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Frankie Roberto changed my title from "Colbert takes lampooning to new level" because his version "Lampooning for Bush..." is more "neutral and descriptive". But I think the story is more about how Stephen Colbert "stole the show". Some people may think that my title is evaluatory but then again take a look at this newsreport from last year's dinner: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7693810/

So I will go ahead now and change the title.--Saidkassem 02:42, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I still think the current title (Colbert steals show at annual Correspondents' Dinner) expresses both a value judgement (that Colbert delivered the best act) and doesn't additionally describe the lampooning of himself that Bush gave, which I think is also an important part of the story. Additionally, please check for double-redirects when renaming the page and try to update the main page if possible. I won't change it straight away, but can I suggest that we rename it back to something like Comedians lampoon Bush at White House Correspondents' Dinner? Frankie Roberto 10:58, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree with Frankie Roberto. The current title is possible inaccurate and doesn't cover the whole story. --Chiacomo (talk) 13:49, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * From reading the headline alone, I am distrustful of the article's credibility...this sort of headline would be much more at home in front of a reflective op-ed, not a news article
 * The headline is true. there is nothing wrong with it and its not misleading. Please state your reason for tagging this article? Jason Safoutin 18:36, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

 * What if I said that your proposed headline embeds just as much opinion about the reality of that event as mine? Your headline states "Comedians lampoon Bush..", doesn't this conflate the Steve Bridges with the Colbert act, as if both acts carried the same implications in society? No, I think a more accurate story makes a distinction between the Bridges and the Colbert act, AND, an accurate headline needs to convey that something audacious and unprecedented occurred that night (Steve Bridges = friendly jabs Colbert= hostile, unwelcomed jabs TO HIS FACE). To downplay the audaciousness of Colbert's act would be to sidestep attention away from a major reality of that night (Bush's red face, nervous laughter, hostile reception, Laura Bush not shaking his hand, AND mainstream media sidestepping the Colbert act all together). Here is a good critique of the mainstream media's bawdlerization of what actually occurred:  http://daoureport.salon.com/

--Saidkassem 18:45, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It is not a constructive contribution to the wiki to re-tag an article when you do not have an alternative title for the article. Please offer some suggestions instead of just giving vague concerns that it does not have "balance".  NPOV != Balance. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:52, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

 * My alternative proposal has been posted to this discussion thread for at least 12 hours. I was the author of the originating title until it was changed by Frankie Roberto. It should be clear that I am actively proposing "Colbert steals show at White House Correspondents' Dinner". In my opinion, the Bridges act has been overblown and, while that is a value, it is journalistic discretion to assess the proportionality of each act. journalists do it all the time. the new york times did it yesterday when they decided to elide the Colbert act all together. --Saidkassem 18:59, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Your alternative is not acceptable because it does not meet the very policy you are using to block publication of this article. Wikinews cannot conclude that Colbert "steals the show" without having a POV. Check here, we're not allowed to have one - even in an attempt to balance what the mainstream media have reported. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:06, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

 * and by the way there is journalistic precedence for the spirit of my headline from the Editor & Publisher-- "Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner -- President Not Amused?"--Saidkassem 19:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * How many of the people that voiced objection to the totle suggested by Saidkassem have actually watched the different routines? --vonbergm 20:53, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

 * The argument that other publications have used headlines like 'Colbert steals show' can't be used to justify it here, as Wikinews has a far stricter policy of neutrality. Whilst I might personally have some agreement with the view that the Colbert act was harsher and more significant than the double-Bush act, this is something that needs to be described in the article rather than the headline. As the headlines can be read out of context, there's much more of a requirement for them to be descriptive and neutral, IMO. The current title, Comedians lampoon Bush at White House Correspondents' Dinner is clear and adequately descriptive, I think. In my understanding at least, 'lampoon' is a fairly descriptive and non-judgemental word. The article itself also seems to be NPOV fairly well, so I'd vote for removing the tag. Frankie Roberto 21:56, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

My problem with your proposed headline is that "Comedians lampoon" suggests equality between both the Bridges and Colbert acts. It suffers not from bias, but from innacuracy. The dual-Bush act was self-lampooning, the other was sharp mockery from an outsider. One elicited hearty laughter, the other a much colder reception. there were many camera shots of the audience reaction. Given this crucial distinction, I propose a headline that reflects this complexity. proposed headline: "For Bush, lampooning leads to mockery at White House Correspondents' Dinner"

 * I can see your point, but I think that the difference between the two acts can adequately be explained in the article. It's difficult to get such a complex statement into the headline. To me, 'Comedians lampoon Bush' doesn't suggest equality between the two acts.

