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Serial killer suspected loose in New York, more bodies found

April 5, 2011

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Police in, New York suspect that a serial killer may be on the loose in the area, following the discovery of eight bodies on beaches near the New York City area since December 2010. The latest discovery of three corpses was made by investigators on, which is a south of  about 45 miles (70 kilometres) east of New York. The corpses were located in an area of "dense brush".

Four of the eight bodies located so far along a highway near the beach have been identified as prostitutes who had arranged meetings with clients via the internet, over services such as ; victim number five, whose body was found last week, has not yet been formally identified. Police forensics officers took a month to discover who the first four victims were, using dental records and DNA sampling.

Police are remaining cautious over the latest batch of three, saying that they have yet to officially connect this find with the previous five corpses.

According to Suffolk County's Police Commissioner, Richard Dormer, the latest three sets of remains were found by officers on foot and via an air search as they scoured tick-infested underbrush and evergreens. The remains of the new victims were found about 500 metres apart.

During the investigations, police have also been focusing on the disappearance of a prostitute from New Jersey, Shannan Gilbert. She was last seen in the, New York area in May 2010, where she had arranged to meet a client. A witness in a gated community claims that a woman he suspects to be Gilbert came to the door of his house around 4.45pm on May 1 last year, begging for help. She fled when he tried to call the police.

DNA testing however, has determined that the fifth body is not Gilbert's.

A thorough search is continuing in the area, Commissioner Dormer said, using all available methods ranging from cadaver dogs, police academy cadets and detectives through to volunteer firefighters.


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Oh, dear./reply (2)

Sorry you have been misinformed, cows milk is not good. Wasteful in resources and of the drinker's bone. http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/nutrition/diet-and-bone-health.aspx

Some story and brief scenario presentation at Vegan Eye: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5158538349

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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Oh, dear./reply (3)

Yep. Milk sucks. http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/dairy-industry.aspx


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Thread:Comments:US President Obama considering supplying arms to Libyan rebels/Wrong use of term "rebel"/reply (14)

But 'rebels', in common usage, is used for those who lose. This implication is unrelated to the definition of the word itself.


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Oh, dear./reply (4)

Biased vegetarian website. Also, milk tastes great, especially with chocolate, and so do diary products.


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User talk:Dulefni

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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Oh, dear./reply (5)

What's bias? Governments who waste money subsidising the livestock industry - and the industry itself? Or vegetarian websites that have no CoIs whatsoever in relation to the milk industry?

P.S. There's no accounting for tastes... :P


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/misleading article/reply

What's the actual situation?


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Thread:Comments:US President Obama considering supplying arms to Libyan rebels/Wrong use of term "rebel"/reply (15)

Also, we don't know if Libya will become a true democracy, or a puppet government of the U.S. Either way, it is doubtful K will remain in power.


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But it's still all unconstitutional. That didn't change.


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Thread:Comments:US President Obama considering supplying arms to Libyan rebels/Arms/reply (3)

Really? Brainwashing is not working in Wisconsin, Ohio and a growing number of other states.

I don't think Obama's astroturf election campaign will work either.


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Oh, dear./reply (6)

Governments waste and make money no matter who's right, in the end. If it were true that cow milk was bad, that would be an excellent excuse to tax the crap out of it and make even more money, like they do with cigarettes. Of course you can't trust the industry, but you can't trust a vegan organization either; their credibility and, by extension, their survival both depend on their version of events being true. Best you can do is trust universities, who get enough money that no matter what they do, in the end, it doesn't matter what's right since they're still getting subsidized and leeching off of students. You can always trust in greed.


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Still not a replacement./reply

That was my impression as well - human milk provides antibodies to the baby. I didn't see anything about antibodies in the article, just proteins.


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/misleading article/reply (2)

If you eat meat from one of these Frankencows, does that make you part cannibal?


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Oh, dear./reply (7)

True. Sheep and goat milk are easier to digest, if you have the right digestion genes. Only Europeans and Indians have them.


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Oh, dear./reply (8)

Yeah, like the greedy universities that get money from Monsanto. I trust them completely over healthy vegans!


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Oh, dear./reply (9)

Yeah, like the greedy universities who get money from Monsanto. I trust them completely over healthy vegans.


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I dispute that. Your examples, so far, have been in the past tense. The news is written in the present tense.


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Thread:Comments:US woman sentenced to jail for faking son’s cancer/All fakers belong in jail

Faking medical maladies for fun and profit is nothing new. However, big bankers faking AAA ratings on DDD mortgage portfolios, faking new home owners with toxic negam mortgages, and faking signatures on mortgage titles is new. So far the worst penalty for that is bigger bonuses.

I wonder how many former homeowners got so stressed out from their foreclosures and evictions that they had heart attacks and died?

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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Oh, dear./reply (10)

Why would a vegetarian website be against milk? Vegetarians DRINK milk... Stop slandering the good name of vegetarians by associating them with PETA and vegans!


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/It is not fully understood why survival and development is affected by cloning

Because God is trying to stop it! He is doing everything within his power to derail this godless behaviour for our own good! And if you do not stop you will soon enough feel his wrath!


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User talk:Horanm5

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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Oh, dear./reply (11)

PETA have their own radically extremist agenda. You are also, possibly willfully, choosing to overlook that a very large number of humans have evolved beyond lactose intolerance.

Lastly, what of mothers whose offspring start teething at a very early age? A child can be past the stage where needed antibodies are passed to them through the mother's milk, but still in a situation where they will best digest the proteins introduced here by genetic modification.

In any case, for people like myself, I prefer to translate the PETA acronym as People for the Eating of Tasty Animals; there's nothing quite like a perfectly cooked slab of dead animal.


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Oh, dear./reply (12)

Cows milk is only good for one type of animal. A calf. It's not intended in any way for humans, and frankly, the quicker we stop using it and let the Cows do what they're supposed to be doing with it (feeding their kids instead of ours) the better.


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Oh, dear./reply (13)

 * 1) Excuse me, we Chinese haven't 'evolved' and this discussion is about China. :) Different people have different definitions of 'a very large number', but I don't consider one-third of the world's population particularly large.
 * 2) They can use soya milk, which is like cow's minus the increased risks of allergies, heart diseases, obesity, malnutrition and osteoporosis.

Sorry if I'm being too blunt, but the lies about milk being good leaves no grounds for AGF.


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Our submission guidelines
I'd like to let you know that here at the English Wikinews, we only accept English language news. You've recently made contributions that don't qualify as news. We appreciate your contributions, but we cannot accept the edits you've made, so they have been reverted or deleted.

In the future, if you'd like to submit news, we are more than happy to have your help! Just make sure to check out this article, which talks about what Wikinews is not.

