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Moving ahead
Is there any reason why the world cannot move ahead without the US, Canada, and Japan and leave an option for them to join in whenever they chose to do so? I know that that defeats the whole concept of working together but I seem to remember older ideas (UN, league of Nations, Human rights treaties) like this begin started by a few lead countries then having others opt in when they chose to do so. Would it not be ironic to have the previously "leading" countries written down in the history books as followers in the movement against global warming? --Jorago 21:06, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thats actually pretty much what Al Gore said in his speech adressing the delegates here yesterday. I don't understand the process well enough to say if this is viable or not, but Yvo de Boer today in the Press briefing was making a pretty contrary statement (saying that all documents that are decided on by the Plenary have to be passed unanimously, with no objections). And I think there has been a certain amount of movement that has already been taken, regardless of what the US (and others) are currently doing. Think the EU pledge to cut to 20% below 1990 levels by 2020 no matter what, or Chinese energy effieciency standards for cars.
 * Regards Sean Heron 07:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I have heard bits of the Al Gore's speech. I just wish that every country could get on board with these serious matters. I am always disappointed when I hear that Canada is refusing to act against climate change before the year 2050, if only I had been able to vote in the last election (not that it would have made much of a difference). As grim as the news is, thanks for the reports and replies! --Jorago 08:52, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


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Comments:American musician Ike Turner passes away at 76

Ike and Tina not married
I would just like to clarify one thing. Ike and Tina were never legaly married.
 * That is not backed up with a reference on Wikipedia --Brian McNeil / talk 21:29, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

About time
He was a wife beater...he deserved what he had coming. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 21:32, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:74.168.37.27

Nick deonas
That is an encyclopedic entry and not a news entry. I recommend that you try Wikipedia. Cheers, --SVTCobra 21:16, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

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UK train driver cleared of manslaughter over 1989 rail collision

December 13, 2007 A train driver from the United Kingdom has had his conviction for manslaughter over a head-on rail collision in 1989 quashed. A train operated by Robert Morgan, 64, passed a red signal at Purley and struck an oncoming service on March 4, 1989, killing five and injuring 80 more.

Morgan's train had been destined for London Victoria having left Littlehampton, but after passing through the red light struck a Horsham-to-Victoria train at 60mph.

Morgan, of Ferring, West Sussex, was ultimately convicted of two counts of manslaughter over the accident to which he had earlier pled guilty, and was jailed in September 1990 for 18 months, of which 12 were suspended. A subsequent appeal reduced this sentence to four months. 47 years old at the time, Morgan had never had any previous problems during his 23 years driving trains.

However, after his conviction it emerged that in the five years preceding the crash there had been four separate Signal Passed at Danger (SPAD) incidents involving the same signal, signal T168. The last of these had itself almost resulted in an accident.

The court was also told that had Morgan, who was unable to fully remember the collision due to his injuries, been aware of the previous problems at the time he would not have pled guilty to manslaughter.

Lord Justice Latham said on Wednesday in the court of appeal that "The history of signal 168... would have been a significant factor in any jury's evaluation of the extent to which the appellant's fault could have been said to have gone from being negligent — breach of duty — to being the sort of breach of duty which justified the imposition of criminal sanctions." He went on to describe the information that had not been available at the original 1990 trial as of "considerable significance".

He added that a further SPAD incident that occurred two years after the crash at the site, despite improvements designed to prevent a recurrence of the crash, showed that "something about the infrastructure of this particular junction was causing mistakes to be made. Had a jury known that, it is at the very least impossible for us to conclude that the jury would inevitably have nonetheless convicted the appellant of manslaughter. These facts would have all been matters which the jury would have taken into account when assessing the level of fault of Mr Morgan. There is no way that we can say accordingly that these convictions are safe. The position is that we allow the appeal against convictions."

Latham acknowledged that Morgan had indeed made a mistake when he passed the signal at danger, but described the area surrounding signal T168 as "an accident waiting to happen".

Morgan's legal team issued a statement from him describing him as "both delighted and relieved" that Lord Justice Latham and the two other judges had ruled his conviction unsafe.

Solicitor Gary Rubin said: "It is unfortunate that at the time when this tragic accident occurred, the significance of this particular signal being passed at danger on four previous occasions was not properly understood. Due to this lack of understanding at the time, Mr Morgan was placed in a position where he had no alternative other than to plead guilty. The impact of the better understanding has been material to the [appeal] court taking the rare step of quashing a conviction where there had been an original guilty plea so long ago."

Morgan told reporters outside the court "I am pleased that my conviction is squashed and my name is finally cleared. My thoughts will always remain with those who lost their loved ones."


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Explicit Canadian workplace safety ads pulled from TV due to Christmas season

December 13, 2007 Controversial and explicit Canadian workplace safety ads have been pulled from television, and paper ads from some bus shelters for the Christmas season. However, the ads will return to air in January.

"It's totally erroneous to suggest we're pulling anything," chairman of the Workplace Safety and Information Board of Ontario, Steve Mahoney said. "Our plan from Day 1 was to stop the ads around the middle of December when most of the advertising that's in the media is focused on Christmas and purchasing gifts. We just didn't want to be competing with all that stuff."

In one of the TV ads a woman accidentally slips on grease on the floor and a large steaming pot falls onto her face, and she starts screaming to death. The ads end with the message "There really are no accidents".

A paper ads shows a construction worker who is in a pool of blood with a forklift operation manual stuck in his chest. Another with a man who is slit by a "Danger" sign with his leg stuck in a machine. They show the messages: "Lack of training can kill" and the other "Ignoring safety procedures can kill".

"The critics amount to about 25 per cent rating, and I'm delighted they're upset about the ads because I wouldn't want anyone to enjoy watching them."

The videos have been viewed more than 70,000 times on the Board's website and are gaining large amounts of views on YouTube.

The transit authorities of Hamilton and Mississauga will show modified advertisements. The transit authority of Guelph will show the ads in bus shelters, but the transit authority of Windsor will not because of the graphic nature.

"We're not against workplace safety, but this is too graphic," said Caroline Postma, chair of the Transit Windsor board.

Mississauga city councillour Carolyn Parrish said: "My son-in-law was telling me that they shouldn't be on in prime time because when [my grandson] watches them he just about bursts into tear. Now he follows his mom around the kitchen to make sure she doesn't spill grease. And he's only four. There's too much of a chance that ... people are really badly affected by it, and can't really do anything about it anyway." She suggested the ads only be aired to workers with the jobs shown in the commercials.

Mahoney changed the earlier promise to air the ads only after 8:00pm to after 9:00pm at last nights meeting with Mississauga city council.

Mahoney said the commercials and paper ads are not "too graphic at all". And they are "absolutely appropriate and they're doing what they're intended to do, they're creating what I call a water cooler topic of conversation."

Ninety-eight Canadian workers so far have been killed on the job this year.


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Wording
It seems odd to say they are pulled and then follow with this quote, "It's totally erroneous to suggest we're pulling anything." --SVTCobra 22:36, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I guess it's just the juxtaposition of the two that looks funny. --SVTCobra 00:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * You beat me to it. The headline and the first sentence are entirely incompatible.  Unfortunately, I don't know how to edit the headline - I think only an admin can do it, but I'm not sure. StockGear 16:35, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Edit Protected
editprotected Could someone please change Category:Culture and entertainment to Category:Christmas, please? Surf Dog (talk) 03:53, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ in line with Wikinews categorisation methods. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:15, 5 July 2012 (UTC)


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Talk:American musician Ike Turner passes away at 76

Marriage with Tina Turner
According to Wikipedia, Ike and Tina married in Mexico in 1962. It was apparently real enough of a marriage that Tina filed for divorce and it was finalized in 1978. --SVTCobra 22:50, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Died
not passed away. Kittybrewster (talk) 22:57, 27 February 2009 (UTC)


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Former Chief Operating Officer of Wikimedia Foundation is convicted felon

December 14, 2007

, a British technology news and opinion website, reports that a former  (COO) has a criminal record in at least four U.S. states: Texas, Maryland, Virginia and Florida.