 * I'd happily support a followup article looking only at the Colbert act and the reaction to it (from both politicians and the press) by the way. Frankie Roberto 10:34, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

--Saidkassem 02:59, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Saidkassem, I agree that with your assertion that Colbert's act was by any measure the news event of the dinner. However, it will take a long discussion to make a strong enough point to make the headline reflect this and imho not worth the trouble. While it is in some ways regrettable that a simple observation about the inequality of the acts -- which should be part of the reporting -- is opposed by users on the grounds that it is not "neutral" (while reporting unequal acts as equal supposingly is "neutral"), the resulting bias in the headline is a relatively small price to pay on a collaborative news site. Unless Frankie Roberto changes his mind on the assertion that "descriptive and neutral" means that one has to give all side equal weight even if they are in fact not equal, I recommend that at this point you just let it slide and move the article to publish. --vonbergm 05:09, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

agreed. --Saidkassem 16:13, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I've seen this event reported so many times, yet I have been in the dark about the significance of the event until just yesterday. How could this be?  Well, all the headlines say "Comedians..."  and I'm like: duh!  That's what happens at a WH correspondant's dinner.  It's mocking humor - but it's usually self-mockery and it's never a jab.  So for so long I was curious as to why anyone would ever publish such an unremarkable event and call it "news".  There is certainly nothing "new" about it.

 * The point of a news article is to be informative, and the point of the headline is to pack the main information in the article into a very small space. To tell you what is "new", specifically what "new" thing the article is about.  I'm assuming nobody here wrote an article about business as usual at the WHCD.  And I can't find any news articles on this site about business as usual at the WHCD, which begs the question: "Why do we have an article title about business as usual at the WHCD?"  The title needs to convey to the reader that this is not business as usual.  "Comedians lampoon Bush at White House Correspondents' Dinner" does not.

 * Regarding suggesting equality, Frankie: value is communicated by proportion. "How much text does it's value merit?" "Comedians" gives each comedian the same amount of text, and therefore values them equally. You said before that "I still think the current title (Colbert steals show at annual Correspondents' Dinner) expresses both a value judgement..." The very act of writting expresses a value judgement: when we write, we are saying that what we are writting about has value.  The judgement is not that colbert was the best act, but that colbert's actions merit text.  We have all already accepted that value judgement, as we all accepted this article about colbert's actions being published.  So why is this judgement all the sudden absent in a denser medium, which is supposed to be a faithfully compressed version of this article? Kevin Baastalk 22:18, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi Kevin - thanks for joining in the debate. In some ways I agree with your argument that "the very act of writting expresses a value judgement", but we have a committment on Wikinews to comply with the Neutral point of view policy, which says that we should characterize events and dispute rather than express an opinion. In my view, suggesting that someone 'steals the show' expresses an opinion that they were the 'best' act, which is opinion. Whereas 'comedians lampoon bush' describes multiple comedians making jokes satirising and criticising Bush. There's an argument that 'lampoon' is too mild a word and thus less accurate than it could be (I'm not sure on this, it's not a word that occurs very frequently in British english).

 * For me, I thought both the Colbert act and the double-Bush act were equally newsworthy. Whilst you suggest that the WHCA dinner always features jokes targetting the president, this isn't something that's particularly well known internationally (I'd never even heard of it), and the fact that George Bush was able to take part in an act that publically mocked his own persona was certainly big and interesting news internationally, even if it's perhaps more well known in the States that Bush is able to mock himself.

 * I repeat again my argument that the discussion of the content and impact of the Colbert act should happen within the article itself - it's always tricky to describe a complex event adequately in a headline, and the nature of the NPOV policy on Wikinews tends to lead to fairly dry headlines, with the main 'why is this news significant' explanatory text in the body of the article. As it stands, I don't think the Colbert act is particularly well described in the article (mostly just one long quote), and so I'd welcome some more text about this (and even a followup article), which I think would be more constructive than continually discussing the headline. Does that sound like a way forward? Frankie Roberto 23:24, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I'll take the main point of your argument to be: this is an international medium, and because of the difference in information that people from different countries have, what represents "new" information is likewise different. Thus the newsworthiness differs.  And to solve that problem, we judge novelty by international measures.  by that logic, and accepting your reasonable premise that it is not common knowledge that WH correspondent's dinners are traditionally that way, the title should be "comedians".  However, seeing as though this tradition goes way back, i would think it should more properly be an encyclopdia article than a news article.

