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User talk:Static~enwikinews

Utah dance party broken up by horde of armed police and helicopters
I had a look at your article -- well done. I'd cut down the quote and break it into more information. Keep parts of the quote that are especially useful, of course. I'm going to edit the source tags. Overall, it's fine, I think. --Chiacomo (talk) 05:35, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Static - it was excellent working with you on the Utah Dance Party article! We should totally keep in touch - drop me an email at "myusername@gmail.com". Have a good one! --Myrkabah 02:52, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Welcome Back :)
Wikinews desperately needs more gutsy reporters; please give the project as much time as you can spare. Neutralizer 02:10, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikimedians to the Games
Hi. :) As you're an Australian contributor, I thought you might be interested in Wikimedians to the Games, which is an opportunity to cover the Paralympic Games as a member of the press. As you've experience writing Wikinews articles, this should give you a leg up. :)  LauraHale (talk) 08:51, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

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User:RyanS24

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Talk:British authorities may have detected nerve gas attack plans

The nerve gas has been reported to be Sarin. Source: http://torontosun.com/News/World/2005/08/21/1181957-sun.html --24.182.60.134 06:52, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Feel free to add that to the article! ;) -- NGerda 06:58, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

I can't find the Sunday Times article and it seems to rely on an internal document it obtained...but mostly; this should be bigger news if real. Moved back to develop Paulrevere2005 22:24, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Paul, the article is from the Sunday Times - see the bottom of the linked article - and the Sunday Times is part of the British press. Dan100 (Talk) 12:27, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Rotting in remand
Why is this article still sitting here? This is the most significant article on the page. What is keeping this in development?
 * It was put back in developing after it had actually been published. Dan100 (Talk) 12:27, August 23, 2005 (UTC)


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'MI6 officers' named on US-based website

August 22, 2005

Cryptome.org, a US-based website, has published a list of 74 individuals claimed to be members of the British "Secret Intelligence Service", MI6. Many are serving members of the UK Foreign Office, including 18 Ambassadors. The leak of a similar list in 1999 led to the prosecution of a former MI6 agent, Richard Tomlinson. The source for this latest leak is referred to only as "A".

Earlier this year New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed for refusing to name the US-government source who identified a member of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Valerie Plame.

A general statement on the Cryptome.org web site states:

"Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance — open, secret and classified documents — but not limited to those. Documents are removed from this site only by order served directly by a US court having jurisdiction. No court order has ever been served; any order served will be published here — or elsewhere if gagged by order."


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Wikinews:Briefs/August 22, 2005

Audio Wikinews transcript – 2005 08 22 – 1100 UTC
The time is 1100 UTC on Monday 22nd August 2005, and this is Audio Wikinews: News Briefs.

Utah dance party broken up by police About 90 law enforcement officers from multiple agencies broke up what they said was a rave party on public and private property in the Diamond Fork area of Spanish Fork canyon, an hour outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday. Armed with assault rifles and tear gas, the police used dogs to sweep the crowd for narcotics. The scale of the police response was apparently due to the ineffectiveness of a smaller force used in the previous "Sequence Five" rave.

One million pilgrims attend open-air mass with Pope The Catholic World Youth Day 2005 concluded yesterday with an open-air mass by Pope Benedict XVI at the Marienfeld, about 15 km west of Cologne. Speaking to some one million pilgrims from about 200 countries the Pope called for a "return to God". In his sermon, he condemned the commercialisation of faith and said that -quote- "Religion constructed on a 'do-it-yourself' basis cannot ultimately help us".

Space shuttle Discovery back in Florida The Space Shuttle Discovery has returned to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 109 ton vehicle was flown back from Edwards Airforce Base (AFB) in California on top of a modified Boeing 747 known as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The 3,591 km journey across the United States took 2 days and cost about one million dollars.

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Template:Germanelection2005

 This article is part of the series German federal elections 2005

Prelude Election Day Aftermath
 * Schröder loses motion of confidence
 * German president dissolves parliament; elections in September
 * German Constitutional Court green-lights early elections call
 * TV debate between German chancellor Schröder and opposition leader Merkel held
 * Death of candidate will delay final results for German federal election by weeks
 * One week before German federal election, the race is wide-open again
 * Results
 * German Christian Democrats win by-election in Dresden
 * Schröder gives up German chancellorship ambitions, makes way for Merkel
 * German Social and Christian Democrats agree on new government
 * Angela Merkel elected new German chancellor

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Last Gaza settlement cleared, West Bank towns prepare to resist

August 22, 2005 Israeli soldiers are clearing the last of the 21 Jewish settlements in the Gaza strip, 38 years after Israel took possession of it. A total of 8,500 people have been evacuated, and many existing houses have been bulldozed.

Netzarim is one of the oldest settlements in the coastal strip, and has frequently been the target of Palestinian militant attacks. The village has been targeted particularly often as it divides the strip, and is also the most isolated Israeli settlement in Gaza.

600 residents are expected to leave peacefully after negotiating with police. They will depart in a fleet of armored buses and head to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the holiest shrine in Judaism. Settlers will receive the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of US dollars in compensation.

Three young people were arrested on Sunday after police found them apparently preparing to resist violently, armed with metal spikes and barbed wire. Residents were still working on their buildings until large numbers of troops entered the settlement and began going house-to-house. Although there were tearful scenes, there were none of the protests of earlier in the week.

One resident said the evacuation showed the Arabs that the Jews were "weak and would run away", and others have said it rewards the Palestinian uprising that began in 2000. However, overall, most Israelis support the withdrawals, with many blaming radical Judaism, including such settlements, for inciting conflict with Palestinians. Others merely consider isolated settlements an unnecessary defense burden on the Israeli military.