Thank you for your contributions! Gopher65talk 11:19, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

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Comments:New York Times finds flight logs that back Canadian's claim of kidnapping by US government

Who watches the watchers when civilians are harmed? “The use of torture must be rejected as fundamentally incompatible with the dignity of the human person and ultimately counterproductive."

"Governments that use torture intend to intimidate in order to Americanize control; those who are tortured become examples of the consequences of dissent as a way to keep the population obedient."

Torture is the deliberate mental and physical damage caused by governments to individuals to terrorize society and achieve political goals.

Britain has proposed using American-style Tomahawk missiles to defend civilians from American-sponsored torture. Scandinavia has proposed using American-style fighter jets to protect civilians from American-sponsored torture. But there can be no American-sponsored solution to an American-sponsored problem. Europe must wake up and take better aim with its cruise missiles.

"There is no middle ground. We cannot and we must not use torture under any circumstances."

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Hi
Hi, please do not place any kind of on our website — it will be  so no one will see it. If you do want to contribute to Wikinews, see the introduction. Kayau (talk · contribs) 11:43, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

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Maybe, I guess.


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/misleading article/reply (3)

No, that should make you full cannibal. :) LOL


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/It is not fully understood why survival and development is affected by cloning/reply

Shouldn't you be burning a Qur'an?


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This is the Comments namespace; AGF does not apply here.


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I was kidding. -_-'''


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Some tsunami OR, hopefully
Okay, I'm (finally) done uploading pictures of the tsunami emergency experienced here in Pichilemu, Chile.

They are generally good-looking, and I'll be preparing an OR story for tomorrow. Cheers, --Diego Grez return fire 04:07, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

"Today", "yesterday" and other language that dates quickly on the main page
One of my particular bug-bears on Wikinews is when the main page says that something happened "today" or "yesterday" when it in fact happened several days ago. As this is a recurring problem, and my edit summaries have clearly not been having the desired effect so far, here are some examples:
 * Aug 2010
 * Sept 2010
 * Sept 2010
 * Oct 2010
 * Nov 2010 ("not yesterday now, not even the day before yesterday", as I said at the time)
 * Nov 2010 (where a blurb still said "Wednesday" which was a week out of date)
 * Nov 2010
 * Nov 2010 (where, 2 days on, the blurb still referred to "noon local time")
 * [gap when I find other things to do rather than edit WN]
 * March 2011 and again (same blurb, accidentally reverted during a page move)
 * March 2011 (event was 11 days old)
 * March 2011 (just now).

PLEASE don't use time-sensitive language in main-page blurbs, even if the article does. Think before accepting the automatic summary suggested by the MakeLead script. If you do use "today", "yesterday" etc, please make sure that you come back and reword the blurb to stop the main page getting out of date. Thank you. Bencherlite (talk) 16:35, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * We didn't always have this problem - but that's back when enough stories were published every day to keep the leads fresh. I, too, advise people not to blindly use MakeLead's suggested text, but actually reword it to make it more suitable for the main page. Tempodivalse [talk]  16:42, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

 * I appreciate this is currently a problem, but DO NOT push people to encyclopedic date formats within articles -- —Brian McNeil / talk 17:15, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I've stuck a warning on WN:ML. Hopefully people will take that to apply to WN:ML and not the articles themselves. — μ 17:18, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Bencherlite (talk) 20:40, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * @Brian McNeil: Agreed. I have not asked people to use encyclopaedic date formats within articles, nor have I been making such changes to articles.  The two things are completely different. Bencherlite (talk) 20:40, 21 March 2011 (UTC)


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You are correct. Rabies is caused by a virus. I have corrected the article. Thanks! Mattisse (talk) 20:09, 5 April 2011 (UTC)


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CC-BY is the license Wikinews is under; Wikinews didn't have contributors uploading videos at the time. Actually, Brittanica does use images from Wikipedia & Wikimedia Commons, so not sure that's a good example.


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Please use source to list sources at Former Egyptian PM Hosni Mubarak to face trial Thank you!

 * Example Gryllida 15:05, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed Cheers, Gryllida 23:19, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Your article
I think you may have been confused by the moves/deletions with respect to your article. Don't worry; it is quite safe and is, in fact, quite good and has been published here: Australia, Malaysia closing in on refugee agreement. Thanks for writing it! Out of interest, are you a University of Wollongong student? Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 14:57, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

to blood red sandman
yes! i am a wollongong uni student!! :) :) :) so far i've made 3 contributions so i'm feeling very proud! attempting to post news stories is getting quite addictive!
 * Great!

 * Now, a tip for you and your classmates; when you look at any article you submit that ends up published, check the edit history, and the talk page. You may want to go through the edits made by other users one at a time so you can see which stylistic faults they've been correcting. I'd strongly recommend you all read this essay on article format and presentation. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:03, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

to brian
ok will do :)

my tutor david said you are the 'go to' man for any questions or comments we wish to make on our submissions. i hope all our articles are to a high calibre. i've really gained respect for the articles allowed to be published here because i know they've gone through rigorous reviews.

Source template
Hi Dalia,

I started to look at your Egypt story, but I couldn't open any of your sources. Confused, I went into the code and found out you were putting a "}" at the end of the URLs, which messed up the target page. The last citation didn't have all the right source template parts. This is normal when first starting out. The source template puts all the parts together in the same format everytime! So it's important just to get the parts and what goes there right. Here's the code for you to get a better look at the parts: Template:Source

Good luck, Crtew (talk) 03:20, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Dalia,

I looked at your piece again and I found some promising points and some problems. Can you fix the problems? This is an important story. I actually thought of doing it myself on Sunday night. But I would like to see you publish it before it grows stale. Crtew (talk) 05:14, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

ok! :)
is it possible that someone ammended my terrible citations ?

when i went back in to edit the hyperlinks the } symbol after my links was gone and all the citations looked perfect! if so thankyou mysterious wikinews editor! is it ok to publish now?