 * I don't quite follow here. I think that, from an international perspective, both the Colbert act and the double-Bush act were newsworthy, and so it was right to include both events in the story. Frankie Roberto 22:02, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Though I do agree that the article could benefit from more coverage on the colbert stuff, on principle, I am against modifying an article after it's been published.

 * A follow-up article could have looked at this more in depth, but perhaps it's a bit late now. Frankie Roberto 22:02, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * For what it's worth, Stephen Colbert was way over the line. He radically broke from a tradition that goes way back. What he did was not comedy.  What he did was serious, and mercilessly so.  he crashed the party, so to speak.  "colbert crashes white house party" might be an accurate title (where it appropriate)  That's the news to the political savvy in america.  Kevin Baastalk 02:07, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * That's interesting comment, and something the article could have perhaps made clearer.

I noticed this edit summary by you: "Colbert takes White House lampooning to new levels at Correpondents' Dinner moved to Lampooning for Bush at Correpondents' Dinner: move to more netural, descriptive title." other things aside, more descriptive!? you can't be serious! it's blatently obvious that there's less information in the new title. in the new title we know that: With the old title we know that: I'm assuming good faith, but i can find no reasonable explanation for that edit summary other than it was intentionally misleading, so perhaps you want to provide one?
 * 1) Bush was "lampooned for". (for?)
 * 2) It was at a dinner for correspondents
 * 1) White house officials were lampooned.
 * 2) It was at a dinner for correspondents.
 * 3) Colbert was one of the lampooners
 * 4) he went beyond the established norm
 * 5) more so than has ever been done before.

and i certainly don't see any pov or value judgements in that title. nowhere does it state or imply that colbert taking WH lampooning to unprecedented levels is either good or bad. given that, I don't see how your new title was any more or less neutral, except insofar as, because significat information was redacted, it may have become less neutral. Kevin Baastalk 02:27, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I thought that the second title ('Lampooning for Bush...') was more descriptive because it described both the double-Bush act and the Colbert act, whereas the previous title only mentioned the Colbert act. I thought it was more neutral as, in my understanding of the phrase, x takes x to new levels implies the opinion that someone has done something better than it's been done before. Whilst I'd agree that this is only slightly non-neutral, and perhaps justified in the context, I took the view that the new title was more easily descriptive and neutral. Headline/title writing is tricky at the best of times, and the NPOV policy of Wikinews can make it even more controversial, so often I think we just have to pick a fairly bland descriptive title and explain the significants of the story in the main body text. Sorry if you think we got it wrong this time. Frankie Roberto 22:02, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I hear your reasoning. Yes, it is tricky.  I'm an computer programmer and have studied a lot of information theory.  The title you switched it to informed the reader about neither the colbert act nor the double-bush act.  you replaced a specific phrase with a more general one.  whenever that is done, information is lost. for instance, replacing "2" with "somewhere in between 1 and 10" is less informative.  Likewise "2 is one of the numbers" is more information than "the numbers are all between 1 and 100", esp. when there are only 2 numbers in a very large set (set of comedians).  more general is less informative, and therefore less descriptive.  regarding neutrality, "best" is the wrong word in this case.  in a certain respect he was the worst act: he got the least laughter.  i speculate that laughter was not his goal. x takes x to new levels does not imply the opinion that someone has done something better than it's been done before, because it does not imply the value metric "good" or "bad".  it states that it has been done more extremely than has been done before.  done what more extremely?  thanks to the rules of syntax, the next word informs the reader of that: lampooning.  he lampooned more, in quantity or quality.  but the word lampoon is off.  it's second definition: "A light, good-humored satire" completely misses the point.  the point is - from an politically aware ameri-centric standpoint - that his act was anything but light and good-humored, quite unlike the double-bush act (which by that logic shouldn't be lumped together into the same category), and all acts at all WHCD in since the tradition began.  The significance of the event to me, and many people in america (as evidenced by the unusual amount of attention it's gotten on the internet), is that "the main act of the WHCD, Colbert, attacks the present w/unrelenting hard, ascerbic sarcasm, contrary to the tradition of the event to lighten the atmosphere with light, good-humored satire".  This is not a value judgement of how "good" or "bad" the act was.  This is making the president of the most powerful country so mad at you that he want to punch you in the face, in front of the world, and getting away with it, and that is quite different from lampooning.  it would be a value judgement if we were to say that to make the president mad and all that is either good or bad.  and nowhere do we say that he did this better than anybody else - in fact, in this specifc case, that is absurd - because nobody else has every done this at a WHCD ever. Kevin Baastalk 23:07, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Interesting - so maybe he wasn't lampooning at all but doing something different. Maybe 'Colbert attacks Bush at WHCA dinner' might have been a good title. I agree my title was more general and less specific than anything like that - my main motivation was wanting to include the double-Bush act within it. Perhaps they could have done with being separate articles? Anyhow, I'm going to move on now - lots of political news to cover here in the UK... Frankie Roberto 14:40, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