Four small militant West Bank settlements will also be cleared, with 5,500 troops heading there to begin the clearances on Tuesday. The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced at the same time that existing large West Bank settlements will be expanded. More than 230,000 Israelis live there, while 3.8 million Palestinians live in the Gaza strip and West Bank.

Sharon has said that he hopes the pull-out from the Gaza strip will help in negotiations for the retention of large West Bank blocs, even though the US opposes continued construction there. Israel feels that it has a much stronger Biblical claim to the West Bank than it did to the Gaza strip and the Palestinians feel they have the stronger claim to the land. Further small, isolated West Bank settlements may be cleared in the future.

It is said that 2,000 Israeli right-wing extremists are preparing to resist the evacuation in two of the four small West Bank settlements that are to be cleared. Hundreds of extremist youths have headed to the settlements from other nearby towns.

Settlers slashed the tires of Army vehicles over the weekend and set fire to an Army tractor with the driver inside. The Israeli Public Security Minister has said there will be no tolerance for those who oppose the troops. Most weapons have already been collected.

The US-backed "peace road map" calls on the Palestinians to disarm, which may result in more of the West Bank being cleared. However, the road map also calls on Israel to halt its expansion in the West Bank.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas hopes the Israeli pull-outs will signal to Muslim militants that peaceful negotiations can work.


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Irish CAO releases 2005 university offers to students

August 22, 2005

The Central Applications Office in Ireland has released the first round of offers for places on third level courses to over 60,000 Irish Leaving Certificate students (graduating secondary school students).

The offers are given out based on a highly competitive points system whereby students receive from
 * 100 points for an A1 to 45 points for a D3 at higher level.
 * 60 points for an A1 to 5 points for a D3 on lower level.

Points from a student's best six subjects are added up to make his or her total points. This year 145 students achieved the maximum 600 points. Students achieveing this are generally regarded as the top students academically in the country.

Points required for courses in medicine and nursing have risen again leaving many candidates disappointed. Due to the huge popularity of medicine and the low supply of courses, points for entry into medicine are in the region of 580 points. Points for arts, engineering and commerce have fallen marginally.

While the points system is often attacked for placing too much pressure on students, it has avoided the problem of grade inflation that has occurred in the UK and USA. The Leaving Certificate exam has remained largely unchanged since its inception in 1924. It is often joked that the same questions reappear on the papers every 30 or 40 years.


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Young Quakers disappointed by UK visa denials

August 22, 2005

Young Quakers who planned to take part in the World Gathering of Young Friends at Lancaster University, England have been unable to attend after having their visas denied.

Their absence has been a cause of "hurt" at the meetings. Sara Wolcott of Pacific Yearly Meeting on the Western coast of America wrote in a journal on the WGYF website: "I saw [in a workshop for Friends planning to meet in Kenya] how much the absence of so many Friends was felt; the gathering felt incomplete. We desperately wanted our brothers and sisters to be with us, I know they wanted to be here too."

Most of the denials were for economic reasons, if someone doesn't have a high enough income or a fixed job it can be assumed that they will stay in the country for work. Representatives from the gathering now plan to go to Kenya in October to share some of the programme with those who were unable to come.

Despite the missing Friends, the gathering has brought together a mix of different Quaker traditions in a positive atmosphere that has been appreciated by participants. Many Quakers worship in silence (unprogrammed meetings) while others, particularly in America and Africa, have ministers like other churches. Quakers also have differences of opinion over theological issues, including even the existence of God, but the young Friends have not found this to be an obstacle to coming together. Unlike many traditional Christian sects, the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, encourage each member to explore his or her own relationship with God.

Chrissy Muhr of Northwest Yearly Meeting (Northwest US) wrote: "I've been really impressed by how the mix of worship styles has been handled. Almost all the programmed Friends I've spoken to have some prior experience of unprogrammed worship. For me, the hardest thing has been not falling asleep during long periods of silence - the long week has begun to take its toll."


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Brush fire gets close to animal park near San Diego

August 22, 2005

In San Pasqual a brush fire was dealt with as it burned four acres of wildlands.

This may have been due to sparks from a vehicle accident. The blaze lasted from 3:30 to 4:30 PM until fire trucks and many other emergency vehicles helped stop the blaze.


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Talk:Last Gaza settlement cleared, West Bank towns prepare to resist

Reports also say the bulldozing of million dollar homes is simply because the settlers don't want the Palestinians to live in the same homes they used to live in. The "spin" that its to make way for new construction is total bullshi_. It's crucial to also mention the huge payoffs the settlers are getting to leave; that's an integrel part of the story. Paulrevere2005 19:15, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

This entire story is slanted toward feeling sympathy for the occupying settlers; people that used to be called "squatters". They are getting hundreds of thousands of dollars+ whatever money they made in Gaza while the Palestinians are living in abject poverty. I think the sympathetic tone in this article is misplaced and POV. Paulrevere2005 19:24, 22 August 2005 (UTC)


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Innovator of synthesizers Robert Moog, dead at 71

August 22, 2005 , inventor, founder of, and musical revolutionary, died Sunday at the age of 71 in his home.

Moog was diagnosed with in April and underwent treatment for it.

Thoug Bob Moog is best knwon for his bringing of synthesizers into popular music and his appreciation for "the magical connection" between musicians and their instruments, Moog had a childhood interest with the theremin, an early electronic musical instrument. He developed his first synthesizer (the Moog Modular Synthesizer) in 1963, while still a Ph.D student at Cornell University. He was recognized with the for lifetime achievement in 1970.