Fixed Crtew (talk) 16:18, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

I went ahead and updated the story and submitted it before it went stale. The first thing I did was to update it since the last edit. Second, I reordered the information for flow and evidence. Third, I balanced it between Egypt and Israel for neutrality. Fourth, I brought in evidence for any type of assertion. Finally, I placed wikilinks, included the Egypt infobox and selected categories. The article was published as Egypt cancels 15 year gas supply contract to Israel. Cheers, Crtew (talk) 16:18, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Accreditation request
I've left some comments, and some questions for you, on your accreditation request page. --Pi zero (talk) 01:52, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

....and here we are.
On April 25th, you asked for accreditation. Since that date, you've made no edits, no contributions to the project.....nothing. I'm not being snitty here.....please hear me. This project is about people giving to the project......not just taking. Accreditation is serious; as I said, you can do MOUNTAINS of reporting (including OR), without a shred of accreditation, but I'm unable to see that you've contributed in any way whatsoever after requesting that credential. Please don't go away mad, and MORE IMPORTANTLY, please don't go away. Contribute, write, edit, opine as thou wilt, but please: do something. Bddpaux (talk) 17:19, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

sorry!
I've been up to my ears with Uni work (graduating next month and the final exam revision for my subjects are coming in thick and fast!) and have been working casually almost every day. not that thats an excuse but i think my request for accreditation may have been a bit over presumptious of me at this busy point in time. feel free to remove it. hopefully after graduation i'll get back on here and renew my love of journalism again. i don't really need to be an accreditor - i'm happy to write for the love of writing and leave the editing to you good sirs and madams. thanku for the care and concern! x dalia098

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Disputed Ivory Coast president Gbagbo negotiating surrender

April 6, 2011

The United Nations has announced that three Ivory Coast military leaders are in the process of negotiating a potential surrender for disputed president Laurent Gbagbo.

After several days of fighting, during which forces loyal to internationally-recognized president Alassane Ouattara moved south towards the city of Abidjan, Gbagbo is reported to have taken shelter in a bunker underneath the presidential palace in Abidjan. Pro-Ouattara forces are reported to have surrounded the palace.

According to the UN and French officials, an agreement that would see Gbagbo relinquish power is close to being finalized. Military forces loyal to Gbagbo have already declared a ceasefire. According to France's foreign minister,, "[w]e are very close to convincing him [Gbagbo] to leave power."

The military officials involved — the heads of the army, police and guard forces — are reported to be requesting guarantees of safety in return for Gbagbo's surrender. A Gbagbo spokesperson, Ahoua Don Mello, said that "direct negotiations based on African Union recommendations" had taken place, though Gbabgo himself said that "on a political level, no decision has yet been taken."


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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Dont'cha love it

Not 'human milk' that is, but a lively debate provoked by a Wikinews article?

That is the entire point of the Comments: namespace.


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User talk:Camille89

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Hey
You recently started two interesting stories about today climate, AFP- Policing the Carbon Scheme and Carbon dioxide – theory or evidence?. While we really appreciate the time and effort you spend to create them, they didn't pass a review. Unfortunately I can't improve them because they don't describe a recent event and as such, they don't qualify as news. Please check out this article, which talks about articles content guidelines, and this one, which describes what Wikinews is not. I see you generally did a good job so far, thanks! We look forward to seeing you as an active contributor. --Gryllida (talk) 12:18, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Not published
One of your articles wasn't worked upon for a few days after being tagged, and as such doesn't stay in main namespace. I moved it to your user namespace, User:Camille89/AFP- Policing the Carbon Scheme. Thank you for your work while creating this - we look forward to you becoming more familiar with the guidelines and becoming an active contributor. --Gryllida 14:16, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

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User talk:Bubbles Green

-- 01:33, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Hello,

Your recent contributions are considered to be spam and have been reverted or deleted. Should you believe that your contributions are not spam, please argue your case on your talk page, or in WN:ALERT.

Further spamming may result in your editing privileges being removed. Please contribute to Wikinews in a constructive fashion instead. Gopher65talk 14:14, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * You mean the stuff I did was not a story, but spam and vandalism? Sorry!  I'll write real new stories next time!--Bubbles Green (talk) 21:00, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

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Wreckage, victims of Air France Flight 447 found

April 8, 2011

After an exhaustive two year, 20 million euro ($28 million) search, the final resting spot of has been located. The location of the wreckage is six miles north of the plane's last reported position off the coast of Brazil at a depth of 3,800 and 4,000 meters (2,070 to 2,190 fathoms or 12,467 feet and 13,123 feet).

The wreckage of the, was found Sunday by a team from the , using a Remus robotic submarine and its. After the wreckage was found, another Remus robot submarine with cameras was sent down to the site, where it filmed bodies in the wreckage.

, France's, confirmed to reporters: "Bodies were found. They will be recovered and identified."

"We weren’t prepared for that. We are now confronted with another trauma," Robert Soulas, vice president of Entraide et Solidarité AF447, a support group for families of victims of the crash, said. Soulas lost his daughter and son-in-law, who were on board the flight when it crashed. "For me, personally I would like to leave the bodies of my children, my two children, on the seabed."

The remains of the plane, which were concentrated in a 600 metres by 200 metres (1,968 feet by 656 feet) area, appear to be relatively intact which leads investigators to believe that the plane hit the water intact and did not explode mid-air. Around 50 bodies of the 228 passengers and crew on board and parts of the plane were found shortly after the crash in 2009.

According to Jean-Paul Troadec, the head of France's (BEA), the accident investigation body for aircraft overseeing the operation and investigation, the wreckage and bodies will be bought to surface and then sent to France for investigation. The salvage operation, which will cost around 5 million euros ($7.1 million) according to estimates, will be financed by the French government. Three salvage companies who are bidding to recover the wreck have until afternoon on Thursday to submit proposals. The operation should take between three weeks to a month.

On raising the remains of the plane Troadec said: "We want to know what happened in this accident, most particularly so it never happens again." Some family members agreed saying such as Michael Gaignard, whose sister was on board the plane said, "We want to know what happened in that plane." An attorney for several families said some had yet to come to terms with loss of loved ones, saying "There's been no burial, no goodbye ... just lots and lots of suffering."

Soulas of Entraide et Solidarité AF447 disagreed. "There's a very traumatic side to this and it causes problems of identification. We don't know what state they are in." He added, "And it risks causing a dispute between families who want to leave the bodies at the bottom of the Atlantic and those who want them brought to the surface."

However, despite the discovery of the wreckage, the plane's two, the (FDR) and the  (CVR) have yet to be found at the crash site.

Alain Bouillard, who is in charge of BEA's recovery effort said, "It's still a jigsaw puzzle. We do not know where the recorders might be."

There are concerns that the two-year length the recorders have been submerged in seawater along with enormous pressure located at the depth of the wreck, that the data on the recorders might be unreadable. Bouillard said it is possible the recorders were damaged, but had "great confidence" in their robustness.

Without the recovery of the recorders, investigators may be unable to determine the cause of the crash. The leading theory at the moment is that the crew received incorrect air speed readings from the aircraft's, devices which measure how fast the aircraft is travelling. Experts say the tubes may have become iced over, causing the crash.

The plane's (ACARS) sent out 24 messages over a four-minute long period stating numerous problems and warnings, including incorrect air speed warnings occurring aboard the aircraft, just prior to it going down.


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User talk:Cropje

-- 03:39, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Journalism students!?!?!
Hi!

