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User talk:Nerd42

Welcome
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Yeah 42
42 - I love that number. Welcome to Wikinews. Bawolff ☺☻ 05:47, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

 * lol --Nerd42 23:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Ureach~enwikinews

Welcome
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 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
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Your account will be renamed
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 Ureach. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Ureach~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 23:23, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Aegis~enwikinews

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
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 Aegis. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Aegis~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 23:12, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Noname2062~enwikinews

Welcome
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 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
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Your account will be renamed
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 Noname2062. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Noname2062~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 23:22, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Artpars

Welcome
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User talk:Circumventer

Welcome
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User talk:Berta~enwikinews

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

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 * Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

Your account will be renamed
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 Berta. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Berta~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
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User talk:Src

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

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 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
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User talk:Apartmento

Welcome
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 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
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User talk:Coonfare

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

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 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
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 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

title: User talk:Coonfare


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User talk:Chaos

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

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 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

title: User talk:Chaos


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User talk:Dsreilly~enwikinews

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

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 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

Your account will be renamed
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 Dsreilly. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Dsreilly~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 23:16, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Mrwolfpat~enwikinews

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

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 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

Your account will be renamed
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 Mrwolfpat. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Mrwolfpat~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 23:22, 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) 06:34, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Mrwolfpat~enwikinews


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User talk:Warpspeed~enwikinews

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

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 * Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

Your account will be renamed
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 Warpspeed. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Warpspeed~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 23:38, 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) 06:40, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Warpspeed~enwikinews


text:
User talk:Bushnaq~enwikinews

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

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 * Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

Your account will be renamed
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 Bushnaq. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Bushnaq~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 23:12, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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title: User talk:Bushnaq~enwikinews


text:
User talk:Thor Waldsen~enwikinews

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 * PaePae at English Wikipedia

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User:MateoP~enwikinews

Articles I have created
This is to help me find articles that I need to use as sources in Wikipedia articles.

Haiti
2006 Election

Jean-Juste
 * Haitian priest Jean-Juste held in relation to the murder of a journalist
 * Officials of Fanmi Lavalas party threaten boycott
 * Lavalas candidate barred from elections
 * Imprisoned Haitian priest may need US doctors

Siméus
 * Haitian Supreme Court rules Simeus eligible
 * Haitian provisional government dismisses Supreme Court justices
 * Siméus responds to the dismissal of Haitian justices

Philippe
 * Rebel leader says he will run for president in Haiti

Dany Toussaint

Haiti/Dominica Problem
 * Violence cuts short visit of Dominican Republic president

Costa Rica

 * Arias leads opinion polls in Costa Rica
 * Approval down for President Pacheco
 * Costa Rica falls to Iran in exhibition
 * Natural gas discovered in Chile according to President Ricardo Lagos
 * Natural gas discovered in Chile according to President Ricardo Lagos

Colombia

 * President Alvaro Uribe asks Washington to stop meddling
 * Colombia's National Liberation Army declares ceasefire for elections
 * Colombia's National Liberation Army declares ceasefire for elections
 * Colombia's National Liberation Army declares ceasefire for elections

Bolivia

 * Evo Morales wins presidential elections in Bolivia
 * Bolivian President Evo Morales convinces EU to pay for study of coca
 * Coca growth up in Bolivia, Peru, claims U.S. State Department

Cuba

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

Argentina

 * Uruguay turns down Argentina’s request to halt construction of pulp mills
 * Uruguay turns down Argentina’s request to halt construction of pulp mills

Mexico

 * Officials in Mexico claim dirty war leak is invalid
 * Officials in Mexico claim dirty war leak is invalid

Peru

 * Bus crash outside Cusco kills at least 13

Ethnocentrism Watchlist
The following users are known eurocentrists and should be watched.

 * Special:Contributions/Nyarlathotep
 * Special:Contributions/Bill3
 * Special:Contributions/StuRat
 * Special:Contributions/Brianmc

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Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks gets British citizenship

December 14, 2005

Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has won British citizenship, opening the door for a possible bid to have him freed from the US detention facility in Cuba.

Justice Lawrence Collins of the British High Court has overturned the British Government's refusal of citizenship to Hicks, whose mother was born in England. Justice Collins said the Government had "no power to withhold or deprive citizenship".

Justice Collins said: "In my view it would be improper to fail to give assistance which otherwise would have been given, simply because the claimant was believed to be involved in terrorism and has not had any previous connection with this country."

Hicks' lawyer, Stephen Grosz, said the decision was a breakthrough. He said there was now no reason why Hicks should not enjoy the same protection as the nine other British citizens released without charge from Guantanamo Bay on representations of the British Government.