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Talk:'MI6 officers' named on US-based website

This is lead story material, imo.
 * it needs to be expanded some before being put as a lead.--24.129.198.129 20:19, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

The 9/11 commission suggested we all start "thinking outside the box" in order to prevent another attack. Just trying to think outside the box, I am wondering; A; Is "secret" government activity (like having spies) and having a government "of the people" mutually exclusive concepts? B; Is "spying" a constructive activity that helps anyone? C; What good have these agents(CIA;MOSAD;M16) ever done for the people? D; Would we all be better off if there was no such thing as "classified" government information? In summary; Since I have concluded that the very usefulness/overall benefit of having spies is in doubt; I have no reason to care whether spies are exposed or not; so to me it's not a big news item. Paulrevere2005 02:54, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * In my opinion spies are needed exactly to discover secrets. If nations had no spies, they would have no idea what military capabilities other nations have.  For example, the Japanese thought the US either lacked the military capability or political will to defeat it and thus attacked Pearl Harbor.  If they had adequate spies, they would have had a more accurate picture of American industrial capacity and political will, and may very well have canceled the attack.  More recently, al-Queda seems to have thought that the US would withdraw from all Muslim lands as a result of a major attack.  Had they known this would result in the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan, they wouldn't have had much justification for the action.  Discovering terrorist plots before they unfold should be the major emphasis of spies today.  Other issue where we need intelligence is the state of North Korea and Iran's nuclear programs. StuRat 03:27, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * America,at least,is supposed to be an open government "of the people".How can the "people" be in control when they are not "in the loop" about important stuff?...and if it's not important; there's no reason at all for it to be secret; and if nothing's secret; then there's nothing for spies to discover. Plus; our satelites and drone aircraft do all the surveilance work for nuclear programs.Paulrevere2005 12:43, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure it's a good idea to post all the names mentioned on that website here... What purpose does it serve, and wouldn't it be doing precisely what one side (i.e. the site owners) wants (i.e. the dissemination of that information), to the detriment of the other? --165.21.154.113 06:22, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The information is already very well disseminated into the masses by the posting on cryptome.org alone. Many of the names are also searchable on Google and you can discover a lot more about some of these people.  The information as posted, is similar to saying "Valerie Plame worked for the United States government" after other news articles have already said much more detail.  As a reader, if the cryptome.org website was down, _or_ I simply decided that it would not be safe to access the website (due to government monitoring of Internet)... then having a (somewhat incomplete) copy of the original information will be beneficial.  That is my reasoning for the post.  If others agree or disagree with posting this information partially (or fully posting?), lets discuss and come to a consensus.  --24.182.60.134 06:53, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

NO ! We need to reach a consensus BEFORE you do anything like this that could potentially shut WIKI down, since posting this info is a violation of UK law. If you try to repost this without first getting the full approval of the WIKI board of directors, I will ask to have you permanently blocked from the site. StuRat 08:21, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Wikimedia (Wikinews’ parent foundation) is not a UK company they are a Florida, USA company. I do not believe posting this list is a violation of US law, even if it was it would not result in the the shutdown of the server, but merely being forced to remove the list. With the exception of a few pages and tags you do not need to get consensus before making any edit. See Be_bold_in_updating_pages Edits without consensus can and often do get reverted if they go against the will of the community; however you are of course welcome to make them.  The Wikimedia board of directors almost never comments on issues effecting individual cases like this. Also you have no authority to threaten to permanently block a person; making uninformed threats to ban people like this if repeated can be grounds for banning.--Cspurrier 12:14, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

1.The analogy above by 24.182.60.134 (to Valerie Plame)applies + since we have already run the list; to "self-censor" is ludicrous. There are plenty of UK agencies around who will tell us if this is a problem. Paulrevere2005 12:19, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Just checked the name "alexander william younger" on google;[] it's on 50 web-sites. Wikmimedia is a U.S. company and we still do have " Freedom of the Press"; if barely. Paulrevere2005 12:26, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

My mistake on the location of WIKI (corrected above). I did not "threaten to permanently block a person" but only said I would "ask" to do so. Asking something of WIKI is certainly not grounds for banning anyone. As for the content, it certainly seems to represent a threat to WIKI to me. Consider the case of Napster, which was done considerable harm by lawsuits from the recording industry for posting material (or allowing material to be posted) which they had no legal write to post. If WIKI avoids copyright violations, they certainly would also want to avoid more serious violations such as this. While it's true that they can't file lawsuits against all sites that post this info, they may very well pick on the largest sites (or those appearing highest in search engines), which might just include WIKI. StuRat 17:32, 23 August 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Irish CAO releases 2005 university offers to students

I'm Irish and I dont have a fucking clue what this is saying, well... I'm Irish-American ;) but still, could we internationlize the terms instead of using localized terms. --TUFKAAP 20:24, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I tried, by adding terms like mailed to supplement "posted out", which could mean posted online, on a wall somewhere, or just about anything, but somebody undid my fix. I guess this is intended to be only readable by Irish university students, in which case I'm not sure why it's here, at an international news site. StuRat 08:31, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm Irish, i'll sort out this mess. Please do not use the term high school directly - it really infuriates us! We go to Secondary school! →  CGorman (Talk) 17:07, 27 August 2005 (UTC)


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Earthquake reported near Rome's coast, no damage caused

August 22, 2005

On Monday in Italy at 14:02 Italian local time, an earthquake was registered at 4.5 on the Richter scale epicentered in the sea near Rome. Some residents of Rome and surrounding towns who felt the quake went out into city streets to avoid any possible serious destruction or to discuss the tremor with neighbours.