"more interesting details"
More interesting details are available here

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It would be good if we could include a few more quotes, and ones that differ from the same old quotes being used from the AP wire copy. Are there transcripts of the Double-Bush and Colbert routines anywhere? Frankie Roberto 11:02, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

colbert's speach (not the sketch) via boingboing --w:User:Marc Lacoste 12:58, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Cleaned up transcripts and link to the video of Colbert's speach: --vonbergm 20:38, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Why is this tagged NPOV?
Why is this article tagged NPOV? The current title appears to be very neutral -- is there something else I'm missing? --Chiacomo (talk) 02:31, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I think it's the closing. The whole "spreading like wildfire" and "most popular downloads" thing is a bit non-neutral, at least without some sort of facts or stats to back it up. Rob T Firefly 16:14, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
 * That was an addition after I removed the tag, the actual link to the video and transcript could be in a References section. The video link should be to the entire program, not just the Colbert bit. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:31, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Most of the video links I've seen around are just to the Colbert bit. I have yet to see any links to the full hour and a half that C-SPAN are currently selling.  If you've got one, that'd be great.  --BenM 20:24, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, there is the free low-quality version on the cspan website. [rtsp://video.c-span.org/60days/wh042906_dinner.rm?mode=compact] But it is a drag to watch. --vonbergm 21:34, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I guess Colbert did the best I don't know why. I'll try to seach for a website on Google. FellowWikiNews 23:17, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Colbert was out-of-bounds. That's why it's circulating.  Not because his act was the best or the worst, but because he was a maverick.  His was not light, good-humored satire.  He said what a lot of people have been feeling for a long time in a cogent, eloquent way, in front of a very large audience, when he wasn't supposed to.  That's why it's being circulated so much.  A lot of ppl feel very vindicated by it.  Kevin Baastalk 23:21, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Category and link
edit protected Please add this article to and localize the link for George Bush (maybe by including his middle initial). Thank you. Green Giant (talk) 23:38, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * added Category:White House (United States) and wized. --Pi zero (talk) 15:32, 4 November 2015 (UTC)


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Some Australian government welfare recipients will be forced to pay their bills

May 1, 2006

Australian federal minister for families, Mal Brough, has told a function in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales' central east that he plans to introduce a system forcing parents, who receive welfare payments and who also are identified as neglecting their children, to pay their bills.

Under the proposal, parents who are identified will be required to attend an interview with Centrelink (the agency responsible for welfare payments) to arrange for up to 30 percent of their benefits be automatically deducted to pay their bills and buy food.

Mr Brough says that there are a small percentage of parents who neglect their children, by spending their welfare payments on alcohol, drugs or gambling. The families minister says these parents neglect their children by failing to provide their children with food and clothing.

During his speech, Mr Brough said that many had expressed concerns about the government being able to identify those "abusing" the system but said that school principals, welfare workers, police and courts would be able to identify children in such situations.

Mr Brough said that similar voluntary programs operating in Cape York in Queensland had operated successfully and that similar programs should be bought in nation-wide. He said that not every family suffering from these problems would voluntarily take up the scheme and that the government would need to make it compulsory for some families.

Australian welfare organisations have criticized the plan claiming it is impractical.

Lin Hatfield Dodds from the Australian Council of Social Service said that the government needed to do more to assist families in crisis, but the problems raised by the government were "human problems and not financial problems".

Nationals senator, Barnaby Joyce who holds the balance of power in the Australian senate said he would not support the proposal if it was rushed into parliament as part of this years budget, expected to be handed down next week. "I don't think anything you do in a rush works out terribly well," said Mr Joyce.

Kim Beazley, leader of the Australian opposition said that the government would not be able to organise such a system, saying that they were unable to organise "a kick in a street fight".


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Talk:Militants kill 22 villagers in Kashmir

BBC reports as over 35 now. The suspected militants are an Islamic group; the victims were Hindus. That's kind of important...


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Talk:Pakistani militants behead suspected US informant

If it is "Pakistani Militants" then does that mean that Pakistan's government is behind the attacks? Then we would have to go to war with Pakistan.

I think we should drop the "militants" garbage.

They are terrorists who happen to be from Pakistan.