The British Government has repeatedly condemned Guantanamo as an abuse of legal process. Lawyers acting for British Home Secretary Charles Clarke immediately announced that they would take the matter to the Court of Appeal. But Justice Collins refused the British Government a stay of his judgement, meaning that the Government is compelled to proceed with Hicks' citizenship application.

The British Government is anxious not to award Hicks citizenship as it fears that Hicks' reaction would be to immediately renounce his Australian citizenship. This would make Mr Hicks the primary responsibility of the British Government, which could not then strip him of his British citizenship as it would leave him stateless.

Mr Hicks's lawyers argue that the Australian government has refused to plead for his release and has made no attempt to prevent his trial by a US military commission. Whereas the UK government acted to remove its citizens imprisoned at Guantánamo, and would be compelled to call for the release of Mr Hicks.

After today's ruling, his lawyers will now press the British government to make arrangements for him to take the required citizenship oath and pledge. They will then urge the Home Office to seek his release from the detention centre, in Cuba, and bring him to the UK.

Hicks, a former kangaroo skinner and Muslim convert was caught in Afghanistan in December 2001. He faces charges including conspiracy to commit war crimes and aiding and abetting the enemy, all of which he denies.

Australian Responses
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer says David Hicks' citizenship is not a matter for Australia. Mr Downer says the Australian Government is neutral about the decision and that it is a matter between Hicks and the British Government.

"Once he is a British citizen then what the British Government does in relation to him is matter between him and the British Government - it is not a matter that will involve us and we have made that clear all along," he said.

Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley says the outcome is embarrassing and that the Government should have taken a stand in favour of a proper judicial process for Hicks. "That's the position not taking a strong stand in favour of a proper judicial process puts us in."

Greens Senator Bob Brown implored the Federal Government not to impede Hicks's progress to Britain. Senator Brown is concerned the Government will lean on the British Government to appeal.

"It's been an affront to the dignity of Australia, not just the rights of Hicks, that for four years the Australian Government has recognised the kangaroo court system, this military commission and recognised that in Australian law, backed by the Labor Party, when the Australian courts were the right place for Hicks to be right from the outset," Senator Brown said.

Federal Liberal MP Peter Slipper has declared, "he's their problem and good riddance". Mr Slipper has since claimed he was joking.

News of the ruling is still to reach Hicks but his lawyers say the Home Office must comply with it or appeal. The British Home Office has 14 days to appeal against a High Court ruling. Hicks's Australian lawyer, David McLeod, says his client will remain an Australian citizen as well.


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Hi, I am primarily a user on Wikipedia, where I have the same username, you can see my user page, or message me via my talk page. I may not check here nearly as often as there.

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User talk:84.146.246.27

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Municipal elections pushed back in Haiti

August 9, 2005

Local elections intended for this fall have been pushed back in Haiti. On Tuesday the electoral council said that they had determined that the best course of action would be to postpone the October 9 municipal elections until December. The idea is to allow for all efforts to be put into the presidential elections.

In addition, the presidential elections will be moved up from November 13, to a new date of November 6. The runoff for the presidential election is scheduled for December 11. About 1.5 million people have registered to vote so far. The council says that the postponement of the municipal elections will not affect the handover of power to take place on February 7, 2006.


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Haiti reschedules November presidential elections

September 7, 2005

On Monday the electoral council of Haiti decided to move back the presidential elections, slated to take place on November 6th, to a new date of November 20th. The first round will take place on that date and the second round of voting will take place on January 3.

Also the council announces that the previously moved municipal elections will take place on December 11th. Before it was only known that they had been moved to December. The postponement come off of concerns of security and registration problems.


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Talk:Racially motivated text messages surface in other states

Apostrophe
No apostrophe is required in the title - the plural of SMS is SMSs. See number 8 here). Malfidus 20:42, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I did think that too, but the source used SMS's too Cartman02au 03:10, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Not news
All of this content can be found in the following article (except for the last sentence): Sydney racial violence continues. Therefore, I tag this article notnews, as it is reported in another article and doesn't add much information (except see above). For these reasons, I tag this article notnews. --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 01:18, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * This is comical. I am sure this only appears after I referred to it in another page in an attempt to show that Amgine's actions were appropriate. If a respected news site in Australia considers it news it is news. When this was posted last night there was no mention of it on the other article and it is a SEPERATE ISSUE. The Gold Coast is not even in the same state as Sydney. The other article is clearly identified to discuss Sydney. Please read the source and discover this for yourself Cartman02au 01:30, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * After reading the other article there is no mention of the Gold Coast or the Queensland government's actions. I suggest that you read articles more thoroughly before taking such action Cartman02au 01:32, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

