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer, engaged in a fight in the middle of the pitch at the sight of the crowd. Referee Barry Knight made a decision to send both off. After the match, manager Graeme Souness made no excuse for the behavior of the players; however he defended Dyer, as it was Bowyer who started punching him. Both players could be facing 3-match bans by the English Football Association.


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Names of Australians killed in helicopter crash released

April 3, 2005

The names of nine Australian service personnel who died Saturday in a helicopter crash near the village of Aman Dray on the Indonesian island of have been released by the  (ADF). The tragedy is the worst naval flying accident in Australian history.

The lost Lieutenant Mathew Davy and Lieutenant Paul Kimlan from the Australian Capital Territory, Lieutenant Matthew Goodall, Petty Officer Stephen Slattery and Leading Seaman Scott Bennett from New South Wales, and Lieutenant Jonathan King from Queensland.

The lost Squadron Leader Paul McCarthy from Western Australia, Flight Lieutenant Lyn Rowbottom and Sergeant Wendy Jones from Queensland.

The bodies have not yet been removed from the wreckage.

Two other men who were onboard survived the accident are currently being treated for fractures on HMAS Kanimbla, which is stationed just off Nias.

Australian investigators have left for Indonesia to try to determine the cause of the crash. Witnesses who saw the accident, said the helicopter slammed into the ground nose first. People from the local village tried to help pull the two survivors free, but said the aircraft exploded into a fireball within five or ten minutes of impact, hindering the rescue.


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It's not until the final sentence of the article that you actually say WHAT they are playing!
 * Right... That was my first article btw. Grue 13:07, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Not a bad article all the same, glad someone covered this story. → CGorman (Talk)  14:28, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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This was covered in an article yesterday, I guess we should warn people in case they get the idea two helicopters have crashed Dan100 (Talk) 13:42, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Woops .. maybe I will merge them both into a story headlined something like Australian rescue helicopter crash in Indonesia: nine dead .. I guess this may put me out of the writing comp. Judges! Is a merge a deletion? ;) - Simeon 02:47, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I know, I'll put in a refresh, and no-one will notice. Simeon 02:50, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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baseball
I'd love to have time to work on that with you... but unfortunately I don't. I'll jump in and help out with edits now and then though. Mostly I'm in and out of articles, doing clean up. But I was really impressed with your live updating of the scores today!

By the way, I noticed you hadn't added your articles to the main archives. These are located at 2005/Monthname/day, with the month and day being when the article was written. I've added the two you just put on sports though. - Amgine 03:02, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Just wanted to pop in and say how much I appreciate your tracking of the baseball stats! A couple of people have mentioned it to me - including at the conference I just attended in Texas. Great work! - Amgine 01:40, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

For your inspiration, and your edits...

Your example with the Baseball scores is spinning off various football followers, and other sport leagues! plus your many edits on articles... you're an all-around good role model. Thanks! - Amgine/talk 05:26, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

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Hi, Grue, Welcome. The Guantanamo breaking news image did look ugly. Can you make it fit in with the rest of the article and page? Paulrevere2005 12:27, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

 * You can try reducing the width of the picture (the number before "px"). I don't have free time to do that now. Grue 12:44, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Omphaloscope. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Omphaloscope~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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User talk:163.1.16.71

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FBI: Death of the Georgian Prime Minister was an accident

April 1, 2005

The death of the Georgian Prime Minister,, on 3 February 2005 was an accident, which was caused by a faulty gas heater in the home of a friend. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) came to this conclusion following investigations in the apartment in {[w|Tbilisi}} and in their laboratories in the USA.

Bryan Paarman, legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Georgia who also leads the FBI office in Tbilisi, released details of the official investigation report at the news conference, which states that the late Prime Minister Schwania died of poisoning. The poison concentration in his blood at the time of death amounted to 72%. Likewise his friend,, with whom he had been staying, had 74% carbon monoxide in his blood at death. No other drugs or poisons were found in the blood of the two men.

Carbon monoxide, said the FBI, leaked from a defective gas heater that had been installed improperly a few weeks before it caused the death of the Prime Minister and his friend. The FBI had it tested in the apartment and stated the heater in the apartment caused the level of oxygen in the air to decrease to 18.4%. Such small oxygen percentage is lethal, explained the FBI.


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Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for African Pope

NB this story is also covered in the article Desmond Tutu calls for election of African pope

April 3, 2005 South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu today called for the cardinals of the Catholic Church to choose an African pope to succeed the recently deceased Pope John Paul II. The Archbishop said, "I hope the cardinals... will follow the first non-Italian pope by electing the first African pope." (Note: Pope John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope since the 15th century, but not the first non-Italian pope ever, as Tutu has stated. Additionally, it would not be the first time an African pope has been elected.)

Should such an event occur, it is widely believed that Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria would be the most likely candidate. The 72 year old Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship is known to be theologically conservative but very knowledgeable about the Islamic religion, an important strength given recent hostilities between Christians and Muslims. Arinze was one of the five cardinals chosen by the Pope to sit on the Committee of the Great Jubilee in 2000.

If Cardinal Arinze becomes the next Pope, he would be the first African Pope in over 1,500 years - the last being Pope Gelasius I who was the Pontiff from 492 to 496.

However in Nigeria such predictions have been met with mixed responses. A churchgoer in the state of Enugu told the Reuters news agency, "I doubt if world politics will allow a black man to be pope."


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Chinese protesters smash up Japanese market

April 3, 2005 Protesters demonstrating against Japan broke windows of the Japanese Ito-Yokado store on Saturday, in the Chinese city of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. Kyodo News reports the incident marks the first time Japanese property has been damaged in a protest in China.