No serious damage has been reported and due to the relatively small magnitude of the quake minimal structural damage to ancient Roman monuments is believed to have occurred. Structural inspections are being made to ensure safety and stability of the historic landmarks.


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Talk:Young Quakers disappointed by UK visa denials

I went ahead and published this article but would prefer if some changes were made to make it of more general interest:

 * Include sources other than WGYF.

 * Include a discussion of how security concerns in the UK may have prompted a crackdown on visas from countries with terrorism problems.

StuRat 21:58, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks StuRat, I am trying to get more details from the organisers about the whys of the visa denials and apparently there still might be developments. It may be a bit tricky to get other sources but there may be more out there! ClareWhite 08:34, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

I've taken out this line - The Quakers who were denied visas were mainly from Africa and India. Recent terrorist attacks on London subways and buses may be responsible for the UK's stricter visa policy this year. - for the time being as it's unsourced, unless anyone can confirm that this was the reason: I'm not convinced that higher security is the reason, it is always very difficult for people from Africa to come over in particular. ClareWhite 08:46, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

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I've just spoken to John Fitzgerald, a European organiser, and am asking him to confirm the quotes I took:

About 60 Africans and 3 Indians who were chosen to attend the Gathering had their visas denied. We’ve had individual reasons for people, for most of the Africans it was that their levels of income wasn’t enough and they would want to stay as economic migrants. UK Visas have been pretty open with us and we are going to send a report as feedback to someone in their policy unit but we will probably also get in touch with our MPs as well. A lot of the measures they are using don’t really suit young people. They’re looking for assets, a secure job or a family and that don’t really apply to a lot of 25-year-olds. We have chosen two representatives from each of the regional groups and the planning group who will go to Kenya around 20 October to share some of the programme with African Friends.


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Australian current affairs TV program accused of inciting religious hatred

August 23, 2005

Australian media analysis program Media Watch has accused popular national "current affairs" style program Today Tonight of deliberately quoting a Muslim youth out of context, with the intention of presenting a negative stereotype of the Muslim community. The allegations were aired during Monday night's episode.

According to Mediawatch, Abdul Elayoubi of the Lebanese Muslim Association was approached by Tim Noonan, a freelance film producer wanting to produce a short documentary to air on the Seven Network. Mr Elayoubi was cautious because of a prior misrepresentation, however was assured that the program would "show Australians from non-Islamic backgrounds the viewpoint of young Muslims and the pressure they face in an often hostile society", according to a letter from Peter Meakin, the Seven Network's head of news and current affairs. Elayoubi said "Tim told us he’d be doing the editing himself and would give it to Channel 7 completed," and was assured that quotes would not be taken out of context to further vilify Australian Muslims.

Three Muslim youths, Khaled, Ahmed and Samir, agreed to participate in the documentary. Despite prior reassurances, Tim Noonan did not produce a completed documentary. The film was subsequently narrated by David Richardson, who had not met the boys and who got Samir's name wrong throughout the piece.

The quote "we will never integrate, the way other communities integrate purely because of the fact that you have to draw a line with what your idea of integration is and what our idea of integration and accepting the practices of other people are," was reduced to "we will never integrate" during editing. Ahmed stated that the full quote itself was made to camera after a discussion including talk of how the Islamic rule prohibiting consumption of alcohol was a barrier to full social integration.

The interviewer, Tim Noonan, dismissed the claims in a statement to Media Watch, saying "I believe the edit was an accurate representation of what they told me and I absolutely deny that anything was taken out of context."

The aired quote was picked up by other media bodies, most noticeably Sydney talk radio 2UE, where it was allegedly used to incite religious and racial intolerance. The quote was then further publicised by Today Tonight in a follow-up piece the next evening.


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New Zealand general election: National, Labour TV debate

August 23, 2005

Helen Clark (Prime Minister) and Don Brash (Leader of the Opposition) have gone head-to-head in the first live televised debate between the two leaders in the New Zealand general election of 2005.

A studio audience contained equal numbers of National and Labour Party supporters.

The debate ran through tax, race relations, foreign affairs, immigration, education and health (all the key policy areas).

Taxes were at the top of the agenda; the debate was just hours after the National Party released their tax policy.

Don Brash said that the nuclear freeze policy of New Zealand (which bans nuclear powered US warships from its ports) and Helen Clark's criticism of the war in Iraq have both contributed to her failure to secure a free-trade pact with the United States.

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'Piano Man' speaks and is identified, returns home to Germany

August 23, 2005

The man known as just the 'Piano Man' has left the hospital where he was staying and has returned home to his native Germany. He has finally spoken after four months of silence.

It turns out, according to British tabloid The Daily Mirror, that the man, aged 20, was from Germany but after losing his job in Paris, traveled to the UK through the Channel Tunnel. He was going to commit suicide when he was found by police on a Kent beach.

He refused to talk to authorities due to his distressed state. It appears that he had formerly worked with mental patients and copied what he saw from them to fool the doctors. Also according to the Mirror, the man was only able to tap the same piano key repeatedly, but hospital officials refute this. However, all of this information came from a single, unidentified source.

The man was found soaking wet on a beach in Kent in an expensive-looking suit from which all the labels had been removed.

Some people believed he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or that he was an autistic savant. Some also believed he was a Canadian eccentric, a French busker, a student from Norway, or Czech concert pianist Tomáš Strnad.