I notice quite a few of you registering accounts all at the same time. Good luck with Wikinews! Has one of your lecturers suggested use of this site for any particular reason? If so, you might want to suggest they get in touch with myself, or some of the other administrators on the project.

--Brian McNeil / talk 13:55, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Category:UoW 2011 student work
I have created this category so you can all track each others' work on-wiki. Please add it to all articles you create; if any articles you have already created are now protected, and require this added, please put an editprotected request on the talk page of the relevant article. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:41, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Additionally, UoW 2011 student contributions is where I've asked the rest of Wikinews to track all UoW contribtions; please refer to the diff links provided there to see what work other editors see as required prior to publication, or to see where articles have failed or had other issues highlighted. --Brian McNeil / talk 14:23, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

User:Cropje/Journalist's arrest sparks alarm over the legality of social networking activity
One of your articles wasn't worked upon for a few days after being tagged, and as such doesn't stay in main namespace. I moved it to User:Cropje/Journalist's arrest sparks alarm over the legality of social networking activity, so that you can continue it if you like. Thanks for your time and effort! --Gryllida ( % talk ) 08:04, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Radiation hotspots detected by Japanese citizens' groups
Hi. Reviewed as not ready; see my review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 14:31, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

 * I feel bad about this. But, there was a problem that does actually make it impossible for me to review the article in its current state.  If you can find another reviewer who can access that source and is willing to review the article, I wouldn't quibble.  My review comments.  --Pi zero (talk) 11:41, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

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The worst text I have ever read, the author should be ashamed of himself.


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User:Humanrightsp3

'''International Human Rights Organization for police public press is doing work against universel terrorisam. organization have its own web portal "www.humanrightsp3.com"'''

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User talk:Balochrepublicanarmy

-- 10:57, 6 April 2011 Baloch Republican Army Freedom Fighters Had Exploded 16-inch Gas Pipeline In Thull Border Area Of Jacob Abad And Balochistan.Gas Supply Had Been Suspended To Sindh From Damaged Gas Pipeline.

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User talk:Dumas~enwikinews

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:16, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:30, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/It is not fully understood why survival and development is affected by cloning/reply (2)

I would but I'm fresh out.


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User talk:Korrik

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BarkingFish (talk) 01:10, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikinews! Thanks for creating Kosovo Pharmacies on Strike. Unfortunately, it had to be deleted due to the fact that it met one of the criteria for speedy deletion. All articles on Wikinews have to be about news events, and I do not believe that your article reports on a news event.

I really hope that you choose to continue contributing to Wikinews, although I strongly suggest you read Wikinews' content guide and our guide to writing an article first.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page, or ask other contributers to Wikinews on our assistance page.

Thanks,

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Thread:Comments:Egypt anti-government protests continue, internet shut down/Video/reply (11)

Wouldn't it be the same as news agencies using photos from Reuters? Except here, using the CC-BY license rather than money.

I was looking through the other media Al Jazeera has released, and it appears that the English Wikinews didn't end up using any, even where no other free media existed, quite unlike other projects.

This looks like it's part of a bizarre attitude to how to be a news website, very different from that of Wikipedia to being an encyclopedia or any other Wikimedia project to its aim; this is one of the reasons I don't contribute to Wikinews.


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User talk:420MuNkEy

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Thread:Comments:Genetically modified dairy cows produce 'human milk'/Breasfeeding is still best for babies upto two years or more....Cow's milk is okay after breasfeeding stage....

Mother's milk is undoubtedly very important for a baby to develop a healthy body when he grows up. I believe that when a child is breasfed for two years or more, he will likely to resist diseases. My mom breasfed me for three years and during those times I never got sick. I grew up with strong immune system. I have resisted common diseases like colds, fever, or cough. But of course, good health depends on good lifestyle, too. My point here is, infant milk should be produced by human mothers and should not be replaced by GMO from cows. Cows milk is healthy, I even drink it everyday, but should not be given to infants.


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ACLU, EFF challenging US 'secret' court orders seeking Twitter data

April 7, 2011

Late last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed objections to the United States Government's 'secret' attempts to obtain Twitter account information relating to WikiLeaks. The ACLU and EFF cite First and Fourth amendment issues as overriding reasons to overturn government attempts to keep their investigation secret; and, that with being an Icelandic Parliamentarian, the issue has serious international implications.

The case, titled "In the Matter of the 2703(d) Order Relating to Twitter Accounts: Wikileaks, Rop_G, IOERROR; and BirgittaJ", has been in the EFF's sights since late last year when they became aware of the US government's attempts to investigate WikiLeaks-related communications using the popular microblogging service.

Case background
The key objective of this US government investigation is to obtain data for the prosecution of Bradley Manning, alleged to have supplied classified data to WikiLeaks. In addition to Manning's Twitter account, and that of WikiLeaks (@wikileaks), the following three accounts are subject to the order: @ioerror, @birgittaj, and @rop_g. These, respectively, belong to Jacob Apelbaum, Birgitta Jonsdottir, and.

Birgitta is not the only non-US citizen with their Twitter account targeted by the US Government; Gonggrijp, a Dutch 'ex-hacker'-turned-security-expert, was one of the founders of – the first  in the Netherlands available to the public. He has worked on a mobile phone that can encrypt conversations, and proven that electronic voting systems can readily be hacked.

In early March, a Virginia magistrate judge ruled that the government could have the sought records, and neither the targeted users, or the public, could see documents submitted to justify data being passed to the government. The data sought is as follows:
 * 1) Personal contact information, including addresses
 * 2) Financial data, including credit card or bank account numbers
 * 3) Twitter account activity information, including the "date, time, length, and method of connections" plus the "source and destination Internet Protocol address(es)"
 * 4) Direct Message (DM) information, including the email addresses and IP addresses of everyone with whom the Parties have exchanged DMs

The order demands disclosure of absolutely all such data from November 1, 2009 for the targeted accounts.

The ACLU and EFF are not only challenging this, but demanding that all submissions made by the US government to justify the Twitter disclosure are made public, plus details of any other such cases which have been processed in secret.

The Manning connection
Bradley Manning, at the time a specialist from Maryland enlisted with the United States Army's 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, was arrested in June last year in connection with the leaking of classified combat video to WikiLeaks.

The leaked video footage, taken from a US helicopter gunship, showed the deaths of Reuters staff and  during a U.S. assault in Baghdad, Iraq. The wire agency unsuccessfully attempted to get the footage released via a request in 2007.

When WikiLeaks released the video footage it directly contradicted the official line taken by the U.S. Army asserting that the deaths of the two Reuters staff were "collateral damage" in an attack on Iraqi insurgents. The radio chatter associated with the video indicated the helicopter crews had mistakenly identified the journalists' equipment as weaponry.