Carolyn Doran, born Carolyn Sue Bothwell, was the WMF COO for six months from January to July 2007. reported Doran's criminal record includes four convictions for, two of check fraud and petty larceny, one hit and run with fatality, and one charge of unlawful wounding for shooting former boyfriend Philip L. Brown in the chest in 1990. He later asked that no charges be made against her and they resumed dating each other. Two of the arrests for driving under the influence occurred this year, once in May while she was working for the Foundation and once a month after she resigned.

"He asked me to marry him after I shot him," Doran told  on February 22, 1990.

Wikinews has confirmed, through police reports, that she was convicted in four DUI's and also the hit and run. It is also confirmed, she faced an additional charge of driving while a license is suspended or revoked (DWLSR).

In 1994, Doran was implicated in the murder of a man who was the lover of her friend, Cassondra Sue Betancourt. Betancourt was later convicted of the man's first degree murder in 1995 after a jury trial. According to court documents, Betancourt, "brought some cocaine to a hotel room that had been rented by the victim, her lover. The next morning, after defendant left the room, the victim was discovered dead."

Doran, who had prior knowledge that Betancourt would deliver the drugs, made a plea deal with prosecutors that if she testified against Betancourt, she would get a lesser sentence for her previous charges of credit card fraud and petty larceny. Although Doran assisted the prosecution in attempting to gain incriminating evidence by wearing a wire while with Betancourt, Doran never received her lesser sentence. Despite the attempt, Betancourt's conviction was later overturned in 1998 because "there was insufficient evidence to support the conviction. The court held that there had only been circumstantial evidence linking defendant to the crime, and that proof by circumstantial evidence was not sufficient to prove first degree murder," added the court papers.

Wikinews can also confirm that Doran's husband, Sean H. Doran, a former intelligence officer and major for the U.S. Air Force, to whom she was married for only five days, drowned on their honeymoon on in the Cayman Islands in 1999. According to The Washington Post, the cause of the drowning which led to his death was not known. It was later acknowledged in private records given to the Library of Virginia that his death was deemed accidental.

Six months later she remarried after meeting a man named Christopher Dale Confer in, Colorado. It was earlier thought she used Confer as an alias, because according to PACER, she filed for bankruptcy in 2001 where she is listed as having "aliases," one being Carolyn S. King and the other as Carolyn Confer.

The Register quotes Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia Foundation's general counsel, as saying that the Foundation had no knowledge of Doran's prior or current criminal record. "We've never had any documentation of any criminal record on Carolyn Doran's part at all. As far as I'm concerned, I have no direct knowledge of [her criminal record] yet...We have, in our records, no evidence of any such thing."

Wikinews attempted to contact Mr. Godwin via e-mail but no response has yet been received.

Doran was voted into her COO position by the Wikimedia Board of Trustees at the time. Of the seven board members, six supported her position and one did not. The vote was made and agreed upon on January 22, 2007. She was in charge of "all office/administrative issues" and "overall administration and business operations. Areas of responsibility included administration, personnel and fiscal management. In the future, [she will be in charge of] any new employee working in the administrative area," according to public e-mails on Wikimedia's main mailing list foundation-l.

According to, the Chair of the WMF Board of Trustees, background checks were not performed on anyone until at least 2007, but that recently, the Foundation began to perform them. During that time, Brad Patrick was acting Executive Director and he did all the hiring.

"In fall 2006, we did not perform criminal background checks. From what I understood, Mike took care of this and this is now being done. It is fairly recent, the board did not get any report on this," said Devouard on foundation-l.

Doran was searched and questioned by U.S. Customs agents in Florida after returning from a Foundation board meeting in the Netherlands around June. According to The Register, it was because she violated the terms of her parole by attending the meeting. She was not arrested, but according to police reports, on October 31, 2007, Doran was arrested under a warrant valid for a "nationwide extradition". Doran was then extradited back to Virginia, where she is currently being held in a prison in.

Doran resigned from her position in July 2007, and the Foundation is currently without a Chief Operating Officer.


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OR and source
Only one source so far. I e-mailed Mike Godwin for a response. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 01:47, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Also note, i am not sure I believe this report yet. So I am attempting to go through proper channels to get the real info. Below are a list of people I contacted.
 * Jimbo Wales: Could not provide any help in the matter. Said to e-mail Godwin.
 * Mike Godwin: E-mailed. Awaiting reply.

DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 01:53, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, please keep in mind that according to Wikipedia: The Register ("El Reg" to its staff) is a British technology and satirical website. Also, it says "Audit pending" on this article (I don't know what that means, but I am guessing they require some sort of peer review). Just be cautious. --SVTCobra 02:23, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree, but I checked her edits on Wikipedia. See talk page. Pretty suspicious stuff. She had a sockpuppet, possibly her.  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 02:26, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I just found an edit to her talk page made tonight at 02:28 (one minute before I posted this comment!) by an IP. Also,   —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 02:29, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * All the edits prior to that "She's gone" section seem to be before the time that she was COO, or is there something off with the six-month claim of being an employee? --SVTCobra 02:34, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * More interesting links: Is this transparency? Well, now we know....  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 02:56, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * "Audit pending" refers to the fact that an audit of the Wikimedia "Foundation's finances - which was originally due for release in September ... - is still pending", which you would know if you had read the article. 158.143.201.102 13:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * This is being discussed on WikiEN-l (the English Wikipedia's mailing list) right now. One possibility someone (George Herbert) has raised is that there are two people in Florida with this name. We may want to get the court records in Florida and verify it is the same person. JoshuaZ 03:53, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * I've also sent an e-mail to the Foundation-L mailing list regarding this, no response yet. Avruch 04:43, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Both Jimmy Wales and Mike Godwin have responded to mailing lists - Godwin to Foundation-l and Wales to wikien-l. Avruch 05:20, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Wales has not talked about it and has not responded because he is not too sure bout the whole thing. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 11:28, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't trust the word of Wikipedia administrators. It is in their nature to engage in censorship and totalitarianism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.87.162.215 (talk) 06:37, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

The Register as a source
All claims from the Register should be sourced explicitly to the Register since they have a history of bad reporting about Wikipedia and Wikimedia (indeed, a few days ago they had two hit pieces that were presented as journalism). We may also want to note in the article Kelly Martin's initial criticism of the strange departure (Kelly is a former English Wikipedia admin, checkuser and ArbCom, so her opinion is relevant). JoshuaZ 03:56, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Washington Post source
Her name is brought up twice in Washington Post articles from 1990. Arrested, Asked that the charges be dropped. In the end her boyfriend at the time decided not to go forward with the charges. TheCustomOfLife 04:54, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * She was also the roommate and friend of a woman, Miss Cassondra Ann Betancourt, who poisoned a man in 1994 to get his life insurance money, and the jury heard testimony that she was an indirect accomplice to it. The free version is here, but does not mention her name. By request, I can e-mail anyone who wants the full copy (which does mention her name). Also, if anyone has LexisNexis, they can easily get the copy themselves. TheCustomOfLife 05:11, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I've excerpted the part that has to do with Carolyn.