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Hi, Could you please ensure that you post the proper copyright information for the Raid story's injure photograph? Thanks --24.182.60.134 06:26, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean. The picture was posted by the person who sustained the injury on a public message board. --Myrkabah 06:32, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Australian current affairs TV program accused of inciting religious hatred

The article has been written with a narrow readership audience. "Channel 7" needs to be introduced and should be identified with a geographic location... (I'm assuming somewhere in Australia?). The article needs to preserve a NPOV as much as possible. --24.182.60.134 02:43, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * No one ever explains PBS, CNC or even Fox. If there's a Wikipedia entry for Channel 7, I'll do a link. Krisjohn 05:41, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The reason why Channel 7 is different than PBS, CNN, Fox, etc is that they are names/acronyms for the networks. "Channel 7" can be your local broadcast station in Kansas City, Kansas, USA or it could be your local cable TV networks porn/pay-per-view channel.  But yes it appears Channel 7 does have a wiki entry :)  Thank goodness!  Thanks. --24.182.60.134 06:23, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * In aussie land channel 7 is channel 7. end of story.
 * Yup. You could argue it's called the "Seven Network", but Channel 7 is its name, just like CNN, CSPAN, or whatever.

'Channel 7 is channel 7' - Never thought about the uncreative names of our stations before. I saw this Mediawatch program also (which I think should be on every night - there's enough material). It was a disgraceful 'news' article, and there was absolutely no need for Today Tonight to generate such a perspective in these times.

I think it does incite those ignorant enough to watch Today Tonight anyway. :) (generalist comment?)


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Draft constitution pushed into Iraqi parliament

August 23, 2005

A draft of Iraq's proposed constitution has entered parliament, despite warnings from Sunni Arabs that it could begin a civil war. The vote however, has been delayed three more days to try to win the support of the Sunni minority.

Signs indicate little chance of a resolution to the Sunni opposition, however. "If it passes, there will be an uprising in the streets," Saleh al-Mutlak, a Sunni negotiator working on the constitution said. Another negotiator, Soha Allawi, said, "We will campaign ... to tell both Sunnis and Shi'ites to reject the constitution, which has elements that will lead to the break-up of Iraq and civil war."

Sunnis are concerned over sections of the constitution that create large "federal" regions in the north and the south under Shi'ite and control. Sunni negotiators are demanding that all "federalism" be left out. Kurds have pressed for the provisions on federalism, as Kurdish negotiators have sought to retain, largely, their current autonomy in the north.

Other concerns which prevent Sunni support of the draft constitution center on the emphasis given to Islam as a "main source of law" -- a compromise between Islamist and secular Shi'ites and Kurds.


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Wikinews:Project Forbes Global CEO Conference in Sydney

The 5th Annual Forbes Global CEO Conference will be at the Sydney Opera House, starting Tuesday August 30th. Global justice and peace groups have been organising a mobilisation for a number of months, and thousands of protestors are expected.

Wikinews will be reporting on the event, and your help is needed. This project page exists to provide information and co-ordination of the Wikinews coverage. Please feel free to edit, add to, remove from, or otherwise reorganise this page as you see fit. You can also contribute photo's that you take, and eyewitness reports. These will be used by other members of the Wikinews community to write articles.

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The Conference
From the official Forbes Global CEO Conference webpage:

 * At the fifth annual Forbes Global CEO Conference, senior figures from the world's leading companies and institutions will discuss the best ways to nurture and capitalize on innovation and reveal the latest global trends.

 * Where better to discuss staying ahead than in Australia - home to the first major financial market to open each day, to excellence in biotechnology and information and telecommunications innovation, and to world-leading players in environmental sciences and renewable energy. Join us at Sydney's spectacular Opera House for an inspiring look at the future.

 * Date: August 30 - September 1, 2005
 * Location: Sydney Opera House

The Protest
Global Justice and peace groups are organising a protest on the Opera House forecourt, or as close as the police will allow.

From the Peacebus.com 30A page

 * ''The 30A mobilisation will be a mass expression of citizen concern about the escalation of globalisation of corproate greed and paralellel prolieration of war and poverty, the piracy of public assets, the pillage of natural resouces, the decline in government service and the rise of incarceration and torture.

 * ''It will gather and bear witness for peace, justice and the Earth on the forecourt while Steve Forbes gathers 300 of the world's top war profiteers and masters of corporate greed for a Global CEO Conference.

More info:

The 30A Network

Wikinews coverage
Wikinews reporters will be attending the protest and providing original reporting. Anyone is welcome to contribute pictures, audio, video, or eyewitness reports, and anyone can edit any article.

Photos and eyewitness reports
If you take any photo's at the event, they can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Please put any pictures you upload into "Category:30A Protest". You can view all the pictures in this category here.

If you would like to contribute an eyewitness report, just add it to the bottom of this page.

Original reporting
Please put your name here if you are able to physically attend the conference or protest, and provide original reporting.

 * Borofkin 05:02, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Participants
Please put your name here if you are going to help out with other aspects of reporting this event, such as writing articles based on news sources, adding background information to articles, etc. As with all such wiki-lists, putting your name here doesn't mean you are obliged to actually do anything.

 * NGerda - Looking forward to it and helping out in any way I can! (Time difference may be a hindering factor, however).  My specialties are in compiling sources and summarizing and quoting them, and in image enhancement and modification (panoramas, perhaps). We might also do an audio report for Audio Wikinews/Wikinews World Report.  :)

Articles
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 * August 23: Thousands expected to protest at CEO conference in Sydney
 * August 24: Australian governments to partially fund Forbes conference
 * August 25: Protestors want 'carnival not confrontation' at Forbes conference
 * August 25: George Bush Snr will attend Sydney CEO conference
 * August 29: George H. W. Bush attendence at CEO conference reported to be hoax
 * August 29: Sydney protestors reach agreement with police
 * August 29: Sydney prepares for Forbes Conference and 30A protest

Comments and discussion
It seems to me that this sort of event is perfect for original reporting. There is no investigation or analysis required, you just need to go along, take pictures, and write down what you see. - Borofkin 06:18, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Just for clarification; are you reporting on the conference or the protest? --Mrmiscellanious 00:10, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately my invitation to the conference has not been forthcoming, so I'll be providing original reporting on the protest. - Borofkin 00:29, 25 August 2005 (UTC)


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Thousands expected to protest at Forbes Global CEO conference in Sydney

August 23, 2005

Organisers of a protest march planned to occur in Sydney next week are predicting thousands of people will attend. The protest is timed to coincide with the Forbes Global CEO Conference, which starts at the Sydney Opera House the same day.