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First pictures from the Israeli photo/spy satellite Eros B

May 1, 2006 ImageSat International, the Israeli company that operates the recently launched photo/spy satellite Eros B, published its first photographs of potential targets in the Middle East. Analysts say the timing of this announcement shows that Israel intends to carefully monitor Iran's nuclear facilities to assess the threat for Israeli security. The dual-use satellite, second in the EROS series, can observe small details on the ground at very high resolution.

Israelis commemorate today those who have fallen in military service and in terror attacks since the UN resolution on the establishment of the state in November 29, 1947. Israeli Chief of Staff, Major General Dan Halutz, said that the threat from Iran shows that Israel must be strong to defend its people.


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Bolivian troops told to seize natural gas fields

May 1, 2006 Bolivian President Evo Morales has ordered that all foreign-owned natural gas fields be turned over to the national government of Bolivia.

President Morales signed a decree that orders troops to seize the fields "immediately" to ensure gas production. The decree also says that companies have 180 days to sign over their fields or leave the country.

The fields are owned by such companies as the United States' Exxon-Mobil Corporation, Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Spanish-Argentine Repsol YPF SA, and Great Britain's BG Group PLC and BP PLC.

"The looting by the foreign companies has ended. We are not a government of mere promises, we follow through on what we propose and what the people demand. We want to ask (the Armed Forces) that starting now, they occupy all the energy fields in Bolivia along with battalions of engineers," said Mr Morales after signing the decree.

"The time has come, the awaited day, a historic day in which Bolivia retakes absolute control of our natural resources," added President Morales.

One of Morales' vows in his presidential campaign was to "recover" the country's natural resources by renationalizing them. President Morales explained, on a visit to Brazil in January, that renationalising the industry would not mean expelling foreign companies or expropriating foreign property. "Foreign companies have every right to recover investments and make profits, but profits should be balanced".

Bolivia has the second largest supply of natural gas in South America after Venezuela.


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Talk:Some Australian government welfare recipients will be forced to pay their bills

Is the new headline OK?
Is the new headline suitable - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 21:52, 1 May 2006 (UTC)


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May Day march takes place in London

May 1, 2006

Workers and trade union members have taken part in the traditional May Day march in London, ending in a rally at Trafalger Square. TUC leader Brendan Barber addressed the crowd, praising the labour movement and expressing solidarity with the workers of the Peugeot manufacturing plant in Coventry, who face redundancy.

An estimated 40,000 people took part.

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Talk:Bolivian troops told to seize natural gas fields

Title change
They are NOT yet in control of the fields...the comopanys have 180 days to turn them over. Please read the article. Jason Safoutin 22:24, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, though think your title is little sensationalistic. I suggest "Bolivian state take gas resources under its control" international 22:33, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * There is no sensationalism...its true...troops have been ordered to all gas fields and to take control of them to "ensure production." Call it what you like but the title speaks what is true. Jason Safoutin 22:48, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * This title is more alarmist than most of the titles on google news, though it looks like the guardian is using a similar title. SethDelisle 17:41, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Is bolivia the second world gas producer, or is that only in S. America?

Source n.1 seems to state this is only in america. Spangle 12:43, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Top petroleum-producing countries
This is petroleum (from 'pedia). I think statistics for natural gas are similiar (?): In order of amount produced in 2004 (MMbbl/d = millions of barrels per day): 1 peak production already passed in this state
 * Saudi Arabia (OPEC) - 10.37 MMbbl/d
 * Russia - 9.27 MMbbl/d
 * United States 1 - 8.69 MMbbl/d
 * Iran (OPEC) - 4.09 MMbbl/d
 * Mexico 1 - 3.83 MMbbl/d
 * China 1 - 3.62 MMbbl/d
 * Norway 1 - 3.18 MMbbl/d
 * Canada 1 - 3.14 MMbbl/d
 * Venezuela (OPEC) 1 - 2.86 MMbbl/d
 * United Arab Emirates (OPEC) - 2.76 MMbbl/d
 * Kuwait (OPEC) - 2.51 MMbbl/d
 * Nigeria (OPEC) - 2.51 MMbbl/d
 * United Kingdom 1 - 2.08 MMbbl/d
 * Iraq (OPEC) 2 - 2.03 MMbbl/d

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Blue Security anti-spam community target of large-scale spam attack

May 2, 2006

Beginning Monday morning, many BlueFrog and Blue Security users began receiving an email warning them that if they did not remove their email addresses from the Blue Security registry, they would begin to receive huge amounts of unsolicited email. As quickly as four hours after the initial warning message, some users began to receive an unprecedented amount of spam. Most of the messages were simply useless text. Users reported that Blue Security's website was unavailable or extremely slow in responding.