 * ''A former roommate of Betancourt's, Sterling resident Carolyn Bothwell, testified yesterday that Betancourt told her in July 1994 that Montague "won't be around in September to worry about."

 * Betancourt's attorney, Gregory Harris, suggested that his client meant that she would be breaking off her relationship with Montague, not that "Cassie was going to do him in."

 * The tapes were recorded at the home of Bothwell, who is a neighbor of Montague's daughter, Janet Hall. Betancourt lived with Bothwell for three months in the spring of 1994.

 * Bothwell testified that she bought a recording device and put it on her telephone to capture threatening phone calls from her former common-law husband. She said Betancourt was with her when she bought the device. Bothwell said she gave the tapes to investigators after she found out about Montague's death.

 * Harris suggested that Bothwell, who has a pending credit card forgery case in Loudoun, was trying to curry favor with prosecutors with her testimony. Bothwell denied that. "I had enough to lose coming up here," she said. "I had nothing to gain." TheCustomOfLife 05:21, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * And the final 1998 court verdict. I have the PDF copy of that as well so if anyone would like me to forward that, I can, or they can read it for themselves if they have a LexisNexis account.

 * Carolyn Bothwell, a friend of Hall's, assisted the police investigation by wearing a concealed recording device on six different occasions in a futile attempt to obtain incriminating statements from appellant. Bothwell testified that she, already a convicted felon, was the target of a felony prosecution in Loudoun County at the time of appellant's trial but that her case had been continued. She further testified that she had reached no agreement with the Loudoun County prosecutor's office regarding the effect her cooperation in appellant's case might have on her own prosecution. TheCustomOfLife 05:28, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * And something else that may or may not be influential, in 1999 her husband died on their honeymoon in an apparent drowning, but the coroner's office didn't determine how. As like always, you can find it on LexisNexis, Washington Post obituaries, November 13, 1999, Metro, page B6.

 * Excerpts:

 * Sean H. Doran, 40, an Air Force major who was an intelligence officer with the National Imagery and Mapping Agency in Reston, died Nov 4. in Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. He lived in Potomac Falls, Va.

 * A family spokesman said Maj. Doran, who was on his honeymoon, died in an apparent drowning.

 * A spokesman for the Royal Cayman Islands Police reported that Maj. Doran's body was recovered from the North Sound and that the official cause of death had not been determined by the coroner's office.

 * [...] Survivors include his wife, the former Carolyn Bothwell, whom he married Oct. 30, [...] TheCustomOfLife 05:48, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

BLP on en.wp
The Wikipedia article for Carolyn is, currently, a soft redirect to this news article. However, I'm not 100% convinced that "Chief Operating Officer of Wikimedia Foundation was convicted felon" is a nice BLP-compliant statement... is there any way to potentially reword the name of the article without it smacking of censorship? I realize Wikinews isn't subject to Wikipedia's policies, which is why I'm asking, rather than moving it myself (especially since I'm at a loss for what to rename it to...). EVula // talk // 07:03, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Since court documents call her a convicted felon, I think what we have is fine. TheCustomOfLife 07:27, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Then it's a doubly moot point, then; we've converted the article to a redirect to WMF. Yay. EVula // talk // 08:02, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

PACER
There is zero mention of any of these cases in the U.S. PACER party case index. No criminal cases for any Carolyn Doran, and all civil/bankruptcy cases have a different middle initial. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:46, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * LexisNexis has outlined every source I used. Go there. PACER is not comprehensive. TheCustomOfLife 10:00, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I have just spent over 20 minutes trying to find where I can sign up and gain access to LexisNexis. I ended up having to use the "contact us" form and have yet to learn what this may cost. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:13, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * You'll find more results searching under her earlier name "Carolyn Bothwell" than searching for her as "Carolyn Doran". Yes there is stuff in Pacer, your just not looking hard enough. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.213.130 (talk) 21:16, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Page protected?
I've been adding sources to this article, why is the page now protected? Jussenadv 17:24, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Not sure why. I'm going to ask the protecting admin. In the meantime, what sources were you going to add? JoshuaZ 17:35, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It was just unprotected by Brianmc. JoshuaZ 17:49, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Washington Post
I have several articles from the Post and court documents that are used in our article. If you want to see them, e-mail me. See my user page. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 21:15, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

WMF did not do background checks in 2006
Florence Devouard posted on the mailing list that as far as she knows, in fall 2006 WMF did not do background checks on its new hires.

 * Brad was ED at that time. The board hires the ED and has authority over the ED. Then the ED has authority over all staff members (and he is the one who hires them). In fall 2006, we did not perform criminal background checks afaik.

 * Are we doing that now ? From what I understood, Mike took care of this and this is now being done. It is fairly recent, the board did not get any report on this, so I can not further comment.TheCustomOfLife 01:37, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Death of husband
Mentioning the death of the husband seems like insinuation and tabloid journalism. I'm inclined to take it out. There's no indication of foul play at all. JoshuaZ 16:17, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Does anyone object to my removing it? JoshuaZ 02:53, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I do. It's pertinent yet doesn't mention she was directly involved (which is the "official line"). I still think it's important to have. So yes, I do object to removing it. Anyone else find it a bit odd that nobody could immediately figure out the true cause of the drowning, and then it was swept under the rug? No, don't remove it. TheCustomOfLife 10:44, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree with TheCustomOfLife. It does seem pertinent and is phrased appropriately, with attribution to proper sources.  Wilhelm 12:40, 16 December 2007 (UTC).
 * Ok. I guess it stays. JoshuaZ 16:11, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I e-mailed the Island Police...no response. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 12:42, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost
Should we make a note of the Wikipedia Signpost article about this? -- "Former Wikimedia employee's criminal history detailed". Wilhelm 23:45, 18 December 2007 (UTC).
 * As with below, too late. The story will soon drop off our front page and into the archives. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:16, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Tampa Tribune
This was just posted by the Tampa Tribune, I'd recommend it as a more reliable source than the Register. Have to admit: I found this via Wikipedia Review. I'll add it to the list of sources. It contains some info regarding the Texas crimes which I don't think we had been able to find so far. I added it to the top of the source list since it looks like it's the most comprehensive on the subject. If you have some convention for source ordering feel free to change. Jussenadv 07:19, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The key convention in Wikinews articles is they are what was known at the time. So, for a Wikinews article dated the 14th is is not appropriate to make any content edits - including addition of sources - after the article has been published for 24 hours or so.
 * The Register may be a questionable source, but this is also tagged as original reporting. LexisNexis was dug into as well as the U.S. courts' PACER system. As the people who broke the story the Register should be mentioned, but if you check against what they wrote we actually dug up a bit more. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:07, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

The Associated Press picks up the story, December 21, 2007
Should this be noted somewhere? Wilhelm 04:30, 22 December 2007 (UTC).
 * Felon Became COO of Wikipedia Foundation, The Associated Press
 * Former Wikipedia Officer Found To Have Long Criminal Record, The Washington Post

Story wiped from Google News Archive?
What does everyone think is going on with this? Is Google doing a "memory hole" on the Carolyn Doran story? Do we live in a Stalinist/Orwellian state? -- 72.94.165.206 14:07, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Despite the confusing names, "Google News Archive" is not an archive for "Google News". It is a Google-run archive of historical news (particularly newspapers) going back 200 years. It's quite possible for Google News search results to never make it into Google News Archive search results without there necessarily being a fascist conspiracy. —Pathoschild 08:46, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Extraneous comma
This sentence contains an unnecessary comma after the word Although: "Although, Doran assisted the prosecution in attempting to gain incriminating evidence by wearing a wire while with Betancourt, Doran never received her lesser sentence." -- Thekohser (talk) 18:44, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|link=|alt=|16px]] Done --InfantGorilla (talk) 20:09, 26 August 2010 (UTC)


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Mulroney
Shame on you Brian Mulroney!!! Its embarrassing to Canada that you have so little regard for this country, its citizens and your children, that you could appear to conduct yourself in a manner befitting a sneaky petty thief. I don't think anyone would have thought your arrogance so great as to severely limit your intelligence and general judgment. I'll bet Pierre Elliot Trudeau is shaking his head and chuckling, up there, now that you have revealed your true colors and smeared your own place in history for a mere pittance.