The action is being promoted by various trade unions and peace and social justice groups, and co-ordinated by the 30A Network, which is an informal association of such groups. A number of reasons have been given for the protest, including the Iraq War, globalisation, and the Australian government's planned industrial relations changes.

The 30A network website is reporting that the protest has been endorsed by the NSW Fire Brigade Employees' Union, the Maritime Union of Australia, the Australian Services Union, and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.

The NSW Police Service will provide free security for the conference. This is potentially controversial, as other events such as football games have to pay for police to attend. The decision has been criticised by the NSW Police Association, as they claim it will leave inner city stations short-staffed. The opposition police spokesman Mike Gallacher echoed the Association's criticism, saying that the conference organisers should foot the bill themselves.

"Even though ASIO have identified it as a risk coming to Sydney, they can be guaranteed the best policing resources available in this country to hold their conference in a safe environment, but to do so they should have been asked to pay their way, to pay the bill," he said.

A spokesman for the Police Minister said that frontline policing would not be affected.

New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma defended the use of taxpayers' money on policing the conference.

"The advice I have is that ASIO have declared this as a medium-security event, which classifies it as warranting security. They do expect up to 2,000 protesters and if the local agricultural show had been subject to the same security assessment with potential protesters, they too would receive the same security response," he said.


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Archaeologists find 1.8M-year-old Homo erectus skull

August 23, 2005

Archaeologists say they have found a 1.8 million-year-old Homo erectus skull in Georgia, the oldest such skull to be found in Europe. According to David Lortkipanidze, director of the Georgian National Museum, the skull was found August 6 and excavated on August 21 in Dmanisi, about 85 km southwest of Tblisi.

The skull was said to have been found at a site archaeologists have been examining since 1936 along with four other bones and fragments, including a jaw bone found in 1991. "Practically all the remains have been found in one place. This indicates that we have found a place of settlement of primitive people," said Lortkipanidze.

The researchers said their find was more than one million years older than any outside Africa. The skull and other remains have been cited as evidence of Homo erectus's migration into Europe at least 500,000 years earlier than has previously been thought.

Previously fossils of the hominid ancestor have been found in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Some of Lortkipanidze's earlier findings that had more slender, small features, including a smaller brain relative to Homo sapiens, contradicted anthropological theories that Homo erectus was large and intelligent even by Homo sapiens standards.


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Talk:Thousands expected to protest at Forbes Global CEO conference in Sydney

The first one or two sentences need to say what the protestors are actually protesting. --24.182.60.134 06:56, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The forth sentence is this: "A number of reasons have been given for the protest, including the Iraq War, globalisation, and the governments planned industrial relations changes." - Borofkin 07:03, 23 August 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Archaeologists find 1.8M-year-old Homo erectus skull

Date of Dimansi site archaelogical work
The wikipedia article on Dimansi lists 1936 as the date archaelogical work began at the site, but the AP article lists the date as 1939. I have thus sided with Wikipedia and included a link to their article. Theshibboleth 07:26, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Not European
From the article:
 * the oldest such skull to be found in Europe

The skull was found south of the caucasus montains, so it's definitely outside Europe.
 * I too was initially somewhat unsure of Georgia's European status. The AP article notes that that Georgia is considered to be part of Europe.  Of course this gets into the discussion of to what extent Europe is truly seperate from the Eurasian supercontinent, and whether the distinction is entirely cultural.  I'm not sure you can say to any certainty one way or the other, but perhaps some sort of consensus will form here. Theshibboleth 00:06, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Category:Archaeology
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Request to add

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(a subgroup of Science and Technology) to the article's categories. Sumerophile (talk) 14:50, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
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Talk:'Piano Man' speaks and is identified, returns home to Germany

Is it really necessary to describe this man's sexuality????

 * I agree: the British PCC guidelines say: ii) Details of an individual's race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental illness or disability must be avoided unless genuinely relevant to the story. Taking it out ClareWhite 08:50, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * But who follows the guidelines? It's because he's gay. If he were heterosexual it wouldn't be there. You always hear of Muslim terrorists and sometimes Tamil terrorists (Tamil tigers) but never Jewish or Christian terrorists even when they are doing it in the name of their religion (regardless how misguided such sentiment may be). In many Western countries (such as here in NZ) you'll here of Asian criminals, regardless whether or not their ethnicity had anything to do with their crime but white (or Pakeha) criminals? No way... Okay, obviously we wikinews hopefully aspire to follow the guidelines but I wonder, how often do we follow the guidelines?60.234.141.76 17:29, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm "on the fence" on this one. It isn't particularly relevant, but seems OK as a general description to me.  What I would avoid is mentioning sexuality as if to imply that it is the cause of evil behaviour, like "Homosexual murders family of 5".  Avoiding mentioning any characteristics of an individual in general seems a bit overly-PC and makes for some rather bland reporting, in my humble opinion.     For example, his piano playing could also be left out, on the grounds that it might imply that "artistic types" are inherently mentally unbalanced.  If we did that, however, this article would be so boring nobody would care to read it. StuRat 17:39, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Piano playing
There seems to me to be one clear contradiction here. It's now been established pretty much that this the Piano Man is a German who has been sent home. However the claim by the Daily Mirror that he couldn't play the piano at all seems at odds to the other reports. There is no way the hospital staff could have believed he played the piano well if he could only tap at one key so either they've been lying or the Daily Mirror claim is BS. Perhaps he wasn't really as good as playing as some reports have suggested but the Daily Mirror indication his ability is a clear and complete contradiction of other reports!60.234.141.76 17:30, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree. The most reliable reports seem to indicate he plays fairly well, but not at the professional concert pianist level. A non-musician could easily mistake those two levels, but not a person who can only play one key. I'm guessing that particular witness saw him when he was just hitting one key at a time, possible checking the pitch of the piano ? StuRat 17:44, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Is info from a tabloid neccecary?
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Talk:New Zealand general election: National, Labour TV debate