Blue Security is an online community dedicated to fighting spam. As they became more popular, their member list increased substantially. The members' email address is encrypted and added to a list of e-mail addresses that wish to stop receiving spam. Blue Security maintains the encrypted list, which uses an encrypted hash function. Spammers are encouraged to remove all addressed from their email list that are also in Blue Security's Do Not Intrude Registry by using free compliance tools available at Blue Security's web site.

According to Blue Security's web site, "A major spammer had started spamming our members with discouraging messages in an attempt to demoralize our community. This spammer is using mailing lists he already owns that may contain addresses of some community members." Reportedly, Blue Security has received complaints from users about spam allegedly sent from Blue Security promoting their anti-spam solution and web site.

Blue Security states they are "an anti-spam company determined to fight spam and as such never has and never will send unsolicited email." There are also reports of non-users of BlueSecurity/BlueFrog receiving the warning emails, which now seems is also being sent to email addresses of people who have never added their email address to Blue Security's Do Not Intrude Registry.

Warning messages in spam emails
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U.S. government to improve recruitment for civil service jobs

May 2, 2006

According to the Washington Post, nearly sixty percent of the federal government's workforce will be eligible for retirement over the next ten years; with ninety percent of senior executive service officials expected to do so. Besides depleting Social Security funds, baby boomers will once again leave a big impression on the American workforce and economy. Calling it a "federal retirement tsunami," the United States Office of Personnel Management (the bureau responsible for government human resources) is preparing for this event in a few manners. In a news release today by the bureau, Director Linda Springer announced that the office would be releasing a major media campaign in efforts to recruit future employees.

With only twenty four percent of United States citizens with a bachelor degree or higher, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, it's no wonder it has been difficult to attract qualified or interested employees for federal government positions; particularly young people. "We've been hearing for so long about how incompetent and shady the government is, but a lot don't understand the benefits," said Howard University sophomore Victoria Hooks.

"The challenge is clear, and we are hard at work... with a 21st Century approach to the workplace, the federal government will ride the retirement wave and set the standard for a modern workplace... It will be a modern workplace, one that requires innovative training and encourage more flexibility by managers. The federal workforce will be one that the American people can count on," said Springer in support of the initiatives for recruitment. Other efforts for recruitment will also include additional employment benefits such as special salaries and relocation bonuses, especially for women.

The recruitment advertisements will reveal themselves in a series of four commercials around the country beginning in mid May 2006.


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User talk:Nasht~enwikinews

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Talk:Blue Security anti-spam community target of large-scale spam attack

Thanks
I'm not sure how my article would not fit as "news". This is an on-going issue, live. It's hapening right now, a war between spam gangs and anti-spam communities.

As for the Style Guide, I'd be ahppy to hear suggestions. I looked at examples of "good" articles, and did not really see what my article is missing.

But it's the community's choice, so I'll wait for your comments!

Nasht 02:32, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I'll work on this a bit, but the biggest thing, in my mind, is that news stories should not be written in the first person. --Chiacomo (talk) 02:43, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
 * This could be a good story -- it's certainly interesting. Hopefully some other editors will fall in. I'm going to remove the not news tag -- because it is news. It could still probably use some stylistic help. --Chiacomo (talk) 02:54, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I gave it some "stylistic help" and will publish it. It certainly could use more polishing, sources, and fact support. But as far as I can tell, I attributed as much as I could to the correct sources. Karen 20:11, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Quoting
I was thinking I could put the big quotes of the email I received in Italic. However the result is not the one I expected.

Nasht 02:39, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

instead of, instead of. Karen 20:15, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The  tag would be the easiest way, but a quotation template was used by the time I got to the story. Just remember to close HTML tags that you open: Use  to close ,
 * I don't like the quote template (and I put it in there)... I may remove it and put it in a blockquote or something. Sorry about not closing the tags. --Chiacomo (talk) 21:04, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The trouble with using the  tag is that browsers then don't do line-wrapping. Formatting plain text with carrage returns only looks good on certain-width screens. All I did was throw in a few closing tags, move around some whitespace, and the quoted areas look good. The only problem with the quote template seems to be that all the formatting within the quote must be done with more HTML tags. Whatever works - none of the tools we have currently seem to make quoting something like this very easy. Karen 21:31, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The problem with using templates is that reusers then have to deal with decoding the text... Would work? --Chiacomo (talk) 21:40, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

False information?
This statement (below) by Blue Security is circulating widely through Blue Security's site (may be inaccessible thanks to extremely heavy traffic) and various anti-spam lists: "A major spammer had started spamming our members with discouraging messages in an attempt to demoralize our community. This spammer is using mailing lists he already owns that may contain addresses of some community members."