The Japanese Consulate General reported about 30 people participated in vandalizing the store, and that hundreds of people had gathered during the three-hour long demonstration.

The protesters are part of a movement to stop Japan from becoming a member of the U.N. Security Council. Chen Tong, editor-in-chief of the sina.com web site, says a petition with millions of signatures opposing Japan's appointment to the council will be presented to the U.N. and the Japanese Embassy in Beijing.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently proposed appointing Japan to the UNSC as part of an overhaul of the U.N. organization.


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Tartan Day festivities April 6 in New York

April 3, 2005 Tartan Day in the United States is being kicked off with big celebrations in New York, including parades and marching bands. The Grand Marshall of this year's parade was Randall Wallace, a Scottish-American and author of the screenplay for the movie Braveheart.

Week-long festivities were to include the annual "Tunes of Glory" parades, pipe bands from 3 countries, an exhibition called "Scottish Village", and a fashion show on Wednesday called "Dressed to Kilt". One of Scotland's national treasures, William Wallace's sword, left Scotland for the first time in 700 years and was flown to New York for their Tartan Week celebrations of 2005.

Tartan Day was designated as a holiday by the US Senate, "National Tartan Day", in 1998. Support for the holiday first gathered momentum in Canada through the efforts of Ms. Jean Watson in the 1980s. The purpose of the holiday is to remember the contribution of Scots both at home and abroad, raise the profile of Scotland, and encourage tourism and trade.

The date of April 6 was chosen because the "Declaration of Arbroath, the Scottish Declaration of Independence, was signed on April 6, 1320 and the American Declaration of Independence was modelled on that inspirational document." In Australia and New Zealand, Tartan Day is celebrated on July 1, the anniversary of the repeal of the Act of Proscription in 1782.

President George W. Bush in 2002 wrote a letter to the Scotsman newspaper supporting the annual celebrations, writing, "As you take part in customs that honour the role of Scottish Americans in our history, I join you in celebrating the contributions of these important Americans. This observance renews our appreciation for the diversity and remarkable heritage that unites us all."

In the US House of Representatives on March 9 last month, seven years after the Senate approval, a voice vote was unanimously taken to declare "National Tartan Day" a national holiday.

The number of Americans with Scottish or Scotch-Irish ancestry according to the 2000 US Census is about 9.2 million, comprising 3.2% of the US population.


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Since you unfortunately weren't willing to follow the advise I gave you on the talk page of your previos IP, I have blocked you for 4 hours. During that time I suggest you take a look at a few of the pages CGorman linked here for you. --Deprifry|+T+ 00:12, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Marketing blitz begins for final 'Star Wars' film

Is this really newsworthy? —Arik Soong
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Talk:Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for African Pope

Pope John Paul II not first non-Italian pope
According to the CBC, Pope John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope since the 15th century, not the first non-Italian pope ever, as Tutu stated. - McCart42 18:18, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I was just quoting it as he said it. Im aware that he was'nt the first non-italian Pop. You could proably remove the Additionally as the first African Pope is dealt with later in the article. → CGorman (Talk)  18:54, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Ex-priest Shanley sentenced to 12-15 years for child rape

Original reporting
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Web site claims Abu Ghraib attack for Al Quaida

April 3, 2005

A group from Al Qaeda claimed responsibility today for the Saturday evening prison attack at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. The US military revised casualty reports upward to 44 American soldiers and 12 Iraqi prisoners injured, some seriously.

The attack came at the end of a day that witnessed a series of violent attacks elsewhere throughout the country. Six other people were killed in Iraq yesterday, ending recent hopes that violence may be subsiding.

A Web statement posted by Islamists on Sunday said, "Your brothers in the al Qaeda Organization (for Holy War) in Iraq launched a well-planned attack on Abu Ghraib prison, where Muslim women and men are held." The statement also says, "This battle is part of a series of raids."

The GNN reports U.S. Army 1st Lt. Adam Rondeau saying, “This was obviously a very well-organized attack and a very big attack.”

The Abu Ghraib prison, located 18 miles (30 km) west of Baghdad, is still supervised by American forces following the notorious prisoner abuse scandal last year. Approximately 3,300 Iraqi detainees are held there.


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Annual rich list shows Ireland now has six billionaires

April 3, 2005 The annual Sunday Times Rich List published today showed that Ireland now has six euro billionaires, up from four last year. The combined wealth of Irelands 250 wealthiest is €42.3bn.

Topping the list was the new entrant Hilary Weston with a fortune estimated at over €7.2bn. Weston was excluded in previous lists because the majority of her wealth was made abroad, however a rule change this year allowed the Dublin born model to enter in first place. Mrs Weston, 63, grew up in Ireland and built her modeling career there before becoming wed to Galen Weston, heir to his grandfathers multi-billion euro retailing fortune in Canada. The couple permanently moved to Canada in 1983 after a kidnap attempt by the IRA.

The top six on the list were as follows:

 * 1) Hilary Weston and family; €7.286bn - Retailing
 * 2) Sir Tony O'Reilly; €1.897bn - Food, media and inheritance
 * 3) John Dorrance; €1.857bn - Inheritance
 * 4) Dermot Desmond; €1.239bn - Finance
 * 5) Sean Quinn; €1.157bn - Quarries, hotels, insurance and industry
 * 6) Tony Ryan; €1.114bn - Airline

The iconic rock group U2 placed 10th with a combined fortune of €629m.


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