When you use a colon in a headline you are sourcing a quote. The 'New Zealand general election' is not saying anything. A semicolon may be more appropriate or just a rephrasing without a division. "National, Labour hold televised debate"


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Lance Armstrong accused of EPO doping

August 23, 2005

The French cycling newspaper L'Équipe is reporting that a drugs testing laboratory has discovered that Lance Armstrong, seven times winner of the Tour de France, used the banned substance EPO in the 1999 tour - his first victory after defeating testicular cancer. L'Equipe also points out that the results may tarnish Armstrong's image forever, and cast a shadow of doubt over his six other victories.

Lance Armstrong has responded on his website, branding L'Equipe's reporting of being "nothing short of tabloid journalism." Armstrong says: "I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance[-]enhancing drugs."

The Châtenay-Malabry French national doping screening laboratory, which developed the first EPO tests, says it has been developing new experimental detection techniques and decided to test frozen urine samples taken from Armstrong after several stages of the 1999 tour. The director of the official French anti-doping test laboratory at Châtenay-Malabry, Jacques de Ceaurriz was quoted as saying he had "no doubt about the validity of our results." He said that while being kept for long periods can cause EPO proteins to deteriorate, this would possibly result in negative tests for doped athletes, but not false positives.

It should be pointed out that technically this statement is false. EPO is naturally produced in the body. It is present at low levels in normal human urine, and natural levels in a human doing high-altitude training (a known "trick" of Mr. Armstrong) could be unusually high. Therefore, false positives can be obtained by setting the sensitivity threshold too low. This is especially true if the number of control samples (for calibration purposes) is limited, as is the case with the 1999 urine samples. These calibration issues are a reason EPO wasn't officially tested for earlier. Incidentally, de Ceaurriz stated that his laboratory worked on numbered anonymous samples, and was unaware when he sent his results to WADA/AMA that some of the results concerned Lance Armstrong.

In addition to these accusations, and in response to them, Armstrong has also received open backing from US Cycling, individual cycling officials , from former Tour winners Eddy Merckx and Miguel Indurain , and other public figures.

Supporters argue numerous irregularities in the doping claim: "' Wada (World Anti-Doping Agency) and the US Anti-Doping Agency, they've all defined a process for collecting samples, managing samples, testing the samples, identifying the people who are involved,' said Johnson. ' They have certain rights in the process. None of that has been followed in this case.' Officials from cycling's ruling body (UCI), Wada, the French sports ministry and the Tour de France all agree normal anti-doping proceedings have not been followed. ' This isn't a 'doping positive. This is just a publication in a French tabloid newspaper. That's our perspective,'" added Johnson.'"--BBC

These allegations are still under examination by a number of news and anti-doping organizations.

 * UCI Statement

On September 9, after a period of investigation, the UCI finally released a strongly-worded official statement condemning the WADA, the French laboratory in question, and the paper L'Equipe, for having failed to provide any official communication, and having failed to provide any data, evidence, or background on the allegations. The UCI stated that it was still "awaiting plausible answers" to its requests to WADA and the laboratory, but also indicated "We deplore the fact that the long-established and entrenched confidentiality principle could be violated in such a flagrant way without any respect for fair play and the rider's privacy."

The accusers themselves, in particular the World Anti-Doping Agency, might face an investigation into their own practices, in connection to their allegations against Armstrong. The UCI stated "We have substantial concerns about the impact of this matter on the integrity of the overall drug testing regime of the Olympic movement, and in particular the questions it raises over the trustworthiness of some of the sports and political authorities active in the anti-doping fight."

On October 5, the UCI announced the appointment of an independent expert to investigate the leaking of doping allegations against Armstrong: "French sports newspaper L'Equipe claims that samples given by the American icon on the 1999 Tour later tested positive. Armstrong has denied the allegations. The International Cycling Union (UCI) has now appointed Dutch lawyer and doping specialist Emile Vrijman to probe how the details were released. The UCI said it 'expects all relevant parties to fully co-operate'. Vrijman is a former director of the National Anti-Doping Agency in the Netherlands (NeCeDo)."

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Massive floods in Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland

August 23, 2005

Heavy rainfalls have caused massive floods in Southern Bavaria, Western Austria and Central Switzerland.

In Southern Bavaria authorities have declared a state of emergency. The city of Garmisch-Partenkirchen is cut off from the outside world. Near Augsburg a freeway had to be closed because a bridge was on the verge of collapsing after water had damaged the foundation.