"We have also received complaints from users about spam allegedly sent from Blue Security promoting our anti-spam solution and our web site. This is yet another tactic used by some spammers in an attempt to slander us by sending unsolicited email forged to appear as if it was sent from Blue Security. Blue Security is an anti-spam company determined to fight spam and as such never has and never will send unsolicited email."

"Our answer to those criminals should be one - we will not be discouraged; We will continue to exercise our right to opt-out of spam." There are also spreading reports of non-users of BlueSecurity/BlueFrog receiving the "warning," which it now seems is being sent everywhere. Evidence is slowly pointing to nothing being hacked, just a desperate attempt by spammers to retaliate against a group that is harming their endeavors. See also the comments on the story by Slashdot users. Rob T Firefly 16:31, 2 May 2006 (UTC)


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why this article is disputed?Avibliz 05:56, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Typo
editprotected "satelite" => "satellite" (in a source) Van der Hoorn (talk) 18:54, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

 * ✅ ♪Tempo di Valse ♪ 19:11, 13 March 2009 (UTC)


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User talk:222.154.164.73

Welcome to Wikinews! Thanks for creating SmileCity Woes, we need more articles like this. There are a few issues that must be dealt with before it can be published. The most important is that all Wikinews articles must cite sources for the information they contain. We usually cite sources using the tag at the bottom of the article. When you click "edit" there are instructions for using the tag underneath the "Save page" button. If your article contains original reporting, you should read the information at original reporting.

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User talk:222.154.123.243

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User talk:65.33.52.113

Welcome to Wikinews! Thanks for creating US Immigrants March; Congress Debates, we need more articles like this. There are a few issues that must be dealt with before it can be published. The most important is that all Wikinews articles must cite sources for the information they contain. We usually cite sources using the tag at the bottom of the article. When you click "edit" there are instructions for using the tag underneath the "Save page" button. If your article contains original reporting, you should read the information at original reporting. You may also wish to consider requesting an interview rather than writing an article.

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HELP! I submitted this article framework because I saw the topic was overlooked. With the exception of one number that came from a site, "Democratic Underground" all of the other information came from what appeared to be reputable newspaper web sites. I have to go to my day job -- so I need your help.

WHAT IS NEEDED 1. Sources for numbers -- Google "Orlando Immigration March", click on News and check stories for numbers. For each city -- replace "Orlando" in Google query with another city name on the list and note any additiional cities. a. Note the crowd size estimate number b. The web source of the article -- see Wikipedia citation method (below the Save button) c. Whether the number was a reporter(r), organizer(o) or police(p) estimate.

(r) = reporter (o) = organizer (p) = police

2. Sources for the slogans

3. Other information (appropriately sourced) a. Arrests of demonstrators or counter-demonstrators. b. Violence, or lack of it. c. labor shortages d. School boycotts, walkouts or absenteeism e. reaction of US President Bush and other elected officials

Jim Callahan (disclosure -- a participant in the Orlando march) JimCal80@aol.com Orlando, FL

US Immigrants March; Congress Debates
I can see that you've put a lot of work into this article, which is great! It needs some work before it can be published, however. The main problem is that the sources need to conform to the way sourcing is done in other Wikinews articles. Take a look at a few - they are written in a journalistic style, and have links to sources in the "Sources" section, but don't actually quote from sources. You might want to take a look at Writing an article. - Borofkin 00:48, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

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Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:23, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:204.9.144.52

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Nintendo Revolution name revealed

April 27, 2006

Today, Nintendo revealed that the real name for the console previously known by the codename "Revolution", is Wii. The name was revealed in a message posted on Nintendo of America's official site, which is shown below.
 * ''Introducing … Wii.
 * ''As in "we."

 * ''While the code-name Revolution expressed our direction, Wii represents the answer. Wii will break down that wall that separates video game players from everybody else. Wii will put people more in touch with their games … and each other. But you're probably asking, "What does the name mean?"

 * ''Wii sounds like "we," which emphasizes the console is for everyone. People around the world, no matter what language they speak, can easily remember Wii without confusion or need to abbreviate - just "Wii".

 * ''Wii has a distinctive "ii" spelling that symbolizes both the unique controllers and the image of people playing it. And Wii, as a name and a console, brings something revolutionary to the world of video games that sets it apart from the crowd.