You step on a rats tail its gonna squeel —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.66.116.163 (talk) 20:29, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, Brian was never known as someone who really means what he says. Politically, I mean.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.120.43.118 (talk) 04:01, 28 June 2008 (UTC)


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Ban them or air them only to certain people
They are pretty disgusting ads, I seen the two paper ads on The Windsor Star's website (thank God I didn't watch the commercials, they are worse). I think they should be banned. I agree with the Mississauga city councillour: either ban them because they are disgusting/freak people out or only let people with those jobs watch them.  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 03:15, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Only people with jobs involving fork lifts have to follow safety protocols and need training? I have to say I think these ads are working well going by the response Nil Einne 13:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)


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Nigerian anti-corruption officials arrest former governor James Ibori

December 14, 2007

Nigerian police arrested former Delta State governor James Ibori Wednesday on charges of abuse of office, corruption, and money laundering.

According to a statement by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibori was picked up at a private residence in the Asokoro District of Nigeria's capital city, Abuja. Ibori was to be arraigned yesterday at the Federal High Court in Kaduna. He is facing a total of 103 charges.

James Ibori had been governor of Delta for the past eight years, until leaving office in May, 2007. Although he earned a modest US$25,000 per year as governor, he had reportedly accumulated more than $35 million in foreign accounts. Ibori's UK assets have been frozen while the Metropolitan police investigate further. Should the money be deemed the proceeds of crime, it could be transferred back to the Nigerian government.

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua was elected in May on a platform of battling corruption in the government. Since taking office, Yar'Adua has overseen the arrest of five other former governors on corruption offences. James Ibori had supported the president in his election bid.

Law enforcement officials and anti-corruption advocates in the UK and Nigeria have complained that the Nigerian attorney-general was interfering and slowing down investigations. The attorney-general, Michael Aondoakaa, has denied the allegations.

In a December, 2007 paper by the global corruption watchdog Transparency International, entitled Report on the Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2007, Nigeria was determined to have one of the highest rates of corruption, evaluated as a percentage of citizens reporting they paid a bribe to obtain a service.


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User talk:72.87.162.215

"Censorship"
Please note that, when I made my edit, there was an article on her on en.wp; it was deleted after I made the change. EVula // talk // 06:39, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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User:Rajeevmass

hi, i am Rajeevmass (Rajeev Kumar) i am Administrator in Hindi Wikipedia

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Christian church leader kidnapped in Pakistan

December 14, 2007

On the eve of December 7, 2007 Dr. Reginald Humayun, a Christian doctor working for Pennell Memorial Christian Hospital in Bannu, Pakistan, was kidnapped along with his driver while returning from a trip to Dera Ismail Khan.

The doctor, a medical superintendent at that hospital, was also the General Secretary of the Church of Pakistan. The All Pakistan Minority Alliance, the Church of Pakistan and the Christian community as a whole have appealed to the Government to expedite efforts for the doctor's safe recovery.

Dar Ali Khatak, leading the investigation by the Bannu Police has expressed deep concerns and vows to find the hostages though until now no progress has been seen. With the recent state of politics in Pakistan, it is becoming increasingly difficult for those who are providing humanitarian services.


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2007 Taipei International Travel Fair: Taiwanese government promote premiums on tourism industry

December 15, 2007 2007 Taipei International Travel Fair (Taipei ITF), supported by governments with new premiums promoted by Executive Yuan in the future, started with a great new scale at December 14 to 17. In the opening morning yesterday, governmental people and ambassadors from several countries including Taiwan successively visited this show.

The show organizer, Taiwan Visitors Association (TVA), held 2 opening ceremonies for Cross-Strait Pavilion and the main show. In the side of Cross-Strait, several teams performed traditional entertainment shows like "Bian Lian" (Face-Changing) and Martial Arts of Shaolin Monastery (In Chinese: Shaolin Kungfu) successively at press conference and welcome reception yesterday and opening ceremony today. Participants from China and Taiwan hoped the relation from Cross-Strait can be improved with tourism industry. In the main opening ceremony, Premier of the Republic of China Chun-hsiung Chang not only announced the premiums of "2008-2009 Visit Taiwan Year" but also said: "We (the Executive Yuan) will still encourage foreign visitors visit Taiwan and also provide premiums for groups with a charter airline. with our '2008-2009 Visit Taiwan Year' in the future".

Not only Chun-hsiung Chang, Minister of Transportation and Communications Duei Tsai, Commissioner of Tourism Bureau of MOTC Janice Lai, and the current President of Palau Thomas Esang Remengesau, Jr. visited this show. Governments in several divisions participated in this show to showcase traditional cultures from several divisions with unlimited potentials on tourism industry in Taiwan.


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User talk:78.149.223.120

Pakistan kidnapping
Hi, thanks for contributing this article. Two comments though 1) all the source spell the doctor's name "Rejinald" so I changed it back; 2) we cannot report unsourced hearsay, it's just not good journalism. Thanks, --SVTCobra 13:41, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * The doctor in person is my father and I had to put this news to the world media somehow. His real name is "Reginald Humayun Zahiruddin" and the hearsay is what I have come to know from talks with family and friends. Alas, I am in the UK while all this unfolds in Pakistan, I can only deem it hearsay. It didn't feel good to quote myself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.223.120 (talk) 14:22, 14 December 2007 (UTC)  - Arun Reginald 14:28, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:144.199.176.11

Deepak mukarji
Hi, this is an encyclopedic entry. You may try over at Wikipedia, but this is Wikinews. Thanks, --SVTCobra 13:48, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Comments:Fijians in New Zealand urged to protest NZ's involvement in Fiji

Fiji needs a good honest government with Leaders interested in bettering the life-styles of her people. Most of the former Politians have only been interested in paying themselves excessively "High PayCheques" while the average worker or employee is lucky to make 1 dollar an hour while working long hours with little or no job security. And remember Now; that the Fiji Dollar has been extremely devaluated. So the working person in Fiji is working harder for Less. Which One of Fiji's former Politicians took a pay cut; or took a stand for fair wages for their citizens? These are the Questions to answer when choosing your New Leaders and Future. Rolandas Tucas


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"Bali Roadmap" agreed on, applauded

December 15, 2007

After the United States agreed to the changes proposed by India this morning, the so called Bali Roadmap has been agreed on, to applause from all parties. The decision was made at this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali. The Roadmap establishes a time frame and scope for reaching a post-2012 climate change agreement. This includes setting, for industrialized nations, targets for reductions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Numerous observers and parties had voiced that they see this as being of great importance prior to and during the conference.