In the Austrian states of Tyrol and Vorarlberg authorities are battling with floods that intensified during the night with record rainfall. In Vorarlberg a brook broke into a house and caused a gas explosion injuring six people. One person is missing after he and his car were swept away. In the capital of Tyrol, Innsbruck, all bridges over the Inn had to be closed. In Western Tyrol, landslides killed one man and injured another.

In Switzerland the cities of Bern and Lucerne were partially flooded. Mudslides killed two firefighters who were trying to evacuate a farm. In the canton of Zürich one man drowned, and a woman in Graubünden is missing after she too fell into a stream. The Swiss government estimates the floodings caused a damage of at least US$79 million.


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Remembering... Alzheimer
My previous creation has seen its publish tag suppressed and I see no chance for the following one too. 82.224.88.52 12:56, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

More citrus and less alcohol to fight Alzheimer
{date|October 10, 2006}

In the early years of Palestine under British mandate, there were no need for diet prescriptions to put on one's table vegetables and fruits of the citrus family.

Nowadays, the young generation is driven by advertisements to use more occidental recipes including hamburgers in fast-food restaurants.

The BBC study (see below) urges to combine this so-called mediterranean diet with less alcohol taking knowing that, even when most people know something is dangerous such as the tobacco, they are not refrained in Israel and elsewhere in the world.

Young bridge player wins at Antalya, Turkey
After having beaten the team of the famous Zia Mahmood in the quarter of finals, the 22 years old Thomas Bessis established an unprecedented record of winning an international bridge open title both so young and facing his father Michel.

The full competition was scheduled on five days ; this morning, the young man felt quite exhausted with no substitution allowed after yesterday 56 deals. At most other tables, the lead against three No-Trumps was Jack from J 10 9 8 4 but Thomas played the 4...

His aggressive style of bidding compensating those lacks of concentration, he won his first major alongside with Michel Bessis, Ron Patchtman and Eldad Ginossar by a margin of 26 IMPs at the European Open championships at Antalya, against the six Indian bridge players from the Texan Aces team consisting of sponsor G. Venkatesh (the only one actually in Texas), J.M. Shah, K. Krishnakumar, P. Sridharan, Badal Das and Sumit Mukherjee.

The first boards were quite equal but the Franco-Israeli quad lead by 61 IMPs before the last segment of 16 boards. 3,000 people were then watching the event but the organizer decided to stop the live display due to the huge difference. It was said far later that, with just two boards to go, the lead had been reduced to a mere 14 IMPs.

Medi diet
Hi,

I hope you're not getting frustrated with my edits to the mediterranean article. It was a very good start, however I explained my reasons on the article's talk page. It's very difficult too talk to everyone about every change, that's why sometimes I talk less to anons. Guess that's one of the advantages of having an account (which is free and without hassle). I hope you understand, and please continue you're great work here!

Thank you, --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:33, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Bravitude climbing fast on Google
I've made various efforts to get the contributor to focus on a news event and build the story of the new French word around that. This hasn't happened, instead we have something between an encyclopedia entry and an almanac entry. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:54, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * almanac entry ;-))) Sorry not to be able to formulate properly in your native language all the stuff you had already noticed in my sources. Imho, it is not encyclopeodic and the French wikipedia has already voted an analog deletion... In my own native language, the word almanac applies on a yearly and not on a weekly basis... I do feel sure that wikinews is the only place to publish the full reserch work I've already done. If nobody help me to ment my faultive English, I'll will of course realise that we were losing time (mine ten times more that yours) and I'll never bother the wikinews community again about my discoveries. I swear you : such a fast climb never happened before on an neologism French word. 82.224.88.52 21:19, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikinews often focus on Google and, such as in the published entry Google warns against using its name as a verb emphatizes about whether a term is met enough frequently or not to hope getting inside a more classic dictionaries.

When included in any occidental language, new words need months, often years, to reach an acceptable level of recognition and bravitude on Google had only, the day before its first occurence on French TV, a mere 110 hits

Bravitude was then already used since 2005 by fans of a quite unknown role-playing game. On Tuesday bravitude could be found in 200,000 different pages and in less than one week, had reached the one million mark. This neologism has this Monday started a slow decline above 800,000 hits due to those web sites who hide their oldest pages while Google robots scan them.

 * Learn a French word a day

 * Bravitude voted for deletion on the French wikipedia but still accessible on a mirror web site

 * First occurence of the word on a national French network at the end of a nine second video

 * [Blog declared Word of the Year]

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 * I've made some changes, please review them and comment on the Deletion page. Also, if it would make things easier, I'm from Belgium and understand French.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:59, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Multiple language wikinews editions
You seem to be someone who may be intreasted. Bawolff -)(-: 06:30, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Thank you for your advice but it is not because my English is bad ;-))) that I'm good in all the other languages you mentioned. 82.224.88.52 07:02, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Missing date template
You did the right thing adding in a date template and re-publishing the article. If you're going to make future contributions to the english Wikinews you might want to create an account - it makes you more a part of the community and we do have a mix of nationalities already. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:44, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Unpublishing
The cricket article was published as there were no issues raised with it. Also the term fall of wicket can easily be understood and if not can be searched for. However IMP is harder to find a definition for. The issues raised on the Bridge article however need to be addressed whether you agree with them or not. --Mark Talk to me!! 15:42, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Ask non-Commonwealth people about your jargonic fall of wicket so specific term and they'll laugh at you... ONaNcle (talk) 06:55, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
 * just because i contribute to an article does not mean it is my "child". also i did not "destroy your text" as a) i hardly edited your article apart form change the cleanup tag and b) by putting it on wikinews it becomes a wikinews' work.  lastly you would have to have a reason to unpublish the cycling article other than one term that was not linked to. --Mark Talk to me 19:42, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

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