 * So that's Wii. But now Nintendo needs you. Because it's really not about you or me, it's about Wii. Together, Wii will change everything.

In the immediate aftermath of the announcement, the name received much criticism for sounding too much like "wee", an English slang word meaning urine. The name also sounds similar to "yes" in French and "good" in Japanese.

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Blogspot ban lifted in Pakistan

May 6, 2006

As of 6th May, 2006, the Pakistani government has once again put a ban on Blogspot. This has been confirmed by numerous bloggers across Pakistan.

The banned blogs can now be accessed through an alternative sites such as PKBlogs.com - Blogspot Proxy and other proxy servers.

May 2, 2006

Since the morning of May 2, 2006, the blanket ban on the blogspot.com blogs has been lifted. This has been confirmed by various people on the 'Action Group Against Blogspot Ban In Pakistan' mailing list. The six baloch and plenty of Indian sites are still blocked.

The website was originally blocked because some of the blogs it hosted, reportedly contained "sacrilegious" content, mostly in the form of cartoons that were earlier published by Jyllands-Posten, and republished in some Blogs. The Supreme Court of Pakistan directed the government of Pakistan to block all websites that contained such content on March 1, 2006.

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User talk:216.54.14.84

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Inter-Balkan Summit to take place in Thessalonika, Greece

May 2, 2006

The northern port of, Greece's second biggest city, will host the Inter-Balkan co-operation Summit, on the 3rd and 4th of May 2006. The countries of southeast Europe who are part of the Inter-Balkan Cooperation; Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia-Montenegro, Romania, Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and FYROM will be represented by their leaders, Prime ministers and Ministers of foreign affairs.

The Inter-Balkan Cooperation Summit will focus on all the developments, both economic and political, in the area of southeast Europe, with the main topic being the situation in Kosovo.

On the sidelines of the Inter-Balkan Cooperation Summit, which will take place at the Hotel of Thessaloniki, Greek Premier  will meet with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday in order to discuss bilateral issues, including the Cyprus problem.

For the safety of the leaders as well as for the convenience of city's traffic during possible demonstrations, a security plan has been prepared according to local police. Three years ago, Thessaloniki was the host city of the 2003 European Union Summit.


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User:Masterofhogets

I'm a New Zealander who contributes to the wikimedia projects and think that their cool.

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Nine alarm fire engulfs Brooklyn warehouses

May 2, 2006

A warehouse fire on Brooklyn's waterfront has become a nine alarm blaze. The complex of seven old warehouses has been virtually destroyed and authorities are currently investigating it as arson.

Some 400 firefighters have working to extinguish the fire which started a little after 5:30 in the morning. A technique referred to as "surround and drown" has been employed in which fire trucks have flanked the complex on three sides while boats pump water from the adjacent river onto the blaze.

According to the, some six million gallons of water have been pumped onto the site and the ninth alarm, which was posted around noon, makes it the second biggest fire in the city's history.

By noon, many of the buildings had been almost entirely destroyed. Area residents say that the complex was due to be demolished anyway to make a new park.


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Template talk:Avian Flu

I have reverted the edit to where "Ongoing" links to, the infobox alteady has a link to that article, and the key use (for me) of the ongoing link is to update the death toll on the infobox.

The other links in that column of the last section link to years in wikipedia, and the duration of the precursor to a human epidemic is spread over too many years to readily fit in there. A link to the table gives the year details and a lot more. It is a useful instant information link for the user, as well as for keeping the infobox accurate. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:49, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Death Toll December 18, 2007
Who Death toll. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 23:43, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Swine Flu
Death toll so far: 20. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 23:32, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Template name
I think "infobox" can be dropped from the template name. Should we just rename it, ? •–• 06:56, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Went ahead and did it. I don't think I succeeded in history merge, but well, it seems to be working fine. •–•  07:04, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
 * The redirects are the tricky part. If it works, it works. --Pi zero (talk) 12:41, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

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User talk:Z.lee

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User talk:Magister Mathematicae

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Diego is an accredited reporter and he can have a mainspace redirect. Please don;t use your global sysop privs steward privs when we have a small army of 61 sysops. -- Mike moral  ♪♫  03:01, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Agree with Mikemoral, accredited reporters can have mainspace redirects to their userpage, i.e. Brianmc or Brian Anderton. Tempodivalse [talk]  03:03, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:Dugan~enwikinews

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

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

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Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Blazecon0. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Blazecon0~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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User talk:Lucky 6.9 on Wheels!!

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Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Ac1983fan. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Ac1983fan~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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User talk:LUCKY 6.9 IS A GOD

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:14, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:29, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Barimen~enwikinews