Following the reopening of the plenary at midday, India reiterated its position that part of a paragraph needed to be reformulated. The EU went on to state that in the spirit of negotiations, they agreed with the proposed changes. After some further statements by other nations, the US said that they can not accept the changes, as they would considerably change the balance of the text. This was met with loudly audible booing in the plenary. Some time later, after a number of other nations voiced their opinions and the American delegation could be seen busily debating and writing, the US said they would agree to the consensus position after all. Standing ovations and cheers welcomed this change in position, which allowed the President of the Conference soon thereafter to declare the document decided.

India this morning had raised objections on one of the central documents of what constitutes the Roadmap. This had made a decision impossible for the time being, as the conference can only pass items unanimously. The objection regarded the phrasing of how nations with developing industries are to take action to slow and reduce their GHG emissions. The President of the Conference, the Indonesian Environmental Minister, had declined the request, stating that the proposal he had made was very finely balanced. The President had then suspended the session so that further consultations could be made.

No progress was made when the meeting was reopened about an hour later, with China stating that negotiations of the so called Group of 77 and China with the Indonesian Minister of Finance were still ongoing. China then accused the UNFCCC secretariat of deliberately opening the plenary session at a time it knew that their Ministers were in talks. The Chinese delegate went on to demand an apology by the secretariat, and the meeting was again suspended.

Yesterday's negotiations
Ministerial negotiations had continued through the night until the early morning hours yesterday and the climate conference had been scheduled to decide on the last outstanding items this morning.

Yesterday evening Yvo de Boer of the UNFCCC had said that the parties were "on the brink of agreement", when he was asked where negotiations currently stand. With almost all open matters having been agreed on by a group of 40 ministers, one of the last outstanding points then was still the question of guideline numbers for GHG cuts.

Some of the issues that had still been open the day before yesterday (for example how deforestation was to be addressed and the matter of financial support for developing countries to send and support negotiators to the UN climate conferences), had apparently been addressed to everyones satisfaction during yesterdays informal talks. But the talks were still on with regard to preambular text of a document that states how further action to mitigate climate change is to be taken, the inclusion of a 25-40% range for reductions in GHG emissions for industrialized nations by 2020 from 1990 levels being contested.

The draft decision proposed by the President of the Conference today however, no longer included the numbers, but did make reference to the latest report by the international body of scientists that is charged with assessing the current state of knowledge on climate change. This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had presented its Synthesis report earlier this year.

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Talk:2007 Taipei International Travel Fair: Taiwanese government promote premiums on tourism industry

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Written with what I saw, and partially translated from Chinese version, for more please see Category talk:2007 Taipei International Travel Fair. Brock contact... 08:53, 16 December 2007 (UTC)


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User talk:ArunReginald

Kidnapping in Pakistan
My deepest sympathy's to you and your family. I hope your father will make it through this trying experience. I do not, however, see a way to include the rumors/hearsay about the Taliban being involved, until we have a source for it. --SVTCobra 15:33, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Two PhD students shot dead in Louisiana

December 14, 2007 Two students were found dead in an apartment in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. They had been shot in the head by unidentified assailants in what investigators are calling an apparent.

The deceased students have been identified as Chandrashekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam, both of who hailed from Andhra Pradesh, India. They were doctorate students at the Louisiana State University (LSU). The homicides occurred at the Edwards Gay Apartments on the school's campus, and police have been searching for three suspects. These appear to be the first killings on the campus since the early 1990s.

The bodies were discovered after Allam's pregnant wife called emergency to request urgent medical aid. Both men had been shot once through the head, according to Charles Zewe, a spokesperson for the EWU system. Officers and medical personnel were immediately dispatched to the scene. The University officials gathered the latest information and sent out an emergency text message to the members of the LSU community who had previously registered their phone numbers with the university's emergency text-messaging system.

"From what we're being told, Komma was bound with a computer cable and shot," Zewe said. "The other man was found near the door." There were no indications of a forced entry.

"Police actually think it was a straight home invasion and not a concern to the rest of the campus," said Kristine Calongne, a university spokesperson. The university was not in a state of at any time.

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Talk:Two PhD students shot dead in Louisiana

Deng, I have to leave immediately. Leaving this for someone else to complete. :( — Nearly Headless Nick  {C} 17:58, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * This, which is in the CNN-IBN source: Beatle Rag University, seems to be a completely made-up place and not referred to in any other source, I removed it from the story. --SVTCobra 18:24, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the move made from "... Indian students..." to "... PhD students..." – one of the main reasons why this made news in the first place was that both the students were Indians and that the murders occurred in Louisiana. — Nearly Headless Nick  {C} 09:52, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

It is not so much their race that is being mention as it is their nationality. Would a title of "Two German students shot in Michigan" be deemed inappropriate? When people are killed in a foreign country their nationality is usually mentioned. --SVTCobra 15:27, 17 December 2007 (UTC)


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Comments:Former Chief Operating Officer of Wikimedia Foundation is convicted felon

Regardless of what the truth is in this case: how is it possible in America that anyone could be a felon, a repeated drunk driver, kill someone in a hit-and-run drunk driving "accident", and still get out of jail in well under a year? People who were caught in 2005 sending spam E-mails or blowing up mailboxes with fireworks or carrying a Ziploc bag full of marijuana are still just starting their prison time. But all the winds of compassion seem to blow for the terrorists of the roadway. Do people realize that if just the Muslims in this country - 1% of drivers - decided not to drink and drive on account of their religion, that has saved as many lives in 20 years as were lost in the September 11th attacks? Mike Serfas 18:06, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Mike, Unfortunately it's fairly common in many states that DUI fatalities are considered something like involuntary manslaughter. And, if there is any jail time it's minimal. --Sue Anne  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.71.24.226 (talk) 19:46, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Oy yoi yoi
Jimbo is really fielding some heat on this. It is hard to defend a drunk driver, but it sure must suck to have the Wiki community go after her so hardcore. --David Shankbone 18:41, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 * This isn't just about drunk driving. She also shot a boyfriend and engaged in check fraud. JoshuaZ 18:51, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oy yoi yoi. --David Shankbone 18:53, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * And if you want to get suspicious, she could have killed her husband. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 22:11, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oy ya yoi ya yoi!!! --David Shankbone 23:13, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Hoax?
At first I thought it must be a hoax. How many people have: But I suppose it could also apply to many celebrities! Jcart1534 00:44, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Four convictions for driving under the influence;
 * Two convictions for check fraud and petty larceny;
 * A conviction for hit and run with a fatality;
 * Been charged with unlawful wounding for shooting a friend;
 * Been charged with driving while a license is suspended or revoked;
 * Had a spouse of five days drown on their honeymoon;
 * Filed for bankruptcy; and
 * Faced arrest under a "nationwide extradition"warrant.
 * Well, it definitely begs the question "How was she hired?" Whose decision was it to hire her in the first place, who voted for her hire, and why, despite her extensive criminal background (which multiple people found simply by Googling her different names in certain spots)? TheCustomOfLife 00:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Just what I was about to ask. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 00:57, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It appears she was hired through an agency. JoshuaZ 01:03, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It's still the Foundation's fault for not researching her background when they hired her for the COO job. As much as people like to think it rules everything, usually when applying for such a job, nobody just "assumes good faith." TheCustomOfLife 01:10, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Mike, I agree 100%.  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 01:24, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Usually, I read people complaining that employers are too picky about criminal records and refusing to hire ex-cons, effectively trapping people in a life of crime. But then when something like this happens, people are all "how could you possibly have hired that person". Does anyone else notice this duality in public opinion? --SVTCobra 01:30, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Personally, I'm not as much shocked that they hired her, I'm shocked they had no knowledge of her record. Bawolff ☺☻ 01:39, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I understand, but I think usually the split happens with certain levels at certain companies. This would be an acceptable duality, because a woman who had multiple legal issues with money, and nearly countless other troubles, should not be anywhere near accounting at any company, much less WMF. TheCustomOfLife 01:40, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I was commenting more in general, than to this specific case. Also, wasn't this woman the COO and not CFO? I think the Register was deliberately trying to paint her as the person in control of the monies. --SVTCobra 01:52, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * For a lot of her time there, she was the highest person doing day to day work in the office. So they actually were pretty right on. TheCustomOfLife 01:55, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Point is...this is not something that is a parking ticket or maybe forgot to pay for a candy bar. This is what appears to be a 5 state crime spree. She is a con artist. Very knowledgeable...and all this was found just by simple searches. One might wonder...did she swander WMF? DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 02:15, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