The content being duplicated somewhere else doesn't make it Not News. Surely merge would be more appropriate? Anyway, to Aussie contributors out there, the best response to a tagging such as this is to expand the article so that the news event that is being reported is clearly deserving of an article of its own. There are a number of mainstream articles that you could use as sources:

 * Text message urges more riots
 * Say no to hatred
 * Riot SMS's reach Gold Coast
 * SMS raises fears of racial violence in SE Qld

We could argue about it all day, or we could use our time turning it into a worthwhile article. - Borofkin 01:33, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually when this was posted last night news.com.au (which publishes those pages) it was breaking news and those articles had not been written. Thankyou for your suggestions and I shall look into re-working the article soon :) As always it's a pleasure for you to assist me :) Cartman02au 01:37, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Reworked
I have reworked the article and have included the additional sources in which I obtained the information from.

As before I do not believe that there is anything in this that is in the Sydney pages (apart from the reference) and it should not be included with that as the Gold Coast is not even in the same state as Sydney. Cartman02au 03:10, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Excellent work. If you wanted to, you could also expand the article to include other states - it seems that these racially motivated SMS messages are appearing in Victoria as well. See this google news search for more. - Borofkin 03:14, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. You are a true asset to this community. I may look at that side of it too, I didnt know about that (havent been listening to Sky since lunch) Cartman02au 03:28, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * No worries. Another thing you should note is that you should be careful when removing tags placed by other people. It isn't against policy to remove them, if you believe that the issue has been resolved, but it is generally considered to be polite to leave a message on their talk page asking them to review the article, and reconsider the tag. Working towards consensus with a distributed community is difficult, and every little nicety helps. :-) - Borofkin 03:33, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thankyou for informing me about that, I did not know Cartman02au 05:44, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Interstate
added some more quotes and info from interstate sources...--elliot_k 03:43, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we should modify the title? Cartman02au 05:45, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Clean up
I have cleaned the article up following the last major edit. I have seperated each state's incident into it's own section making it much easier to read.


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Haiti postpones presidential elections until December

November 18, 2005

According to Interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, for the 3rd time since the overthrow of President Aristide Haiti is going to delay their presidential elections, this time moving from the date of November 20th to December 27th for the first round of voting. The second round, previously scheduled for January 3rd, will also have to be postponed, to January 31.

The Prime Minister says that this time the dates are set and final. He says that they took their time to set the new date and are confident that this will mean better election turnout. According to Latortue, "all the problems have been anticipated, and we have a solution for each of them."

The electoral council is expected to confirm the dates on Monday, according to Max Mathurin, head of the council. It's unknown if this new date will affect the expected handover of power on February 7, 2006.


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Talk:Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks gets British citizenship

Article title
Since the ruling did not automatically make him a british citizen one would have to conclude the headline is incorrect.
 * You appear to be correct. The article says "After today's ruling, his lawyers will now press the British government to make arrangements for him to take the required citizenship oath and pledge." Would it possibly be better to rename it to something like "Australian Guantanamo detainee wins right to claim British citizenship" ? Or something? - Borofkin 02:31, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

 * He does in fact become a British citizenship, as Justice Collins has forced a legal default: "Lawyers acting for British Home Secretary Charles Clarke immediately announced that they would take the matter to the Court of Appeal. But Justice Collins refused the British Government a stay of his judgement, meaning that the Government is compelled to proceed with Hicks' citizenship application..."--elliot_k 02:42, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * What is a "legal default"? The Guardian article is titled "Australian terror suspect can become UK citizen", and says in its opening paragraph "An Australian being held as a terror suspect at Guantánamo Bay today won the right to be registered as a British citizen." Both statements imply that he can legally become a citizen, but has not yet done so. - Borofkin 02:54, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * By "legal default" (yeah i did make that one up) Justice Collins has forced the Government is compelled to proceed with Hicks' citizenship application. He has refused an appeal. So technically this means that David gets automatic citizenship...--elliot_k 03:11, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * If he gets automatic citizenship, then why would he need to take the "citizenship oath and pledge"? Automatic means that it occurs without any further intervention. If the British government still has to process his application and Hicks still has to take the pledge, then he isn't a citizen. How about renaming to Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks to get British citizenship?