The US government also claims Manning is linked to CableGate; the passing of around a quarter of a million classified diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks. Manning has been in detention since July last year; in December allegations of torture were made to the United Nations regarding the conditions under which he was and is being detained.

Reports last month that he must now sleep naked and attend role call at the U.S. Marine facility in in the same state, raised further concern over his detention conditions. , at-the-time a State Department spokesman, remarked on this whilst speaking at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; describing the current treatment of Manning as "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid", Crowley was, as a consequence, put in the position of having to tender his resignation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The United States Government versus WikiLeaks
Despite his native Australia finding, in December last year, that Assange's WikiLeaks had not committed any criminal offences in their jurisdiction, the U.S. government has continued to make ongoing operations very difficult for the whistleblower website.

The result of the Australian Federal Police investigation left the country's Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, having to retract a statement that WikiLeaks had acted "illegally"; instead, she characterised the site's actions as "grossly irresponsible".

Even with Australia finding no illegal activity on the part of WikiLeaks, and with founder Julian Assange facing extradition to Sweden, U.S. pressure sought to hobble WikiLeaks financially.

Based on a State Department letter, online payments site PayPal suspended WikiLeaks account in December. Their action was swiftly followed by Visa Europe and Mastercard ceasing to handle payments for WikiLeaks.

The online processing company, Datacell, threatened the two credit card giants with legal action over this. However, avenues of funding for the site were further curtailed when both Amazon.com and Swiss bank PostFinance joined the financial boycott of WikiLeaks.

Assange continues, to this day, to argue that his extradition to Sweden for questioning on alleged sexual offences is being orchestrated by the U.S. in an effort to discredit him, and thus WikiLeaks.

State-of-the-(Black)-Art, or CyberWarfare
Wikinews consulted an IT and cryptography expert from the Belgian university which developed the current ; explaining modern communications, he stated: "Cryptography has developed to such a level that intercepting communications is no longer cost effective. That is, if any user uses the correct default settings, and makes sure that he/she is really connecting to Twitter it is highly unlikely that even the NSA can break the cryptography for a protocol such as SSL/TLS (used for https)."

Qualifying this, he commented that "the vulnerable parts of the communication are the end points." To make his point, he cited the following quote from : "Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench."

Continuing, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) expert explained:

 * "In the first place, the weak point is Twitter itself; the US government can go and ask for the data; companies such as Twitter and Google will typically store quite some information on their users, including IP addresses (it is known that Google deletes the last byte of the IP address after a few weeks, but it is not too hard for a motivated opponent to find out what this byte was)."

 * "In the second place, this is the computer of the user: by exploiting system weaknesses (with viruses, Trojan horses or backdoors in the operating system) a highly motivated opponent can enter your machine and record your keystrokes plus everything that is happening (e.g. the FBI is known to do this with the so-called ). Such software is also commercially available, e.g. for a company to monitor its employees."

 * "It would also be possible for a higly motivated opponent to play "man-in-the-middle"; that means that instead of having a secure connection to Twitter.com, you have a secure connection to the attacker's server, who impersonates Twitter's and then relays your information to Twitter. This requires tricks such as spoofing DNS (this is getting harder with ), or misleading the user (e.g. the user clicks on a link and connects to tw!tter.com or Twitter.c0m, which look very similar in a URL window as Twitter.com). It is clear that the US government is capable of using these kind of tricks; e.g., a company has been linked to the US government that was recognized as legitimate signer in the major browsers, so it would not be too large for them to sign a legitimate certificate for such a spoofing webserver; this means that the probability that a user would detect a problem would be very low."

 * "As for traffic analysis (finding out who you are talking to rather than finding out what you are telling to whom), NSA and GCHQ are known to have access to lots of traffic (part of this is obtained via the UK-USA agreement). Even if one uses strong encryption, it is feasible for them to log the IP addresses and email addresses of all the parties you are connecting to. If necessary, they can even make routers re-route your traffic to their servers. In addition, the European Data Retention directive forces all operators to store such traffic data."

 * "Whether other companies would have complied with such requests: this is very hard to tell. I believe however that it is very plausible that companies such as Google, Skype or Facebook would comply with such requests if they came from a government."

 * "In summary: unless you go through great lengths to log through to several computers in multiple countries, you work in a clean virtual machine, you use private browser settings (don't accept cookies, no plugins for Firefox, etc.) and use tools such as Tor, it is rather easy for any service provider to identify you."

 * "Finally: I prefer not to be quoted on any sentences in which I make statements on the capabilities or actions of any particular government."

Views of a security expert
Wikinews also consulted French IT security researcher Stevens Le Blond on the issues surrounding the case, and the state-of-the-art in monitoring, and analysing, communications online. Le Blond, currently presenting a research paper on attacks on to  audiences in North America, responded via email:

 * Were the US Government to obtain the sought data, it would seem reasonable the NSA would handle further investigation. How would you expect them to exploit the data and expand on what they receive from Twitter?

 * Le Blond: My understanding is that the DOJ is requesting the following information: 1) Connection records and session times 2) IP addresses 3) e-mail addresses 4) banking info
 * By requesting 1) and 2) for Birgitta and other people involved with WikiLeaks (WL) since 2009, one could derive 2 main [pieces of] information.

 * First, he could tell the mobility of these people. Recent research in networking shows that you can map an IP address into a geographic location with a median error of 600 meters. So by looking at changes of IP addresses in time for a Twitter user, one could tell (or at least speculate about) where that person has been.
 * Second, by correlating locations of different people involved with WL in time, one could possibly derive their interactions and maybe even their level of involvement with WL. Whether it is possible to derive this information from 1) and 2) depends on how this people use Twitter. For example, do they log on Twitter often enough, long enough, and from enough places?
 * My research indicates that this is the case for other Internet services but I cannot tell whether it is the case for Twitter.
 * Note that even though IP logging, as done by Twitter, is similar to the logging done by GSM [mobile phone] operators, the major difference seems to be that Twitter is subject to US regulation, no matter the citizenship of its users. I find this rather disturbing.
 * Using 3), one could search for Birgitta on other Internet services, such as social networks, to find more information on her (e.g., hidden accounts). Recent research on privacy shows that people tend to use the same e-mail address to register an account on different social networks (even when they don't want these accounts to be linked together). Obviously, one could then issue subpoenas for these accounts as well.
 * I do not have the expertise to comment on what could be done with 4).

 * As I believe Jonsdottir to be involved in the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), what are the wider implications beyond the "WikiLeaks witchhunt"?

 * Le Blond: Personal data can be used to discredit, especially if the data is not public.