What a terrible article, sensationalist in the worst possible way. when you look at the facts rather than the way the story is written, what do you really have? that she had a friend who had a conviction overturned for murder. that she apparently shot her boyfriend and subsequently he offered to marry her. The worst one has to be the suggestion that she maybe killed her first husband who drowned after only 5 days of marriage. Was there ever a hint of accusation by the police that she somehow killed him. That was shameful reporting.

What her record really comes down to is being caught driving under the influence four times. Yes someone got killed one of those times, what was her part in the death? we don't know automatically she gets blamed since she was over the limit had she came from a bar or was she going out to work the next day after a night out? Theres the petty larceny charge which may be as simple as a bounced cheque, again we don't know the circumstances. The only hint we get is that at the 'boyfriend' shooting incident she had a 3 year old son. Perhaps she was struggling as a single mother at the time and didnt realise the state of her bank account.

She is not blameless but she isn't Rose West either.

There are doctors, lawyers and accountants that drink most of them don't get behind the wheel of a car whilst drunk but it doesn't make them unfit to do their jobs.

Please rewrite the article with some objectivity at least drop the reference to her husbands accidental death. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.22.96.128 (talk) 16:01, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * She was convicted on Manslaughter instead of attempted murder. What the article shows, that even without the tools of a professional background check, and by using nothing more than Google and such, we came up with all this. We didn't have to call people, or pay for stuff. This woman has a 5-6 state crime spree, filed for bankruptcy because she owed about 300 different companies thousands of dollars, killed someone because she cannot say when enough is enough, had a friend who managed to kill someone....over drugs...the larceny is for the con artist she has been. And its not often someone gets a nation extradition warrant out for their arrest........all that...with google, and she managed to get a position of COO for the internet's fastest growing information source EVER, AND was in charge of an ENTIRE office...so lets list the convicted crimes:

 * 1) Stealing
 * 2) Manslaughter
 * 3) Fraud
 * 4) Hit and run with a fatality
 * 5) 4 DUI's, and that's just in Florida
 * 6) Violation of parole
 * 7) Conspiracy to commit murder
 * 8) Possession of a controlled substance
 * 9) Assault with a deadly weapon

All this just from a simple google search...and yet she managed to get a respectable job, where she was in charge of just about everything in the office, and had the potential to embezzle and steal thousands from WMF...so tell me where there is not a story? DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 02:35, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

"Con-artist" -- that would explain quite a bit about this bizarre story. All of those convictions clearly argue that she was not a person who happened to run into a patch of bad luck, & somehow she managed to bluff her way into letting a temp agency into doing only the most cursory of background checks. (In her email to WikiEN-L, Florence Devouard stated that they did talk to her previous employers, which included the agency who placed Doran to begin with, & none of whom mentioned her arrest record. They had the resources to uncover this record, unlike WMF.) And it also explains the mysterious silence around her departure: either the staff at the Foundation learned the truth &, like most victims of con-artists, were so embarrassed that they wanted to hide their mistake, or Doran knew the importance of keeping her departure below the radar & pressured the WMF to keep the facts confidential. It would also explain why Doran hasn't bothered to update her LinkedIn profile. -- llywrch 08:13, 16 December 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.20.149.168 (talk)

 * 86.22... The drunk driving wouldn't be so bad if she weren't such a recidivist compounded by the financial offences. Her fatal hit and run was a while ago, yet she was arrested just on May 20 of this year (!) for her third (meaning she's had at least one since then) DUI. (and no llywrch, I did not follow you here ;)). — Yom 08:25, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

The shooting incident
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72567788.html?dids=72567788:72567788&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+22%2C+1990&author=DeNeen+L.+Brown&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=d.03&desc=Va.+Shooting+Case+Typifies+Domestic+Violence+Cycle

" On Tuesday, [Philip L. Brown]'s letter to the prosecutor was entered into evidence in Fairfax Circuit Court, and the charge against [Carolyn Bothwell] was reduced to unlawful wounding. The prosecution recommended probation instead of jail. Bothwell, whose attorney told the judge the shooting was in self-defense, pleaded guilty to the lesser charge, saying she feared losing custody of her son. Sentencing is scheduled for April 20.

In January 1989, eight months before the shooting, Brown was charged with assault after he allegedly threw Bothwell down a flight of concrete stairs and and kicked her in the ribs, according to court records. Brown, who was cleared of the charge, says he did not beat Bothwell.

"Carolyn Bothwell was not a victim of someone who used to beat her," Brown, a consultant to a defense contractor, said yesterday. "I did slap Carolyn. But I was attacked first. "

Looks like its domestic violence to me- 18 years ago... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.22.96.128 (talk) 16:25, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

On wikimedia handling this
I think the wmf did a pretty good job handling this. Lots of people on foundation-l are saying they should of broke the story before the register did, but I think they did the right thing. So far we are the only people who picked up on this, if the wmf released a press release, all that would of served was to attract attention to this issue. Bawolff ☺☻ 09:02, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Maybe...but I mean this was bound to be made public. I guess i can say good job for not denying it...at least I hope that's not what they are doing. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 12:44, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

There is no case that exists in Maryland for Carolyn Bothwell or Carolyn Doran. Clearly the information is not accurate. This includes all searches for civil, criminal, traffic or civil citations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.152.160.194 (talk) 16:14, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

many errors
This article has several problems, to start with her name is carolyn annette bothwell doran, not carolyn sue. This is typical of carolyn,I know all the truth. My name is philip brown, father of her son and the man she shot in 1989. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.67.100 (talk) 04:24, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Get her out fast....

Unless Wikipedia wants to pay fines like Y! G and MS for "promoting" illegal activities.
 * Uh, read the date? This was last December, not 2008. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:07, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

The cool part of this crazy story is the link to Betancourt-a crazy case that is now huge precedent in Virginia.


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Tropical Storm Olga causes many deaths in Caribbean

December 15, 2007 The death toll for Tropical Storm Olga reached 38 on Friday. The rare December tropical storm, which disintegrated into a mass of thunderstorms late on Wednesday, killed two people, a woman and a 3-year-old boy, in Haiti. In the Dominican Republic, 12 Hatians drowned. Olga's torrential rains were also blamed for mudslides that killed a man in Puerto Rico. 4,000 hetchacres of crops and $40 million in revenues have been destroyed. The highest winds recorded were 60 miles per hour. This storm was the fifteenth in the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season.