 * By "legal default" (yeah i did make that one up) I mean that High Court Judge, Justice Collins, has forced the Government to proceed with Hicks' citizenship application. He has refused an appeal. So technically this means that David gets automatic citizenship... As reported in the Age: "Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has won British citizenship and moves are afoot to have him swear an oath of allegiance to Britain within days..." --elliot_k 03:11, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * What happens if the government is successful in their appeal? The judge gave permission for an appeal, he just refused to suspend his decision, so the government is compelled by the court to process the citizenship application. But it is still yet to be processed, so he is still only an Australian citizen. - Borofkin 03:28, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Agreed. Perhaps the title could be: Guantanamo detainee almost a Briton! Feel free to alter the heading as you see fit... Although in fact the headline is indeed correct. We can argue this til the cows come home! --elliot_k 03:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not sufficiently convinced of my own rightness to change the title. :-) - Borofkin 04:18, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Australian Responses - ABC News
Govt 'neutral' about Hicks decision

Ruling no guarantee of Hicks's release

Hicks's citizenship of no concern, Downer says


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Electoral council sets new dates for elections in Haiti

November 25, 2005

On Friday the electoral council decided push back the election dates for Haiti's first presidential election since the overthrow of President Aristide in 2004. New dates have been set for January 8, 2006 for the first round of the presidential and legislative elections, following by a second (runoff) round on February 15. Municipal elections have been delayed to March 6, 2006.

According to the council they need more time to organize the election process. They say they would not be able to set up polling stations by the December 27 date set by Prime Minister Latortue a few days ago. They need time to organize poll workers who do not have experience. One council member said that "for practical reasons, it was inevitable that we would miss the deadline," but that they would not miss the January 8 deadline currently set. They need time to print ballots, train poll workers, and distribute voter identification cards, an effort to fight potential voter fraud.

The Haitian constitution mandates a handover of power from one government to the next on February 7, but that will not be possible as elections will still be in progress. This is the 4th time the dates have been rescheduled.


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Talk:Council of Europe rapporteur says CIA abduction claim "credible"

What's a "rapporteur"? 172.197.40.117 22:20, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * A recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meetings (Source: Wordreference.com) Julián Ortega 22:34, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


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Journalist Gebran Tueni murdered

December 13, 2005

In an incident that may have long-term repercussions for the relationship between Lebanon and Syria, the death of anti-Syrian MP and journalist Gebran Tueni's has been marked by protests.

Tueni's death was marked with the closure of shops, schools and universities throughout Beiruit.

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Opposition leader jailed in Venezuela

December 13, 2005

Carlos Ortega, one of the top opposition leaders in Venezuela, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for inciting civil unrest during a strike.

Following a military coup d'etat in 2002, the two-month strike battered the country's oil industry in a effort to oust the elected president Hugo Chavez.

"From prison, I'll keep working, I'll keep fighting to preserve the freedom, democracy and unity of the people," said Mr Ortega in a telephone interview. "I'm no conspirator or coup plotter and I didn't betray my country."

While Ortega had initially fled Venezuela following the issuing of an arrest warrant in 2003, the BBC reports that he had returned to Venuzuela from Costa Rica last August. Mr Ortega was arrested in March 2005.

Supporters of Mr Ortega have claimed the verdict is 'politically motivated' according to BBC reports, with an appeal being planned.

Mr Ortega's opposition to current Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is well known. Chavez himself attempted (and failed) to carry out a military coup in 1992. Since then, Chavez was democratically elected president in 1998, 2000, and survived a recall referendum against him in 2004, and the constitutional reform referendum which he supported was supported by over 70% of the population in 1999.

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Uniting Church at Auburn destroyed by fire

December 14, 2005

The Uniting Church at Auburn in Sydney's inner west has been destroyed by fire overnight.

According to a press release by New South Wales Police, police and fire brigade personnel arrived at the church at approximately 1:35 a.m. local time to discover the church well alight.

Around 30 firefighters fought the blaze for two hours before bringing it under control.

The church is located near an Islamic centre and police are not sure if the fire is linked to the racial violence in Sydney over the past two days. Police are treating the fire as suspicious and will be continuing their investigations today.


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Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Black Squirrel. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Black Squirrel~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 23:12, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Chwalters~enwikinews

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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 Chwalters. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Chwalters~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 23:13, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Slanik

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User talk:Kwinterling

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Fires out at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal

December 13, 2005 After two days, the 2005 Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire has finally been extinguished.

The fires began after a series of explosions early on the morning of 11 December 2005. The terminal, known locally as the Buncefield Depot, is an oil storage facility located near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. These were some of the largest explosions ever to occur in the country and the incident has been described as the biggest of its kind in peacetime Europe.

The Hertfordshire Fire Service chief Roy Wilsher said: "There are still some small bund (concrete container) fires, but the tanks are out."