Liberty, and the Electronic Frontier
Having been alerted to the ongoing case through a joint press release by the ACLU and EFF, Wikinews sought clarification on the primary issues which the two non-profits saw as particularly important in challenging the U.S. Government over the 'secret' court orders. Rebecca Jeschke, Media Relations Director for the EFF, explained in more detail the points crucial to them, responding to a few questions from Wikinews on the case:

 * As a worse-case, what precedents would be considered if this went to the Supreme Court?

 *  Rebecca Jeschke: It's extremely hard to know at this stage if this would go to the Supreme Court, and if it did, what would be at issue. However, some of the interesting questions about this case center on the rights of people around the world when they use US Internet services. This case questions the limits of US law enforcement, which may turn out to be very different from the limits in other countries.

 * Since this is clearly a politicised attack on free speech with most chilling potential repercussions for the press, whistleblowers, and by-and-large anyone the relevant U.S. Government departments objects to the actions of, what action do you believe should be taken to protect free speech rights?

 * Jeschke: We believe that, except in very rare circumstances, the government should not be permitted to obtain information about individuals' private Internet communications in secret. We also believe that Internet companies should, whenever possible, take steps to ensure their customers are notified about requests for information and have the opportunity to respond.

 * Twitter via the web, in my experience, tends to use https:// connections. Are you aware of any possibility of the government cracking such connections? (I'm not up to date on the crypto arms race).

 * Jeschke: You don't need to crack https, per se, to compromise its security. See this piece about fraudulent https certificates:
 * Iranian hackers obtain fraudulent https — EFF website.

 * And, do you believe that far, far more websites should - by default - employ https:// connections to protect people's privacy?

 * Jeschke: We absolutely think that more websites should employ https! Here is a guide for site operators: ( See external links, Ed. )

Birgitta Jonsdottir responds
Finally, Wikinews approached the Icelandic politician, and WikiLeaks supporter, who has made this specific case a landmark in how the U.S. Government handles dealings with – supposedly – friendly governments and their elected representatives. A number of questions were posed, seeking the Icelandic Parliamentarian's views:

 * How did you feel when you were notified the US Government wanted your Twitter account, and message, details? Were you shocked?

 * Birgitta Jonsdottir: I felt angry but not shocked. I was expecting something like this to happen because of my involvement with WikiLeaks. My first reaction was to tweet about it.

 * What do you believe is their reasoning in selecting you as a 'target'?

 * Jonsdottir: It is quite clear to me that USA authorities are after Julian Assange and will use any means possible to get even with him. I think I am simply a pawn in a much larger context. I did of course both act as a spokesperson for WikiLeaks in relation to the Apache video and briefly for WikiLeaks, and I put my name to the video as a co-producer. I have not participated in any illegal activity and thus being a target doesn't make me lose any sleep.

 * Are you concerned that, as a Member of Parliament involved in the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), the US attempt to obtain your Twitter data is interfering with planned Icelandic government policy?

 * Jonsdottir: No

 * In an earlier New York Times (NYT) article, you're indicating there is nothing they can obtain about you that bothers you; but, how do you react to them wanting to know everyone you talk to?

 * Jonsdottir: It bothers me and according to top computer scientists the government should be required to obtain a search warrant to get our IP addresses from Twitter. I am, though, happy I am among the people DOJ is casting their nets around because of my parliamentary immunity; I have a greater protection then many other users and can use that immunity to raise the issue of lack of rights for those that use social media.

 * The same NYT article describes you as a WikiLeaks supporter; is this still the case? What attracts you to their 'radical transparency'?

I don't support radical transparency – I understand that some things need to remain secret. It is the process of making things secret that needs to be both more transparent and in better consensus with nations.
 * Jonsdottir: I support the concept of WikiLeaks. While we don't have a culture of protection for sources and whistleblowers we need sites like WikiLeaks. Plus, I think it is important to give WikiLeaks credit for raising awareness about in how bad shape freedom of information and expression is in our world and it is eroding at an alarming rate because of the fact that legal firms for corporations and corrupt politicians have understood the borderless nature of the legalities of the information flow online – we who feel it is important that people have access to information that should remain in the public domain need to step up our fight for those rights. WikiLeaks has played an important role in that context.

 * How do you think the Icelandic government would have reacted if it were tens of thousands of their diplomatic communications being leaked?

 * Jonsdottir: I am not sure – A lot of our dirty laundry has been aired via the USA cables – our diplomatic communications with USA were leaked in those cables, so far they have not stirred much debate nor shock. It is unlikely for tens of thousands of cables to leak from Iceland since we dont have the same influence or size as the USA, nor do we have a military.

 * Your ambassador in the US has spoken to the Obama administration. Can you discuss any feedback from that? Do you have your party's, and government's, backing in challenging the ordered Twitter data release?

 * Jonsdottir: I have not had any feedback from that meeting, I did however receive a message from the DOJ via the USA ambassador in Iceland. The message stated three things: 1. I am free to travel to the USA. 2. If I would do so, I would not be a subject of involuntary interrogation. 3. I am not under criminal investigation. If this is indeed the reality I wonder why they are insisting on getting my personal details from Twitter. I want to stress that I understand the reasoning of trying to get to Assange through me, but I find it unacceptable since there is no foundation for criminal investigation against him. If WikiLeaks goes down, all the other media partners should go down at the same time. They all served similar roles. The way I see it is that WikiLeaks acted as the senior editor of material leaked to them. They could not by any means be considered a source. The source is the person that leaks the material to WikiLeaks. I am not sure if the media in our world understands how much is at stake for already shaky industry if WikiLeaks will carry on carrying the brunt of the attacks. I think it would be powerful if all the medias that have had access to WikiLeaks material would band together for their defence.

 * Wikinews consulted a Belgian IT security expert who said it was most likely companies such as Facebook, Microsoft, and Google, would have complied with similar court orders *without advising the 'targets*'. Does that disturb you?

 * Jonsdottir: This does disturb me for various reasons. The most obvious is that my emails are hosted at google/gmail and my search profile. I dont have anything to hide but it is important to note that many of the people that interact with me as a MP via both facebook and my various email accounts don't always realize that there is no protection for them if they do so via those channels. I often get sensitive personal letters sent to me at facebook and gmail. In general most people are not aware of how little rights they have as users of social media. It is those of uttermost importance that those sites will create the legal disclaimers and agreements that state the most obvious rights we lose when we sign up to their services.

 * Has there been any backlash within Iceland against US-based internet services in light of this? Do you expect such, or any increase in anti-American sentiments?