On December 10, the Tropical Prediction Center issued a gale warning for waters north of the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, in association with the precursor disturbance to Olga. Upon it being classified as a subtropical cyclone, the government of the Dominican Republic issued a tropical storm warning from Cabo Engaño along the north coast to its border with Haiti; a tropical storm watch was also issued along the southern coastline to near Santo Domingo. Because winds were well to the north of its center, a tropical storm warning was not issued for Puerto Rico. Prior to it moving ashore, the government of Haiti issued a tropical storm warning for its northern coastline, and later a tropical storm warning was issued for the Turks and Caicos Islands, as well as the southeastern Bahamas.


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NHL: San Jose Sharks defeat Vancouver Canucks 5-2

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Joe Thornton had a goal and an assist, Evgeni Nabokov made 15 saves and the Sharks beat Vancouver 5-2 for their sixth victory in seven games, using their speed on two early goals and capitalizing on the Canucks' mistakes for the final two tallies.

Milan Michalek, Patrick Marleau and Joe Pavelski scored for the Sharks, who won consecutive home games for just the second time all season to stay in a first-place tie with Dallas in the Pacific Division, passing Vancouver for second place in the conference standings.

Despite a strong road record, San Jose won just five of its first 13 games at home, among the league's worst marks. Those woes appear to be fading, with the Sharks getting at least one point from six of their last eight games at the Shark Tank.

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Talk:"Bali Roadmap" agreed on, applauded

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I was at the press conference (or this one, sorry not sure) of the UNFCCC yesterday.

I got told todays development from a woman whos with a french NGo, and then watched the Webcast to confirm it. Sean Heron 03:22, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I was just corrected by a friendly colleague (nearly added a big error into the article as well): the para India referred to was not tech transfer but mitigation actions for developing nations (1.b ii, instead of 1.d ii which I had heard (and I guess the french woman too), which is the last sticking point apparently. Sean Heron 03:51, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

I was sitting in the press gallery of the plenary and watched the discussion (and believe me, I was almost jittering at how it progressed). Sean Heron 07:20, 15 December 2007 (UTC)


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The session was just reconvened for a few minutes, and China balked about the plenary opening while its ministers are in talks, and called for apologies. I´m (explesive deleted) scared of whats happening right now. If this goes on an no agreement is reached I do think it would have pretty adverse effects for the 2009 agreement, and thus for our future. Sean Heron 03:23, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank god they've come to an agreement. I really am relieved :D. Regards Sean Heron 07:18, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Hooray! Thanks for keeping us all in the loop Sean Heron. It's great to have OR like this.--Jorago 07:38, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks indeed, Sean Heron. I'm sorry to be a dunce, but what exactly have they agreed to? The percentages are out of the text? 222.154.161.152 09:24, 15 December 2007 (UTC) (Furius on Wikipedia)
 * Hope its clearer now. Thanks Jorago, its been great to be here as well :). And thank you Furius for the feedback, its very good to get outside views on the article (after being here two weeks its becoming hard to imagine some people might not know all of the terminology :D). Regards Sean Heron 10:08, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! It seems to have worked out quite well, then :) This is good. I am very glad that we have someone on the ground, also. We are very lucky. Thank you again.

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Talk:Explosion / Smoke at 34th Street - Penn Station - December 8, 2007

I'm glad you found a source, but unfortunatly I think the time frame to report on this has passed. Its now December 14 (15?) this happened 6 days ago now. Bawolff ☺☻ 08:05, 15 December 2007 (UTC)


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Can these jerks play yet? I saw them many, many years ago at Donnington Rock Festival in the U.K. they're so dumb that they trashed their instruments while the mime-along-soundtrack was still playing. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:42, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
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Trans-Atlantic 'air rage' incident ends safely

December 15, 2007

An Air Canada flight from Toronto to London on 6th December was disrupted by a passenger who began shouting in an apparent case of "air rage". This incident became the subject of a hit video this week.

During the apparent panic attack, a man identified as "Jay" indicated fears that he was about to be shot to death, in addition to uttering obscenities and racist comments. He was restrained by several members of the flight crew and the flight landed safely at Heathrow Airport. Authorities did not place the passenger under arrest at London, and Air Canada indicated there was no danger from this outburst.

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Why the term "air rage"? - seems like "panic attack" is more appropriate. - Borofkin 22:59, 15 December 2007 (UTC)


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The popularity of such real-life video clips creates the worrisome possibility that a panicker and a witness might have a motivation to arrange their relationship in advance. 70.15.116.59 23:41, 15 December 2007 (UTC)


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Google announces testing of online reference tool

December 16, 2007 On its official blog Thursday evening, under the title, Encouraging People to Contribute Knowledge, Google announced the first phase of testing of a tool designed to facilitate the organisation of "authoritative articles" written by users.

The tool, dubbed "knol" for unit of knowledge, will be similar to other online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia. According to Google, knols would "cover all topics, from scientific concepts, to medical information, from geographical and historical, to entertainment, from product information, to how-to-fix-it instructions."

In addition, site will be ad-revenue driven and authors who choose to allow advertisements on their knol will be able to share in "substantial" revenue derived from the ads. The pay scale was not revealed in the announcement.

The content of the articles will not be vetted by Google. "Google will not serve as an editor in any way, and will not bless any content," said Udi Manber, Google VP of Engineering in the announcement. "All editorial responsibilities and control will rest with the authors," continued Manber. "We hope that knols will include the opinions and points of view of the authors who will put their reputation on the line."

Google will rank the submissions, or knols, in Google search results and will make the content available to other search engines. "We are quite experienced with ranking web pages, and we feel confident that we will be up to the challenge," said Manber. "We are very excited by the potential to substantially increase the dissemination of knowledge."

Similar to wikis, the content of the knol site will be editable by users. "People will be able to submit comments, questions, edits, additional content, and so on," said Manber. "Anyone will be able to rate a knol or write a review of it." It was not made clear whether users other than the author would have to be registered or if anonymous editing would be allowed.

The mock-up displayed on Google's blog entry shows an emblem for the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which would enable sharing of information between such articles and other projects.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had a wait-and-see approach to Google's latest offering, in an interview on Friday. "Google does a lot of cool stuff, but a lot of that cool stuff doesn't work out so great," said Wales. Commenting on the revenue-sharing aspect of the Google knol, Wales predicted there may end up being a focus on less academic submissions. "You may see an awful lot of articles about Viagra," said Wales.

Google suggested that the tool is still in development and gave no indication of when it would come out of the testing phase and rolled out to the public. Testing is being carried out by an invitation-only group of participants.


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This is pretty cool. I hope that we do well with this new resource of info, and that Google does just as well at designing it. RaphaelFaunus 01:13, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * This is all well and dandy, but for some reason, not sure why, its making me think badly of google. Bawolff ☺☻ 01:50, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * There's something fundamentally wrong about editing for money. The wikipedia model strikes me as much more kosher.--DCo1 21:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I think its great. finally something to compete with wikipedia, market dominance is never good! I disagree that theyres something wrong with editing for money, its much better than editing for you ego. Hopefully it will atleast plug the gaps where wikipedia has failed! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.195.234.92 (talk) 08:19, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think this will be a wikipedia killer. Wikipedia is so big, the only way it will fail is if it falls from the inside (Which honestly, although still a long long way off, wouldn't really overly suprise me. Although i'm not an active contributor there in the least, it seems that as of recent there has been a general increase in hostility between contributors, which is not good, but then again maybe such things go in cycles; it wasn't that long ago all us wikinewsies didn't behave well). Bawolff ☺☻ 08:28, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