Fire crews would remain at the scene over the next few days cooling the area to ensure fires did not break out again, he said.

A few residents are being allowed to return to their homes within an exclusion zone set up around the site.


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User talk:210.54.68.191

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User talk:70.92.148.239

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User talk:216.101.25.243

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User talk:62.56.63.243

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User:Brian

On Wikinews I am a accredited contributor, Adminstrator, Arbitrator, Checkuser, Oversight and Bureaucrat. Please Contact me if you need any of the actions done. I have accounts in many other Wikinews's. On En, I'm an Admin. I am a trusted user  on Wikimedia Commons I have an account at Meta I contribute things to the Wikinews pages, OTRS pages and some minor vandalism control.

I am also a member of the Wikimedia OTRS team

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User talk:67.86.88.191

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Wikinews:Briefs/Business/December 14, 2005

December 14, 2005

These are short blurbs about current events in the business world.

A World Bank lead economist speaks on Bird Flu
In an online discussion Milan Brahmbhatt, World Bank lead economist for East Asia and the Pacific, answered a few questions about Bird Flu. Brahmbhatt said that the first thing to note is that "economic impacts can only be based on very broad assumptions." Brahmbhatt said that estimations of economic impacts are based on the SARS epidemic of 2003.

Brahmbhatt said "the most immediate economic impact might arise actually not from actual death or sickness, but from the efforts of people to actually avoid becoming infected, and this was at least the experience during SARS, when people tried to avoid infection by minimizing face-to-face interactions with other people, and this resulted in a very severe demand shock for services sectors."

Brahmbhatt indicated that since a pandemic flu would be a global disease that wouldn't end as quickly as SARS did that the severe demand shock for services would occur globally and last longer. "this could entail a loss of world GDP of four to five percent of world GDP, which, according to Oxford, would amount to the sort of staggering of figure of $1,500 to $2,000 billion." Brahmbhatt continued. Brahmbhatt said "One study for the US calculated that a mild epidemic similar to that which occurred in 1968 might lead to US losses with a present value of perhaps $100-200 billion in today’s dollars." Brahmbhatt said that the World Bank will continue to calculate the economic impact as more information about the disease becomes available.

Gold prices drop
Japanese gold buyers took in profits causing gold prices to drop. Gold has risen 8% since the start of December. Gold rose to $540.90 a troy ounce on Monday, the highest level since January 1981. Gold has now dropped over $20 in late London trading. If gold stays above $500 for the remainder of the trading day it will mark the 10th successive day of trading above the mark. Gold has not traded above $500 for 10 days in a row since 1983.

Other precious metals were affected by gold's drop. Silver has dropped 8% from an 18 year high of $9.23 a troy ounce. Platinum has fallen $24 from a 26 year high of $1,015 an ounce. Palladium is down 9% to $269 an ounce.

Advisors are walking both sides of the Gold fence. "It has been a substantial rise in prices and the recent moves seem to be a case of profit taking before the end of the year," said, chief economist at Commonwealth Securities Craig James, "But the fundamental situation is still solid. We believe the price of gold is well supported at $475 an ounce."

Tobin Gorey of Commonwealth Bank of Australia said "Gold has had a good run and the Fed lifting rates by an expected quarter-percentage point wasn't going to reverse the selling trend we've seen in recent days."

"We're seeing a lot of book-squaring and portfolio readjustment away from gold as the end of the year approaches," Gorey continued.


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Lavalas candidate barred from elections

September 15, 2005

Lavalas candidate, Gerard Jean-Juste has been denied an application to be a candidate for president in the upcoming elections. The party had attempted to register the candidancy for him, but electoral council official Jaccillon Barthélemy says that applications have to be made in person. The party members brought a letter given to them by Jean-Juste showing his intentions to run. The priest has been jailed since July, because accused of having involvement in the murder of journalist Jacques Roche. Jean-Juste was in Miami at the time of the murder and has denied any involvement. He has yet to be charged in relation to the crime.

Louis Gérard Gilles, a former Lavalas senator and party representative, says that they plan to take the decision to court saying, "The council has no authority to prevent a candidate from registering," and "nothing in the constitution requires he should be present in person." Hundreds of Lavalas supporters marched the electoral council on Tuesday, but were stopped by UN peacekeepers.

The decision is seen as a potential catalyst for the Lavalas family to boycott the upcoming elections. The party is currently split among moderates and hard-line supporters (those closer to Aristide). This decision could swing power towards the hard-liners. If Lavalas was to boycott the elections it could mean a major knock to the next government's legitimacy, as Lavalas is the country's largest party.

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