 * Jonsdottir: No, none what so ever. I dont think there is much anti-American sentiments in Iceland and I dont think this case will increase it. However I think it is important for everyone who does not live in the USA and uses social services to note that according to the ruling in my case, they dont have any protection of the 1st and 4th amendment, that only apply to USA citizens. Perhaps the legalities in relation to the borderless reality we live in online need to be upgraded in order for people to feel safe with using social media if it is hosted in the USA. Market tends to bend to simple rules.

 * Does this make you more, or less, determined to see the IMMI succeed?

 * Jonsdottir: More. People have to realize that if we dont have freedom of information online we won't have it offline. We have to wake up to the fact that our rights to access information that should be in the public domain is eroding while at the same time our rights as citizens online have now been undermined and we are only seen as consumers with consumers rights and in some cases our rights are less than of a product. This development needs to change and change fast before it is too late.

Ongoing U.S. Government versus WikiLeaks fallout
The U.S. Government continues to have issues internationally as a result of material passed to WikiLeaks, and subsequently published.

Within the past week, Ecuador has effectively declared the U.S. ambassador persona-non-grata over corruption allegations brought to light in leaked cables. Asking the veteran diplomat to leave "as soon as possible", the country may become the third in South America with no ambassadorial presence. Both Venezuela and Bolivia have no resident U.S. ambassador due to the two left-wing administrations believing the ejected diplomats were working with the opposition.

The U.S. State Department has cautioned Ecuador that a failure to speedily normalise diplomatic relations may jeapordise ongoing trade talks.

The United Kingdom is expected to press the Obama administration over the continuing detention of 23-year-old Manning, who also holds UK citizenship. British lawmakers are to discuss his ongoing detention conditions before again approaching the U.S. with their concerns that his solitary confinement, and treatment therein, is not acceptable.

The 22 charges brought against Manning are currently on hold whilst his fitness to stand trial is assessed.


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 * The video on this page doesn't play, I tried it on three very well known media players. The problem is it is in a very obscure non-standardized video file format. Will someone please reformat the file to a proper format such as avi/mpg/wmv etc so that it can be played on normal media players. Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.218.178.56 (talk • contribs)
 * No. Those are all non-free formats. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:13, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Original reporting notes

 * All interview data was shared with scoop. Please ask accredited reporters to confirm, and respect the cryptographer's wish not to be named! --Brian McNeil / talk 14:40, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Confirmed; they all look like they're verifiable. — μ 21:12, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Urgent review

 * Please note this article is marked for urgent review; not, as the template states, "breaking news". Do not publish with a breaking news template, please! --Brian McNeil / talk 15:42, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I note that quick review doesn't make the Review option available on the drop-down. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:03, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, really? Sorry, I didn't think about that, I just assumed it would work based on categories. DEN  DODGE  16:11, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I didn't know about the template, but would've assumed the same. I just checked in the drop-down once you'd changed it. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:22, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I still have the option to review the article. Are you sure it's not just you? DEN  DODGE  16:24, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * It comes up now <shrug> --Brian McNeil / talk 16:50, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Scary review? 'tis a lengthy piece. ;-) --Brian McNeil / talk 16:52, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * All interviewed subjects were notified 9-10 hours ago that this was pending review. The OR is confirmed above. Will someone (Anyone?) extract a digit from their derrier and review it soon? It's probably the most substantial piece of OR so far this year. --Brian McNeil / talk 07:13, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Review of revision 1209588 [Passed]

 * Heh, well that sucks. I was reviewing this too. That was a giant waste of effort on my part:(. Could have reviewed all the other articles in the time this single article took. Gopher65talk 15:14, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry! I actually started last night, and only just finished. The fact that I slept in between means some stuff might have slipped through, but it needed reviewing and I didn't realise you were also doing it. I would appreciate your second pair of eyes just to make sure—with an article like this, there are so many things that could be slightly wrong. DEN  DODGE  15:19, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Whatever! Thanks to both of you for working this over (instead of me). --Brian McNeil / talk 15:31, 7 April 2011 (UTC)


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Indian activist begins "fast-unto-death" hunger strike to end corruption

April 7, 2011 Indian social activist and reformer, 72, joined a nationwide protest campaign against an anti-corruption bill on Tuesday  by beginning  a "fast-unto-death"  at   observatory in Delhi. He and 100 of his supporters began fasting to protest the bill, known as the Ombudsman bill, when  the government did not accept their demand  that the opinions of citizens be considered in the formation of the bill.

Participants in the nationwide campaign called ""  claim the proposed  anti-corruption  bill is too weak because the  is given no enforcement mechanisms and lacks wide investigative powers. Their goal is to strengthen the bill and  give it teeth. They seek to create a citizen ombudsman free from political influence, that would accept citizen input, and could investigate charges against public officials including the prime minister’s office.

"I have written so many letters to the prime minister asking for time to meet and discuss. No reply," said Hazare. "Everybody is drowned in corruption. I will fast until I die for the cause of cleaning up the system."

Corruption is an entrenched feature of life in India, from minor fees paid to avoid trumped up charges to massive fraudulent scams by government officials. A recent string of high-profile  allegations of corruption  have shaken financial confidence in India's economy, the third largest in Asia.

The series of costly corruption scandals in the past six months have resulted in  enormous public outrage that has embarrassed the government of ,  including  Commonwealth Games,  involving a cabinet minister, and a    in which  bureaucrats appropriated  apartments intended  for war widows in Mumbai.

Although hunger strikes are a common political tactic in India, millions of Indians have joined the recent anti-corruption campaign. Supporters of Hazare have crowed Jantar Mantar observatory where Hazare has completed his third day of  fasting. More than 80,000 friends have joined his Facebook page.

The Ombudsman bill was first drafted 42 years ago, but has never been passed by parliament in the 10 times it has been proposed.


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Merry Christmas!
Just getting my Christmas greetings out of the way early this year. — μ 18:09, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Flooding recent changes
Are you going to be doing much more of this? If it's all very straightforward (nothing controversial in it), you might consider using the pseudo-bot flag. --Pi zero (talk) 15:22, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
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Please verify that your beta toolbar bug is fixed. Additionally, please double-check that your watchlist-goes-to-a-different-page bug is still broken. Regards, — μ 16:11, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
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My article, entitled 2011 BRIT Awards highlights, is said to go stale today at 2000 UTC, according to Diego Grez. Can you please review this article as soon as you can? I would be so disappointed if this article was tagged stale because nobody reviewed it. I've worked so hard on this article. Please review it if you can. Thanks -- Rayboy8 ( my talk ) ( my contributions ) 16:34, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
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Explosion at earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant
It seems that the sources for Explosion at earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant have changed since I wrote the article. That is why there were unsourced statements. It seems to be a rapidly changing situation so this is hardly surprising. Thanks for removing unsourced statements - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 22:16, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