It seem to me Google is again stealing the limelight from others. It already rivals Yahoo!, Lycos and all other search engines, now it plans to give Wikipedia a run for its money. I for one don't think that this is very fair on the industry.  WEBURIEDOURSECRETS INTHEGARDEN  14:24, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Google says they will control the placement of their articles in search results. Does that mean they will push Wikipedia hits down in priority in favour of their own? Jcart1534 17:03, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

 * To me this seems very much like Google trying to muscle in on Wiki's territory in a commercial way. Damn capitalist pig-dogs! Bearing in mind Wikipedia being based on the ideal of the sum of human knowledge available to all, trying to compete with wikipedia in a for profit way is shameful. Personally I'm not worried at all though: ""We hope that knols will include the opinions and points of view of the authors who will put their reputation on the line." If this is true then Goggle's attempt won't get off the starting blocks. At best, it might turn in to a rival for Uncyclopedia. As a reference tool, no one cares about opinions and POV. Being verifiable and NPOV is the lynch pin of Wikipedia and anyone who wants to rival Wikipedia in the future will have to follow suit. Shane.Bell 08:22, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * While hopefully it will all be freely licensed, then everyone wins. Bawolff ☺☻ 08:30, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

It's different from wikipedia!
Although often compared with Wikipedia, Google knol has been announced with a quite different feature: not a collaborative effort, but with a limited number of authors (possibly one) per topic. And, unlike Wikipedia and Wikibooks, the author(s) will be strongly shown on the page, like in a blog or in a paper book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.138.45.97 (talk) 16:14, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Skeptical about revenue
As a rule, sites online that promise "revenue" seem to end up offering editors a few pennies, with the technical proviso that they don't have to send a check unless you get a few dollars. Until I see evidence otherwise I'm guessing that if you work full-time editing and do a stellar job, you'll make a decent wage for life in New Delhi. 70.15.116.59 18:10, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

The Other Shoe
The main worry that I have about Knol is that it is typical for an "alternative" to the public domain to appear at around the same time that an active attack is made on it. (I'm not saying this is necessarily the order of the cause and effect) For example the American Chemical Society lobbying attack against PubChem and by extension all of the NCBI indexes came at the end of 2004, just after the introduction of Google Scholar. Likewise, the well-known legal attacks on music sharing software were accompanied by efforts to produce rival for-pay services, although in that case there was some delay during which it was publically recognized that the lack of for-pay alternatives was hindering the music industry's attempts - an exception that proves the rule as it were. This pattern tells us that we should be on the lookout for significant trouble over the next year. 70.15.116.59 18:43, 17 December 2007 (UTC)


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"However, Google suggested a difference will be that the authors of articles are to be highlighted, as opposed to hosting submissions by anonymous users." — What does that mean, will each page have a byline. and anons don't get to have any fun? Or will the authors just be listed in a history tab like 'pedia, and anon editing disabled. (will they even have editing, or will this just be a one person submits something, and google displays that article on their knowledge base without allowing others to modify unless they totally replace it). Bawolff ☺☻ 01:48, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Bawolff. You're right, that wasn't clear. I edited that section and added more info. Hope that works. Cheers, Jcart1534 02:48, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Highlight Authors
In Udi Manbers post he devotes an entire paragraph to the notion of authorship. He starts with this notion, stating that the "key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors"; this is a main point of difference from online encyclopedias like Wikipedia. You trust the content of wikipeida because you trust that many people have gone over the article and at least some have actually checked the references: wikipedias authority comes from the community and from the many eyes that each article has. In this project the authority of the article stem from the reputation of the author, like Udi Manber wrote in the post. This wikinews article has decided to completely ignore this point, resorting only to state that the articles will be "written by users", and emphasizing mainly on the points of similarity of knols with wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.177.0.58 (talk) 19:36, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Perhaps you missed this?: "All editorial responsibilities and control will rest with the authors," continued Manber. "We hope that knols will include the opinions and points of view of the authors who will put their reputation on the line." I don't see how you would characterize it as "completely ignored". This is a news article, not a reprint of a press release. --Jcart1534 19:47, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

 * No, there is an important difference between saying that one of the important aspects of the project is highlighting certified authors and saying that the articles authority stems from the reputation of the author, and placing in the end of a paragraph on editing, at the end of a sentence that is concerned with the POV of the author that they "will put their reputation on the line". This is saying that reputation and authorship, which Udi Manber says is a 'key idea' deserves much less attention and is a side point in comparison with POV and editing rights. 212.179.82.69 12:41, 1 January 2008 (UTC)


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Wikinews Shorts: December 16, 2007

Woman missing in California Bay Area
A San Jose, California, United States resident, Ann Lisa Nguyen, was reported missing on Monday. On December 13 police searched a landfill for her body. Nguyen's killer is suspected to be 45-year-old San Jose resident Anthony Davis Evans, a personal trainer at 24-hour fitness in San Jose. It has not been confirmed that Evans was Nguyen's trainer.

Inside his apartment police say they had found blood, and evidence suggests that he killed Nguyen with a metal bar. If convicted of the homicide, Evans could be sentenced to up to 81 years in prison.

Nguyen's family says they had last seen her on December 7, when she went to have dinner and see a movie, however according to a flier given out by her friends, she was last seen in front of an apartment building at Alvin Avenue on December 8.

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United Kingdom report into Liverpool City Council
The United Kingdoms Audit Commission has concluded that the behaviour of Councillors on Liverpool City Council "fell short of even the fledgling democracies of Eastern Europe". After watching a council meeting on October 17 the council is now set to be given a mark of one out of four for councillor behaviour.

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More deaths blamed on severe US winter storm
Highways near the Great Lakes and New England were slick and coated with ice for many days now. From Michigan and Indiana to Maine, the National Weather Service posted severe storm warnings that are still in effect.

In the Chicago area, almost a foot of snow had fallen, and anywhere from 10 to 14 inches in parts of Michigan and Vermont. Maine state police say that their best advice for now is to stay home. Visibility was down to under 200 yards, and in strong gusts, even more.

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Africans win the 2007 ING Taipei International Marathon

December 17, 2007 The annual "Taipei International Marathon", mainly sponsored by ING Antai (Taiwan Branch of ING Group NV) in the fourth year, started with more than 20,000 athlete's participation. In order to obey the regulation, Taipei City Government, the race organizer, adopted the "ChampionChip" timer system for participants at 9KM, half-marathon, and marathon classes. Comparison to last year, the starting control was apparently better than last year.

Not only intensive races from 42k, 21k, and 9k classes, ING Antai also invited the main actors Hung-yu Yu and Chia-chia Tsui from the local TV advertisement named "Run with your father" to the Fun Run lead-running.

In the Kids Run class, the participants included in not only qualified school teams from "ING Taipei Kids Running" last month but also students outside of Taipei. Although the organizer invited athletes from Basketball Teams of Taipei Municipal Sung Shan Senior High School and Taipower Women Basketball Team to help the security control, some participants were still fallen down after the starts, it forced some runners quit this race. Media from Taiwan and worldwide hoped runners can make a new record at this race, but only Taiwanese runners broke local records at this race because the actual strength was uncertain after different elite runners than past years participated this race. Finally, Hillary Bett from Kenya and Tabitha Tsatsa from Zimbabwe won the title at this race, and Yu-fang Hsu and Wen-chien Wu broke records of local runners to win the Taiwan Champions.

In the after-race press conference, Wikinews Reporter Rico Shen made a brief interview for Bett and Tsatsa about images of Taiwan. They praised the friendship on people of Taiwan and scenery during the full-marathon races. They also hoped their fellow runners can participate this race in the future to enjoy scenery of Taipei.