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Hey there,

Could you either list or upload the source image of the blue Japan Wikinews logo found to the left of File:Wikinews Japan earthquake.png? It's always useful to have this sort of thing around. Regards, — μ 02:13, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

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Has anyone formally recognised the opposition as the legitimate government of Libya? Both the pre-Qadafi and current era's flags use green, to be fair, while only the opposition uses the black one, so it could be argued the status quo is biased the other way round. Just thinking. I don't know if I care enough to revert. Tempodivalse [talk]  15:54, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * France were the first to officially recognise the rebels, I'm not sure about other countries (I haven't been following it enough), but I'm sure France aren't alone. As for black, that is the colour we normally use, so I don't think we can be accused of bias—otherwise using any colour would always be biased against somebody. Besides, black has no special significance to the rebels, but green was a very special colour to the Gadaffi regime, and became something of a national symbol. DEN  DODGE  15:58, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

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User talk:Novikowia

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User talk:Angela1990

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User talk:BKHuffman

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PR Expert Knows Why Facebook is Worth $50B issues
Hi! The article you created is an exact copy-paste of the text of an article previously published at http://axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show?id=21369 which is a problem for en.Wikinews. All articles on en.Wikinews are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 (CC-by 2.5) copyright license, as you were notified in the editing screen. Unfortunately the license at axcessnews.com does not appear compatible with the CC-by 2.5 license. (Of course if you are the original copyright holder you can re-license the content to CC-by 2.5, which would resolve this particular issue.)

The second problem is the content of the article. The article is a very well-written column, with interesting research and some really great quotes. Unfortunately, en.WN requires articles be written from a neutral point of view, and all original reporting notes need to be filed on the article's collaboration page. For example factual statements such as Did you know 1 in 9 people in the world, yes the entire world, are now on Facebook? would need to be sourced there so our readers can see where the facts are drawn from. It's sometimes frustrating to put all the citations and interview notes together with the article, but it makes our articles very transparent - our readers can look at the same sources as we use to draw their own informed conclusions.

Again, I really appreciate your thinking of Wikinews for your article! I hope we can work together to get the article ready for publication on this site! -  Amgine | t 18:06, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Howdy! Amgine has asked me to try and give you a hand with this; as I understand it, the article is your own work and you're happy to release under a CC-BY-2.5 license. What I'll do in the next 5-10 minutes is: undelete it, move it to your userspace, give a little feedback on where it might not meet our Style Guide, and some advice on adding original reporting notes.
 * Starting with OR is pretty ambitious, but we'll see if this can be saved. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:01, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Your article is now restored, in a sub-page of your userspace. I've done what I can to try and offer some constructive criticism. I hope you can work from that to bringing the article to Wikinews' readers. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:47, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

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User talk:Anaivanusic

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User talk:Minominos

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User talk:Doblebrap

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User talk:Janvonwerth

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User talk:GMK Incorporadora

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User talk:Mmlabeeb

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User talk:Sjaligam

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User talk:طلوع من

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User talk:Riedstra

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User talk:Jozkaiser

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Thread:Comments:Barack Obama announces 2012 re-election bid/Comments from feedback form - "screw you obama."

screw you obama.


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User talk:Jamandlee

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User talk:Michaela den

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User talk:SEPTActaMTA8235

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User talk:Jo!Hannes

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User talk:Inupiaq

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User talk:Dachsbär

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User talk:Tereforo Longaraz

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User talk:Chooobak

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User talk:Sterling.morris

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User talk:Cutebytch

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Thread:Comments:Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team banned by FIFA/Why?

Why would FIFA care if they have one or three presidents? What difference does it make? What's important is the team & how it plays. Fair play and sportsmanship are what counts, not the number of presidents. And in Bosnia & Herzegovina's case it is understandable that they would have three presidents. I assume one is Bosnian, one is Croat and one is Serb. If this helps their country find unity & their system works, why try to change it?


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User talk:Antaldeniseduard

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User talk:CuartetoQ4

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User talk:Chief2550

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User talk:Cooterlee

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User talk:Seizondo

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User talk:Thabigd

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User talk:Arya4ever

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User talk:DCRS

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User talk:JF Kalesberg

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User talk:Cgibert3

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User talk:Freddyulloa

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User talk:Nippoldt

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User talk:Prudhviduggirala

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User talk:Tlopezm

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User talk:Lokikraabel

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User talk:Liamcw66

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User talk:Moniwik

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User talk:Nicoxer

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User talk:Jhonatan665

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User talk:BMonkey

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User talk:Mrtimadkins

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User talk:A.A Grêmio

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User talk:Mythbusterlover

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User talk:Dywat

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User talk:Icallitvera

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User talk:Karla angel

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User talk:Jen.chiu

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User talk:Wednesdayblue

-- 01:33, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Our submission guidelines
First off, we really appreciate your contribution.

However the article you've started, Human leather fashion accessories, does not meet the Neutral Point Of View policy. The article talk page would be the place to discuss the issues. This message is notification only.

A better way to get an article on an exciting subject published here is to write an original article following the guidelines described in writing an article, or to write a brief explanation of the subject and include the url address of articles or websites to use as sources. If you are part of the story that the article is about, you may also wish to consider requesting an interview rather than writing the article yourself.

Thanks again! --Gryllida 07:51, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

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User talk:Bannakin

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User talk:Tallulah413

-- 01:44, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

New Bolivian climate change legislation will enforce the rights of nature - nice try
Hi,

I'm sorry, the article is not recent enough to be considered "news". Wikinews does not publish reports on events that are not sufficiently recent. New details must have come to light within the past 2–3 days, and the news event itself must have happened within a week.

The article also doesn't meet the style and content requirements to be published.

Please do not re-submit it for a review if you don't think that the issues have been addressed.

Don't worry if it fails - our first try wasn't all success either! Thanks for the effort to bring the article to Wikinews, I hope it will be luckier next time. The 'key policies' tab in the welcome message above may be a nice headsup for your next article. :-) Cheers, Gryllida?? 01:20, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

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User talk:Chloe.mougios

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Boyce for same-sex marriage
Hi! Thanks for creating Boyce for same-sex marriage. Unfortunately, it had to be deleted as an abandoned article. I really hope that you choose to continue contributing to Wikinews. Wikinews' content guide and guide to writing an article are useful resources for writers. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or at the assistance page. — Mike moral  ♪♫  19:47, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

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User talk:Bcd72k

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User talk:Pcsensor

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User talk:Holla At Meee

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User talk:Champion13

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Thread:Comments:Serial killer suspected loose in New York, more bodies found/Comments from feedback form - "this is a great article Rhona ..."

this is a great article Rhona McChesney,third grade